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Writes J.K. Baltzersen:

 I’ve just read several essays in historian of the American Revolution Gordon Wood’s *The Idea of America*. I in particular recommend “A History of Rights in Early America.” It is a good contribution to the corrective to the perception of the revolution as liberation.

An excerpt:

 Since the government, including the king, was only one property holder in a world of property holders, it could not take “private” property for “public” purposes without the consent of the owner of that property; in other words, it had no modern power of eminent domain.

The Revolution was designed to dramatically change all this.

[…]

When in 1775 a frightened Tory warned the people of Massachusetts that a popular revolutionary legislature could become as tyrannical as the crown and deprive the people of their individual liberties, John Adams dismissed the idea out of hand. That the people might tyrannize themselves and harm their own rights and liberties was illogical, declared Adams. “A democratic despotism is a contradiction in terms.”

[…]

The state assemblies began legislating — making and changing law — as never before. Indeed, as Madison complained in 1787, the states passed more laws in the single decade following independence than they had in the entire colonial period.

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Writes CRS:

 It has everything the CIA covets.  My guess is the CIA suggested the site to Trump in the first place.  What a great cover for them, including funding that will look “deniable.” 

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Deborah Ayers wrote:

Born between 1930 and 1946 places you in an exceptionally small group – just 1% of your generation remains today. Ranging in age from 77 to 93, your lifetime represents a singular period in human history.

Consider this:

You entered a world of difficulty. Your generation emerged from the Great Depression and witnessed a global war. You experienced rationing, collected scrap metal, and practiced resourcefulness – waste was avoided.

You recall home delivery of fresh milk. Life was less complex, focused on essential needs. Discipline was a consistent element from both parents and educators, with little tolerance for justifications.

Your imagination served as your entertainment. Without television, you engaged in outdoor play and constructed elaborate mental worlds based on radio broadcasts. Families gathered to listen to news and programs together.

Technology was rudimentary. Telephones were shared, calculations were manual, and newspapers were the main source of information. Thoughts were recorded on typewriters, not computers.

Your early years were stable. The post-WWII period ushered in a hopeful future – absent of terrorism, the internet, and discussions about global warming. It was a prosperous time marked by optimism, progress, and security.

You are the final generation to have lived when:

Black-and-white television was advanced technology.

Major roads were not yet freeways.

Shopping involved visits to central business districts.

Polio was a significant health threat.

While your parents dedicated themselves to rebuilding after the war, you matured in an environment of abundant opportunities. You flourished during an era of peace, advancement, and safety that the world may never again experience.

If you are beyond 77 years old, feel a sense of pride in having navigated these remarkable times. You are among the fortunate 1% who can truthfully say, “I lived through the best of times.”

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Kennedy/Johnson apparatchik Bill Moyers of state-generated PBS performed “limited hangouts” on the Deep State of today and the Secret Government of the Nixon (Watergate) and Reagan (Iran-Contra) years.

The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

While Moyers has done some very courageous and commendable investigative journalism over the years (as the above exemplary programs demonstrated), he has remained one of the premier establishment media gatekeepers and shrill partisan voices of a faux progressivism of the eternal regime.

Don’t expect to see a tell-all PBS broadcast on The Confessions of Bill Moyers. Although tortured by inner demons and decades-long doubts in his role as a LBJ loyalist, he will never go near the career-destroying “third rail” of the November 22, 1963 JFK murder and coup d’état and his own craven role as an accessory in establishing the Warren Commission because of his close proximity and intimate engagement to those responsible for these events.

“Made Man” Moyers was the consummate insider, twelve years as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Bilderberg group.

In his long suppressed 1980 PBS two-part interview, “The World of David Rockefeller,” Moyers observed concerning the Machiavellian centenarian:

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work”.*

And so did Bill Moyers. It was time for him to come clean about his activities in the Deep State during the 1960s.

But alas, he took those treasonous secrets to the grave.

*Transcript of “The World of David Rockefeller,” Bill Moyers’ Journal, February 7, 1980 (WNET/Thirteen, 356 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019)

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Bill Moyers was a Great Society liberal, President Johnson’s confidante and press secretary.

In ’67 Moyers broke with LBJ over the Vietnam War and resigned.  Later, as the host of the PBS program “NOW with Bill Moyers,” he featured opponents of Bush’s elective war in Iraq including Lew Rockwell, Chris Hedges, and me.  I appeared on his last episode of NOW, on December 17, 2004 talking about my experience as an anti-war talk show host.

National media exposure was hard to come by for anti-war voices then, and I am grateful for the attention Moyers gave us.

He passed away June 26 at the age of 91.

Bill Moyers, RIP.

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In Sweden there exists an electrified road for Electric Vehicles (EVs) to charge while driving, see Endnote [i].  The 2 km stretch of road is the world’s first of its kind, and an expansion of a further 3,000 km of electric road by 2045 is planned. It all sounds rather cool and futuristic, and I am reminded of a song lyric from the 1980s, the singer Eddie Grant sang “we’re gonna rock onto Electric Avenue”.

However, let us consider whether these expensive EVs are actually environmentally friendly or are yet mega-corporate marketing scam? This article demonstrates that the latter is the case.

The reality is that the misled environmentalists buying these cars are suckers for mega-corporate advertising, seemingly proud of their so-called low-carbon eco-cars. Apparently, unaware that the manufacture of millions of electric car batteries, requires huge mining operations to acquire and refine large quantities of rare earth metals, such as lithium, rhodium and cobalt; that these metals have to be mined out of the ground using machinery which is powered by carbon-emitting vehicles powered by diesel or petrol; and importantly, that the mining and refining processes can cause significant and extensive pollution to land, air and water systems, for example in rural China and Mongolia, see Endnote [i]. Unlike the fake climate agenda, these are real environmental problems.

Further to my recent article 1900 Scientists Say ‘Climate Change Not Caused By CO2’ – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked, and my book Climate CO2 Hoax, a ‘devastator’ can been described as a lie so big it devastates and bewilders. “Buy an electric car to save the planet” is one such devastating lie.

Below is a picture of a lithium leach field. This is what your EV batteries are made of. It is so neuro-toxic that a bird landing on this stuff dies in minutes. Take a guess what it does to your nervous system? Pat yourself on the back for saving the environment.

Furthermore, the push to end gasoline or diesel transport by 2035 in favor of e-vehicles is based on a lie as the lithium-ion battery-powered vehicles have a total “carbon footprint” when the effects of mining lithium and producing all parts are included, that is worse than diesel autos.

Furthermore, electric cars are still driven by electricity produced from fossil fuels and will most likely continue to be. Despite decades of government subsidies wind power provides less than 5% of the world’s energy, and solar just 1 %. The use of electricity to charge vehicles and devices is also an extremely in-efficient use of energy, according to a study by the European Association for Battery Electric Vehicles commissioned by the European Commission (EC):

“The ‘Well-to-Tank’ energy efficiency (from the primary energy source to the electrical plug), taking into account the energy consumed by the production and distribution of the electricity, is estimated at around 37%. “

Let us take a look at the deceptive marketing for electric vehicles. The first misleading marketing trick that millions of environmentalists fell for was the ‘hybrid’. Hybrid cars are actually gasoline powered cars with a little battery assistance and the little battery has to be charged from the gasoline engine. If the EPA-certified mileage is 55 mpg, then it is no different from a non-hybrid that achieves 55 mpg. A world 100% full of ‘hybrid’ drivers is still 100% addicted to oil.

Now consider a cleverly designed marketing pitch for electric cars by Elon Musk, Co-Founder & CEO of Tesla Motors. In an article published on the Tesla Motors website, see Endnote [i], he states:

“the overarching purpose of Tesla Motors… is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy…  A common rebuttal to electric vehicles as a solution to carbon emissions is that they simply transfer the CO2 emissions to the power plant. The obvious counter is that one can develop grid electric power from a variety of means, many of which, like hydro, wind, geothermal, nuclear, solar, etc. involve no CO2 emissions. However, let’s assume for the moment that the electricity is generated from a hydrocarbon source like natural gas… the hands down winner is pure electric:

This system can be… set up as a carport and will generate about 50 miles per day of electricity. If you travel less than 350 miles per week, you will therefore be “energy positive” with respect to your personal transportation… you will actually be putting more energy back into the system than you consume in transportation!”

However, Elon Musk does not mention the fact that:

1. The move from mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy in itself requires a vast expenditure of fossil-fuel energy to re-purpose the entire worldwide industrial system, as well as build vast new energy grids for wind and solar energy, etc, simply to reduce CO2 emissions. A new industrial framework which in itself will still be very polluting to land, air, and water in virtually the same ways as the old framework as it creates more and more ‘product’ to be marketed and sold, such as electric cars, which we are now incorrectly told is okay because its ‘green product’;
2. The Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROEI) for solar and wind energy is too low to be viable, and therefore to repurpose and rebuild the world energy and industrial system to de-carbonise the economy is a waste of vast amounts of fossils fuels (no wonder the sector seeks subsidies);
3. The manufacture of potentially hundreds of millions of new electric cars and electric car batteries involves a continuation of widespread mining and processing of rare earth metals, such as lithium, rhodium and cobalt, which appear to be a limited resource. The mining and processing of rare earth metals has been shown to be polluting to land, air, and water systems, such as rivers.
4. If you charge the car with solar energy, you may be putting slightly more energy back into the system than you consume in ‘driving the car’. However, driving the electric car is only one small part of the entire energy consuming process from mining to manufacture to distribution, not to mention the embedded energy in the manufactured materials of a new worldwide supply-chain industrial infrastructure, including cars, factories, energy grids, windmills, photovoltaics, etc.
5. And importantly, CO2 emissions are not the cause of climate change. Are you aware that almost 2,000 of the world’s leading climate scientists and professionals in over 30 countries have signed a declaration that there is no ‘CO2-induced’ climate emergency and have refuted the United Nations claims in relation to man-made ‘CO2-induced’ climate change? See the list of signatories here. I have also signed this declaration.

How can I make such an assertion? I have experience in the field as a former scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK Government; and as former staff member at United Nations Environment, where I was responsible for servicing the Pollution Release and Transfer Register Protocol, a Multinational Environmental Agreement, involving the monitoring of pollutants to land, air, and water worldwide. Real pollution exists, but the problem is not CO2. Industrial globalisation has produced many substances that are registered as pollutants, including thousands of new man-made chemical compounds, toxins, nano-particles and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that are in violation of the scientific pre-cautionary principle.

A book I published also provides ample evidence and testimony from many renowned scientists that there is no ‘CO2-induced’ Climate emergency. The book titled ‘Climate CO2 Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement’ is available on Amazon here and on Realitybooks.co.uk

The problem is not CO2. CO2 is not actually a pollutant, it is an odorless gas, it is not soot and it is not poisonous. Actually, CO2 has beneficial properties for humankind because it is a fertilizer – without sufficient CO2 plants and crops will not grow. The biology of the earth is driven by CO2. Climate change is not due to CO2 emissions, neither is it ‘cow-made’ due to methane emissions as the UN claim.

It appears, the little ice age ended as recently as around 1800, so it is no surprise that we are now experiencing a little warming. However, this warming period will end, and we will move again to a colder phase. It appears that is how the Earth’s climate system has behaved for billions of years. I am also a signatory of the World Climate Declaration, a declaration that refutes the United Nations narrative on climate change.

6. Electric cars are a source of exposure to electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation; and that human health implications of EMF exposure have been documented in numerous studies (these concerns are not exclusive to electric cars).

An example of why electric cars are fake environmentalism – consider a Tesla model Y battery

t takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car. To manufacture it has been estimated that you need:

12 tons of rock for lithium; 5 tons of cobalt minerals (most cobalt is made as a byproduct of the processing of copper and nickel ores. It is a very difficult to obtain and is very expensive.); 3 tons of nickel ore; and 12 tons of copper ore. In addition, you must move 250 tons of soil to obtain: 26.5 pounds of lithium; 30 pounds of nickel; 48.5 pounds of manganese; and 15 pounds of cobalt. To manufacture the battery also requires 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and/or plastic and 112 pounds of graphite.

A Caterpillar 994A vehicle is commonly used for the earthmoving to obtain the essential minerals. It has been estimated to consume between 250 and 775 gallons of diesel in 12 hours, see Endnote [i]. Finally, you get a “zero emissions” car. Presently, the bulk of the necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries comes from China or Africa; and much of the hard labour for acquiring the minerals in Africa is done by children!

The cost of Tesla batteries for the Tesla car models ranges from $5,000 to $20,000. It takes seven years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The average life expectancy of the batteries is 10 years. Only in the last three years do you begin to reduce your carbon footprint. Then the batteries have to be replaced and you lose all the gains you made in those three years.

The reality should be distinguished from the lies we are all being told by governments, the UN, the WEF and mega-corporate advertising. The word “sustainable” was hijacked decades ago, and it is now deceptively used to advance the agendas of mega-corporate-communist interests who couldn’t care less about the environment. The aim is to catapult humanity into the ‘fake-sustainable’ totalitarian arms of UN Agenda 2030 and other deceptive marketing plans entirely designed by the mega-corporations of the ultra-wealthy Davos group. Its not about saving the planet – it’s about political and mega-corporate control, control over your energy, your money, and your freedom.

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[1] Source: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/05/09/sweden-is-building-the-worlds-first-permanent-electrified-road-for-evs-to-charge-while-dri

[1] Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-rare-earth-village-pollution

[1] The relevant article written by Elon Musk is available at: https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me

[1] Source: https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/cat-994-fuel-consumption.94089/

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Although today’s massive wealth disparities are plain as day, it is important to note that wealth is now generally accumulated not by adding material value but by financial sleights of hand and therein is the crux of the matter.

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.

Although the above quote is often erroneously attributed to Gibbon’s seminal The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, it might more aptly be applied to the decay of the Anglo-American system which we are now living through in real time. If we sequentially go through them, we see social discourse being dominated by tittle tattle about celebrity nobodies and those nobodies often being elected to high office. What with Sir Keir Starmer having gangs of Ukrainian male prostitutes tailing him like he was a bitch in heat, degenerates like Jesuit top dog Fr Bill Currie being spit roasted on a nightly basis as top journalists dress in French maids’ uniforms to kiss the boots of black transexual prostitutes, and all such nobodies being in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book, their behaviour could just as well be from the set of 120 days of Sodom, which has been described as the sickest film of all time.

Le Soir, the liberal paper that spearheaded Belgium’s collaboration during the Nazi occupation, provides us with another relevant example of NATO hoisting themselves by their own petard as any praise for their liberal credentials in republishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons must be tempered by noting they hired Philippe Servaty, whose party piece was to ejaculate and and urinate into the faces of impoverished Moroccan women and post his “art” on the Internet before the women’s incensed relatives put a bounty on his head.

Talking of these degenerates, although what passes for Hunter Biden-style art today is barely worth a mention, we must note that our aesthetic tastes are continually being shaped by Zelensky’s Brownshirt enforcers, whose Pavlovian impulse is to swing a sledgehammer every time they hear Russian culture being mentioned. Whoever said that book burning had gone out of fashion?

Although today’s massive wealth disparities are plain as day, it is important to note that wealth is now generally accumulated not by adding material value but by financial sleights of hand and therein is the crux of the matter. Historically, we had two forms of economies, the stock-driven one of the Netherlands, Britain and America and the debt-driven one of Germany and Japan, both of which have been thoroughly derailed by the Anglo Americans, whose stock market based system was supposed to fund relatively risky ventures unsuited to the more risk averse debt financing the main Axis powers typified.

That idyllic Wall Street sheen is no more and the emphasis is now on milking captive audiences through needless pharmaceuticals, narcissistic purchases and nihilistic wars: that is where the money is and, as the politicians have long ago been bought off, there is no real protection for the ordinary citizen against any of these 5G forms of draining their wallets dry. Instead of trying to add value, the emphasis is on wasting weapons in NATO’s endless wars and knowing that the taxpayer will, at day’s end, have to pick up the tab for their profligacy. It is a risk free scam. As Craig Murray has recently pointed out, Wall Street’s hedge funds actually own the RAF’s Top Guns, meaning, firstly, that it is in their profit maximising interests to charge top dollar for the under performing junk Russia is turning into scrap metal in Ukraine and, secondly, that all Starmer, Trump, Kallas and von der Leyen are left with are their hedge funds, who scam the RAF and whatever other rich NATO pickings that Halliburton, Blackwater and BlackRock have not yet picked bare.

As for the ordinary public, who are not members of NATO’s self-selected elite, technology has made them largely irrelevant to the economy, except as unthinking consumers or, as is the case with Britain’s abortion-up-to-birth laws, as raw inputs into cosmetics and some similar luxury goods products. As for euthanasia, well why not? If the ordinary public cannot add value to the elite, why not put them down? Maybe, in this brave new world, Hitler and the Anglo-Americans, who inspired his Austrian death factories, had a point in all of that.

As it was then with the the boys, and girls, from Brazil, so is it now. The latest resurrected Nazi is Blaise Metreweli, whose grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, aka The Butcher, was one of Hitler’s chief Ukrainian collaborators, a notorious mass murderer and torturer for the Waffen-SS in Ukraine and the entire eastern front. Although the Waffen-SS still have their Russophilic critics, there is evidence galore that having friends and forefathers in that infamous group never did the careers of their families any harm in modern-day Blighty, or in Canada, the United States and Germany for that matter.

Although we are told the Waffen-SS are yesterday’s men because the ideological sheens the Anglo Americans used to oppose them are things of the past, with no more ongoing relevance than whatever drove the Assyrians or the Carthaginians on their own conquests all those millenia ago, their Nazi networks remain there to be activated when needed. Even though the Anglo-Americans still have the world’s most well-oiled and best performing propaganda industry, and even though they have the resources of Nazi families like the Butcher’s to draw on, they are losing their lustre because they can no longer innovate or regenerate to the degree that is needed.

Take the recent Iranian-Israeli dust up, where the Iranian missiles performed as I predicted. There will be no Iranian Operation Paperclip and Iran (the land of the Aryans), Persia if you prefer, will no longer be the buffer state it once was following the 1856/7 Anglo Persian war. When Iran puts its formidable missile technological know-how up for sale, their main customers will be the Russians and the Chinese, who are no slouches at the hard sums themselves, and that is not good news for the Anglo-Americans or the rust buckets masquerading as aircraft carriers they pin their faith on to control the world’s choke points.

And nor is it good news for the informal networks NATO uses as velvet handcuffs for the world’s satraps. I am referring here to military academies like Sandhurst and to the public schools like Harrow and Eton Sandhurst draws its dullards from. Why, except to engage in their BDSM hazing rituals, ape NATO’s toy soldiers when Iran and its allies are showing that victory in the Waterloos of the future will owe far more to the STEM researchers of China and Iran than they do to Paddington Bear and the playing fields of Eton?

The idea of giving Iran room to breathe or even having buffer states to stop the bigger elephants crashing into each other is now obsolete. The Baltic pimple states as well as Hitler’s former Finnish allies are now but staging posts to attack Russia and to hell with any Russian nuclear or other response as, in a perversion of Pascal’s wager, the risks of summoning Armageddon are well worth it for even the smallest chance of robbing Russia of its vast natural resources. Besides British guile and the long shot of dividing and conquering those who count, there seems no other way to dent Russia and those who stand with her.

If today’s Great Game was only confined to Russia’s southern and northern borders, then there might be hope. But look towards Africa and to the great Nile River where the intrigues of empire remain problematic. When Britain divided up the waters of the Nile between Sudan and Egypt, they omitted Ethiopia, which not only also needs that water but it is where the Nile actually begins its long march to the sea. As Ethiopia is now extending its own dam to the possible detriment of both Egypt and Sudan, expect more trouble in that volatile region, which, not so long ago, saw the Soviet Union fund Egypt’s Aswan dam, a move which helped Nasser pivot towards the anti Anglo-American Soviet bloc, from which it was afterwards half-wrested.

As Israel has recently annexed Syria’s water supply, just as it previously robbed the River Jordan from Jordan, expect all those postcolonial squabbles to come to bear when Russia and China become serious players in the region. And maybe even expect other countries to replace Israel as the area’s key choke point. The historical tides are currently changing course and patch quilt dykes here and there will not change matters when those titans tag team their way into the ring.

Whatever about the rise of China and Russia, the Anglo-Americans, like the Romans before them, are suffering from the problems centuries of privilege bring. They have thinned out their economies and their people, who are no longer the stout hearted peasantry Oliver Goldsmith pined about in The Deserted Village but are, instead, a sordid gaggle of degenerates Chinese vloggers and anthropologists scratch their heads in baffled bemusement about.

Critical though the fate of the Western empire is, it would not be imminently fatal if the sort of urgent remedial action Japan undertook in the post-Wars years to steady its own ship was taken. Though these steps would include a massive streamlining of NATO’s judicial and loan sharking systems, a massive crackdown on the drug and perversion industries and the mass internment of corrupt politicians and government functionaries, none of that can now happen as the West is on the different trajectory of robbing Europe of the last of its sovereign wealth and, as the ongoing Syrian genocide shows, to hell with the longer term consequences.

Far from being the idyll of liberal imperialism the West pretends to be, it is, in essence, a giant Ponzi scheme where the elite pick the pockets and, now, the vital organs of the rest, who no longer even have the right to decide how to dispose of their own bodies. Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and similar French, Russian and German classics of the Victorian era show us things were not that different then, the only cultural difference being, perhaps, that more of us can read and write, an almost now-obsolete skill that was necessary to impart to the working class because of the great demand for lowly clerks towards the end of Queen Victoria’s reign.

Although there remains oases of goodwill throughout the Anglo American world, they resemble those Brideshead Revisited Catholic aristocrats of Olde Englande, who did not abandon their faith, mere puddles from the past, oddities of no greater strategic significance.

Instead of folk like Alexander Graham Bell, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thomas Crapper, John Dunlop, Thomas Edison and George Stephenson, all we now have is NATO mob boss Mark Rutte flaunting his sociopathic daddy issues to the world, and Bonny Blue, a British slapper, who is hailed as a hero because her party trick is to lie down and think of England as 1000 losers use her as their collective sperm bucket.

Although, given her demographics, China probably has countless similar losers, her core engineering capabilities far outclass anything the Anglo American empire can currently muster and, as for Bonny Blue, she is not that very different from von der Leyen and Kallas, who likewise would better belong in San Fernando Valley. Though the Anglo American empire will hobble on with von der Leyen, Kallas and Bonny Blue doing what they do best, just as Rome hobbled along up to and even after the fall of Constantinople, it no longer calls the shots. All we are left with are its jagged pieces, epitomised by Bonny Blue, Kaja Kallas, Keir Starmer, Fr Bill Currie and their Ukrainian rent boys. And, as for China’s future generations of anthropologists, vloggers and historians, they will wonder how these larpers ever took their ancestors for such an expensive ride.

The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.

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The Failure by our Corrupt Elected Officials and Bureaucrats of the Administrative State to Obey our Great Constitution is the Root Cause of all Treason and Denies Us Our Freedoms and the American Dream.

Failure  to obey our Constitution is the foundation of our inability to prosper because the people’s wealth has been squandered on unconstitutional  wars for profit, foreign aid, financing Communist cities, financing usurped state functions, financing corporate welfare, financing Invaders (which is Treason), financing the corrupt FBI & CIA and etc, etc.

Our officials and bureaucrats will certainly go to hell for slaughtering 105,000 members of our military in the last 80 years, millions of civilians, and devastating entire countries without a single Declaration of War, all for their profit, not our national security.

All of this has been done while the officials and bureaucrats knew that the United States could not be invaded by a foreign power. It can only be defeated by weapons of Mass Destruction or from within by the 20 million strong Democratic/Communist army of Illegal invaders. Because of this, our military must be returned home from 150 countries, where they are like canaries in a coal mine.

There is no reason, none, for defending Europe or Israel, because they can’t reciprocate, and it is none of our business.

I have no actual proof, only the words of countless professionals I respect, and what I can observe to support the following statement: Our government is controlled by the Jewish Lobby and they own our media. Government officials are petrified by the Jewish Lobby, Jews being only 2% of our Population. But the Jewish Lobby shares control of the government with the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC), consisting of the wealthy families directing their greedy minions in corporations and all levels of government.

Another observation by others is that most of our elected officials hate Trump, America, and the people. Many Republicans profess to support “America First”  but this is a lie because Trump is reducing their potential for receiving bribes by reducing related income for the PSRRC .

At this point, you should agree that the root cause of all our problems is the criminal and traitorous refusal of our elected officials and bureaucrats to obey the Constriction to the letter. Their qualification for office included swearing a sacred Oath to protect and defend and obey this highest authority in the land. Violating this Oath lawfully disqualifies them from office.

I can guarantee that if sure and certain punishment would result from violating the Constitution and government corruption, then our people could once again enjoy the pursuit of the American Dream. Nothing would motivate honest government better than the public hanging of Traitors and the certainty of prison sentences for government and corporate criminals.

As I said in my last article, all payments to states must end and a large portion of federal income taxes collected in a state must be returned to the state. Alternatively, you could fund the Federal Establishment with tariffs and excise taxes while terminating the income tax

My primary problem with Public Service Law Firms is that all of their efforts are directed at the results, and not the root causes of criminality. If they continue this way, they will have employment thru eternity…and the public will have no sense of justice or redress of grievances.

I, and many others, estimate that a majority of the Federal Establishment is a Criminal Enterprise

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On the Fourth of July, as on any momentous occasion, myths mingle with reality. Even the date we’re supposed to remember was initially in question.

Congress voted for independence two days before it was formally declared. John Adams always thought July 2 the more appropriate day to celebrate, and expected it would be the perpetual date to do so. There was some merit to his argument, and more than a little envy that prompted it.

As relations with Great Britain deteriorated and war raged to the north, separation became inevitable. Adams suggested to Thomas Jefferson that Jefferson write a declaration of independence.

Adams viewed the document as something of a press release, and certainly nothing epochal. After the tumult passed – either with new states on the world scene or a hangman’s noose around signatories’ necks – few would remember it. The actual vote was what mattered.

Jefferson was reluctant, and wondered why Adams shouldn’t write the announcement himself. Other than Robert Livingston, Jefferson was the youngest member of the committee of five assigned by the Second Continental Congress to draft a rationale for independence.

How was he qualified?

Jefferson brought unique ability…what Adams called “a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent for composition”, as well as a “peculiar felicity of expression.” Adams then elaborated, with three additional reasons he preferred to defer to his younger colleague.

“Reason first”, he began, “you are a Virginian, and a Virginian should be at the head of this business.

“Reason second”, he continued, “I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise.

“Reason third”, he concluded, “you can write ten times better than I can.”

Adams was right, and won that battle. But Jefferson won the war. From then on, the former always thought the latter had run away with the revolution. With a bit of retrospective bitterness, Adams continued to think July 2 was the date that truly mattered.

The Declaration ended up meaning more than Adams thought it would (or should), and the date atop the document became the one the rest of us would celebrate. That Adams and Jefferson both died on July 4… fifty years to the day after independence was declared…further cemented its mystique, reinforced their reputations, and gave us a day to remember.

But the Fourth wasn’t always and everywhere remembered fondly. While the day is an annual celebration of a successful secession, some Americans spent many generations mourning a thwarted attempt… which effectively died on the Fourth of July.

The Siege

General Grant had planned to approach Vicksburg the way Captain Lawrence attacked Aqaba: from the land. Much as Turkish guns aimed over the gulf, Confederate forts guarded the river. Grant’s only option was from the east.

But unbeknownst to Grant, General McClernand had proposed taking Vicksburg from upstream, using his own army of Illinois recruits. Lincoln agreed, but hadn’t told Grant.

As rumors swirled and word spread, Grant became aware of what was afoot. Wanting to take control of the project, he changed course and summoned Sherman to Memphis. But the Confederates intervened.

Bedford Forrest and General Van Dorn snuck behind Union lines, capturing supplies, severing railroads, and disconnecting telegraphs. With Grant stalled, Sherman proceeded without expected support, and was forced to wait on the west side of the river.

An irate McClernand and an irritated Grant eventually joined him. After nine months cutting futile canals in hopes of circumventing Vicksburg, Grant decided to march downstream, thru the thick marshes on the Louisiana side. Eluding Confederate guns, his army proceeded south, and crossed the Mississippi thirty miles below Vicksburg.

Their first target was Jackson, to cut Confederate supplies that came thru the capital. From there Grant moved west, and laid siege to the village of Vicksburg. The deprivation lasted forty-seven days.

Like so many southern farms, hamlets, and homes ravaged by Lincoln’s armies, Vicksburg was full of women, children, infirm, and elderly. As these civilians were shelled they dug shelters to survive. Many succumbed to starvation and disease.

The Surrender

About the moment Pickett’s charge was failing in Gettysburg, General Pemberton asked Grant for terms. The next day… four score and seven years after the Declaration was adopted… Vicksburg fell.

The defenders were reluctant to capitulate on Independence Day, thinking it would amplify their humiliation and provide fodder for Yankee propaganda. General Pemberton conceded the point, but offered a competing one.

Tho’ a Confederate general, Pemberton was a Pennsylvanian who knew the Northern mind:

“I know my people”, he assured objectors on his staff. “I know their particular weaknesses and their national vanity. I know we can get better terms from them on the Fourth of July than on any other day of the year. We must sacrifice our pride to these considerations.”

It initially seemed he needn’t have bothered. Grant responded to the request for terms with his familiar demand for “unconditional surrender.” But overnight negotiations softened him slightly.

The morning of the 4th, an acceptable agreement was arranged. Confederates would be paroled rather than imprisoned. Officers could retain their side-arms, clothing, and a single horse. The rank-and-file kept their clothes and nothing else.

Grant’s men took possession of the city. Despite surrendering on the 4th of July, there was apparently little of the gloating Confederates had feared. Perhaps the invaders felt pangs of conscience upon witnessing what they’d wrought: countless corpses, frail frames, and gaunt bodies reflected the civilian toll of Yankee shelling and siege.

Fighting persisted almost two more years, with unspeakable carnage inflicted on the South. But the fall of Vicksburg severed the Confederacy, and effectively decided the war.

For four generations… from Appomattox to Pearl Harbor… Vicksburg ignored the Fourth of July. For good reason. If anyone invaded my state, shelled my city, and tried to kill my kids or ruin my family, I’d be hard pressed to celebrate the date that evoked those atrocities.

Who wouldn’t?

Only after the Second World War did Vicksburg’s ambivalence begin to melt, with the holiday celebrated as the “Carnival of the Confederacy”. Not till the Bicentennial in 1976 did July 4 officially reclaim its “Independence Day” title.

Compact Fact

Most Americans who cherish the Fourth of July misunderstand why they should. They proudly recall thirteen colonies separating from a central power, while cheering that eleven states were later forbidden to leave.

If anything, the American states have more legal claim to secede than the colonies did. The Crown chartered the colonies, and never claimed to be a federation of sovereign entities.

But the states created the US government, a voluntary association from which they presumed they could depart. This isn’t merely a compact “theory” of the Union. It’s a compact fact.

The meaning of this day, as Jefferson put it, is to recall the right of free people “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” [emphasis added]

The final paragraph of the Declaration removed any doubt:

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America [note the lower-case ‘u’], in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these [note the plural] United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”

These states seceded as “separate” sovereign entities, no different than Spain, Sweden, Russia, or France. “State” and “country” were synonymous. Jefferson regularly used the latter appellation when referring to Virginia, as most founders did regarding their own states.

Their people wanted to be left alone to manage their own affairs, without interference from external busybodies. Akin to the Catholic notion of subsidiarity, the idea was to enable empowerment at the most local level… to prioritize family over community, precinct over town, city over state, state over union. This is the core and essence of Jeffersonian philosophy, and of self-government.

The notion that states had a right to self-determination was precisely Jefferson’s argument in his Summary View of the Rights of British America. The states never yielded their sovereignty to a central government.

This was obvious under the Articles of Confederation. But even under the Constitution, states simply delegated specific powers they remained free to reclaim.

The state ratifying conventions were emphatic about this, with advocates for the Constitution assuring skeptics that fears of usurpation were overblown… and that the document included adequate mechanisms to inhibit any attempts.

As is abundantly evident in our own day, these safeguards weren’t good enough. But when they fail, the Declaration of Independence remains a welcome reminder of a worthy remedy.

This article was originally published on Premium Insights.

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On Independence Day Americans tend to celebrate “America” in some way. What that means to people, of course, varies significantly depending on the person’s ideology and level of education. Many Americans are not sure what the Declaration of Independence is, or what century it was written in. Some can’t distinguish between the Declaration and the US Constitution. Many rarely think about it at all, if ever.

Regardless of what average modern Americans may know about it, the history of the Declaration and its legacy remains a matter of fierce contention. Why? Because historians and public intellectuals understand that our view of historical events shapes our ideology.

Supporters of the regime and status quo tend to define the Declaration as something that is safe, bland, and vague. We often hear about the Declaration in terms that reflect the ideology of average modern-day American intellectuals and pundits. They tell us the Declaration is about “equality” and “freedom.” They tell us that the only thing that justified the Declaration’s revolutionary agenda was the fact that the American colonists endured “taxation without representation”—and the Declaration was therefore ultimately about “democracy.” In other words, this interpretation neatly and conveniently supports the current agenda of most American mainstream political parties and ideological movements.

Fortunately, though, the real purpose and ideological underpinning of the Declaration of Independence is something far more radical and oriented against all state authority. The Declaration does not, as we are told, advocate for equality, democracy, or freedom within an established political order. The Declaration does not meekly ask the ruling regime for reform. Rather, the Declaration works from the assumption that the British state exercises no legitimate authority within the colonies. The Declaration assumes that secession and the abrogation of the British state within the colonies were both guaranteed by natural right and could not be forbidden by the British state. The Declaration of Independence was not calling for negotiations. It was simply describing the new reality in which the colonies were politically independent. Certainly, the Declaration explains why the colonies were seceding from the empire, but that was only—as we might say in modern parlance—”good public relations.”

The reality of the Declaration is that it was far more radical than its critics are generally willing to admit. The Declaration advocated for an act of unilateral and illegal secession. Clearly, modern-day defenders of the regime attempt to downplay this whenever possible. Moreover, the language and ideals of the Declaration communicate a general disregard for ideals of political unity or loyalty to political institutions, in spite of British propaganda to the contrary.

Thus, to act in the Spirit of the Declaration of Independence today is to reject calls for loyalty, unity, or respect for the regime’s so-called “rule of law.” Rather, the Declaration of Independence represents disloyalty, disunity, and a disregard for the law as laid down by the political ruling class.

Yes, It Was Secession 

In an effort to conceal the radicalism of the Declaration, many conservative and other pro-establishment pundits insist that the colonies’ secession from the British empire wasn’t really secession. They’ll claim, for example, that secession isn’t secession if it occurs as a type of decolonization. (Many modern opponents of secession invent arbitrary criteria such as the “salt water rule” stating that secession is only permissible if there is a body of salt water between the mother country and the seceding colony.)

Such claims strain the limits of credulity, however, and for this reason, serious scholars simply admit that the American secession was exactly that. Historian David Armitage, for example, flatly describes the Americans’ efforts to “dissolve” its political bands with Britain as an effort to “secede.” 

The idea that the American separation was indeed secession isn’t even controversial among actual scholars of secession and separatist movements. Only among some American ideologues is it rather ridiculously maintained that the unilateral secession of the American colonists wasn’t actually secession.

It Wasn’t about Democracy 

In an effort to place strict limits on what secession is “allowed,” regime apologists will fall back on claims that secession was only acceptable in 1776 because there was “taxation without representation.” By this way of thinking, secession can only be justified if there is no “democracy.”

The Declaration itself, however, does not make this argument. The Declaration does mention taxation “without our consent,” but that is only one reason for political independence among more than two dozen other reasons. For example, the Declaration also declares the Americans’ secession was justified by restrictions on trade, restrictions in immigration, underuse of trial by jury, abusive government agents being shielded from prosecution, and the crown’s overriding of laws passed by local legislatures.

Clearly, there was a lot more going on here other than simply taxation without representation.

But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that the British state agreed to offer “representation” to the Americans. How is this to be defined? What counts as democracy is never actually defined by those who claim that “democracy” renders secession unnecessary. Would it be democracy if the Americans were granted ten or twenty seats in Parliament in London? At the time, Parliament had more than 500 members. That would hardly change the political realities of the colonies. Political “representation” means next to nothing if the “represented” group remains forever in the minority.  More importantly, who gets to decide how much political representation is enough? The colonists had no interest in playing these games and simply opted for self-determination.

On this matter of what political representation means in practice, the purveyors of the “democracy” argument rarely offer a response. For similar reasons, modern supporters of the regime avoid the issue of representation. We are told that a Congress of a few hundred millionaires somehow “represents” 330 million Americans, most of whom have virtually nothing in common with your average member of Congress.

For its part, the Declaration is uninterested in the idea that democracy—in whatever form—voids the natural right to secession and political self-determination.

The Radicalism of the Declaration of Independence 

Part of the Declaration’s radicalism stems from the fact that the Declaration does not make a legal argument in favor of secession. Rather, the Declaration states that the right of separation stems simply from natural rights of self-determination that do not depend on legal or constitutional authority.

This is not surprising given the views of the Declaration’s author, Thomas Jefferson, who was a committed follower of John Locke. Locke, after all, did not himself regard secession as limited by legal restrictions. For Locke, the right of secession was a natural right that could be put forward by a wide variety of organizations and groups of people without permission from any higher legal authority.

We can see the radicalism of this view if we contrast it with the conservative views of later American theorists who limited the right of secession to legal—rather than natural—origins. John C. Calhoun, for example, justified secession on legal contracts rather than on natural rights. Compared to the broader Jeffersonian and Lockean views of secession, Calhoun’s legalistic justification is weak tea, indeed. 

And then, of course, there is the fact that the Declaration respected no demand for loyalty to the crown, to parliament, or to any other British political institution. Instead, the Declaration was a statement of contempt for the established legal order. British propaganda at the time, much like American propaganda today, sang the praises of political unity while encouraging an emotional bond between the ordinary subject and the ruling executive. Fortunately, the American secessionists saw such things for the absurdities that they were and have always been.

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On one hand, you have the White House, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine, the Joint Chiefs chairman, insisting and insisting again — insisting too much, methinks — that those B–2 bombers that flew over Iran two Sundays back, June 22, obliterated the nation’s nuclear program just as President Trump hastily claimed as soon as the operation was completed.

Hegseth at a news conference with Caine four days later: “U.S. attacks have effectively destroyed Iran’s centrifuge enrichment program …. You want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated, choose your word. This was an historically successful attack, and we should celebrate it as Americans.”

Trump, at a news conference the next day: “The place was bombed to hell …. The last thing they’re thinking about now is nuclear weapons.”

And in the background you have the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency performing Difficulty 5 back flips as they repudiate initial assessments of limited damage to the Iranian nuclear program so as to conform to the Trump regime’s “obliterated, destroyed, defeated” narrative.

On the other hand, you have reports that the Iranians, warned in advance the “bunker busters” would fall on the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites, removed their 400–kilograms of enriched uranium, not quite 900 pounds, to secret locations. Immediately after the bombs fell, Amwaj.media, a British-based digital publication that covers West Asia in English, Arabic and Farsi, reported this, citing “a high-ranking Iranian political source [who] also confirmed that the targeted sites were evacuated, with ‘most’ of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium kept in secure locations.”

“How can you tell,” Reuters asked in a June 29 report, “if enriched uranium stocks, some of them near weapons grade, were buried beneath the rubble or secretly hidden away?”

You cannot, it seems to me. Neither can President Trump or any of his adjutants.

Then you have the granular analysis of reputable technologists such as Ted Postol, the gentlemanly scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has over many years exploded more false flags, propaganda ops, and other such ruses than you’ve had hot dinners.

There is satellite imagery showing 16 tractor trailers lined up at Fordow in the days before the B–2s flew. Trump insists they were pouring concrete, a peculiar use of a truck of that sort, I have to say. It is magnitudes more plausible they were there to load the steel drums in which enriched uranium is commonly stored and shipped.

Postol gave the heavy-on-the-science interview to Daniel Davis, an Army veteran who now podcasts as a respected military analyst, after the Hegseth–Caine press conference. In the course of it, the joint chiefs chairman went full monty with slides, diagrams, satellite images, and graphics to show (or is snow my word?) the assembled reporters just how true the obliterated-destroyed-defeated story is.

“What it clearly shows is that the bottom of the shaft [formed by the bombs] is still sealed,” Postol said of Caine’s presentation. “Caine is probably a good soldier, but he doesn’t know much science. You cannot succeed with this kind of attack. It was destined to fail.”

Postol also proves astute as to the political dynamics of the administration’s shape-shifting accounts of the Iranian mission: “This is a circus, a political circus to try to minimize the embarrassment to President Trump for having spoken without any knowledge.”

Where are we, then? As Postol points out during his exchange with Davis, “You can’t trust the media and you can’t trust the intelligence community.” What happened and what is going to happen next? These are the questions we are left to consider more or less on our own.

Strange as it may seem, I find it easier to anticipate the future than to conclude with certainty what it is that those B–2s and their 30,000–pound bombs actually got done.

It may be that we are doomed never to know the extent of the damage the Air Force’s aerial operation caused. But, staying short of convictions as we must, I put my stock in those reports that the Iranians had advance notice that the B–2s were coming. I have heard no official denial on this point. And so much of contemporary warfare is weirdly choreographed, after all. In this case, telling Tehran the battle plan would serve to reduce the danger — danger the International Atomic Energy Agency warned of prior to the operation — of a catastrophic release of radioactive material into the atmosphere.

And there is the science, such as unscientific minds, mine among them, can understand it. I have found Ted Postol a careful, persuasive witness ever since he discredited those false-flag chemical weapons incidents in Syria at the height of the Western-run operation to bring down the Assad regime. Take a look at the video of his talk with Daniel Davis. He did the same thing this time: Here are the physics, here the thermodynamics, this is what would have to have happened if the obliteration story was true, and here is how we know it did not happen.

As to what is likely to come next, we can usefully read events as mirrors of intentions.

I think it is true that Hegseth, Caine and others among Trump’s sycophantic appointees are protecting the president from ignominy — or more ignominy, better to say — as they flood the zone with pseudoscience and, in Hegseth’s case, shrill exhortations to print and broadcast media to stop with the reporting and get with the patriotic propaganda. (Read the transcript linked above for the full taste of these crude harangues.)

But there is more to President Trump than his obvious concern for appearances. In my view he is very eager to avoid any circumstance that would require another American air campaign in Iranian airspace. He wants neither the risk nor the responsibility. This is how, paradoxically, I read his warning the other day that he will bomb again if Iran resumes its enrichment processes. When Trump drops threats like granite boulders we can read in them what he actually wants. In this case it is another way of saying, “Please stay with the ceasefire and short of the nuclear stuff.”

With Trump, it is as it was with Joe Biden and numerous of their predecessors. One can never tell the extent to which Trump, is willing to restrain the Israelis as they advance their aggressions — which any American regime could do in very short order — and the extent to which he pretends to be willing to restrain the Israelis but has no intention of doing so because of the Israel lobbies.

The New York Times ran a report Monday, June 29, under the headline, “Israel’s Military Appears Poised to Expand Into Gaza City Amid Cease-Fire Calls.” While Trump and his national-security people press for a ceasefire in Gaza — with what degree of vigor we do not know — the Zionist state just ordered Palestinians to evacuate the Strip’s main city after not operating here for many months. So they seem to be going in yet again. “There has been no advancement in the ceasefire talks,” The Times, quoting two Israeli officials and another unnamed source, reported.

This development has nothing and everything to do with Israel’s current posture toward Iran, as I interpret it. Israel has as little intention of ceasing its operations against Iran, now that they are finally underway, as it does to end its genocidal ethnic-cleansing of the Palestinians of Gaza. These aggressions are both fronts in what the Israelis call their “seven-front war” across West Asia, and we must not lose sight of this. We witness a thematically unified campaign of terror. There is no place in it for ceasefires, peaceful coexistence or anything else short of total victory.

As in Gaza, so in the West Bank, and as in Gaza and the West Bank, so in Lebanon, and as in these three, so in Iran. I see no chance whatsoever that the Israelis consider themselves done with the Islamic Republic. Destroying the nation’s nuclear program, wrecking the economy and essential infrastructure, creating a state of political chaos, assassinating or otherwise decapitating the leadership: All this appears to be under discussion among Israel’s war planners.

It is merely a matter of time before the Zionist state resumes its aggressions. Then there will be more questions, chief among them what the United States and the rest of the West will do as more barbarities unfold before the world’s eyes.

This article was originally published on ScheerPost.

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A few days ago, Robert Malone contacted me about a leaked memo from BIO published by the Brownstone Institute which he’d shared on his Substack which detailed an orchestrated industry conspiracy to sabotage RFK Jr. and stop making America healthy.

After reviewing the article, my suspicion was that it was authentic as I knew an orchestrated campaign against RFK Jr. existed and much of it matched what we had already proven these groups (e.g., BIO do). I then asked the people closest to the story (who I trust) who shared that they had confidence in the source who leaked it, and noted that when confronted by a larger outlet, BIO did not explicitly deny it, also suggesting the document was real (e.g., their spokesman declined to confirm or deny the veracity of the quote about lobbying for Kennedy’s ouster). As such, I will proceed on the assumption it was real.

RFK’s Nomination

Throughout this publication, RFK Jr. has been one of the few political figures I have publicly supported. This is because:

• RFK has continually advocated for many of the things most important to me.

• I long thought it would be impossible to ever have anyone in a senior level of government advocating for them—but due to an extraordinary confluence of events RFK was put into a position to.

• When I spent time with RFK, my two non-verbal takeaways were that he has gone through a lot of very difficult and traumatic events throughout his life, and that he has a deep conviction in the positions he is advocating for. There are a variety of ways people can respond to those types of unpleasant experiences, and it appeared to me that RFK adopted one of the less common responses—developing a deep conviction to make the world be a better place regardless of the obstacles put in front of you.

• A few of my close friends who know RFK Jr. feel the same way.

• Since he has gotten into the H.H.S., he has been very systematic and strategic in fixing the issues we are facing, in many cases doing exactly what I would do.

In short, like many, I long entertained entering politics so I could fix the horrendous issues around us, but ultimately was not willing to because becoming a politician is a miserable experience which puts your entire life under scrutiny, leads to a never ending slew of attacks to force you to adopt positions that support vested interests, and requires you continually make unpalatable compromises to advance the greater good.

RFK Jr. hence is a blessing to me, as he’s doing everything I would do if I’d made the necessary sacrifices (and had the luck) to get into a position of influence, but instead he’s taking the heat for that role, and as such, I feel compelled to do all I can to support him during this once in a lifetime opportunity (which is essentially why I overextend myself to produce this newsletter).

Making the Impossible Possible

One of the things I feel most people do not grasp is how much influence the H.H.S. Secretary has over health in the country (as many of the Federal Laws and Policies are written so that they are implemented at the Secretary’s discretion—which until now has protected the status quo as no H.H.S Secretary tried to make the country healthy).

Likewise, I feel many still do not understand just how improbable it was RFK got both nominated and confirmed, or that Trump has essentially given RFK the leeway to do whatever he wants to do (provided it’s done in a sensible and persuasive manner)—something to the best of my knowledge no other Federal leader in US history has been able to do.
Note: the closest parallel, Harvey Willey, the first head of the FDA a century ago had massive public support, and both Congress and the court’s support, but nonetheless lobbyists managed to convince the executive branch to tie Wiley’s hands eventually leading to his resignation as he realized he could do more to help America’s health from outside of the government.

Presently, I believe RFK’s unprecedented situation was due to:

•Trump having longstanding concerns about the excessive vaccine schedule due to children he knew being injured by them. Beyond having publicly spoken about this prior to his 2016 run, during the 2016 presidential debates he refused to back down on his position and at the start of his first term, he’d planned to have RFK lead a federal investigation of the vaccine schedule (which was ultimately nixed by his administration and outside parties like Bill Gates).

• Both Scott Atlas M.D. and Joe Navarro’s memoir of the pandemic tell a similar story. During COVID, Trump had had serious doubts about what the media and experts were saying about COVID (which against widespread protest he enacted the early travel ban), did not support the lockdowns or endless testing, and repeatedly tried to get non-standard therapies (e.g., hydroxychloroquine and disinfecting UV light treatments) into consideration. Unfortunately, everyone in the H.H.S. along with the media, continually sabotaged this and as a result, his advisors told him he could not rock the boat by creating public outrage over being a mass murder (e.g., by not perpetually locking down the country)—something we also encountered when communicating with the White House over off-patent ways to treat and end the pandemic (they told us the data was compelling but they could not afford to be eviscerated by the media by supporting them).

• Both Navarro and Atlas attested that Trump felt immensely conflicted over ignoring his gut hunch to listen to the “experts,” and it is my belief that Trump knows if had instead focused on rational COVID policies, he would have won the 2020 election (as the pandemic would have been over by November).
Note: when Atlas left the White House, he told Trump and his advisors ““Well, Mr. President, I will say this. You have balls. I have balls. But the closest people around you—they didn’t. They had no balls. They let you down.” (followed by Atlas remarking They let down the rest of the country, too).

•The alternative proposed to Trump (and supported by the medical establishment and an otherwise hostile media) was to push for a vaccine in Warp Speed so that it could be ready before the election. Trump thus used a pre-existing (Gates funded) framework for this and did everything he could to expedite it (e.g., he funded the development and manufacturing of a variety of potential vaccine candidates prior to them being ready so that the production time could be decreased). On one hand, this was a “monumental accomplishment” as it allowed a vaccine to get to market much faster than anyone thought was possible, but on the other hand (if you knew about all the issues with vaccines) a terrible idea likely to release a disastrous product.

• Most importantly however, after months of meetings, promises, and eager expectations by the White House, at the last minute, Pfizer pulled the rug out on Trump and delayed the vaccine’s approval until right after the election, presumably because it was in their interest to have a more pro-pharmaceutical contingent assume the Presidency (which the House Judiciary recently confirmed). On one hand, I feel this was “fair” because if you make a devil you can’t expect to not get burned, but more importantly, that greed from Pfizer was incredibly shortsighted because it destroyed any trust or leverage they had to rein Trump in were he to get re-elected.

• The media messaging used to push the COVID vaccines was very similar to the sensationalistic partisan messaging used to discredit Trump’s first presidency. Because of this, when it was deployed against Trump’s supporters to make them vaccinate, owing to their existing distrust of the media developed over the last four years, they were not receptive to it, and chose not to vaccinate. As such, when the media and government doubled down on pushing the vaccines, it made many who were previously neutral about vaccines become highly distrustful of them—particularly since they were frequently observing severe injuries every authority claimed “did not exist” and seeing the COVID vaccine fail.

•In short, because of how greedy the pharmaceutical industry was with the COVID vaccines (and how good a job the galvanized independent media did of exposing these underhanded tactics) they effectively “killed the goose that laid the Golden Eggs” and created the most public distrust in vaccines that has been seen since the early days of the smallpox vaccine.
Note: Pfizer’s decision to relentlessly push the COVID vaccines to increase their profits (at the expense of the traditional vaccine industry) seemed incredibly short-sighted to me, as had this been done less aggressively, the trust that industry rests upon could have been maintained. One of the best explanations I’ve ever heard for why this happened came from a pharmaceutical executive who shared with me that pharmaceutical executives are frequently rotated out of their companies and paid lavish bonuses which are dependent upon sales during their tenure, so as a result, they have no incentive to avoid short term profits at the expense of the sector.

• All of that (and prior skepticism from the Tea Party due to Obama’s vaccine overreach) main vaccine skepticism part of the modern Republican party and birthed the Make America Healthy Again movement. In turn, RFK was able to ride that wind to become one of the most successful independent candidates in US history (reaching 22% of the vote), before utilizing that capitol to support President Trump (and likely swing the race) in return from him agreeing to advance Making America Healthy Again (as there was no interest within the Democrat party to do the same).

• Trump decided to keep his promise (either out of obligation or because he want to make America healthy) and due to his unique political position, had the ability to force others to comply with it.

It’s really hard to describe how improbable all of this happened, and had I not seen it unfold in front of me, I would have never thought there was even a 1% chance of someone like RFK becoming the HHS Secretary.

Note: RFK recently had an excellent interview with Tucker Carlson which spelled out exactly what he is doing, how grave and indefensible many of the issues we face are, and the difficulties he’s run into from the establishment from trying to make things right.

Public Relations

One of the most frustrating things for me throughout my lifetime has watched cause after cause (or politician) I strongly agreed with be nullified by the media working in concert to sabotage it. It hence was eye-opening for me when I learned about the Public Relations Industry (discussed further here), an invisible multibillion industry which synthesizes marketing and propaganda to persuade the public of its sponsor’s message.

On one side, PR is immensely depressing, as it so effect it essentially “invalidates” democracy as whatever message its sponsor’s pay for is what becomes policy rather than what the public wants—and in most cases the public can’t even see it be done. On the other, understanding the industry is also incredibly informative for predicting future events, as there are a limited number of tactics the PR industry uses (presumably because people who work in those firms are not that creative and because the industry has had such a monopoly on truth it has not been forced to innovate). As a result, once you see the early stages of a PR campaign in motion, you normally know what will follow because it is very predictive and repetitive.

Note: those tactics include blasting the same message on every outlet, using focus groups to create the most emotionally manipulative messaging possible (which is why newscasters and politicians will all often say rather odd sculpted phrases), having “independent” experts or “trustable third parties” promote the intended message and creating fabricated viral moments (which the entire media then amplifies) to promote their message.

In many cases, PR is also blended with political lobbying so lobbyists will not only push legislators to kill a bill which threaten their industry but also incite a public hysteria against it to intimidate legislators into stopping it. For example, methamphetamine production has been immensely damaging for many parts of America (e.g., roughly 4% of Americans have an amphetamine use disorder, overdoses now kill over 30,000 Americans a year, parental methamphetamine has become a leading reason children are put into foster care and in numerous states cleaning up toxic meth labs have overwhelmed law enforcement). Much of this arose from it becoming possible to easily synthesize meth at home from pseudoephedrine (one of many cough medicines), so legislators in hard hit states sought to stop this by placing limits on how much pseudoephedrine could be purchased over the counter—after which lobbyists and PR firms descended like hornets to stop those laws from passing (in most cases succeeding).

Public Relations and Social Media

The PR apparatus is much more suited to engaging with the legacy media than social media (as there are a limited number of networks which have monopolized the airwaves so it is easy enough to pay them all off to promote your message whereas online there are an almost infinite number of voices). Because of this, the existing control apparatus has greatly struggled (e.g., within hours Twitter can often completely debunk a carefully orchestrated and costly PR campaign and there are far to many content producers to buy them all off) and a lot of marginal attempts have been made to try to shift that tide.

As such, during the COVID vaccine public relations campaign, one of the primary pushes by the industry was to enact draconian censorship from both online media companies (e.g., Facebook) and the government. As this was not enough, many attempts were made to directly silence those who still spoke out (e.g., getting them banned online, getting them fired, taking about their board certifications or licenses and leaving grisly threats on their doorsteps).

Eventually, we figured out much of this was being coordinated by “Shot’s Fired” a private Facebook group (which had many prominent vaccine zealots including Richard Pan—the California State Senator who ushered in the era of immensely unpopular vaccine mandates after the 2019 Measles “outbreak” [where no one died]). That group in turn would pick a “target,” descend on them like bees, and then once the target had been neutralized, proceed onto the next target.

After some work (e.g., a few of us infiltrated the group while a few others untangled their web of concealed funding), we discovered out they were being funded be the Public Good Project, which in turn was being funded by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). For context, BIO is “the largest trade organization to serve and represent the emerging biotechnology industry in the United States and around the globe,” with many pharmaceutical clients (e.g., you can find Moderna, J&J and remdesivir’s manufacturer Gilead listed as core companies in their membership directory), and interlocking relationships with the leadership of many of these companies (e.g., BIO shares a VP with Pfizer). In turn, as you might expect, these groups also had extensive interactions with the Biden administration and the social media companies, all of which was done to further

Note: when I watched the promotional videos Shots Fired made to attract funding, they essentially said they would “save the world” by getting the funding for a lot of trolling (harassment) and astroturfing—relatively unsophisticated tactics that again illustrate the PR apparatus is not capable of effectively engaging the internet.

Let’s now look at BIO’s partial denial of the leak:

The purported memo was not produced by BIO. We have never seen or heard of this document, and it certainly does not accurately represent the spirit, strategy, or mission of BIO’s work.

Given BIO’s documented conduct, I would say the document very much reflects “the spirit, strategy, and mission of BIO’s work.”

Note: strong accusations require significant proof. Everything I mentioned in this section is extensively documented in this article.

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O, Norman Rockwell, where are you when we really need you? Forgive us, Emma Lazarus, our second thoughts about those huddled masses yearning to breathe free. . . the wretched refuse of your teeming shore(s). That was then and this is now. O, beautiful for spacious skies (but, why so many contrails criss-crossing overhead from the New York Island to the gulf stream waters?). O, land of tattooed grandmas, hostages of the tiny screens, the sexually confounded, the illiterate and innumerate, the lawless and the feckless, brainwashed youth marinated in Marx, the deranged, befuddled, the bought-off, the bug-eyed and bewildered, the lame, the halt, the addicts, grifters, hustlers, porn-stars, drugstore cowboys, alpha dogs, beta boys, shrieking Karens, and sundry victims of future-shock — wither, this hallowed experiment in nationhood?

Wouldn’t you like to know? In the meantime, husk that corn and flip them burgers! Turn them wieners! Mash your guacamole, pop another frostie, pass the Jack, lock-and-load, and mind those hovering drones! It is the 249th birthday of what remains of our country! Respect and thanks, ye ancestors!

At least, there is Mr. Trump in command now, not Norman Bates’s mother (or whatever decrepitating thing pretended to rule from the White House those previous four years of anarchy and agony). Daddy’s in da house — finally! — and things are being put in order against all odds. Yeah, you’re gonna clean up your damn room, or else! For many, this is a yuge relief. The rest of you, with your “No Kings” fake revolution, your Antifa monkey business, your mean girl psychodramas, your trans psychosis, your childless despair, your occult Gramscian schemes of destruction — please report back to the margins, where you belong.

The struggle to get normal again is epic and harsh. And, of course, many will deny that there ever was such a state of being, of minding your business in the purest sense of the phrase, acting like responsible, self-respecting, autonomous adults. In the immortal words of Aimee Mann, better wise-up. Childhood ends; something else begins. Take yourself seriously for a change, but keep your heart light, ready for the jokes that travail always presents. After all, nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

To get back to normal, to shed the burden of absurdities we’ve been heaped with, requires an accounting. You know this. Matter of fact, the absence of such an accounting has been bugging you no end. A whole lot of pain and suffering was inflicted across this land in recent years and barely a soul has had to do any ‘splainin’. It rankles badly. When, if ever, will these vicious, seditionist goons who turned the nation inside-out and upside-down be compelled to sit at the defendant’s table in a court of law?

I have a theory. The right dawgs, you well-know, have been in position for months. They understand the conspiracy hatched ten years ago through-and-through. Mr. Patel, remember, ran Chairman Devon Nunes investigation of the nascent RussiaRussiaRussia hoax in 2017 as senior counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and helped draft the “Nunes Letter,” much abused by the perfidious news media, that laid out the plot by Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Obama & Company to smother Donald Trump’s newborn presidency in its crib.

Through some alchemy of mass political psychosis, that conspiracy has rolled on for a whole decade, one malice-driven prank after another. It continues to this day, an evermore rearguard action conducted by Deep state rogues and their public mouthpiece, Norm Eisen of Lawfare, Inc. Dan Bongino, now at Mr. Patel’s right-hand, chronicled that long march of treason in several books while he conducted daily podcast discourses on the workings of it all. “Remember the names,” he always said. Danny Boombatz remembers the names.

Normality, with all its own problems and hazards, demands that accounting for crimes and insults against the people of this sore-beset Republic. That fateful accounting is the one element missing in all of Mr. Trump’s implacable “winning” of the past five months. Those remembered names fester like an abscessed wound in America’s body politic. That wound must be cleaned, irrigated, debrided, and dressed in judicial process that restores the probity and honor of our much-abused law.

My theory is that a whole lot of other matters had to be cleared out of the way first. And now, that is pretty much where we’re at. Mr. Ratcliffe, formerly Director of National Intelligence (in Trump One) and now Director of the CIA, also knows all the names. He’s been as quiet as a tick on a wild hog lo these many months, but on Wednesday he issued quite a squawk, in the public arena of X, no less, along with a report by trusted agency colleagues titled (nontoxically) Tradecraft Review 2016 ICA on Election Interference 062625.

This fateful report, which lays out the originating crime, should commence the more general institutional accounting so overdue. It’s coming. Cases are being laid and made quietly in the background. Cases will be brought. The insults will be redressed. Derangement will slip away like that quicksilver mirage on a desert highway. The inordinate division of recent years will go with it. We will allow ourselves to be a people again, one nation under God, as the old chestnut goes. Next year, on our country’s 250th birthday, there will be a special reason to celebrate. For now, patience and fortitude.

Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.

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As of 1980, the rolling 10-year and 20-year real GDP growth rates stood at 3.2% per annum and 3.5% per annum, respectively.

Owing to a slight boost from the good parts of Reaganomics—sweeping deregulation, tax rate cuts, and sound money, which were partially offset by the long-term ills owing to the abandonment of balanced budgets—the respective moving averages rose a tad to 3.5% and 3.6% per year by 1988, respectively.

Still, these rounding error gains in the moving averages of growth should be a reminder that whatever its philosophical virtues—and they were considerable—Reaganomics did not usher in a decisive or even measurable break from prior trends. That is to say, 1960 to 1980 was pretty much the heyday of Keynesian economics in Washington, and the 20-year moving average of growth at its endpoint in 1980 was 3.5%.

Yet in 1989, after a decade of Reaganomics–and at which point Bush the Elder had not yet moved his lips on tax increases—the 10-year moving average stood at, well, 3.1%. In other words, there was not a dime’s—nay, even a penny’s—worth of difference in the economic growth trend between the pre-1981 era of Keynesian economics and the half-assed version of supply-side economics implemented in the 1980s.

Of course, after that we got what amounted to Washington pragmatism, embodied in the tax increase and spending cut packages of Bush the Elder in 1990 and Bill Clinton in 1995.

What happened, of course, is the Federal budget was brought back to surplus, but this persistent withdrawal of so-called “stimulus”—whether viewed as supply-side tax incentives or Keynesian demand-side fiscal juice—did not detract from the almighty “growth” rate in the slightest. In fact, by the year 2000 when the Federal government ran a culminating +1.8% of GDP surplus, the 10-year moving average of growth stood at 3.2%, exactly where it had posted in 1980.

That is to say, after a round trip from Harvard Keynesianism through supply-side and back to the Wall Street-tinted Keynesian playbook under Bob Rubin and Larry Summers in the late 1990s, the trend of the GDP growth needle barely moved. The saving grace, of course, is that 3.2% per annum growth wasn’t all that bad.

Between 1980 and 2000, in fact, even as the Federal government was clawing its way back to balanced budgets and temporarily eschewing the practice of shifting the tax burden to future workers, the real median family income grew from $69,700 to $84,600 or by a healthy 1.0% per annum.

But that’s all she wrote. As of 2024, the true long-term economic weather vane—the 20-year moving average of real GDP growth—had fallen to just 2.0% or barely half the 1988 peak. And you can pin the tail on the two negative legacies that emerged from Ronald Reagan’s eight years in the Oval Office. These were—

• the horrid money-printing, Keynesianized version of central banking monetary central planning inaugurated by Alan Greenspan.
• The Dick Cheney proclamation that Federal deficits don’t matter much, thereby putting a stake in whatever was left of the balance budget religion in the GOP after $950 billion of Reagan deficits over 1981-1988.

Subsequent to the year 2000, of course, fiscal deficits returned and soared, and the Fed money-printers went bonkers. That is to say, the US economy experienced the greatest combined injection of fiscal and monetary stimulus ever. Yet the rise of real median family income ran out of stream!

Per Annum Growth In Real Median Family Income:

• 1960-1980: 1.93%.
• 1980 to 2000: 0.97%.
• 2000-2024: 0.76%.

Still, it wasn’t for lack of trying down on the banks of the Potomac. In fact, as of 2024, Federal spending was back up to 23.2% of GDP while Uncle Sam’s tax take from national income was back down in the sub-basement of modern history at 17.0% of GDP. Accordingly, the fiscal gap stood at the same 6.2% level of GDP, which had been first breached in peacetime during the dark days of 1983.

But this time, closing the resulting 6.2% GDP gap will be far, far harder than it proved to be during the Reagan era and the 1990s. That’s because the Fed has now shot its wad and has essentially hung itself out to dry on an inflationary $7 trillion balance sheet.

Yet, with inflation still stubbornly high, in excess of 3% per year, the Fed is in no position to clear the bond pits of Uncle Sam’s excess debt emissions via a resumption of madcap QE. The latter systematic falsification of bond prices and yields peaked at a staggering $120 billion per month of bond purchases before the pivot in March 2022.

Yet US Treasury debt emissions will soon hit $3 trillion per year. That means, in turn, that the UniParty clowns on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will soon find themselves on a fiscal treadmill worthy of a medieval torture wheel.

To wit, Federal debt service costs on what will soon be $40 trillion of public debt will now rise by $700 billion per year in the face of even a 150 basis points rise in bond yields. And that happens to be the entirety of the Medicaid savings that the GOP RINOs are now fixing to gut.

As the man said, however, what are they going to do for an encore? When interest rates notch up steadily higher even as the public debt climbs by $3 trillion per year, the GOP’s spending cut cupboard will be bare by its own omission, having ruled out any cuts at all in Social Security, Medicare, Veterans, Defense, and interest payments or upwards of three-fourths of the budget.

While this may sound grim as a matter of future financial reality, what is even more outlandish is that the knuckleheads in the Trumpified GOP are wasting the meager savings in food stamps and Medicaid they had managed to cobble together on the following increases to the already bloated $1.0 trillion Pentagon budget.

For crying out loud, the annual cost of America’s invincible triad strategic nuclear force is just $75 billion per year, and another $200 billion or so would be more than enough for an impenetrable Fortress America defense of the continental shorelines and airspace.

Yet all the rest—upwards of $700 billion—goes to the service of Empire. That is, the capacity to fight Forever Wars we don’t need and to field global forces of invasion and occupation, which do absolutely nothing for the true Homeland Security of America.

In a word, the once former GOP Watchdog of the Treasury is lost because it gave up the balanced budget axiom during Reagan’s times for the siren song of growing your way out of debt or stabilizing the public debt at the current high fixed ratio to GDP.

The latter seems to be the game plan of Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was 18 years old when Ronald Reagan was elected on a campaign pledge to balance the Federal budget. Yet, at that time, the public debt stood at 30% of GDP, not today’s 120%.

Then again, we were apparently benighted back in 1981 when we launched a plan to balance the budget by 1984, which would have pegged the debt ratio at 33% of GDP and pushed it steadily lower as far as the eye could see as the US economy continued to expand.

According to Bessent-O-Nomics, by contrast, we should have been marching in the other direction—driving full speed ahead with massive deficits until we reached the promised land at 120% of GDP, where Uncle Sam would be, presumably, carrying just the right amount of debt!

In short, Scott Bessent is full of Wall Street bullshit.

He wants to sound “responsible” on the fiscal front yet not disturb the Washington fiscal game by allowing that deficits at 3% of GDP each year are just fine because if the economy grows by 3%, the towering debt-to-GDP ratio of the present time won’t get any worse!

Indeed, it is truly hard to think of a more pitiful attempt to rationalize the status quo in the guise of high principle.

And as for “growing your way out,” the bottom line is straightforward. The CBO baseline already embodies 2% real growth and 4% nominal GDP gains per year. And that’s all there is, there ain’t no more.

Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Contra Corner.

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Hello BeBe, this is the Peace President. I want to remind you of The Golden Rule — “He who has the gold makes the rules.” The gold is still the US dollar and we’ve been providing you with $3.8 billion in US taxpayer gold every year.

The new rule is, you now have two weeks to get your soldiers, lock stock and barrel, out of Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank and open the borders so UNRWA can get food, water, fuel and medical supplies to the remaining 2.1 million Palestinians you’re starving to death in Gaza. The UN estimates you’ve already killed about ~200,000, mostly women and children. That’s 6%, of the previous population.

You also have to stop bombing, droning and shelling everyone.

I’d also like to remind you that, thanks to whistle-blower Mordecai Vanunu and other sources, we know about Dimona and your nuclear progam, developed for you by France . And we know that while you try to hide it, you have around 90 active nuclear weapons.

And though you grouse that Iran might develop a nuke, so far Iran has voluntarily subjected itself to the most stringent nuclear inspections in history, yet you refuse to even let the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors into your country. Should we bunker-bomb your nukes?

I’ll be watching.

Your friend,
Donald

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Hello Mr. lame-duck Zelenskyy. The Peace President here. I want to remind you of The Golden Rule — “He who has the gold makes the rules.” The gold is still the US dollar and we’ve been providing you with $182.8 billion in US taxpayer gold just since February of 2022.

You and I both know Mr. Putin’s main concern is nuclear missiles on the Ukraine/Russian border. That would put them 5 minutes from Moscow if Ukraine joined NATO, which is in the works. That would put Russia’s retalitory nukes in “launch on warn” mode, meaning no time to straighten out any mistakes or tech glitches, thus endangering all life on earth.

Further, Mr. Putin doesn’t want to take over Ukraine. Crimea overwhelmingly voted to return to being part of Russia anyway. And there’s the Russian-speaking Donbach provinces which were, as per the Minsk Agreements, supposed to be independent but Kiev wouldn’t stop attacking them and the guarantors of Minsk just laughed and wouldn’t do anything about it.

We also know that you were judiciously talking peace as early as March of 2022, less than a month after Russia’s “Special Military Operation” started but then, at behest of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) part of the Deep State, warmonger Biden’s Sec. of State Anthony Blinken dissed calls for a ceasefire, saying U.S. must build up Ukraine’s military instead and then along came the UK’s former PM, Boris Johnson, also heading peace off at the pass — because there’s little MIC profit in peace.

I promised my people peace in 24 hours or less even before I was elected, but the Biden MIC managed to hold things up. However as you may notice, I’m finally beginning to get a handle on this and my Pentagon is withholding the first of many consignments of Biden military gear you expected to recieve.

As I warned you when you came to the White House, you just don’t have the cards.

Keeping that in mind, I suggest you don’t waste any more time in suing for PERMANENT peace. Again.

Yours for peace and The Nobel Prize,
Donald Trump

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Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s persecution at the hands of western governments is once again highlighting the way our society’s purported values of free thought and free expression go right out the window wherever Israel is concerned.

But one thing that’s not getting enough attention is the fact that many, many other acts also spoke out in support of Palestine at that same festival, and that the crowd was full of attendees waving Palestinian flags. Supporting Palestine and opposing Israel’s genocidal atrocities is just what’s cool now.

This is a massive cultural development, because it means we are seeing the emergence of actual, meaningful rebellion in western counterculture for the first time arguably since the Vietnam War. The artists and their fans aren’t just talking the talk of sticking it to the establishment anymore.

For generations the ruling class has been successfully stomping out all politically relevant counterculture, first in the form of direct frontal assault by official government operations like COINTELPRO, and then by the way all major platforms and studios are owned by plutocrats who benefit from the imperial status quo and refuse to elevate anyone who might pose a threat to it.

There have of course been countless artists in every generation who put on a rebellious face and give the finger to authority, but they’ve never presented any kind of threat to real power. Punk rockers who sing “fuck the man” but never advance any actual tangible causes. Satanic panic bands and shock rock superstars scaring church ladies and stirring culture wars. Bands voicing criticisms of the Iraq invasion but making it about supporting the Democratic Party. Celebrity musicians promoting social justice and equality without ever saying anything that might inconvenience the oligarchs and empire managers who rule our world.

The rich and powerful don’t care if you dye your hair or pierce your nose or kiss a member of the same sex or say Hail Satan. They don’t care if you support one mainstream political faction over the other, or if you yell empty words about anarchy and revolution that aren’t pointed toward any real material goals. They care very much, however, if you are undermining public consent for military and geopolitical agendas they’ve worked very hard to propagandize the public into accepting.

The establishment never dropped the hammer on Marilyn Manson. Lady Gaga never ran into trouble with the state for singing that gay people are Born This Way. Ozzy Osbourne is living in the lap of luxury with an estimated net worth of $220 million. But groups like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are being subjected to police investigations and visa revocations for taking a stand on Palestine.

Which, of course, is only going to make their position more popular among young people with a defiant streak in them.

It’s hard to imagine how western governments could make support for Palestine look more attractive to western youths, really. Here’s this unimaginably horrific mass atrocity that they can all watch unfolding on their phone screens in real time every single day of the year, and they’re being told “You’re not allowed to oppose this. We, the stuffed shirts in Washington and London, command you to obey. If you think unauthorized thoughts and chant unauthorized chants, we are going to get very huffy and upset.”

I mean, can you think of anything more fun?

This is after all the generation who’s been told that they need to accept being poorer and sicker than their parents and grandparents and that they’ll never own a home no matter what they do, knowing full well that the crusty old bastards finger-wagging at them for opposing an active genocide are the same freaks who’ve refused to do anything to steer their planet’s ecosystem away from looming disaster. They have every reason to want to express defiance, and nothing to lose by doing so.

A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it. This is a fascinating time to be alive.

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