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Of course, there’s no “pandemic” this time to cover for the trip that the Party of Chaos wants to lay on the country, no excuse for gross and glaring ballot fuckery, for the days of anxious uncertainty following an election. Everybody and his uncle expect a gigantic tantrum to follow November 6 if Mr. Trump somehow overcomes the tide of bogus harvested votes, illegal alien votes, phantom overseas votes, voting machine swapped votes, lost-and-found votes, last-minute rafts of votes, and other products of the Marc Elias election sabotage machine.

I am not so sure that the tantrum will materialize. Despite the orgy of Orwellian language inversions you have been subjected to in recent years, and the bending of reality it induced, you will know a real insurrection if you see it. You already know the real reason the Democratic Party went insane: its crime spree against the citizens of this land was so obvious and outrageous that a thousand Beltway bureaucrats are now going crazy in fear of prosecution. The tantrum everyone expects them to provoke would be a real insurrection and they are liable to find themselves in even deeper trouble for resorting to it.

Crime is the whole reason for the Democrats’ desperation. There was no “policy” the past four years, only crime. The Covid operation was a mass murder. The open border was not something that just happened, like a spell of bad weather. It was a colossal racketeering operation. They worked it hard. “Joe Biden” paid dozens of NGO cut-outs to systematically jam more than ten million sketchy interlopers into the country, and then support them lavishly with cash payments when they got here.

The political prosecutions of AG Merrick Garland are gauche and lawless. The pervasive censorship by DHS and other agencies is an affront to our constitution. The transgender campaign is a malicious prank against American children (and their parents). Our CIA may be a party to the fentanyl crisis. The war in Ukraine is a failed resource-grab, unbelievably stupid in inception. “Joe Biden’s” empty treasury is writing trillions in IOUs to stealthily bail out the banks and jack-up the stock market. Everything about our government has become criminal and those responsible for it know they are bound for a reckoning now.

Will the Democrats’ Antifa street-army be allowed to terrorize the cities? I expect the remaining cops not de-funded in DC, New York, Chicago, and LA won’t hold back this time, no matter what mayors Muriel Bowser, Eric Adams, Brandon Johnson, and Karen Bass tell them to do. You will instead see the return of something that has been missing for years: a sense of duty to public safety and the common good. Won’t that be a surprise? And there will be nothing that the FBI can do about. It’s one thing to incite a riot among a mob of ordinary middle-aged folks moiling around the US Capitol. It’s another thing to try to subvert the police in carrying out their duties. New heroes will emerge and there will be no ambiguity about what happens.

Black Lives Matter had already been outed as a lowlife money-grubbing hustle. But the Democratic Party may no longer depend on its old “plantation” field-hands to stage mostly peaceful anarchy and arson if the election goes the wrong way for the masters. Forty years of pretending to be an oppositional culture hasn’t worked. It was just minstrelsy updated, when all was said and done. Too many black men are rising up to speak out in support of Donald Trump, and of one America, and of acting like men. They appear to be tired of self-stigmatizing as designated victims in the Woke-Jacobin DEI psychodrama. A new generation of black male leaders is emerging to replace embarrassing con artists like Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson, and Ibram X. Kendi. It’s been a long time coming.

Will we ever know how Kamala Harris was put over on the Democratic Convention like the sale of a used car? How the rank-and-file delegates got swindled into nominating her by acclamation without any debate, without anyone else rising to object, anyone else offering up themselves for a vote? There wasn’t even a smoke-filled room this time where the bosses actually haggled over who would front for them, not a minute of suspense, no process whatsoever. Kamala Harris was just pulled out of a hat, like a rabbit. And everybody involved knew she was a dud, a slow learner, inattentive, not well-educated, lazy, possibly high a lot of the time, self-medicating due to anxiety, insecurity, purposelessness.

It took four years for slightly more than half of America to see that our country’s fate was in the hands of villains wrecking the joint. It looks like their depredations are nearly over. The USA really does not want to gurgle down the drain of history. We’re not ready to roll over and die. We’re waking up from an induced coma, starting to remember who we are. That has been the weird lesson of 2024. Surprise, surprise!

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The smart money is selling, of course, for the clanging indicators are the dinner bell announcing the banquet of consequences has been served, and Nemesis doesn’t want the meal to get cold.

Correspondent Wilson R. Logan kindly shared his list of 17 indicators of globally synchronized recession. In my view, each is an alarm bell clanging loudly. As Wilson put it, “recessions have vey clear indicators. We’ve all known it was coming and we’ve all had a long time to think about it.”

For context, recall that the global economy is a tightly bound, highly integrated system, which means disruptions in one subsystem quickly ripple though the entire system. Disruptions tend to amplify one another, creating a cascading effect much like an avalanche: everything looks perfectly stable until the entire mountainside gives way.

This isn’t presented as a complete list of indicators; there are a multitude of others. But this is certainly a comprehensive start.

Here are Logan’s 17 indicators of global recession:

1) Tighter credit conditions. Banks see the recession coming and start to build a cash cushion, hoard liquidity, de-risk portfolios (the lessons of Bear Sterns).

2) Increasing REPO fails.

3) Volatility in the Japanese Bills market.

4) Near Term Forward Spread inversion.

5) Swap Spread Compression.

6) Term SOFR & EURIBOR calendar spread inversion.

7) 2-10 yield curve inversion.

8) Hours worked, total compensation falling.

9) Falling oil prices.

10) Factory gate prices falling.

11) ISM survey negative sentiment.

12) UofM consumer sentiment survey negative.

13) Increasing credit card debt.

14) Contango in the WTI Futures curve.

15) Falling value of loans to non-financial corporations (NFCs) (see 1).

16) Diverging GDP & GNI.

17) Labor hoarding.

(CHS note: for example, in Japan, if you want to quit your wretched, low-pay, abusive-boss job, you have to find a replacement first: ‘They refused to let me go’: Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs.)

Thank you, Wilson, for sharing your comprehensive list of global recession indicators. For additional context, let’s turn to two charts.

The first is my inverted pyramid of debt and disposable earnings. This relationship between the cost of servicing debt and how much money is left after paying essential expenses (food, utilities, shelter, etc. or the costs of production) is scale-invariant, meaning it works the same for individuals, households, small businesses, global corporations and nation-states.

If the earnings left after paying essential expenses declines while the debt and cost of servicing the debt rise, the entity goes bust and collapses in a heap. For households, as inflation stripmines the purchasing power of their earnings, they increasingly turn to debt to fill the gap between the cash that’s available to spend and what they desire to spend.

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It has been said that every great nation has its rise and fall; that its rise occurs as a result of the population (in general) becoming determined to work hard to create a better life, and that its fall occurs when the population becomes spoiled, then complacent and then finally, apathetic.

Much of the First World has reached this latter stage, all (to varying degrees) at the same time. Unfortunately, from a historical standpoint, the period of apathy is almost invariably followed by a period of bondage – a marked social and economic decline in which the people of the nation become little more than serfs of the state that rules them.

While most readers would agree that this describes the First World in its present state, they would likely argue that this time around, bondage will not be the end result. While reason might tell them that this is exactly the predictable (and historical) outcome, the idea of bondage is too frightful to consider as being a possibility. While a few seem to be railing against this eventuality, the great majority simply open a beer and turn on the TV. A very comfortable form of apathy, but apathy just the same.

Feudalism, Past and Present

So, are there any differences this time around? I would say that there is one major difference, and that is that the packaging is more sophisticated.

In days of yore, the Sheriff of Nottingham and his men rode into your village and demanded what few silver pennies you may have earned recently. This was clearly a dictatorial government – one which was ruled by force, so that the people were clearly serfs and had no real say. Punishment was simple: If you did not pay, your hut was burned, your possessions confiscated, and you were thrown in prison to remain until the debt had been paid. (Nobles fared a bit better: In the 15th century an ancestor of mine, Lord James of Dartmouth, spent several months in the Tower of London until he could pay King Henry IV a sum of 2000 pounds, literally a “King’s ransom” – in spite of the fact that Lord James was said to have been a favourite of the King.)

Now, of course, things are entirely different. Today, the Sheriff does not ride into your village demanding your money. You are required to send it in yourself. If you fail to pay, your house is not burned. It is confiscated, along with your other possessions, and you face prison. Increasingly, people are ruled by force just as in the 15th century. But in spite of this, citizens of many First World countries still claim to have free elections – the last bastion of the democratic system.

The Democratic Process

The idea of the democratic process is that the people may elect their leaders and thus control their destiny. However, running for office is quite expensive, and this means finding donors. Understandably, anyone who provides a donation does not regard it as a gift. He seeks something in return. In national elections, this means very large donations, translating into very large compensations. Those who contribute the most (Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Banks, the Military Industry, etc.) can demand quite a bit in return.

In any “democracy” that has been in existence for a long enough time, the relationship between donors and candidates has become circular; that is, after the candidate is elected, he repays the donor, by providing either tax dollars or rights to operate that others do not enjoy. Once the circular relationship is fully cemented for a period of time, the returns to the donor grow to far exceed the donations. As a result, voters are, unwittingly, actually paying the donors and the government to dominate their lives.

Not surprisingly, donors come to regard these tax dollar infusions as a regular source of revenue and seek to have them grow regularly. (If voters could understand this circular relationship, they would be less surprised when their legislators – whether they be conservative or liberal – consistently fail to diminish the government need for tax.)

So we are left with the remaining advantage of democracy: the ability to vote for those who will protect our freedoms, as we see them.

The Two Party System

In the majority of First World countries, there are a host of political parties (America is a notable exception), each claiming to represent a specific point of view. Most of the parties are fringe parties, and voting generally comes down to the two main parties: liberal and conservative. Liberals claim to champion the social freedoms (gay rights, abortion, etc.) whilst trying to limit economic freedom. Conservatives claim to champion the precise opposite.

Most voters seem to see the system as alternating between the two parties. For example, first the liberals win and increase the social freedoms of the country. Then after awhile they are voted out and the conservatives have their turn, increasing the economic freedoms. Described in this way, it would seem that the “two-party system” provides an ideal balance, moving ever-forward with increased freedoms for all.

However, if this attractive image were the case, liberal voters would not be filled with disappointment at the end of a liberal term in which their social freedoms somehow had not increased. (Their party somehow “needed to compromise” with the evil conservatives.) However, if the liberal party was successful in diminishing economic freedoms, this distraction would serve to keep these voters loyal to the party.

At the end of a conservative term, it is the reverse. While their stated objectives for regained economic freedoms somehow failed to come to pass (again, “compromise” was somehow necessary), the leaders still managed to limit social freedoms in some way. (The Patriot Act in America is perhaps the most extraordinary example.)

What voters seem to miss is that, along the way, far from increasing one type of freedom under one party, then increasing the alternate type of freedom under the other, the net effect is the exact opposite. Under a liberal government, economic freedom is diminished, and under a conservative government, social freedom is diminished. Freedom, in general, therefore, ratchets downward with each term.

It does seem that voters throughout the First World are beginning to recognize that they are getting short shrift no matter which party is in power, and that their country is headed inexorably downward (while the leaders seem to be doing rather well.)

Will the voters ultimately rebel?

Will the minor demonstrations of discontent evident now in the First World escalate into something more organized and more violent?

What do the politicians think is likely to happen? Whilst they are not commenting on the subject, we should be able to guess their predictions based upon their actions. If they plan to increase freedoms in the future, they would be providing a calming effect to the present frustrations. However, if their true goal is a return to a kind of modern serfdom, they would be preparing for it by increasing their controls, both economic and social. In much of the First World, the latter seems to be the intended direction. Nowhere is this more evident than in America, with the renewal of the Patriot Act, and with the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act.

Modern Day Feudalism

As stated above, the main difference between the feudal system of five hundred years ago and the feudal system that is developing in the First World today is that the packaging is more sophisticated. Instead of having identifiable kings whom we may all hate, we have the distraction of two political teams that we may “choose” between. While we praise the good guys (our preferred political party) and hope that they will vanquish the bad guys (the opposing political party), they are in fact one and the same, and they both work for the kings.

Reprinted with permission from International Man.

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A few days ago, some important Twitter personalities noticed that Germans vastly overestimate Kamala Harris’s chances of winning the U.S. presidency:

“Who will win the US presidential election?” ask ZDF’s Politbarometer

According to that very same poll, 83% of Germans believe that a Trump victory would be “rather bad” for Germany:

Pollsters periodically ask Germans which American presidential candidate they would support, were they in a position to vote. Last July, 79% said they would vote for Kamala Harris; only 13% would vote for Donald Trump. The numbers are typical: Barack Obama claimed 71% support in a similar poll from 2008 and Hillary Clinton enjoyed 82% support in 2016. Right now, Green voters split 99% for Harris, Social Democrat voters 92%, nominally centre-right CDU/CSU voters 89%, market-liberal FDP voters 85%, and voters for the old-school leftist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party 52%. Across the entire German political landscape, only Alternative für Deutschland voters would support Trump by a thin majority of 51%. Even here, one-in-four are undecided, and the remaining one-in-four would vote for Harris.

You might be tempted to argue that differing national interests explain this, but I don’t think that argument works. It’s far from obvious that a Harris administration would further the interests of the German people. The war in Ukraine and the associated bombing of Nord Stream, for example, were both enthusiastically supported by Joe Biden specifically, and they proved catastrophic for the Federal Republic. What is really going on here is much subtler: Many Germans know English, but consuming foreign-language material is a pain and relatively few have any direct contact with Trump’s debates, his speeches or sympathetic English-language reporting. We learn about American presidential campaigns primarily through our media, and Germany has a vast state-adjacent media industrial complex in much the same way that the United States has a vast state-adjacent military industrial complex.

And: The German media industrial complex is truly fanatical when it comes to hating Trump. We are basically conducting a real-world experiment to determine how much media manipulation can achieve when deployed en masse against a low-information, credulous population. My American readers will say that their own media is heavily biased, but German media is vastly, vastly more extreme.

NiUS sums up the tenor of German political coverage well: The German press have openly favoured Democratic Party presidential candidates for decades; they are invariably portrayed as wise, forward-looking beacons (if not bacons) of hope for the future. Republican candidates since Ronald Reagan, meanwhile, are ridiculed as dangerous, incompetent and stupid. Trump merely added new hysteria and urgency to these old, long-standing tropes. A 2017 paper by Thomas Patterson at Harvard University looked at European coverage of Trump’s first 100 days in office in the BBC, the Financial Times and the ARD – Germany’s oldest public media broadcaster. The BBC covered Trump negatively 75% of the time and the Financial Times covered him negatively 86% of the time, but the ARD were by far the most extreme, directing fully 98% of their Trump stories against the forty-fifth president. In their absolute anti-Trumpism, ARD outpaced even American media like CNN and NBC (92% negative), to say nothing of more “serious” press like the New York Times and the Washington Post (87% and 83% negative, respectively).

Even that is only a partial picture, because you have to remember that there is no major opposition media in Germany at all. The newsweekly Junge Freiheit, for example – which covers Trump about as sympathetically as Fox News – has a circulation of less than 30,000. It is all wall-to-wall anti-Trump screeching all the time here in the Federal Republic.

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At the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Hilton Head, South Carolina Tom Woods made some flattering comments about Yours Truly regarding my 2000 book coauthored with James T. Bennett entitled
From Pathology to Politics: Public Health in America (Transaction Publishers).  That’s the year 2000, not 2020.  Tom’s comment was the result of his discovery that my coauthor and I had smoked out the dishonesty and left-wing political gimmickry of the “public health establishment” nearly a quarter of a century ago.

The “public health” movement was created shortly after the Civil War with the creation of state and local government “health departments” that concentrated on sanitation issues, disease research, enforcing quarantines, inoculations, controlling mosquitoes, waste disposal, swamp drainage, immunizations, and attempting to control communicable diseases in general.  The American Public Health Association (APHA) was founded in 1872 as a trade association for public health professionals.  It is almost shocking today to read about how post Civil War cities in America were full of such things as pig pens, cesspools, privy vaults, and manure piles!

For the first several decades of its existence the presidents of the APHA were all people with scientific training – surgeons, medical statisticians, chemists, sanitarians, experts in bacteriology, hygiene, anatomy, and even botany.  Great progress was made in controlling diseases and eradicating some of them, like Yellow Fever, and improving mortality rates.  Economic growth surely played an important role as well, enabling Americans to attain better nutrition and living standards in general.

By the 1950s the dire problems that existed in the post-war years had pretty much disappeared, confronting the public health establishment with a major dilemma: With its mission essentially accomplished, how would it continue to justify its existence and its tax-funded support?

Lyndon Johnson’s “great society” explosion of welfare state spending during the 1960s provided the answer.  The federal government’s “Kerner Report” of 1968 on the “root causes” of poverty was fully embraced by the APHA.  In doing so the public health establishment changed its focus entirely from controlling disease to creating a healthy society through welfare statism.  The goal was no longer enhancing individual health but “curing” society’s ills.  That’s where the big tax money was.  Fewer and fewer medical and health professionals were among “public health” professionals, with more and more lobbyists, political activists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists.  The public health establishment began crusading for increased welfare payments, a guaranteed annual income “for all Americans,” government housing subsidies, racial hiring quotas, and school busing.

Keynote speakers at APHA conventions were no longer likely to be medical and health professionals but such figures as former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney.  The annual conference began to have themes like “Social Justice in Public Health.”  The conferences began calling for a “radical redistribution of wealth,” and declaring that illness is supposedly caused by a “power imbalance” that is “inherent in a capitalist society.”  Just like that, the public health establishment was captured by radical socialist political activists.

The notion that individuals are responsible for their own health was abandoned and the APHA declared that “Government holds ultimate accountability for the nation’s health.”  The implication of this is that you do not own your own body and are therefore not responsible for your own health.  You are now owned by government and government, not you, is the responsible party.

“Social programs” were now what was supposedly needed to cure “society.”  Every left-wing political fad and platitude imaginable became part of the public health mantra during the 1960s and ‘70s.  The APHA endorsed nationalized medical care, the pursuit of zero population growth through sterilization of men and women, government central planning of the energy industries, a condemnation of the automobile as “an immediate health and safety hazard,” more government make-work “jobs” programs, general praise for the communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and especially communist Cuba, a super minimum wage law, subsidized abortions, nationalized child care, and the notion that gun ownership is a disease.  “Guns are a disease that must be eradicated,” announced one Dr. Katherine Christoffel of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

No longer did the public health establishment maintain that health comes from individual choices regarding lifestyle, diet, exercise, etc. but from “participation in the political process” as two card-carrying members of “the new public health” establishment wrote in a 1996 article in Health Education Quarterly.

More and more medical school graduates chose the Anthony Fauci career path. Instead of practicing medicine they used their medical degrees to land jobs in the federal bureaucracy.  Fauci himself was never a practicing physician but an NIH bureaucrat straight out of medical school who, for many years, directed billions of dollars of government-funded research, so much of which, we now know, was useless or ridiculous and did nothing to improve public health.  In fact, it created great harm.  As the most successful of all such public health bureaucrats, he engineered fake health scam after fake health scam all throughout his government career ( Ebola! Swine Flu! Hong Kong Swine Flu! Bird Flu!  Zika Virus! Monkeypox!!) as a means of boosting his agency’s budget year after year after year.  In his book The Real Anthony Fauci Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. showed that every one of these was a scam and a fraud.  They were used as excuses to rush to market “vaccines” that proved to be useless or harmful, but made billions for Big Pharma, which is joined at the hip with the National Institutes of Health bureaucrats who profit handsomely themselves by owning patents on some of these dangerous drugs.  Sound familiar?

Governmental powers and tax revenues always balloon whenever there is a crisis or the perception of a crisis.  This is the business the public health bureaucracies are now in.  They are a permanent Halloween show, constantly coming up with one “health scare” after another, forever crying wolf to dupe American taxpayers into acquiescing in an exponential increase in their budgets and perks.  They are the political whores of the pharmaceutical corporations in a system that can only be described as fascism.  And of course it was Anthony Fauci who orchestrated the Sovietization of American society in 2020/2021 with his Hitlerian declarations that HE was science.  Science is not science, he said; HE was science.

All the powers of the central government were used to censor criticism of the covid “vaccine” scam; to prohibit life-saving medicines like ivermectin; and to destroy the careers and lives of medical professionals who dared to speak up.  All so that Big Pharma could continue to rake in billions while throwing a few crumbs to pathetic political whores like Anthony Fauci and his public health fiefdom.

In just a few years since the covid debacle the public health establishment has thankfully become widely acknowledged as an enemy of the public, a generator of fake health emergencies that only serve to give it even more totalitarian powers and to extract more tax dollars from the public.  It continues to call for more covid shots, but only 4 percent of Americans are reportedly complying.  The rest are giving the public health bureaucrats a big middle finger.

All of this is nothing new: It began in the 1960s when that establishment decided that the Big Money was in pretending to be able to “cure society’s ills” rather than improving individual human health.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed his goal is to completely “eliminate Hamas and Hezbollah, both politically and militarily.” That’s his impossible dream. Further, he claims that the wars — and UN declared genocide — being waged on the men, women and children living in Gaza and Lebanon won’t be over until he accomplishes that aberrant dream.

There’s more to it. The Israelis should have learned from their humiliating defeat in trying to take over Lebanon from Hezbollah in 2006. The spoiler is well memed by Col. Richard Dunn in speaking of “our” Afganistan War blunder like this – – –

“You could kill all the terrorists in Afghanistan, all the terrorists in the world. You could hang Osama bin Laden in sight of the White House. You still wouldn’t have solved the problem because you will have created a whole new generation of terrorists.” –Col. Richard Dunn, October, 2001

But of course, the terrorists are the Israelis not Hamas (or Hezbollah.)

By the Zionist fixation on killing “leaders,” they demonstrate their amazing failure to learn from their own mistakes. They assume their adversaries’ count on hierarchical structures and presumed hierarchical leaders and that these are essential in today’s warfare.

In imagining they can wipe out Palestinian resistance with tanks, and bombs etc, when confronting Fourth Generation adversaries such as Hamas and Hezbollah, the Zionists demonstrate they’re stuck in second and third generation warfare thinking. The result is extremely destructive.

This below gives you an insight as to the actual importance of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, in fact decentralized leaders in general – – –

“There is a basic fallacy concerning Indian leadership of which nearly all are guilty. For purposes of discussion, we can refer to it as the ‘fallacy of the chief.’ Sometime in the pioneer era, we fell victim to the belief that the prevailing pattern of political organization among all American Indians was hereditary dictatorship; in other words, that a ruler from a particular lineage exercised unlimited power over a group of obedient subjects. … So ingrained is this belief that today the average tourist, when visiting an Indian reservation, is likely to ask ‘which one is the chief?’ … The North American Indians had ‘chiefs’ but often these were mere advisors and virtually never dictators. Except in emergencies, they had no power over the lives and property of their fellows.” JAIE: INFORMAL POWER STRUCTURES WITHIN INDIAN COMMUNITIES

And, from the “other” side – – –

“Before the white man came, we Indians had no chiefs. We had leaders, of course, men and women chosen by consensus for their wisdom and courage. The idea of a pyramidal hierarchy with a single person at the top was European. When whites first demanded to speak to a “chief,” my ancestors didn’t quite know how to respond. They pushed somebody out in front as spokesman–not necessarily the brightest or the bravest guy around, just someone willing to talk to the strangers and find out what they wanted in our country. But as far as the whites were concerned, he was our monarch, a sort of petty king, and therefore entitled to special privileges.”-Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread (Los Angeles, Ca: General Publishing Group December 1996) p. 222

In addition to murdering approximately 42,000+ Palestinian men, women and especially children, the Israelis assassinated many Hamas and Hezbollah leaders with little noticable effect. Just last Wednesday they killed off the latest top Hamas negotiator, Yahya Sinwar. On July 31, the Zionists assassinated top Hamas peacemaker Ismail Haniyeh while he was visiting Iran. Etc.

Despite Israelie propaganda, both were moderates and respected throughout the mid-east. Is there another Hamas peacemaker with the status and respect to speak for the Hamas fighters? If not, then what?

An excellent object lesson as to how things actually operate outside Netanyahu’s aberrant dream is the U.S./Brit experience in Iraq, particularly Basra. Even more relevant is The Battle of Algiers” called “one of the most influential political films in history” which documents the outcome of such a counter-insurgency faux pas committed by the French.

P.S. The October 7 Hamas attack on some Israelies was just another tit-for-tat skirmish that went wrong. Hamas tries to capture Israeli soldiers to trade for the huge numbers of Palestinians kidnapped, imprisoned, and often held without charge for years by Israel.

The Palestinians, despite well-known Israeli propaganda, take good care of their captives else there is no trade value. A classic example is the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011. After being held for over 5 years, Shalit was exchanged for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

On October 7 of last years, things got out of hand, Israel invoked the Hannibal directive and, despite what media says, clearly killed its own on 7 October.

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Most of our country’s major media, politicians and government employees, as well as the owners and representatives of Big Business, are not only mute on the subject of America’s broken borders and the invasion of illegal aliens—including violent criminals—into America, but they are also capitalizing on this criminal activity.

My wife and I recently purchased a new refrigerator from Lowes, and it was delivered by two Venezuelans, neither of whom could speak a word of English. They then proceeded to take pictures of our house as they left. There could be no GOOD reason for doing that. Needless to say, that was the last appliance we will ever buy from that company. And this is in our little town in Northwest Montana.

The true nature of the increase in criminal activity (the very fact that illegals are here is illegal) associated with the invasion of illegals into America will be hidden by governments and newsmakers for as long as possible. In the meantime, the U.S. is becoming less and less safe—no matter where we live.

Of course, the jeopardous situation that we are forced to live in is the result of the Biden-Harris administration over the last four years that has—for its own political purposes—shown us Americans that they care absolutely NOTHING about our safety, peace and tranquility.

Just five months before Luis Miguel Calzadilla-Rojas — a Venezuelan migrant and alleged Tren de Aragua gangbanger — was arrested after a shooting outside a probation office in Aurora, Colorado, he was welcomed into the US — thanks to a controversial immigration program launched by the Biden-Harris administration.

Calzadilla-Rojas entered the country using CBP One — an app that is designed to allow asylum seekers a legal pathway to entry into America.

He’s just one of 1.3 million migrants who have come into the country through legal routes created by the Biden-Harris admin in less than two years. [Emphasis added]

The programs were created unilaterally, without Congressional approval or input.

Homeland Security sources tell The Post that there’s almost no vetting involved for most migrants, especially if their home countries — including Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba — refuse to cooperate with American law enforcement.

(Source)

I include in this column an array of examples of how serious and dangerous our illegal alien problem is today.

Illegal migrant deported 8 times with 11 arrests now charged with murder in Ohio: ‘Our border is broken.’ 

Fermin Garcia-Gutierrez, 46, has used at least 7 different names and 3 different birthdates.

(Source)

Massive Surge in Migrants in North Dakota Raises Alarms: ‘Worst’ Is Coming. 

Republican North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley warned that illegal immigration flows through the northern U.S. border that accelerated under the Biden administration will continue, with “the worst yet to come.”

“The situation has deteriorated significantly in recent years, and the current situation is untenable with millions of illegal entrants streaming across the America’s southwest border,” Wrigley said. “North Dakota is already experiencing negative law enforcement impacts as a result of the Biden Administration’s refusal to shut down the border, but my concern is that the worst is yet to come, both in the context of street crimes and violence as well as in the arena of America’s national security.”

Wrigley said there were 4,444 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2023, a drastic increase compared to the 2,127 in fiscal year 2022 and 548 in fiscal year 2021.

(Source)

Illegal migrant charged with suffocating, killing young woman on her birthday: report. 

Syracuse Police charged Ecuador native Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis with murder. 

A woman was recently suffocated and killed in New York on the same day she turned 21, officials say.

Suspect Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, 21, is accused of murdering Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza in Syracuse June 18. The Syracuse Police Department told Fox News Digital the suspect has been charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.

A source from the Department of Homeland Security recently told the New York Post both Chacaguasay-Ilbis and Toaquiza were in the U.S. illegally. Both are from Ecuador.

(Source)

Texas Chick-fil-A confirms two employees killed in shooting, illegal immigrant suspect in custody. 

The owner of a Texas Chick-fil-A confirmed that two employees were killed Wednesday in a shooting incident in Irving.

Authorities have arrested an illegal immigrant suspected in the deadly Texas shooting that left two dead inside the fast-food restaurant on Wednesday.

Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, a 37-year-old citizen of El Salvador, is charged with capital murder of multiple persons after a shooting at a Chick-fil-A in the 5300 block of North MacArthur Boulevard in Irving, police announced.

(Source)

Be sure to watch this chilling 1-minute video taken in downtown Chicago by a city resident.

Here is another report out of New York:

As if New York isn’t already plagued by rampant crime, the Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua has now extended its violent reach throughout the city (“Big Apple is a Tren wreck,” Sept. 23).

Their criminality has even affected the safety of schools near Roosevelt Avenue, where a sordid brothel has been operating. The criminal degradation resulting from the influx of illegal immigration worsens by the day, threatening the safety of neighborhoods and residents alike.

When illicit activities occur so close to schools, it is clear that we are approaching societal collapse.

Here is another report out of Texas:

Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang recruiting kids from Texas middle schools. 

Cova was identifiable as Tren de Aragua from a five-point crown tattoo on his arm. 

A confirmed Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member has been arrested for allegedly recruiting students from two Houston middle schools to become new gang members.

Jorgenys Robertson Cova, an illegal alien from Venezuela, entered the United States two years ago, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The 32-year-old was arrested Monday after a string of alleged thefts.

Cova is also alleged to have recruited middle school students from Jane Long Academy and Las Americas, which are part of Houston Independent School District.

And here is a recent report out of Aurora, Colorado:

Aurora officials can no longer deny ugly truth of Tren de Aragua takeover. 

Denial’s not just a river in Egypt: The go-to game plan for leaders who are hell-bent on ignoring the effects of Harris-Biden administration’s border crisis has been to pretend that the gangbangers who are wreaking havoc in their communities have unknown origins.

That strategy fell apart Wednesday in Aurora, Colo., when federal law enforcement sources confirmed to The Post that one of the men in a group of armed thugs caught on video breaking into an apartment is an admitted member of Tren de Aragua.

So much for Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain’s claim to reporters that cops hadn’t found ties to any gangs among the suspects, and city officials’ larger vehement denial that Aurora has a migrant gang problem.

Local authorities don’t want to look overwhelmed by admitting that a gang has taken control of their city.

Democrats are determined to run cover for the Harris-Biden administration, whose border fiasco has enabled Tren’s explosive rise in blue cities.

The media is happy to buy the lie, since their main goal through Election Day is to smooth Kamala Harris’ path to the White House.

But the facts won’t budge: Aurora has been absorbing the unhappy consequences of close proximity to sanctuary city Denver for the past two years.

As migrants poured into Aurora, TDA ‘bangers began setting up shop in dilapidated apartment complexes — forcing staff to flee, collecting “rent” by threatening residents and committing violent robberies, shootings and assaults.

Government leaders in the United States, Western Europe (save Hungary’s Viktor Orban) and Israel are, for the most part, as corrupt as any mafia gangster. In fact, mafia gangsters might have more scruples than these crooked politicians. They are truly people without conscience.

In their ineffective efforts to be Washington’s pathetic pawns in an unwinnable war in Ukraine, NATO leaders have not only almost bankrupted their own countries but have also made their own countries practically defenseless. They have shown their own citizens that they have sold not only their souls but their countries to stay on the smiley side (aka money side) of the warmongers in Washington.

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is now one of the most murderously insane governments to ever exist in human history. Netanyahu is willing to take the world into nuclear war to maintain his position as Prime Minister, knowing that when he leaves office, he is facing serious jail time in Israel for a variety of corruption charges. Netanyahu is not fighting for Israel; he is fighting for Netanyahu.

And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have deliberately and premeditatedly brought millions of criminal aliens into our country in the hopes they will vote (illegally) in November and help Kamala win. As with Netanyahu, these people are maniacal parasites who live off the death and destruction that they inflict upon their own people for the sole purpose of advancing their own self interests.

And there is no need to write and tell me that Donald Trump is a great and safe alternative. He’s not! There is not a man alive who is filled with more pride, egotism and narcissism than Trump. And he will probably be elected on November 5.

Trump might be better than Harris on the immigration issue, but when it comes to nuclear war, we probably have more to fear from Trump.

Harris is fixated with Ukraine. But Ukraine is lost. It’s over! And everyone inside the Beltway knows it. Ukraine will surrender to Russia’s terms probably before Inauguration Day on January 20. It could even happen sooner. The failed U.S. war in Ukraine will join the failed U.S. war in Vietnam (and how many other places around the world?).

When it comes to Israel’s wars of aggression in the Middle East, Trump is far more hawkish than Harris. He has already stated that he wants the United States to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. Do you understand what Trump is saying?

The only bomb that would be effective against those facilities deep inside the Iranian mountains would be a nuclear bomb. When Trump talks about bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, he is talking about using nuclear weapons.

Should the United States fire a nuclear weapon on Iran, do you really think that the nuclear powers of the world would sit back in abject apathy? As soon as the U.S. warhead would leave the silo, Russia, China, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran itself would have hundreds of nuclear warheads and hypersonic missiles in the sky. It would be a spontaneous global nuclear war. And the United States would NOT be spared.

Netanyahu’s criminal insanity is deliberately doing everything it can to draw the United States into an all-out war with Iran, which would include war with Russia, China, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia—and no telling how many other countries in the world. And given Donald Trump’s extreme Zionist radicalism, he would be the perfect president to oblige Netanyahu’s murderous madness.

This is God’s judgment upon an antichrist, apostate West. And all evangelicals can do is shout, “Hallelujah,” because they think this is their Rapture moment. It’s not! If nuclear war erupts, the Rapturists will suffer the consequences along with the rest of us.

Face it, folks! Biden and Harris (along with our members of Congress in both parties), the leaders of Western Europe and Benjamin Netanyahu are taking the West into the abyss.

On the other hand, the Eastern-led BRICS movement will probably replace the U.S. dollar in the not too distant future as the world’s reserve currency and end America’s debt-based global economic hegemony—which would actually be a GOOD thing. Why? Because it would force Congress to balance its budget and end the limitless supply of fiat money for Israel and our endless foreign wars.

That is, if God mercifully delivers us from nuclear war in the meantime.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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The Dem candidate brags about 16 million new jobs on the Harris-Biden watch and Trump claims the Greatest Economy Ever—evidenced in part by low inflation that his successor purportedly blew sky high.

Both are lying. Both ignore crucial matters of context—such as stage of the business cycle, Fed policy actions, forces arising from the $105 trillion global economy in which US growth, jobs and inflation are inextricably rooted and the fact of lag times in transmission of Washington policy into economic outcomes.

Among other things, these factors mean that comparing administrations based on the calendar happenstance of four or eight year presidential terms is inherently dubious. There are too many intervening and cross-cutting forces that usually far overpower the meager impact of White House policy pronouncements and implemented actions.

For instance, the Harris-Biden administration brags that they have created 16.6 million jobs since December 2020, but we are hard pressed to understand how Sleepy Joe had anything to do with the reported BLS numbers. Fully 9.8 million or 59% of these “new” jobs were not that at all; they were “born-again” jobs, reflecting the on-going spring-back of the US economy from from the Lockdown-induced 22 million jobs plunge 0f April 2020.

So if you go back to the February 2020 high water mark’s 152.309 million jobs, the gain under Harris-Biden through the 159.105 million figure reported for September 2024 amounts to just 151,000 net new jobs per month. As it happened, the US economy gained 261,000 per month of net new jobs during Obama’s second term and 181,000 per month during the Donald’s term through February 2020.

So Kamala has absolutely nothing to brag about: 40-year high inflation and the weakest rate of net job growth in decades. That’s made even more dramatic when you look at the monthly jobs gains relative to a continually expanding economy.

Annualized Growth of Net New Nonfarm Jobs:

• Obama’s Second Term: 2.36%.
• Trump Thru Feb 2020: 1.49%.
• Harris-Biden to date:1.27%

Harris-Biden Nonfarm Employment Growth—-Three Fifths Were Born-Again Jobs Owing to the Rebound From The Lockdown Plunge

Likewise, when it comes to the fundamental matter of overall economic growth, Trump has absolutely nothing to boast about, either. The growth rate of real final sales of domestic product, which is the best proxy for economic growth because it excludes volatile short-term inventory swings, posted at just 1.5% per annum during his 48 months in the Oval Office. That’s the second lowest of all presidents since Eisenhower and barely half the average economic growth rate between 1954 and 2016.

Indeed, the Donald has never been a stickler for even remote factual accuracy, but surely it does take some chutzpah to claim you ranked at the top of your class, when you actually scrapped the bottom, bested only by Bush the Younger and then by just a hair for last place.

Average Real Growth Per Annum:

• Kennedy-Johnson: 5.0%.
• Clinton: 3.8%.
• Reagan: 3.4%.
• Carter: 3.4%.
• Eisenhower: 2.9%.
• Nixon-Ford: 2.7%.
• Bush the Elder: 2.2%.
• Obama: 1.7%.
• Trump: 1.5%.
• Bush the Younger: 1.1%.
• All presidents, 1954 to 2016: 3.0%.

The above should constitute the proverbial, nuff said!

But the Donald’s partisans whine “because Covid”. And besides, inflation was running at 1.9% when the Donald left office.

Well, take the COVID-impacted quarters out of the calculation and you still get an average of just 2.2% per annum economic growth—right near the bottom.

As a matter of fact, however, Covid didn’t cause the plunge in employment and GDP during Q2 2020. The Lockdowns did, which the Donald ordered. And the contraction was aggravated mightily by Dr. Fauci and the Virus Patrol’s daily scary story briefings that kept Americans hunkered-down in their homes—a destructive messaging campaign that was conducted from the White House bully pulpit with the Donald’s full endorsement and frequent participation.

Indeed, the whole Lockdown/pandemic dislocation amounted to a grotesque violation of the constitutional rights of  speech, assembly, worship and property. So the Donald actually gets a very heavy black mark for their implementation on his watch because these gross constitutional violations never would have happened if he had been opposed them and sent Fauci et. al. packing. And most certainly the Donald doesn’t get a hall pass for the immense economic losses and contractions the Lockdowns caused.

Still, facts such as these are of minor moment in Trumpland. Besides, the claim of a great economy retains some resonance with the public owing to its remembrance that inflation was better behaved back then before the indexes hit 40 year highs in 2021-2022.

Yet here is the path of our trusty 16% trimmed mean CPI from 1992 to the present. For the period up to the pandemic disruptions after February 2020, you truly do need a magnifying glass to detect any differences among the administrations in power during those years.

And that goes for the Donald’s 38 months in the Oval Office up until February 2020, as well. The 2.24% inflation rate per annum during that interval was right in the middle of the pack. There was nothing Greatest Ever about it.

Per Annum Change In the 16% Trimmed Mean CPI:

• Clinton: 2.50%.
• Bush the Younger: 2.41%.
• Obama: 1.75%.
• Trump thru 2/2020: 2.24%

Again, when you take the whole term right through the pandemic quarters, the story is the same. Inflation averaged 2.12% per annum on the Donald’s 48-month watch.

Moreover, Trump’s thoroughly in-line rate of purchasing power loss meant that the saver’s and wage earner’s dollar of January 1993 continued to depreciate, reaching just 45 cents by January 2021. And the Donald did exactly nothing to stop this horrific confiscation of purchasing power and wealth.

In fact, he labored mightily and loudly while in the Oval Office to quash any incipient attempt at the Fed to shut-down the printing presses and aggressively drain the inflationary excess liquidity that had been pumped into the economy year-after-year in response to the so-called Great Financial Crisis. The resulting UniParty policy consensus thus essentially amounted to cheap interest rates and swelling financial asset prices, the better to pleasure its paymasters on Wall Street and to fund the exploding public debt.

Of course, “low interest man” Trump was 100% onboard.

Index Of Consumer Dollar’s Purchasing Power Since January 1993

And this gets us to the inflation acceleration that happened after the economy began to recover from the Q2 2020 crash, which saw real GDP plunge at a 32% annualized rate and nearly 22 million workers put on the streets.

Thereafter, the Y/Y trimmed mean CPI began marching stoutly uphill per the chart below, rising from 1.99% on a Y/Y basis in the Donald last month in office to a peak of 7.22% Y/Y in September 2022.

This 40-year high acceleration, however, did not happen by the economic equivalent of immaculate conception, nor was it owing to some flaw in capitalism that had laid dormant over previous decades. And most certainly it was not due to the policies of Harris-Bidden alone—since measured inflation was soaring long before they had made any real impact on the main street economy.

To the contrary, the Washington UniParty caused this inflationary lift-off owing to a burst of fiscal and monetary excess like had never before been recorded or even imagined. And that double whammy was launched and largely executed on the Donald’s watch, not Biden’s. It is only owing to the lag in policy transmission through the main street economy and into lagging government statistics that Biden has taken the wrap for the disaster shown below.

Y/Y Change In 16% Trimmed Mean CPI, February 2020 to August 2024

The booby prize for the inflation surge should be shared, of course. For want of doubt, here is the Washington spending bacchanalia that triggered the inflationary tsunami shown above. For the quarters before Q2 2020, government spending had been growing steadily at a $400 billion annualized rate.

Then the Donald ordered the Lockdowns in mid-March 2020, and soon was at the White House Bully Pulpit assuring tens of millions of families suddenly locked out of work and quarantined at home that cash help from Uncle Sam was on the way.

It surely was. Government spending in Q2 2020 increased by $3.54 trillion at an annualized rate. That was nearly nine times the Q4 2019 rate of growth.

Needless to say, this amounted to the Mother of All Demand Shocks. And worse still, it came at a time when much of the services sector was shut down, also upon the Donald’s orders. So this flood of demand figuratively flowed into the Amazon delivery vans, causing all working inventories in the domestic distribution system to be quickly depleted and foreign supply chains to be sucked dry shortly thereafter. Prices of merchandise goods consequently soared.

Nor was the $2.3 trillion CARES act which hit in Q2 2020 the end of it. The Y/Y spending growth rate in Q3 2020 was $2.42 trillion, or six times the pre-pandemic trend, and in Q4 the $1.07 trillion rate of government spending gain was still more than double the prior trend.

Moreover, during the 2020 election period, the Donald showed that he was not willing to leave well enough alone by advocating a second $2000 stimmy payment to 90% of US households. Subsequently, this got funded partially in the pre-Christmas Covid relief bill that Trump signed and the balance came in the American Rescue Act signed by Biden in early March 2021.

As it happened, however, both the second Trump bill and the Biden pile-on hit the spending stream in Q1 2021, causing government spending growth to soar once more, to a $3.64 trillion rate of Y/Y gain. Again, that was nine-times the pre-pandemic trend.

Needless to say, the four tall bars in the graph below tell you all you need to know. This crazy eruption of government funded demand at the very time that the Virus Patrol was sharply curtailing the supply of services is the true incubator in which the subsequent burst of 40-year high inflation was fostered. And the Donald’s statutory signatures are scribbled all over the result.

Annualized Rate Of Government Spending Change, Q1 2017 to Q4 2021

To be sure, had the Fed not accommodated the resulting massive US Treasury borrowing, interest rates would have soared to double digit levels and the economy would have shut down forthwith. But again, Trump was right in there midwifing the monetary transmission of the inflationary impulse from the unprecedented eruption of fiscal stimmies. He virtually green-flagged the Fed’s madcap print-a-thon.

To wit, between August 2019 and the April 2022 inflation peak, the Fed’s balance sheet grew by a staggering $5.18 trillion. But again, $3.60 trillion or 70% of that burst of inflationary money-printing occurred on the Donald’s watch.

Nor should the true significance of these “big numbers” be gainsaid. During the Donald’s last 16 months in office, the Fed printed more money than it had during the first 100 years of its existence!

In short, Trump was most evidently the principal policy author of the inflationary wave that has racked main street since 2020 and has become the #1 issue of the current campaign. And the irony is that Trump may ride back into office on the thoroughly spurious claim that Harris-Biden did it, instead.

In fact, the UniParty did it, yet their failed policies are all that is on offer in the abysmal presidential election now under way.

Eruption of the Fed’s Balance Sheet, August 2019 to April 2022

To be sure, the only candidate more clueless than the Donald about where the inflationary surge came from is Kamala Harris. Her claim that all will be well once she implements anti-gouging policies against the grocery store chains and  food companies is so infantile as to be hardly worthy of refutation.

But for want of doubt, here is the change in food prices at the farm gate, wholesale/manufacturing level and retail grocery stores since February 2020. Self-evidently, if any gouging was done it was at the farm gate level, where prices are up by 25.9%. That’s just slightly less than the 27.8% gain in wholesale food prices and actually a tad more than the 25.3% gain at retail.

Needless to say, good luck with making a gouging case out of that data. But then again, if Harris is looking for a scape-goat rather than a solution she might as well blame the farmers. The farm states are already hopelessly red.

In any event, the real culprits are the spenders and money-printers. And not surprisingly, both candidates want more of both.

Index of Food Prices At Farm Gate, Wholesale And Retail Since February 2020.

Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Contra Corner.

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“Disinformation” is a word we hear often today, along with its companion piece, “misinformation.” These are offshoots of “hate speech,” which is also used interchangeably for the same purpose; to censor discouraging words. These Orwellian terms have essentially turned criticism of authority into Thought Crime.

There is a thin line between justifiable criticism and annoying whining. As a Hall of Fame complainer, I know it’s not easy to sense the distinction. But there is virtually nothing or no one with any power in our society today that doesn’t deserve to be criticized. Skewered. Lambasted. And yet, most of the population has been indoctrinated to such an extent that they rise up in defense of the most indefensible individuals and institutions imaginable, whenever a Thought Criminal points out that they aren’t wearing any clothes. In the recent tragedy in North Carolina, where FEMA and law enforcement officials at all levels proved to be such an impediment to relief efforts, sheeple were all over the internet, figuratively yelling, “So you think you could do better?” Well, yes, actually, I do. I think any person not inspired by Satan himself could do better, simply by not stopping rescues and supply deliveries.

We expect the state controlled media to make excuses for the nonstop corruption, incompetence, and now insanity, that rules our crumbling society. After all, they are paid very well be apologists for it. So it was entirely in character for them to dismiss “baseless conspiracy theories” regarding FEMA and Hurricane Helene. The video reports from people on the scene, who’d been personally impacted, didn’t matter to them. It was all just “disinformation.” The victims of the hurricane were simply lying, or imagining, that government officials were blocking relief efforts. They imagined the National Guard helicopter which hovered low enough in the air to blow away supplies. There is video of that, but it’s still “disinformation.” Videos and eyewitness testimony are irrelevant when the “experts” speak. And the “experts” always find that criticism of authority is, in fact, “disinformation.” Dangerous “disinformation.”

They’ve been at this game for a long time. In the 1950s, they thoroughly demonized Senator Joe McCarthy. His attempt to investigate Soviet infiltration into our government, particularly the Army, was mocked as a “witch hunt.” They hadn’t invented the term “disinformation” yet, and wouldn’t have dared to call it “hate speech.” The American public was still too gullible in that era, but they were rocket scientists compared to the dumbed down sheeple today. As I detail in my new book American Memory Hole, McCarthy had nothing to do with blacklisting, in Hollywood or anywhere else. Hollywood figures were questioned by the House Unamerican Activities Committee. McCarthy served in the Senate. But that doesn’t matter to the court historians, who are the gatekeepers of the past. Everything ever promulgated by the establishment about Joe McCarthy is 100 percent, USDA choice disinformation.

As I’m sure you know, I got started down these rabbit holes by researching the JFK assassination. And quickly discovering that everything said and written by the state controlled media and court historians about the event was 100 percent, USDA choice disinformation. Literally, the only thing they got right was the date and location. Dan Rather, one of my journalistic heroes as a teenager for his tough questioning of Richard Nixon, first burst into prominence as a local CBS reporter in Dallas. “Covering” the assassination in his trademark, “fake news” style. At a time when no one had seen the home movie taken of the assassination by Abraham Zapruder, Rather came on the air and excitedly disclosed that he had, and that the president’s head moved forward dramatically after shots were fired. As anyone who has ever seen the Zapruder film knows, this is a huge lie. JFK’s head in fact moved violently backwards. Violating the laws of physics, as Oswald was supposedly firing from behind.

It isn’t fun being a Thought Criminal. That was especially the case in the late 1970s, when so few of us existed. Fortunately, my wit enabled me to still be a popular party guest, but I knew where to draw the line. As has become painfully apparent to me over the years, I influenced almost no one. One old girlfriend did become a lesbian, as I may have mentioned before. So if I played a hand in that, I guess that’s something. I have stopped discussing Truth in social gatherings. I stopped after my rant about 9/11 really angered some good writer friends. I realized that it was impossible to enlighten them. I recognized this as well while teaching a course on the JFK assassination for my county adult education program. There was always a lone nutter in the bunch, and my impressive Power Point presentation failed to impress them. The old Thomas Gray chestnut comes to mind- where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

I discovered governmental disinformation everywhere. The RFK and MLK assassinations. The Ruby Ridge tragedy, where the government set up Randy Weaver, a racial separatist- not a “supremacist”- who merely wanted to be left alone with his family in the wilderness. Waco, where government tanks murdered American citizens- in their own home- using a poisonous gas banned by the Geneva Convention for use in warfare. The state controlled media were unanimous in support of serial conspirator Bill Clinton, and smeared any truth about Waco as “conspiracy theory.” It was the 1990s, and we had yet to see the widespread use of the terms “racist,” and certainly not “disinformation.” When the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City blew up, General Ben Partin and others who stated the obvious- that the magic fertilizer bomb couldn’t have done all that damage- were ignored. Timothy McVeigh received a monstrously unfair trial and was executed faster than anyone in Death Row history.

If some of us mention the U.S. Secret Service official memorandum, which describes Clinton White House counsel Vince Foster’s body being found inside his car, that would now be labeled “disinformation.” Foster’s body was officially discovered in Fort Marcy Park, on the ground. Not in his car. So it’s a government memo saying this, not a “conspiracy theory.” Just like the passport of one of the supposed 9/11 hijackers, being found on top of all the pulverized steel and debris, somehow unscathed. They admit that- even bragged about it, so it’s not a “conspiracy theory.” Just like the fact they tell you that the temperature from the magical jet fuel cocktail got up to a certain temperature, which was not nearly as high as their science tells us is necessary for steel to melt. And yet, in the next breath, they’ll insist that it has been “proven” that the fuel melted the beams. That’s 100%, USDA choice disinformation.

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“Climate instability” is a soft term, for climate geoengineering, weather modification, extended into weather weaponizing. In other words, a crime on humanity.

Professor Michel Chossudovsky provides the historic and technical details concerning weather warfare that has been emerging slowly since WW II, and probably before.

For certain, whenever you hear “fake news” to comments and reports about geoengineering and weather weaponizing, you can be sure the so-called fake news are actually the truth. And this is the case for most everything else called “fake news”.

However, what tops it all, is the recent discovery through a former employee at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. He says, what he saw at the South Pole Station is “HAARP on steroids”. He became a whistleblower, who testified before the United States Senate.

HAARP stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. Since 2015, it is officially a University of Alaska Fairbanks project which researches the ionosphere – the highest, ionized part of Earth’s atmosphere. In reality, it has a long history of weather modification and climate geoengineering.

The researcher and whistleblower, Eric Hecker, used to work for Raytheon Technologies Corporation, an American multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate, at the South Pole Station. In a 15-minute interview by Redacted, he reveals the existence of a MASSIVE weather machine at the South Pole Station. The interview, which details what Mr. Hecker experienced at the South Pole Station, is mind-blowing. It “makes the HAARP project look like a baby project.”

The weather machines at the South Poles Station can control earthquakes and the weather, alias climate. They can fabricate and direct earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones just about anywhere in the world. In addition, there is a giant UFO control tower, also called a neutrino control tower.

Neutrinos are tiny subatomic particles, often called ‘ghost particles’ because they barely interact with anything else. Neutrinos can be used as high-frequency energy transmitters. Earthquake or storm forming energy can be beamed literally anywhere in the world.

Mr. Hecker talks about precisely targeted earthquakes and storms.

See and listen to this earth-shaking interview by Redacted of 11 October 2024.

Concluding, weaponizing weather and climate, makes nuclear war superfluous. “Weather” and earthquakes can be targeted to specific areas as in war.

Also, avoiding nuclear wars avoids nuclear radiation and nuclear fallouts that can last from a few decades to thousands of years, and may affect the commandeering elite, as much as the common plebs.

What We, the People, want to avoid is nuclear war and weaponized weather and / or climate.

We do not want wars of any kind.

We seek Peace and the Light that will bring Peace. 

Weather Warfare

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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The Great Fright among the elite of the party ruling our country steals across the land chillingly now from sea to shining sea — as if all those ghouls, werewolves, zombies, and tormented wraiths assembled in the front yard Halloween displays send up one mighty wail of despair: Donald Trump will seek revenge against his enemies if you elect him! they scream into the pale moonlight.

Well, he ought to, of course, and remember: they are your enemies, too — the FBI thugs battering down your doors at five in the morning, the malicious US attorneys manufacturing phony felonies, the Soros-owned DAs and party-owned judges, and the thousands of spooks from agencies both known and unheard-of surveilling your every move, every purchase, every journey, every thought. Consider that it is not whether Mr. Trump might seek revenge but whether justice, and the mental health of the nation, require an accounting for the real crimes of actual persons against the people of America lo these years of the Woke Jacobin Inquisition.

Finally, as the days dwindle down to November 5, you understand exactly what motivates the three layers of evil heaping America with malice and punishment. Layer one: the officers of the political establishment, a.k.a., “the blob” or Deep State, both current and emeritus. You know now that they are motivated to stay out of courts-of-law (and, ultimately, prison). Figures such as John Brennan, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray, Anthony Fauci, Alejandro Mayorkas, Barack Obama, and many more, exude culpability for doing real harm to US citizens. They do not want to do time. As Dr. Johnson famously said: “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” They see Donald Trump’s poll number go hockey stick and they tremble in their Beltway mansions. On the Kubler-Ross transect of grief, they are just now wavering between the stages of anger and bargaining.

Second layer: the lawfare lawyer gang deployed to keep the blob safe from investigation and prosecution: Marc Elias (the mail-in ballot fraud genius), Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord (authors of every get-Trump legal brief), and many others who work with them, are motivated by the gigantic fees they command from the Democratic National Committee and other cut-out orgs that funnel payments to them. The Elias Law Group alone is rumored to have raked-in millions from one client, the Kamala Harris campaign. This is apart from whatever lawyerly zeal they exercise so enjoyably in their blood-lust for Mr. Trump and his associates. Remember: Jacobins are sadists who derive pleasure from cruelly punishing their adversaries. It probably motivates them more than the money involved, since ambitious Beltway lawyers can always and easily make bundles of money from the most mundane services to the blob.

Third Layer: the news media. The motives of these birds are the flimsiest: social status and professional stature. They operate within a self-referential reward bubble that provides psychological nourishment as long as they go along with the mumurations of their flock. They will be easiest to turn around as the national mood turns (and is now turning, sharply). A year from now, don’t be surprised if they treat Mr. Trump as a revered hero who saved the country from the malignant blob — and pretend that they never thought otherwise. By then, it will be too late for some, of course, and actual figures such as Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, NBC’s Nicolle Wallace, will be drowning in their own slime trails.

Now, whether Mr. Trump would actively seek revenge is a thing apart from the paranoia of his adversaries. On the one hand, he seems aware that his own place in history will rest not on looking backward to the harms inflicted on him as the sacrificial goat for the sins of “the deplorables” — the many Lawfare cases against him will likely be reversed in higher courts, or just dropped — but on attending to and fixing the many obvious, reality-based problems afflicting the nation: inflation, the horrendous debt, the libido for war induced by military contractors and neocons, the return of productive industry and jobs that pay living wages, sealing the border and expelling dangerous aliens, and stopping the race-and-gender hustles, to name a few things.

In 2016, Mr. Trump floated the idea of defaulting on US debt, or negotiating its terms. Sounded outrageous to some at the time. Now, with the BRICs org meeting to de-dollarize their trade arrangements, might be a ripe time to make such a move. He can reverse “Joe Biden’s” 2021 reversal of his border policies by executive order on day one, put a stop to the “sanctuary city” idiocy, and end all cash incentives to illegals currently inside the USA. He can negotiate a reasonable end to the Ukraine conflict that leaves that country neutral, as everyone knows it should be. He can incentivize the return of factory production with US companies. He knows (and you know) that there is a huge agenda of practical problems to face. Mr. Trump does not need the aggravation of stirring up further grievance and resentment among the defeated Wokesters. He needs them to get aboard a national reclamation project, get their minds right, and lend a hand.

Speaking of hands, on the other hand, remember that the signal weakness of Julius Caesar was pardoning his enemies. Since Mr. Trump is best known as a deal-maker, I believe he will seek to make a deal with the blob. The deal will be for them to cooperate in the prosecution of certain key figures in exchange for not demolishing their agencies altogether. Some of these people — Garland, Mayorkas, Fauci, Brennan, and Wray, for examples — really do need to do some ‘splainin’ in front of juries. That may be sufficient to clarify for history some of the damage the Woke insanity did to our country. We can’t pretend that nothing happened. Most of all, Mr. Trump has to defeat the sick belief that anything goes and nothing matters.

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We have to talk about Kamala Harris.

After I wrote about why Tim Walz is weird, many asked me to analyse Harris in the same way. This turns out to be a tall order. To begin with, Harris is a much more credible performer than Walz. She is merely an actor playing the part of a politician and not – like Walz – some kind of confused AI automaton aping the mannerisms and rhetoric of other actors playing the parts of politicians. To that comes the fact that most of Harris’s appearances have been highly scripted. She’s benefited from sympathetic interviewers, and in the last presidential debate, the moderators and even Donald Trump mostly failed to knock her off script. It’s no good merely to study lines that other people have written.

Recently, though, the clouds have parted. The Harris campaign, worried about narrowing polls, have scheduled various conversational interviews, including one with a “television personality and comedian” who goes by the name of the first Frankish emperor and who also calls himself God. Amazingly, there is some worthwhile material in that appearance, but it’s sparse. Our god almost never follows up on his challenges and the informal setting allows Harris to just talk and talk and talk. Harris, you’ve surely noticed, really likes to talk; she is one of those people for whom speaking is primarily about expressing emotion and mood, and only secondarily about communicating anything.

Anyway, I was afraid I’d have to analyse that interview; you can imagine my trepidation and reluctance. On Wednesday, though, the heavens took pity on me, finally granting my wish in the form of the Fox interview with Bret Baier. This has everything I’ve been asking for: An aggressive and confrontational interviewer who presses his points, a format that denies Harris the opportunity to rehearse predigested scripts and fight her way out of corners with tides of tiresome verbiage, and questions that go beyond what our candidate is prepared to talk about.

Harris has a lot of trouble in this appearance. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that it lays bare the central enigma of her candidacy. This is that Harris does not seem to be in charge of her own messaging. It is as if the American political establishment, in its zeal to defeat Trump, has produced via some benighted lab process his exact opposite, namely somebody who lacks all capacity for extemporaneous discourse. The Baier interview was indeed hostile, and even laden with some clever traps; the idea was clearly to give Harris the same kind of treatment that Trump usually receives. At the same time, Baier’s questions all addressed eminently predictable topics. None of them would’ve been remotely hard for a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama to deal with. Harris, however, just can’t say anything that hasn’t been approved by her campaign. The words literally won’t leave her mouth, which leaves her completely defenceless in the face of spontaneous challenges. It’s a quietly bizarre spectacle.

Equally bizarre are all the things Harris just isn’t prepared to discuss, even in a short interview of highly limited range. Her immigration talking points are so sparse that it’s comical. She wants to distance herself from the Biden administration but she can’t describe any concrete political differences between herself and the current president. And at the end, when Baier brings up Iran, she has almost nothing definite to say at all, although (as Baier himself notes) she claimed that Iran was America’s greatest adversary in her 60 Minutes interview just a few weeks ago. Beyond some standardised words about her wonderful plans to help young people with small businesses buy houses, all Harris has in her quiver is a great bundle of anti-Trump talking points. These crowd out literally everything else, and they also intrude on almost everything else Harris does talk about. To hear Harris speak, you’d think the forty-fifth president never left office, that he remains the dominant force in American politics, and that aside from the odd plans, being against Trump is the only thing Harris really stands far. She is a strange, hollow, low-resolution crayon candidate, and what is more, she may well win the election.

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When the FBI first released its 2022 crime data back in September 2023, they proudly reported a 2.1% drop in violent crime. It was a neat, tidy statistic that quickly became a key talking point for the Democratic Party, eager to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime. But fast forward, and the narrative has quietly changed. The FBI has revised those numbers, and now, instead of a decrease, we see a 4.5% increase in violent crime for 2022. No press release, no headline, just a stealth update—thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults added to the books without much fanfare.

This revision isn’t just a minor correction; it fundamentally shifts the story the FBI and media were telling us. But if you look at mainstream coverage, like USA Today’s recent headline from late September, you wouldn’t know it: “Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” That headline dropped three weeks after the FBI revised their 2022 data. The revised data hasn’t made its way into the narrative—and that seems just fine to the FBI.

Take a look at the updated figures:

• 1,699 more murders
• 7,780 more rapes
• 33,459 more robberies
• 37,091 more aggravated assaults

These are not small tweaks—they’re significant. Experts like Carl Moody and Dr. Thomas Marvell have raised concerns about this abrupt adjustment. As Moody pointed out, making such large-scale revisions without providing any explanation erodes trust in the FBI’s data.

The chart above shows how drastically violent crime increased according to the “new” 2022 numbers. Without these revisions, the reported decrease in 2023 would have been less than half—just a 1.6% drop instead of the initially claimed 3.5%. And yet, the media continues to cite the older, incorrect figures, leaving the public none the wiser.

These revisions are a big deal. They don’t just tweak some numbers—they completely change the narrative. And it’s not just the FBI. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently had to adjust its job creation figures, admitting they overestimated by 818,000 jobs. The FBI’s crime data is similarly impacted by guesswork and estimates—extrapolations from incomplete data reported by local police departments that can end up wildly inaccurate.

What Do These Revised Numbers Mean for Us?

The issue here is that the FBI isn’t always counting actual, reported crimes. Instead, they’re estimating unreported data, adding a hefty dose of guesswork to the mix. These processes have been described as a “black box,” even by other agencies within the Department of Justice. And now, with the revised numbers, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) tells a vastly different story: while the FBI reports a 3.5% decrease in violent crime for 2023, the NCVS indicates a 4.1% increase. Over Biden’s presidency, the FBI data shows violent crime declining, whereas the NCVS reports a jaw-dropping 55.4% increase since 2020.

These discrepancies are troubling. When one dataset tells us crime is falling, while another shows a surge in violence, it’s clear we’re not getting an accurate picture. The American public deserves transparency, but right now, it’s not happening.

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The rescue operation was an unpaid entrepreneurial mission, Operation Airdrop, by private helicopter pilots using their own equipment. Here is an interview with one participant:
Helicopter Pilot Undertakes Rescue Mission: Untitled 102

FEMA, federal agencies and state resources were late to the event and mostly an impediment when they did arrive. Generally, local officials were welcoming and appreciative of the private rescue operation. However, some pilots were threatened with arrest and ordered out of the area. I spoke to one pilot who faced arrest on two occasions because having to land in limited spaces “endangered nearby people.” It seems some authorities misinterpreted rescue as endangerment.

In another incident, a nursing home with 20 patients, 2 of whom were critical, needed an emergency evacuation. An air national guard Blackhawk helicopter was asked to perform the mission but the pilot refused, stating “rescuing people is not our mission.” A National Guard Colonel who just happened to be on site for other reasons, overheard the conversation and intervened with his own orders. The rescue mission was accomplished.

An explanation a pilot gave me is that government is bureaucracy and the bureaucratic mind is afraid to make a decision, yet still wants to exercise control over the situation. One consequence was the Starlink systems, sent in by Elon Musk to be delivered to local fire departments in order to be able to establish communication in the impacted area, were confiscated by FEMA and carried off. So were donated supplies.

FEMA is bragging on having spent some $200 million — a small fraction of US aid to Israel and Ukraine — on the rescue. It seems the money largely went to paying FEMA personnel.

Rep. Jack Kemp had a joke that he used often. The three biggest lies in history: Your check is in the mail. Of course I will respect you in the morning. I am from the government and I am here to help you.

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Our book, The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity, was published two days ago; it is already a bestseller. This is a book that three governments — the US, the UK and Australia — all sought to suppress. The story of how it came to be is extraordinary — 3250 highly credentialed doctors and scientists under the leadership of one extraordinary woman, Amy Kelly, worked for two years on the 450,000 internal Pfizer documents released under court order by a successful lawsuit by attorney Aaron Siri. In the process these volunteers confirmed the greatest crime against humanity of all time. Read on.

Introduction by Naomi Wolf

This book in your hands is the result of an extraordinary set of confluences. It also presents, in a format available in bookstores for the first time, material that has already changed history.

You are about to embark as a reader on a journey through an extraordinary story—one whose elements almost defy belief.

The Pfizer Papers is the result of a group of strangers—ordinary people with extraordinary skills, located in different places around the world, with different backgrounds and interests—who all came together, for no money or professional recompense at all; out of the goodness of their hearts, and motivated by love for true medicine and true science—to undertake a rigorous, painfully detailed, and complex research project, which spanned the years 2022 to the present, and which continues to this day.

The material they read through and analyzed involved 450,000 pages of documents, all written in extremely dense, technical language.

This far-flung, relentlessly pursued research project—under the leadership of DailyClout’s COO, the remarkably gifted project director Amy Kelly—brought one of the largest and most corrupt institutions in the world, Pfizer, to its knees. This project, pursued by 3,250 strangers who worked virtually and became friends and colleagues, drove a global pharmaceutical behemoth to lose billions of dollars in revenue. It balked the plans of the most powerful politicians on earth. It bypassed the censorship of the most powerful tech companies on earth.

This is the ultimate David and Goliath story.

The story began when lawyer Aaron Siri successfully sued the Food and Drug Administration, to compel them to release “The Pfizer Documents.” These are Pfizer’s internal documents—as noted above, 450,000 pages in number—that detail the clinical trials Pfizer conducted in relation to its COVID mRNA injection. These trials were undertaken to secure the ultimate prize for a pharmaceutical company, the “EUA,” or Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA. The FDA awarded EUA for ages 16+ to Pfizer in December 2020. The “pandemic,” of course (a crisis in public health that a book of mine, The Bodies of Others, confirmed, involved hyped and manipulated “infections” data and skewed mortality documentation) became the pretext for the “urgency” that led the FDA to bestow EUA on Pfizer’s (and Moderna’s) novel drug. The EUA is the hall pass, essentially, allowing Pfizer to race right to market with a not-fully-tested product.

The Pfizer Papers also contains documentation of what happened in “post-marketing,” meaning in the three months, December 2020 to February 2021, as the vaccine was rolled out upon the public. All leading spokespeople, and bought-off media, called the injection “safe and effective,” reading from what was a centralized script.

Many people who took this injection, as it was launched in 2020–2021–2022 and to the present, did not realize that normal testing for safety of a new vaccine—testing that typically takes ten to twelve years—had simply been bypassed via the mechanisms of a “state of emergency” and the FDA’s “Emergency Use Authorization.” They did not understand that the real “testing” was in fact Pfizer and the FDA observing whatever was happening to them and their loved ones, after these citizens rolled up their sleeves and submitted to the shot. As we can never forget, many millions of these people who submitted to the injection were “mandated” to take it, facing the threat of job loss, suspension of their education, or loss of their military positions if they refused; in some US states and overseas countries, people also faced the suspension of their rights to take transportation, cross borders, go to school or college, receive certain medical procedures, or enter buildings such as churches and synagogues, restaurants and gyms—if they refused.

The FDA asked the judge in the Aaron Siri lawsuit to withhold the release of the Pfizer documents for seventy-five years. Why would a government agency wish to conceal certain material until the present generation, those affected by what is in these documents, is dead and gone? There can be no good answer to that question.

Fortunately for history, and fortunately for millions of people whose lives were saved by this decision, the judge refused the FDA’s request, and compelled the release of the documents; a tranche of 55,000 pages per month.

When I heard about this, though, I was concerned as a journalist. I knew that no reporter had the bandwidth to go through material of this volume. I also understood that virtually no reporter had the training or skill sets required to understand the multidimensional, technically highly specialized language of the reports. In order to understand the reports, one would need a background in immunology; statistics; biostatistics; pathology; oncology; sports medicine; obstetrics; neurology; cardiology; pharmacology; cellular biology; chemistry; and many other specialties. In addition to doctors and scientists, in order to understand what was really happening in the Pfizer documents, you would also need people deeply knowledgeable about government and pharmaceutical industry regulatory processes; you would need people who understood the FDA approval process; you would need medical fraud specialists; and eventually, in order to understand what crimes were committed in the Papers, you would need lawyers.

I was worried that without people with all of those skill sets reading through the documents, their volume and complexity would lead them to vanish down “the memory hole.”

Enter Steve Bannon, the former Naval Officer, former Goldman Sachs investment banker, former advisor to President Trump, and current host of the most popular political podcast in America and one of the most listened-to worldwide, WarRoom.

He and I come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. I had been a lifelong Democrat, an advisor to President Bill Clinton’s reelection campaign, and to Al Gore’s presidential campaign. He, of course, is a staunch Republican-turned-MAGA. I had been deplatformed in June 2021, before the Pfizer documents came out, for the crime of warning that women were reporting menstrual dysregulation upon having received the mRNA injections. As a career-long writer on women’s sexual and reproductive health issues, I knew that this was a serious danger signal and that this side effect would affect fertility. (Any eighth grader should be able to foresee that as well.) Upon my having posted this warning, I was banned from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms. I was attacked globally, all at once, as an “anti-vaxxer” and “conspiracy theorist”; and my life as a well-known, bestselling feminist author, within the legacy media, ended. No one in that world would talk to me anymore, publish my work, or return my calls. I was un-personed.

(It turned out, upon two successful lawsuits in 2023 by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general, that it was actually the White House, the CDC, and senior leaders of other government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, that unlawfully pressured Twitter and Facebook to remove that cautionary tweet of mine, to shut me down, and to “BOLO” or Be On the Lookout for similar posts. This suppression is now the subject of a pending Supreme Court decision on whether or not it violated the First Amendment.)

In this dark time in my life, to my surprise, I received a text from Steve Bannon’s producer, who invited me onto WarRoom. I brought forward my concerns about women’s reproductive health in the wake of mRNA injection, and to my surprise he was respectful, thoughtful about the implications, and took the issue very seriously. I returned again and again, to bring that and other concerns that were emerging in relation to the mRNA injections to his audience. I was relieved to have a platform on which I could share these urgent warnings. At the same time, I was sad that the Left, which was supposed to champion feminism, seemed not to care at all about serious risks to women and unborn babies. I recognized the irony that a person whom I had been taught to believe was the Devil Incarnate, actually cared more about women and babies than did all of my right-on former colleagues, including the feminist health establishment, who had always spoken so loudly about women’s wellbeing and women’s rights.

Given my appearances on WarRoom leading up to 2022, it was natural that the subject of the Pfizer documents came up on that show when the documents were released. I shared my concern that they would be lost to history due to their volume and technical language. Bannon said something like, “Well, you will crowdsource a project to read through them.”

I was taken aback, as I had zero skills related to, or knowledge about how possibly to do such a thing. I answered something like, “Of course.”

So, my news and opinion platform DailyClout was deluged with offers from around the world, from WarRoom listeners with the skill sets needed, to decipher the Pfizer documents. I was terrified. It was chaos. I had excellent people on my team. But none of us knew how to manage or even organize the deluge of emails; we did not know how to evaluate the thousands of CVs; and even once we had “onboarded” these thousands of people, in different time zones, to “the project,” our inboxes became even more terrifying, as it was literally impossible to organize 3,250 experts into an organization chart that could systematically work through these documents. Emails were getting tangled or went unanswered. People asked questions we could not answer. We had no idea what structure could allow such a huge number of disparate experts to work through the vast trove of material.

A few weeks in, as I was in despair, Bannon had me on again. He asked about the progress of the project, and I replied, more upbeat than I felt, that many people had joined us, and they were starting to read. “Of course, you will begin delivering reports,” he prompted. “Of course,” I answered, horrified at being in so far over my head.

I have never had a corporate job, so it had not even occurred to me that a series of reports was the format that the analyses of the documents should take.

Then something happened that I can only describe as providential. We put out a call to the volunteers for a project manager, and Amy Kelly reached out. Ms. Kelly is a Six Sigma-certified project manager, with extensive experience in telecommunications and tech project management. She is also a simply inexplicably effective leader. The day that she put her hand to the chaos in the inboxes, the waters were stilled. Peace and productivity prevailed. Ms. Kelly somehow effortlessly organized the volunteers into six working groups, with a supra-committee at the head of each, and the proper work began.

I can only explain the scope and smoothness and effectiveness of the work that followed, as occurring in a state of grace.

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My time in the medical field has led me to accept many medical practices are adopted because of politics or economics rather than because existing evidence shows they work. Nonetheless, certain instances of this happening still astound me to this day, particularly the blacklisting of DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) as:

•This simple chemical is incredibly safe and effective and treats a wide range of challenging medical conditions that impact millions that still lack an effective therapy (outside of DMSO).

•Because of its efficacy, once discovered, it took the country by storm, resulting in millions using it, the scientific community getting behind it and publishing thousands of studies on DMSO, numerous pharmaceutical companies making large investments to bring it market, professional athletes promoting it, numerous governors, congressional representatives and senators (on behalf of both themselves and their constituents) pressuring the FDA to give it a fair chance for decades and state legislatures independently legalizing it because the federal government would not.

•Many approved pharmaceutical products take advantage of DMSO’s properties to work (e.g., in those products, DMSO is often classified as an inert “vehicle”). Similarly, DMSO is FDA approved for one condition (interstitial cystitis) and is approved for a wide variety of veterinary uses (e.g., the same conditions it treats in humans).

•Over the past 40 years, more than 10,000 articles on the biological implications and 30,000 articles on the chemistry of DMSO have appeared in the scientific literature—much of which, as I’ve shown here is remarkably compelling and paradigm shifting in healthcare.

•Yet, despite all of that, DMSO was effectively erased from history. It is now widely seen as an unproven and dangerous therapy, and even within the natural health field, most people do not know it exists.

Because of all that, I’ve felt a responsibility to use this platform to get the knowledge on DMSO out, which I began by presenting the strong case that DMSO is an incredible therapy for:

•Circulatory disorders like Reynaud’s and varicose veins.
•A wide range of neurological disorders, including ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, and spinal cord injuries leading to paralysis or dementia.
•Allowing patients who’ve had decades of chronic pain (from a variety of different causes) to get their lives back.
•Healing a wide range of injuries (e.g., sports injuries, traumatic impacts) and chronic musculoskeletal problems (e.g., spine and shoulder issues) and wounds (e.g., burns or surgical incisions).
•Chronic rheumatic conditions (e.g., arthritis).
•Complex protein disorders (e.g., amyloidosis).
•Down Syndrome.

In turn, I’ve received numerous reports from readers (I’ve been gradually sharing here) from readers who’ve experienced rapid life-changing benefits from DMSO, very similar to the data I provided, which showed DMSO had an 80-90% success rate in treating.

Yet, despite all of this, I’ve still only touched the tip of the iceberg of what can be done with DMSO (e.g., in upcoming articles I will also review how DMSO is also quite helpful for a variety of eye, ear, dental, gastrointestinal, and autoimmune conditions such as tinnitus and macular degeneration, along with also having remarkable utility in treating cancer, challenging infections and debilitating collagen disorders). As a result, I’ve also received numerous queries from readers who inadvertently discovered many of those benefits when they used DMSO for a chronic pain condition.

For example, some of the more recent reports I’ve received include:

After AMDs articles, I used DMSO on an acute bruise and it completely took the pain away AND resolved the swelling that was developing. . It’s hardly even tender today. Incredible

Dear MWD, you are so right on learning to doctor yourself. I don’t travel without DMSO, ivermectin and aspirin. Two nights ago at bedtime I developed chest pains that radiated between my shoulder blades. Being in New Mexico (Oh, Lord, don’t let me die in New Mexico) I put DMSO along my carotids on my neck and took 2 aspirin. In an hour the pain was gone and I slept soundly. Scared the hell out of my poor husband.

After reading this I got a tub of 70/30 gel and applied it to my sons feet three times per day. He was riding his skateboard barefoot and crunched his toes under his feet. No broken bones.

Within three days he said he felt no pain or discomfort at all. For the sort of injury it was it seemed like the sort of thing which would take weeks to stop hurting and for all discomfort to end for a sixteen year old!

Excellent research – I’ve given DMSO to my mom and it has helped her arthritis immensely.

I am an 81 year old woman who was injured by the first of a series of 2 Shingrix shots in 2019. I never took the second shot. Eight days after receiving that shot I developed excruciating pain in my arms, hands, legs and feet. Although being told by two doctors that the vaccine did not cause the pain, the neurology team at a major medical institution diagnosed my condition as acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy(AIDP), on the spectrum of Guillame Barre. They treated me with gabapentin which relieved the pain. However, I was left with neuropathy in my feet which caused severe and painful spasms in my feet along with numbness on the bottom of my feet. After several weeks seeing a neurologist, I asked her what could be done to help this situation. She said there was nothing. After this article I started using DMSO on the bottom of my feet and over the tops of my toes when I went to bed. The first time I used it, I had no spasms which always happened at night when I was trying to go to sleep. I’ve now used it for 3 days and still no spasms. It’s like a miracle. I’ll continue using it to see if it helps resolve the numbness in my feet. God bless you, AMD. I never would have tried this without your articles and would have suffered needlessly forever. I owe you a great debt. Thank you. I’m telling everyone about DMSO and sending your articles as well. Your contributions are, without doubt, some of the most important I have read.

Likewise, a grateful reader reported their wife (a retired nurse) had a fall that injured her back and left her in severe pain and unable to walk which chiropractic did not help, and then a few days later, the ER could not help either. However, rather than accept an admission to the hospital, she took DMSO, her back worked itself out, and she was spared months of recovery with the standard of care.

Note: I’ve also received reports on a variety of other conditions (e.g., one subscriber shared a DMSO mixture shrunk their hemorrhoid), and another shared DMSO has gradually been shrinking their cataract.

If we take a step back, it should be clear that DMSO should be in widespread use, but instead something very wrong happened with DMSO which resulted in it getting blacklisted. This was due to the FDA continually doubling-down on an unshakable ideological crusade against DMSO that I believe ultimately resulted from the FDA not wanting to lose its grip over the practice of medicine in the United States (as the therapeutic potential of DMSO greatly threatened the FDA’s ability to control how medicine was practiced).

In turn, I believe what happened is a critical story to be told because:

•The entire story of DMSO is a remarkable example of thousands of dedicated scientists and doctors giving everything they could to bring this critical innovation to the public and thus highlight the incredible potential our scientific apparatus has to address the problems that plague humanity. In contrast, because of the decades of rigid suppression of independent science, we’ve become habituated to science being unable to solve our basic problems—something that urgently needs to change.

•The FDA’s gross misconduct with DMSO set the stage for what the agency continues to do to this day, and helps to explain why so many remarkable treatments have been withheld from the public while dangerous and ineffective ones are continually pushed upon the public (e.g., consider what happened throughout COVID-19).

Is DMSO Safe?

Throughout the FDA’s war against DMSO, the FDA has always cited two reasons to justify its conduct.

•That no evidence existed DMSO worked, which as I showed in the first and second part of this series, was an absurd claim as data from thousands upon thousands of patients showed DMSO worked dramatically better than the existing therapeutic options.

•That DMSO was an incredibly dangerous drug that it was critically important to protect the public from—something I’ve argued was a patent lie.

Note: these lies now extend far beyond America. For example, this posting by Health Canada, beyond characterizing DMSO as a dangerous solvent, makes numerous demonstrably false claims about DMSO and declares no evidence exists for DMSO’s efficacy—which is extraordinary given how many of clinical trials have proven DMSO works and how easy many of those studies are to locate.

Furthermore, beyond the above points being absurd, the existing standards within the FDA are that if unmet medical needs exist or there is no viable cure for a serious illness, those standards can be loosened (hence why the COVID vaccines were approved, or more recently, why an incredibly unsafe and ineffective Alzheimer’s drug was approved despite the FDA’s outside panel vetoing it and resigning in protest once the FDA overrode them. In the case of DMSO, this is particularly relevant as many of the diseases DMSO was proven to treat (e.g., Down Syndrome, Spinal Cord Injuries, Scleroderma) are severe illnesses that have remained incurable for decades.

All of this thus raises the question. How safe is DMSO? Since that data is relevant to both understanding the FDA’s crusade against it and likewise for anyone considering using it, I have done my best to compile all of that data here..

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The International Crisis Summit descended on Tokyo last week to warn about the new “replicon” self-amplifying mRNA vaccines that are about to be unleashed like a third atomic bomb upon the population of Japan. James Corbett was there to cover the proceedings, to document the speeches, to participate in a massive rally in the heart of Tokyo against this dangerous new medical intervention, and to lecture sitting members of the Japanese Diet about his bodily sovereignty.

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