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Ban-Fuff-Fuff, a beautiful place. People, get ready (to see them). Four million visitors a year.

Photography as a physical sport.

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WLT Report

The lecture:

The Manipulators’ Playbook – Gigi Foster

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David Scot Knecht wrote:

Dear Lew,

Did the Constitution fail? That depends. Of course it did, if its stated purpose was the actual purpose. But what if the actual purpose was not do secure liberty for the hapless subjects of the state, but to reduce it? Of course if you are trying to get a Constitution ratified, you dare not say that out loud. So that notion never appeared in The Federalist Papers!

Pardon the cynicism, but the Constitution obviously had political utility to its generation of politicians. It rewarded many with the political briar patch they sought.

Thanks for the good you have sown. May many generations reap.

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Pluto9999 wrote:

Hi Lew

Why should we be surprised when a gunman takes his idea of justice into his own hands and guns down Minnesota lawmakers ?  Is that not the M.O. of Trump and all presidents before him when they decide justice dictates invading and/or bombing Grenada, Panama, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia ad nauseum ?  No Kings ! indeed.  But where were these people when Biden was in charge of the carnage ?  

May that you keep doing what you’re doing, and Happy Father’s Day ! 

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Writes Linda P.:

Dear Lew,

I watched the video posted by Charles Burris on the blog about potential causes of transgenderism. Although Mark Dice mentioned in the video several oft-referenced potential causes, there is one that nobody wants to discuss. It strikes at the heart of the sexual revolution and the feminist movement, the biggest endocrine distruptor of all: birth control. 

From the day a female baby is born, she carries inside of her half of the genetic make-up of all of her potential children. Whatever she puts into her body, or experiences throughout her life can have a potential effect on her future babies. A woman pregnant with a baby girl also carries her potential grandchildren inside her baby, so there is even a generational effect in what a woman consumes for her grandchildren.

Most men are unaware of the fact that birth control is the pharmaceutical of choice for many female problems. It is given out without any worry for teenage acne and just about any menstrual cycle issue a girl experiences. It is ubiquitous, even aside from its use as birth control. Do any of us know what this kind of hormonal tinkering on women is doing to generation after generation of children? No, and nobody wants to look. But I have a strong suspicion that we can already see the answer all around us.

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I will not be watching Trump’s military parade tonight. I have seen it before–in the USSR and North Korea.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

We Are Being Amused and Abused to Death: Jim Quinn

“I find myself ruminating about whether there is anything myself or any other average Joe can do to make a difference in this world, controlled by psychopaths, satanists, egomaniacal billionaires, corrupt evil politicians, a cabal of greedy financiers, neocon warmongering globalists, and the propaganda entertainment complex. When a complex entity becomes too large, it becomes inefficient, bureaucratic, corrupt, and uncontrollable.”

Jim Quinn

… 

Maybe that first sentence by Jim Quinn explains this graph of world birth rates

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Hi Bumper,  Was/Is the US Constitution a Failure?

Yes. The US Constitution is a failure. It is just words on paper. A document cannot fail unless people refuse to enforce it or refute it. People in power have refuted the US Constitution. They also don’t enforce it. The US Constitution is a French Letter. It is a used condom stripped off by the elites and thrown in the gutter.

Israel attacks Iran, and Trump calls a meeting in the White House. Why didn’t he call Netanyahu? Because Trump is a cowardly lion.     

The madness accelerates. War will erase the debt in blood.

The US Constitution and the people who wrote it failed. They failed to write a document and create a republic that protected our liberty. 

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Despite the fact that thousands of pages of JFK assassination material were released  earlier this year by the Trump Administration, most objective observers would agree that no definitive  smoking gun has emerged. With respect to the Kennedy assassination, the more things change the more they stay the same.

Warren Commission defenders still remain convinced that Oswald was the lone assassin and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy to kill the President or cover-up the crime. Assassination critics remain just as convinced that the Kennedy killing was a conspiracy; that nefarious intelligence agencies were involved in the planning, execution and cover-up of the crime; and that the purpose of the killing was to effect a “regime change.”  Few in either research community appear willing to entertain the slightest notion that some of their most fundamental beliefs about the assassination might just be wrong.

UNSOLVED RIDDLES

Take, for instance, this curious riddle: If Lee Harvey Oswald wanted to kill President John F. Kennedy, why didn’t he just shoot at him as the motorcade approached the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) along Houston Street?  That approach lasted almost 15 seconds and would have been the far easier shot from the 6th floor sniper’s nest.  Kennedy was seated full-frontal in the open Lincoln and would have been getting closer (and larger) in the 4X power rifle-scope. Further, there were no tree branches or street-sign obstructions that would have compromised any shot. So why did Oswald (a  good but not great shot in the Marines) ignore the easy shot and take the more complicated one as the motorcade sped away down Elm Street?

Or take this riddle: What possible motive did Lee Oswald have for wanting to murder President Kennedy? No credible motive ever surfaced in the 888 page Warren Commission Report or in the  thousands of pages of witness testimony detailed in the Warren Commission Hearings. Indeed, there is ample testimony from relatives and acquaintances of Oswald that he frequently spoke well of the president and appeared to respect  both the man and his policies. So why in the world would he want to kill him?

Now with respect to the first riddle, perhaps Oswald simply wasn’t ready to shoot  as the motorcade approached the sniper’s nest.  Or that waiting to shoot  later when the motorcade was on Elm Street would put Kennedy in a deadly crossfire from the grassy knoll.  Or that a shot as the motorcade approached would have made his own getaway more difficult. Perhaps.

And as to the second riddle, some argue that Oswald’s personal history indicates that he was an unstable malcontent who  desired to go down in history for some extreme political act.  Again, perhaps. But if that’s the case, why didn’t  Oswald  openly confess his glorious crime to both the Dallas police and then to the world in his several courthouse interviews? No; instead he did precisely the opposite. He steadfastly maintained his innocence of the murder, called himself a “patsy” and repeatedly asked for legal representation. Very strange.

There may be a more reasonable explanation for both riddles. But that explanation may also require a radical rethinking of the entire JFK assassination scenario. Ironically, that radical rethinking will have nothing whatsoever to do with mainstream conspiracy theory. It will NOT depend upon alleged shots fired from the grassy knoll or from  any storm drain. It will NOT depend upon multiple casket entries into the Bethesda morgue or upon any alleged “pre-autopsy” surgery to alter JFK’s head wounds. And it will not  depend upon the involvement of nefarious intelligence agencies in the assassination  to accomplish “regime change, although some changes in foreign policy may have occurred as a consequence  of the murder. In short, this alternative theory of the assassination may resolve both riddles without  reliance on conspiracy theory while, at the same time, still be entirely consistent with the three-shot ballistic evidence accepted by the Warren Commission.

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TRAGIC TRUTH

In 2016, a retired IBM  engineer by the name of Pierre Sundborg published a  comprehensive 764 page volume on the assassination titled TRAGIC TRUTH (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) which, unfortunately, has all but been ignored by Warren Commission defenders and critics alike.  This  particular volume  was unique because it was the only one  (among the many hundreds of books that have been published on the assassination) that  argued in painstaking detail ( 120 pages of “Notes and Sources”) that  Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy by accident and that  his intended target was  Governor John B. Connally Jr. John Connally, it will be recalled, was seated in the Lincoln limo jump-seat almost directly in front  of Kennedy and sustained near-fatal injuries during the shooting.

MOTIVE

Sundborg argued persuasively that Lee Oswald had no obvious motive to kill JFK but he did harbor a long and powerful grudge against John Connally. To make sense of that grudge and to gauge its severity, we must review Oswald’s contentious battles with various authorities over his discharge status from the U.S. Marines.

Oswald was 17 when he enlisted in the Marines for 6 years. His active service was not distinguished; although he served at some interesting places and assignments, he was court martialed twice for serious infractions of Marine rules. After serving about half of his 6-year enlistment commitment, Oswald requested an “early discharge” based (allegedly) on hardship concerns over his mother’s financial condition.  But when Oswald was granted that early release from his service commitment–an “honorable” discharge–he did not go home to stay and help poor mother. Instead, he  applied for and was granted a passport (in 6 days) and then almost immediately headed off to Russia.

When the U.S. Navy (the Marines operate under the authority of the Navy) learned of Oswald’s “defection” to the Soviet Union and  of his reported attempt to spill secrets (he had been a radar operator in Japan)  and renounce his U.S. citizenship, they  changed his Marine service discharge classification from “honorable” to “undesirable for reasons of unfitness.” Oswald became aware of that change during his last weeks in Russia (he had decided by then to return to the U.S. with his Russian wife), and he petitioned the Navy for an appeal of the Marine’s decision. The Navy shuffled his appeal to Marine authorities who summarily rejected Oswald’s petition for review.

Oswald’s letter to the Navy was addressed to: “Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally.” (Connally’s name can also be found in Oswald’s diary, written  while still in Russia).  In the letter (misspellings and all) Oswald asserted that he had been treated unfairly by the Marines; that he had never renounced his U.S. citizenship (true); and that his discharge status should never have been changed to “dishonorable.” (Wrong. It had been changed to “undesirable”). He also maintained that he would “EMPLOY ALL MEANS TO RIGHT THIS GREAT MISTAKE OR INJUSTICE…” (Emphasis added).  Indeed, he would.

But when John Connally received Oswald’s letter he was no longer Secretary of the Navy. Accordingly,  he  directed Oswald’s  petition to Marine authorities  who rather curtly  denied it. Strike One.

When Oswald left Russia and returned to Texas, he sent a far-longer letter  to the Navy Discharge Review Board with the same complaints about the unilateral change in his discharge status.  He again requested a review of the entire matter. But Oswald was killed (by Jack Ruby) before the Navy ruled on his request. Strike two.

Both of Oswald’s letters to the Navy are filled with moral outrage over the way his discharge status had been handled.  He argued that his service in the Marines had been honorable (debatable; he had been court-martialed twice ) and that his private activity after he left the military (his temporary residence in  Russia) broke no U.S. laws. As a consequence, he requested that his discharge circumstances be reviewed and demanded that the “…DAMAGE THAT HAD BEEN DONE TO ME AND MY FAMILY BE REPAIRED.” (Emphasis added).  But it never got repaired. Strike three.

It is important to understand the depths of  Oswald’s disappointment here.  First, Oswald admired his older brother Robert Oswald, and Robert had served his full term in the Marines and had been honorably discharged. Yet,  younger brother Lee’s Marine discharge  would forever read:  “undesirable for reasons of unfitness.” This was a so-called  “yellow-sheet discharge” and a major embarrassment  in any military household.

Second, there were also purely practical reasons for his disappointment. Oswald likely believed that the change in his service status would forever hinder his ability to secure quality employment (true) or  even obtain a driver’s license in the state of Texas. (John Connally, by the way, was now the Governor of Texas.) So with all of this in mind, he pleaded with the Navy  “to take the necessary steps to repair the damage done to me…”; they refused to do so.  Did he blame Connally personally for the rejection of his appeal? Given Oswald’s personal history and slightly unorthodox personality: probably.

There may also have been a straight-forward  political component to Oswald’s  resentment toward John Connally.  Connally, after all, was not a political liberal like JFK; far from it.  He was a far-right Democrat with very conservative policy positions on domestic and foreign policy matters. So Oswald may also have seen him the same way he viewed  General Edwin Walker: as a proto-fascist, ( Oswald was the self proclaimed “hunter of fascists”) who, like General Walker, deserved to be hunted down and killed.  Oswald had already taken a rifle shot at General Walker prior to November 22nd…and missed.  Same rifle; same shooter; same political motivation.

Finally, there may even have existed  some “best evidence”  that Oswald  planned to kill John Connally. Lee Oswald had long kept a diary or notebook that was hand-written in his unmistakable  syntax. That diary  was recovered by Secret Service agents  Mike Howard and Chuck Kunkel from Marina Oswald shortly after the assassination. The agents claimed that they had ample time to read through Oswald’s diary several times before they  turned it over to the FBI as part of the assassination investigation. They never saw the diary again.

When the Warren Commission Hearings were published, several pages of Lee Oswald’s diary were reproduced as Exhibit 18.  When the agents viewed Exhibit 18,  however, they immediately noticed that something was askew. Although Exhibit 18  indicated that  pages 16-21 of Oswald’s diary had been reproduced (6 pages), only 5 pages actually appeared in the Exhibit.  One page  was missing; indeed, there was a visible rip in Exhibit 18 where page 17-18 (front and back)  had  been removed.  Both agents have asserted  that when they had initially read Oswald’s  diary, one side of that  “missing page” had contained a “kill list” written in Oswald’s own hand and that John Connally’s name (among others including General Walker) had been on that  kill list. Unfortunately, that specific missing page has  never been recovered.

In sum, there may have been strong motives and even some physical evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald intended to  shoot John Connally.

MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY

In order to bolster the case that Connally was the actual target, Pierre Sundborg  takes us back to the “easy shot” riddle: Why not shoot as the motorcade approaches the Texas School Book Depository? After all, regardless of whether the target is President Kennedy OR John Connally, that would have been the more logical shot. Yet, it was the shot not taken. Why?

The answer can be  remarkably simple. While JFK was an easy target in the rear seat of the open Lincoln—and yet Oswald did NOT shoot–Governor  John Connally was not an easy target at all. Although Connally was seated in the jump seat almost directly in front of and slightly below Kennedy,  he was all but INVISIBLE as the limo approached the 6th floor sniper’s nest along Houston Street. There was no shot at Connally at that time, Sundborg claimed, because he simply could not be seen.

To understand the optics involved, we must turn to the actual configuration of  the Presidential limo on the day of the assassination. As almost everyone is aware, the protective “bubble top” on the Lincoln had been removed (a history changing decision) before the motorcade departed  Love Field;  all of the  occupants (John and Mrs. Kennedy; John and Nellie Connally; Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman; Secret Service agent William Greer)  in the limo  were riding in an “open” car during the motorcade to Dealey Plaza.

But as  Sundborg demonstrated so expertly in TRAGIC TRUTH,  the term “open car” is inherently misleading since John Connally was completely obscured from the sniper’s nest (as the car approached the TSBD) by at least three obstacles: One, the Lincoln windshield with the large upturned sun visors; two, Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman who is sitting directly in front of John Connally; and three, a substantial overhead bracket in the car  that was used whenever  the so-called “bubble top” was employed. On this particular day, that bubble top was missing but the fixed overhead bracket was not.  And it’s that bracket, the car windshield and Agent Kellerman that  obscured John Connaly from any clear shot from the 6th floor. If you can’t see him, you can’t shoot him; it may be as simple as that.

So if Connally was the actual target, Oswald must now wait until the motorcade passed the TSBD and proceeded down Elm Street before he could take a shot at Connally. The roof brace, windshield and Agent Kellerman were no longer an issue. BUT JFK CERTAINLY WAS.  After all, from the sniper’s perspective, JFK was seated  almost directly in front of John Connally, higher and just slightly to his left.  Yet Oswald chose to fire anyway with a rifle and scope that several ballistic experts would  later determine was slightly “misaligned” and may have shot high-left.

Three shots were fired in roughly 6-8 seconds. Not impossible since the first bullet was already chambered. The first shot probably hit a tree branch and likely struck the pavement in back of the limo kicking up sparks. A fragment of that shot hit a bystander (James Tague)  who was standing far down Elm street on the left-hand side. The second shot hit Kennedy in the high-right back; passed through his throat below the Adam’s Apple; and tumbled slightly before it entered Connally’s right back, where it went on to severely injure his inner chest and ribs and right wrist.

And contrary to decade-long assertions of critics, there was nothing “magical” about that particular shot.  Once we are clear on precisely where JFK and Connally were actually seated,  we can see that all of the wounds on both men were in a  precise straight-line trajectory from the 6th floor sniper’s nest.  If Connally was the target and if Oswald was only an average marksman in the Marines, that second shot might well have been aimed at Connally; but it hit JFK first.

When Connally was struck by the second bullet, his wife Nellie immediately pulled him toward her and down, probably saving his life in the process.  So as Oswald was firing the third shot, John Connally was actually being pulled out of the direct line of fire by his wife. The third shot goes  slightly high left–relative to where Connally had been a moment earlier– and strikes JFK in the upper right posterior of the skull (Zapruder frame 312). Thus, according to Sundborg, the President was actually killed by accident.

Could be.

Did Oswald know he had killed the President with that final shot? Impossible. How could he? He quickly tossed the rifle behind some boxes and made his way down the back stairs and eventually out of the front of the TSBD.  In less than an hour he would  be arrested in a movie theatre for shooting a Dallas cop. The rest is history. Well almost.

A FINAL REVELATION

There is a brief but revealing video interview of Oswald in the Dallas Police Station some time after he was arrested for the cop shooting. A reporter stuck a microphone in Oswald’s face and asked him if he knew that he was being charged  with killing the President.

Skeptics of the theory outlined in this article should take a second look at that interview. Oswald appeared completely taken aback by the question; the surprise and shock in his face and voice appeared absolutely genuine. I believe that he knew that he killed the cop; but the PRESIDENT?  He stuttered and stammered and appeared totally befuddled. Could this all have been acting? It could have been, but if it was, it was truly Shakespearean. And let’s be honest. Oswald just wasn’t ever that good…at anything.

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A  shorter op-ed with similar themes was published by American Thinker.

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Introduction.

European Imperialism, Nazism, and Socialism, should be seen, not as the result of simplistic malice or stupidity, but as flawed ideologies that understandably made sense to many intellectuals and well-intentioned people. As 1974 Nobel Laureate in Economics F.A. Hayek writes:

“It is necessary to realize that the sources of many of the most harmful agents in this world are often not evil men but high-minded idealists, and that in particular the foundations of totalitarian barbarism have been laid by honourable and well-meaning scholars who never recognized the offspring they produced.”

Hayek again:

”Most people are still unwilling to face the most alarming lesson of modern history: that the greatest crimes of our time have been committed by governments that had the enthusiastic support of millions of people who were guided by moral impulses. It is simply not true that Hitler or Mussolini, Lenin or Stalin, appealed only to the worst instincts of their people: they also appealed to some of the feelings which also dominate contemporary democracies.”

Just like Socialism was a flawed ideology that led to tyrannical-chaotic states like the Soviet Union and Maoist China, so is Zionism and resulting Israeli state. Zionism is similar to the ideologies above, yet far deadlier, because unlike their flaws, which have been relatively simple and already overcome, Zionism’s flaws are far more complex, thus fooling many of our brightest minds and still increasing their calamitous effects. To properly understand this we begin by briefly summarizing the recent emergence-evolution of the modern global free market capitalist order, followed by the rise of Socialist mythology and resulting Soviet Union which will provide an example of how intelligent people fool themselves into tyranny, and then we show how the same applies to Zionism and resulting Israeli state.

The Emergence of Capitalism and Socialist Mythology.

Until the late 1700s most people lived in small and nearly self-sufficient farming towns. As technology improved (printing press, engines-factories), the rate at which mankind could transform raw materials into wealth was rapidly increasing in cities. A growing class of businessmen-entrepreneurs-capitalists and their ‘private sector’ companies were constantly innovating, and due to people’s ‘freedom to trade’ their ‘private property’ only for things they deemed superior, entrepreneurs also had to copy the innovations of competitors, inadvertently creating and spreading superior information-technology and subsequent socioeconomic order. Competition between increasingly wealthy-productive factories-businesses-entrepreneurs motivated them to pay increasing amounts of wealth relative to what workers earned in farms causing people to move to cities, quickly leading to massively complex metropolises-supercomputers and accelerating living standards.

Morals are information which also emerges and spreads via economic competition to considerable degrees. It is hard-working, courteous people-workers, that treat others-customers-coworkers with mutual respect in a manner that maximizes cooperation-production-profitability regardless of age-sex-religion-race, who thanks to competition, motivate everyone else to be likewise. As Hayek writes:

“Competition is, after all, always a process in which a small number makes it necessary for larger numbers to do what they do not like, be it to work harder, to change habits, or to devote a degree of attention, continuous application, or regularity to their work which without competition would not be needed.”

By the late 1800s most large cities in the world, from NYC to Shanghai, were increasingly being organized by private businessmen and citizens who wore some kind of business suit, priding themselves in hard work, honesty, self-reliance, toleration, and the wealth and prosperity they brought.

Now, very important! Were the above changes leading to the emergence of modern capitalism the result of the plans or design of some great intellectuals-leaders? No. Just like language is a complex and vital communication-coordination system that is, in the words of Adam Ferguson: “indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design”, so are the socioeconomic institutions associated with Capitalism like private property, money, economic competition (summarized above), as Carl Menger writes: “the unintended product of historical development…the unintended result of individual human efforts (pursuing individual interests) without a common will directed toward their establishment.” Just like through a non-designed evolutionary process cells created the respiratory-digestive-nervous-etc. “systems” that coordinate multicellular life, so has man created the mechanisms (private property, money, finance-banking) that coordinate, what Menger and Herbert Spencer so cleverly called, ‘The Social Organism’.

Thus we can see how ‘private property’ and its emerging freedom and ‘competition of ideas’, as opposed to leading to chaos, is what 1) enables and motivates the discovery and spread of superior information and subsequent social order, 2) civilizes us, 3) protects us from being coerced into doing something we don’t want and thus allows us to live our lives as we wish, 4) and is vital for discovering the truth. Freedom is the ultimate algorithm!

Since these changes were “unintended”, their benefits were not widely understood which led to the rapid spread of a new erroneous ideology-mythology, Socialism. Misguided ideologues and resentful masses, fooled by the rapidly growing complexity of the socioeconomic order, increasingly thought that entrepreneurs and their companies were “exploiting” workers, leading to “unfair” differences in wealth, and that abolishing them or having them managed by a coercive-competition-immune-monopolistic bureaucracy of “experts” and “great leaders”, in other words, the state-government or the ‘public sector’, would be a better way of managing the socioeconomic order. An echo-chamber of intellectuals showing various levels of ignorance-incompetence-negligence would describe these increasingly popular fallacies-myths in a manner that was bound to go viral and that is what sort of happened with Karl Marx and his bite-sized “Communist Manifesto” where he famously writes: “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union.

Lenin’s Bolshevik revolution in 1917 led to the attempted implementation of a Socialist state, the Soviet Union(1922). The Soviets’ expert-led “central plans” could not work if people were free not to fund or go along with them, so everyone had to be coerced via a massive police state that would both criminalize dissent and propagandize its myths-ideology making them much harder to change.

Without privately owned and thus competing companies, you’d now have a single coercive-competition-immune-monopolistic bureaucracy of “experts” with no incentives or pressure to innovate or copy existing innovations since there are no judicious customers to persuade-satisfy. Without corporate profit-loss calculation, which guided the actions of people-workers-companies in a manner where more wealth was produced (sales revenue) than consumed (costs), thus ensuring profitability-growth, the future Socialist-Soviet-Maoist bureaucracies-orders would consume more than produce leading to eventual famines and chaos. The Soviets-Socialists did achieve some technological progress because they would copy the improvements companies in the free-competitive non-Socialist countries were creating.

Kulaks, farmers who employed and thus profited from laborers, would be seen as greedy-immoral “exploiters” to be killed with impunity. Lenin orders:

“Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known blood-suckers…Publish their names…Seize all their grain.”

Socialist movements inadvertently had massive Jewish overrepresentation. There is Jewish leading Socialist ideologue Karl Marx. Lenin’s sidekick and founder of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein), was offered by Lenin to be the first leader of what would become the Soviet Union, but Trotsky turned down the idea and told Lenin: ‘You know very well that a Jew can’t be Premier in Russia’. Jewish Author Yuri Slezkine writes in his excellent book ‘The Jewish Century’: “At the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in June 1917, at least 31 percent of Bolshevik delegates(and 37 percent of Unified Social Democrats) were Jews.” Furthermore, 5 of the 12 Bolshevik Central Committee Members at the October 10, 1917 meeting which voted to launch an armed insurrection were ethnic Jews. Jews, at least in Lenin’s Russia, were on average better educated, thus inadvertently rising to the top of the tyrannical ideology-bureaucracy which required the better-educated to coerce the rest. Lenin mentions how: “Jewish intelligentsia members in the Russian cities was of great importance to the revolution…It was only thanks to this pool of a rational and literate labor force that we succeeded in taking over the state apparatus.” The atheism and Darwinism associated with Socialism had an extra appeal for Jews since they’d now gain equality and freedom from religion-influenced restrictions. This not only further contributed to their over-representation in the horrible movement, but also in the tyrannical Soviet secret police tasked with eliminating the “irrational” religious Christians-Muslims-Jews who got in the way of Socialist ideology-morality. Slezkine again:

“In 1923, at the time of the creation of the OGPU(the Cheka’s successor), Jews made up 15.5 percent of all “leading” officials and 50 percent of the top brass (4 out of 8 members of the Collegium’s Secretariat).“Socially alien” Jews were well represented among Cheka-OGPU prisoners, too, but Leonard Schapiro is probably justified in generalizing (especially about the territory of the former Pale) that “anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with and possibly shot by a Jewish investigator.””

In just 13 years, from 1927-1940, the Soviet secret police, with a significant over-representation of ethic Jews, destroyed 29,084 Christian Orthodox Churches leaving less than 500, while killing an estimated 80,000-100,000 priests. This erroneously made it seem to naïve thinkers like Hitler, and sadly many to this day, that “The Jews” purposely conspired Socialism for nefarious purposes including destroying Christianity-Islam-Religion, instead of the truth, that complex historical-cultural-environmental factors, NOT malicious conspiracy, led to ethnic Jews being over-represented in a disastrous ideology.

Religious people understandably saw the Socialists who were persecuting them, not as economically-ideologically misguided, but as being “evil”, “Satanic”, etc., which the atheist-Darwinian Socialists found absurd. This made it even easier for Socialists to ridicule and persecute with immense negligence and cruelty the religious people who were preventing the great progress ‘Scientific Socialism’ would allegedly bring.

Emerging Marxist morality (adhere to expert plans) and existing religious morality (God-given rights-freedoms, 10 commandments, etc.) clashed, overlooking the root economic errors-fallacies-ideas fueling the chaos. Mises elaborates in one of my favorite and vital sections of his treatise Human Action aptly called ‘The Fight Against Error’:

“The problems involved are purely intellectual and must be dealt with as such. It is disastrous to shift them to the moral sphere and to dispose of supporters of opposite ideologies by calling them villains… The rigid dogmatism peculiar to religious groups and to Marxism results only in irreconcilable conflict. It condemns beforehand all dissenters as evildoers, it calls into question their good faith, it asks them to surrender unconditionally. No social cooperation is possible where such an attitude prevails.”

The same polarizations and chaos would emerge as Jews and people making anti-Jewish fallacies (Hitler-Nazis), as well as Zionists and anti-Zionists, vilified each other overlooking the complex history and errors from which the misunderstandings and hatreds arose. Per Mises, it is vitally important that we focus on the ideas-fallacies:

“It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.”

And that we likewise look at history trying to understand how people fooled themselves into disastrous ideologies instead of just making “condemnations”:

“Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers seeking out the guilty should we face the past. We seek truth, not guilt; we want to know how things came about to understand them, not to issue condemnations.”

“History should teach us to recognize causes and to understand driving forces; and when we understand everything, we will forgive everything.”

The Socialists-Soviets, by granting equal rights to women, being the first to put a man in space (Yuri Gagarin), having the most chess champions, and other cosmetic achievements, kept fooling themselves into thinking they were the vanguard of civilization while in reality their ideology-Socialism was by far the most uncivilized-tyrannical-disastrous.

It is important to see Socialism for what it is-was, a disastrous emerging-evolving ideology-myth-software-identity and NOT some simplistic malicious-immoral conspiracy. The great comedian-critic George Carlin astutely mentioned: “You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.” Ideologies cause people to have shared interests-incentives-fears-concerns-views which causes them to think and act alike giving the impression that they are in a ‘formal conspiracy’ when in reality no such thing has likely occurred. And even when ‘formal conspiracies’ do occur, we must focus on the complex emergence-evolution of the “ideas that group men”.

Eventually, significantly thanks to Carl Menger and his intellectual descendants known as ‘The Austrian School of Economics’, like Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek who explained all the fallacies, and after enough failures and suffering, enough minds were changed and the Soviets got their “reformers”. 1976 Nobel Laureate in Economics Milton Friedman mentions how: “There is…no person who had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the iron curtain than Friedrich Hayek.” Gorbachev mentions: “[Communism] in principle, as a system, as a philosophy, as a model of organizing society, of reforming society, has to be rejected.” The Zionists currently find themselves in a similarly disastrous situation.

The Emergence of Zionism and its polarizing effects.

Given the understandable intellectual ignorance-backwardness of the past, throughout history Jews have been erroneously blamed for many things like The Black Plague. Inadvertent Jewish overrepresentation in both, Atheistic-Socialist movements, as well as banking-finance-Capitalism, also brought Jews scorn from people who disliked or misunderstood both Socialism and Capitalism. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, over 20 years before the Jewish-overrepresented Bolsheviks-Socialists gained power, brilliantly summarized the situation when he writes in his seminal book ‘The Jewish State’(1896),:

“We are what the Ghetto made us. We have attained pre-eminence in finance, because mediaeval conditions drove us to it. The same process is now being repeated. We are again being forced into finance, now it is the stock exchange, by being kept out of other branches of economic activity. Being on the stock exchange, we are consequently exposed afresh to contempt. At the same time we continue to produce an abundance of mediocre intellects who find no outlet, and this endangers our social position as much as does our increasing wealth. Educated Jews without means are now rapidly becoming Socialists. Hence we are certain to suffer very severely in the struggle between classes, because we stand in the most exposed position in the camps of both Socialists and capitalists.”

Furthermore, a more secular-Darwinian-evolutionary outlook, being more permissive of human nature, unintendedly caused Jews to be relative leaders in the carnal pleasures associated with pornography, LGBT stuff which helps explain why Tel Aviv may be the gay capital of the world, and the film-music-Hollywood industry. As Marlon Brando put it: “Hollywood is run by Jews. It’s owned by Jews.” Jewish involvement and influence in such movements-industries is not the result of malicious conspiracy by allegedly all-powerful Jews, it is the result of complex evolved cultural factors and thus: “indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.”

Unfortunately, instead of overcoming anti-Jewish fallacies via reason, logic, and education, which are the only ways to overcome fallacies, Jews, as well as people wanting to get rid of them, understandably fooled themselves into attempting to overcome Jew-Gentile misunderstandings-frictions by encouraging Jews to leave the humble Synagogues and towns-cities, where they were really from and had lived for centuries, to create a “Jewish State” in the holiest of locations in the Western World and overwhelmingly populated by Muslims, Christians, and fellow Jews who for understandable reasons were adamantly opposed to living in a “Jewish State”. A state that would be concocted by misguided European ideologues who understandably inherited some of the imperialist-racist, and Socialist fallacies of their times. David ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, eagerly attended Moscow in 1923 to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution. Benzion Netanyahu (Bibi’s dad) wrote-believed absurdities like: “If a nation says out of conviction, I am strong and forceful, then it becomes strong and forceful. This is the law of greatness.” Impressive if written in cursive by a four year old, but a recipe for socioeconomic chaos. The bottom line is that Zionist ideologues, being equally human, were just as misguided-ignorant-negligent, and sometimes dangerously fanatical, as Lenin and his Bolsheviks.

Instead of having an ideology-identity-culture-software that could spread the TRUTH, that freedom and individual rights were increasing and anti-Jewish restrictions (along with slavery, unequal treatment of women, etc.) were decreasing, we now had the evolution of a Zionist identity-ideology that would grow by doing the opposite, by bringing attention to, amplifying, and attempting to eradicate anti-Jewish fallacies with increased vilification, separation and violence. A process that could only increase anti-Jewish fallacies, polarizations and wars.

In his MUST-BE-READ classic essay ‘The Iron Wall’ (1923), long before the rise of Nazi Germany, Vladimir Jabotinsky, one of the most important Zionist ideologues wrote:

“There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future…. it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting “Palestine” from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority…Culturally they [Arabs] are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination…We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done, no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmet agree with it or not. There is no other morality.”

Just like Socialist identity-morality replaced the previous identity-morality of many Russians and Chinese as it attempted to create the “Socialist man” who “was to be selfless, learned, healthy, muscular, and enthusiastic in spreading the communist Revolution”, so would Zionism drive extinct the organically grown Judaisms who were overwhelmingly opposed to Zionism. The rabbinical establishment, reflecting views shared by most Jews in Munich, Germany, where Herzl wanted to hold the First Zionist Congress (1897), strongly rejected the idea so the meeting was moved to Basel, Switzerland. They mentioned:

“…we comprise a separate community solely with respect to religion. Regarding nationality, we feel totally at one with our fellow Germans and therefore strive towards the realization of the spiritual and moral goals of our dear fatherland with an enthusiasm equaling theirs.”

Chaim Weizmann, the leading Zionist figure after Herzl’s death in 1904, lamented how:

“For assimilated Jews…They looked upon it…as a primitive tribalism. They felt themselves…called upon to “rescue” Judaism from Zionism…these people are dead against Zionism”

The “Zonification” of Judaism, led by a bunch of Atheists (Herzl, ben Gurion, etc.), replaced “identities”-cultures which shared a common language and strived “towards the realization of the spiritual and moral goals of” the towns, cities, countries they were a part of and shared with non-Jews, for a separatist-exclusive Zionist identity that was ultimately tied to the fallacy of coercing millions into living under a ‘Jewish State’. Unfortunately and in many ways predictably, Zionist fallacies-ideology and Hitler’s anti-Jewish fallacies kept fermenting each other leading to WWII and the further “Zionification” of the West.

Hitler of course held anti-Jewish fallacies, like confusing the real and massive Jewish overrepresentation in the horrific Bolshevik revolution, resulting Soviet Union and its tyrannical anti-Christian purges, with some deliberately malicious plot masterminded by Jews and further erroneously tied to their “race”. However, vilifying and attempting to destroy people making errors is also a mistake just as responsible for all the polarizations and chaos.

To what degree can one deem people criminals when their harms are the result of the emergence of a complex and ultimately fallacious ideology-morality? The legal concept of ‘mens rea’ (guilty mind) is something we must keep in mind when dealing with millions who fool themselves into flawed ideologies-moralities like Socialism, Nazism, European Imperialism, etc., and Zionism.

On January, 1934 over 5 years before start of WWII Jabotinsky wrote:

“For months now the struggle against Germany is waged by each Jewish community, at each conference, in all our syndicates, and by each Jew all over the world…We will trigger a spiritual and material war of all the world against Germany’s ambitions to become once again a great nation, to recover lost territories and colonies. But our Jewish interests demand the complete destruction of Germany. Collectively and individually, the German nation is a threat to us Jews.”

The increasingly “Zionized” Jews and their supporters did nothing to understand-overcome anti-Jewish fallacies, misrepresented Hitler as some non-homo sapiens maniacal conqueror, prevented him from rightly overturning the wrongs of the ‘Treaty of Versailles’ like reuniting the Danzig Germans thus forcing Hitler to do it by force, and then fooled themselves and the world into an unnecessary massive world war. Only “Zionized” minds could see Hitler and the courteous, pious, civilized Germans, as a greater menace than Stalin. As awful and uncivilized as Hitler’s racist-antisemitic Nuremberg Laws were, according to Grok-AI, quoting likely exaggerated Jewish sources, 2,000 to 4,000 Jews died in Germany in the 6.5 year span since Hitler rose to power (1933) till WWII began (1939), an insignificant number compared to the estimated 5,400 to 15,400 PER WEEK Stalin killed just during his ‘Great Purge’(1936-8). This “Zionification” also erroneously portrayed the Japanese, due to their alliance with Hitler, as some uncivilized conquerors, and again, worse than Stalin. The truth is, that even with Hitler’s naive government-sanctioned discrimination against Jews, the average Jew was better off in Hitler’s pre-war Germany than an average Russian in Stalin’s Soviet Union. And the Japanese, significantly due to their admiration of freemarketeer Herbert Spencer who was the most widely read Western intellectual and even in close correspondence with Japanese leaders as they crafter their laws-reforms, were a rapidly progressing and civilizing force in Asia, especially compared to the Maoist Communist calamity that replaced them.

On February 9th 1938, almost 7 months before the outbreak of WWII, the Polish Ambassador in Washington, Count Jerzy Potocki, reported back home to the Foreign Minister in Warsaw on the Jewish role “in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war”:

“The Jews are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe. This mood is becoming more and more apparent.…This hatred has become a frenzy. It is propagated everywhere and by every means: in theaters, in the cinema, and in the press. The Germans are portrayed as a nation living under the arrogance of Hitler which wants to conquer the whole world and drown all of humanity in an ocean of blood. In conversations with Jewish press representatives I have repeatedly come up against the inexorable and convinced view that war is inevitable. This international Jewry exploits every means of propaganda to oppose any tendency towards any kind of consolidation and understanding between nations.”

After World War Two started, Chaim Weizmann, mentioned the obvious: “this war is our war”. In a speech on December 3, 1942, in New York he mentioned:

“We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry… Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.”

Mises’ pupil and fellow Jew, economist Murray Rothbard wisely and courageously summarizes the truth-reality:

“Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all);…Hitler, in brief, (in foreign affairs) was not a uniquely evil monster or daimon, who would continue to gobble up countries diabolically until stopped by superior force…Hitler had no designs, no plans, not even vague intimations, to expand westward against Britain and France (let alone the United States). Hitler admired the British Empire and wished to collaborate with it. Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows…”

The same ideological patterns keep repeating. “Zionized” Jews and their supporters understandably evolved an ideological and incentive structure which led to the vilification and destruction of Germany due to Hitler’s naive anti-Jewish fallacies. Then critics of Zionism became the next “irrational terrorists”, antisemites, and “Hitlers” leading to US presidents like George W. Bush who mentions “Either you’re with us, or you are with the terrorists.” “Either you’re with us, either you love freedom, and with nations which embrace freedom, or you’re with the enemy. There is no in between.” And now Putin’s rightly cordial and sympathetic treatment of anti-Zionists like the Palestinians and their allies like former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Iran is likewise making him the next “irrational” non-homo sapiens maniacal Hitler who allegedly wants to conquer Europe. This simplistic-tribalistic “good vs. evil” ideology continues to spread and now dominates the “Zionized” West, with simpletons like Ukrainian leader Zelensky (Jewish-Zionist of course, what a coincidence) mentioning: “You can mediate between countries, but not between good and evil.” Re-read Potocki’s quote, and notice how “Zionized” Jews like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin “are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe.” The great Russian diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, told journalist Pepe Escobar in June 2025 that “I don’t understand why we cannot have an adult dialogue.” The answer is because the US government has been totally “Zionized” just like Jews-Israelis have. Former Texas Gov. and one of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls of 2012, Rick Perry stated that: “As a Christian I have a clear directive to support Israel, from my perspective it’s pretty easy both as an American and a Christian. I am going to stand with Israel.” This religious-based Zionism can be seen as ‘Right-Wing’ Zionism. The Zionism of the US Republican Party and the naive simple-minded flag-waving white American Christian masses who easily find unity with fellow white-European Ashkenazi Jews. But we also have Left-Wing Zionism, the Zionism of the Left, of the secular intellectuals, the ‘Priesthood of Scientism’, and so on. These are the very successful secular Jews and their similarly-minded intellectuals who see the Muslim world as religious fanatics and fellow secular LGBT-rights-supporting Jews-Israelis as the good and “civilized” people. As former speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi mentioned: “if the Capitol crumbles to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to Israel…that’s fundamental.” So just like both religious-Right and secular-Left Jews Zionized themselves, they Zionized the American Left and Right too.

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