lewrockwell--2020-06-22--We Live in a Time When Our ‘Opinions Qualify as Crimes’

Currently , we ’ re living in an upside-down and backward world where the minority of people hold all the microphones , successfully shouting over a potential majority of people who don ’ t like the way things are going .
I truly believe that most Americans don ’ t hate their neighbors , don ’ t indulge in cruelty for the sake of cruelty , don ’ t indulge in cruel behavior toward those of other races than their own , and just want to live their lives with what happiness they can find .
This is not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it does and I ’ ve seen it in action .
It also isn ’ t to say that there aren ’ t extremists who wallow in hatred – there are and on all fringes of the political spectrum .
The trouble happens when one of those fringes tries to silence everybody else .
And it ’ s working .
How big independent sites are being silenced Take the recent threats against ten websites in the United States , all of whom a new website in the UK is trying to get “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Denis Moynihan Best Price : $ 2.26 Buy New $ 8.34 We call on brands advertising on Fake News sites to stop funding Fake News .
To be honest , I was very hesitant to write this article , because I , too , am dependent on ad platforms that go through Google .
But too many people are silent while others are silenced so here goes .
Stop Funding Fake News was set up in 2019 by people who were concerned about the rapid rise in Fake News .
Since we launched @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our target fake news sites completely shut down , and the capacity of several others reduce significantly as a result of us damaging their ability to raise revenue .
We are pro-truth , pro-balance and pro-responsible news .
We invite brands and people to consider whether they want their adverts to appear next to hate and untruths .
( source ) Here ’ s a list of the sites that SFFN considers “ racist.
” Whether they are or not isn ’ t the purview of this article .
You ’ ll note @ @ @ @ @ @ @ articles that SFFN deems offensive .
It seems that only one point of view , as opposed to the balance they say they ’ re looking for , is acceptable in the eyes of SFFN and anything else must be piled on the pyre of all the virtual books being burned .
Zero Hedge , probably the most popular and powerful alternative news site out there , was completely defunded by Google .
Here ’ s what Zero Hedge had to say about the issue .
You see , the way it works @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advertisements and based on statistics available through Google , these ads are placed on websites that contract with the ad networks .
This is how my site and many other high-volume websites get the bulk of their advertising revenue .
Keep in mind it ’ s pretty expensive to run a smaller site like mine , so I can only imagine the cost of running a far bigger site .
Advertisers are getting on board because their livelihoods , too , rely on being seen as holding the “ correct ” opinion .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Democracy Now !
: Twenty ... Goodman , Amy Best Price : $ 1.99 Buy New $ 5.96 The Federalist , another site on that list , was able to keep their site funded but only if they removed their comments section entirely .
So not only do they have to change their reporting , but they also have to silence their readers .
You may be thinking that it sounds like they caved – but you can not run a large website without revenue unless you ’ re independently wealthy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money down a well never to be seen again .
Most site owners are not in that position .
It ’ s a nerve-wracking time to be in this business .
I debated for several days whether or not to write this article because my head could be on the chopping block next .
My livelihood and that of the people who work with me are at risk .
But if we of the independent media don ’ t speak up , who will ?
How can we do nothing while the entire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elements with which many Americans do not agree ?
The independent media is the last remaining bastion of alternative opinions .
George Orwell wrote these chillingly prophetic words in his novel 1984 .
When we of the independent media are gone , Big Brother is totally in charge of all the information you receive .
This will be the information on which you make your decisions , the information that influences your opinions and the opinions of others , the only “ truth ” there is , even if the information is inaccurate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one opinion now .
The Exception to the R ... Goodman , David Best Price : $ 0.25 Buy New $ 7.49 Americans continue to be silenced or to be bullied out of their jobs based on who they voted for , forced to affiliate with groups that they may not actually support , or fall victim to a virtual mob during an internet witch hunt .
All because they dare , in America , alleged land of the free , to disagree with an opinion that is treated as fact .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how horribly anyone who voted for him was treated .
Heaven forbid a person was to wear a red MAGA hat in public because to do so was risking a beating .
Americans were suddenly cast into a world so extreme that our opinions could mean the difference between life and death in the workplace and on the streets .
If you don ’ t support groups like Antifa or the Occupy movement , you ’ re considered a “ far-right extremist.
” That ’ s the moniker used to describe Zero Hedge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their defunding .
For the record , I ’ m not even sort of “ right ” and I ’ m definitely not “ far-right.
” I don ’ t support or endorse either major political party or any extremist groups .
I weigh my opinions based on my personal ethics .
Some of them may fall in line with the left , some may fall in line with the right , but I do not align myself with any groups .
My opinions are entirely my own .
Freedom of speech is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this country .
That includes the freedom for those with differing opinions to speak , have platforms , and hold some of the microphones .
Silencing these websites through insidiously getting them defunded is anti-American .
I think CNN , for example , has been proven to be exceptionally biased time and time again , even going so far as to try and swing the last election for Hillary Clinton .
It ’ s an undisputed fact that one of their employees colluded with her before the presidential debate .
Regardless of that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be defunded .
I think that they should be able to continue to operate and so should their opposition .
That ’ s how you have a balance in the media .
And balance in the media is how we have balance in our nation .
Here ’ s what Tucker Carlson had to say about the silencing of Americans .
A few days ago , Tucker Carlson of Fox News tackled this topic .
And yes , Fox News , just like every other network , has a bias .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of unbiased journalism are over and every piece is an opinion piece .
And even that wouldn ’ t be so bad if we were presented with the full range of opinions .
Did you catch the line that “ our opinions qualify as crimes ?
” America : The Farewell ... Hedges , Chris Best Price : $ 7.29 Buy New $ 13.29 And he ’ s also right when he talks about how our information is being controlled .
It doesn ’ t matter if you personally use Google or not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s a whole lot of people who are getting their opinions from one company .
That ’ s a whole lot of power .
And that power is being misused to silence opposing points of view and to make it seem like nearly all Americans support their point of view .
In fact , this is untrue .
But the media and the internet have taken control of reality and they ’ re presenting us with a reality of their own ideals .
We are at an incredibly dangerous turning point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about America is at risk .
If you ’ re looking ahead and the future looks bright , that might be because you ’ re seeing the country on fire .
Reprinted with permission from The Organic Prepper .
The Best of Daisy Luther

Currently, we’re living in an upside-down and backward world where the minority of people hold all the microphones, successfully shouting over a potential majority of people who don’t like the way things are going.
I truly believe that most Americans don’t hate their neighbors, don’t indulge in cruelty for the sake of cruelty, don’t indulge in cruel behavior toward those of other races than their own, and just want to live their lives with what happiness they can find. This is not to say that racism does not exist – it does and I’ve seen it in action. It also isn’t to say that there aren’t extremists who wallow in hatred – there are and on all fringes of the political spectrum.
The trouble happens when one of those fringes tries to silence everybody else. And it’s working.
How big independent sites are being silenced
Take the recent threats against ten websites in the United States, all of whom a new website in the UK is trying to get “defunded.” The Silenced Majority:... Denis Moynihan Best Price: $2.26 Buy New $8.34 (as of 04:31 UTC - Details)
We call on brands advertising on Fake News sites to stop funding Fake News. To be honest, I was very hesitant to write this article, because I, too, am dependent on ad platforms that go through Google. But too many people are silent while others are silenced so here goes. Stop Funding Fake News was set up in 2019 by people who were concerned about the rapid rise in Fake News. Since we launched, we’ve seen one of our target fake news sites completely shut down, and the capacity of several others reduce significantly as a result of us damaging their ability to raise revenue. We are pro-truth, pro-balance and pro-responsible news. We invite brands and people to consider whether they want their adverts to appear next to hate and untruths. (source)
Here’s a list of the sites that SFFN considers “racist.” Whether they are or not isn’t the purview of this article.
You’ll note a common thread on the list of articles that SFFN deems offensive. It seems that only one point of view, as opposed to the balance they say they’re looking for, is acceptable in the eyes of SFFN and anything else must be piled on the pyre of all the virtual books being burned.
Demonetization or silence
Zero Hedge, probably the most popular and powerful alternative news site out there, was completely defunded by Google. Here’s what Zero Hedge had to say about the issue.
You see, the way it works is this. Ad networks bid on advertisements and based on statistics available through Google, these ads are placed on websites that contract with the ad networks. This is how my site and many other high-volume websites get the bulk of their advertising revenue. Keep in mind it’s pretty expensive to run a smaller site like mine, so I can only imagine the cost of running a far bigger site.
Advertisers are getting on board because their livelihoods, too, rely on being seen as holding the “correct” opinion. We’re all under mob rule. Democracy Now!: Twenty... Goodman, Amy Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $5.96 (as of 04:31 UTC - Details)
The Federalist, another site on that list, was able to keep their site funded but only if they removed their comments section entirely. So not only do they have to change their reporting, but they also have to silence their readers. You may be thinking that it sounds like they caved – but you cannot run a large website without revenue unless you’re independently wealthy and you don’t mind just throwing money down a well never to be seen again. Most site owners are not in that position.
It’s a nerve-wracking time to be in this business. I debated for several days whether or not to write this article because my head could be on the chopping block next. My livelihood and that of the people who work with me are at risk.
But if we of the independent media don’t speak up, who will?
How can we do nothing while the entire conversation is being taken over by radical elements with which many Americans do not agree? The independent media is the last remaining bastion of alternative opinions. George Orwell wrote these chillingly prophetic words in his novel 1984.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” (source)
When we of the independent media are gone, Big Brother is totally in charge of all the information you receive. This will be the information on which you make your decisions, the information that influences your opinions and the opinions of others, the only “truth” there is, even if the information is inaccurate and biased.
Americans can only hold one opinion now.
The Exception to the R... Goodman, David Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $7.49 (as of 04:31 UTC - Details) Americans continue to be silenced or to be bullied out of their jobs based on who they voted for, forced to affiliate with groups that they may not actually support, or fall victim to a virtual mob during an internet witch hunt.
All because they dare, in America, alleged land of the free, to disagree with an opinion that is treated as fact.
You may recall after President Trump was elected how horribly anyone who voted for him was treated. Heaven forbid a person was to wear a red MAGA hat in public because to do so was risking a beating. Americans were suddenly cast into a world so extreme that our opinions could mean the difference between life and death in the workplace and on the streets.
If you don’t support groups like Antifa or the Occupy movement, you’re considered a “far-right extremist.” That’s the moniker used to describe Zero Hedge in most of the news coverage about their defunding.
For the record, I’m not even sort of “right” and I’m definitely not “far-right.” I don’t support or endorse either major political party or any extremist groups. I weigh my opinions based on my personal ethics. Some of them may fall in line with the left, some may fall in line with the right, but I do not align myself with any groups. My opinions are entirely my own.
Freedom of speech is one of our most sacred rights in this country.
That includes the freedom for those with differing opinions to speak, have platforms, and hold some of the microphones. Silencing these websites through insidiously getting them defunded is anti-American.
I think CNN, for example, has been proven to be exceptionally biased time and time again, even going so far as to try and swing the last election for Hillary Clinton. It’s an undisputed fact that one of their employees colluded with her before the presidential debate.
Regardless of that, I don’t think they should be defunded. I think that they should be able to continue to operate and so should their opposition. That’s how you have a balance in the media.
And balance in the media is how we have balance in our nation.
Here’s what Tucker Carlson had to say about the silencing of Americans.
A few days ago, Tucker Carlson of Fox News tackled this topic. And yes, Fox News, just like every other network, has a bias. We must all face the reality that days of unbiased journalism are over and every piece is an opinion piece. And even that wouldn’t be so bad if we were presented with the full range of opinions.

Did you catch the line that “our opinions qualify as crimes?”
America: The Farewell ... Hedges, Chris Best Price: $7.29 Buy New $13.29 (as of 05:25 UTC - Details) And he’s also right when he talks about how our information is being controlled. It doesn’t matter if you personally use Google or not. What does matter is this:
Google receives over 63,000 searches per second…which translates into at least 2 trillion searches per year, 3.8 million searches per minute, 228 million searches per hour, and 5.6 billion searches per day. (source)
That’s a whole lot of people who are getting their opinions from one company. That’s a whole lot of power. And that power is being misused to silence opposing points of view and to make it seem like nearly all Americans support their point of view. In fact, this is untrue. But the media and the internet have taken control of reality and they’re presenting us with a reality of their own ideals.
We are at an incredibly dangerous turning point right now and everything we hold dear about America is at risk.
If you’re looking ahead and the future looks bright, that might be because you’re seeing the country on fire.
Reprinted with permission from The Organic Prepper.
The Best of Daisy Luther


lewrockwell--2020-06-22--The Trick Behind Occult Systems

The Trick Behind Occult Systems

It should be obvious to readers who ’ ve been with me for a while that I attack delusion in more than one place .
Political systems , medical systems…and so-called spiritual systems .
That ’ s because I happen to believe in legitimate limited government , healing , and the unbounded life of the individual spiritual being .
Occult systems , which propose they have a hidden secret at the core , which will be revealed after a long and exhaustive search , are , at best , deluded , because they are concealing CONTENT .
By content , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , some facet of what already exists .
This is a dead-end .
There is nothing wrong with truthful information .
But… .
Lifting the Veil with David Icke Buy New $ 10.21 Suppose we had a secret society called The Inner Core Flame X42 .
And we sold our members on the idea that , after a series of ascending initiations , they would arrive at the X , the secret of secrets .
Well , what could X be ?
Some nugget of information , some formula or phrase or fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supposed to solve problems and enlighten consciousness .
But consciousness is dynamic .
It isn ’ t a key looking for a lock .
Consciousness is dynamic because it creates .
It creates new realities .
It isn ’ t primarily a container for What Is , for what already exists .
If there is a secret about consciousness , that ’ s it .
IT CREATES .
So no matter what X we cooked up , it would become obsolete , of minor value .
Humans are ripe for buying an X @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves , to place the highest value on What Already Exists .
The Non-Tinfoil Guide ... Nicolas Pineault Best Price : $ 16.99 Buy New $ 17.99 Occult systems deliver what controlled minds expect , and that ’ s why they ’ ve flourished .
That ’ s the only reason why .
But there is another way .
When a person sees the “ artistic ” blow-by-blow creation of these power structures , in progress—rather than the finished product—an entirely new consciousness arises .
“ If they can create Reality for me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ If they are artists , I can be an artist , too—but in an entirely different direction.
” The Matrix ceases to be a monolith .
It is revealed as an ongoing weave , and one can see the process at work .
Then , one ’ s own insight operates on behalf of liberation .
An Outline of Occult S ... Steiner , Rudolf Buy New $ 5.99 A person can actually see how he cooperates in the progression of accepting “ the weave.
” And he sees other options .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Matrix Revealed , I made sure to show Matrix as a work in process , an ongoing enterprise , a work of art , as it were , that can be dismantled—as a person takes another road of his own .
This is vital .
It transforms victimization into inspiration .
In my work , I was assisted by interviewees who profoundly understood all this .
The Best of Jon Rappoport

It should be obvious to readers who’ve been with me for a while that I attack delusion in more than one place. Political systems, medical systems…and so-called spiritual systems.
That’s because I happen to believe in legitimate limited government, healing, and the unbounded life of the individual spiritual being.
Occult systems, which propose they have a hidden secret at the core, which will be revealed after a long and exhaustive search, are, at best, deluded, because they are concealing CONTENT.
By content, I mean information, knowledge, pattern, some facet of what already exists. This is a dead-end.
There is nothing wrong with truthful information. But…. Lifting the Veil with David Icke Buy New $10.21 (as of 04:32 UTC - Details)
Suppose we had a secret society called The Inner Core Flame X42. And we sold our members on the idea that, after a series of ascending initiations, they would arrive at the X, the secret of secrets.
Well, what could X be? Some nugget of information, some formula or phrase or fact or made-up fact about existence that is supposed to solve problems and enlighten consciousness.
But consciousness is dynamic. It isn’t a key looking for a lock.
Consciousness is dynamic because it creates. It creates new realities.
It isn’t primarily a container for What Is, for what already exists.
If there is a secret about consciousness, that’s it. IT CREATES.
So no matter what X we cooked up, it would become obsolete, of minor value.
Humans are ripe for buying an X because they are trained, and train themselves, to place the highest value on What Already Exists. The Non-Tinfoil Guide ... Nicolas Pineault Best Price: $16.99 Buy New $17.99 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details)
That’s mind control par excellence.
Occult systems deliver what controlled minds expect, and that’s why they’ve flourished. That’s the only reason why.
But there is another way.
When a person sees the “artistic” blow-by-blow creation of these power structures, in progress—rather than the finished product—an entirely new consciousness arises.
“If they can create Reality for me, I can create my own.”
“If they are artists, I can be an artist, too—but in an entirely different direction.”
The Matrix ceases to be a monolith. It is revealed as an ongoing weave, and one can see the process at work.
Then, one’s own insight operates on behalf of liberation. An Outline of Occult S... Steiner, Rudolf Buy New $5.99 (as of 04:32 UTC - Details)
A person can actually see how he cooperates in the progression of accepting “the weave.”
And he sees other options.
Therefore, as I put together The Matrix Revealed, I made sure to show Matrix as a work in process, an ongoing enterprise, a work of art, as it were, that can be dismantled—as a person takes another road of his own.
This is vital. It transforms victimization into inspiration.
In my work, I was assisted by interviewees who profoundly understood all this.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
The Best of Jon Rappoport


lewrockwell--2020-06-22--Cover-Up of SARS-CoV-2 Exposed

Cover-Up of SARS-CoV-2 Exposed

Jonathan Latham , Ph.D. , is a molecular biologist and a virologist , which is a great skillset to help us understand the origins of SARS-CoV-2 .
Latham reviews some really intriguing evidence in this interview .
He ’ s also the editor of Independent Science News .
By and large , the mainstream media are still protecting the narrative that SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotically transmitted virus originating in bats .
Much of the evidence for this comes from Shi Zhengli , a researcher at the biosafety 4 laboratory in Wuhan , China .
As the leading Chinese bat coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on studying bat coronaviruses for over a decade .
In a recent article,1 Latham and Allison Wilson , Ph.D. , dissect research showing this theory simply doesn ’ t hold water .
Phantom Menace or Loom ... Vogel , Kathleen M. Best Price : $ 19.27 Buy New $ 24.14 Latham ’ s article lays out several different lab origin hypotheses .
The simplest one is that researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or another virology BSL-2 lab that ’ s even closer to the wet market speculated to be the origin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of them got infected and then passed it on to coworkers or family , either because they didn ’ t properly quarantine or didn ’ t realize they were infected .
This is not the most likely of hypotheses for the simple reason that few naturally occurring bat coronaviruses identified have the ability to bind to human ACE2 receptors , which is what allows them to infect human cells in the first place .
In order for this theory to work , the virus would have to circulate among many people , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theory is that the researchers were cloning a bat virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 in the lab in an effort to make a more infectious clone .
Perhaps they placed the virus in monkey cells , humanized mice cells or human cells with an ACE-2 receptor expressed in them .
A researcher may then have been accidentally infected .
A third possibility is that they were collecting samples and looking at genetic sequences in order to find a virus they could then alter , giving it more interesting properties .
Perhaps they found some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ greater affinity for the ACE2 receptor .
By combining it with another virus , they may have been able to create — through genetic engineering — a more infectious virus .
The reason for mixing and matching viruses in the lab in this way is to identify potential pandemic pathogens ( PPP ) .
Meaning , two wild viruses , if they come in contact with another , might mutate into something deadly to humans .
Many who defend the all-natural zoonotic origin story justify their stance by saying there are no signs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists , Latham points out there are ways you can manipulate a virus without leaving telltale markers .
He explains the basics of the genetic engineering process : The Most Likely Scenario As noted by Latham , until the passaged virus has been genetically sequenced , there ’ s no telling exactly what it looks like , or how it might act .
It ’ s fairly random in that sense .
Latham explains : Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 In this way , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for human cells , even though it wasn ’ t infectious to humans in the beginning .
One of the key features of SARS-CoV-2 is its spike protein has high affinity for the human ACE2 receptor .
The question is , how did this affinity arise ?
The wild H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was extinct for decades .
However , in 1977 , there appears to have been a biosafety lab leak in China or Russia in which that virus escaped , causing a global pandemic .
The H1N1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the things you use when you ’ re making vaccine is a temperature-sensitive virus — a partially disabled virus .
Naturally , the notion that a biosafety lab leak would be responsible for a lethal pandemic is an uncomfortable one , especially for virologists doing that kind of work .
An outbreak of equine encephalitis in Venezuela has also been traced back to a laboratory leak .
Then there ’ s the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009 .
Latham says : Unvaccinated : Why grow ... Maready , Forrest Best Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Latham also addresses suspicions that HIV AIDS came from a polio vaccine , so for more details , listen to the interview .
This was described in the book “ The River : A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS , ” by Edward Hooper , and reviewed in a British Medical Journal article that you can read for free.2 SIV from infected monkey kidney cells that were used to create polio vaccines and used on hundreds of thousands of Africans are also suspected of being the cause of certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ documented at biosafety labs around the world , including the Wuhan lab .
Several were documented by U.S. Embassy officials who visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018 .
There can be no doubt that biosafety level 4 labs pose a tremendous threat to public health , seeing how they house the most dangerous pathogens in the world , and leaks are inevitable .
The question is , are these risks worth it ?
As noted by Latham , the existence of these laboratories drive the vaccine agenda while old-fashioned commonsense hygiene @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fall by the wayside .
The risks posed by these labs also fit right into the surveillance capitalism now getting a hard push through the roll-out of disease tracking and tracing mechanisms .
That money could also go to more basic strategies such as vitamin D supplements to build up the population ’ s immune system .
Latham and Wilson are also planning to write about what they believe is a cover-up at the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
The nearest living ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 is a viral sequence currently stored in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have been kept frozen for the past seven years and nothing has been done with it .
This sequence came from bats living in a mine , and people who have worked in the mine have died of viral infections .
In other words , they ’ ve had a strong reason to look into that virus sequence , and that one also happens to be the closest relative to SARS-CoV-2 .
Shi published one of the first viral sequences of SARS-CoV-2 .
In a nutshell , SARS-CoV-2 is quite possibly not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ close ancestor was already in the database under the name BtCoV/4991 .
It was already in the published literature .
However , when the Wuhan Lab resequenced the mineshaft sample following the COVID-19 outbreak , they simply renamed that old virus that ’ s been on ice for seven years .
The Big Nap : How We Fa ... Simon , James Buy New $ 8.97 Shi ’ s genetic sequencing paper basically pretends the 4991 sequence never existed .
“ They ’ ve forgotten all about it ; that would be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Latham says .
A second paper released within that three-day span identifies 4991 as the nearest living relative , and states that it comes from the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
The third sequence paper does a complicated phylogenetic analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus , yet it too fails to mention that the nearest living relative is 4991 and held in the Wuhan lab .
Even if 4991 isn ’ t a 100 % match to SARS-CoV-2 ( which sequencing of the whole genome would reveal ) , it could be close enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a whole lot of gain-of-function experiments to end up with a highly transmissible virus .
According to Latham , “ That ’ s exactly the kind of thing that could have happened.
” In closing , as noted by Latham , the big picture question is , do we really want to be spending taxpayer money on all of these public health models that rely on biosafety/bioweapons research ?
The justification for doing this kind of research on viruses is to prepare us for potentially devastating outbreaks , should the viruses evolve and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that same research ends up being the source of our most dangerous outbreaks .
As noted by Latham : As Latham points out , the reason some wild viruses emerge is because we ’ re destroying rainforest and building roads into remote areas .
People end up catching the viruses because animals are fleeing the destruction of the forest .
So , why are we blaming the wildlife trade ?
If anything , we need to address the destruction of the animals ’ native habitats .
That , however , would be very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the EcoHealth Alliance is in partnership with the palm oil industry .
The Best of Joseph Mercola

Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist and a virologist, which is a great skillset to help us understand the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Latham reviews some really intriguing evidence in this interview. He’s also the editor of Independent Science News.
By and large, the mainstream media are still protecting the narrative that SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotically transmitted virus originating in bats. Much of the evidence for this comes from Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the biosafety 4 laboratory in Wuhan, China.
As the leading Chinese bat coronavirus researcher, her career has been focused on studying bat coronaviruses for over a decade. In a recent article,1 Latham and Allison Wilson, Ph.D., dissect research showing this theory simply doesn’t hold water.
“Our article doesn’t dispute that it came from a bat at some point, I think that is the strongest data, but what we do dispute is the mechanism by which it came from the bat,” Latham says.
Lab Origin Theory No. 1
Phantom Menace or Loom... Vogel, Kathleen M. Best Price: $19.27 Buy New $24.14 (as of 04:35 UTC - Details) Latham’s article lays out several different lab origin hypotheses. The simplest one is that researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or another virology BSL-2 lab that’s even closer to the wet market speculated to be the origin of SARS-CoV-2. In that process, one of them got infected and then passed it on to coworkers or family, either because they didn’t properly quarantine or didn’t realize they were infected.
This is not the most likely of hypotheses for the simple reason that few naturally occurring bat coronaviruses identified have the ability to bind to human ACE2 receptors, which is what allows them to infect human cells in the first place. In order for this theory to work, the virus would have to circulate among many people, evolving slightly with each pass.
Lab Origin Theory No. 2
Another theory is that the researchers were cloning a bat virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 in the lab in an effort to make a more infectious clone. Perhaps they placed the virus in monkey cells, humanized mice cells or human cells with an ACE-2 receptor expressed in them. A researcher may then have been accidentally infected.
“There have been lab escapes of viruses in which people fail to decontaminate samples and then they give the samples to someone else, or they throw them out with the trash, or some mishap arises,” Latham says.
“So, the virus is either identical to the one that was collected from the wild or very little altered by the lab, but then it escapes because there’s some failure in the lab. That would be a second possibility.”
Lab Origin Theory No. 3
A third possibility is that they were collecting samples and looking at genetic sequences in order to find a virus they could then alter, giving it more interesting properties. Perhaps they found some with the spike protein that had a greater affinity for the ACE2 receptor. By combining it with another virus, they may have been able to create — through genetic engineering — a more infectious virus.
The reason for mixing and matching viruses in the lab in this way is to identify potential pandemic pathogens (PPP). Meaning, two wild viruses, if they come in contact with another, might mutate into something deadly to humans.
“For example, we will swap spike proteins and see if the viruses that we have circulating in bats, really all they need to do is evolve better spike protein and all of a sudden, they can become pandemic pathogens,” Latham says.
Genetic Engineering Doesn’t Necessarily Leave Marks
Many who defend the all-natural zoonotic origin story justify their stance by saying there are no signs of genetic manipulation. Like several other scientists, Latham points out there are ways you can manipulate a virus without leaving telltale markers. He explains the basics of the genetic engineering process:
“The standard thing, historically, was you find a restriction site in two different viruses, or you may manufacture a restriction site. That gives you a cutting place in the genome … Let’s say you start with virus A and you cut a bit out and you put that into virus B. Of course, you’ve got to remove the bit from virus B that it already has.
So, you’re basically swapping things and you’re using restriction enzymes, which are basically enzymes that cut DNA in specific places. That’s kind of the old-fashioned way.
There are newer methods with PCR and so forth that are slightly more complicated. It means you’re not restricted to restriction sites to do that. There are very simple cutting and pasting [methods], but it doesn’t necessarily leave a scar or a mark. This is the really important point here.
There are also passaging experiments. Passaging experiments are when you take a virus — say, for example, you take a virus that originally came from a bat and you put that into monkey cells, or human cells … What you normally observe with that virus is that it doesn’t work too well in those cells because it’s not adapted to them. It’s a bat virus, so it doesn’t work too well.
But what virologists have learned to do is to, essentially as the viral infection is failing, take a little sample of what is inside the cell and put that into another cell. Then, when that infection builds up … you take another sample.
This is called passaging. It allows the virus to evolve into a more pathogenic form against the cells that you are now putting into. So, you’re always putting into the same species of cell. You can also do this with whole organisms.”
The Most Likely Scenario
As noted by Latham, until the passaged virus has been genetically sequenced, there’s no telling exactly what it looks like, or how it might act. It’s fairly random in that sense. Latham explains: Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
“It may have recombined, it may have mutated; there’s been a genetic change, but you don’t know what it is until you research it, clone it and make a new infectious clone. And so, you have the possibility that what escaped from the lab is actually not known to the people in the lab. They don’t actually know what it was that they evolved.
And, if they were doing those kinds of experiments, putting the live bat viruses into cells of different species — and historically we know that they were doing those kinds of experiments — then they could also develop a new virus.
You can also have a combination of those experiments. So, you can have researchers who passage recombined molecules, they did the cutting and pasting part, and then they put back the cut and pasted virus into novel cells like human cells, and then they passage back, and then you evolve an infectious clone in that way.”
In this way, you can create a virus with high affinity for human cells, even though it wasn’t infectious to humans in the beginning. One of the key features of SARS-CoV-2 is its spike protein has high affinity for the human ACE2 receptor. The question is, how did this affinity arise?
“One of the obvious answers to that question is that it was being passaged inside these human cells or that somebody cut and pasted a spike protein bound to these human receptors that they already knew worked particularly well.
So, my hypothesis is that either they were cutting and pasting, or they were passaging, or they were doing some combination of both, and then that basically led to somebody in the lab becoming infected through some kind of careless event,” Latham says.
Leaks Have Caused Other Global Pandemics
The wild H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was extinct for decades. However, in 1977, there appears to have been a biosafety lab leak in China or Russia in which that virus escaped, causing a global pandemic.
“Essentially what happened is the virus went extinct and then a new version of the virus appeared in 1977 in China, and it was basically identical to one that had existed 20 years before … No one can explain how a virus could appear — it was basically identical — but had been somehow hidden.
There was a theory that it had been in the permafrost and somebody had dug up a person from the permafrost who had died with H1N1 flu, but that was the best theory people had until they realized that it probably came from a lab that was making a vaccine.”
The H1N1 virus was temperature sensitive, and one of the things you use when you’re making vaccine is a temperature-sensitive virus — a partially disabled virus.
“Basically, there is no other explanation than that this came from a lab and that there were labs who had stored stocks of it, but no lab has really come forward and said, ‘It was us.’ So, this has been kind of deduced from sequence information from the location in which it appears and so forth, but it’s widely accepted by virologists,” Latham says.
Naturally, the notion that a biosafety lab leak would be responsible for a lethal pandemic is an uncomfortable one, especially for virologists doing that kind of work. An outbreak of equine encephalitis in Venezuela has also been traced back to a laboratory leak. Then there’s the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009. Latham says:
“There’s a scientific paper by a friend of mine, Adrian Gibbs … written with two other virologists. He’s a famous virologist and he says, ‘This came from a vaccine. The swine flu is actually not readily accountable by the specific circulating viruses that happened to be in North American and European and South American pigs at that time.’
Basically you can’t explain it by that method, but you can explain it perfectly well by the idea that there was a manufacturer who was making bits of H1N1, one from European sequences and North American sequences, and South American sequences, and stuck them all together to make a universal vaccine, and somehow they failed to inactivate it.
So, they gave it to pigs in Mexico and that became the swine flu, the second H1N1 pandemic, and that second pandemic killed probably close to 300,000 people. We have a whole series of examples of lab escapes of viruses, so when people treat the lab escape thesis as being somehow ridiculous or outrageous or improbable, to me it just demonstrates their ignorance of the history of virology.”
Unvaccinated: Why grow... Maready, Forrest Best Price: $7.00 Buy New $6.99 (as of 05:43 UTC - Details) Latham also addresses suspicions that HIV AIDS came from a polio vaccine, so for more details, listen to the interview. This was described in the book “The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS,” by Edward Hooper, and reviewed in a British Medical Journal article that you can read for free.2
SIV from infected monkey kidney cells that were used to create polio vaccines and used on hundreds of thousands of Africans are also suspected of being the cause of certain cancers.
Safety Breaches at Wuhan Lab
Many safety breaches have been documented at biosafety labs around the world, including the Wuhan lab. Several were documented by U.S. Embassy officials who visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018.
“I mean I think they’re important data points but … we think it’s more important that people from within China have raised questions about the bio security of this lab. Firstly, it’s newly opened, so that’s automatically a bit of a red flag. Secondly, there were violations cited by the internal overseeing agency in China of the kind of standards they would expect from a BSL facility.
They’ve been trying to set up the certification systems and so forth for their labs because they’re trying to set up a whole network — a whole system of animal experiments and collection stations and so forth … So, they’re setting up the certification schemes and they’ve already been cited, according to these reports, as having violations …
In the end, let me add something: One of the basics should be that you don’t site these labs in the middle of a big city. So, we already have what I would say a violation to the basics. They should be in a desert or something like that, they should be in Antarctica, in remote areas.”
BSLs Promote High-Tech Solutions Rather Than Hygiene Basics
There can be no doubt that biosafety level 4 labs pose a tremendous threat to public health, seeing how they house the most dangerous pathogens in the world, and leaks are inevitable. The question is, are these risks worth it?
As noted by Latham, the existence of these laboratories drive the vaccine agenda while old-fashioned commonsense hygiene strategies such as hand-washing and protective gear fall by the wayside. The risks posed by these labs also fit right into the surveillance capitalism now getting a hard push through the roll-out of disease tracking and tracing mechanisms.
“An interesting thing happened the other day. Seventy-seven Nobel laureates, most of them molecular biologists, wrote a letter to the president protesting the cutting of the grants to the Wuhan lab that were emanating from the NIH. Well the man leading this effort [is] Richard Roberts. What is his scientific position?
He is on the board of directors of New England Biolabs, one of the biggest suppliers of molecular biology equipment. So, they’re corralling together all these Nobel Prize winners to support all this molecular biology research that costs big bucks — hundreds of millions of dollars a year to do this kind of research, money that could be going to PPE and so forth.”
That money could also go to more basic strategies such as vitamin D supplements to build up the population’s immune system.
Cover-Up at Wuhan Institute of Virology Exposed
Latham and Wilson are also planning to write about what they believe is a cover-up at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The nearest living ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 is a viral sequence currently stored in the Wuhan lab. It’s said to have been kept frozen for the past seven years and nothing has been done with it.
This sequence came from bats living in a mine, and people who have worked in the mine have died of viral infections. In other words, they’ve had a strong reason to look into that virus sequence, and that one also happens to be the closest relative to SARS-CoV-2. Shi published one of the first viral sequences of SARS-CoV-2.
“Three papers came out in three days, all saying this is ‘The sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,’” Latham notes. Yet “her paper makes no reference to this longstanding sequence that they’d had in her lab. Zero reference. Instead, they say they’ve taken a sample from that freezer and they’ve sequenced it, and this is the nearest living relative.
But this obscures the fact that for seven years they’d had another virus, which basically came from the same tube … But it looks like when you go searching the DNA databases, it makes it look like this virus has just been with us since December.
It really hasn’t, it’s been sitting in that lab, supposedly unresearched. So, the question is, what were they doing with this viral sequence for seven years that may have killed three miners back in 2013?”
In a nutshell, SARS-CoV-2 is quite possibly not a new virus. A highly conserved close ancestor was already in the database under the name BtCoV/4991. It was already in the published literature. However, when the Wuhan Lab resequenced the mineshaft sample following the COVID-19 outbreak, they simply renamed that old virus that’s been on ice for seven years. The Big Nap: How We Fa... Simon, James Buy New $8.97 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
“Giving it a new name basically obscures the old history. They don’t even acknowledge that it came from the same tube, which they now have been forced to acknowledge … It’s the same virus. The sequence identity between the two samples is 100%.
So, if there were one base pair different, you could maybe make a scientific argument that we should give them a different name, but there’s no difference between them whatsoever. It’s the same virus from the same tube, collected from the same place — the mine where the miners died … from a viral infection of pneumonia.”
Shi’s genetic sequencing paper basically pretends the 4991 sequence never existed. “They’ve forgotten all about it; that would be the interpretation of reading their paper,” Latham says. A second paper released within that three-day span identifies 4991 as the nearest living relative, and states that it comes from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The third sequence paper does a complicated phylogenetic analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, yet it too fails to mention that the nearest living relative is 4991 and held in the Wuhan lab.
“What’s really interesting is that everyone who sequence [SARS-CoV-2] — there was a bunch of labs that sequenced the virus around the same time — they all would have searched the database and come up with this 4991 sequence … They all would have done that.
What you have to imagine is that they just get on the phone with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and say, ‘Oh, the virus broke out in your town just down the road from you, walking distance, and you are the keepers of the nearest known viral sequence. Have you had a lab accident?’ You can imagine dozens of labs phoning them up and say, ‘How do you handle a lab accident?’ …
What I’m offering is evidence of a cover-up, but we don’t know exactly what they were covering up. They could have been covering up something a little different, but the very obvious thing to be covering up is simply that you are researching a virus that looks uncomfortably like SARS-CoV-2 …
We only have a partial sequence [of 4991]. We don’t have the whole genome of this original sample. They only provided a sequence of 370 base pairs, but it is 98.7% identical to SARS-CoV-2 on nucleotides and the 370 base pairs.
This is considered the most conserved part of the genome, so it doesn’t necessarily extrapolate to the whole thing. What is quite possible is that, that sample comes from something that is way closer than anything we’ve been told about.”
Public Health Rethink Is in Order
Even if 4991 isn’t a 100% match to SARS-CoV-2 (which sequencing of the whole genome would reveal), it could be close enough that you wouldn’t even need a whole lot of gain-of-function experiments to end up with a highly transmissible virus. According to Latham, “That’s exactly the kind of thing that could have happened.”
In closing, as noted by Latham, the big picture question is, do we really want to be spending taxpayer money on all of these public health models that rely on biosafety/bioweapons research?
The justification for doing this kind of research on viruses is to prepare us for potentially devastating outbreaks, should the viruses evolve and mutate in the wild. Yet, that same research ends up being the source of our most dangerous outbreaks. As noted by Latham:
“These people have not managed to predict anything so far. What they’ve done is these incredibly dangerous experiments and then find out that the next virus comes from somewhere they didn’t anticipate, or certainly didn’t warn us about …
This research is not really predictive, but if enough virologists get together and say that this is how we predict the next pandemic, what is the government to do? If they all say, ‘That’s how we should do it,’ then who’s going to contradict them? …
I mean, you want to continue gainful employment, so why not push an agenda that’s going to keep you employed, even though it doesn’t serve the public good necessarily …
What [should] we spend our public health money on? Do we target these individual diseases and make New England Biolabs and the Gates Foundations investors rich, or do we invest in public health in a sense that benefits everybody — prevention and nutrition?
Also, the big issue too that we haven’t really touched on is, why are we blaming the wildlife trade here? This is a really important question to ask because Peter Daszak, head of the EcoHealth Alliance, has been in all the media; he’s been on Democracy Now!, the New York Times, Scientific American, Science Magazine, all these different outlets, basically ubiquitously blaming the wildlife trade, saying categorically it’s not a lab escape.
Well, he is an interested party, right? His nonprofit is funding this research. The media cannot go and ask the person who’s funding it whether it came from their lab or not. It’s ridiculous. But that’s what they’re doing and they’re treating us like idiots.”
As Latham points out, the reason some wild viruses emerge is because we’re destroying rainforest and building roads into remote areas. People end up catching the viruses because animals are fleeing the destruction of the forest.
So, why are we blaming the wildlife trade? If anything, we need to address the destruction of the animals’ native habitats. That, however, would be very bad for Daszak’s business because the EcoHealth Alliance is in partnership with the palm oil industry.
“We find that science — if you understand the science well enough — really helps you understand who’s lying,” Latham says. “When you understand that part, you got a really strong anchor to base in analysis of what’s really going on in the bigger picture.
If you can see that a very obvious thing — the possibility here is a lab escape —and then you’ve got one or a few people wandering around the media saying, ‘A lab escape is an impossibility, it never happened, there’s no chance of it at all’ — you know that they’re not speaking science, that they have some kind of ax to grind. And then you see who else repeats the message, who supports them and who doesn’t and so forth.”
Sources and References
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lewrockwell--2020-06-23--‘They’ Have Ruined This Country, and Are Now Coming for Your Property, Mind, and Soul: Defend Yourse

‘They’ Have Ruined This Country, and Are Now Coming for Your Property, Mind, and Soul: Defend Yourself

“ If violent crime is to be curbed , it is only the intended victim who can do it .
The felon does not fear the police , and he fears neither judge nor jury .
Therefore what he must be taught is to fear is his victim.
” The infamous “ they ” have stepped into the light , and are not fearful any longer of the consequences of their actions due to a weak and pathetic population of sheep .
So who are “ they ?
” They are the masters of the economy , of health and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and corporate America all around the globe .
They are the evil foundations that pretend to work for good .
They are large corporations that are above the law , and exempt from financial loss and criminal prosecution .
They are the Federal Reserve Banks .
They are the government and all its bureaucratic arms .
They are the police and military who enforce the restrictive laws falsely implemented by the state and its masters .
Principles of Personal ... Jeff Cooper Best Price : $ 74.97 Buy New $ 74.99 “ They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Foundation , the Rockefeller Foundation , George Soros ’ Open Society Foundations , the Ford Foundation , the Carnegie Foundation , the Rothschild Foundation , the Trilateral Commission , Harvard and Yale Universities , the CDC and the WHO , and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , among others .
These are the people running the world .
These are the organizations responsible for the falsified and purposely manufactured fake Covid-19 pandemic .
And these are the people and organizations that have organized and set loose the low life bands of rioters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the BLM and Antifa movements that are terrorizing this country today .
This country is late in the process of total ruination , and heading straight toward annihilation .
A new order is sought , and is gaining ground ever so quickly .
If not stopped , all current systems will be replaced , including money , the entirety of the monetary system , agriculture , social behavior norms , private property , all medical care , travel and movement ; all with mandated and enforced restriction of every individual .
This means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberty for the planned goal of unlimited worldwide societal control .
If this is allowed to come to fruition , we are all doomed .
One only has to look back to March of this year to see the massive changes that have already taken place .
It began with a fake pandemic meant to isolate all of us , destroying any idea of freedom .
What privacy was still remaining has now been lost .
Businesses across the nation closed down , not due to any legitimate reasoning , but due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more power , all without resistance from the pathetic American herd .
Now tens of millions are without any way to support themselves , and therefore have become dependent serfs awaiting instructions and checks from their masters .
Considering the people at large , this was mostly all voluntary reaction due to being fooled into believing that the common flu was going to kill us all .
The same is true of the isolation of all from their friends , families , and from any normal association or gatherings with people everywhere .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ cancelled , and any place where individuals congregate for fun or pleasure were shut down .
Many if not most were instructed to quarantine , social distance , or self-isolate , and did so without question .
This has caused immeasurable harm to those that acquiesced to orders falsely disguised as safety measures .
In fact , the opposite was the case , and this ruse helped to isolate and stress the old and sick so that many more deaths than normal for this group were evident .
Healthy individuals that hid in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and due to this home imprisonment , their immune systems were devastated , leading to more sickness and death .
This coup for control was done intentionally by the state , and the state should be considered guilty of 1st degree murder .
To Ride , Shoot Straigh ... Jeff Cooper Best Price : $ 28.90 Buy New $ 183.44 Once the flu season ended , as it always does , and that fake threat could no longer be perpetuated , the master class needed a stopgap measure in order to keep Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phase of this bogus pandemic could be released on the public without resistance .
Thus , the criminal “ Black Lives Matter ” and Antifa mobs were organized from the top to purposely cause civil unrest and to promote racial tension .
Mass racism does not exist in this country , and never has at any level claimed by the agitators inciting these riots , looting , property destruction , and violence against innocents .
All those participating in this ruse , whether at the top level or those rioting in the streets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and should be treated as such .
Aggression and violence should never be tolerated , so any aggression and violence should always be met with self-defense to stop that threat .
Force in this circumstance is easily justified so long as any and all force ceases once the threat is squelched .
That is the essence of self-defense and personal protection .
That is the natural right of every single individual , and none should cower and run from that responsibility .
In doing so , one has voluntarily given up his freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be killed , or will become a slave to the system .
It is long past time to stand up to the bullies of the state and its planted minions of destruction in the idiotic BLM and Antifa movements .
This is the stopgap necessary to mark time before the next flu season or the next manufactured fake wave of new cases of this false virus .
Already , there is a massive push to keep the Covid stupidity alive during this stopgap measure , as many are getting tired of the violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the state and its enforcers .
Do not allow these felonious and detestable thugs to get away with anything .
They have been given carte blanche by the state to act as animals , so it is up to all of us to stop them by whatever means necessary .
Another Country Jeff Cooper Best Price : $ 42.00 Buy New $ 50.00 They are beating innocents everywhere , shooting others , committing arson , and destroying homes and businesses at every turn , all without any opposition by so-called political representatives or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyone is an abomination , but bowing down to hoodlum scum is even worse .
That is what your so-called leaders are doing in your name .
These rioters are cowards , and will stand down immediately with proper resistance .
The state is not going to protect you , so protect yourself .
Do not be a coward .
Quit taking videos of others being beaten , and do something to stop it .
Stop wearing ridiculous masks , stop idiotic social distancing , open up fully all your businesses , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Gather in large groups in order to defend yourself from not only criminal rioters , but also from the state thugs unwittingly helping to advance this new order .
Weak minds and bodies will never garner respect and proper treatment , and will always attract aggression from bullies , but self-determination and defense of right will stop any threat from worthless cowardly oppressors .
Get strong quickly or be prepared to be slaves to the state forever .
“ [ Self-defense is ] justly called the primary law of nature , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be in fact , taken away by the laws of society.
” ~ Sir William Blackstone , John Fletcher Hargrave , George Sweet , Sir Richard Couch , William Newland Welsby ( 1852 ) .
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“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught is to fear is his victim.”
~ Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press
The infamous “they” have stepped into the light, and are not fearful any longer of the consequences of their actions due to a weak and pathetic population of sheep. So who are “they?” They are the masters of the economy, of health and medicine, and the masters of banking and corporate America all around the globe. They are the evil foundations that pretend to work for good. They are large corporations that are above the law, and exempt from financial loss and criminal prosecution. They are the Federal Reserve Banks. They are the government and all its bureaucratic arms. They are the police and military who enforce the restrictive laws falsely implemented by the state and its masters.
Principles of Personal... Jeff Cooper Best Price: $74.97 Buy New $74.99 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details) “They” are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Rothschild Foundation, the Trilateral Commission, Harvard and Yale Universities, the CDC and the WHO, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, among others. These are the people running the world. These are the organizations responsible for the falsified and purposely manufactured fake Covid-19 pandemic. And these are the people and organizations that have organized and set loose the low life bands of rioters, looters, and marauding criminals in the BLM and Antifa movements that are terrorizing this country today.
This country is late in the process of total ruination, and heading straight toward annihilation. A new order is sought, and is gaining ground ever so quickly. If not stopped, all current systems will be replaced, including money, the entirety of the monetary system, agriculture, social behavior norms, private property, all medical care, travel and movement; all with mandated and enforced restriction of every individual. This means a complete loss of all freedom and liberty for the planned goal of unlimited worldwide societal control. If this is allowed to come to fruition, we are all doomed.
One only has to look back to March of this year to see the massive changes that have already taken place. It began with a fake pandemic meant to isolate all of us, destroying any idea of freedom. What privacy was still remaining has now been lost. Businesses across the nation closed down, not due to any legitimate reasoning, but due to unenforceable mandates by the political pawns seeking more power, all without resistance from the pathetic American herd. Now tens of millions are without any way to support themselves, and therefore have become dependent serfs awaiting instructions and checks from their masters. Considering the people at large, this was mostly all voluntary reaction due to being fooled into believing that the common flu was going to kill us all. The same is true of the isolation of all from their friends, families, and from any normal association or gatherings with people everywhere. All events where people get together were cancelled, and any place where individuals congregate for fun or pleasure were shut down. Many if not most were instructed to quarantine, social distance, or self-isolate, and did so without question. This has caused immeasurable harm to those that acquiesced to orders falsely disguised as safety measures. In fact, the opposite was the case, and this ruse helped to isolate and stress the old and sick so that many more deaths than normal for this group were evident. Healthy individuals that hid in their homes were also adversely affected, and due to this home imprisonment, their immune systems were devastated, leading to more sickness and death. This coup for control was done intentionally by the state, and the state should be considered guilty of 1st degree murder. To Ride, Shoot Straigh... Jeff Cooper Best Price: $28.90 Buy New $183.44 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
Once the flu season ended, as it always does, and that fake threat could no longer be perpetuated, the master class needed a stopgap measure in order to keep Americans prisoners to fear until the planned second phase of this bogus pandemic could be released on the public without resistance. Thus, the criminal “Black Lives Matter” and Antifa mobs were organized from the top to purposely cause civil unrest and to promote racial tension. Mass racism does not exist in this country, and never has at any level claimed by the agitators inciting these riots, looting, property destruction, and violence against innocents. All those participating in this ruse, whether at the top level or those rioting in the streets are nothing more than violent criminals, and should be treated as such.
Aggression and violence should never be tolerated, so any aggression and violence should always be met with self-defense to stop that threat. Force in this circumstance is easily justified so long as any and all force ceases once the threat is squelched. That is the essence of self-defense and personal protection. That is the natural right of every single individual, and none should cower and run from that responsibility. In doing so, one has voluntarily given up his freedom to live, and therefore will either be killed, or will become a slave to the system.
It is long past time to stand up to the bullies of the state and its planted minions of destruction in the idiotic BLM and Antifa movements. This is the stopgap necessary to mark time before the next flu season or the next manufactured fake wave of new cases of this false virus. Already, there is a massive push to keep the Covid stupidity alive during this stopgap measure, as many are getting tired of the violence planned, accepted, and allowed by the state and its enforcers. Do not allow these felonious and detestable thugs to get away with anything. They have been given carte blanche by the state to act as animals, so it is up to all of us to stop them by whatever means necessary. Another Country Jeff Cooper Best Price: $42.00 Buy New $50.00 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
They are beating innocents everywhere, shooting others, committing arson, and destroying homes and businesses at every turn, all without any opposition by so-called political representatives or the corrupt police. Bowing down to anyone is an abomination, but bowing down to hoodlum scum is even worse. That is what your so-called leaders are doing in your name. These rioters are cowards, and will stand down immediately with proper resistance. The state is not going to protect you, so protect yourself. Do not be a coward. Quit taking videos of others being beaten, and do something to stop it.
Stop wearing ridiculous masks, stop idiotic social distancing, open up fully all your businesses, and tell the government officials to pound sand. Gather in large groups in order to defend yourself from not only criminal rioters, but also from the state thugs unwittingly helping to advance this new order. Weak minds and bodies will never garner respect and proper treatment, and will always attract aggression from bullies, but self-determination and defense of right will stop any threat from worthless cowardly oppressors. Get strong quickly or be prepared to be slaves to the state forever.
“[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.”
~ Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books : with an Analysis of the Work”, p.3
The Best of Gary D. Barnett


lewrockwell--2020-06-23--The Federal Reserve Is Getting Desperate

In a sign that the Federal Reserve is growing increasingly desperate to jump-start the economy , the Fed ’ s Secondary Market Credit Facility has begun purchasing individual corporate bonds .
The Secondary Market Credit Facility was created by Congress as part of a coronavirus stimulus bill to purchase as much as 750 billion dollars of corporate credit .
Until last week , the Secondary Market Credit Facility had limited its purchases to exchange-traded funds , which are bundled groups of stocks or bonds .
The bond purchasing initiative , like all Fed initiatives , will fail to produce long-term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by increasing the money supply and thus lowering interest rates , which are the price of money .
In this case , the Fed ’ s purchase of individual corporate bonds enables select corporations to pursue projects for which they could not otherwise have obtained funding .
This distorts signals sent by the market , making these companies seem like better investments than they actually are and thus allowing these companies to attract more private investment .
This will cause these companies to experience a Fed-created bubble .
Like all Fed-created bubbles , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , causing businesses to collapse , investors to lose their money ( unless they receive a government bailout ) , and workers to lose their jobs .
End the Fed by Ron Pau ... Ron Paul Best Price : $ 5.20 Buy New $ 16.38 Under the law creating the lending facilities , the Fed does not have to reveal the purchases made by the new facilities .
Instead of allowing the Fed to hide this information , Congress should immediately pass the Audit the Fed bill so people can know whether a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investors determined it is a sound investment or because the Fed chose to “ invest ” in its bonds .
The Fed could , and likely will , use this bond buying program to advance political goals .
The Fed could fulfill Chairman Jerome Powell ’ s stated desire to do something about climate change by supporting “ green energy ” companies .
The Fed could also use its power to reward businesses that , for example , support politically correct causes , refuse to sell guns , require their employees and customers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obedience to the warfare state .
The Revolution : A Mani ... Ron Paul Best Price : $ 1.99 Buy New $ 6.99 Another of the new lending facilities is charged with purchasing the bonds of cash-strapped state and local governments .
This could allow the Fed to influence the policies of these governments .
It is not wise to reward spendthrift politicians with a federal bailout — whether through Congress or through the Fed .
With lending facilities providing to the Federal Reserve the ability to give money directly to businesses and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one step away from implementing Ben Bernanke ’ s infamous suggestion that , if all else fails , the Fed can drop money from a helicopter .
These interventions will not save the economy .
Instead , they will make the inevitable crash more painful .
The next crash can bring about the end of the fiat monetary system .
The question is not if the current monetary system ends , but when .
The only way Congress can avoid the Fed causing another great depression is to begin transitioning to a free-market @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Fed .
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In a sign that the Federal Reserve is growing increasingly desperate to jump-start the economy, the Fed’s Secondary Market Credit Facility has begun purchasing individual corporate bonds. The Secondary Market Credit Facility was created by Congress as part of a coronavirus stimulus bill to purchase as much as 750 billion dollars of corporate credit. Until last week, the Secondary Market Credit Facility had limited its purchases to exchange-traded funds, which are bundled groups of stocks or bonds.
The bond purchasing initiative, like all Fed initiatives, will fail to produce long-term prosperity. These purchases distort the economy by increasing the money supply and thus lowering interest rates, which are the price of money. In this case, the Fed’s purchase of individual corporate bonds enables select corporations to pursue projects for which they could not otherwise have obtained funding. This distorts signals sent by the market, making these companies seem like better investments than they actually are and thus allowing these companies to attract more private investment. This will cause these companies to experience a Fed-created bubble. Like all Fed-created bubbles, the corporate bond bubble will eventually burst, causing businesses to collapse, investors to lose their money (unless they receive a government bailout), and workers to lose their jobs. End the Fed by Ron Pau... Paul Best Price: $9.02 Buy New $17.94 (as of 08:14 UTC - Details)
Under the law creating the lending facilities, the Fed does not have to reveal the purchases made by the new facilities. Instead of allowing the Fed to hide this information, Congress should immediately pass the Audit the Fed bill so people can know whether a company is flush with cash because private investors determined it is a sound investment or because the Fed chose to “invest” in its bonds.
The Fed could, and likely will, use this bond buying program to advance political goals. The Fed could fulfill Chairman Jerome Powell’s stated desire to do something about climate change by supporting “green energy” companies. The Fed could also use its power to reward businesses that, for example, support politically correct causes, refuse to sell guns, require their employees and customers to wear masks, or promote unquestioning obedience to the warfare state. The Revolution: A Mani... Ron Paul Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $6.99 (as of 11:00 UTC - Details)
Another of the new lending facilities is charged with purchasing the bonds of cash-strapped state and local governments. This could allow the Fed to influence the policies of these governments. It is not wise to reward spendthrift politicians with a federal bailout — whether through Congress or through the Fed.
With lending facilities providing to the Federal Reserve the ability to give money directly to businesses and governments, the Fed is now just one step away from implementing Ben Bernanke’s infamous suggestion that, if all else fails, the Fed can drop money from a helicopter. These interventions will not save the economy. Instead, they will make the inevitable crash more painful. The next crash can bring about the end of the fiat monetary system. The question is not if the current monetary system ends, but when. The only way Congress can avoid the Fed causing another great depression is to begin transitioning to a free-market monetary system by auditing, then ending, the Fed.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-23--Now the Savages Are Trying To Take Down One of Our Own

How about this : By far the most prolific living libertarian is Walter Block , who has written countless books and close to 600 scholarly articles — an accomplishment I am uncertain if any academic in any discipline could match today , or ever .
Walter has also co-authored over 100 scholarly articles with students .
That ’ s unheard of .
What an extraordinary advantage that gives Walter ’ s students over their peers — how many students of other professors can say they published an article in an academic journal while they were undergraduates ?
Civil Rights : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 0.20 Buy New $ 7.98 Loyola University , New Orleans , where Walter teaches , must be beaming with pride , right ?
Well , a group of students are currently circulating a petition to get Walter fired on the grounds that — you ’ ll never guess — he is a “ racist ” and a “ sexist.
” This is because , like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell , Walter Block does not believe that “ discrimination ” is the universal , no-analysis-necessary explanation for the various disparities between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women .
And of course he is quite correct to take that position , since the “ discrimination ” view is ridiculous on its face to anyone familiar with the data .
( Sowell ’ s overlooked book Civil Rights : Rhetoric or Reality ?
dismantles the “ discrimination ” school . )
They are also unhappy about what they mistakenly believe Walter told the New York Times about slavery .
They think he said slavery “ wasn ’ t so bad.
” What he actually said was : the problem with slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t matter what the slaves ’ caloric intake or per-capita living space was if they were coerced into being there .
Simple enough for a normal person to grasp , which means the New York Times pretended to misunderstand Walter , or at least make his views seem suspect and opaque .
The Quest for Cosmic J ... Thomas Sowell Best Price : $ 8.65 Buy New $ 10.94 So ridiculous was the Times ‘ portrayal , in fact , that Walter sued them for libel .
The Times settled out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t know the terms of the settlement , it ’ s rather curious that columns by Walter — of all people — suddenly began appearing in its pages .
I ’ m taking that as being as close to an admission of guilt as most people are likely to get from the Times .
Let ’ s add to all this that Walter has repeatedly made clear that he believes that the descendants of slaves do have a right to reparations , though not indiscriminately from all Americans ( he explained his position @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It seems virtually certain that the savages are unaware of this , particularly since knowing it would require them to read scholarly journals , which we may legitimately doubt they tend to do .
In light of all this , I think you ’ ll take mischievous delight in the letter I wrote to Loyola ’ s president in 2014 , when the initial attack on Walter occurred : No doubt you have received quite a bit of correspondence by now about Walter Block .
I won ’ t rehash the main points @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Vision of the Anoi ... Sowell , Thomas Best Price : $ 1.50 Buy New $ 12.99 I will say that I find it impossible to believe that you , an intelligent man , believe your own interpretation of Walter ’ s remarks to the New York Times .
You note that Walter ’ s comment about slavery seems to run counter to libertarian principles .
You don ’ t say !
Might that be an indication that the Times , which despises what Walter stands for , has distorted his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support his faculty in a case like this , in which he knows full well that a professor has been grotesquely mischaracterized .
If this were an accurate rendering of Walter ’ s views , why was he considering a libel suit ?
Had Walter been a left-wing professor accused of Stalinism , would you have been so quick to denounce him ?
The question answers itself .
This is why it is impossible to believe that any of this has to do with Walter ’ s remarks .
You are not a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you know where he stands .
He has never kept his views a secret .
You owed him better , and you failed him .
Now it ’ s true , you did communicate to the university community that your views are the conventional and respectable ones , and that you are not to be confused with Walter Block .
We got that .
Some of your faculty , whom you should have rebuked rather than implicitly congratulated , treated Walter with a similar lack of charity .
Since the substance of your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dealt with elsewhere , let me raise some relevant considerations : Economic Facts and Fal ... Sowell , Thomas Best Price : $ 5.62 Buy New $ 12.87 ( 1 ) How many professors at Loyola University can say students have enrolled for the express purpose of studying with them ?
( 2 ) How many professors at Loyola University can say they have co-authored scholarly articles with their students – not once or twice , but dozens of times ?
( 3 ) How many professors at Loyola University have a big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if they urged students to attend Loyola , as Walter constantly does ?
( 4 ) How many professors at Loyola University have over 400 peer-reviewed articles ?
( 5 ) How many professors at Loyola University would anyone anywhere in the country lift a single finger for ?
Yes , yes , I got the message : your faculty is against slavery .
What courage they must have had to summon in 2014 to unbosom to the world their opposition to slavery !
But I wonder : would people who ostentatiously announce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had the courage to oppose it when it counted – say , in 1850 ?
I have my doubts that people so desperate to assure the world of their conventional opinions and how appalled and offended they are by heretics , would have been the sort of people to buck conventional opinion at a time when two percent of the American electorate supported an abolitionist political party .
What I know for a fact is that Walter Block would have opposed it , lock , stock , and barrel .
That you simply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Walter Block , without even conceding , as the Times did , that Walter believed slavery was wrong because it was involuntary – so your behavior was worse than that of the Times , which is no mean feat – is bewildering and appalling in a university president , or indeed in a human being .
Long after every name on that list of Walter ’ s faculty critics is gone and forgotten , the work of Walter Block will continue to educate new generations in the principles of liberty .
No @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him out of spite or envy .
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How about this:
By far the most prolific living libertarian is Walter Block, who has written countless books and close to 600 scholarly articles — an accomplishment I am uncertain if any academic in any discipline could match today, or ever.
Walter has also co-authored over 100 scholarly articles with students. That’s unheard of. What an extraordinary advantage that gives Walter’s students over their peers — how many students of other professors can say they published an article in an academic journal while they were undergraduates? Civil Rights: Rhetoric... Sowell, Thomas Best Price: $0.20 Buy New $7.98 (as of 03:25 UTC - Details)
Loyola University, New Orleans, where Walter teaches, must be beaming with pride, right?
Well, a group of students are currently circulating a petition to get Walter fired on the grounds that — you’ll never guess — he is a “racist” and a “sexist.”
(In response, a counter-petition has been started, demanding that Walter be given a raise.)
This is because, like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, Walter Block does not believe that “discrimination” is the universal, no-analysis-necessary explanation for the various disparities between blacks and whites, or men and women. And of course he is quite correct to take that position, since the “discrimination” view is ridiculous on its face to anyone familiar with the data. (Sowell’s overlooked book Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? dismantles the “discrimination” school.)
They are also unhappy about what they mistakenly believe Walter told the New York Times about slavery. They think he said slavery “wasn’t so bad.” What he actually said was: the problem with slavery was its coercive nature; it doesn’t matter what the slaves’ caloric intake or per-capita living space was if they were coerced into being there.
Simple enough for a normal person to grasp, which means the New York Times pretended to misunderstand Walter, or at least make his views seem suspect and opaque. The Quest for Cosmic J... Thomas Sowell Best Price: $8.65 Buy New $10.94 (as of 10:45 UTC - Details)
So ridiculous was the Times‘ portrayal, in fact, that Walter sued them for libel. The Times settled out of court, so although we can’t know the terms of the settlement, it’s rather curious that columns by Walter — of all people — suddenly began appearing in its pages.
I’m taking that as being as close to an admission of guilt as most people are likely to get from the Times.
Let’s add to all this that Walter has repeatedly made clear that he believes that the descendants of slaves do have a right to reparations, though not indiscriminately from all Americans (he explained his position in an interview with me).
It seems virtually certain that the savages are unaware of this, particularly since knowing it would require them to read scholarly journals, which we may legitimately doubt they tend to do.
In light of all this, I think you’ll take mischievous delight in the letter I wrote to Loyola’s president in 2014, when the initial attack on Walter occurred:
Dear Dr. Wildes:
No doubt you have received quite a bit of correspondence by now about Walter Block. I won’t rehash the main points. You are familiar with them already. The Vision of the Anoi... Sowell, Thomas Best Price: $1.50 Buy New $12.99 (as of 11:05 UTC - Details)
I will say that I find it impossible to believe that you, an intelligent man, believe your own interpretation of Walter’s remarks to the New York Times. You note that Walter’s comment about slavery seems to run counter to libertarian principles. You don’t say! Might that be an indication that the Times, which despises what Walter stands for, has distorted his views?
A university president ought to support his faculty in a case like this, in which he knows full well that a professor has been grotesquely mischaracterized. If this were an accurate rendering of Walter’s views, why was he considering a libel suit?
Had Walter been a left-wing professor accused of Stalinism, would you have been so quick to denounce him? The question answers itself.
This is why it is impossible to believe that any of this has to do with Walter’s remarks. You are not a fool. You know Walter, and you know where he stands. He has never kept his views a secret. You owed him better, and you failed him.
Now it’s true, you did communicate to the university community that your views are the conventional and respectable ones, and that you are not to be confused with Walter Block. We got that.
Some of your faculty, whom you should have rebuked rather than implicitly congratulated, treated Walter with a similar lack of charity.
Since the substance of your (and their) claims have been dealt with elsewhere, let me raise some relevant considerations: Economic Facts and Fal... Sowell, Thomas Best Price: $5.62 Buy New $12.87 (as of 11:15 UTC - Details)
(1) How many professors at Loyola University can say students have enrolled for the express purpose of studying with them?
(2) How many professors at Loyola University can say they have co-authored scholarly articles with their students – not once or twice, but dozens of times?
(3) How many professors at Loyola University have a big enough audience that it would even matter if they urged students to attend Loyola, as Walter constantly does?
(4) How many professors at Loyola University have over 400 peer-reviewed articles?
(5) How many professors at Loyola University would anyone anywhere in the country lift a single finger for?
(6) Oh, and how many professors at Loyola University, who preposterously accused Walter of “sexism” for denying that “discrimination” could explain the male-female wage gap, dared to face Walter in open debate? (Their decision not to try to debate Walter is a fleeting sign of intelligence among them.)
Yes, yes, I got the message: your faculty is against slavery. What courage they must have had to summon in 2014 to unbosom to the world their opposition to slavery!
But I wonder: would people who ostentatiously announce their opposition to slavery in 2014 have had the courage to oppose it when it counted – say, in 1850? I have my doubts that people so desperate to assure the world of their conventional opinions and how appalled and offended they are by heretics, would have been the sort of people to buck conventional opinion at a time when two percent of the American electorate supported an abolitionist political party.
What I know for a fact is that Walter Block would have opposed it, lock, stock, and barrel.
That you simply repeated the New York Times’ characterization of Walter Block, without even conceding, as the Times did, that Walter believed slavery was wrong because it was involuntary – so your behavior was worse than that of the Times, which is no mean feat – is bewildering and appalling in a university president, or indeed in a human being.
Long after every name on that list of Walter’s faculty critics is gone and forgotten, the work of Walter Block will continue to educate new generations in the principles of liberty. No one will recall the pygmies who attacked him out of spite or envy.
Sincerely,
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD
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