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This week, instead of one, longer story, I’ll begin with two shorter ones.

Some parents feel they’ve failed their children if they don’t take them to Disneyworld. But the Magic Kingdom doesn’t always yield bliss. It’s hot and the lines are long. Sometimes the costumed characters are too much in kids’ faces. Plus, children load up on sugary snacks and beverages and crash emotionally after consuming these. And the rides at local or regional amusement parks are much better.

A couple I know brought their five-year-old son, an only child, there. Things didn’t go well. Late in the afternoon, the boy had a breakdown. As they reached the exit, he howled, through tears, “Don’t ever take me here again!”

When my wife, Ellen, and I heard this story, we laughed because this kid was kind of temperamental and though we hadn’t been to Disney, we suspected it was overrated. Many get swept up in the hype about “the magic.” The contrast between the idyllic Disney ads and the visual/audio image of this kid’s real-world meltdown struck us as funny.

Regardless, when Ellen and I go somewhere that disappoints us—as after a downright painful couples $20 “Accupressure” massage in a cramped upstairs “studio” in New York City’s Chinatown or a bad restaurant meal or day trip—one or the other of us will say, kiddingly but seriously, “Don’t ever take me here again!”

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Over the years, we’ve all had embittering experiences, and known others who have. We’ve known and been crime victims, been cheated in commercial dealings, had hearts broken in relationships, etc. Typically, there’s no way to fix what happened. The criminals aren’t caught. The scammers worth suing. And it turns out that “let’s just be friends” is just something people say to soften the blow of a breakup. As Taylor Swift sang, “We are never, ever, ever getting back together.”

Lacking a way to change the past, humans console themselves by saying that the bad experience taught them about life or about themselves. They assert, “We’ll know better next time.”

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Similarly, to make themselves feel better about the Scamdemic, many now say, “We know better now” and/or “Never again!”

Last week, I mentioned a 2021 book about the Vietnam War. That book’s author, a War veteran named Jeff Danziger, praises another author, Neil Sheehan, for writing a “majestic” book, A Bright and Shining Lie (1988), about that war, upon which Sheehan reported for years from Indochina.

I read Sheehan’s book when it was published. It deserved such praise. Those who say that “Covid’s over” and that therefore, people like me should stop mentioning it, deserve to be reminded that Sheehan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book was released thirteen years after that War ended.

Danziger writes that A Bright and Shining Lie “told in hellish detail of endless American waste and failure. It told of intelligence ignored and wisdom cast aside.”

Sounds like Coronamania.

Danziger summarizes his in-person 1988 book tour interview of Sheehan. He describes Sheehan as courteous but dour and drained, both physically and emotionally, from the many years spent witnessing and thinking about that War. Danziger says he ended the interview by asking Sheehan what the War had meant.

Looking at the floor, Sheehan wearily replied, “They’ll never be able to do that again.”

Danziger says that he respectfully disagreed with Sheehan at that time. Then, in 2021, having seen the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Danziger writes that “whoever he (Sheehan) meant by ‘they’ could certainly do it again. And again. They learned that failure could be ignored.”

Danziger says that American history between 1975-2021 had shown that “we seem doomed to a Vietnam-like quagmire every few decades.”

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While it’s hard to envision it now, and I hope we’re not doomed to witness a repeat of the “Pandemic response,” I wouldn’t rule it out. Many Americans naively, even enthusiastically, supported “two weeks to stop the spread.” Others said that it took them “only” a month to detect the Scam.

This realization came too late. By then, the Covid crazy train had left the station. Funded by trillions of federal government subsidies, Coronamania had already gained unstoppable momentum. With such backing, states and cities closed public places, including schools, and kept them closed. Thereafter, “Public Health” entities, “Pandemic Mitigation” industries, Pharma, teachers and PPP recipients collectively dipped their buckets into the deep river of printed CARES Act dollars. With that much money in reach, there was no going back.

Despite the endless fearmongering and “expert” worship, there was no need for onerous, costly interventions to manage this “Pandemic,” nor any other imagined crises, such as those suspiciously predicted months or years in advance by the biosecurity goons or the vaxx-manic WHO and the creepy Gates, Gottlieb, Hotez and Bourla. They had a solution in search of a problem. No modern era respiratory disease outbreak has widely killed healthy people. Nonetheless, a false Covid narrative will be used to justify hundreds of billions of public misspending on “Pandemic Preparedness” to prevent “The Next Big One.”

Those Americans who see the past five years as a Scam will reject attempts at Viral Mania 2.0.

But just as the US became entangled in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars despite Sheehan’s “never again” Vietnam takeaway lesson, a Scamdemic sequel still seems possible. The Biosecurity/Pharmaceutical Complex is the contemporary counterpart of the Military/Industrial Complex that drove post-Vietnam military misadventures. It seeks and creates opportunities to intervene in order to derive profits from and control easily manipulated Americans. As during post-Vietnam military interventions, the Biosecurity/Pharmaceutical Complex can buy off government officials and the media and can repackage the Covid narrative to make some other microbe sound sufficiently “novel” to build enough fear and close things down. Naive, fearful individuals with short memories will panic and comply.

Most Americans still falsely insist that lockdowns, masks, tests and shots worked. Their egos prevent them from admitting to others and to themselves that they were conned. Others liked being able to hide from others, skipping their commutes and getting free money. Others readily forget the past. Added together, these groups constitute a coalition majority that would submit to a future, “curve flattening” round of closures, restrictions and new shots. If the Scamdemic camel gets its nose under the tent again, extended authoritarianism will again ensue.

While I’d bet against this scenario, I don’t always predict well. I opposed the lockdowns from the jump. But I thought that most people would get bored and resentful and reject these within a month. My anti-NPI rooting interest caused me to project upon others my low fear of viruses and my desire for human interaction and to predict too optimistically. I succumbed to wishful thinking in order to stave off despair.

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After promising during the 2024 election to stop the USA’s ‘forever wars’ in the 21st century, in less than six months in office Donald Trump is about to start another ‘forever’ war with Iran.

There’ll be no prior vote in Congress, as required by the US Constitution. No seeking support of the United Nations or forming a coalition with allies. Nor even a preparation of public opinion, apart from the Fox News network that appears completely on board. There won’t even be a suspension of the War Powers Act, as occurred in previous ‘forever wars’.

Trump plans to simply order US aircraft to bomb Iran, within days or perhaps even hours. Certainly as soon as the three additional US aircraft carrier task forces he’s ordered arrive on station in the Arabian sea off Iran’s southern coast.

The carriers and planes are there to neutralize Iranian coastal and inland anti-aircraft missile forces to create a corridor for US B-2 strategic bombers flying from USA’s Diego Garcia island airbase in the Indian Ocean. The B-2s will drop US made GBU 43 bunker busting bombs on the three or more Iranian sites that Israel, and now USA, allege are producing nuclear material for use in an Iranian bomb.

The US bombing will occur on the flimsiest evidence supporting the claim Iran is just weeks away from having a nuclear weapon, as the US and Israel leadership and both countries’ media are saying. To the contrary, however, UN IAEA inspectors this past March 2025 publicly said there was no evidence Iran was near having such a weapon. Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of the US Director of National Intelligence, which coordinates all 17 US intelligence services, also told Congress that same month there was no evidence.

Two days ago as Trump was leaving a G7 meeting in Canada he was asked by the media what he thought of Gabbard’s view and statement. Trump replied:

“I don’t care what she said. I say they’re working on a weapon…I don’t listen to her”.

So who does Trump listen to? Netanyahu? Israel’s CIA-like counterpart, Mossad, instead of US intelligence services?

Trump will send US planes and bombers into Iran— not to prevent an attack on the USA by that country; not in response to an actual or imminent attack by Iran on US bases or its 40,000 troops now in west Asia; nor in response to an attack by Iran on US warships or any international shipping.  Iran is not at war with the USA nor plans to; nevertheless, the USA will soon be at war with Iran.

Iran publicly offered this past week to sign a treaty saying it has no nuclear weapon and agrees not to develop one—a move strongly suggesting it is not concerned US inspectors would find anything indicating it has.

Trump is thus preparing to take the USA into another ‘forever’ war, this time with Iran on behalf of a foreign nation—Israel—simply because its leader, Netanyahu, has asked him to do so. The Israeli leader has been asking the USA to attack Iran since 2002 when he addressed the US Congress on the eve of the USA’s imminent Iraq invasion in 2003. Now he’ll likely get what he’s been asking for: the USA to attack Iran on behalf of Israel.

Since 2002 Netanyahu has cleverly deepened Israel’s influence—and indeed control—of the US government through its lobbying group, AIPAC, and other personal connections within the US bureaucracy, aka its Deep State.

A majority in Congress has already been writing a blank check to Israel to cover the costs of its current wars in GAZA, Lebanon and Syria. Congress will no doubt rubber stamp quickly any US air attack on Iran, in order to legitimize US bombing Iran—an act of war and aggression by America by any definition of international law. Like Congress, the US government bureaucracy and Deep State is also deeply aligned with Israeli interests, as is the Trump administration and the president himself.

The two political systems—USA and Israel—are fused at the political hip and have been for some time. There has never been anything quite like the political integration of the two systems, America and Israel, in the entire 250 year history of the USA.

Israel is the American Empire’s landlocked aircraft carrier looking out over the entire middle east, enforcing US imperial interests; America is Israel’s military weapons industry and blank check writer. It is estimated more than $340 billion in aid has been given to Israel by the US government since the 1970s. Most of which gets recycled back to the US companies providing Israel US advanced weaponry.

The USA ‘How to Go to War’ Playbook

Since 2001 America has been embroiled in what can only be called wars of empire: Wars to expand the empire. Wars to punish those who try to break from it or dare to chart an independent path. Wars to pre-emptively attack those who pose a potential challenge to it in the future.

There have been three defining wars of empire in the 21st century: the Iraq war of 2003-10 (of which the Afghan war was a second front). The Ukraine proxy war of 2021-25. And the Israel-Iran proxy war of 2023-25.

In retrospect, there is a pattern in how the US prepares and initiates war across all three.

When the US imperial elites—in government, Deep State, and Military Industrial Complex—shift the machinery of war into first gear and the war train leaves the station there is no calling it back. The gears of war were set in motion in 2002 in the case of the Iraq war; in 2021 in Ukraine; and sometime during 2024 in the current case of Iran. War plans are developed and the funding sources identified and earmarked months, and sometimes years, before military action is initiated.

Once the decision is made what remains is mostly the timing, i.e. when is it best to pull the trigger. That timing depends on getting the necessary military assets in place, lining up agreement to go to war with key players in Congress and US allies, preparing public opinion by creating an imminent threat image with the US public, and, if time and conditions permit, staging a ‘false flag’ event to give credibility to the imminent threat.

Here’s how the playbook works after initial preparations, as the US war train shifts into higher gear as evidenced in the last three major wars in the 21st century: Iraq, Ukraine, and Iran:

The Case of Iraq 2003

First, the US raises a set of demands the target country must meet and engages in a period of negotiations with it.

In the case of the Iraq war of 2003 the US charged Iraq with possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that it was planning to use. Who can forget the visuals of Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the UN security council showing charts of African countries from where Iraq had purchased ‘yellow cake’ to make nuclear material. WMDs include chemical or biological weapons. But Powell’s presentation suggested Iraq’s WMDs were also nuclear.

UN and US inspectors found no evidence of WMDs in the run up to the war. And after the war it was confirmed there were none. That didn’t matter at the time. The US War train had left the station months before. Assets and allies, Congress and public opinion, were already prepared and in place. In negotiations on the eve of war, Iraq agreed to US initial demands.  The US just moved the goalposts. It demanded instead of UN IAEA inspectors the Iraqi armed forces submit to the occupation of Iraq by US/NATO forces to ensure there were no WMDs. In other words, agree to de facto unconditional surrender.

The WMD issue was just a cover. The real US demand was regime change in Iraq and the deposing of Saddam Hussein as the country’s leader and dismantling of his political party. When the US goes to war it is always about regime change. The manufactured threat issue is always just a cover. Negotiations are never intended to reach a compromise. They are just a tactic.

The US war prep playbook is to never agree to a deal via negotiations but only make it appear one is possible. The US raises new, more unacceptable demands and ignores concessions offered by the target country as a basis for a deal. Negotiations are thus used to lull the opponent into thinking a compromise is possible when in fact no deal will ever be agreed to. However, as the US ratchets up demands and moves the goalposts, it issues public statements in parallel that discussions are going well and negotiators are getting closer to a deal to avert war.

In the weeks just prior to the Iraq war erupting, Saddam offered UN and US inspectors free access to all sites, including military, in Iraq to determine there were no WMDs. The US ignored Saddam’s offers. WMDs were just the pretext. It was always about regime change. It always is.

And then when all assets are in place, the war hammer drops. An attack is launched by surprise with no prior indication or warning.

The parallels with the current imminent US war with Iran are notable.

The Case of Iran 2025 

Ever since the collapse of Syria in late 2024 and Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency, the US has been using negotiations to lull Iran into thinking a deal was possible to avert a US involvement in Israel’s war with Iran.  When Iran agreed last week to sign a treaty indicating it had no bomb and would not develop one in the future, the US moved the negotiations goalposts: it demanded the Iranians open up their military sites to US and Israeli inspectors to verify if nuclear production machinery was creating fissionable material.

The US further demanded Iran turn over its entire existing stock of fissionable uranium.  Iran agreed to do so for all its excess material except for what was needed to run its civilian nuclear power plants. It offered to turn over all its excess stock of uranium to be managed by a third party, in this case Russia.

The US responded Iran must turn over all its uranium stock, including that needed to run its civilian nuclear generating plants. In other words, Iran had to shut down its civilian nuclear power plants.

As negotiations proceeded last week, Trump publicly declared the US and Iran was close to a deal. He added the situation looked promising and a deal was likely on Sunday, June 15, when US and Iranian teams were scheduled to meet again. Within 48 hours of Trump saying a deal was imminent, Israel launched its surprise attack on Iran. It is naïve to believe Trump had no knowledge of Israel’s surprise attack launched in Friday, June 13. He as much indicated he knew. And he knew such an attack would lead to a cancelling of June 15 negotiations. He knew no deal was imminent. Negotiations had served their purpose to lull Iran into thinking a deal was possible, even imminent.

Whether this tactic resulted in Iran leaving its guard down on June 13 cannot be known for certain. What is certain is that Israel’s June 13 attack wiped out much of Iran’s air defense system and giving Israel aircraft more or less free entry into Iran air space to bomb not only military facilities but power plants throughout the country, including nuclear, as well.

It was the Israeli version of Colin Powell’s ‘shock and awe’ prediction of the prior US air war launch on Iraq.

Israel’s surprise attack not only neutralized many of Iran’s air defense facilities but Israel simultaneously carried out assassinations of high ranking Iranian military, government officials as well as civilian Iranian scientists. Israel thus included a ‘decapitation’ strategy, which had previously proved successful with Hamas in GAZA and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Purposely targeting and decapitating civilians is considered a war crime.

So is targeting civilian nuclear facilities. In the initial attack Israel bombed several, with reported nuclear radiation fallout occurring in several locations in the country.

To sum up: the US Iran war playbook has followed much of that employed by the USA in Iraq: engage in negotiations to lull the opponent into thinking a deal is possible. Keep moving the demands goalpost as the opponent makes concessions. Use a pretext like WMDs (Iraq) or nuclear bomb in weeks (Iran) to maneuver public opinion in support of the war. And as in the case of Iraq, the actual goal is regime change. Military action is designed to achieve political objectives. Launching a surprise massive air campaign is to inflict as much damage on the economy and disable the government in order to spark political uprisings to depose the regime and its leaders.

Neither WMDs or a nuclear bomb are ever the real issue or objectives. They are the excuse to launch a massive military air strike to wreck the economy and create political instability and engineer regime change. And negotiations in the run up to war are a tactic, not a step in a process to reach a compromise and a deal to avert war. Their purpose is to lull the opponent into thinking a deal is possible when it isn’t.

When the US playbook believes pretexts and excuses like WMDs or nuclear bombs are not sufficient to invade, it adds a ‘false flag’ operation to the playbook. Some notable false flags from earlier US wars include the alleged ‘Tonkin Gulf’ attack by North Vietnam boats on US destroyers that was used to justify US expanding its war in Vietnam; the claim the Cuban army had invaded Grenada and seized US medical students as hostage; the charge that Panama president Noriega was running a drug operation transporting Colombia cocaine to American cities as justification for the US invasion of that country in 1989; the claim that Assad, president of Syria, was using chemical weapons; Iraqis in 1990 were killing Kuwaiti babies in incubators.  Every US war playbook engineers a pretext and/or a false flag operation leading up to initiating  military action.

The Case of Ukraine

The case of Ukraine is a variation on these themes.  In 2014 following the US financed and CIA directed coup in that country, Russia occupied Crimea to prevent NATO from seizing its naval base there, which would have led to NATO occupying the entire Black Sea.  There were brief military conflicts in eastern Ukraine, followed by negotiations and a cease fire in a Minsk Agreement between Russia, Ukraine and Europe. Germany’s then Chancellor, Merkel, and France’s president, Holland, served as guarantors of the Minsk agreement. Later in 2022 they would both admit publicly the purpose of the Minsk negotiations and deal was to lull Russia into thinking the military conflict as over. Ukraine was not militarily prepared to go to war yet. It would require eight more years to prepare massive fortifications and weapons development and training of troops before it was.

The US/NATO decision to go to war with Russia in Ukraine was made by US president Biden around June 2021 when he met with Putin for the first, and last time. The US plans for the Ukraine war date back to 2015. They were shelved when Trump won in 2016 and thereafter quickly dusted off by Biden when he took office in January 2021. Biden in August 2021 ‘cleared the decks’ in Afghanistan by pulling out. US advisors and weapons thereafter began pouring into Ukraine. Putin attempted to ‘negotiate’ with the US from afar during the rest of 2021 without any progress. The US-Ukraine plan called for a major Ukraine offensive in February 2022 to defeat what remained of the local Russian ethnic resistance in Ukraine’s two eastern provinces, Lughansk and Donetsk. But the Russians pre-empted that and invaded first in late February.

Russian advances were swift even though it invaded with barely 90,000 troops across a combat line of 1,500 kilometers from Kiev to south Donetsk. That limited force was no where near sufficient to occupy Kiev or conquer Ukraine. Its purpose was intimidation to force Ukraine into a compromise deal which was tentatively reached in Istanbul, Turkey. As discussions in Istanbul were occurring, Russia was asked to show good faith by withdrawing its forces from Kiev which it did. A tentative deal was then reached between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul in April 2022 which was quite favorable to Ukraine. However, NATO convinced Ukraine president Zelensky to reject the deal and to continue the war. The Istanbul negotiations collapsed.

Twice Russia was lulled into negotiations to ‘buy time’, as Merkle and Holland admitted in 2015 with the Minsk deal and Ukraine did again in April 2022. US/NATO rushed in weaponry and advisers after Istanbul and Ukraine launched a major offensive that threw Russian forces back from Kiev and other locations to limited positions in Lughansk and Donetsk.  Thus Russia was out-maneuvered twice by negotiations with US/Ukraine that were never intended to conclude with a compromise deal to end the war in Ukraine.

As in the cases of Iraq and now Iran, from the outset the US playbook in Ukraine proxy sought the ultimate objective of regime change in Russia.  The admitted strategy was a military conflict in Ukraine, financed and provided with weapons by NATO, which the plan envisioned would lead to a collapse of the Russian economy, political instability, and the deposing of Putin by Russian oligarchs and military.

The US neocon and CIA analysis was Russia’s economy was weak and the Putin government even weaker. A military conflict, supported by extensive sanctions on Russia’s economy was argued in US war planning to lead to Russian implosion and NATO/Ukraine victory. Regime change was again the objective.

Negotiations at Minsk in 2015 or Istanbul in 2022 were never meant to reach a deal but to lull Russia into thinking one was possible. In 2025 the US and EU again tried to lure Russia into a negotiation that demanded as a precondition to negotiations that Russia agree to a ceasefire first. The preconditions in turn allowed Ukraine to rearm and mobilize and train more troops during negotiations.

It was clear the US/NATO 2024 proposal was another example of negotiations employed as a tactic to ‘buy time’ to prepare for another military offensive—after which the pretext of negotiations would be dropped. This time, however, Russia did not agree to ceasefire first and then negotiations. Nor will it again agree to negotiations as a delaying tactic after twice being manipulated and out-maneuvered in 2015 and 2022.

Unlike in the cases of Iraq in 2003 and Iran today, in the case of Russia the US playbook’s negotiations tactic as well as its strategic objective of regime change have both conclusively failed.

What’s Next in the US-Israel Proxy War on Iran?

The official position of the USA is that it isn’t involved in Israel’s war with Iran. Few believe that given the US provision of weapons to Israel, likely planning the operation for months, and obvious US satellite surveillance and targeting assistance.  As US official spokespersons deny US involvement, Trump himself publicly refers to the Israel attack as “we”, calls on Iran to ‘unconditionally surrender’ and says the US knows where Iranian leader Khamenei is located and could ‘take him out’ any time. All of which hardly suggests no USA involvement. Will the US then overtly escalate its involvement by bombing suspected Iranian nuclear weapons development sites deep inside several mountains. No one yet knows for certain but it is very likely Trump will do so.

But what if the US GBU 43 ‘bunker busting’ bombs do not achieve their objective and destroy Iranian deep mountain sites? The only further weapon that can is a tactical nuclear US bomb. Will it risk that?

It is likely should Trump allow B-2s to drop bunker buster bombs that Iran will attack US naval bases in the Persian gulf located in Bahrain and elsewhere. The same response may occur should US carrier plans attack Iran’s Persian Gulf ports and naval installations. A large contingent of US naval forces are stationed in Bahrain. What happens if the Gulf erupts in military conflict? One outcome is certain: global oil and gas prices will quickly rise and so will US consumer energy costs and inflation in general.

There is also the question what will Russia, now a signatory to a mutual Russia-Iran defense agreement since January, do in response to a US direct military involvement in Iran? It is difficult to imagine Russia will not come to Iran’s defense. That would greatly undermine its credibility everywhere. Nor will China remain neutral. Reports are it is already shipping weapons to Iran by air. It is very unlikely Russia or China will permit its ally Iran to be militarily defeated or its government to collapse. And then there’s Pakistan that has vowed to provide Iran with nuclear weapons if either Israel or US use them on Iran.

Can an air attack by Israel, with or without the USA, actually succeed in bringing about regime change in Iran? That too is extremely unlikely.  Iran is not Libya. Its leadership is not isolated from public support, as was Assad in Syria.

It is difficult to see how the Israel air attack, despite some of its initial successes, can succeed in the longer term in bringing about the primary objective of Iranian regime change. What then? Can Netanyahu then agree to compromise after significant Israeli military bases and urban areas have been seriously damaged by Iranian hypersonic missiles that have shown to penetrate Israeli air defenses and will continue to do so? Iran has a population of 92 million and has shown it will sacrifice millions dead in its 1980s war with Iraq if necessary.

Neither the US or Israel have sufficient ground forces with which to invade Iran. Israel is a population of 10m with military forces engaged in GAZA, Lebanon and recently Syria. It would be a disaster for the US to invade Iran with ground troops.  Even an air attack on Iranian sites risks significant US losses of aircraft. Trump should remember the disastrous US air invasion of Iran during the Carter administration to attempt to rescue US hostages in Tehran. It failed miserably, with the US losing several aircraft on the attempted entry.

Despite these likelihoods US neocons like Lindsey Graham now call for the commitment of US troops to Iran. Thus proving once again that neocons never compromise or admit defeat; once their plans fail they simply double down and call for further escalation.

Trump should also consider the effect of a decision to bomb Iran on his domestic base. The initial phase of a MAGA movement realignment in domestic US politics may impale itself on Trump’s escalation in Iran. Already significant voices in the MAGA movement are challenging Trump’s imminent decision to bomb: Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and a growing list of MAGA members in Congress.

Millions of American voters in 2024 no doubt voted for Trump last November in part because of his campaign promise to end America’s ‘forever wars’. Bombing Iran after less than six months in office will reveal that was just another fake election campaign pledge that presidents feed the public for votes, then turn around and do the bidding of the neocons who’ve been running US foreign policy since 2001, the US military industrial complex and their Deep State allies in America.

Should Trump soon decide to bomb Iran that act will likely unleash global and domestic US responses not easily contained by the Trump administration. Trump’s advisers should remind him not only of Carter’s disastrous invasion in 1979, but of Nixon’s bombing of North Vietnam which only accelerated the collapse of US’s war in Vietnam.

Air wars are successful only when targeting small weak military state opponents. They worked with Serbia, Libya, in Sudan, and such. Even in Iraq and Afghanistan US ground troops had to be committed and then were forced to leave. And this time the US simply has no sufficient ground forces, short of reinstituting a draft. Europe has even less.

Trump’s decision to bomb Iran will result in forces of global and domestic US political entropy spinning out of his control. But like the US neocon community—which Trump has now apparently joined—looking beyond the immediate situation to possible consequences is not part of their mental apparatus nor in either of their war time playbooks.

Looking back in the months to come, the USA proxy war in Ukraine may be understood as the dress rehearsal to World War III. But a US-Israel war on Iran will be understood as the actual start of a global conflict.

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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I have attempted to make the case that we are routinely denied vital knowledge, treatment, and care to protect the interests of the medical industrial complex. For example:

• I’ve highlighted how unsafe pharmaceuticals make it to market because approval panels were stacked with people taking money from manufacturers (which was a tactic Anthony Fauci weaponized against America).

• I‘ve discussed how the American Medical Association was taken over by unscrupulous businessmen who funded the association by promoting anything they were paid to (which is why there were so many AMA advertisements of doctors promoting smoking) while using the government to outlaw competing therapies.

• I’ve shown how American society has been separated from fundamental health requirements (e.g., sleep or sunlight), how damaging losing these is, and how far the marketing industry goes to ensure we never reclaim these basic health requirements.

This suggests that remarkable medical innovations exist that have been overlooked or forgotten. I will discuss one—ultraviolet blood irradiation (UVBI)—because there’s vast evidence for its use and unlike many other lost medical technologies, it’s still relatively accessible.

The Importance of Sunlight

A widely held view exists that sunlight (particularly its ultraviolet component) is dangerous and must be avoided. Remarkably, much of that came from a 1980s public relations campaign that the struggling dermatology profession used to rebrand themselves as cancer fighters by creating a hysteria about benign sunlight-induced cancers while downplaying that the deadly skin cancer, melanoma, actually results from a lack of sunlight. Treating skin cancer is both straightforward and highly lucrative, making dermatology one of the most sought-after medical specialties.

Note: a 20 year prospective study of 29,518 Swedish women found that those who avoided sunlight were 130% more likely to die than women who had regular sunlight exposure. They were much more likely to develop various medical conditions (e.g., they were twice as likely to get cancer).

As such, I’ve attempted to shine light on the critical benefits we receive from sunlight, how many illnesses result from artificial lighting and a lack of sunlight, and that the same changes observed in plants and animals due to unhealthy lighting are also observed in humans (all of which is discussed here). Key points I covered there included:

• Unhealthy light causes and exacerbates cancers and significantly increases infection risk (particularly in livestock).

• Unhealthy light contributes to behavioral disorders (e.g., ADHD).

• Healthy lighting significantly increases the health, fertility, and productivity of domesticated animals.

• The circadian rhythm (which regulates sleep and healing) is heavily disrupted by unnatural lighting.

• Many biological structures are highly sensitive to specific light wavelengths, which is problematic because artificial lighting has narrow bands rather than a complete spectrum.

• Light plays a critical role in generating circulation and protecting blood vessels.

• Ultraviolet light is particularly critical for health. The most dramatic benefits of light therapies occur when appropriate UV light is administered to the body.

• Glass blocks essential UV light, so modern life prevents access to that light, creating widespread UV deficiency.

• Since skin has difficulty absorbing UV light, we receive much light through the eyes. When individuals wear glasses blocking sunlight from entering their eyes, health problems can ensue that resolve once addressed.

The major challenge with light therapies is getting light inside the body. Fortunately, methods have been developed to do this, producing remarkable results for over a century.

The History of Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation

One of the oldest “proven” therapies was having people bathe in sunlight. It was one of the few things that actually succeeded in treating the 1918 influenza. Prior to antibiotics, it was one of the most effective treatments for tuberculosis and was widely used for other diseases (e.g., erysipelas and mumps). One UVBI pioneer noted that low doses of externally applied UV light stimulated general resistance to infection in animals and humans.

The medical field concluded that part of sunlight’s value was that ultraviolet within it was a sterilizing agent, and UV devices were developed to sterilize things. For example, one of the most effective ways to prevent COVID-19 indoors was exposing air to UV light, and one promising approach explored for treating COVID-19 was safely putting UV light inside the respiratory tract to sterilize viral particles (which is what Trump was actually describing during his infamous disinfectant remark).

Since blood-borne infections (septicemia) were a major problem, in 1927, Emmett K. Knott (who was not a doctor) decided to try sterilizing blood by extracting it, exposing it to UV light, and returning it to the body. Initially, when testing this by infecting dogs with lethal bacteria, he found that while treated dogs didn’t have bacteria in their blood at death, they still died after about a week.

Eventually, in 1928 an accident happened and Knott dramatically under-dosed a septic dog, after which the dog had a dramatic recovery—leading Knott to realize only a small amount of blood should be irradiated. Shortly after, Knott received a request from a doctor friend whose sister was dying from septicemia for blood irradiation. The UVBI treatment worked, and the woman made a complete recovery.

For five years, Knott refined his method without testing it on humans, likely due to the difficulty in finding willing doctors and the Great Depression. Eventually, in 1933, another Seattle doctor with a septic patient on the verge of death reached out to Knott, and again UVBI resulted in dramatic recovery.

Knott began traveling the country with his massive machine, and beginning in 1937, successfully convinced skeptical hospital doctors to use UVBI. As the therapy proved itself, more people adopted it, and by the 1940s, pioneering physicians who tested it on hundreds of patients found that UVBI consistently treated conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia (including viral pneumonias), kidney disorders, asthma, polio, botulism, rheumatic fever, and viral hepatitis.

UVBI almost always worked if administered early in the infection, often yielding miraculous results even when patients were on the verge of death, and significantly shortened hospital stays.

Note: Dr. George Miley, who had done the most UVBI work, commented on Knott’s work in 1940: “I think personally that this is one of the greatest contributions to medicine ever made by a citizen of the United States.”

By the early 1950s, UVBI was being used in approximately 50 American hospitals, with doctors reporting they had used it on thousands of patients and consistently seen immediate and miraculous results alongside a complete absence of side effects.

These doctors documented their work in a significant body of literature: 50 papers by 20 different authors (published in 18 different medical journals) covering over 3000 patients with 36 different diseases—all finding remarkable UVBI benefits. UVBI was promoted in mainstream media (e.g., The New York Times and Time Magazine).

Here’s one case from a physician who between 1938-1943 successfully treated over 400 patients with 35 different diseases using UVBI:

A patient had thrombosis of the cerebellar artery (brain blood clot), pneumonia, bacterial blood infection, lung emboli, leg blood clot, and paralysis of his left side and vocal cords—a hopeless and terminal case. When seen by Dr. Barrett, the patient was delirious and irrational, had eaten nothing except Coca-Cola for 11 days, and had lost 45 pounds.

He was immediately treated with UVBI and had an almost instant response. After a second treatment in three days, there was further dramatic improvement. Although it took several months, he recovered completely, regaining the 45 pounds he had lost and adding another ten.

This patient would almost certainly have died within days without UVBI therapy.

Market Monopolization

At this point, the American Medical Association (AMA) became involved and attempted to extort Knott by offering to conduct a study validating UVBI for $100,000 (approximately $ 1 million today) and to purchase the rights to Knott’s device in return for a small sales cut.

After Knott refused (as did physicians across America advocating for UVBI), the AMA decided to do its study anyway. It was overseen by a friend of the AMA director (who was designing a competing device) and curiously, prior to being done, JAMA announced it was likely to fail. The study had various issues (e.g., no one could inspect the machine, when returned they discovered a film had blocked UV light from reaching blood, it only had 68 test subjects, many cases were conditions UVBI wasn’t used for). Nonetheless, no adverse events occurred, no one died (despite many having dangerous conditions), and many patients experienced significant improvement.

Despite this, the 1952 study concluded:

“We have concluded that none of our patients derived benefit from the irradiation of blood with the Knott hemo-irradiator.”

Because of this “definitive study,” hospitals across America quickly abandoned UVBI and became fully committed to emerging antibiotics. Knott stopped producing his machine and died in 1961. The Salk vaccine also eliminated interest in finding polio treatments.

Note: fortunately, UVBI revived in Russia, the former Soviet states, and Germany. Unlike America, these countries couldn’t afford extravagant medical spending and lacked routine censorship of scientific ideas that threatened the medical industrial complex. Operating on shoestring budgets, they were motivated to find economical disease solutions.

The most noteworthy aspect was that the exact same thing has been done to many other promising therapies. For example, around this time, the AMA approached the inventors of alternative cancer therapies (such as the Krebiozen, Hoxey’s herbs, Rife’s frequency’s and Koch’s catalysts) and pressured them to sign away almost all of the rights for the treatment to the AMA or be blacklisted. In each case, the inventor refused because they wanted it to remain affordable to everyday people, after which the AMA launched a blitz against the therapy, and then with the help of the FDA, buried it (which was later corroborated by a 1953 Congressional investigation). In short, because of the power the AMA wielded, a single fraudulent negative study could immediately erase large bodies of independent research showing otherwise.

As Pierre Kory details in “The War on Ivermectin,” this happened throughout the pandemic with unpatentable COVID-19 treatments. With hydroxychloroquine, the Lancet published a trial arising from overtly false data (later retracted) showing HCQ was killing people, leading to worldwide trial terminations. In contrast, numerous independent studies found HCQ was one of the safest and most effective COVID-19 treatments if used early, and prior to COVID-19, the “incredibly dangerous” HCQ was considered one of the safest and most essential medications in existence.

Note: similar absurdities occurred with ivermectin and vitamin D (which for decades has proven more effective at preventing flu than annual flu shots).

Paul Marik (widely considered the world’s top critical care expert) repeatedly demonstrated that IV vitamin C is transformative for sepsis when administered early, dramatically reducing death rates (e.g., his hospital’s sepsis death rate dropped from 22% to 6%, and in a study, from 40.4% to 8.5%). Yet this therapy was “debunked” because studies only gave IV vitamin C late in hospitalization (where it no longer works), making it nearly impossible to get IV vitamin C at American hospitals.

Note: during the early days of AIDS, Anthony Fauci suppressed lifesaving AIDS treatments while pushing a dangerous failed cancer drug that became standard AIDS treatment based on fraudulent studies.

The costs of each of these are huge. Sepsis for example, is the third leading cause of death in hospitals and kills 350,000 Americans each year. Similarly, the primary cause of death from cancers is metastases, and many of the extreme approaches used to treat cancer are justified under the possibility that they might prevent a metastasis. Likewise, COVID-19 being “incurable” cost our nation trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Conversely, whenever an industry supported drug comes to market, it doesn’t matter how dangerous or ineffective its data shows it to be (e.g., the data for both the COVID-19 vaccines and remdesivir showed they had significant dangers and provided minimal benefit), a method will always be found to argue they are in fact extremely “safe and effective.”

Sadly, while awareness of UVBI’s miraculous properties has now largely disappeared thanks to the AMA’s control of the media, reports of it still emerge. For example, last year Joe Rogan and Jimmy Dore discussed how Trump discussing placing UV light inside the body to treat COVID was misconstrued as “injecting bleach” and the how the AMA erased this revolutionary therapy.

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For any of you out there hoping against hope that Israel might stop the bombing of Iran, forget about it. Israel, along with Uncle Sam, who now wears a blondish haircut, will not stop until there is regime change in Iran. As oil prices go through the roof, Israel will continue to destroy an unarmed nation with help from America. The Iranians aside, the biggest loser in this one-sided war is Putin, who now has only China and North Korea as close allies.

I don’t care about the ayatollahs and the Persians in general, but I do care about the unheard-of crimes being committed by the Israelis in Gaza, using dynamite, bombs, bullets, and starvation to persuade close to 2 million Palestinians to leave once and for all for places unknown. It is an unheard-of crime, and Israel is committing it, with Uncle Sam watching and at times even approving it. Whatever happened to compassion? What about fairness, and the rights of the weak? I suppose we forget about them when the Israelis are involved. Their crimes simply don’t count, or do they? I fear for those among us who have the guts to call it as they see it: Israel is a racist occupying power that feels safe with Uncle Sam’s support while it enslaves and steals land from the Palestinians. Furthermore, it holds the world hostage by attacking Iran, killing its leadership, and falsely claiming that the ancient land was about to develop a nuclear bomb.

“What I fear most is that Trump is deeply involved and will play ball with the arch war criminal who leads Israel at this moment.”

And I ask you, dear readers: Since when can a country deprive another of its nuclear right to enrich uranium, albeit at low levels that can be used for civilian purposes? Who the hell are the Netanyahus, Katzes, and others of their ilk to decide? And why is Uncle Sam going along with a rogue regime like Israel’s, and why is The Donald not holding the gangsters to account?

Well, I’ll tell you. Uncle Sam is in on it, and has been in on it since the start. Israel has been busy since forever trying to get rid of the following countries: Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and, of course, Palestine. The biggest catch was and is Iran. Now Israel has finally hit the jackpot. Every country I have mentioned above is a shipwreck, and shipwrecks rarely make comebacks. Zionists have always insisted that there is no such thing as a Palestinian, and we now have an American ambassador to Israel who insists that this outrageous and criminal claim is correct.

So, what is to be done? Anything one says or writes will immediately be called anti-Semitic unless one agrees with the murderous Netanyahu. It is the oldest and most successful con trick in the world. What I fear most is that Trump is deeply involved and will play ball with the arch war criminal who leads Israel at this moment. What actually should happen if Trump were unattached would be the following: No American toleration of settlement expansion—22 new ones are being built at the expense of Palestinians as I write—and the immediate recognition of a Palestinian state, as President Macron of France has envisioned. Trump should at the same time recognize the Palestinians as a people who have a right to self-determination. Last but not least, Trump should tell Netanyahu that if he doesn’t wish to end up in a European jail like some ex–African strongmen, he should stop the killing of innocents and retire.

I know, it sounds like Alice in Wonderland stuff, but I can dream, can’t I? The misguided invasion of Iraq was also a war to forestall nukes, and the result was thousands upon thousands of dead, and the only nukes found were in the dreams of neoconservatives—all Jewish—who managed to persuade an idiot president to wage war in order to have Israelis sleep sounder. A war with Iran will have the same effect but with far more innocent casualties. Which is Netanyahu’s overall strategy, to get Uncle Sam into the fight. But history shows that bombing a country turns the people being bombed against the bombers. This will happen with Iranians, but Trump and Netanyahu have not read history, only their press agents. The Donald is making his first great mistake.

This article was originally published on Taki’s Magazine.

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The current political structure of the United States is not viable long-term. Put simply, there are far too many differences existing among the numerous varieties of peoples who make up America to have them all ruled from one central authority. The same scenario exists in many states within the American union as well. These differences, when tied in with the centralized power structure of federal and state governments – along with a “one-size-fits-all” mentality prevalent among those either holding or seeking power – have led to an extremely volatile situation nation-wide. These various groups have become agitated to the point where there is now a mad scramble for power among them. Their purpose is to advance their own group’s interests at the expense of others, even to the extreme of denying the constitutional rights of their opponents and dehumanizing them in word and thought. Thus it is no wonder certain far-seeing individuals are voicing very real fears of forthcoming violent, domestic conflicts between these various groups – all in the interest of seizing the mechanisms of power to preserve and promote the values of their own group at the expense of the others.

The Elites’ New Plan

The Elites, hailing from both Left and Right within the political kaleidoscope, are the big players in the midst of all of this. They are working to ensure the volatility will continue to grow until it reaches a breaking point. The resulting chaos, they believe, will give them the opportunity they desire to usher in their new system of all-out control over the “unwashed masses” as they so disdainfully refer to the common everyday civilian working hard just to survive.

When the Elites kicked off the major test run of their Globalist control structures, using the COVID hysteria as the cover for their implementation, it was in America that the agenda was met by it’s greatest challenges. America’s Founding Fathers had done a masterful job designing an intricate system of checks and balances, which soon proved a formidable obstacle to the new Globalist programs. Even after one hundred sixty years of political attrition against that system by power-hungry figures, the Bill of Rights and the principles of self-government still retained enough power to provide the people with effective tools for pushing back against tyranny. All kinds of brave individuals, from everyday folk like the “Park Patriots” of southern Texas and anti-mask-mandate activists nationwide, to local government officials like the state legislators of South Dakota and the governor of Florida, effectively used these tools to first stop and then dismantle the COVID regime. Despite the Elites’ constant pressure to both maintain and expand the regime, local pushback finally proved too much and the regime was largely dismantled by the middle of 2022, though certain tyrannical precedents remained available for potential use in the future.

Within two years of the overt COVID regime’s end, lessons the Elites took from this test run began to exhibit themselves. Recognition clearly dawned on them that no tyrannical regime could survive in America so long as America’s founding principles remained intact. Those principles, as personified by the Bill of Rights, checks and balances, and self-government practices, would have to be removed and destroyed if any new system of tyranny, whether woke, technocratic, or both, had any chance of reaching full implementation status.

To achieve this, the Elites unveiled a new series of attacks, designed to provoke conflict and distrust inside America at higher levels than those seen during the COVID hysteria. The first stage would involve weaponizing the law itself against large segments of the population, mostly against the general populace with some more well-known names thrown in for the purpose of publicizing the misuse of the law. This would then sow seeds of rampant distrust, both against those who held different ideological views, and against the systems which the laws had created. The long-term purpose of this plan would be that of creating an atmosphere of anger and helplessness among the population, which could then be funneled into an attack against the American founding principles themselves.

Once the people’s belief in America’s founding principles were weakened sufficiently, with suspicion and desire for rapid pushback unleashed by this campaign of lawfare, the second stage could be slowly introduced. With the people already angry and frustrated by seeing their very governing structures being used against them when they had done nothing wrong, strong desires for vengeance against those who had persecuted them would inevitably begin to arise. The people would then be more inclined to disregard the very checks and balances which should have protected them in the first place. This, in turn, would make the rights guaranteed the people under the Bill of Rights, in effect, a dead letter. As the Bill of Rights slowly became no longer respected as applying to “the other” as well as to themselves, an “anything goes” mentality would begin to grow between the factions which the Elites had stirred up.

With respect for America’s founding principles greatly compromised, a third stage in the Elites’ plan is now being put into action. Political fervor is being whipped up into a power-hungry frenzy on all sides of the political divide. With the MAGA movement being constantly labeled as a “clear and present danger” by it’s opponents, and a similar mentality unfolding within the MAGA movement against their own adversaries, a dangerous brew is being stirred domestically. The Elites’ goal with this concoction is for all factions to buy into the “one-size-fits-all” mentality and so see the complete and utter destruction of those who they do not agree with as being the ultimate good they should strive for. Once this is achieved, the last and most important stage in the plan to destroy America’s founding principles can be unleashed: The State of Emergency known as “War”.

The Elites are already well into the process of laying the foundation for domestic war. War games they organized leading up to the 2024 elections were one of the first public indicators of a major lesson they had derived from the failure of the COVID regime. It had become clear they needed a state of emergency, one which was clearly obvious to all, to get the people to willingly give up for good what adherence remained to America’s founding principles. What better way to do that then war? With the danger so obvious and easy to hype, and hatred for “the other” paramount in the minds of many who have suffered through the lead-up to war, those seeking to destroy these principles would have the upper hand emotionally in any argument against those defending these same principles.

While a big opportunity for the Elites to instill deadlock and ignite civil war was lost with the convincing win of Donald Trump and many of his allies in the November 2024 general elections, the Elites’ general course of action appears unchanged. With the election results being too lopsided to mount effective challenges, the Elites merely altered tactics – pursuing an alternative path to bring about the domestic war they need so badly. First, a little-known congressman from North Carolina seeded the idea that the best resistance to Trump would be to form a “shadow cabinet”, with individuals filling roles in direct opposition to Trump’s appointees to the official positions. The idea got positive responses from many hailing from more Elitist perspectives, and seems to be getting developed in more detail. The holding of “shadow hearings” against the Trump administration, followed by the open endorsement of the shadow government concept by a US Senator with extensive ties to the intelligence community or “Deep State”, appears to signal an intensification of these plans to get a public shadow government established and operating in the near-future.

Civil War: The tool to destroy Freedoms

These developments are rather alarming considering the history and politics of how civil wars unfold inside nations. Outside of a few parliamentary systems such as in Britain, where the “shadow cabinet” idea is merely a public relations gimmick, shadow governments are usually formed by groups seeking to carry out the non-electoral removal of the current group holding the levers of power in a country. Thus is laid the foundation for a civil war. Two or more groups establish competing governing bodies for their supporters to rally behind. After whipping up the everyday people into a frenzy of support for the different factions, the groups then engage in whatever means they deem necessary to seize the reigns of power for the advancement of their own agenda.

This method is effective for those who seek to seize and enhance their own power. It was how the Communists made many of their advances to take over different nations during their heyday from the 1870s to the 1980s. They would form alternative governing bodies and then engage in a war of attrition, both militarily and in law, against their opponents in a bid to seize power. While they did not always succeed, the conflicts often left a legacy of pain, exhaustion, bitterness, and lost freedoms which took years, if not generations, for the populace to recover from.

The most destructive aspect to civil wars however, is how they open the door for the destruction of traditions and principles which help maintain peace. Using the opportunities presented by the chaos which war unleashes, power-hungry individuals can seize power for themselves at the expense of the populace. The chaos also eliminates any reliance on precedent and provides a convenient excuse for dismantling checks and balances rooted in self-government. The justification given is that the powers leading the fighting need all restrictions removed in order to get their job done. This is often how freedoms and the principles of self-government are lost. Once power is in the hands of the faction leaders, they become addicted to the exercise of it, and so will not readily relinquish that power. They will not willingly allow the freedoms and protections of the individual to be reasserted, or the principles of self-government to be re-implemented. As a result, either conflict continues, or tyranny is implemented for the long term.

As disturbing as the Elites’ plan to destroy America’s founding principles is, there is a way to defeat their plan. A way which is tested, true, and rooted in America’s founding principles. When America’s founding fathers were confronted with the reality that London was wholly dedicated to a course of action which would result in the American colonists’ self-governing practices being taken away for good, they knew that self-protection actions were necessary. The approach they ended up taking was wise. Instead of seeking to work with radical leaders within Britain like John Wilkes to overthrow king and parliament, they instead chose to withdraw from the jurisdiction of king and parliament. A “national divorce” of sorts.

While it is true that logistics of the era (distance, feasibility, etc) made the choice of withdrawal the natural one for America’s founders, the fact still remains that it was a good choice considering that the freedoms and self-government principles of the American people were preserved. In addition, though a war of self-defense did unfold, the fact that it was waged in self-defense and for the preservation of these freedoms and principles, rather than for acquisition of power, meant that from the beginning there were greater odds of a good outcome in favor of freedom. When the war ended, there was far more substantial resistance to attempts to consolidate power at the expense of Americans’ freedoms and principles. Though a few among the founding generation actively pursuing power did manage to slip some small blemishes into the constitution which was formed in 1787, the freedoms and self-governing principles which the colonists had fought for were largely preserved for a little over seventy years, with great benefit for the American populace of that era.

It is not hard to see the benefits which national divorce brought in that situation. As power was not the motive, but rather preservation of freedoms and self-governing principles, the groups seeking to separate were not instituting chaos, but rather preserving a well-working order which was of benefit to the populace. While certain aspects of governance would need to be changed once separation was accomplished, the lack of widespread chaos meant the the freedoms and self-government principles would remain largely intact – and maybe even improved upon considering that the separation was a case of escaping an abuse of power in the first place. Put simply, there were no political voids presented for power-hungry individuals to step in and consolidate power. It was a true win for the populace of a kind which had not often been seen in world history up to that point.

America’s Choice

Change is coming fast to the nation known as the United States of America. The shelf-life of the current political experiment is reaching the end of its time, just as different governing systems have all reached the end of their time throughout history. The danger lies in the fact that the Elite classes, many of whom have power connections which stretch back centuries, recognize this reality. They are now attempting to seize this opportunity to implement a global totalitarian model to rule the world – a system which Voltaire, Marx, Gramsci, Marcuse, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and many other totalitarian dictators and thinkers could only have dreamed of. Using chaos as their primary weapon of destruction leading to change, the Elites seek to uproot the old traditions and principles and replace them with their own. A new secular dogma for the world’s people to live by, shorn of any attachment to religion, tradition, or natural law, and based solely on the whims and basest passions of the Elites. It is a scenario which makes one think that these Elites are attempting to make the mythical gods of Mount Olympus a reality, with themselves as the primary deities playing games with the lives of the citizenry who they view as beneath them.

Even if the Elites’ plans to implement their totalitarian model should fail, the chaos unleashed by war, especially domestic war between neighbors, will still leave a dangerous void in America. One that could easily be filled by other individuals who would then find themselves corrupted by the very power which the Elites sought to acquire. This is another reason why civil war is such a risk. Chaos unleashed through war, even if the Elites should lose the war, still presents a huge opportunity to those cunning and ambitious enough to seize power and implement tyranny of their own, regardless of what ideology it is based in. Then the whole struggle will have been basically for nothing. No checks and balances rooted in self-government principles will remain to check the ego of the new power holder.

National Divorce is the option with the least number of dangers to the freedoms and principles which are America’s true foundation. Withdrawing from the manipulated and corrupted government structures which now advance the Globalist project would allow defensive consolidation for preservation of these values. While this would not guarantee avoidance of war, as the Elites would likely seek to use every tool at their disposal to bring those seceding back under their control, the conflict would be changed into one of self-defense as opposed to maneuvering for power. As multiple self-defense, grassroots-oriented conflicts have shown through the centuries, sheer military power is not a guarantee of victory in war. Today, ever increasing masses of people now have a basic knowledge of the reality of the Globalist conspiracies, thanks to the awakening brought about by COVID, as well as ever increasing public proclamations of increasingly crazy agendas. This makes for far longer odds of the Elites being able to break an opposition alliance rooted in self-defense. The added advantage of not opening up a political void for other nefarious actors to potentially seize substantial power, makes this an even more appealing approach. The route to rebuild the world based on America’s founding principles would be a much smoother one. Good elements of the old order could be oriented to correct the abuses which manifested themselves over the 250 year life of the original American experiment.

Which way will America go? Will the people give in to the siren call of chaos and become the very evil they believe they are fighting against as Keith Mallory warned in The Guns of Navarone? Or will they be like Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, recoiling at the very thought of using the all-corrupting Ring of Power, and instead seeking to follow a path which some call folly but turns out to be wise? Only time will tell.

This article was originally published on The State of Division.

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In prison with former senator Bob Menendez.

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“I’m so glad I didn’t have a boy,” said Michelle Obama, “Because he would’ve been a Barack Obama.” We are glad with you, Michelle, we are so glad. And thank God that George W. Bush did not have a son either. 

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Thanks, Ginny Garner.

Need to Know

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The ghosts of Spring 2003 and onward loom. First, Shock and Awe. Then invasion. Then none of the predicted WMD found. Then wave after wave of IEDs blowing U.S. servicemen to bits. Three things that are certain in life: death, taxes, and Boobus Americanus never learning from the past.

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Thanks, Rick Rozoff.

Sputnik News

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Tim McGraw wrote:

All signs point to the USA (Trump) attacking Iran in the next 24 hours. Tomorrow (June 19th) is the bullshit Juneteenth holiday. The stock markets, brokerage houses, and banks will be closed. Congress is taking two days off. How convenient.

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Thanks, Tim McGraw. 

Annie, all five feet nothing of her, hit what she was aiming at.

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Thanks, John Frahm. 

The Gateway Pundit

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Thanks, John Frahm.

Global Research

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Thanks, John Frahm. 

InfoWars

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Thanks, Saleh Abdullah. 

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Thank David Martin.

Global Research

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Hi Lew,

It worries me that the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier is one of the three carrier battle groups going towards Iran. The USS Nimitz is out of date and set to be replaced. If the neocons need a false flag or sacrificial lamb to start a war with Iran, the USS Nimitz is a prime target to be sunk.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

The Federalist

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has introduced a bill to more than double the federal minimum wage. Only eight states follow the federal minimum.

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