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My rewrite of the famous quote by Lord Palmerston regarding “interests” to have it reflect the reality of Israel and its powerful friends would go something like this: “I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that Israel is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual friend of the United States and of enlightened western values. By design, Israel has no eternal allies. Its interests are indeed perpetual but center on its own success at aggressively portraying itself always as the victim while also advancing its own tribal interests.” I admittedly tend to think often about the enemy we of the western Christian tradition have been nurturing at our breast for decades in a spirit of tolerance, a viper that is only setting out to corrupt and then destroy us, manifest particularly at this time of year, when the life and death of Jesus Christ ought to be rightly celebrated. Alas, in today’s Israel what is truly remarkable is the government’s open suppression of Christian identity and worship without any complaint coming from Washington or from the other nominally Christian nations of Europe.

Indeed, Christianity in the Middle East is generally dying due the pressure exerted by Israel to make Palestinian life and religious practice as difficult as possible as well as broader regional issues including Israeli and US punishment and replacement of regimes in places like Syria and Lebanon which up until recently harbored substantial Christian minorities. Christians, generally speaking, find it easier to emigrate to friendlier countries worldwide than local Muslims as they often have established family overseas to help in the process.

The marginalization of Christians in Israel, recently driven by apartheid legislation and parliamentary declaration of Israel to be a Jewish state, has been around for a long time but it is particularly bad this year for both Christmas and Easter with refusal by the Israeli authorities to permit gatherings for church services and other celebrations. Only 6,000 security “passes” were issued by the Israelis to West Bank Palestinian Christians to celebrate Palm Sunday and Easter in Jerusalem this year unlike in the past when there would be 50,000 attendees. As a result, many celebrations and the usual parades have been canceled.

Father Ibrahim Faltas OFM, the Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, described how “Despite several high-level meetings, we haven’t been able to obtain more permits,” recalling that West Bank Christians face many restrictions on their freedom of movement during the year and wait for the Easter season to travel to Jerusalem to pray at the Holy Sites. Also, ancient churches in Gaza have been bombed and destroyed over the past year, probably deliberately, creating a sense of depression among the worshippers who are also very aware of their fellow Palestinians, many of whom are Christian, being slaughtered by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). On April 13, Palm Sunday, an early morning air strike destroyed the outpatient and laboratory wards in the Anglican church run Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. The debris from the airstrike reached the neighboring St Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church which was preparing for the Palm Sunday celebration along with the homeless remnants of the local community residing in the church compound. The incident heightened the despair of the entire Christian community. The head of a Catholic aid agency described how “Christians are suffocating and are trapped in their own governorates (provinces) and towns unable to travel freely without harassment because they need special permits…” That is in spite of the fact that there has never been any violence or political unrest associated with the movement of the pilgrims, so it is widely regarded as little more than pure harassment by the Israeli authorities.

To be sure, Christian community and religious leaders have been aware of what exactly is going on and have protested to what would appear to be the appropriate Israeli government authorities, but generally to no avail. Their cause would be helped if majority Christian nations like the US and in Europe would speak up and put pressure on Israel for fair treatment for Christians, but they are generally silent due to their having been corrupted and intimidated by the various manifestations of the Israel Lobby active in their countries. Likewise, the media in those countries is very careful about what it prints or says about Israel or Jews as such criticism is a crime in many jurisdictions, something which is becoming increasingly the case in the United States and tied to evidence free deportations of those who object to what is occurring in Gaza.

The annual report by the Rossing Center, a Jerusalem-based organization dedicated to interfaith coexistence, documented 111 cases of harassment and violence against the Christian community in Israel and East Jerusalem in 2024. The report revealed a climate of hostility that, according to one of the study’s authors, Federica Sasso, only represents “the tip of the iceberg of a much larger phenomenon.” Of the 111 reported cases of assault, 47 were physical assaults primarily through “spitting,” a behavior that has evolved from subtle acts to openly aggressive displays. In several areas, especially in the Old City of Jerusalem, priests, nuns, friars, and monks “being easily identified are exposed to these attacks on a daily basis” with only rare intervention by the Israeli authorities.

Several years ago, the head of the Roman Catholic church in Israel, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, said that Christians have faced difficult challenges most particularly since the formation of Netanyahu’s latest far right-wing government in December 2022. According to Pizzaballa, his government has emboldened ultra-nationalist religious activists, many of whom are armed settlers, and some of whom have harassed male and female members of the clergy and vandalized religious property. Pizzaballa observed how “The frequency of these attacks, the aggressions, has become something new. These people feel they are protected …the cultural and political atmosphere can now justify, or tolerate, actions against Christians.”

A colleague, Francesco Patton, the Custodian of the Holy Land, elaborated how “We are horrified and hurt in the wake of the many incidents of violence and hatred that have taken place recently against the Catholic community in Israel.” He described the desecration of a Lutheran cemetery, the vandalizing of a Maronite prayer room, urination on holy sites, destruction of sacred images and the spraying of “death to Christians” on church property, all taking place shortly after the new Netanyahu government was installed. He also noted “the responsibility of the leaders, of those who have power,” adding that the Israeli police routinely failed to investigate such incidents after the churches reported them.

To determine if the claims of increased violence and hate crimes directed against Christians were true, on June 26th the liberal leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent one of its journalists dressed as a priest into downtown Jerusalem. Within five minutes, the journalist Yossi Eli “was derided and spat at, including by a child and a soldier… A bit later a man mocked [him] in Hebrew, saying, ‘Forgive me father for I have sinned.’ Then an 8-year-old spat at [him], as did [another] soldier when a group of troops passed by later.”

Given what is going on on-the-ground, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has called for an investigation into the role that Israeli-US dual national settlers are currently playing in the recent wave of violence directed against both Christian and Muslim Palestinian towns and villages. ADC Executive Director Abed Ayoub has said that “We have strong reason to believe that American citizens are among the key perpetrators of the most recent brutal and violent attacks.” Since June 21st, armed Israeli settler mobs have been terrorizing Palestinian villages in the West Bank on a nearly daily basis. They have destroyed homes, burned vehicles, and killed at least one Palestinian. For decades US Citizens have moved to Israeli settlements, which they use as bases for regularly engaging in violence against Palestinians, all with impunity, as the Israeli police and army provide the Arabs with no protection and instead often protect the settlers. Many of these US Citizens also take advantage of American charitable and non-profit tax laws to fund illegal settlements and initiate violence against Palestinians.

In another major incident, dozens of Israeli extremists, primarily Orthodox Jews, disrupted a Christian prayer event for pilgrims near the Western Wall. The deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Aryeh King and leading Rabbi Avi Thau led the protesters. Denouncing the Christians as “missionaries” trying to convert Jews, the extremists spat at and cursed the pilgrims, many of whom were ironically normally strongly pro-Israel evangelical Christians from the US. Deputy Mayor King said that Christians should enjoy freedom of worship “only inside their churches.”

According to Protecting Holy Land Christians, an organization established by Christian groups to raise awareness of threats their religion, there have been other accounts of how Christians have been subjected to increasing persecution. A recent report details how Palestinians have been targeted by what it calls settler-colonialism, which is a series of measures intended to destroy their communities and drive them from their land. It identifies seven policies that Israel uses against Palestinians throughout the whole of Mandatory Palestine (1948 Palestine, Gaza, the West Bank including East Jerusalem) and also to punish those in exile: “denial of residency; land confiscation and denial of use; discriminatory planning; denial of access to natural resources and services; imposition of a permit regime; fragmentation, segregation and isolation; denial of reparations; and suppression of resistance.” The report concludes “Whether these policies are considered separately or taken together, they amount to forced population transfer, a grave breach of international humanitarian law (IHL).”

Recently, these essentially genocidal measures have included the outright theft of their historic buildings and land by the government, and denial of other rights, including the increasing refusal to permit gatherings of the faithful at the existing churches on major holidays like Christmas and Easter. There have also been many physical attacks on individual Christians carried out by extremist Jews as well as desecration of Christian religious sites and destruction or defacement of Christian relics and statuary. A June 2023 conference held in Jerusalem to address the issue of increased violence against Christians attracted a number of diplomats, scholars and representatives of religious groups, but it was boycotted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry. The US Embassy also did not send a representative or observer, indicating clearly that it was not interested in the plight of Christians in Israel, or rather that it did not even want to admit that there was a problem.

Interestingly enough, Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, a right wing extremist and a leader of the settler movement, is about to arrive in Washington and will be receiving red carpet treatment from the usual suspects. He has been open about his desire to remove all Palestinians, Christian and Muslim alike, from historic Palestine and was behind legislation making it perfectly legal and without consequence for any soldier or policeman, or armed settler, to kill a Palestinian. The trip will include stops in Florida and Washington, DC, where he’s slated to meet with US officials, conservative influencers, and Jewish community leaders. The most high-profile meeting on his schedule is with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Ben Gvir, who runs Israel’s prison system, has advocated a straightforward solution for dealing with his country’s unwanted detainees. “It is unfortunate that I have had to deal in recent days with whether Palestinian prisoners should receive fruit baskets,” he said last year. “They should be killed with a shot to the head.” Self described Zionist Joe Biden had actually blocked his entry into the US as “too extremist” but as we have seen Donald Trump is not so fastidious.

So there you have it. The Netanyahu Israeli government is not very interested in human rights for anyone who is not a Conservative or Orthodox Jew. It is, in fact, essentially hostile to all Palestinians and foreigners, be they Muslim, Christian or even irreligious. They regularly denigrate such people as what Germans in the 1930s would have referred to as “untermenschen” meaning subhumans, a word then used to describe Jews, ironically enough. That the United States ignores all of Israel’s war crimes and human rights violations is disgraceful, but par for the course as American Jews who are advocates for Israel have corrupted and taken firm control of the political process. And do not think for a second that Israel’s leaders give one damn about the United States and its people, a majority of whom are at least nominally Christian. Recall for a moment how former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon referred to Americans in a discussion with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: “Every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” And more recently Netanyahu said “America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.” That is what they really think of us.

Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review.

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Like Trump’s on-off-on tariffs, the US Supreme Courts rulings are off-on-maybe-we will see.

Last week the Court overruled Boasberg and said that Trump had the authority to deport illegal aliens.  But by the time last Saturday arrived, the Court had changed its mind and “paused” the deportation of illegal entrants.  The Court now has decided that those who had entered the US illegally, thus committing a crime, had the right to challenge their deportation in US courts.

Here is the Supreme Court’s ruling:  “The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court.”  Note the Court’s use of the word “putative.”  The Court is saying that it is uncertain that the illegals are illegals.  Once you have walked in, you are an American, right?  That seems to be the Democrats’ position.  What will the Court’s position be?

Amazing, isn’t it.  Millions of immigrant-invaders can enter America illegally, but they cannot be deported until they have had their day in court. To be clear, what the US Supreme Court has ruled is that there will be no further deportations.  The 16 or 30 million, or whatever the figure, illegal entrants are here to stay.

The deportation hearings, which will be shopped to Democrat district and appeal courts, will take years and will not be resolved until Trump’s term is over.

For decades American conservatives have thought that the most important reason to have a Republican president is Supreme Court Appointments, but now we see it matters not to have a Republican majority on the Supreme Court. The Court, whether Republican or Democrat, has no comprehension of American survival. The courts are preoccupied with grabbing power from the executive.

Just as the US took Texas, Colorado, California and the SouthWest from Mexico, the hispanics are taking it back with the aid of the Democrat Party and the US Supreme Court.  And, of course, with the acquiesce  of Republicans who are incapable of fighting.

The question is: how much do we really care?  Would you prefer to have white liberal Colorado, California, Arizona or Hispanic Colorado, California, and Arizona.  I would prefer the Hispanics.  They are more decent people than white liberals, and, unlike white liberals, they do not hate America.

Perhaps the ignorant insouciance of the American courts will have the unintended result of replacing anti-American blue states with Hispanic states.  It would be a huge improvement in the quality of America.  

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A great consternation boils and bubbles across the land as the sinister forces of Jacobin lawfare keep up their legalistic battery against the nation. You better believe that the country will not stand for much more of this lunatic judicial coup aimed at wrecking the authority of law itself, and with that, any chance for sane management of our affairs.

On Saturday, the activist org Indivisible, sponsored by Linked-In billionaire Reid Hoffman and dark money “pass through” funder the Tides Foundation (Bill Gates and others), sent its “protest” troops into the streets to pretend that there is public support for national suicide. It was a pitiful showing, after all. There are only so many mind-fucked Boomers out there who can be marshaled to militate for the psychopathocracy behind these monied actors.

Easter weekend looked like a turning point in this struggle for sanity over the public interest. On Saturday night, the SCOTUS shot its wad staying the deportation of Venezuelan gang-bangers rounded-up by ICE in Texas. Do you suppose that means the executive branch is powerless now to remove anyone who entered the USA illegally? It’s alleged that the illegal aliens have a right to some due process beyond their deportation orders — which themselves entail sufficient due process to execute their removal, since entering the country illegally is an actionable violation.

Of course, millions of illegal immigrants ditched their own identity documents before crossing into the USA, so there is no way of even establishing who they actually are, were they to appear in an American court for any proposed due process sorting-out. The identity erasure was carried out deliberately to confound the law, and was part of the concerted efforts of NGOs working with the “Joe Biden” regime to stuff illegals into the country as fast as possible with no vetting whatsoever.

It was, you understand, an elaborately engineered operation, down to the CPB One cell phone app created by the US Department of Homeland Security itself under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to mass produce phony asylum cases that streamlined illegal entry for millions. This was complemented by the DHS program of “humanitarian parole and travel authorization” to enter the US on commercial flights directly from foreign countries, bypassing customs interviews.

The motivation for all that was understood by anyone with a functional brain: to assemble a new voter cohort, using motor-voter procedures and mail-in ballots to guarantee Democratic Party election victories in key districts for all time to come. It couldn’t have been more cynically corrupt, as is the new campaign to prevent these millions of new fake voters from being deported back to where they came from.

All of this points to the question: what can be done about such an arrant insult to the citizens of our country? The consternation arises from the failure of federal appeals courts, and now even the SCOTUS, to end the coup. What’s needed is a raft of major DOJ prosecutions for the serious crimes around the vast panoply of lawfare operations going back to 2016. I believe they are coming and that the reason you hear nothing lately out of the DOJ and the FBI is because the cases are under construction and details about them have not been leaked.

A good place to start would be a case for mass murder, battery, obstruction of justice, and lying to Congress against the people responsible for the Covid-19 caper.

You might have noticed last week — though The New York Times and the cable news networks didn’t report it — that the White House issued a major document titled Lab Leak; the True Origins of Covid 19. The doc succinctly outlines the case that Anthony Fauci of NIAID and Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina presided over the design of the Covid-19 virus and outsourced its production, with the help of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, to the Wuhan Virology Institute lab. Include the CEOs or Pfizer and Moderna, Francis Collins, Rochelle Walensky, and their chief deputies at CDC, and Stephen Hahn, Janet Woodcock, and Robert Califf all serially chiefs of the FDA from 2020 to 2024, for enabling the phony and harmful Covid Vaccine program. Indict them all. Let a jury decide if Dr. Fauci’s preemptive pardon was legitimate. The others enjoy no pardon protection.

Bring cases against, John Brennan, James Comey, and a long list of DOJ / FBI officials for the crimes around RussiaGate. Include Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg for his activities running the FISA court during the period. Indict them under federal statute 18 USC 371, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. Throw in sedition and possibly treason, since the UK’s MI6 agency was a party to the seditious frauds involved.

Indict Alejandro Mayorkas and his deputies, and the White House aides manipulating “Joe Biden,” for engineering the mass entry of illegal immigrants between January 2021 and 2025.

Bring cases against Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party leadership for instigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol building, as well as the DNC / RNC pipe bomb hoax.

Investigate the previously ignored incidents of voter fraud in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia in the 2020 election.

Indict Joe Biden and his family for bribery and treason for their money laundering activities in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan and elsewhere during Biden’s years as vice-president and the period when he was out-of-office, 2017 to 2021 (and enjoyed no immunity).

Indict Norm Eisen, Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Monaco for organizing the malicious prosecutions of Donald Trump in 2024 in Georgia, Florida, the District of Columbia, and New York City. And bring a case against Eisen and his assistants for orchestrating the current judicial coup outlined above.

Start making this happen, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, and you will begin to shatter the giant glass cloche of cognitive dissonance that holds the minds of half the country hostage to a long-running Jacobin conspiracy aimed at wrecking the country. You will at least witness a startling shift in what the people pay attention to. Call it retribution if you like. It represents payback for a host of crimes committed against the American people by government officials who warred against them. It is well-deserved.

Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.

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VATICAN CITY  –– Pope Francis has died today, aged 88.

The Holy See Press Office announced the news, writing:

A short while ago, His Eminence Cardinal Farrell announced with sorrow the death of Pope Francis with these words:

“Dear brothers and sisters, it is with deep sorrow that I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis.

At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the Father’s house. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and His Church.

He taught us to live the values of the Gospel with fidelity, courage, and universal love, especially toward the poorest and most marginalized.

With immense gratitude for his example as a true disciple of the Lord Jesus, we commend the soul of Pope Francis to the infinite merciful love of the Triune God.”

Pope Francis’s health had been steadily declining in recent months. He had suffered persistent breathing problems through the winter and was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on February 14 for bronchitis but was then diagnosed with double pneumonia in what was first described as a “complex” then a “critical” medical scenario. He suffered a number of respiratory crises and failures and presented with symptoms of “mild” kidney failure during his hospitalization. Discharged back to the Vatican after 38-days, Francis began a 2-month convalescence as his doctors revealed he nearly lost his life twice in the spring hospitalization.

He was last in public on Easter Sunday to give the Urbi et Orbi blessing, but looked notably weak, being barely able to raise his arms and with a particularly strained voice.

The Argentinian prelate had led the Catholic Church as Pope since March 13, 2013. He emerged to the world as a surprise successor to Benedict XVI, following the German Pope’s shock resignation in February 2013.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ordained on December 13, 1969 and was raised to become Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in May 1992, before assuming control of the see in 1998. Created cardinal by Pope John Paul II in February 2001, he served as the vice-president and then president of the episcopal conference of Argentina from 2002 – 2011.

In the papal conclave following Benedict XVI’s resignation, Cardinal Bergoglio was elected to the Papal throne on March 13, 2013, at the age of 76.

Styled as the “pope of confusion” by commentators, his reign was marked by a rapid diversion from Catholic teaching on numerous issues, with his pronouncements and writings leading to widespread confusion amongst Catholics on topics such as LGBT issues, divorce and “re-marriage,” nature of the priesthood, role of the laity in ecclesial governance, adherence to Tradition, and the permissibility of the traditional Latin Mass.

Indeed, the issues arising from his pontificate do not end here, since they also include the gutting of the Pontifical Academy for Life and re-filling it with supporters of abortion; the championing of “climate change” and globalist policies; the promotion of taking abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections as a moral duty; pushing an irreligious concept of “human fraternity” which was widely accused of rejecting God and subsequently welcomed by Muslims and Freemasons; being involved in the reported cover-up of a number of high-profile abuse cases, such as Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick; remaking the Vatican curia with individuals noted for their rejection of Catholic teaching on numerous points.

Pope Francis: A bishop from ‘the ends of the earth’

Announced as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected on just the second day of the conclave. Many have argued that his election was a result of a longstanding and coordinated plan by the secretive St. Gallen group or mafia. (More details on his election are provided further below in this obituary).

Citing concern for the poor as his reason, Bergoglio chose the new papal name of Francis in imitation of St. Francis of Assisi. Addressing the crowds in St. Peter’s Square on the evening of his ascent to the throne, Francis avoided using the term “Pope,” presenting himself instead as “bishop” of Rome. “You know that it was the duty of the Conclave to give Rome a Bishop. It seems that my brother Cardinals have gone to the ends of the earth to get one… but here we are… I thank you for your welcome. The diocesan community of Rome now has its Bishop.”

His appearance on the balcony of St. Peter’s was notable for its departure from tradition: gone were the Pope’s red shoes which symbolized martyrdom; gone were the Papal pectoral cross and ring, with Bergoglio choosing his own instead; gone also was the traditional red mozzetta.

He also dispensed with the usual order of a papal blessing, asking the assembled crowd to pray for him, before imparting a blessing.

The evening was a revelatory one, with many commentators already remarking on the new Pope’s disregard for customs.

He created over 140 cardinals in nine consistories through his reign, and issued well over 3,500 documents, texts or speeches. Among this number were 4 Encyclicals: Lumen Fidei, largely written by Pope Benedict and finished by Francis; Fratelli Tutti, which expounded a form of irreligious fraternity dubbed as “blasphemous”; Laudato Si’, which advocated for “climate change” measures and formed the basis for his future ecological writings and interventions; Dilexit Nos, on the Sacred Heart.

Pope Francis also penned 74 Motu Proprios, 92 Apostolic Letters, 7 Apostolic Exhortations, 20 Apostolic Constitutions, and one Papal Bull. Francis made over 40 official papal trips outside of Italy and visited 65 countries as of September 12, 2024.

Traditional Latin Mass

One of the most notable and impactful aspects of Francis’ tumultuous pontificate is his attack on the Church’s traditional Mass, which was affected over a number of years. His July 16, 2021, motu proprio Traditionis Custodes abrogated Pope Benedict’s 2007 Summorum Pontificum, declaring that the liturgy of Pope Paul VI, or the Novus Ordo, is the “unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”

The immediate fallout of the text saw closure of traditional Masses in various locations around the world. It was supposedly born out of a survey by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which claimed devotees of the traditional Mass fostered “disagreements,” ruptures in the Church, and the “peril of division.”

However, the implementation of the restrictions was not swift or widespread enough, prompting Francis’ perfect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (Cardinal Arthur Roche) to issues increased restrictions in December 2021, followed by yet more restrictions in February 2023. The results of the CDF’s survey were never published, and are believed never to have been seen by Roche’s dicastery implementing the restrictions.

Canonists have argued that Traditionis Custodes itself was not canonically legal, and prelates such as Cardinals Raymond Burke, Robert Sarah and Bishop Athanasius Schneider repeatedly spoke out against the papal moves. Schneider has stated that to comply with the restrictions would be a “false obedience,” Sarah decried them as “diabolical,” and Burke styled them as being a “persecution.”

By virtue of these various documents against the traditional Mass, Francis thus ordered traditional Masses out of parish churches, forbade newly ordained priests from automatically being able to say the traditional Mass, limited the number of priests already with that permission, restricted the use of the traditional sacraments, and removed diocesan bishops’ powers to exempt their priests from the papal restrictions.

In addition to this, the Pontiff repeatedly took aim at devotees of Tradition, describing them as “rigid” and highlighting this as a problem related to “clericalism.” In one such characteristic discussion, Francis argued that devotion to the traditional Mass was a “nostalgic disease” resulting in “indietrism.”

In a quasi-autobiographical book published in January 2025, Francis also accused Catholics who attend the traditional liturgy of having a “mental imbalance, emotional deviation, behavioral difficulties, a personal problem that may be exploited.”

Indeed, further restrictions on the traditional Mass had been rumored to be enacted over the summer of 2024, with Francis reportedly having the document on his desk ready to sign. But following an outpouring of public support from groups and individuals, the rumored text never emerged.

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Those who hoped the second Trump Administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law.

Passed in 2005, the REAL ID Act created federal standards for driver’s licenses. The law requires everyone applying for a driver’s license to provide the DMV with his social security number, proof of legal residence, and two proofs of his home address. The REAL ID Act allows the Homeland Security Department to mandate, as it sees fit, the including of addition items in the related government database, including “biometric” identifiers. Biometric identifiers include personal data such as retina scans, fingerprints, and DNA.

People who doubt that this database will be used to violate the rights of US citizens should ask what a present-day J. Edgar Hoover — a former FBI director who was notorious for collecting private information on politicians and other prominent individuals — would do with a database containing personal and even biometric information on American citizens. They should also consider the IRS’s history of targeting presidents’ political opponents. Americans also have the threat of violations of their rights by hackers. The government has a poor track record of protecting data of US citizens.

REAL ID’s supporters deny the law turns state driver’s licenses into national ID cards because states have no mandate to implement REAL ID. However, citizens of any state that refuses to adopt REAL ID will be unable to use their state-issued IDs for boarding an airplane or riding on a train.

Once the initial uses of REAL ID are established, the government will then require REAL ID for other activities. For instance, local transportation authorities may be offered federal funds to implement REAL ID requirements for public transportation. Several pro-Second Amendment organizations oppose REAL ID because it could be used to monitor gun owners. There is nothing in the law prohibiting a future progressive Homeland Security secretary from requiring REAL ID for a firearms purchase. Imposing a REAL ID mandate on gun ownership would further the authoritarian objective of having a database containing the name and address of, and how many and what type of firearms are owned by, every law-abiding gun owner in the country.

REAL ID also menaces health freedom. One of the few victories for liberty during the covid hysteria was the failure of “vaccine passport” schemes to be more widely imposed. These schemes attempted to forbid people from returning to their normal lives unless they proved they were “fully vaccinated” against covid.

REAL ID was marketed as a weapon in the “war on terror.” However, Thomas Massie, the most consistent and courageous defender of liberty in the House of Representatives, pointed out that 9-11 hijackers used passports from their own countries. Rep. Massie wrote, “As long as the pilot’s door is locked and no one has weapons, why do you care that someone who flies has government permission?”

Like most post-9-11 security bills, REAL ID does nothing to protect the American people’s safety. It does, though, do much to endanger their liberty. REAL ID could even be the final piece of the transformation of America into a total surveillance society where government monitors, and thus controls, our actions. Americans who understand the danger must work to get the Trump administration to reverse its position.

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In the USA in 1997–2009, influenza and RSV in total killed 30,400 people per year. Such common viral infections are well worth curing as soon as possible.

Focus on the Viral Infection, Then on the Complications

Covid brought an explosion in respiratory virus research. This is explained in part by the fact that covid is caused by a respiratory virus that’s relatively potent. Most severe cases, for instance, feature destructive clotting.

Even so, covid and common colds both start with virus buildup in the respiratory system and then cause further complications, in the lungs and elsewhere. Also, covid and common colds both are more deadly to people who are elderly or have complicating conditions.

Since covid and common colds have features in common, and covid has further severe effects, covid can be taken as a generally worst case. Prevention and treatment suitable for covid should be conservatively more-than-sufficient for common colds.

From the outset, it clearly was impossible to meaningfully slow the spread of the covid-producing SARS-CoV-2 virus across whole networks of people. It was far-more practical to instead prevent covid disease development or worsening.

People prevented covid disease development by using safe, inexpensive, widely-available vitamins, supplements, and other treatments to build up immune function, lessen viral loads, and augment immune function. To build up immune function, people took vitamin D in advance in a good-enough form, in large-enough amounts, for long enough. To lessen viral loads, people didn’t wear masks and further breathed plenty of fresh air, and used nasal sprays and mouthwashes. To augment immune function, people took ionophores like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, or quercetin, all of which transport zinc into cells, and in combination took enough zinc.

Overall, treatments were tailored to the disease phases, as outlined in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Covid time course and treatment

Treatments first primarily limited virus replication, and then primarily prevented or limited inflammation and further disease. Similar approaches work well on other similar-enough diseases.

After a Texas child tested positive for measles and then died, her also-infected four younger siblings and two 4-month-old twin cousins responded well to similar safe, widely-available treatments suitable for measles. Measles depletes vitamin A, and cod liver oil served as a high-quality source. These children’s measles was in measles’s respiratory phase, and budesonide steroid inhaler was very beneficial.

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Figure 1 is from a series of prevention and treatment guides prepared by the Independent Medical Alliance. Such leading clinical practice and teaching is being suppressed by establishment groups.

Two of IMA’s seven exceptional founding members, Paul Marik and Pierre Kory, had their board certifications revoked by the American Board of Internal Medicine. IMA senior fellow Mary Talley Bowden helped a hospitalized desperately-ill man’s wife get a court order to get him ivermectin, and tried to get ivermectin administered to him, but this was prevented and the man died. Bowden was then sued by the Texas Medical Board. The distinguished lead author of the first published early outpatient treatment protocol for covid, Peter McCullough, had his board certification revoked by ABIM. Independent clinicians’ prescriptions for generic antivirals have been going unfilled in hospitals and pharmacy chains.

Independent clinicians and customers have been working around pharmacists’ interference with medical practice and liberty by getting prescriptions filled in some independent pharmacies and in many compounding pharmacies. State legislators have made ivermectin over-the-counter with a pharmacist’s consents in Tennessee and with no exceptions in Arkansas and Idaho, and they’re considering bills in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia. They’re considering banning mRNA therapies for humans in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, South Carolina, and Texas.

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The key disputes involve two groups. One group is pharma, plus most government people, health‑payment providers, hospitals, large practices, and pharmacy chains. The other group is independent clinicians and customers, plus a few government people and pharmacists.

Pharma’s approach and independents’ approach differ greatly in safety, efficacy, and cost, as encapsulated by Figure 2.

Figure 2. Pharma approach vs. independent approach

Pharma develops branded treatments by learning from small, centralized trials—first of safety, then of efficacy. This process builds in high costs and long delays.

Independents use mechanistic understanding to apply possible treatments to both existing and new uses. They start with safety data that’s sufficient to support wide use, and that’s often far-more extensive than the data for new pharma branded treatments. They keep monitoring safety in use, and they also monitor efficacy in use. Independents’ mix of branded, generic, and other therapies is more varied. With this decentralized approach, independents discover quickly and adapt quickly, saving lives and improving health.

Aircraft carrier flight-deck crews have demonstrated high reliability by not relying on redundant operations or layers of supervision but instead keeping responsibility simple and clear, and empowering people. Clinicians face analogous real-time demands. They do well when they create for themselves a similar decentralized structure.

Vaccines and mRNA therapies appear to at minimum worsen immune responses: they reduce some crucial helpful responses, and they increase some serious harmful responses. Relying instead on less-immune-disruptive state-of-the-art preventions and treatments would very‑advisably first do no harm. In the meantime, though, autism, other historically-rare serious diseases, and turbo cancers—all of them terrible burdens on life and health—remain on the rise.

Remarkably, independents trying safe, inexpensive, widely-available treatments at small-scale on clinical cases are seeing impressive, highly-promising results on cancers. Imagine if independents could help people in case after case their whole careers, by practicing using the products they already have at hand and using more products as producers make them available.

At the end of My Cousin Vinny, Mona Lisa Vito playfully teased that succeeding in case after case would be a nightmare. We need decentralized independents to be a dream come true.

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One of the most challenging things for me throughout my time in the medical field has been watching children become neurologically damaged by vaccines, and the widespread blindness of the medical profession to this issue.  Unfortunately, because so much money has been spent to engineer the societal belief that vaccines do not cause autism, anyone who asserts otherwise is immediately subject to widespread ridicule, to the point it’s mostly a lost cause to convince medical professionals vaccines aren’t always safe. Sadly, in many cases, the only thing that can open their eyes is their own child being severely injured.

Since one of the central reasons the autism-vaccine link has always been dismissed is that there’s no established mechanism to explain how vaccines could cause autism, this article will focus on that question and why there has been so much resistance to understanding what is behind the autism epidemic.

Note: this is a significantly revised and updated version of a previously published article.

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I believe much of the blindness to the toxicity of vaccines was a result of Clinton’s 1997 decision to have the FTC allow direct pharmaceutical advertising to consumers. There are a lot of issues with this practice (the USA and New Zealand are essentially the only countries that allow it), and one effect it had was putting financial pressure on networks not to air stories critical of pharmaceuticals once they had become dependent on their advertising revenue.

Prior to this shift, news programs that were critical of vaccination would periodically be aired and were pivotal in awakening the public to the dangers of vaccination. Consider, for example, this 1978 program that was aired about a rushed experimental vaccine that ended up injuring a significant number of participants (and never would be aired today).

Note: while severe reactions (Guillain-Barré Syndrome) officially occurred in 1 in 100,000 people, when the vaccine came out, we saw numerous people it happened to, so I am relatively sure that figure greatly understates the actual harm.

In contrast, despite millions of people being severely injured or killed by the COVID vaccines and immense public interest in the topic, there was virtually no reporting in the mass media about the harms the vaccines were causing. Sadly, that is just one of many illustrations of how corrosive pharmaceutical advertising dollars are. For example:

•RFK Jr. was close friends with the chairman and CEO of Fox News. RFK Jr. has repeatedly shared that Ailes was very supportive of RFK Jr. producing a segment on the dangers of mercury in vaccines, but ultimately was forced to scrap the production because the majority of Fox’s advertisements came from the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., 17-18 of the 22 advertisements on a typical nightly news show).

•The only Fox News host who actively spoke out against the COVID vaccines was Tucker Carlson (as he was able to leverage his position as the most popular news anchor in America to air his opinions), but was fired immediately after he aired a scathing critique of how our media had sold out the American people for Pfizer and Moderna.”

Andrew Wakefield

Whenever the subject of vaccination and autism is raised (particularly within medical circles), you will immediately be told (often in a condescending manner) some variant of the following:

Andrew Wakefield was a dishonest doctor who was bribed by lawyers to torture children and publish a fraudulent and deeply flawed study that falsely linked vaccines to autism. His abhorrent actions deeply violated the profound trust we place in scientists, and tricked people into believing vaccines cause autism. Remarkably, even though his study has been totally discredited and he lost his medical license for the gross misconduct he committed, his fraudulent study cemented the lie that vaccines cause autism, and despite all the data we publish, nothing can undo the profound damage Wakefield did to science so nothing like this must ever happen again.

While most things do not get under my skin, this has become because of how nauseating it is to hear it repeatedly. This, in turn, touches on a key point. One of the most common ways the corporate propaganda apparatus (known as the Public Relations or PR industry) persuades the public is by sculpting the narrative best suited for swaying public opinion and then blasting it on every media platform while any opposing viewpoint is forbidden from being aired. These lies then become entrenched and everyone starts to independently repeat them as though the idea were their own (e.g., we witness one of the most over-the-top PR campaigns in history to sell the COVID-19 vaccines and before long much of the populace was zealously espousing its nonsensical talking points).

Since Wakefield’s study was published in 1998 (a year after pharmaceutical television advertising became permissible), it was able to initially gain immense traction in the press (as the media had not yet been bought out), but a few years later, when that monopoly had established itself, it was instead debunked on every platform.

Note: Sharyl Attkinson, a popular national news anchor for CBS and an Emmy-Award winning journalist shared that in the early 2000s, the pharmaceutical industry, feeling the pressure negative coverage of disastrous vaccination programs was creating for them, lobbied to prevent future negative coverage, and after this happened, it became impossible for her to air well produced segments which were critical of any vaccine initiative

In my eyes, there are three critical points to understand from Wakefield’s experience.

First, it cemented the lie that no one had ever thought to associate vaccination with brain injuries prior to Wakefield’s study (and hence that all subsequent associations were a product of Wakefield tricking them into seeing a connection that wasn’t there). As the 1982 news program shows, this is clearly not true and likewise the reason Wakefield did the study was because he was approached by parents who already thought vaccines caused their child’s autism.

More importantly, if you read through the early medical literature (prior to vaccine injuries becoming a taboo subject), many doctors over the decades had reported brain damage and characteristic neurological injuries (e.g., cranial nerve palsies) following vaccination that mirror what we see in vaccine-injured children now—many of which can be found within this excellent book by an eminent bacteriologist that summarized that early (forgotten) literature.

Second, it gave a very clear warning to every academic journal and researcher to never consider publishing anything that was critical of vaccination (as otherwise they would be raked over the coals for decades by the entire media apparatus like Wakefield was). This worked as intended (e.g., many scientists have confided to public figures that they know that autism is linked to vaccination but cannot publicly study it) and since Wakefield’s study, virtually no studies have been conducted on vaccine injuries, and of those that were, none could ever be published in a “reputable” journal. Likewise, it cemented the lie the few doctored studies that get through are immediately removed (whereas for example, trial participants and clinical investigators for the HPV and COVID vaccines repeatedly provided proof fraudulent data was published but the academic journals never even issues a correction).
Note: Wakefield’s study was published in one of the world’s top medical journals (The Lancet). Given how controversial the subject was, it was virtually guaranteed that an exhaustive peer review was conducted of his findings and that The Lancet chose to publish the study not because “Wakefield tricked them” but rather because his data was valid and did not claim anything more than what his data clearly showed.

Third, Wakefield determined a process that appeared to be contributing to the disease process in autism and that many have since found was effective in addressing the condition. However, rather than being considered, it was blackballed and forgotten.

Do Vaccines Cause Autism?

One of the primary purposes of propaganda campaigns is to defend things that are logically indefensible, and since there are a limited number of ways to pull that off, you will gradually begin to see the ways this is accomplished. This in turn is why many were able to see through the marketing campaign used to sell the COVID vaccines, and more importantly, why so many lost their trust in the childhood vaccines they had never questioned before.

For example, if you look at the vaccine-and-autism question, a few major issues emerge:

•While many parents have observed their healthy children suddenly regress and become severely impaired immediately after a vaccine (with the regression occurring in a characteristic and replicable manner), to my knowledge, there are no reported cases of rapid autistic regressions happening immediately prior to a vaccination.

I have met a fair share of people with identical experiences to the parents in this audience.

I suspect that in the near future we will see the same for those with COVID-19 injuries, and like before, almost everyone will deny they exist. pic.twitter.com/o9EtKcTgCs

— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) December 26, 2022

In contrast, the most common argument used to dismiss a link between vaccines and autism is that “autism tends to emerge at the same age vaccines are given, so the association parents perceive is coincidental, which Andrew Wakefield tricked them into seeing.” If this were indeed true, there would be a roughly even distribution of autism cases before and after vaccination rather than what we actually observe.

2. Over the past 50 years, there has been an exponential increase in the rates of autism (e.g., it’s gone from affecting 1 in 10,000 children to 1 in 31). This rapid increase suggests something is causing it, and more importantly, that it is absolutely urgent for us to figure out what that something is as each autism case is immensely costly to society. This is not sustainable once it starts to affect a significant number of children. However, rather than identify that cause, the scientific community, for decades, has simply said “we need more research” to figure out what it is (while simultaneously declaring it is definitely not vaccines despite vaccines being by far the most probable culprit).”

Note: while I believe the strongest case can be made for vaccines causing the autism epidemic, there are a few other factors (e.g., excessive prenatal ultrasounds) that data suggest may also play a contributing role.”

3. The most common explanation given for the explosion in autism is that “it’s genetic,” and as the years go by and billions are spent on autism research, more and more genes are identified that are associated with autism. This train of thought, however, ignores:
•Despite all that research, the “autism gene” has never been found.
•If autism suddenly became over 100 times more common in 1-2 generations, it is impossible that this could have been due to a genetic shift.
•In addition to this rapid change arguing for an environmental toxin (rather than genetics) causing the autism epidemic, many of the genes “linked to autism” share the common thread of increasing one’s sensitivity to environmental toxins.
Note: Peter Hotez is often used as a media attack dog to discredit anyone linking vaccines to autism and frequently cites his book “Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism” as an authoritative debunking of any links between the two. I read Hotez’s book and noticed that he never proved his claim (rather, he just said it didn’t make sense to him how autism could be anything except genetic) and described a classic sign of vaccine encephalitis (a continual, very loud, and piercing cry) prior to his daughter’s autistic regression.

4. While many studies are published debunking the link between vaccines and autism, they never directly assess the question. Independent studies (whose validity is always questioned) continually find an indisputable link between the two (along with vaccination being linked to many other chronic illnesses). A schism like this would argue for a robust trial to settle the question (e.g., a randomized one that compared a group of vaccinated and unvaccinated children from birth), but each time that is proposed, it’s shot down because “it’s not ethical to withhold lifesaving vaccines from children” when the next best alternative is proposed (access to the CDC’s database that compared vaccinated children to unvaccinated children), for some reason, that too is always shot down.
Note: in one instance, a CDC whistleblower came forward and showed that after the CDC conducted a study to disprove the link between autism and vaccines, when they discovered it actually caused autism, the study was doctored to conceal this.

All of this hence suggests vaccines are strongly linked to autism and helps to explain why both the media and much of the Democratic leadership went hysterical after RFK Jr. stated he planned to conduct robust studies to determine what was actually causing the autism epidemic.

Note: For those interested in learning more about how vaccines cause autism, I would strongly recommend reading Steve Kirsch’s article. He does a good job of concisely presenting some of the most compelling evidence (e.g., specific cases where vaccination was irrefutably linked to autism and the hundreds of papers on the subject).

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Grow a spine and deport them already. On the basis that they offend the Spanish people and Western culture.

Europe is near collapse. It’s not an exaggeration. It’s suicide by obeisance.

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With the death of Pope Francis, here are some crucial items below to read and seriously reflect upon while awaiting the papal conclave in Rome to be conducted at the Sistine Chapel where the new pontiff will be chosen.

The papal conclave, where cardinals elect a new pope, is expected to begin in Rome in early May 2025, likely within 15-20 days after Pope Francis’ death.

In these extraordinary, apocalyptic times, my own candidate for the position of the new pontiff is Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.

Archbishop Vigano was born on January 16, 1941 in Varese, Italy. He was ordained a priest on March 24, 1968 and incardinated in the Diocese of Pavia (Italy). He has a doctorate in both canon and civil law (utroque iure). His Excellency started his service in the Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See as Attaché in 1973 in Iraq and Kuwait. In 1976 he was transferred to the Apostolic Nunciature in Great Britain, and from 1978 until 1989 worked at the Secretariat of State of Vatican City. On April 4, 1989 he was nominated Special Envoy with the functions of Permanent Observer to the European Council in Strasbourg. He was consecrated an archbishop on April 26, 1992 and made Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana. He was nominated Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Nigeria, on April 3, 1992. On April 4, 1998 he was nominated Delegate for the Pontifical Representations. Archbishop Viganò served as Secretary General of the Governorate of the Vatican City State from July 16, 2009 until September 3, 2011. On October 19, 2011 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, a post he held until his retirement in April of 2016.

Hilaire Belloc: “Europe will return to the Faith, or she will perish. The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith.”

Lord of the World, by Robert Hugh Benson (.pdf version)

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson. In 1895, he was ordained a priest in the Church of England by his father who was then Archbishop of Canterbury. After many years of questioning and soul-searching he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1903. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1904 and named a Monsignor in 1911. This book, written in 1907, is Benson’s dystopic vision of a near future world in which religion has, by and large, been rejected or simply fallen by the wayside. The Catholic Church has retreated to Italy and Ireland, while the majority of the rest of the world is either Humanistic or Pantheistic. There is a ‘one world’ government, and euthanasia is widely available. The plot follows the tale of a priest, Percy Franklin, who becomes Pope Silvester III, and a mysterious man named Julian Felsenburgh, who is identical in looks to the priest and who becomes “Lord of the World.” “The one condition of progress…on the planet that happened to be men’s dwelling place, was peace, not the sword which Christ brought or that which Mahomet wielded; but peace that arose from, not passed, understanding; the peace that sprang from a knowledge that man was all and was able to develop himself only by sympathy with his fellows…”

Benson was sent to Cambridge to write and serve as a priest chaplain to the Catholic community. Later, he was allowed to live on his own to devote himself to writing. A prolific author, he traveled extensively, writing and lecturing. Benson wrote many apologetic works, including The Religion of the Plain Man, Paradoxes of Catholicism, and Confessions of a Convert. He was also a bestselling novelist, writing The Holy Blissful Martyr Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Come Rack! Come Rope!, and The Necromancers. The dystopian novel Lord of the World is his best-known work.

Apocalypse Now, By Harry W. Crocker III

Story of Satanic Fashion Show Staged Inside a Church Almost Directly Out of 1907 Apocalyptic Distopian Novel, Lord of the World

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Parents are rightly concerned about what is happening in our “public” schools. Crazed “educators” are encouraging impressionable children to “transition” to another sex, as if such a thing was possible. Students are taught that sexual promiscuity is a good thing. They are brainwashed to accept socialist attacks on our free enterprise system.

What can we do about this disaster? The Trump Administration and anti-woke Governors like Ron deSantis have tried to solve the problem by issuing directives to the schools to eliminate the noxious programs and give parents more say-so about what their children are taught. But teachers who have been indoctrinating our children are well-entrenched, and it will be extremely difficult to curb their baleful influence.

No matter how much good these efforts accomplish, they fail to deal with the real problem, and that is the existence of “public” education itself. Schools run by the state are inherently institutions that propagandize what the state wants schoolchildren to learn. As the great Murray Rothbard explains: “The key issue in the entire discussion is simply this: shall the parent or the State be the overseer of the child? An essential feature of human life is that, for many years, the child is relatively helpless, that his powers of providing for himself mature late. Until these powers are fully developed he cannot act completely for himself as a responsible individual. He must be under tutelage. This tutelage is a complex and difficult task. From an infancy of complete dependence and subjection to adults, the child must grow up gradually to the status of an independent adult. The question is under whose guidance, and virtual ‘ownership’ the child should be: his parents’ or the State’s? There is no third, or middle, ground in this issue. Some party must control, and no one suggests that some individual third party have authority to seize the child and rear it.”

For Rothbard the choice between these options is a “no-brainer.” “It is obvious that the natural state of affairs is for the parents to have charge of the child. The parents are the literal producers of the child, and the child is in the most intimate relationship to them that any people can be to one another. The parents have ties of family affection to the child. The parents are interested in the child as an individual and are the most likely to be interested and familiar with his requirements and personality. Finally, if one believes at all in a free society, where each one owns himself and his own products, it is obvious that his own child, one of his most precious products, also comes under his charge.” Rothbard’s point is a clear application of the basic principles of libertarianism.

If the state takes over schooling, this is a clear violation of the parents’ rights. “The only logical alternative to parental ‘ownership’ of the child is for the State to seize the infant from the parents and to rear it completely itself. To any believer in freedom this must seem a monstrous step indeed. The rights of the parents are completely violated, their own loving product seized from them to be subjected to the will of strangers.”

But there is, if anything, an even more fundamental issue at stake. Children need freedom in order to develop their powers to live their lives, but the State is inherently a violent institution that suppresses individuality. “The rights of the child are violated, for he grows up in subjection to the unloving hands of the State, with little regard for his individual personality. For each person to be ‘educated,’ to develop his faculties to the fullest, he needs freedom for this development. But the State! The State’s very being rests on violence, on compulsion. As a matter of fact, the very feature that distinguishes the State from other individuals and groups is that the State has the only (legal) power to use violence. In contrast to all other individuals and organizations, the State issues decrees which must be obeyed at the risk of suffering prison or the electric chair. The child would have to grow up under the wings of an institution resting on violence and restriction. What sort of peaceful development could take place under such auspices?”

What will the State teach? You might think that this would depend on the kind of state it is, and to some extent this is true. Schools under Trump will differ from those under brain-dead Joe Biden. But there is nevertheless an underlying pressure that leads the State to impose uniformity and to teach obedience to the government. “Furthermore, it is inevitable that the State would impose uniformity on the teaching of charges. Not only is uniformity more congenial to the bureaucratic temper and easier to enforce; this would be almost inevitable where collectivism has supplanted individualism. With collective State ownership of the children replacing individual ownership and rights, it is clear that the collective principle would be enforced in teaching as well. Above all, what would be taught is the doctrine of obedience to the State itself. For tyranny is not really congenial to the spirit of man, who requires freedom for his full development Therefore, techniques of inculcating reverence for despotism and other types of ‘thought control’ are bound to emerge. Instead of spontaneity, diversity, and independent men, there would emerge a race of passive, sheep-like followers of the State. Since they would be only incompletely developed, they would be only half-alive. This is the logical goal of the Statists in education. The issue which has been joined in the past and in the present is: shall there be a free society with parental control, or a despotism with State control? We shall see the logical development of the idea of State encroachment and control.”

You might object that Rothbard is being dogmatic. Is he trying to deduce what must happen, rather than be sensitive to the actual course of events? Of course not! Rothbard was a great historian, and his theoretical account aligns with what actually happened: “America began, for the most part, with a system of either completely private or with philanthropic schools. Then, in the nineteenth century, the concept of public education changed subtly, until everybody was urged to go to the public school, and private schools were accused of being divisive. Finally, the State imposed compulsory education on the people, either forcing children to go to public schools or else setting up arbitrary standards for private schools. Parental instruction was frowned on. Thus, the State has been warring with parents for control over their children.”

Rothbard wrote before the horrors of today’s wokery , but with his unrivalled genius, he anticipated them: “Not only has there been a trend toward increased State control, but the effects of this have been worsened by the very system of equality before the law that applies in political life. There has been the growth of a passion for equality in general. The result has been a tendency to regard every child as equal to every other child, as deserving equal treatment, and to impose complete uniformity in the classroom. Formerly, this had tended to be set at the average level of the class; but this being frustrating to the dullest (who, however, must be kept at the same level as the others, in the name of equality and democracy), the teaching tends more and more to be set at the lowest levels. Since the State began to control education, its evident tendency has been more and more to act in such a manner as to promote repression and hindrance of education, rather than the true development of the individual. Its tendency has been for compulsion, for enforced equality at the lowest level, for the watering down of the subject and even the abandonment of all formal teaching, for the inculcation of obedience to the State and to the group, rather than the development of self-independence, and for the deprecation of intellectual subjects. And finally, it is the drive of the State and its minions for power that explains the ‘modern education’ creed of ‘education of the whole child’ and making the school a ‘slice of life,’ where the individual plays, adjusts to the group, etc. The effect of this, as well as all the other measures, is to repress any tendency for the development of reasoning powers and individual independence; to try to usurp in various ways the ‘educational’ function (apart from formal instruction) of the home and friends, and to try to mold the ‘whole child’ in the desired paths. Thus, ‘modern education’ has abandoned the school functions of formal instruction in favor of molding the total personality both to enforce equality of learning at the level of the least educable, and to usurp the general educational role of home and other influences as much as possible.”

On one point, though, Rothbard underestimated the menace. He said that “since no one will accept outright State ‘communization’ of children, it is obvious that State control has to be achieved more silently and subtly.” State control under the Left has not been silent or subtle, and this has provoked  the recent backlash.

We can all enthusiastically agree with Rothbard’s message: “For anyone who is interested in the dignity of human life, in the progress and development of the individual in a free society, the choice between parental and State control over the children is clear.” Let’s do everything we can to end “public” education!

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In the spring of 2020, many churches in the United States closed down. They were told to. I am willing to forgive that behavior. In fact, I think I’m commanded to forgive that behavior.

I get it. People were scared. Maybe a week you stay closed until you come to your senses. Maybe two weeks, because they assured us it took only two weeks to slow the spread.

It took a special kind of wrong to close down the church and to keep it closed. When Easter 2020 came, I was sure every church would open again.

I was wrong.

Though I forgive those who closed, I have a very special place in my heart for those who never closed down. Pastor Tony Spell of Baton Rouge, Louisiana is one such person. Not long ago, I sent the following to Pastor Spell. Please allow me to share it with you.

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Dear Pastor Spell,

In the spring of 2020, I was hungry for God. I knew that something was wrong when they closed down all the churches in San Francisco where I lived and where I still live today.

I was coming out of a past of atheism and knew that I needed to be in church. I was going to the wrong churches, but I knew that I was better in church on Sunday mornings than sitting at home. Many of the churches even virtue signaled with big signs outside their churches and virtue signaled in the media about how upright they were for closing down. There was a shocking level of pride in what they were doing.

Some of the San Francisco churches that closed down during the Ides of March 2020 remain closed to this day. I have yet to find a pastor in San Francisco who did not close down.

What I did in response to that — I have no question that it was at the leading of the Holy Spirit — is that I bought a hymnal online and started having my own private services on the steps of the church closest to my home. It was just me and God. It was quietly done. Someone standing ten feet from me would not have known I was having a worship service.

I knew no church that stayed open. I knew no Christian who wanted the churches to stay open. And on Resurrection Sunday, I was most sad. As far as I was concerned, if there was any day the churches needed to be open it was that one.

The churches proudly remained closed.

I called the several local pastors I knew asking them if I could just be in a corner of the sanctuary as they held their Resurrection Sunday services that would be broadcast on Zoom that day. None of them agreed. I don’t know why I was so ardent about being in the sanctuary and not at home, but I was. Something felt so wrong about it.

There were brave pastors in California who didn’t close down, but I didn’t know about them. The media gave you, Pastor Spell, such a difficult time in the lead up to Resurrection Sunday 2020.

I have no question that the stories were meant to intimidate you and to try to move the authorities into intimidating you. The stories were meant to tattle on you. But little did they know that through those attacks on you, God was encouraging me in the things of Him. He was showing me what it looked like when a Christian stood up. Every story I read about your church staying open encouraged me. I read dozens of them. There were likely hundreds of attack stories against you in the days leading up to Easter 2020.

And then Monday morning came. And I could not find a single follow-up story about you and your congregation. There was total silence, as if all those journalists had never written about you. In unison, they seemed to feel no obligation to write a follow-up about you, not even a negatively slanted followed up. Only silence. That was all I could find.

This proved to me how disingenuous the media was in covering the topic of your church preparing to stay open Resurrection Sunday 2020. Their coverage was not about notifying the public about what was taking place in the world. It really was about intimidating you, tattling on you, and trying to get local authorities to bully you into submission.

But you did not submit to that. Thank you for that.

Monday morning the media was silent. I woke up early that morning in San Francisco, eager to know if you had stayed open or been intimidated. The media was silent.

Finally, I couldn’t wait any longer and I called your church to inquire, perhaps that Monday or possibly the day after. I called your church, expecting to leave a voicemail that might get returned, but a gentleman with such a polite and kind way about him answered the phone.

I briefly introduced myself as a supportive person watching the story in the media. I asked if your church had gathered for services the day before.

The man, as polite as can be, said something simple and clear like, “We are Christians. We gather every Sunday.”

I understood. The answer was, yes. I thanked the man and went on with my day, greatly inspired.

You refused to close on Resurrection Sunday. You were the glaring example in the media. Thank you Pastor Spell. Thank you.  Thank you to you and to your church.

You were a ray of hope for me in dark, dark San Francisco. In the darkest days of 2020, you were a ray of hope for me all the way across the country in San Francisco and you could not have known that.

All you likely knew is that you were being obedient to the Lord. I want to thank you for your obedience.

Eight months later in November 2020, I found my way into the first California church I knew of that did not close down. There were others that did not close down; I just didn’t know about them. I just didn’t know. It was a gift of grace from God in my life that this former atheist, this former renegade against the Lord was brought into a church that never closed down, in November of 2020, was being brought into a church where the Bible was being preached.

Walking into that church that Sunday and on the Sundays that followed changed my life.

That place three-and-a-half hours away from my home became my church and has remained my church these past four years. I gave my life to the Lord there. I was baptized there.  I have grown so much in my walk with Christ. I’ve even found myself called out into the mission field from that church, called to a rather unorthodox mission field but a mission field nonetheless. How good the Lord has been to me.

Each Sunday if I am in California I drive the three-and-a-half hours to my church. It means a great deal that this church I attend never closed down. It means a great deal to me that you never closed down, Pastor Spell, that Life Tabernacle never closed down.

You were such a bright light for me in dark San Francisco, and I am so grateful for you and for the choices you made that spring. Thank you.

This Sunday, I believe I will finally be able to make my way to your church. I know I will not be likely to meet you in such a big congregation and I would not even want to take your attention from your parishioners if I could meet you. I am just so very grateful to be able to step foot in your church these five years later. I send this as a note just to say thank you to you Pastor Spell, to your wife, to your staff, to your deacons, and to your congregation for staying open. There has likely been much pain, and much hardship that has come from your decision. I just really want to say thank you.

I did not know how to read the Bible as I do now. I did not know how to pray as I do now. I did not know how to wait on the Lord or to seek His will l as I do now. There are many other ways I know now to encourage myself in the Lord, but in the spring of 2020, I did not know all of those things. I felt very alone. And your actions were the ray of hope I needed. The Lord used you — praise the Lord — to encourage me in Him. And I just want to say thank you to you and your congregation for your obedience.

Allan Stevo

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What I Found

When I stepped foot in that church, I found a place that was thriving. I found a place that sought to build community and to end reliance on the poison of government handouts. I saw 50 school buses that go far and wide, dedicated to not leave a person behind. I just got a glimpse, and I knew I was seeing what the Church was meant to be.

The stories of his irresponsibility in staying open were delivered to me by reporters from New York and Los Angeles. Nasty remarks about him were inserted into the reporting of American newspapers big and small. His own words were delivered to me by tabloids like The Daily Mail and The Sun in England, known sensationalist tabloids that were somehow doing better and fairer reporting than the newspapers of record.

I saw a congregation focussed on God, the Bible, and the gift of Jesus on the Cross. Once I saw it, I understood why the example shined so brightly all the way to San Francisco, so brightly that the hateful reporting, the threats, the intimidation from government and media could not darken that light. They were just there living the life they believed they were called to live and were doing so no matter what the outside world had to say about it.

What Can Each One Of Us Learn From Their Example?

I had never met the man, or watched a sermon. I never knew a thing about him other than the hateful coverage I read in the newspapers. But from Baton Rouge, Tony Spell was a shining light in the darkest days of the lockdowns. He could not have known the impact he was having on me. And I suspect I am not the only one who was encouraged in the Lord by Spell’s example. While all the men of God I knew went to run and hide, there was Tony Spell.

And in his example there is a principle to teach, whether you be Christian or not. The principle is this: Do your best in every moment and don’t worry about what anyone else is saying about you.

We can do no other. Life is unpredictable. You never know who you are touching and to what degree. You do not need to. Just do the best and hold yourself to a high standard.

How do you know that standard? If you ask me, it is in lots of prayer, lots of time in the Bible, a heart focused on hearing from God, and doing the work He calls you to do. I believe that is what Spell did as the weight of society came down upon him and demanded he bow the knee.

He did not bow.

So you do your best, you operate uprightly, you speak the truth diligently, you don’t give quarter to lies.

Will you be imperfect at that? Yes. We are only human. But doing that still remains the goal.

You do your best no matter what anyone else says.

Thank you to Tony Spell. Thank you to all the lions who stood firm in 2020.

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Imagine being famous for saying something you never said seven centuries after your death.  What has come to be known as Occam’s razor — “entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity” — has been attributed to English philosopher and theologian William of Occam (1287-1347), though he never used those exact words in his writing.  According to conceptually.org,

Occam’s razor (also known as the ‘law of parsimony’) is a philosophical tool for ‘shaving off’ unlikely explanations. Essentially, when faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simplest is likely the correct one.

Occam’s principle has been reformulated many times before and after Occam himself presented it, beginning with Aristotle (“Nature operates in the shortest way possible”), but the value of parsimonious explanations in some form has been preserved up to the present as an invaluable tool of explanation.  Einstein is credited with expressing it as “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”  Da Vinci recommended mimicking Nature in whose works “nothing is wanting, and nothing is superfluous.”  And since WW II, in keeping with the principle itself, KISS (“Keep it simple, stupid”) has become the modern world’s acronym for it.

The theory describes a desirable goal in any undertaking — everything necessary, nothing superfluous.  With this in mind, how should we evaluate the Federal Reserve System?  Is it a streamlined agency purporting to provide the American economy with all its monetary needs?  Did it replace a flawed system that was causing havoc?  Was it an improvement over anything the economy has ever had?  Since an economy includes people who work and trade, was there a public outcry for monetary reform?

To answer these questions we need to look at the Fed’s goals, and for those we find on its slick website a straightforward statement: The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, provides the nation with a safe, flexible, and stable monetary and financial system.  If we dig a little we find under “The Fed Explained” the 11th edition of its purposes and functions, though it’s no longer called that.  Also, for those who are upset over the Fed’s private character, note that the top level domain is .gov, not .org, .com, or .net.

Going further, under the section labeled “Who We Are” we learn that

The Federal Reserve System performs five key functions that serve all Americans and promote the health and stability of the U.S. economy and financial system.

The first two functions are (1) conducting the nation’s monetary policy, and (2) promoting financial system stability.  By scrolling a little we learn that a committee of 12 voting members from around the System  “serve on the Federal Open Market Committee and help set crucial U.S. monetary policy.”  Presumably they keep foremost in mind the ideals of a safe, flexible, and stable monetary and financial system.

Although “safe” can be interpreted various ways, it might refer to the FDIC’s role in the economy in the event of a bank failure.  Its website tells us “Your deposits are automatically insured to at least $250,000 at each FDIC-insured bank.”  The government created the FDIC in 1934, 20 years after the Fed became active.  How safe were depositors’ money before 1934?

The Fed was the brainchild of the big Wall Street banks, particularly J. P. Morgan & Co., who wanted a lender of last resort and a more elastic currency.  Neither of these goals could be achieved without the power of the federal government, which is why the Fed is not a purely market arrangement but a coercive cartel established by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  To ensure the Fed controlled the elasticity of the money supply, which mostly meant inflating it, the legislation granted the Fed a monopoly of the note issue.  Though Fed notes were initially designated as lawful money, they were not awarded legal tender status until 1933, following FDR’s criminalization of gold ownership.

Gold had always been money, with paper currency understood as receipts for money, not money in itself.  From the depositors’ perspective any gold left at the bank was his and could be acquired in full any time the bank was open.  Yet according to the government, adherence to gold redemption was the primary reason for the economic chaos in 1933 because people were “hoarding” it — they were pulling it out of banks and securing it somewhere else.

In the world of central banking the gold standard was, as Keynes had called it in 1924, a barbarous relic.  In his A Tract on Monetary Reform, he writes:

If we restore the gold standard, are we to return also to the pre-war conceptions of bank-rate, allowing the tides of gold to play what tricks they like with the internal price-level, and abandoning the attempt to moderate the disastrous influence of the credit-cycle on the stability of prices and employment?

It wasn’t the “tides of gold” that caused the problems, it was bank deception called fractional reserve banking. You think your money’s still in the bank?  Not if enough of you try to redeem it at once.  When that happens we have the unique experience of bank runs and bankers go nuts.

Ironically, it was Keynes who had shown only a few years earlier a highly perceptive understanding of banking fraud in the Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter Six:

By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

The racket he describes is infinitely easier with fiat money in the hands of a central bank like the Fed. Keynes, incidentally, was highly leveraged in the stock market when he changed his mind about “the process of inflation.”

Conclusion

Should we conclude then that the Fed is far from the parsimonious answer to credit cycles and bank panics?  Does it violate Occam’s razor?  We didn’t need an FDIC before the Fed, why does it require one now?  Why does the Fed have the privilege of legal counterfeiting while the rest of us don’t?  Why is gold anathema to central banks in practice while they hoard it on the sly?

Finally, does the Fed reign over a monetary system that is safe, flexible, and stable?  Not if you believe its stated objectives.  If the Fed isn’t the answer, then what is?

With government granting privileges to banks and for other reasons, we have never had honest money or honest banking.  We need both and can get both if we spread the word and get government out of the way.  As I’ve quoted often because it’s both true and incisive,

“If a domestic money consists of a commodity, a pure gold standard or cowrie bead standard, the principles of monetary policy are very simple. There aren’t any. The commodity money takes care of itself.” — Milton Friedman, “Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice“

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Tried and true cures for what ails were replaced by some clever “scientific” sleight of hand over a century ago.  Now it’s back, baby, for those who can cut through the mountains of pharma-ganda and heal themselves with forbidden know-how.  Humans who once lived in harmony with nature were tricked into worrying over life threatening disease to promote a load of magic-beans and phony pills by greedy shamans,…for largely preventable conditions and natural ancient remedies.  Their minds were “salted” with a few modern successes in trauma and acute medicine while the drug trade mined their gold.

Symptoms Are Not DISEASES!

***Realize that disease is a result of 1. defective nutrition, 2. toxins/metals/drugs/infections, 3.sedentary lifestyle habits,… and most importantly 4. mental/emotional states. (period)

***All life runs on electron energy!

***Metabolic ATP output + absorbed/ingested antioxidant electrons – oxidative/inflammatory electron deficit = systemic voltage .

***Inflammation = Oxidative Stress (low voltage) = Disease

Various symptoms arise on the basis of root causes resulting from imbalances in this simple equation.

All it takes is knowing which oxidative factors like empty foods, vegetable oils, metals, pesticides, plastics, lack of sunshine exercise and unhappiness gobble life energy/chi/voltage.

Media networks are all about invoking death/disease consciousness to maintain egoic anxiety in order to maintain psychological power over the masses, reinforce official narratives, sell drugs, vaccines and extraneous shit. See this. 

Pharma-ganda strikes gold every time they label symptoms as diseases and come up with a profitable drug to treat a downstream effect of an imbalance in the above equation.

Tobacco, Cannabis and Mushrooms.  For at least the last 12,000 years of the most “recent” epoch of human life, these substances have been used both ceremonially and medicinally. Each has scientifically shown therapeutic value, yet each has been demonized or made “illegal” by government regulation in response to Medical authority.

Tobacco/nicotine is more frowned upon today than leprosy, being blamed for every disease in the book.  Nicotine itself is of great health value and antidote to fatigue, but commercial cigarettes are contaminated with pesticides and additives while the tobacco plant itself grabs heavy metals. Since nicotine blocks ACE-2 receptors, covid spike proteins are toast; why smokers fared better from the virus and nicotine is recommended for long covid. Dementia and other neurological-dysfunctions also receive benefits.

Christ on a cracker; people freak at a whiff of second hand smoke yet breathe deep the gathering gloom of polluted air responsible for millions of deaths a year. Smokers are shamed as disease takes the rap for a multitude of chemicals released by protected industries!

Cannabis/marijuana is another neuro-healer in its many forms from gummies and smoking to potent RSO resin taken orally or transdermally which destroys cancers and a long list of other terminal diseases. Search “Rick Simpson’s Oil.”

Psylocibin mushrooms and mescaline derived from peyote cactus, like LSD show clinical success in cases of depression and PTSD owing to the dissociative properties of a “trip” and users rising above egoic fears. See this.  Microdosing has become popular among bummed-out housewives and vets suffering PTSD.

Vitamin C, MSM/DMSO and methylene blue have been around for many decades, yet their usages have been censored and eclipsed in the public mind in favor of highly profitable drugs. These help restore cell function by cancelling free-radicals, increasing oxygen penetration, circulation, immune strength and DNA expression via increasing the metabolic output of essential ATP electrons; the energy required for all natural body functions. Vitamin C alone is protective of mitochondria and when combined with collagen maintains connective tissues which conduct e- charge/chi throughout the body.  Pharmaceuticals may provide temporary symptomatic relief, but fail to address root causes hidden in deficient cell voltage. Drugs simply disable “dashboard lights” through downstream chemical interventions.

H2O2 hydrogen peroxide, MSM sodium chlorite, Vitamin C megadose or IV, UV blood irradiation and O3 ozone are being used in some nifty ways.  These are powerful oxidizers that destroy pathogens, cancers and cell debris.  Each has a unique method of DIY application, but IV infusions are limited to any number of holistic clinics.

N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) stimulates glutathione production, a major internal sulfur based antioxidant which protects cell structures from free radical damage and supercharges macrophage performance to rid the system of “garbage” collected by neutrophils. Macrophages must have electron voltage to produce H2O2 to destroy the pathogens collected by neutrophils,…and when macrophage “incinerators are underpowered, neutrophils back-up, signal killer T-cells to stand down blocking immune function leading to pneumonias and sepsis. Interestingly, large infusions of Vitamin C electrons are highly effective against deadly sepsis through the “Marik Protocol.”  Nebulized NAC or oral capsules also thin mucus, prevent dry cough and do wonders for sinus/lung health.

O2 Oxygen! Ya can’t live without it! Oxygen therapies are not new, but their widespread use for many conditions does not fit the profit driven healthcare system or currently have FDA approval. What better way to quickly boost metabolism and cell voltage! See this.

Proteolytic enzymes.  Pineapple and papaya (bromelain/papain) are traditional food sources, add soy based nattokinase and a powerful earthworm extract lumbrokinase and we have four tools to dissolve fibrin films, plaques and scar tissues.  Infections hide from immune cells protected by these fibrin films formed as a result of inflammatory responses to insult and a tumor’s oxygen-repulsive acid mantle created by cancer’s poor electron output.

After a few months of using lumbrokinase, the skin on my arms and legs erupted expelling a lifetime of cuts, scrapes, plant poisons and stings. This caused months of intense itching as these scars came to the surface. A hairdryer to the rescue!  This earthworm “juice” has been used in Asia to reduce women’s fibroids and I can only assume other plaques and fibrins were erased?

Foods;  Before paleo was a thing, I was a hunter gatherer fisherman farmer.  Seafoods from clean waters, wild animals and plant foods grown on mineral rich live soils, raw milks,… and the sunshine and physical exertion of that lifestyle dominated my early years.  Compare that to modern fast foods and factory monkey-chow thanks to chemical agriculture and the “wonders” of food technology.  Through the hypnotic training of simian TV, the “monkey-see monkey-do” principle kicked in big time. Paid peer pressure easily had ’em all eating corn flakes and twinkies!

Real foods have become scarce commodities due to chemical agriculture/monocropping/soil destruction and industrial processing.  Wild and organic items must be sought-out, are pricey and largely unavailable on urban food deserts.  Common processed foods in America are stripped of electron energy and so deficient in vitamins and minerals, contain additives, metals and pesticides, and are the reason savvy individuals learn to supplement what is missing in their diets.  Vitamins C&D, B vitamins, and magnesium are widespread deficiencies.  Heavy metals, Roundup/glyphosate, atrazine, fluorine compounds, etc., etc. are cumulative toxins, generate free-radicals, steal electron energy and must be detoxed before health can resume.  See this.

Since we are bombarded by media marketing and industrial propaganda most folks have little cognitive association with science and reality!

I can only provide “Interstate Exits” and a general roadmap to truth and your personal awareness.  You must take each “Exit” to explore these subjects, personal applications, skip “common beliefs” and Medical system lies to arrive alive.  Then one can take appropriate actions and learn effective usages of simple cheap safe substances.  One can take therapeutic items orally, sublingually, topically/transdermally, via nebulizer or IV in alternative holistic clinics. Be sensitive to bodily signals, only you know how you feel so play it by ear until success happens; you struck the root and symptoms fall away.

When blindsided by a serious illness, most folks, through a false sense of urgency, go with standard system treatments without being exposed to safer less expensive alternatives.  RFK Jr. is all over informed consent throughout the medical establishment.  One is more likely to be truthfully informed by a used car salesman than the average hospital or MD.

Just look at ACAM.org physician finder or search holistic practitioners and view the many protocols offered at alternative clinics.  You will see a spectrum of IV infusions (Vitamin C/NAC/glutathione/RALA), hyperbaric oxygen sessions, UV blood irradiation, acupuncture, Chiropractic and various other modalities.

You may want to print-out this post and begin to research these preventatives and remedies.  If illness strikes, you can resource the many “escape routes”.

Peruse these respected sources;

Orthomolecular.org

Riordan Clinic

Dr. Thomas Levy

A Midwestern Doctor

Dr. Mercola

Weston A. Price Foundation

Earthclinic.org

How-to entries and youtubes on each of these therapeutics

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