Lew Rockwell Institute

This article which was first published in 2007 is of utmost relevance. Minor edits.

The Battle for the Arctic is part of a global military agenda of conquest and territorial control. It has been described as a New Cold War between Russia and America. 

Washington’s objective is to secure territorial control, on behalf of the Anglo-American oil giants, over extensive Arctic oil and natural gas reserves.

The Arctic region could hold up to 25% of the World’s oil and gas reserves, according to some estimates. (Moscow Times, 3 August 2007).

These estimates are corroborated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): “The real possibility exists that you could have another world class petroleum province like the North Sea.” (quoted by CNNMoney.com, 25 October 2006)

From Washington’s perspective, the battle for the Arctic is part of broader global military agenda.

It is intimately related to the process of North American integration under the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP) and the proposed North American Union (NAU). The SPP envisages, under the auspices of a proposed  “multiservice [North American] Defense Command”, the militarization of a vast territory extending from the Caribbean basin to the Canadian Arctic.

It also bears a relationship to America’s hegemonic objectives in different parts of the World including the Middle East. The underlying economic objective of US military operations is the conquest, privatization and appropriation of the World’s reserves of fossil fuel. The Arctic is no exception. The Arctic is an integral part of the “Battle for Oil”.  It is one of the remaining frontiers of untapped energy reserves.

The Arctic nations (with territories North of the Arctic circle) are Russia, Canada, Denmark, the US, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. The first three countries (Russia, Canada and Denmark) possess significant territories extending northwards of the Arctic circle. (see Map).

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Directed against Russia, which is in the process of claiming part of the Arctic shelf, Washington’s Arctic strategy is tied into a broader process of militarization and territorial integration.

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

The United States has adopted a unilateral approach to Arctic development. It has refused to approve the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which was ratified by both Russia and Canada. A United Nations Committee currently administers the Law of the Sea Convention.

The US transpolar territory is much smaller than that of Russia, Canada and Denmark. US territories bordering the Arctic are limited to the North Alaskan coastline, extending from the Bering straits to the Northeastern Alaskan US-Canadian border. The US has a number of US military bases and installations in Alaska. There are several human settlements on the Northern Slope ( Northern Alaska coastline bordering the Arctic Ocean), including Prudhoe Bay, Barrow and Cape Lisborne. This Northern Slope is rich in oil. It was among the first areas of development of Arctic oil.  The Alaskan pipeline links Prudoe Bay on the North Slope to the port of Valdez in Prince William Sound on the Gulf of Alaska.

Russia

Russia, in contrast, has by far the largest border with the Arctic, from the Northwestern city of Murmansk on the Russian-Finnish border, extending over the entire Northern Siberian region, to the Bering Straits, which separate Alaska from the Russian Federation. Murmansk is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle, with a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants. In other words, a large part of the Russian Siberian continental shelf borders the Arctic.

Russia, going back to the Soviet era, had established scientific-military stations on the island of Northern Zemlya as well as in the Francois Joseph archipelago (Franz Josef Land), which is also under Russian jurisdiction. (See map.)  Northern Zemlya was used during the Soviet era for underground nuclear testing.

Russia is now claiming sovereignty (under the International Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS) over a vast 1,191,000 sq km territory which is part of the Arctic shelf.

This territory claimed by Russia submitted to the UN Committee that administers UNCLOS is said to contain substantial hydrocarbon reserves, on the Arctic seabed:

The 1982 International Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) establishes a 12 mile zone for territorial waters and a larger 200 mile economic zone in which a country has exclusive drilling rights for hydrocarbon and other resources.

Russia claims that the entire swath of Arctic seabed in the triangle that ends at the North Pole belongs to Russia, but the United Nations Committee that administers the Law of the Sea Convention has so far refused to recognize Russia’s claim to the entire Arctic seabed.

In order to legally claim that Russia’s economic zone in the Arctic extends far beyond the 200 mile zone, it is necessary to present viable scientific evidence showing that the Arctic Ocean’s sea shelf to the north of Russian shores is a continuation of the Siberian continental platform. In 2001, Russia submitted documents to the UN commission on the limits of the continental shelf seeking to push Russia’s maritime borders beyond the 200 mile zone. It was rejected.

Now Russian scientists assert there is new evidence that Russia’s northern Arctic region is directly linked to the North Pole via an underwater shelf. Last week a group of Russian geologists returned from a six-week voyage to the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater shelf in Russia’s remote eastern Arctic Ocean. They claimed the ridge was linked to Russian Federation territory, boosting Russia’s claim over the oil- and gas-rich triangle.

The latest findings are likely to prompt Russia to lodge another bid at the UN to secure its rights over the Arctic sea shelf. If no other power challenges Russia’s claim, it will likely go through unchallenged. (See Vladimir Frolov, Global Research, July 2007)

Russia is basing its claim on the grounds that this portion of the Arctic sea shelf is connected to Russia’s continental shelf, through the 2000 km long underwater Lomonosov ridge.

“According to Russian media, the physical connection to the Russian intercontinental shelf means that the ridge is technically a part of Russia, and therefore open to exploitation.”

( http://www.oilmarketer.co.uk/2007/07/04/russia-seeks-un-approval-on-artic-oil-grab/)

The Strategic Role of Canada and Denmark’s Arctic Territories 

After Russia, Canada and Denmark have the largest transpolar territories.

To effectively challenge and encroachment upon Russian territorial claims in the Arctic, Washington requires not only the collaboration of Canada and Denmark, but also jurisdiction over their respective Northern territories,  which are considered by Washington as strategic from both a military and economic standpoint.

The US has a military presence in both Canada and Denmark (Greenland). Both countries play an important role in Washington’s Arctic strategy.

Canada’s territory, extends northwards to the Queen Elizabeth archipelago which includes Ellesmere Island bordering onto the Sea of Lincoln, which is part of the Arctic Ocean. Ellesmere Island is part of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Alert on Ellesmere Island (located at 82°28’N, 62°30’W) is considered the northernmost human settlement in the world. In practice it operates as a military intelligence station (Canadian Forces Station Alert) is under the jurisdiction of the Canadian military. CFS Alert is 840 km from the North Pole.

The militarization of the Arctic is part of the process of North American integration under the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP). The proposed North American Union (NAU) constitutes a means for the US to extend its sovereignty over Canada’s Arctic territories

When the creation of US Northern Command was announced in April 2002, Canada accepted the right of the US to deploy US troops on Canadian soil, extending into its Arctic territories:

“U.S. troops could be deployed to Canada and Canadian troops could cross the border into the United States if the continent was attacked by terrorists who do not respect borders, according to an agreement announced by U.S. and Canadian officials.” (Edmunton Sun, 11 September 2002)

In April 2006, Canada formally ratified a renewed North American Aerospace Defense Agreement (NORAD), (“renewed NORAD”), which allows the US Navy and Coast Guard to deploy American war ships in Canadian territorial waters including its Arctic seabed territories. (For further details, see Michel Chossudovsky, Canada’s Sovereignty in Jeopardy: The Militarization of North America, Global Research, August 2007)

The map below reveals the territory of USNORTHCOM, which allows the US military to deploy from the Mexico and part of Caribbean up to the North West territories and the Canadian Arctic.

Greenland

Greenland, which is under Danish jurisdiction, constitutes a sizeable landmass bordering the Arctic Ocean.

The Thule Air Force base in Northern Greenland is under the jurisdiction of the US Air Force 821st Air Base Group. It  constitutes the US’s  northernmost military facility (76°32′N, 68°50′W). The military base lies approximately 1118 km north of the Arctic Circle and 1524 km south of the  Terrestrial North Pole. The Thule base is 885 km east of the North Magnetic Pole.

The Thule US Air Force base also “hosts the 12th Space Warning Squadron, a Ballistic Missile Early Warning Site designed to detect and track Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) launched against North America.”

The Thule base links up to NORAD and US Northern Command headquarters at the Peterson Air Force base in Colorado. The Thule base is also “host to Detachment 3 of the 22d Space Operations Squadron, which is part of the 50th Space Wing‘s global satellite control network.”

Denmark is member of NATO, firmly allied with the US. Both Danish and Canadian territory will be used by the US to militarize  the Arctic. Denmark has also been a firm supporter of the Bush administration’s military agenda in the Middle East.

Canada’s Arctic Military Facilities 

Ottawa’s July 2007 decision to establish a military facility in Resolute Bay in the Northwest Passage was not intended to reassert “Canadian sovereignty. In fact quite the opposite. It was established in consultation with Washington. A deep-water port at Nanisivik, on the northern tip of Baffin Island is also envsaged.

The US administration is firmly behind the Canadian government’s decision. The latter does not “reassert Canadian sovereignty”. Quite the opposite. It is a means to eventually establish US territorial control over Canada’s entire Arctic region including its waterways.

Under the renegotiated North American Aerospace Defense Agreement (NORAD), the US military has access to Canada’s domestic territorial waters including Canada’s sea shelf with the Arctic, which coincidentally also provides Washington under the guise of “North American sovereignty” with a justification to challenge Russia in the Arctic.

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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Gather around, kids, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Uncle Bobby Kennedy, has a story for us — a story about why mRNA vaccines are safe and ineffective. Yes, you heard that right, ineffective. But they’re still safe. Sort of… It’s a bedtime story for Americans to help them sleep away any memories of calamari-like clots, life-long injuries and turbo cancers that the COVID-19 injection has caused.

Ever since 2020, I’ve been warning about the dangers of mRNA vaccines. Nonetheless, I can’t say I’m too excited about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cancelling nearly $500 million in contracts and grants for the development of new mRNA vaccines.

After all, in Kennedy’s announcement on X.com, he admits that the half-billion dollars is being redirected towards “safer, broader” and “whole virus” vaccines. In other words, back to the old-fashioned injections linked to everything from food allergies and autism to paralysis and SIDS.

But what really irked me about his story: He says the HHS is getting away from mRNA shots because of the “limitations of mRNA for respiratory viruses” (in other words, they don’t work). He then goes on to tell a tale about how mRNA vaccines encourage “new mutations and can prolong pandemics.”

Kennedy completely ignores the 17 million people worldwide which a study from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières calculated have been killed by the shot.

The real story Kennedy should be telling is:

Using mRNA vaccines, Big Pharma has killed three times as many people as the holocaust. We have no business directing you in your personal health decisions. Nuremberg 2.0 trials will commence immediately. For those guilty of medical genocide, we suggest the honourable Roman tradition: fall on your sword. Don’t have a sword? A preloaded mRNA syringe will do.

Instead, Kennedy refers to “top experts at NIH and FDA” advising Americans to go back to making the medical mafia rich with traditional vaccines. Are these the same top experts who claimed the mRNA shot was 98% effective at stopping COVID?

In the end, we don’t need Robert Kennedy Jr. telling us fantasy stories about the ineffectiveness of a deadly injection at preventing illness. If the Trump administration wants to make America healthy again, they need to close the book on overseeing what people eat and inject.

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The Mossad-Jeffrey Epstein 30-year blackmail network that entrapped large numbers of the superrich and powerful is still fresh in our minds and boiling in our hearts—at least in some of our hearts. Mike Johnson and other leaders in Congress are hoping that Congress’ August recess will be instrumental in helping the American people to forget the scandal. And given the American people’s short attention span, it might work.

One would think that the American people—Democrats and Republicans—would be outraged by this traitorous plot to bring the U.S. government into subservience to a foreign power, but, for the most part, they aren’t.

Democrats won’t protest, because Bill Clinton’s name is in the Epstein files; and Republicans won’t protest, because Donald Trump’s name is in the Epstein files. Our electorate has become so partisan that they put the wellbeing of their party above the wellbeing of their country.

With that said, I’m quite confident that most Americans—especially Christian evangelicals and MAGA conservatives—won’t be the least bit interested in what I will bring to light in this column, as they are consumed with Israel idolatry.

Regardless, this story must be shared. He that hath an ear, let him hear.

Israel’s demonic obsession with ruling the world and subjecting all nations to the will of “the chosen people” knows no bounds. Not only has Israel successfully bribed and blackmailed America’s political, financial and religious elite to do its bidding, it is also in the process of developing a global (at least in the Western world) surveillance state through which citizens themselves will be controlled.

I want to alert readers to an important investigative report by Independent Journalist Nate Bear:

Last week another batch of peaceful pro-Palestine protestors were arrested by British police on suspicion of terrorism offences, including a disabled man in a wheelchair, as the UK continues its descent into authoritarianism on behalf of Israel.

If any of these protestors had their phones on them at the time of arrest, the police will most likely have scraped them for data using sophisticated spy tech software. Protestors not arrested will have been caught on mobile cameras that sit atop police vans in the UK, and their faces, perhaps even their voices, will have been captured, analysed and cross referenced against a police database.

And in a perverse twist, this spyware technology – technology which now underpins the insidious and growing capabilities of the modern surveillance state – will most likely have been made in Israel by Israeli spies.

But it’s not just in the UK.

Spy tech developed by former Israeli spies is being used on an industrial scale by various agencies in western democracies, from police forces to national security agencies to militaries. Some has been declared illegal, some skirts legal boundaries, and much remains hidden.

The scale of usage, and the range of capabilities provided by this Israeli spy tech, is vast. From face and voice recognition software, to interception and wiretap technology, to covert location tracking, to forced data extraction from smartphones and other devices.

The tech, built by software engineers who cut their teeth writing code to enable and enforce Israeli domination over, and apartheid against Palestinians, is being sold to security services, police forces and immigration agencies across the west.

While much of the information in this article isn’t new, it hasn’t been summarised in one place before. The implications for global civil liberties of Israel’s dominance in spy tech have also not been articulated, and past media coverage has sometimes omitted the Israeli link to these companies. This article will outline the primary players, the sellers and the buyers, and also identify recent contracts, previously undocumented, between Israeli spytech and western buyers.

The first thing to say is that a few scandals involving Israeli spyware companies have been well documented by mainstream media, the most famous of which was the NSO Group affair. NSO, an Israeli firm founded by ex-Unit 8200 officers Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, was found guilty in a California court in 2019 of selling its Pegasus software to governments so they could hack WhatsApp accounts. Pegasus, which was able to execute what is known as a ‘zero-click’ attack to access a smartphone without the user knowing, was used by governments to spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists and was likely used by Saudi agents to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was murdered. The company was eventually ordered to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, who bought the case, and in 2021 Biden blacklisted the company, preventing it doing business in the US. (The US state department, notably, went out of its way to say the US would take no action against Israel, despite the fact that the Israeli government provides export licenses for all spyware software).

Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not attract the same high-profile attention as the NSO Group. Candiru, also founded by ex-Unit 8200 intelligence personnel, sold spyware to governments to spy on human rights activists, journalists, academics, embassy workers, and dissidents.

In 2023, the Biden administration again blacklisted two Israeli spyware companies with little fanfare, and once again without taking action against Israel. The two companies, Cytrox and Intellexa, were founded by Tal Dilian, who spent 24 years in the IDF, rising to become chief commander of Unit 8200. In 2019, Dilian, who lives in Cyprus, was visited by a Forbes journalist, where he demonstrated how his software could remotely hack a phone within seconds.

In Europe, Cyprus and Barcelona have become hubs for ex-Unit 8200 Israelis building spyware companies.

Another Israeli spy firm, Paragon Solutions, was identified earlier this year as silently infiltrating and extracting data from WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger and Gmail without needing user interaction. A criminal complaint against Paragon was filed in Rome after an Italian journalist was hacked by the Italian government using Paragon software. No other legal action has been taken, however. The company, founded by Unit 8200 commanders Ehud Schneorson, Idan Nurick, Igor Bogudlov, and advised by former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, has not been blacklisted by the EU or the US and remains free to operate.

These companies are just the tip of the iceberg, the names that skirted legal grey areas and either eventually fell on the wrong side of the law (such as it is) and into the scope of the authorities, or whose illicit spying activities were discovered.

Even more insidious are the Israeli spyware companies openly contracting with western security services and agencies to spy on and crack mobile phones and other devices.

Because these companies work with lawful state agencies, they claim to have a different model than the NSO Group, Candiru and others focused on illicit hacking services. Yet in many cases their software is similar if not identical, and the full scope of their activities is unknown.

What this compendium demonstrates is that Israel and its apartheid economy sits at the centre of the drive towards a fully surveilled, zero-dissent world. Across the globe, Israeli spyware is ushering in a distinct 21st century fascism that fuses new technologies of control to a tried-and-tested framework that seeks to spy, suppress and dominate. Under the guise of citizen safety and crime fighting, Israeli tech is smoothing the gears of authoritarianism.

Israel’s permanent war and apartheid economy, and the spy tech firms run by Israeli intelligence operatives that emerge from this economy, are the single biggest threat to civil liberties in the world today. And it’s no surprise that Israel has cornered this market. Israel churns out individuals and projects directed for dominance because Israelis are raised in and surrounded by a military culture of impunity. A culture where technology is created only to dominate, test subjects are abundant and rules of engagement non-existent.

In buying and relying on the tools of an apartheid state for security and law enforcement technology, we see how Israel’s apartheid and genocide itself becomes indispensable to western governments in their drive towards complete security states.

Our world is becoming more authoritarian and fascist because tools developed by authoritarians and fascists are being employed across the public and private sphere.

In an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, former CIA case officer Phil Giraldi also shed light on Israel’s surreptitious takeover of Big Tech in the U.S. for its own nefarious purposes, namely, the elimination of anyone who is not fanatically pro-Zionist:

Napolitano: Well, let’s play this, Chris. This is a clip of a technical person from Dell Computer talking about AI used to assist in the slaughter in Gaza.

Video of Omar Zahzah (Professor at San Francisco State University and author): So, it’s been long known that Dell is complicit in the occupation. The question of the AI-assisted targeting programs that the Israeli military uses, what we found through the documentation that we were able to obtain was that, in fact, Dell Technologies is also providing hardware that is used when running these AI programs. Now, your listeners may recall, these are programs such as the Gospel, which provides infrastructural targets, including private residences, and Lavender, which generates the kill lists of Palestinians, which have been critiqued for being so broad as to be essentially arbitrary in their applications and helping the military minimize any kind of human oversight and maximize destruction and lethality of the attacks. But so, again, what we found was that the actual hardware itself is an important element. And, fortunately, we were able to obtain that documentation and kind of continue to flesh out the image of just what tech complicity in military occupation and genocide looks like.

Giraldi: Well, I have known for years that the high-tech sector is heavily represented with affiliates in Israel. It has been that way for a long time. And these applications are particularly relevant to military operations. I’m sure the U.S. government encourages these relationships and has no problem with them. And I’m sure the companies are well compensated, and they have no problem with it. Why should anybody be surprised? This is normal. It’s why the high-tech sector in the United States is loaded with former Israeli intelligence and military officers. [Emphasis added]

At this point, I’m going to sound like a broken record. So be it.

The principal reason why the Zionist state is allowed to get away with this unchecked debauchery and criminality is the acceptance of Christian Zionism by America’s evangelical pulpits and churches.

Obviously, there are also other factors in play, such as the power of the Israel lobby in Washington, D.C., the power of the military-industrial complex in Washington, D.C., and the power of the banks in New York City. But the power behind all of that, the thing that allows these miscreants in their various spheres of domination to succeed in their chicanery, is the religious institutions that provide cover for all of the above and inflict profound moral and spiritual blindness upon the people.

The oft-quoted French historian Alexis de Tocqueville is famous for writing, “America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”

Human goodness comes from an awakened human conscience given to mankind at creation and an awakened pulpit, which gives society a spiritual conscience via the proclamation of spiritual truth.

The enthusiastic acceptance of Christian Zionism by America’s evangelicals—and other religions—has seared both our Natural conscience and our spiritual conscience. The result: unfettered access to the fiber and fabric of our society by the most vile and wicked demonic forces.

Without question, church pulpits are “the pillar and ground of the truth.” (I Timothy 3:15) When the pulpits lose truth, the nation loses truth.

Scofield Rapturism is a curse on America. Israel idolatry is a curse on America. Christian Zionism is a curse on America.

Fortunately, people outside the church are awakening to the diabolical evil of Zionism. The stones are crying out. (Luke 19:40) Furthermore, more and more people are more and more disgusted with the apathy and indifference to the barbarity and brutality of Zionism from inside the church.

I’ll say it again: Preachers who support Israel are driving millions of people away from Christ.

Even as we speak, the Zionist criminal cabal has succeeded in infiltrating, and in many ways controlling, America’s technocratic surveillance state with the ultimate goal of silencing (by any means necessary) voices of resistance against the Zionist state.

The time is here when the forces of freedom and the forces of tyranny are intersecting at the point of a great struggle for the future of Liberty in our country. Sadly, churches are mostly on the side of the tyrants.

I’ll end this column with a bold speculation.

Donald Trump has announced that he is taking over responsibility and control of security for the summer Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles, California. Phil Giraldi is convinced that Trump is doing this as a precursor to his attempt to stay in office for a third term.

I agree with Giraldi, but I’ll take it a step further.

I would not be surprised at all if Trump’s takeover of the security apparatus for the 2028 Olympics would provide him with a golden opportunity to facilitate a false flag event resulting in the deaths of hundreds—or even thousands—of people, which Trump could use as justification for declaring a national emergency, implementing martial law and declaring himself a permanent president. That is exactly what Zelensky did in Ukraine.

And let me ask you, where is the opposition within evangelicalism and conservatism to Zelensky? They are full of toadies. Where is the opposition within evangelicalism and conservatism to Trump? They are full of toadies. Congress? Full of toadies. The Supreme Court? Full of toadies. The billionaire class? Full of toadies. Mainstream media? Full of toadies. Technocrats? Full of toadies.

If Giraldi’s or my speculations are anywhere remotely plausible, it means that we only have approximately 3 years to awaken enough of the citizenry to the evils of Zionism in such numbers to prevent the collapse of constitutional government and the rise of Zionist Fascism in the United States.

As Nate Bear’s meticulous research describes, Zionists are already fully engaged in setting up a total surveillance system by which every dissenter in America could be identified and targeted for incarceration or elimination, just as they are already doing—with great precision—in Gaza.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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Despite playing only basic guitar and piano and having a no-frills, one octave voice, I’ve composed and recorded 12 songs, all of which have been played on some radio station or other. I don’t have any DJ friends and haven’t paid any bribes.

My songs have gotten airplay because their lyrics express countercultural perspectives. Using the nom de guerre, Mahwah Paterson, I’ve mocked Disneyworld, sperm banks, Shakespeare and freezing the baseball hero Ted Williams’s head, et al. Some of these tunes were on YouTube until, as with my early anti-Coronamania posts, censors found and removed them. But at least as of this week, my pre-mRNA shot, anti-Pharma song, “Drugged Up Man” was still audible there. My daughter, Cammi, made the amusing, accompanying video.

When I mention these radio appearances to new acquaintances, people are more impressed than they are by anything else I’ve done. Those who don’t know me well think they’re talking to someone mildly famous.

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Many adults become visibly excited around even minor celebrities, no matter why a given individual is well-known. People like to be photographed with even the marginally famous, bask in their reflected glory and share these encounters on Instagram.

Fame creates a halo effect. Many people not only fawn over the famous, these fans/stans believe celebrities have special insights about life, such that they’ll buy products or vote for political candidates that the famous endorse.

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When my daughter, Lena, was 12, she closely followed the televised American Idol singing contest. In 2006, a young woman named Ayla Brown qualified for one of the top 16 spots on this program. A show or two later, Ayla was eliminated from the competition.

Lena had no special affinity for Ayla’s voice; she liked some of the other singers better. But later that year, Lena learned that Ms. Brown would, on a Saturday afternoon, sign autographs at an indoor flea market along a miracle-mile state highway ten minutes from our home. Although Lena was mature for her age, she was motivated to meet someone kind of famous.

I understood this impulse. At her age, I wanted to get an autograph of some pro athlete. It didn’t matter which one. I would have been pleased enough to get a signed picture in the mail. I’m still not sure why I wanted this. I soon got over it.

But because I remembered what it was like to be 12, I agreed to take Lena to the flea market, which I’d never entered before. It was as tacky as could be: a dim, grimy, austere, low-ceilinged, repurposed low-end retail store with cluttered, makeshift stalls displaying Def Leppard mirrors, knock-off Rolexes, hunting knives, Budweiser signs, tube socks, plastic furniture, mass-produced mountain-scape paintings, bongs and a wide array of cheesy knick-knacks.

There were few shoppers. And the turnout for Ayla was light. A line of three people waited for her to sign the glossy black and white head shots she had brought along. Her Wikipedia site says Ayla Brown “did hundreds of such appearances and as many as 500 to 2000 people showed up at each one.”

Wait, aside from elliptical writing, Wikipedia lies? Who knew?

Someone needs to do some fact-checking. And 404 that platform to protect the public from misinformation.

Ayla was tall and pleasant enough. And though I never heard her on TV, I was sure she sang better than I did, at least if you like Top 40. But there she was, in that tawdry setting, having come all the way from Massachusetts to capitalize on her almost- famousness for a little while longer. For her sake, I hoped her appearance fee wasn’t paid in flea market gift cards. And that maybe she’d meet for dinner with a college friend or an aunt who lived nearby.

Seeing Ayla’s humble flea market meet-and-greet made me think about fame, generally. Why do people fawn over celebrities? When and how do some people become famous? And when and how does fame fade enough that one is no longer famous?

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Covid was mega-famous; more famous than Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood combined. As singing contests did with pop singers, the Scamdemic media built a buzz and an aura around a virus. Consequently, American Idol contestants and Covid became overnight sensations.

Every Spring 2020 day, newly-minted American Idols: Fauci, Birx, Collins, Redfield, Cuomo and various news reporters incited fear via TV, radio, internet and print news. As they did with cover-song-singing contestants, most Americans viewed these Covid “experts,” “leaders” and “journalists” as compelling because the media showed them in business attire behind podiums.

Few noticed that the Covid demagogues’ pronouncements were equivocal, internally inconsistent or outright silly. From the beginning, these televised emperors wore no clothes. But in 2020-21, media and internet “content moderators” censored or shadow-banned dissenters who called out the viral overreaction and who noted that less-publicized, better-credentialed experts disagreed with the official narrative.

If people hadn’t had TV and internet news to scare them about a virus, and their friends didn’t echo viral fear, their daily experiences wouldn’t have shown them that a health emergency going on. In March 2020, I knew, directly and indirectly, thousands of people in the New York/New Jersey Metro Area, the belly of the Covid beast. Throughout 2020-21, all were fine.

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As 2022-25 passed, places opened and mask, test and vaxx mandates incrementally ceased. At some point, people with whom I discussed the Scamdemic started saying, smugly, “Covid’s over.”

I often wondered: “Where did Covid go?”

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To answer this question, one should first ask: Where did Covid come from, and when?

When a “novel” coronavirus was said to have reached America’s shores in March 2020, the reported rise in case rates and deaths was sudden and localized, not gradual and geographically diffuse, as one might expect. Why were there no Covid cases or deaths at all and then, suddenly, thousands of them, with nearly all such deaths occurring in hospitals? If this virus was so bad, why were only old, sick people dying?

It certainly seemed as if, in order to foment fear, officials were exaggerating viral cases and deaths, especially in New York City, America’s media capital. Some have said that the NYC numbers used to create the Covid panic were outright lies. Some NYC nursing homes were said to have multiple times as many deaths as they had beds. Additionally, the number of NYC Covid deaths was said to exceed the number of the City’s hospital beds. Why weren’t any of NYC’s thousands of medically underserved, sidewalk-sleepers dying from this purportedly vicious virus? Why didn’t smaller, but still densely populated, cities outside NYC also have many deaths? And didn’t more virus-carrying Chinese visitors arrive on the West Coast than in NYC? The more one thought about NYC’s Covid numbers, the more suspect these numbers seemed.

NYC’s 2020 death tolls later looked even more dubious when thawed 2019 California blood bank samples were said to contain SARS-CoV-2. California reported zero 2019 Covid deaths. Such evidence of early, but clinically unnoticed, spread in California underscored the notion that The Virus wasn’t very lethal. If it had been, populous California should have had a death surge preceding and rivaling NYC’s.

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I even wondered if a virus caused the ostensible Covid deaths. I had seen various bacteria through Biology class microscopes and in agar-ed petri dishes and my wife makes yogurt at home by adding yogurt to warm milk. In contrast to bacteria, viruses are much smaller and less morphologically distinct.

Some say that, despite the widely-depicted, computer-modeled, colorful, spiky SARS-CoV-2 sphere, no such specific virus has ever been seen, even under an electron microscope. I can’t evaluate this statement because I’ve never looked through an electron microscope. Others maintain that a computer model of a theoretical virus’s genetic sequence was used to create the PCR test for SARS-CoV-2, although no disease-causing virus had been confirmed and the PCR test hadn’t been validated against viral matter. Commonly used, high-cycle PCR tests amplified samples so excessively that these tests detected dead shards of a virus, which couldn’t hurt a fly. Pineapples tested positive.

Be that as it may, millions who tested SARS-CoV-2 positive showed no respiratory symptoms. I was one of them. Conversely, many who showed typical, Covid-like respiratory infection symptoms tested Covid-negative. I was also one of them. Further, many who lived in the same households as those purportedly sickened by The Virus, or who tested Covid-positive, didn’t catch it. I was one of them, too. It was also odd that as Covid death tolls swelled, flu deaths were mysteriously absent in 2020 stats. Pneumonia deaths also declined. It seemed that medical staff or administrators were creatively recharacterizing causes of death.

From the beginning, the extreme viral response and the statistical methods used to build support for it both seemed opaque and manipulated. It all felt like a sinister, covert operation, not a good faith, open-minded public health response.

If SARS-CoV-2’s lethality had been subjected to a legal trial, an unbiased jury would have found much basis for reasonable doubt.

In the decades prior to 2020, I had seen people in close proximity to each other get sick in quick succession. Therefore, I suspect that viruses exist. Yet, in March 2020, I wondered how any latter-day virus could be sufficiently different from its predecessors that society should be locked down for the first time ever. Why, biologically, would such a distinct, consequential viral change suddenly occur? Even if some lab had caused viral gain-of-function or had developed some bioweapon, their product wasn’t very lethal.

During the Scamdemic, most people uncritically believed in and aggressively defended governmental interventions they had never seen before and couldn’t explain. Most never thought about, much less questioned, the social, psychological or economic costs of a radical reaction to the threat allegedly posed by a virus.

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If the virus wasn’t either real or lethal, governments could have declared Covid over whenever they wanted to. This largely explains how Covid was made to disappear. It was easy for officials to de-emphasize Covid peril because the alleged viral culprit wasn’t ever uniquely, broadly lethal.

The Virus resembled most American Idol singers: after their season of contrived fame ended, the public no longer saw either as exceptional or compelling, as they had been advertised. Unsupported by media hucksterism, the glorified karaoke singers and The Virus both faded from the public consciousness.

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If, alternatively, SARS-CoV-2 had existed and initially caused a significant number of deaths, its waning lethality can be explained in several ways.

After using statistical and medical chicanery to run up 2020-21 death tolls, in 2022 Covid testing practices and the death attribution process changed. For two years, CARES Act funding incentivized hospitals to characterize patients as Covid-infected and to attribute deaths to Covid instead of accurately chalking these up to old age and/or baseline poor health. When these incentives expired in March 2022, Covid death tolls plummeted.

Thereafter, deaths previously, falsely attributed to Covid began to be more accurately recorded as deaths due to typical, age-driven causes. As testing declined, the number of deaths ascribed to Covid dropped. Case reporting requirements were also eliminated. The CDC also stopped collecting information on the vaccination status of those who died. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” became the new, unspoken Covid policy. In this new context, reported Covid deaths decreased sharply.

Additionally, iatrogenic treatments, such as sedation, ventilation and remdesivir were used less. And some physicians developed safer, more effective protocols.

By the time the phony Covid Emergency was declared over in May 2023, few noticed.

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Some say that Covid deaths decreased because herd immunity developed: enough people got the virus that it evolved to newer, less lethal forms so that it wouldn’t kill its hosts.

Whether this is true or not, even the 2020 form of SARS-CoV-2 didn’t threaten remotely healthy people. Thus, during March 2020, established public health principles didn’t support locking down the majority/healthy. Older people who imaginarily feared asymptomatic spread could have sequestered themselves to avoid younger people. Such self-imposed,nage-based segregation wouldn’t have radically altered society; in 2020, few young people spent much time with the elderly. If a virus had been circulating, healthy, younger people could have passed it amongst themselves, developed natural immunity, and shortly thereafter, resumed normal levels of intergenerational interaction.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office released two damning emails yesterday, the first being a letter from former DNI James Clapper to former FBI head James Comey, former CIA head John Brennan, and then-NSA chief Michael Rogers. Dated December 22, 2016, Clapper’s letter explains how the chiefs should approach writing a new Intelligence Community Assessment, whose conclusion — that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump — had already been reported:

Mike John Jim;

Understand your concern. It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page. and are all supportive of the report — in the highest tradition of “that’s OUR story, and we’re stickin’ to it.” This evening, CIA has provided to the NIC the complete draft generated by the ad hoc fusion cell. We will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as we complete the report, but, more time is not negotiable,” We may have to compromise on our “normal” modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule.

This is one project that has to be a team sport.

Jim

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Clapper’s email was in response to a note about “concerns” from Rogers, the NSA chief who never upgraded his agency’s confidence level in the “Russia did it for Trump” conclusion from “moderate” to high. The Rogers letter makes it clear that the head of the Pentagon’s most powerful surveillance agency was being asked to sign off on a conclusion without seeing the most “sensitive” intelligence. From Rogers:

I asked my team if they’d had sufficient access to the underlying intelligence and sufficient time to review that intelligence. On both points my team raised concerns… I’m concerned that, given the expedited nature of this activity, my folks aren’t fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments… I do want to make sure that, when we are asked in the future whether we can absolutely stand behind the paper… I’m concerned we are not there yet.

This is a devastating exchange. It shows that in assembling perhaps the most high-profile group analysis since the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s WMD program, four of America’s most powerful enforcement officials said, “To hell with evidence, let’s just put out a tale and stick with it.”

In the specific context of this scandal, it makes a joke of years of public narratives about Trump, Putin, and Russia. Along with more documents funneled from Kash Patel’s FBI to Just The News asserting that senior Justice Department officials squashed Hillary Clinton corruption investigations, and that Comey gave a middleman access to highly classified information to help plead his case to newspapers like the New York Times, the new Gabbard docs further elucidate how years of Russia mania were built on fraud.

But this cascade of revelations is bringing a more disturbing story into focus. A subtext is the unnerving casualness with which procedural rules were broken. Even before Rogers and the NSA were asked to blindly bless a domestic political probe built in part atop “evidence” from an illegal FISA warrant, the FISA court had begun investigating misuse of the surveillance program. Onetime Trump aide Carter Page is not the only American in a politically sensitive position recently monitored under this dubious legal end-around. There was FISA monitoring of campaign manager Paul Manafort, “non-compliant” use of FISA to investigate the January 6th Capitol breach, even FISA tracking of ordinary Americans overseas applying for benefits.

In the coming weeks you’ll be reading (at Racket, among other places) about wholesale abuse of other surveillance programs. It turns out an alarming number of senior Trump campaign officials from the 2024 cycle were notified about prior FBI surveillance (news about Kash Patel, Dan Scavino, and Jeff Clark receiving such notices has already broken, but more names are coming). Widespread surveillance of congressional officials in a 2017 leak probe was the underlying context of recent revelations suggesting two members, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, approved leaks of classified information.

The legacy press is ignoring the releases both because they paint Donald Trump as a victim of overreach and because the press played such a prominent role in the Russiagate corruption. They’re betraying audiences who might be concerned about the larger pattern coming into relief. That story is about intelligence agencies meddling in domestic politics at all — Trump or no Trump — through a list of forbidden practices. We’re about to find out that far more people in the political world were under routine surveillance than previously thought, including mainstream and independent reporters who communicated with political sources of all stripes.

This article was originally published on Racket News.

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A Progressive president sets tariff rates. He negotiates a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. He attacks in an undeclared war. When taking action would violate the letter or the principles of the Constitution, a Progressive takes action autonomously.

A Progressive president keeps executing unconstitutional statutes and regulations. Whenever a judge opines that the president shouldn’t execute a statute that the president interprets correctly is constitutional, the president doesn’t execute the statute and instead executes the judge’s opinion. When exercising restraint would violate the Constitution, a Progressive exercises restraint.

Constitutionalist Restraint—on Tariffs, Treaties, and War

Tariff-setting is legislative power. Tariffs raise revenue, so tariffs must be originated in the current house of representatives.

If a constitutionalist president is unconstitutionally delegated the legislative power that’s vested in congressmen, he will refuse to use that power. Instead, he will recommend necessary and expedient measures to congressmen’s consideration.

Treaties are law. Constitutionalist legislators in senates would pass treaties, and constitutionalist presidents would then sign treaties—if treaties would ever be advisable.

But treaties don’t, and can’t, force government people to comply. Treaties really just give politicians rationalizations for doing whatever they would do anyway.

Military treaties unconstitutionally bypass congressmen’s duties to pass rules-of-engagement cards (ROE cards) and decide whether to declare war. Trade treaties in practice unwisely restrict trade in order to help cronies—blocking voluntary transactions that would otherwise benefit free producers and customers.

In place of a military treaty that would require agreement and yet that neither government’s people could be trusted to follow, there’s a promising alternative: Unilaterally enact a law establishing upfront that other governments’ military actions will at minimum be met by our government implementing a significant initial response; and keep this law in place and enforce it.

For instance, our government people can enact a law consisting of rules that prohibit unconventional-warfare actions (which we already know that Chinese government people are taking), given force by a sanction that if any of these rules is violated, all trade of our people with the offending government’s people will be ended until all violations have clearly ended. This way, trade with our people wouldn’t build up a proven enemy government.

In place of a trade treaty that would just build up governments and help cronies, there’s another promising alternative: Unilaterally levy tariffs equal to half the tariffs that other nations’ government people levy on each specific category of products. Half-tariffs would incentivize other nations’ people to oppose those nations’ cronies who are being propped up at the expense of those nations’ people. Political opposition would build up that would provide the best chance of getting each tariff first reduced and ultimately eliminated.

War drastically changes the legal regime controlling how persons are deprived of life, liberty, or property.

Since war moves the legal regime onto new ground in which many life-and-death rules suddenly aren’t intuitive, it’s essential to establish what wartime actions will be legal. These new legal rules must be immediately clear in split-seconds in battle. They must be drafted as ROE cards and passed by congressmen.

Also, each war must be decided on by congressmen.

Further, when enemy government people make our government people unable to protect our rights without us being forced into the drastic legal regime of war, our government people’s only approach that is moral is to directly target those enemy government people, and to keep this up until those people and any like-minded successors can no longer force us into war.

It’s immoral, and it’s also unconstitutional, for our government people to support war with attacks, other direct military support, economic support, or other nominally humanitarian support when congressmen haven’t done their due diligence of passing ROE cards and declaring war.

It’s also unwise. People who have freer governments are able to outproduce people who have more-coercive governments. The longer that we keep ourselves in peace, the more that our people will outproduce potential enemy governments’ more-coerced people, and the more the more-coercive enemy government people will be at risk if they would start a war with us. Even when mass murderers have possessed weapons of mass destruction, they haven’t used those weapons if doing that would be suicide.

Superior economic strength will ultimately prevent major wars and keep the peace. Getting there by sustaining peace whenever we can will more-quickly bring more peace and more freedom.

Constitutionalist Action—on Statutes, Regulations, and Opinions

All officials take oaths that they can only uphold if they interpret the constitutionality of every possible action and only take actions that they correctly interpret are constitutional.

A constitutionalist president will choose to not execute statutes that are unconstitutional—and most statutes are.

He will choose to not execute any regulations, since all regulations are unconstitutional.

He will spend nothing on unconstitutional divisions. He’ll close them and recommend formally repealing the enabling statutes.

Each time a judge writes an opinion, a constitutionalist president will interpret correctly whether the opinion is constitutional. If it isn’t, he won’t execute it.

Presidential autonomy has been bad. Progressives have used autonomy to do the things they ought not to do and to leave undone the things they ought to do.

Presidential autonomy will be good when it’s used right. The Constitution expressly calls for presidents to use their powers to ensure that laws that are constitutional are faithfully executed. It also calls for presidents to treat unconstitutional statutes or opinions as moot.

Many people see all statutes as lawful, all executive orders as lawless or a waste, and all restraint as virtuous. Progressives exploit this too-simple thinking to keep Progressive Constitution-defiance locked into place.

Actually, statutes and opinions that violate the Constitution are unlawful. Executive orders that protect the Constitution are lawful. Restraint in protecting the Constitution is a vice.

Even a single constitutionalist executive will turn a government around. Freedom then always builds up strong support.

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Talk about hiding in plain sight. Here is possibly the most important graph ever about the flagging state of the US economy and the utter failure of Washington’s constant efforts during the last two decades to “stimulate” improved outcomes.

To wit, the US industrial production index—which measures the sum of manufacturing, energy, mining, and utility output—marched straight uphill at a 3.3% annual rate between 1954 and 2007. Yet since then it has essentially plateaued, rising by just 0.10% per annum during the past 17 years.

That’s right. The growth rate of America’s industrial foundation has plunged by 97% since the pre-crisis peak in Q4 2007. And yet June’s industrial production index, which was up a small tad, gets headlined as a sign of economic strength. In fact, the longer-term chart below screams the very opposite.

After all, there is no logic that says an economy can remain healthy and prosperous that is increasingly based on educating a shrinking number of kids, feeding an expanding national waistline at fast food joints, and changing adult diapers among the soaring share of the population composed of octogenarians. At the end of the day, you actually have to make things in order for the population to pay for taking in each other’s laundry.

As it has happened, however, during the 48 months since June 2021 the industrial production index has been negative or flat nearly half the time on a month-over-month basis. For all practical purposes, the US industrial economy is just playing “mother may I”, advancing one step forward and the next step backwards month after month. And if that’s “strong” or even a sign of anything except decaying performance, we’d suggest the English language has lost all meaning.

As it happens, the disconnect becomes even more dramatic when you compare the production of goods since Q4 2007 with the constant dollar value of goods consumption (PCE) during the same period. That is to say, cumulative real consumption of goods (durable and non-durable) rose by 62% but domestic industrial output was up by only 1.4%!

Obviously, the yawning gap got filled by imports. On the margin, therefore, the growth of goods consumption during the last 17 years was based on imports financed by massive current account deficits.

Needless to say, the above disconnect was not due to a want of trying by means of Washington-based stimmies. The index lines for Federal Debt and the Fed’s balance sheet since 1954 show the opposite pattern to that embedded in the industrial index chart above. That is to say, growth was slow to moderate between 1954 and 2007, but then took off like a bat out of hell thereafter.

Thus, between 1954 and 2007, US Treasury debt outstanding grew by 6.5% per annum, while the Fed’s balance sheet expanded by 5.6% per year. During the last 17 years, by contrast, the public debt rose by 10.7% per year, and the Fed’s balance sheet grew by 13.3% per year.

To reprise, industrial production growth has essentially ground to a halt at 0.1% per year since 2007, notwithstanding a 13.3% per annum expansion of Fed credit. Self-evidently, all that high-powered central bank money was going somewhere, but clearly it was not into the production of goods on Main Street.

There is no mystery, however, as to where it actually went. Since Q4 2007, the NASDAQ 100 index has risen by 86-fold. In turn, the net worth of the top 1% of US households has soared from $18.9 trillion to $49.4 trillion.

Stated differently, industrial production went nowhere, even as the net worth of the top 1.35 million US households soared by nearly $31 trillion.

And yet and yet. Bubble vision today was replete with Wall Street experts rebuking the Donald in the name of the Fed’s purportedly sacrosanct “independence” for his impending plan to fire Jay Powell.

Then again, the Latin phrase “cui bono” immediately comes to mind. The answer to “who benefits” from the Fed’s so-called “independence” is surely not Main Street America.

The fact is, the Fed is neither a democratically accountable arm of the state nor an agency of the free market. It was, is, and may always be a tool of the traders and gamblers who inhabit the canyons of Wall Street.

To be sure, the Donald’s comprehension of monetary policy is about as wrong-headed as it gets, but his imminent frontal attack on the rogue institution domiciled in the Eccles Building may well be the only way to upend its destructive reign.

Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Contra Corner.

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To maintain the illusion of knowing everything, science will often choose to simply ignore phenomena which are too complex for its existing models to explain. So, despite water having a myriad of remarkable properties necessary for life, few are recognized by science and the many scientists who’ve recognized the hidden side of water are largely forgotten.

For example, German naturalist Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) discovered that much of what water accomplishes in nature arises from its travel not in a linear manner, but rather in constant spirals and vortices, and created many revolutionary devices.

In parallel, a team of Russian physiologists discovered the heart causes blood to travel in spiraling vortices, which drastically increases blood’s momentum and allows the heart to precisely direct where each type of blood goes within the body.

In short, water is thought of as a uniform, evenly mixed (homogenous) substance that exists to facilitate random mixing of biochemical reactants needed for life, despite abundant data (e.g., the Russian research) showing it often is highly structured.

Liquid Crystalline Water

Classically, we are taught water exists in three states: solid, liquid, and gas. However, throughout history, many researchers have observed that water (e.g., the “protoplasm” surrounding cells) assumes a gel-like state, behaving like a liquid crystal.

In 2009, after noticing that microspheres placed in water would be repelled by seemingly “empty” surfaces within the water Gerald Pollack was eventually able to explain how this seemingly impossible state of water was emerging. Once a few critical factors were present, water would assemble into a lattice on that surface, which prevented anything from passing through it, thereby creating an “exclusion zone” of water.

For exclusion zone water to form, it requires a hydrophilic surface, usually negatively charged. Once this condition is met, and electromagnetic energy is present (particularly infrared light, which exists everywhere), water, like a solar battery, will store that ambient energy by assembling into many layers of offset hexagonal sheets with the formula H₃O₂ often reaching 0.1mm in depth (which molecularly, is massive).

As Pollack describes:

This model yields a stable structure that sticks together naturally. This model yields predictable mechanical behavior: semisolid when left alone, yet able to flow in response to an imposed shear force. Its behavior should resemble gelatinous egg white.

Due to this lattice shape, each plane can easily slide past adjacent layers, allowing electrons to travel through the lattice with ease (resulting in conductivity approximately 100,000 times that of surrounding unstructured water).

Since this structure is “missing” protons (it’s H₁.₅O rather than H₂O), those protons go immediately outside the exclusion zone (EZ). Therefore, a negatively charged region exists within the EZ, while a positively charged region (which is acidic due to protons present) exists outside it. This, in turn, has been corroborated by numerous researchers who have both demonstrated a persistent pH change there and successfully harnessed its charge separation to power small electronics.

Since the negatively charged region exists in the crystalline structure, it prevents most substances and ions from existing within it. This separating quality has many uses including economical water purification and allowing cells to create the sodium potassium gradient which is necessary for life but far beyond what membrane pumps alone could accomplish (i.e., cells will continue to concentrate potassium after their membrane pumps are disabled).

Likewise, the EZ has increased viscosity, slowing substance diffusion, and can be directly observed by resonance imaging technologies detecting molecular restrictions (e.g., NMR and MRI).

Note: liquid crystalline water absorbs ultraviolet light (270 nm wavelength), radiates less infrared radiation than surrounding water, and has approximately 10% greater refractive index than bulk water. By each metric, EZ water has a higher density than normal water. It comprises the greatest water percentage at 4 degrees Celsius—the same temperature Viktor Schauberger identified as providing water’s greatest density.

This form of water is all around us in nature. For example, it forms the surface layer of water we typically associate with “surface tension” which is strong enough for water striders and certain lizards to stand upon. That layer, in turn, often behaves like a large connected sheet (best seen by observing large bodies of water from above) and when carefully examined, is actually a complex lattice that weaves through the body of water.

Note: Pollack has also made a strong case that liquid crystalline water facilitates different phase changes (e.g., freezing, water boiling, or water vapor becoming clouds).

Cellular Structural Integrity

Typically, cells are thought to be liquid bags whose contents are dictated by membrane lipids and proteins and held together by a cytoskeleton. However, liquid crystalline water (which forms along the cell membrane and the structures within cells) plays an equally pivotal structural role as it:

• Creates the gel-like stability of cells and tissue (which prevents them from suddenly leaking and spilling out once a puncture occurs).

• Creates a (continually regenerating) protective barrier which prevents things from entering the cells (and likewise protects the lining of blood vessels from being damaged by what flows past them or the load-bearing pivot point within joints from wearing down).

• Lubricates many surfaces, allowing them to slide past each other (e.g., the tendons and fascia are covered with a layer of this water). Conversely, as it disappears, tissues start to stick together (creating problematic adhesions), arthritis onsets, and the blood vessels become vulnerable to injury and atherosclerosis begins.
Note: this lubrication can also be observed outside the body (e.g., ice skating is possible because a layer of liquid crystalline water forms between the water and ice).

• Creates non-compressible pockets throughout the body, which are essential for biomechanics (e.g., joints have a layer of liquid crystalline water in the center which bears the force and weight of matching without becoming damaged or resisting the motion).

• These non-compressible structures allow the body to utilize a tensegrity based structure where elastic lines of tissue tension throughout the body can allow any force to be equally distributed throughout the body, both protecting any single area from buckling if exposed to excessive force and allowing free motion throughout the structure (rather than being like a typical building with a largely static one which relies on a single static core).

While many of these concepts initially appear quite abstract, one French hand surgeon found a way to visualize them through magnifying images obtained during surgery.

Mysteries of Microcirculation

All of the above raises many questions, one of which is how the 4th phase of water functions inside the body? I will present some of the findings below.

A consistent pattern emerges when examining each circulatory pathway in the body. Tiny spaces with no extrinsic force driving their flow simultaneously require regular movement through them, and without that flow, life cannot function.

Note: in many cases, the blood vessels through which red blood cells travel are smaller than the red blood cell, requiring the blood cell to deform to fit—something which could not occur without substantial force pushing the blood cell forward.

As the hydrostatic pumping force of the heart is largely absent at the capillary bed, many have wondered if an alternate driver of circulation exists. For example, spontaneous circulation can be observed in a developing embryo before heart development, while flow and pressures observed throughout the body are frequently inconsistent with heart-generated pressure being the driving force behind blood circulation.

When I’ve thought this question over at length, it does not seem realistic that the heart could provide enough force to move the red blood cells through every capillary in the body. What then could be causing the fluids inside the body to move?

Proton Induced Motion

Pollack and his team happened upon a chance discovery in their laboratory (discussed in great detail within this paper), which provided an answer to the mysteries of circulation:

Fluid commonly flows in response to an external pressure gradient. However, when a tunnel-containing hydrogel [which contains liquid crystalline water] is immersed in water, spontaneous flow occurs through the tunnel without any pressure gradient. We confirmed this flow in a wide range of plant- and animal-derived hydrogels.

As stated above, liquid crystalline water requires ambient infrared energy and a polar surface to form. A curious phenomenon occurs when that surface lines the inside of a tube—the liquid crystalline water lining the tube causes water to flow spontaneously through it.

EZs [regions of liquid crystalline water] were studied previously by immersing sections of tubes made of strongly hydrophilic material, Nafion, in aqueous microsphere suspensions. A microsphere-free EZ developed adjacent to the tube surface. In the central core of the tube, movement of microspheres demonstrated a flow, continuously sustaining itself at a velocity of ~10 μm/s in the axial direction… On the other hand, flow was not observed in tubes built of hydrophobic materials such as Teflon, which do not generate EZs.

Since liquid crystalline water’s formation requires ambient radiant energy, its presence influences observed flow:

We found that increased infrared energy substantially increased the flow velocity… application of ultraviolet-containing white light could boost flow velocity by up to 500%. Thus, the self-driven flow mechanism can convert radiant energy into kinetic energy.

Pollack theorized this flow was generated by mutual repulsion between positively charged protons expelled as water (H₂O) transitions to liquid crystalline (H₃O₂) water.

Several observations support this hypothesis. First, protons are continually added to water passing through:

We found that the exiting water had a lower pH value than the entering water; the pH difference exceeded one unit and never diminished — even after 30 minutes of continuous flow.

Second, flow was greatest in narrow tubes:

Another prediction of the proton-gradient hypothesis is that the flow should be faster in narrower tunnels…a narrower tunnel should lead to a higher proton concentration in the core…which should lead to faster flow in the narrower tunnels.

Note: narrow blood vessels are the most vulnerable to their blood flow being disrupted by an impaired zeta potential, and hence where the initial subtle signs of illness often appear.

Third, flow direction was always from the narrower end to the wider end:

A common feature shared among the various flows was the direction—always toward the region with a larger cross-section or volume.

Each fluid conduit in the body is lined with a material recognized to create liquid crystalline water. For example, all blood vessels are lined with a protective glycocalyx, which remarkably well-suited for creating liquid crystalline water on its surface. Likewise, liquid crystalline water generating biomolecules divide cells into compartments and simultaneously, by lining the gaps with liquid crystalline water, create a primitive circulatory system, facilitating the exchange of metabolites necessary to sustain life.

The biological flow of fluids independent of a central pump has also been explored in animals:

Blood can apparently flow without a beating heart. After the heart had been arrested, postmortem blood flow was confirmed in mice, rats, dogs, and chick embryos. The flow persisted from 15 minutes to several hours. Furthermore, some amphibian larvae could live up to 15 days following surgical removal of the heart, implying an alternative means for propelling blood.

In short, the human vascular system is structured so that expelled protons can drive circulation, something that hydrostatic pumping alone is not sufficient to do.

Note: other organisms also utilize this mechanism. Plants require significant internal water transportation, but they have no pumping organs. In the lab, Pollack demonstrated that the xylem creates liquid crystalline water and that this flow allows water to overcome gravity’s resistance and climb up tubes.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie with Sydney Sweeney in it. Sure, she’s easy on the eyes, in the way that so many blondes and brunettes before her have been. I guess I’ll add another “racist” notch on my belt by saying that White women look the best now, have always looked the best, and will always look the best to me.

Evidently, having a pretty blonde in a jeans ad, with the caption, “Sydney Sweeney has Great Jeans,” is yet another example of the White Privilege which Blacks seem to find everywhere. To my former blue collar worker mind, it just seems like a clever play on words, the kind I enjoy coming up with. But somehow, this has been deemed beyond racist, and perhaps a glorification of Hitler’s National Socialism. You know, Nazism. After all, it’s undeniable that Sweeney has the kind of Aryan looks that would have titillated the Fuhrer, one testicle and all. And that appears to be the main issue here. A lot of overweight, non-Aryan looking women are jealous. Hip hopping mad. Once again. And the ad was accused of “setting unreasonable standards of visual interest.” Which could be said about pretty much every advertisement in the history of Madison Avenue, prior to the past decade or so. Attractiveness was a known selling feature.

Rather astonishingly, it doesn’t appear that Sweeney has apologized. Yet. She was even seen wearing a tee shirt that proclaimed, “I apologize for having great tits.” Clever girl. Seems like the total Aryan package. I still expect that she will eventually issue the standard White apology, but so far she’s in the running to become the first White celebrity not to do so in the face of predictable “Woke” criticism. This is where we are at as a society; simply having a famous, good looking White as a spokesperson for, in this case, American Eagle jeans, can be considered “controversial.” They could have hired Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender who nearly broke Anheuser Busch when he was hired as the face of Bud Light. Or some obese Black woman. That’s always cool. The objective obviously isn’t to sell products, which we are told is the foundation of our wondrous capitalist system. Other agendas are clearly more important.

Because of decades of White capitulation in the face of increasingly irrational demands, any White in the spotlight is considered unworthy. Kind of like how working class Whites used to view all the Black Affirmative Action hires. What is never mentioned is how this anti-White agenda, this Great Replacement, contradicts the core beliefs of those who misrule us. Our leaders are virtually all eugenicists. They can’t stop telling you about that. The late Prince Philip, Ted Turner, Bill Gates- all have publicly declared that millions of human beings have to die. To make the planet “safe.” Climate Change and all that. The eugenics mindset, which is basically the credo of evolution- survival of the fittest, is historically connected with Adolf Hitler. Some eugenicists are more equal than others. It seems unfair to associate the murder of millions exclusively to him, when it’s perhaps the most frequently stated desire of those who despise him. Still make movies about him. Still call their enemies Nazis.

Hitler was known to admire American eugenicists, and their forced sterilization programs for the “feeble minded.” “Liberal” Woodrow Wilson, whom the court historians tell us was one of our greatest presidents, passed the first forced sterilization law, as governor of New Jersey. At its peak in the twentieth century, thirty two states legalized compulsory sterilization. Another great “liberal” hero, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the guy who invented the “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater” line to justify imprisoning WWI protesters, spoke for the Court when it legalized this odious practice in 1927, observing that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” The American Eugenics Society, supported by Teddy Roosevelt, and assorted Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Harrimans, advocated sterilizing a full ten percent of the population.

Over in Germany, a frustrated painter named Adolf Hitler was noticing, and approving. In Mein Kampf, he marveled that it wasn’t “our model German Republic,” but the United States, that was making progress on the eugenics front. Hitler wrote to American writer Madison Grant, author of The Passing of the Great Race, declaring, “The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of clearest reason and, if systematically executed, represents the most humane act of mankind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald was among Grant’s admirers, although it is doubtful he was a fan of Hitler. In the early 1920s, the Rockefeller Foundation funded a series of programs based on German eugenics research, and one of the grantees was Josef Mengele. He was a mere eugenicist at the time, like pretty much everyone who was anyone, and yet to become the “angel of death.”

Leading eugenicists like California’s CM Goethe visited Germany, and returned full of praise for how they were implementing eugenics programs. “Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought,” he wrote. Goethe’s letter was considered important enough that the Human Betterment Foundation, a San Diego-based eugenics institute, included it in their 1935 annual report. Eventually, some American media outlets began criticizing the eugenics in Germany, because it was claimed that Jews were the primary target. It was perfectly fine to sterilize the common riff raff and the “feeble minded” of all races, but once that particular group, the one that even then was wielding extraordinarily disproportionate power, was targeted, eugenics quickly became “genocide.”

In 1917, Hollywood produced a film called The Black Stork, in which Dr. Harry Haiselden, chief of staff at a German-American hospital in Chicago, played himself. Haiselden was a thoroughly unpleasant character, who infamously performed what were in effect abortions of babies he determined were not worth saving because of some affliction or perceived weakness. I’m guessing Hitler liked that film. Abortion has always been closely associated with eugenics, and again, it was pushed then, as it is now, almost exclusively by the Left. I’m sure my readers are aware of the ugly philosophy of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Sanger was a true racist, publicly supporting the eradication of Black people. I don’t care how obnoxious ghetto culture has become, it seems a whole lot easier, and far less evil, to simply hold them accountable in the same way everyone else is.

So we have a Left, including all the great “liberals” of the early twentieth century, approving of the weeding out of all those who are too “weak” for society. Survival of the fittest. That’s why I continue to condemn evolution, not only because it’s a stupid theory that is riddled with missing links, but because it triggered the eugenics movement. After all, if you’ve determined that all life isn’t sacred, that some people simply aren’t “fit” enough to survive, then you introduce the horrors of abortion, and euthanasia, and assisted suicide. You can find articles about how American “racism” inspired Hitler. But not how all the leading “liberals” of that era inspired him. And, of course, at the risk of lowering my social credit score even further, the atrocities attributed to Hitler are very questionable, to put it kindly. But the forced sterilizations that were committed in this country, for much of the twentieth century, are on the record. But the victims of that horror didn’t write books or get portrayed onscreen.

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Who really has their pulse on the conditions of the market and the economy? Every day we get “flash signs” of things to come. Jobless claims go up, consumer confidence goes down and economists toss the economic crisis ball back and forth.

Shipping volume has fallen, and everything is lining up with the numbers of 2008.

This is the messaging we get on a daily basis. I think most economists and financial bloggers are doing their best to keep us ahead of another crash like in 2008. However, the next economic crisis isn’t going to look anything like 2008

When you take an armed nation that has so overspent itself for the last 50 years and threaten a situation like economic collapse, it doesn’t get any worse. We have clear modern-day examples of what an economic crash can look like. See Venezuela. However, history knows nothing about what the American economic crisis will look like.

The numbers of those dead will look, to historians, like the greatest war ever waged on Earth’s soil. We are a nation divided that seems to be looking for a reason to get at each other’s throats. With the onset of things like resource scarcity and inflation, your life will be at risk.

So how will you die in during an economic crisis?

#1. Early Stage Riots

The early days of the economic crisis will be calm in comparison to what is to come. We will see national riots that encompass every major city across the nation. These riots will be brought on by massive job loss, bank runs, exorbitant cost of goods and the rebellious nature of the American people.

These will be violent, bloody riots that are much different than anything we have seen in this nation. If you get swept up into one of these riots it could be your life. However, this is just the beginning.

#2. Robbery

While riots may satisfy the desperate and the unprepared during the daytime hours, they will get hungry and even more angry at night. Just as with any disaster we will see robbery after the collapse of the economy. However, robbery and the murder associated with it will be at such a massive scale, as people scrounge for food, cash and valuables, local authorities will be overwhelmed.

You might die at the hands of a robber. Or you might die at the hands of a home owner. Remember, it only takes one robbery while you are at work to steal all your stored food and supplies. Then you will be one of the desperate, as well.

#3. Ransom

Another hot new market will be kidnapping. If you have any money or influence you can bet you are going to be targeted for ransom. Kidnapping for ransom is a popular practice in places like Mexico. It’s a tool of the cartels. The radical Mideast and African Muslims also use it to fund their failing Jihad.

There is no telling just how bad life can get for you if you get kidnapped and your family does not have the money to pay the ransom. It won’t be a fun way to go.

#4. Disease

As the nation dives deeper into collapse, we will see important infrastructure fall along with it. Trash collection, water treatment and waste management in general will come to a halt. The pests and disease that will come next will undoubtedly be the biggest killer of all.

Human waste and pests will spread disease like wild fire and there will be no doctors to help.

#5. Starvation

Large scale agriculture will stop. Farmers are already shutting down operations left and right due to the low profit margins. If government subsidies stopped, it would literally be impossible to afford. That means the world would face widespread starvation or the American heartland might even be occupied by foreign nations that handle food production.

#6. Hospital Blackout

The high-risk population of those hooked up to machines at the hospital will also be in grave danger. While hospitals have backup generators, they run on fuel and when that fuel runs out all those machines will go out.

A hospital blackout, for those in places like the ICU is a certain death sentence. It’s scary but it’s a very real situation that could come from the blackouts associated with an economic crisis.

#10. Lack of Medications

A large percentage of Americans are on meds that they take daily. Things like blood pressure meds to insulin for controlling blood sugar levels. What about all those people on bi polar, anti-schizophrenics and anti-depressants.

During an economic collapse the movement and production of medications will come to a halt. That means all those who need that kind of help will have to self-medicate however they can or die. Are you one of those Americans on medications? Is there someone you love who is?

When Does It All Begin?

The answer is: Now.

Maybe the riots don’t start now. Maybe the markets don’t completely crash, right now. However, you can start preparing right now.

Forget about everything else and focus on preparedness. Take small steps each week or month to get yourself in a better position. Food, water, backup power, security, first aid and evacuation are some great places to start.

Maybe its economic collapse or maybe its something else. The reality is, we cannot live on eternal prosperity. What you prepare for today will decide how you survive the future.

This article was originally published on Preppgroup.

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Without Fed-delivered wealth and power-center demographics, DC’s parasitic government and by extension, its police force, could not function as successfully as it does.  Zoologists are correct about the host-parasite relationship, and Trump critics are correct in reporting the DC crime has actually been down, not up.

Yet, Trump is true to form.  Reacting as a statist leader (and real estate developer) to a crime committed against a person he knows personally, Trump deployed the National Guard to assist with cleaning up the town. Congress, the deep state, and possibly the courts will go along with this use of, and show of, force not because it is necessary or constitutional, but because it is good for them politically and materially, and because it sets one more useful precedent for federal power.  It’s truly a win-win for them.

“Bill Balls” Coristine lived up to his nickname on August 3rd.  Trump, however, has long shown his proclivity to use of the state’s military/law enforcement activities in a variety of domestic roles – mainly under the wholly contrived Department of Homeland Security, now almost 25 years old.  In this way, if not in others, Trump is an echo of Bill Clinton – happy to lie, cheat and steal in order to present the state as all-powerful against people it expects to stand down, shut up, comply and kneel.  The abuse of law, and murder of men, women and children, and the government coverup afterwards in Waco is well documented in the 1997 documentary “Rules of Engagement.” Yet even today, we see concentrated and renewed efforts by state-friendly media to justify all state actions, to bless state crime, to condemn the victims who “caused it to happen.”

Trump is oriented to increasing and utilizing federal force, both military and economic, to protect Americans – their lives, their conditions, their economy.  Rather than a philosopher who thinks about how things should be – is man to be self-governed? should the state be limited? is war immoral? –Trump is a technician who assesses the “problem” with the “unit” and seeks to repair or replace it.  Dave Chappelle was dead on.

Like Bill Clinton, and Hillary as Secretary of State under Obama, Trump seeks to leverage power and threats of power, to seek or enforce what the state calls “peace.”  As with the Clintons, peace is just a condition from which to profit, and if the peace is not profitable, then perhaps a regime change or a bombing or a trade war will serve just as well.

Trump is far more sincere and patriotic than either of the Clintons, which makes him a more attractive candidate, and his fix-it mentality has made him a minor threat to those actually moving and shaking the increasingly brittle US empire.  There is no cure for a dying empire, of course, except that it recedes and washes away, and how that happens depends far less on the capitol rulers themselves than on the people who were once ruled by that capitol.  The kids are going to be all right.

I wonder if we – by practicing Washington-ology much as our wise men practiced Kreminology during the Soviet era – can see something explainable, and better yet, predictable by studying the Trump regime?

It occurs to me that Trump’s instinctive desires to protect Washingtonians from crime, Americans from open border criminality, Ukraine’s people from Russian onslaught, and a very stupid Israeli government destroying itself by picking fights it cannot win (the “ending” of the 12 day war courtesy of little more than Trump saying so) – are refreshing.  Trump’s psychology leans to the protective, and it is probably why neither of his ex-wives have a bad thing to say about him.  It’s why he received across-the-spectrum support of a country where health, welfare, purchasing power, and community have all declined since the bad 1970s.  People who feel unprotected and vulnerable want a protector, a leader, a savior – and Trump is the ultimate republicrat, willing to functionally deploy more “state” to provide a fix to our broken appliance of late-stage empire.

Unable to elect the libertarian leaders they all fundamentally want, Americans elected a guy who believed in defending the weak, even as he has made his entire business and political career by identifying and destroying his competitors, honing in on their weaknesses, and taking no prisoners.

So what does this mean for the biggest travesty on the planet right now, the US funded and assisted Israeli destruction of Gaza (already completed) and the ongoing murder and starvation of the 1.6 million or so remaining Gazans that the IDF has herded into concentration camps?  Israel’s permanent answer to criticism of its decades of apartheid strategy is largely meaningless statement that “Israel has a right to defend itself.” Lately we are seeing Netanyahu promoting a two-tiered message: that Israel will militarily expand to create an even larger apartheid state, and “it’s not a genocide ‘cause if we wanted to genocide the Gazans, we would have done it in one day.”

Both messages are criminally aspirational, and both are operationally false. After two decades, the Netanyahu regime is on its last legs, and his successors have none of Bibi’s gangsta charm and familiarity with America that keeps the mother’s milk of USG billions flowing and Israel-friendly policies rolling.

Trump has “solved” six conflicts in six months – and with the August 15th summit in Anchorage, he may be able to claim seven.  Yet, the cream of the crop remains unsolved, desperate, broken and criminally energized.

The responsibility to defend both values and country is Constitutional, and while Trump may have no idea what’s in the Constitution, he does know his oath, and it meshes well with his personality of defender.  Trump seeks the international stage, and international plaudits, and while he often condemns the UN, it remains a stage he covets, an organization he would like to fully control.

There is a way forward for Trump to get that Peace Prize, to move through a settlement of the Ukraine war and deal directly with number 8, the Gaza genocide, now in its end stages, but with 1.5 million surviving Gazans and 2.4 million targeted Palestinians in the West Bank.  The number of surviving Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories would populate a Palestinian state similar in population to Mongolia, Georgia or Croatia.  Most UN member states already recognize a Palestinian state, and most agree that Israel blatantly refuses to protect the populations it occupies.

Twenty years ago, the UN established the Right to Protect, aimed specifically at genocides and forced starvations.  Idealistic, not realistic, but R2P could provide a toehold for Trump – seeking peace and a legacy – to do what I think he really wants to do – and that is to limit his own, and the American government’s, vulnerability to Zionist money and Zionist blackmail.

Israel’s army is not designed to do much defending, as we saw during Day 3 through Day 12 of the artfully idiotic “12 Day War.”  It is poorly trained, and as a people’s army, ill-suited for the Zionist vision of continual expansion and genocide.  Its strengths tend to terrorism, in a justified nod to the original Zionist military units.  Israel, for all its lies, bluster, murder and theft can be viewed as a wounded baby seal, and Trump as a dead-eyed shark.

Unconstrained by history, tradition, philosophy or the Constitution – Trump may independently and intuitively perceive two primary weaknesses that Israeli voters already know:  1) its government allowed October 7th to happen in order to expedite the elimination of Palestinians and grabbing their land while its American sponsor was still bought and paid for, and 2) that this war is destroying Israel’s morale, military, and economic power in a way that looks to be permanent.

The Dave Chappelle video linked above includes a comment by statist historian Victor David Hanson, regarding a past Trump quid pro quo.  Many of us believe that if Washington stops starting and funding other people’s wars, we will see peace, liberty and prosperity grow.  Mr Trump, if you can reconcile your natural urge to defend and to protect, you’ll not only get a big prize, you will have earned it.

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Since 2016, I have been composing and posting articles at LRC concerning “the strategy of tension” used by the deep state in fomenting chaos and disruption in American cities. Cyber-analyst Mike Benz has finally tracked down and pin-pointed the source of the subversion – the US Institute of Peace.

On January 6 at the Nation’s Capitol we saw a dramatic escalation of the Strategy of Tension to further divide and polarize America. It promptly provided the pretext for increased draconian police state terror and invasive surveillance against our citizens. As I have been again and again warning for a long time, what we have been seeing played out on the streets of America, particularly in large Blue State metropolitan areas and dense urban cities is classic planned chaos and the “Strategy of Tension.”

Unable to dislodge Donald Trump by the Russiagate hoax or the malicious soft coup impeachment process, his sworn enemies, using COVID-19 as their pretext, have turned to the destruction of the economy by repressive lockdowns, creating mass unemployment and annihilation of small businesses, thus fracturing civil society. Elite elements within the Democrats, Big Tech, the deep state, and their complacent, compliant regime media pawns, then turned to an age-old psy/war strategy to be wielded as an ax against the president, insidiously using the weaponized corpse of the slain George Floyd as the initial rationale for these riots and insurrections. You can be sure they will now utilize the slain military veteran Ashli Babbit as their new prop.

Historically there has been a symbiotic correlation relationship between agent provocateur groups, infiltration by police informers, and the counter-terrorism forces of the deep state. The repressive security state has molded and used such witting (or unwitting) terrorist pawns or drones in covert activities to create a “strategy of tension” to instill fear and consolidate repressive power and control which would enhance strident calls for more intense police repression and clandestine surveillance of its subject general population. With countless decades of real-world experience and clinical research, masters of psychological warfare and mind control, expert manipulators and programmers of cult-like behavior, recruit those alienated arrested development post-adolescents and anti-social disillusioned vicarious thrill seekers who fit a susceptible psychological profile matrix and who relish vandalism, violence and destruction as a means of striking out at a world beyond the control of their misshapened lives. An ideological construct of direct action “anarchism” or “propaganda by the deed” is put forth as a purported justification for their aberrant thug-like terrorist behavior.

Here are additional resources on state-manufactured repression, terrorism and mind control to peruse: The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878-1934, by Richard Bach Jensen; “The United States, International Policing and the War against Anarchist Terrorism, 1900–1914,” by Richard Bach Jensen; “The International Anti-Anarchist Conference of 1898 and the Origins of Interpol,” by Richard Bach Jensen; Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, by James H. Billington; The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, by John Marks; Operation Mind Control, by Walter Bowart; “Lessons on Mind Control From the 1950s,” article by Sarah Marks and Daniel Pick; “The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs, by Todd Gitlin; “The Origins of American Counterterrorism,” By Michael Newell; Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960, by Christopher Simpson; Mind Control: America’s Secret War — Documentary, Bad Trip to Edgewood – Documentary; Mission: Mind  and “Pussy hats, Black Lives Matter and Black Bloc: How to build power to counter Trump — America’s Dictator in the Making,” by Arun Gupta.

The above documentaries are an excellent historical retrospective on the topic, particularly as the US moved closer to the imposition of martial law and implementation of further draconian deep state counter-intelligence psywar and surveillance operations under the usurper Biden regime.

Actually the deep roots of these neo-fascist seditious policies go back even further, as do their explicit key linkages to American military and counter-intelligence entities, which may in fact have played a crucial role in the November 22, 1963 coup d’état and brutal murder of President John F. Kennedy. Both the European personnel and their American counterparts actively discussed the implementation of domestic coup strategies in their respective countries. These were the Europeans directly responsible for later implementation of the Strategy of Tension violence/terror campaign of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and horrific murders of innocent civilians throughout that continent.

Please check out pages 138 to 152, “Del Valle, Giannettini, and the Strategy of Tension,” in Peter Dale Scott’s seminal book on the JFK assassination, Dallas ’63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House.

In his distinctive military uniform, Charles de Gaulle towered above the other heads of state attending the November 25, 1963 funeral of the murdered president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The 6’ 5” French leader, himself the subject of numerous assassination and coup attempts, later told key aides who he believed was responsible for the death of JFK. It was the American deep state.

Charles de Gaulle’s information minister Alain Peyrefitte, wrote a 2002 book which was never translated into English entitled C’etait de Gaulle (About de Gaulle). In it the French president, just home from JFK’s funeral, confides to Peyrefitte that he knew that the CIA was behind the assassination.

What happened to Kennedy is what nearly happened to me. His story is the same as mine. . . The security forces were in cahoots with the extremists. . . But you’ll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They’ll do everything to stifle any scandal. They will throw Noah’s cloak over these shameful deeds. In order not to lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don’t want to know. They don’t want to find out. They won’t allow themselves to find out.

In his powerful and definitive biography, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of the American Secret Government, David Talbot details this searing assertion. See this three part summary of this statement: here, here, and here.

To many French citizens, Charles de Gaulle, was the greatest embodiment of France since Napoleon. Upon his November 9, 1970 death President Georges Pompidou simply said: “Le général de Gaulle est mort; la France est veuve.” (“General de Gaulle is dead. France is a widow.”)

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According to the internet where everything written is God’s Truth, Trump and Putin have cut a deal before their meeting in Alaska.

Putin:  “OK, you can have Ukraine.”

Trump:  “We’ll take it if you take California.”

Putin:    “Deal.”

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As readers here must know, the Archbishop of Detroit, Edward Weisenburger, has fired three longtime professors of philosophy and theology at the archdiocese’s seminary, Sacred Heart. The firing took the professors by surprise. He has given no reason for it, except to say that he disagrees with their theology. I do not know what that means, nor does the archbishop seem to intend to tell us what it means.

Let us come to cases. If I say to William of Ockham, “I disagree with your theology,” and William, justly and as a loyal son of the Church, desires to know exactly where this disagreement lies, I must reply. I might say that to subordinate God’s knowledge to His will must result in a conception of God that is like what Muslims believe about Allah, unfettered from reason and, therefore, not approachable by reason. Punishment for sin would then also be arbitrary and extrinsic, not inherent to the sin itself. Then William might point out some error in my drawing conclusions from his premises, or he might say that he does not actually hold the premises I attribute to him; or he might rethink matters and change his mind.

Likewise, if I say to Cardinal Reinhard Marx, “I disagree with your moral philosophy,” and the cardinal agrees to have a conversation rather than pulling rank, he might say, “Tell me what the problem is.”

I might then say, “Your willingness to normalize and even to celebrate unnatural sexual relations, denying that they are unnatural no matter how they may feel to those who engage in them, leaves the Church with no logical reason to oppose a man’s taking two wives, if such an arrangement pleases them, and with no credible witness against fornication. You cannot tell John and Mary to wait for marriage while Will and Rich cannot possibly have any such intention, since their sodomy consummates nothing, has no biological meaning, and, because it is not natural, must be learned as a habit long before they decide they will continue in it for life. You have also detached sexual morality from nature, drained the masculine and feminine of meaning, reduced sexual being to tools of hedonism, and given the go-ahead for pseudo-monogamous couples to adopt children and thus deliberately to deprive those children of either a mother or a father. All kinds of harm and confusion are already implied by your failure to enter more deeply into a truth available to reason and developed by the Church: that man is for woman and woman is for man.”

I do not know what the cardinal would say in reply, but I hope he would see that a real reply is needed.

Such a reply cannot be, “The doctrines are developing,” no more than William of Ockham could say so legitimately. That is not to answer the objection but to evade it. When a living thing develops, it becomes more powerful than before, not less; its latent faculties come to the fore; its observed relations to other creatures are more numerous, more intricate, more dynamic. If the doctrine in question is that sexual relations are licit only within marriage and marriage is what it is by nature, then a true development of that doctrine might show its powerful relations to doctrines on the nature of the human body, or what it means to be an incarnate creature, or why the account of the creation of mankind in Scripture makes explicit what for the other creatures is left implicit, that “male and female [God] created them,” or even Jesus’ saying that you cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you enter it as a little child.

We know that a thing is decaying or dying when it loses such interrelations, or when its scope of application is narrowed. The fraternal club that once attracted many young men and was at the heart of town life is in decay; we know it when it becomes for us just one odd choice among others, of passing an evening or two every couple of months, without building anything. People ignore it not because they hold it in contempt but because there is no real life in it anymore.

The philosophy department at New Directions University is in decay because the courses have all been subordinated to political aims; they have lost their connections to linguistics, mathematics, art, cosmology, history, literature, and the patient study of man. It is no longer a leader but an appendage. And it is well on its way to becoming an appendix, to be ignored or gotten rid of.

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That this extreme inequality is itself the primary threat to both democracy and social stability is poorly understood.

Scraped of pleasantries, the ultimate purpose of any status quo is to 1) distribute most of the economy’s gains to the top tier and 2) offload the sacrifices this requires to the bottom tiers but in stealthy ways that aren’t noticeable enough to spark political revolt.

The basic stealth mechanisms deployed over the past 50 years to offload the sacrifices on the bottom 90% are:

1) Reduce the share of the national income going to wages so the share going to corporate profits and finance could soar.

2) Place the tax burden for entitlements (Social Security and Medicare) on the wage earners while reducing the taxes levied on unearned income from the ownership of assets / capital.

3) Understate official inflation.

4) Inflate credit-asset bubbles that enriched the owners of assets at rates far above inflation.

The first dollar of every wage is taxed at 15.3% for entitlements (both the employee and employer pay 7.65%), while numerous forms of capital gains are exempt from tax. Capital is lightly taxed, earned income is heavily taxed. Wage earners lose ground, asset owners get richer. That’s the net result of the taxation system.

Inflation is of course the hidden tax, but the status quo has relieved the wealthiest 10% who own most of the assets from the ravages of inflation by inflating asset bubbles which enrich the already rich at rates far above inflation. Those who own few assets absorb the losses of inflation via a slow-drip reduction in the purchasing power of their wages.

Borrowing money has always been the lowest-friction way to keep everyone happy–or at least onboard. The status quo needs enough money to fund both the gains from monopoly, tax havens, fraud and graft collected by the top few and the entitlements that keep everyone else onboard.

Alas, all good things come to an end. Interest rates fell for 40+ years, enabling more debt to be piled up without increasing the cost of servicing the debt enough to be noticeable. Now rates are rising, and despite the many claims that the Fed and other central banks can easily shove rates back to zero, the recent rise in Japanese sovereign bonds undercuts this breezy assumption that debt can be piled up indefinitely.

Japan’s central bank printed money to buy the government’s bonds to keep yields near zero for 30 years, but that apparently permanent solution has been revealed as impermanent.

Demographics–people living longer and the global Baby Boom retiring en masse–is pushing government spending higher as the workforce of wage earners paying most of the taxes stagnates or shrinks. Now that interest rates are in a long-term up-cycle, it’s no longer possible to just borrow another few trillion dollars every year without increasing the cost of servicing all that debt to the point where the debt service starts squeezing out the spending needed to keep everyone happy.

The net result of all this is: now comes the hard part, distributing the sacrifices in ways that are finally noticeable.

The problem facing the status quo is not easily resolvable: the top few percent (corporations and the wealthiest households) who own most of the wealth have aggregated political power with their wealth, so politicians are under tremendous pressure to keep the immense river of profits, tax breaks, giveaways, graft, etc. flowing to corporations and the wealthiest few lest they throw a temper tantrum and fund a competing politico in the next election.

But the predations of the top few have already shifted most of the losses, costs and risks onto the bottom 2/3 of the populace, and so the buffers of cash, assets and credit this class has to absorb more sacrifices has already been worn thin.

The class that’s doing well due to the current Everything Bubble–those in the 80% to 99% bracket–can afford to absorb some of the sacrifices, but should the bubble pop–and sadly, all bubbles pop despite herculean efforts to keep them inflated–the phantom wealth this class expected to be permanent will dissipate into thin air, leaving them less willing to absorb the scale of sacrifices needed to satisfy everyone: the politically influential top few, the technocratic class that keeps the status quo bureaucracies / institutions functioning and the bottom 2/3 who do the scutwork.

This chart below (from WSJ.com) shows that wages are still the dominant generator of income even in high-income households. Only the top 1% derive substantial shares of their income from business ownership and ownership of other assets.

In summary: the most politically influential class–those able to buy political protection from sacrifices–is the only class with the means to absorb financial sacrifices.

Politicians are caught in a bind. They need to cut spending and raise taxes lest the Good Ship Status Quo founder, but the class that is most able to absorb sacrifices also funds their campaigns.

The usual tricks that worked for the past 50 years to offload the sacrifices onto the bottom 90% wage-earner class now carry the risk of arousing political revolt.

The conventional “solution” many expect is to reduce the debt load by increasing inflation. But this only works if the bottom 90% wage-earner class receives wage increases sufficient to keep up with inflation. There is little to no evidence to support the assumption that this is likely, or even possible.

Once the Everything Bubble pops, the financial buffers of the bottom 90% wage-earner classes will thin or disappear entirely. Once this happens, their stake in the status quo changes, and they become dry kindling awaiting a spark to erupt in a political firestorm that burns down the status quo’s current distribution of gains, losses, costs and risks.

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In my recent YouTube documentary titled “The Three Bethesda Casket Entries, Revisited,” I featured the story of a Bethesda nurse (a Navy Ensign, or O-1) who witnessed “a simple casket offloaded from a helicopter by men in trench coats” at or near Bethesda Naval Hospital the night of JFK’s autopsy; she had been informed that the helicopter would be delivering the body of President Kennedy to Bethesda NNMC that night.  (The story of the Bethesda nurse had been written about in 1992 by New England journalist Robert “Woody” Woodland.)  Here is a link to that documentary, for those who may not have seen it yet.

The “Bethesda Nurse” as depicted in “The Three Bethesda Casket Entries”

Thanks to an obituary published in 2023 by the nurse’s family, the name of the former Navy nurse interviewed by Woody Woodland in 1992 was revealed as Patricia Krueger.  Here is the link to the obituary.

As you can see, Patricia Krueger led a varied, interesting, and impressive life.

But Patricia Krueger was not her name in 1963—rather, this was her name by her third marriage.  Patricia Krueger’s maiden name was Patricia Pepe; in 1963 she graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Nursing, and was accepted into a Navy nursing program at the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center.  In September of 1963, Patricia married John DeSando, so on the night of President Kennedy’s autopsy her name would have been Patricia DeSando.

With the help of Dr. Mike Chesser, I was able to locate and contact Patricia’s ex-husband John DeSando, and he sent me this snapshot taken in 1963 or 1964 of Patricia DeSando in her Navy uniform, provided by her eldest daughter, Courtney.

Patricia DeSando in 1963, courtesy of her eldest daughter Courtney

The next day—on July 28, 2025—I had a captivating hour-and-a-half conversation with Patricia’s eldest daughter, Courtney, who was very gracious and willing to share with me what she could remember about her mother’s recounting about the events she witnessed at Bethesda on 11/22/63.  In short, Courtney told me that her mother publicly related her story about “two bodies” at Bethesda to numerous guests (up to as many as “60 or 70” people) at a New Hampshire wedding rehearsal on a Friday night in March of 1992.  In short, Courtney explained that the “two bodies” her mother discussed were JFK’s body entering the Bethesda Naval Hospital morgue at two different times the night of the autopsy, and apparently in a different condition later in the evening than he was in, earlier that evening.  In Courtney’s recollection of what her mother said that night at the wedding rehearsal (for the wedding the next day of Courtney’s sister, Jessica), she said her mother openly stated to the wedding rehearsal attendees that there was “an author” in the audience who was going to write about it; Patricia Krueger’s contact with the author had apparently emboldened her to publicly reveal key aspects of what she witnessed to her audience at the wedding rehearsal.  As Courtney recalled, the few times that her mother had spoken of the events at Bethesda, she had consistently mentioned (1) seeing a casket, and (2) “a long hallway” in which her mother recalled seeing some kind of transfer taking place later on, involving a casket.  Regretfully, the details of what Courtney could recall were not more precise than that, 33 years later.

Those who have watched my documentary “The Three Casket Entries at Bethesda, Revisited” will immediately recall many visuals (both photographs, and 3-D animation) of a very long hallway immediately outside the Bethesda morgue where President Kennedy’s autopsy was conducted the night of November 22, 1963.  It may be significant that Courtney recalled “the long hallway” (as a key aspect of her mom’s recounting of the events she witnessed) BEFORE she saw those images in my documentary; it was an independent recollection of Courtney’s part.

Courtney was under the very strong impression that her mother had seen JFK’s wounds at some point, probably early that evening—what Courtney understood to be JFK’s appearance “before” a second delivery to the morgue.  Courtney is not sure today whether her mother actually saw JFK’s wounds a second time that night, or whether her mother only became aware much later of differences to his wounds by seeing autopsy photographs in books, for example.  But Courtney made clear that her mother was quite disturbed by the changes in JFK’s condition that night.

Do I wish Courtney’s memories of what her mom recounted were more precise?   Sure I do.  The important thing here is that Woody Woodland wrote in his 1992 article only about the Bethesda nurse seeing “a simple casket arrive by helicopter, and offloaded by men in trench coats,” and being told it contained JFK’s body.  Courtney’s recollections of her mother’s story strongly suggest that there is much more to the matter than what Woody Woodland reported in 1992—namely, that after JFK’s body arrived by helicopter, her mother may have been inside bldg. 8, in the hallway right outside the morgue, and that her mother may actually have seen JFK’s head wounds herself, shortly following his initial arrival.   Courtney’s strongest impression of her mother’s story is that her mom was very disturbed by the fact that there were major differences between the “before” condition of JFK’s wounds (which her mother implied she had seen) and the “after” condition later that evening.  It is unclear today whether her mother, Patricia DeSando, learned of the changes in the condition of JFK’s wounds by discussing events at the autopsy with those who had been there and witnessed the post mortem examination after 8:00 PM, or whether her mother was aware of discrepancies between what she apparently saw early that night (the “before” condition) by later viewing the autopsy photos published in books.  In any case, her mother was experiencing a strong case of “cognitive dissonance,” which accounted for her agitation at the 1992 wedding rehearsal, and her public revelations that evening before a large audience.

When Patricia Krueger decided to recount her Bethesda experiences to the many attendees at the rehearsal for her own daughter Jessica’s wedding in March of 1992, it created a “disturbance” that evening that many family members found baffling, and hard to understand.  The reaction at the time, by many of her children and by her ex-husband John DeSando, was “why now?” and “why here?”  It created a breach within the family, and exacerbated doubts among some of her children about the veracity of Patricia’s recollections.  But after viewing “The Three Bethesda Casket Entries, Revisited,” Courtney now strongly believes that her mother’s truthfulness has been vindicated.  Her mom, she now understands, was a witness to important historical events, and Courtney is gratified to now understand that like many other witnesses to strange goings-on the night of JFK’s autopsy, her mother was an innocent bystander who saw crucial events unfolding, even if their meaning and context was not immediately clear at the time.  Patricia Krueger was so disturbed by the “cognitive dissonance” created in her mind by what she had witnessed, and by recounting her experiences to a New England journalist that very weekend, that she felt compelled to bring it all out in the open at her daughter’s wedding rehearsal. 

I contacted Woody Woodland the next day, on July 29th, and he did recall Patricia Krueger, and remembered talking to her about the events she witnessed at Bethesda Naval Hospital the night of JFK’s autopsy.  He also recalled that Patrica Krueger served as a driver for the Pat Buchanan presidential campaign in 1992, which is how he met her.  Woody stands by the accuracy of what he wrote in his 1992 article (titled “Bethesda Nurse,” in Network Publications), as recounted by author Vince Palamara on page 154 of his 2015 book, From Parkland to Bethesda.  Courtney spoke at length to Woody Woodland the next day, July 30th, and that conversation jogged both of their memories.  They both jointly recalled that Woody Woodland, who was then (as he still is now, at the age of 79) a minister, presided over her sister Jessica’s wedding the next day, on Saturday, which would explain why he was present at the wedding rehearsal on Friday night, when her mother spoke publicly about the events she witnessed at Bethesda Naval Hospital on 11/22/63.  Woody confirmed to me after talking to Courtney that he did indeed preside over the wedding of Patricia Krueger’s daughter, Jessica, that weekend.  Unfortunately, he does not today have a tape recording of his discussion with Patricia Krueger about what she witnessed at Bethesda, because he did not conduct a formal, sit-down interview with her in his office; he learned about the events she witnessed at Bethesda that weekend in the midst of his ministerial duties, and simply took detailed notes during their discussion.  He published his article that same month, in March of 1992.

My assessment at this writing is that there is much more to the “Bethesda nurse” story than was written about by Woody Woodland in 1992—Patricia DeSando may well have accompanied the shipping casket from the Officer’s Club parking lot where it was delivered by the helicopter (according to Navy corpsman Paul O’Connor) to the morgue itself, and she may even have seen JFK’s head wounds shortly after his body arrived and the shipping casket was opened; she may also have witnessed some kind of transfer of his body later that night, in the “long hallway.”  Yes, I can assure you that not knowing the full details now, in 2025, is indeed frustrating.  The fact that Patricia DeSando was told ahead of time that JFK’s body would be arriving by helicopter, and then witnessed it arrive and saw it offloaded by men in trench coats, SUGGESTS that someone may have been preparing her for some particular role that night.  I can’t forget the broken background chatter recorded on the Air Force One tapes—as revealed in my documentary “The Three Bethesda Casket Entries, Revisited”—specifically, the voice that twice directed “have a nurse” there, and that the nurse should be  “ready for everything,” during the repeated talk about a “black Cadillac.”   It’s a spooky thing to listen to, in view of the above, because we now know for a certainty THAT A NURSE WAS THERE.

Should any of Courtney’s many brothers and sisters recall more details about what their mother recounted about events at Bethesda, I will certainly update this article, if and when that information becomes available.

IN CONCLUSION, I am simply content today to report to you that we now know that the Bethesda nurse who witnessed “a simple casket delivered by helicopter, and offloaded by men in trench coats” was one Patricia DeSando, and that I have been able to provide you with a snapshot taken of her as a Navy Ensign, circa 1963.  The “Bethesda nurse” was a witness to history, and her identity has now been positively verified, as well as what she looked like in uniform in 1963, thanks to the cooperation of her ex-husband John DeSando, and her eldest daughter, Courtney.

This article was originally published on Insidethearrb.livejournal.com.

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Some topics are too easy, so I avoid them.

I like to discuss things that require me to exercise the ol’ melon.

But once in a while I have no choice.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, has a new book called Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy.

So the president of a national teachers’ union characterizes her opponents as “fascists.” Terrific.

I think dismantling a national education bureaucracy and turning authority over to localities might be something like the opposite of fascism. I wonder what ol’ Randi has to say about that. Probably nothing.

According to the book description, “Attacks on teachers are part of a larger, darker agenda — to undermine democracy, opportunity, and public education as we know it. After the Trump administration declared its intention to dismantle the Department of Education, that alarm became undeniable.”

When the Department of Education — an institution we got by just fine without for over 80 percent of our history — was proposed in 1979, the American Federation of Teachers itself opposed it, as did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), who said we would thereby “risk the politicization of education itself.” The New York Times and the Washington Post, those bastions of fascism, ran editorials against it.

You already know what Randi’s book says: fascists hate knowledge and opportunity, so they hate teachers.

If the public were educated, the argument goes, the people would never fall for demagogues (at least not the kind of demagogues Randi dislikes).

They would be informed!

That’s a laugh. American schoolchildren emerge from high school as propagandized zombies, with the official version of every historical event seared into their heads.

Actually, scratch that. The brightest ones emerge with the official narrative in their heads. The rest know nothing at all.

Bryan Caplan, in his provocatively titled The Case Against Education, goes into much detail about how little Americans know about the most basic things, even after thirteen years of daily instruction.

For example:

Here are a few of the questions that American adults were asked not long ago, along with the possible answers (the correct answer will be in bold). Then I’ll share two figures: the percentage who got the correct answer, and the percentage who really knew the answer (in other words, correcting to account for people who got the question right simply by guessing).

(1) Which of the following is not protected by the Bill of Rights?
Freedom of speech
Trial by jury
The right to bear arms
The right to vote

39% got the correct answer; 21% really knew the answer

(2) Which of the following events came before the Declaration of Independence?
Foundation of Jamestown, Virginia
The Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation
The War of 1812

49%, 26%

(3) The Bill of Rights explicitly prohibits
Prayer in public school
Discrimination based on race, sex, or religion
The ownership of guns by private individuals
Establishing an official religion for the United States
The president from vetoing a line item in a spending bill

26%, 8%

The questions continue, but you get the idea.

The vast majority of American adults are not even entitled to an opinion on major issues in American life.

Note also that Randi thinks we “fascists” oppose “opportunity.” This from a woman whose system does zero to prepare students for the world in 2025.

We hear nonstop complaints about young people that the deck is stacked against them, everything is too expensive, they can’t get a break, etc.

What has Randi done, exactly, to help them navigate that?

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Recently, I wrote an article about the adulterous Coldplay couple caught on the kiss-cam, and I concluded my piece with some thoughts about the very public General Judgement that will occur when Christ returns to judge the living and the dead:

Whatever happens to the couple from now on, the justice and mercy afforded them in their moment (or lifetime) of exposure is similar to—and yet nothing approaching—the mercy and justice we will all face, together, at the General Judgement at the end of time, when every one of our sins will be exposed, with perfect clarity, to all others.…

Now, I expected that lukewarm or poorly catechized Catholics would be learning something new about this final judgement that will take place at the consummation of the world, but I was surprised to find that even some faithful Catholics are unaware of how things will go down.

For example, one woman stated with worry on my Facebook page: “I thought the sacrament of reconciliation actually blots out our sins and they are remembered no more (Please Lord).” Another was stunned: “Hold up…wait…what? Our sins will be seen by all? How? Where is this taught?” And still another confused commenter: “I thought the ones we confessed were not seen? Or did I misunderstand?”

To clear up the confusion, let’s look more closely at Church teaching.

It is true that in the course of the final, public judgement, presided over by Christ the King, every one of our sins—in thought, word, and deed—will be revealed to every other person who has ever been created. Yes, this even includes the sins that have been confessed and forgiven in a sacramental confession. While we can rest assured that each of those absolved sins are completely forgiven and no longer offend God, they will be seen two more times: first, at our particular judgement, which takes place at the moment of our death; and, second, at the General (or Final) Judgement at the end of time, when the old Heaven and Earth pass away, the universe is renewed, and the Kingdom of God is fulfilled. The first judgement by Christ the King is private and individual; the second is public and universal.

If this is shocking news to you, please don’t freak out; keep reading to understand why—if you are among the saved—you will not feel despair, shame, or humiliation when the Lord reveals all to all.

First let’s go to some familiar Scripture verses on this. Jesus tells us plainly and repeatedly that everything secret will ultimately be exposed: “For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible, and nothing secret that will not be known and come to light” (Luke 8:17).

There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops. (Luke 12:2-3)

St. Paul echoes this truth when he writes to the faithful of Corinth, instructing them not to make judgements “until the appointed time, until the Lord comes [again], for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts” (1 Corinthians 4:5).

And, in St. John’s apocalypse (which translates to “a lifting of the veil”), he sees in the vision “the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened…. All the dead were judged according to their deeds” (Revelation 20:12-13).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church confirms all of the above when addressing the Last Day: “Then will the conduct of each one and the secrets of hearts be brought to light” (678).

In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare. The Last Judgement will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life. (1039)

The Baltimore Catechism teaches the same: “Every deliberate thought, word, deed, and omission of every person’s entire life will be manifested at the general judgement. The Lord Christ will be the judge” (No. 3, Lesson 14, 180).

In addition to Scripture and catechisms, the saints and theologians throughout the centuries have repeated the teaching on the General Judgement, including St. Bonaventure:

At the time of the judgement to come, when God is to weigh the secrets of hearts, fire will precede the arrival of the Judge; angels will be sent with trumpets to gather the elect from the four winds of heaven; all those who lie in their tombs will rise through the power of God’s command, and will stand before his judgement seat. Then the things hidden in darkness will be brought to light, and the counsels of hearts will be made manifest, and the scrolls of men’s consciences will be unrolled, and that scroll itself will be opened which is called the Book of Life. Thus, together and in a single flash, all the secrets of all men will be revealed to all with such clear certainty that, before the evidence of Truth testifying in the Person of Christ and corroborated by the testimony of every separate conscience, not a single path will be left open for denial or defense, for excuse or evasion, but every man will then receive according to his deeds…

Fr. Charles Arminjon, in his book The End of the Present World (the reading of which St. Thérèse called “one of the greatest graces of my life”), described it this way:

[This] judgement is called universal, because it will cover every crime and offense…. In the clarity of the light of God, all the crimes, public and secret, that have been committed in every latitude and in every age, will be seen clearly and in detail. The whole life of each human being will be laid bare. No circumstance will be omitted: no action, word, or desire will remain unknown. (p. 102)

And the Catholic Encyclopedia tells us that the final judgement “will embrace all works, good or bad, forgiven as well as unforgiven sins, every idle word, every secret thought.”

For those who have already died and been individually judged—whether that was days, years, centuries, or millennia before the Second Coming of Christ—the communal display of every thought, word, and deed, and the pronouncement of their sentence (saved or damned) will be identical to that of their previous particular judgement. The only difference is in the final judgement’s public nature. Because man is a social creature, the satisfaction of a social judgement conducted before all is fitting and just.

At that last divine tribunal, every awestruck and trembling soul, with all the choirs of angels and legions of demons on hand, will witness the unveiling and understand the final meaning of all that came before. This consummation of the world will be the Lord’s definitive word and will accomplish three main things.

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This paper was written to give the reader a snap shot of money, real and imagined.

Our Constitution requires that we use real money, which is Gold and Silver. These have the required characteristics for real money: 1…medium of exchange,2…measure of value, and 3…store of value.

Our Fiat Dollars don’t comply with the Constitution  money” is decreed by authority, with no physical backing.) Which is why we have suffered inflation and the decline in relative value of fiat dollars for almost 100 years. It certainly is no store of value Congress just passed the Genius Act that authorized the issue of Fiat. Stablecoins which is another form of the Fiat dollar and redeemable on a one to one basis with the Fiat dollar. It is a plan to extend the life of the Fiat dollar. I think it will have an opposite effect and reduce value of Stablecoins and the Fiat Dollar.

To grow an economy, you must spend less than you produce, and new money can’t exceed production of goods and services. During my lifetime and for thousands of years, the value of gold has been relatively stable. But the price of gold in fiat dollars has increased from $35 to $3,400 an ounce in 90 years.

Our corrupt Congress refuses to use Constitutional real money, gold and silver, because they can’t print it to finance wars for profit and Foreign Aid, nor use it to impoverish the people with various schemes. The primary beneficiaries of corruption are the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class and bureaucrats of the Administrative State functioning as a Criminal Enterprise within government.

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is in the planning stages by the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Bank, and, if enacted, is a valid reason for revolution. In simple terms, CBDC would exist in digital form only; there would be no pocket cash, government would know where you spent money, government could control how you spent money, and could cut off your ability to spend money at any time. It would control your every move. Freedom would be a memory and impossible. CBDC represents total tyranny with absolute control of the people. CBDC could only be terminated by revolution. So stop it now.

Crypto Currencies like Bitcoin, Cardano and countless others remind me of The Dutch Tulip Mania in 1657. Prices rose precipitously. The best Tulip Bulbs sold for up to $750,000 at today’s prices. The bottom shortly dropped out, and many people were ruined. Tulips, like  Crypto Currencies, don’t have the required characteristics  of money, and due to its format, are subject to all kinds of unknown problems.

President Trump has established a Strategic Reserve for Bitcoin. This is a dangerous move because it is not money, and the Constitution only recognizes gold and silver as money. As an economist, I can foresee some serious shenanigans on the part of players.

The Federal Reserve Bank is privately-owned and Unconstitutional for good reason. It is a scam on the people of the United States. The money it prints is Fiat. Without the Federal Reserve Bank printing money out of thin air, wars for profit would not be possible and we would not have a $37 Trillion deficit. The Bank causes booms and busts which would not occur as often, if at all, with Constitutional money, gold and silver.

Money is the lifeblood of an Economy, and those who control money control the country, regardless of who is elected. The Federal Reserve Bank is privately-owned  and responsible for ups and downs in the Economy. If gold and silver was used rather than fiat dollars, things would be more stable without inflation.

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