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From 2024 into 2025, over roughly 9-10 months, I worked with journalist Margaret Roberts on her upcoming book, titled Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing. My role was that of a research consultant—a friendly resource available to help with a project that I viewed as significant and a righteous undertaking. It was both a pleasure and an honor to collaborate on this project.

Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue connected me with Roberts, whom he knew for years (read all about that in the book), to help with the book: reading, fact-checking, providing sources and documents, answering questions—I’d be her “foxhole buddy” in what we saw as a mammoth battle not unlike David versus Goliath: after all, the full power of the federal government has been used, over the years, to stop and silence investigation into Kenneth Trentadue’s murder and any probing of America’s deadliest domestic terror attack.

Over the years, investigations that were supposed to be conducted went by the wayside—the Senate Judiciary Committee’s proposed hearings on Kenneth’s murder were sabotaged; Bombing-related stories set to air on ABC News 20/20 were canceled after DOJ pressure, and witnesses in the case suddenly went missing or became reluctant to speak after visits from the FBI.

We knew it would be an uphill battle. Knowing this to be true, I had no reservations: from the moment Jesse called me in February 2024 and told me about the project, I said “count me in.”

After that phone call, I was introduced to the author, and we started having weekly discussions. I went into it excited, having just finished serving in a similar capacity for HBO/Max’s Emmy-nominated documentary film “An American Bombing: the Road to April 19th” where I was a research consultant—providing documents, questions to ask witnesses, and detailed information that the documentary filmmakers needed to tell the story right.

I was eager to jump right into the fray and do it again, because if anything, I’m all about collaboration and sharing material if it will advance the mutual struggle to bring truth to the forefront.

America’s Most Wanted Alumnus Tackles The Story

Margaret Roberts is an award-winning journalist. One of her early stories for the Chicago Lawyer detailed the case of a man wrongly convicted of abducting and murdering a couple, along with three other men. They were called the ‘Ford Heights Four,’ and Roberts’ initial story focused on one of them, Dennis Williams, who was sentenced to death.

Roberts and editor Rob Warden’s reporting on the case uncovered the truth and helped ensure justice was achieved — a challenging feat, especially after a man is condemned to death by the justice system. With the stakes as high as they were—a man’s life in the balance—the man’s only recourse turned out to be not our judicial system, but the combined efforts of dedicated investigative journalists.

Roberts’ story, co-bylined with editor Rob Warden, “Will We Execute an Innocent Man?” won journalism awards in Chicago, and later Newsweek featured it as a cover story on the death penalty. Thanks to Margaret Roberts’s reporting, an innocent man was exonerated along with his three co-defendants. Cook County, Illinois, ended up paying $36 million to the four wrongfully imprisoned men, the highest settlement ever paid at that time for such a case.

Following her time in print media, Roberts went on to become News Director for America’s Most Wanted — a TV show all about capturing the bad guys. As a reporter, and a news junkie, it was a perfect fit for Roberts. The very first episode of the show led to the apprehension of a violent criminal, and she knew a thing or two about broadcasting leads to the public—and covering the facts to help pursue the guilty.

By 1995, Roberts had moved on from America’s Most Wanted and was working on other projects, but the bombing story caught her attention as an avid news junkie—especially the unknown and unidentified suspect “John Doe #2,” something that she and I both shared a fascination with. We had both independently investigated this case for over 15 years when we were introduced, diligently following it with determination.

Working on The Book

I would like to share some of my thoughts about the process of writing the book, working with Margaret Roberts, and how our successful partnership was personally fulfilling for me. I did not see it as ‘work’—to me, it was ‘fun’!

Like the fictional characters from TV’s ‘The X-Files’ called “The Lone Gunmen” (pictured below), I saw this as an opportunity to bring a really “out there” truth into the mainstream, even though the odds were against us, just like the fictional muckrakers. Margaret Roberts was exactly what we needed to bring the truth to a new audience.

One of my tasks during the writing process was to keep track of the endnotes for the book. Margaret (or ‘Mars’ as I’d call her) would identify passages she wanted citations for, and I would add and keep track of our sources. Many times, she knew the source for the citation, and other times, I would go look it up in my archive (consisting of thousands of news clippings, magazine articles, transcripts, FBI documents, etc.) The Archive proved to be useful when working on the book both by making it easy to locate source materials, but also in allowing us to incorporate previously unknown (or forgotten) details found in related clippings.

As we worked on the book, I came across instances where I believed we could document a little-known or underreported fact that was directly related to the text. To that end, some items in the book are there because I brought them to Mars’s attention, and we worked together to capture the essence: after informing Mars of one thing or another, I would explain why I thought certain details were relevant and essential—and, doing her due diligence, Roberts required me to prove the authenticity of whatever I was saying.

I’d provide the background documentation and my overview, but basically, I needed to ‘prove’ my case to her, which shows just how careful and analytical she was being. Everything I introduced had to be solid and provable—no theories. As Roberts wrote on X, our collaboration involved “the careful process of weighing the evidence” — and getting it right.

Additionally, I also learned many new facts from Roberts’ investigation—in no small part because she is the only journalist to have ever interviewed Terry Nichols—one of McVeigh’s co-conspirators in the bombing—and possessed many letters, writings, and documents given to her by Terry Nichols’s attorney, Jesse Trentadue.

I had not seen this material before, and reviewing it added significant context to information that was, in some cases, entirely new for me. We called this material “The Nichols Dossier.” It was a sizable collection of Terry Nichols’s writings, where he details various aspects of the bombing plot, and the material is central to one of the book’s chapters.

Through Terry Nichols’s writings, Roberts uncovered a wealth of material that sheds new light on the case — at least to the public — and for the first time in print.

Roberts also interviewed Aryan Republican Army founder Peter Langan in prison, as well as McVeigh’s death row cellmate, David Paul Hammer.

This collection of exclusive prison interviews is just one component among several compelling pieces that are woven together to reveal a bigger picture, one that has largely remained untold until now.

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We’re one year away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It remains one of the most impactful and revolutionary documents ever written. While our horrific leaders still pay infrequent lip service to it, they obviously don’t remotely believe in the sentiments expressed by Thomas Jefferson.

The delineation of God-given rights, as opposed to any granted by a government, was a literary nuclear bomb. This resonated with the American colonists, who almost all believed strongly in God. Now, of course, since probably half of present day Americans at least doubt the existence of God, it becomes a much harder proposition to sell. God-given rights mean nothing to those who don’t believe in God. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness would eventually translate into the Bill of Rights, which made the Constitution palatable to anti-statists like Jefferson. I still don’t know why two of my other revolutionary era heroes, Patrick Henry and George Mason, didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence. Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights greatly influenced Jefferson. Mason would lose his friendship with George Washington later when he refused to sign the Constitution, because it hadn’t added the Bill of Rights.

I’ve detailed a lot of hidden history about the Founding of this republic in my books Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963 and American Memory Hole. Thomas Paine stoked the sentiments of the average colonist with his remarkable little fifty page pamphlet Common Sense. He would be jailed during the French Revolution for opposing the violence of the revolutionaries, and grew bitter at Washington when he refused to ask for his release. Paine eventually became so obscure that only six people attended his funeral, and it is still unknown where his human remains are. James Otis, who came up with that whole “no taxation without representation” thing, was struck dead by lightning as he stood in a doorway. Remarkably, he had expressed a desire to exit the world in such an unlikely manner. The list of hardships those who signed the Declaration experienced makes their vow to sacrifice their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor all the more chillingly impressive.

These were the One Percenters of their day. No revolution could ever be possible without some great power behind it. In this case, it was the immense wealth of those like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and John Hancock, which made it possible. Much as we’d like to believe it, the common people simply are never going to overthrow their masters, no matter how tyrannical they become, unless they are ordered to. Crumbling, Third World shithole America 2.0 proves that. They’ve demonstrated quite clearly that they have no tipping point. Just picture Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet and the like, meeting surreptitiously in dimly lit taverns, discussing how to devise a government that grants liberty to its people. A nation without a king or queen, with an armed citizenry. Where you’re free to express your opinion, and have the right to peaceably assemble in protest.

The language in the Declaration of Independence is such that those who misrule us must consider it “hate speech.” This passage, for example: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” How does that equate to what happened to the Confederates, who no longer consented in 1860? Or to the January 6 Stop the Steal Rally protesters, who even if they had been “insurrectionists,” had the right to be, according to Thomas Jefferson? The fact is, our government is so powerful that it’s never going to let anyone “alter or abolish” it.

Consider what the Founders would think, if they could see the embarrassing mess we’ve made of their bright and shining republic. If Patrick Henry refused to go to the Constitutional Convention because he “smelled a rat,” then what would he be smelling today as he walked through the crumbling streets of America 2.0? The human excrement from illegal migrants and homeless U.S. citizens? I don’t know, maybe they shit in the streets in Colonial times. I wasn’t there, and there were no rest rooms. George Mason was most responsible for writing what became the Bill of Rights. What would his response be to Orwellian terms like “hate speech?” I’m sure he, Thomas Jefferson, and other liberty-minded patriots would have been outraged over the asterisk that Oliver Wendell Holmes’s WWI admonition that “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater” represented. What would any of them think of transgender reassignment surgery? They sacrificed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for that?

I doubt if Donald Trump, or any other politician, mentions George Washington’s Farewell Address today. You know, the one that stands in start contrast to our official foreign policy for over a century now? Whether or not the legend about him trying to ban Jews from America is true, Ben Franklin would certainly not look favorably on our intense “entangling alliance” with Israel. But then, if they were alive today, no one in power would care what they had to say about anything. They surely wouldn’t be able to attain any power themselves. They’d be relegated to alt media podcasts, where half of the hosts would claim they were disinformation agents or limited hangouts. I’d be happy to welcome them on “I Protest.” Even Alexander Hamilton. The dead White banker’s favorite, not the hip Black Broadway star. I’d like his thoughts on the Federal Reserve, and if he had any reservations now about creating the national debt.

It’s understandable why our culture pays such little attention to the Founding Fathers. As I’ve pointed out, not a single biopic was made during the Golden Age of Hollywood, about Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Henry, Mason, or even an overview of the War for Independence itself. Cary Grant in The Howards of Virginia was about the best you got. The last thing absolute tyrants want to do is to remind their docile sheeple about how their country was formed by overthrowing tyranny. And given the oppressive taxation we face today, and the failure of our political representatives to act on behalf of their constituents, “no taxation without representation” is not an issue they want to focus on. The entire Declaration of Independence, which is our founding document after all, is subversive by today’s standards. Our political leaders don’t agree with any of it.

Our Founders are denigrated, like the founders of no other nation on earth have ever been. Without a Revolution taking place, that is. You’d expect the Casanovas and Cagliostros to depict the French monarchy in the worst possible light. But we have had no second Revolution here. You saw what the response was to a bunch of angry voters protesting what they believed was electoral fraud on January 6, 2021. So any potential new Sons of Liberty must plan on meeting in even dimmer lit places, with no smart devices or security cameras around. What other country has its leaders regularly violate the Constitution they swear allegiance to? Even the most lecherous adulterer has a bit more respect for oaths than that. As George W. Bush said, it is just a piece of paper, after all. Even Ilhan Omar, who clearly favors Somalia over the U.S., and Rep. Brian Mast, who wore his IDF uniform to congress, swore the oath.

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For Macron and all the NATO states to do that would be to admit their culpability for creating the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War.

NATO started the conflict in Ukraine, but Russia will end it on its terms, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart this week in a wake-up call.

It’s always refreshing and necessary to bring reality into a conversation, assuming, of course, that the purpose of the dialogue is genuinely to resolve a problem.

France’s Emmanuel Macron requested the phone call with Putin this week. It was the first time the two leaders had spoken in nearly three years. The long absence was due to Moscow claiming that Macron breached diplomatic protocol after the last phone call in 2022 by leaking details to the media.

In any case, Putin showed magnanimity and a willingness to engage diplomatically by taking the call this week from Macron. The two leaders talked for over two hours.

Apart from Ukraine, another topic discussed was the outbreak of war between Israel and Iran, and the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. Macron agreed with Putin that Iran has the right to pursue civilian nuclear energy production, and both appealed for diplomacy to prevent escalation, according to the Kremlin’s statement on the phone conversation.

Critics might note, however, that France, Britain, Germany, and the other European states have played a double game with Iran, undermining Iran’s legitimate rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and giving political cover for the unlawful Israeli and US aggression against Tehran. Therefore, Macron’s concern for peace in the Middle East sounds hollow, if not hypocritical.

The Ukraine conflict was also discussed. But here, there was no pretense of diplomatic accord.

Macron urged Putin to “call a ceasefire as soon as possible” and to proceed with peace talks, said the Elysee Palace, as reported by French media.

For his part, Putin rebuffed the trite talk. He reminded Macron of some necessary reality.

According to the Kremlin’s statement: “When discussing the situation surrounding Ukraine, Vladimir Putin reiterated that the conflict was a direct consequence of the policies pursued by the Western countries, which had for years been ignoring Russia’s security interests, creating an anti-Russia staging ground in the country, and condoning violations of rights of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking citizens, and at present were pursuing a policy of prolonging hostilities by supplying the Kiev regime with a variety of modern weaponry. Speaking about the prospects of a peaceful settlement, the president of Russia has confirmed Moscow’s stance on possible agreements: they are to be comprehensive and long-term, provide for the elimination of the root causes of the Ukraine crisis, and be based on the new territorial realities.”

In other words, Russia will end the conflict that Macron and other NATO powers started illegally, and the ending of it will be on Russia’s terms.

Who does Macron think he is? Telling Russia to call a ceasefire as soon as possible? Earlier this year, in March, Macron gave a televised nationwide address declaring Russia to be an existential threat to Europe. He even made the madcap suggestion of France using its nuclear weapons to protect all of Europe. Such crazed talk by Macron is irresponsible and reprehensible.

Macron, along with Britain’s Starmer and Germany’s Merz, are prolonging the more-than-three-year war in Ukraine by pledging more military aid to the NeoNazi Kiev regime.

That regime owes its existence to an illegal coup d’état that the Americans and Europeans orchestrated in 2014. The ongoing conflict, which has slaughtered more than one million Ukrainian soldiers and burdened Europe with huge immigration costs, is the responsibility of Macron and other NATO states. They are the instigators, not Russia.

If Macron genuinely wants peace in Ukraine, there is a straightforward solution. Stop arming the NeoNazi regime and stop telling lies about “defending democracy in Ukraine” from alleged “Russian aggression.” Macron and his gang of NATO war criminals could end the bloodshed promptly if they dropped the evil charade.

U.S. President Donald Trump also had a phone call with Putin this week. That was on Thursday, two days after Macron’s.

As with the French leader, Putin told his American counterpart that Russia was insisting on achieving its aims in Ukraine: removing the root causes of the conflict and retaining all territories. Like Macron, Trump sounded impatient for a quick peace deal and later complained to the American media, “he had made no progress” with Putin in his phone call this week.

What Trump, Macron, and other Western leaders need to understand is that Russia wants a permanent peace based on its legitimate strategic security interests. This conflict is not a localized one between two parties. It is a proxy war between Russia and NATO, engendered by NATO. Pretending otherwise, as Macron is doing by conceitedly calling for a quick ceasefire, is a deception.

At least Trump seems to recognize that the supply of weapons to Ukraine has to stop if there is any chance of ending the conflict. This week, the Pentagon announced it was halting the flow of munitions. A big part of the reason is practical reality: the U.S. has depleted its arsenal after three years of weaponizing the Kiev regime.

The European leaders need to come to their senses too, and stop fueling the war machine that is the Kiev regime. It is a lost cause. Russia is winning the war and will eventually eradicate the regime and NATO’s threat to its national security. Europe does not have the capability or the resources. The grand deception projected by Macron and others, including EU top officials Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas, and NATO’s Mark Rutte, is destroying Europe.

Therein lies the fatal dilemma. What Putin said to Macron is the truth. If the conflict has any chance of being resolved peacefully, then the starting place is to recognize the historic causes of the conflict, not the delusional stuff that Macron is peddling.

But for Macron and all the NATO states to do that would be to admit their culpability for creating the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War. The political and legal repercussions would be explosive for Macron and the entire Western leadership. They are caught in the web of a Big Lie that they have spun.

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Our status quo is so thoroughly corrupt that it’s no longer even seen as corruption, it’s just BAU–business as usual.

It’s a big ask, but let’s depoliticize the phrase “make America great again” and consider what this would actually entail, not as a lobbyists’ grab-bag of tax breaks for the wealthy and arcane giveaways in 500-page Congressional bills, but as a restoration of the fundamental foundations of greatness.

In the conventional contexts of the current era, this boils down to ideology and finance. If we dial back culture-war over-reach and free up “market forces,” for example, this will restore America’s greatness.

The problem with all this kind of thinking is it’s superficial and banal, for it ignores the real source of America’s decline: the moral rot that has eroded every institution and every nook and cranny of our society. Whenever I mention this moral rot, I get immediate push-back of this sort: corruption has always been around, so today is no different from previous eras.

While it’s self-evident that self-interest and greed manifest as corruption, it’s not true that the systemic corruption of the present is no different from previous eras–it’s worse, much worse because it’s now normalized, and so we accept the most outrageous forms of corruption as “normal.”

So private equity buys a company, loads it with debt, transfers all the borrowed cash to the private equity “owners,” and then leaves the company a sinking hulk that soon declares bankruptcy. Or when private equity snaps up hospitals and healthcare clinics and prices rise not for better service but to “reward the owners,” this plundering of “healthcare” is just good solid MBA-school maximization of shareholder value.

What few seem to notice is the barriers that limited the pillage and plundering of the private and public-sectors have all eroded or been hollowed out. The legal framework is now a mirror-image of the financial sector, a series of facades that mask the pillage and plundering: of course it’s profitable, but it’s also legal.

The social barriers have also been dismantled. There are no taboos left, as “anything goes” is the modern zeitgeist. The notion that corporations have a social responsibility to the community they’re embedded in is now a quaint whiff of nostalgia, along with the notion that corporations have an implicit responsibility to serve the larger national interests as well as “shareholder value.”

Every institution has been hollowed out by self-service. Is it any wonder than younger generations have near-zero trust in institutions, given that their PR veneer of “public service” is just a cover for milking the system for private gain?

If you read histories of capitalism–for example, Fernand Braudel’s three-volume Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century ( Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3) you discover that “capitalism” only functions as advertised if it is embedded in a moral order, something Adam Smith understood.

In early European capitalism, Christianity (Catholic and Protestant) provided this moral order. In China, Confucianism provided the moral foundation of the society and the economic – political structures.

Consider Xi Jinping’s campaign to unify Confucianism and Marxism. This is not an anachronism, it reflects Xi’s understanding that Marxism does not provide the moral foundation needed to limit the corruption undermining China. Only restoring a Confucian moral order can do that.

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In a totalitarian or authoritarian dictatorship, government officials do not need the support of the citizenry to exterminate freedom of speech. That’s because there are no elections to worry about. The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons start arresting critics, disappearing them in terrorist confinement facilities, torturing them, and then killing them. Everyone else understands. No more criticism of the regime.

In a democratic system, suppressing criticism is much more difficult owing to the problem of elections. If the goons of some democratically elected president begin rounding up critics, incarcerating them, torturing them, and killing them, the ruler runs the risk of being kicked out of office in the next election. There is also the risk of impeachment.

Thus, in a democracy rulers must figure out sophisticated and oftentimes devious ways to seduce or induce people to go along with the destruction of freedom of speech.

The United States was founded on the principle of freedom of speech. The Constitution, which called into existence a government of limited powers, did not delegate to the federal government the power to suppress criticism or to infringe on the natural, God-given right of freedom of speech. Thus, even without the First Amendment, freedom of speech would have still be legally immune from any attempt to suppress or destroy it.

But just to make the matter clear, our ancestors demanded the enactment of the First Amendment. It prohibits the federal government from doing anything to infringe on, regulate, or destroy freedom of speech.

Why did our ancestors deem it wise and even necessary to enact the First Amendment? Because they were smart people. They knew that all rulers hate criticism and love praise. They also knew that rulers would inevitably adopt measures intended to infringe, control, or destroy free speech.

Now, it’s true that no one in the United States is being jailed for speaking out against the government. Indeed, there are plenty of libertarian educational foundations and libertarian think tanks that regularly speak out against federal government wrongdoing. None of us is in jail. But does that mean that there is freedom of speech in this nation?

Actually not. Federal officials have long designed sophisticated ways to suppress speech in wide sectors of American society, such as the business, educational, banking, medical, and even the mainstream-media sectors. These sophisticated ways involve the regulated economy and the dole society that the Franklin Roosevelt administration brought into existence in the 1930s.

President Trump’s rhetoric and actions are perhaps bringing some of these sophisticated suppression devices into the light of the day. Consider, for example, his former ally Elon Musk. Musk has come out publicly against Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which Musk points out is continuing the out-of-control federal spending and debt that is threatening to take down our country from within. Musk called the bill a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill” and “a disgusting abomination.”

That’s a classic exercise of freedom of speech. But what is Trump’s reaction? He is threatening Musk with a cut-off of federal contracts. His “big beautiful bill” also eliminates some tax benefits for Musk’s Tesla automobiles. He also saying that he might have to “put DOGE on Musk… DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon.” He has even suggested the possibility of deporting Musk.

In other words, Trump is threatening to employ the power of the federal government to destroy or severely harm an American citizen. And for what? For simply speaking out against Trump’s spending and debt bill.

And make no mistake about it. Every business person in the country knows that every president wields the power to destroy him. For one thing, many businesses are so dependent on the federal dole, either through subsidies or federal contracts, that they cannot imagine losing the dole. The last thing they are going to do is publicly take on what the president does, as Musk is doing. Watching Trump’s threats against Musk, they know what awaits them if they do the same. Most of them will remain silent on anything any president does, especially in foreign affairs.

Consider those big, powerful law firms that have capitulated to Trump’s demands. Why did they do that? One big reason may have been the fear of losing contracts or other business that they have with the federal government.

Consider all the universities that are agreeing to run their schools in accordance with Trump’s demands. Why are they doing that? Because long ago, U.S. officials induced them to go on dole. They are now so dependent on the dole that they will do anything to avoid losing it.

It’s not just the dole system though. It’s also the regulated-economy system that FDR foisted on American economic system. The federal government wields the power to destroy businesses simply through the power of regulation.

A perfect example of this phenomenon is the banking sector. Every bank president in America knows that federal inspectors wield the power to shut down banks by easily finding violations of minute banking regulations. That’s why one never finds one single bank president anywhere in the country ever taking on any president in a public way, in the manner that Musk is doing.

Consider the $16 million settlement that Paramount is entering into with Trump over an edited interview video that its subsidiary CBS did with Kamala Harris. Why is Paramount agreeing to make that payment to Trump? One possibility is that Paramount is in merger talks with another company. Under America’s regulated-economy system, the federal government has to approve the merger. Thus, it’s entirely possible that Paramount is agreeing to settle the case with Trump to ensure that the feds don’t block its merger.

It’s this way all across the board. This is why one rarely sees the CEOs of universities, big corporations, banks, medical companies, and other establishments criticizing the policies of the federal government. The dole system and the regulated-economy system are very sophisticated devices that have succeeded in silencing them. They don’t dare to exercise freedom of speech, no matter what the First Amendment says.

Reprinted with permission from Future of Freedom Foundation.

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British police have been arresting anti-genocide protesters for holding signs expressing support for activist group Palestine Action, which London has now officially designated a terrorist group for putting red paint on war planes that were being used in the Gaza holocaust.

That’s right, welcome to the empire, where peace activists are called terrorists, where hospitals are called military bases, where facts are called blood libel, where people opposing genocide are called hateful Nazis, where genocidal soldiers are a protected group and chanting for their death is a hate crime.

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Israeli outlet Haaretz has published an article titled “Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza” by a French historian named Jean-Pierre Filiu, who spent a month in the killing fields of the ruined Palestinian territory after entering with a busload of French physicians.

Israel has banned journalists from Gaza in order to hide its war crimes, making doctors and other specialists the de facto western reporters on the ground. And they’re all reporting the same thing about what they are seeing.

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Part of the problem is how normies who don’t follow this stuff closely cannot believe Israel could be as evil as we’re saying it is. They’re often like “Oh yeah right, they’re just killing civilians because they’re evil and want Palestinians to die.” Which would make sense as an objection if you hadn’t been following Israel’s pattern of behavior from day to day and weren’t familiar with the way Israelis talk about Palestinians whenever they’re speaking to each other in Hebrew instead of addressing the western press.

Israel’s public image is somewhat protected by the fact that its behavior is so profoundly evil that simply talking about it strains credulity among the uninformed, in the same way you sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist if you talk about some of the things the CIA has openly admitted to doing in the past. Many people literally cannot believe anyone could be as evil as Israel is, so the true extent of their crimes go unseen.

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I’ve decided I’m never going to click on another Piers Morgan Uncensored video. He’s just a shitty western empire stooge playing Jerry Springer with people’s outrage over the worst things in the world and pretending to be impartial while generating viral online video clips fueled by rage and partisan echo chamber amplification.

It occasionally looks edifying, but it’s really a symptom of some of the most diseased aspects of this civilization, like Mr Beast. The man is a parasite feasting on the vitriolic energy of these dark and troubling times, directly profiting from the immense suffering caused by the empire he serves.

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The western public has stopped viewing Palestine as an intimidating issue to speak out about, and it’s causing a major problem for the Israel PR machine.

One of the biggest obstacles for the pro-Palestine movement used to be the way Israel-Palestine was incorrectly regarded as a super complex issue that the average busy member of the public can’t hope to understand. That’s changing now because a live-streamed genocide is straightforward enough to override the “No you don’t understand what’s happening because words, words, words” schtick that Israel apologists always use to shut people down, but for a long time the hasbarists were able to intimidate people into silence just by knowing a bunch of clever talking points that the average casual observer would struggle to come up with answers for.

One of my favorite clips from the Glastonbury Festival came from Australian band Amyl and the Sniffers, whose vocalist Amy Taylor gave an off-the-cuff speech about Palestine and colonialism and the parallels between what white colonizers did to Indigenous Australians and what’s happening to the Palestinians today.

It wasn’t a perfect or super eloquent speech by Taylor’s own admission, but it was passionate and it got the point across. At the end she said, “That’s the truth and I thought I’d share that today. It was gonna be something way more poetic but that’s just what I said; it’s not perfect but I think it’s better to say anything than to say nothing at all right now.”

More and more people are seeing this when it comes to Gaza — that it’s better to say anything than to say nothing at all right now. You don’t have to be an expert. You don’t have to know everything there is to know about about the apartheid state of Israel and the history of the Zionist project. You know what you’re seeing and you know it’s wrong, and that’s enough. Don’t let anyone intimidate you into being silent on the defining issue of our times.

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Since childhood, I have known numerous smokers who had slow agonizing deaths from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), which were often quite traumatic for their family and friends, particularly as they became increasingly disabled from their loss of respiratory function.

Once I entered medicine, I saw the other half of this and lost count of how many COPD patients were subjected to the same medical protocols (which they often could not refuse as people will do anything to be able to not suffocate), and then be hospitalized either for a COPD exacerbation or pneumonia (a common COPD complication) making them unable to breathe, and before long enter a cycle of ever more frequent repeat hospitalizations until they die.
Note: steroids are frequently used to manage COPD and slow the destruction of the lungs. Steroids have a variety of side effects, including suppressing the immune system, which coupled with the reduced respiratory turnover seen in COPD (which reduces their ability to clear bacteria from the airway), makes them much more vulnerable to pneumonia.

As such, when I later learned that the lungs concentrate a coating of glutathione (at levels 100 times that in other parts of the body) to protect them from damage, and that restoring this coating with nebulized glutathione could (without side effects) prevent further progression of COPD, I was overjoyed (e.g., see this study and this study or the even more dramatic results when used for a COPD exacerbation).
Note: in chronic lung diseases, the lung’s glutathione tends to be depleted.

Unfortunately, this idea never caught on, and most of my conventional colleagues were not open to it (although I’ve come across many integrative doctors and naturopaths over the years who offer it for both COPD and chronic damage from wildfire inhalation).

To some extent, this is to be expected, as, like many businesses, medicine revolves around recurring sales, and COPD is one of its core markets (as COPD patients are on medications for life and often need more of them as the disease progresses). This in turn, helps to explain why chronic diseases of the respiratory tract are the fourth most common cause of death in the United States, and in the United States alone, 24 billion dollars was spent on COPD in 2023. In short, this is not a market that the medical industry will ever willingly relinquish, regardless of the suffering that is created.

Note: pneumonia and COPD are two of the most common reasons for hospital admissions. Asthma is in a similar situation, as while not fatal or anywhere as likely to send one to the hospital (admissions for asthma exacerbations are around 0.7% of hospital admissions), it requires the chronic consumption of similar medications, makes over 40 billion a year (and increasing at 4.4% annually, is a frequent source of hospital admissions (for asthma exacerbations), and despite all the money that’s been poured into it, asthma rates keep going up (e.g., in 1999 9.1% of Americans had ever been diagnosed with asthma whereas in 2022 44.2 million Americans had).

Umbrella Remedies

In medicine, there are a few therapies (e.g., ultraviolet blood irradiation) that have the ability to cure a wide range of diseases, and as such are referred to as “umbrella therapies.” This is because, amongst other things, they address the root causes of many illnesses such as poor circulation throughout the body, inflammation, and cells entering a state of shock where they stop functioning and eventually die.

DMSO, in turn, has repeatedly been shown to be remarkably effective for a wide range of disorders including:

Strokes, paralysis, a wide range of neurological disorders (e.g., Down Syndrome and dementia), and many circulatory disorders (e.g., Raynaud’s, varicose veins, hemorrhoids), which I discussed here.

A wide range of tissue injuries, such as sprains, concussions, burns, surgical incisions, and spinal cord injuries (discussed here).

Chronic pain (e.g., from a bad disc, bursitis, arthritis, or complex regional pain syndrome), which I discussed here.

A wide range of autoimmune, protein, and contractile disorders, such as scleroderma, amyloidosis, and interstitial cystitis (discussed here).

A variety of head conditions, such as tinnitus, vision loss, dental problems, and sinusitis (discussed here).

A wide range of internal organ diseases, such as pancreatitis, infertility, liver cirrhosis, and endometriosis (discussed here).

A wide range of skin conditions, such as burns, varicose veins, acne, hair loss, ulcers, skin cancer, and many autoimmune dermatologic diseases (discussed here).

Many challenging infectious conditions, including chronic bacterial infections, herpes, and shingles (discussed here).

Many aspects of cancer (e.g., many of cancer’s debilitating symptoms, making cancer treatments more potent, greatly reducing the toxicity of conventional therapies, and turning cancer cells back into normal cells), which I discussed here.

Note: most of the above have also been shown for ultraviolet blood irradiation. Likewise, similar data exists for ozone, another umbrella remedy that I plan to focus on once the DMSO series is finished.

Additionally, DMSO possesses a unique ability to enhance the absorption of medications and natural therapies by facilitating their passage into the body. This property has transformed the way conventional and natural medicine is practiced, opening up nearly limitless possibilities for incredible therapeutic combinations (discussed here), and most importantly, DMSO is extremely safe (provided it’s used correctly).

As such, a wealth of data (detailed in the above articles) has accumulated, showing DMSO has a high rate of efficacy in a wide range of conditions. Since DMSO was widely available, it quickly spread like wildfire across America in the 1960s (particularly due to how rapidly it alleviated “incurable” pain). Regrettably, the FDA then stepped in and went to war with DMSO to protect the status quo. In the decades that followed, despite the public, the scientific community, and Congress petitioning the FDA to rescind their prohibition on DMSO, it all fell on deaf ears.

In turn, this continued until the 1994 DSHEA act (passed in response to the public outrage over the FDA raiding supplement providers at gunpoint) simply took away the FDA’s ability to regulate natural medicines that DMSO was able to re-enter the marketplace. Still, sadly by this time, despite thousands of studies supporting its use, many American pharmaceutical products using DMSO and it being widely used outside the United States, DMSO had become another forgotten side of medicine.

As what they did to DMSO has always really bothered me (particularly due to its ability to rescue people from a life of debility after strokes or spinal cord injuries), I decided to try publicizing it here and do all that I could to give the strong case for its use. Due to the trust this publication has created, many readers here were willing to try it. Much like the 1960s, when it first emerged, it rapidly caught on (e.g., despite my best efforts to prevent this, there have been numerous DMSO supply shortages—a few of which have led to my colleagues being quite upset with me) since that time.

Just as miraculous, I’ve received numerous testimonials from readers around the world about the life-changing effects DMSO has had on them. Recognizing the importance of not letting these stories become forgotten, I’ve devoted a significant amount of time to compiling them all here. While I know I’ve missed a lot (since they appear in so many places), there are now over 3,000 of them.

The majority of those testimonials match the well recognized functions of DMSO, but at the same time, I’ve received many astonishing ones I had not anticipated, and come to realize that in many cases, DMSO is a better (particularly in regards to cost) therapy than what I had long been using to treat many different conditions. Put differently, since there are so many different applications of DMSO, I would have never become aware of some of them had I not unearthed and reviewed tens of thousands of pages of literature in the process of compiling this series, and for that reason, I’m immensely grateful I did!

In those testimonials, one of the things that caught my eye was that numerous people shared that DMSO had either improved or reversed their COPD (or pulmonary fibrosis). These chronic, debilitating lung conditions are very difficult to treat within the standard medical paradigm. One reader for example, Rebecca Cunningham, shared that DMSO had saved her beloved neighbor from COPD (“I am LITERALLY watching a miracle happen”, and after an X post I made about it went viral, decided to make a short and to the point video about what had happened and how profound it was to both her and her neighbor. I was deeply moved by it and realized I needed to write an article on this topic, as it encapsulates what many are suffering through and what those close to them experience.

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Writes J.K. Baltzersen:

 I’ve just read several essays in historian of the American Revolution Gordon Wood’s *The Idea of America*. I in particular recommend “A History of Rights in Early America.” It is a good contribution to the corrective to the perception of the revolution as liberation.

An excerpt:

 Since the government, including the king, was only one property holder in a world of property holders, it could not take “private” property for “public” purposes without the consent of the owner of that property; in other words, it had no modern power of eminent domain.

The Revolution was designed to dramatically change all this.

[…]

When in 1775 a frightened Tory warned the people of Massachusetts that a popular revolutionary legislature could become as tyrannical as the crown and deprive the people of their individual liberties, John Adams dismissed the idea out of hand. That the people might tyrannize themselves and harm their own rights and liberties was illogical, declared Adams. “A democratic despotism is a contradiction in terms.”

[…]

The state assemblies began legislating — making and changing law — as never before. Indeed, as Madison complained in 1787, the states passed more laws in the single decade following independence than they had in the entire colonial period.

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Writes CRS:

 It has everything the CIA covets.  My guess is the CIA suggested the site to Trump in the first place.  What a great cover for them, including funding that will look “deniable.” 

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Deborah Ayers wrote:

Born between 1930 and 1946 places you in an exceptionally small group – just 1% of your generation remains today. Ranging in age from 77 to 93, your lifetime represents a singular period in human history.

Consider this:

You entered a world of difficulty. Your generation emerged from the Great Depression and witnessed a global war. You experienced rationing, collected scrap metal, and practiced resourcefulness – waste was avoided.

You recall home delivery of fresh milk. Life was less complex, focused on essential needs. Discipline was a consistent element from both parents and educators, with little tolerance for justifications.

Your imagination served as your entertainment. Without television, you engaged in outdoor play and constructed elaborate mental worlds based on radio broadcasts. Families gathered to listen to news and programs together.

Technology was rudimentary. Telephones were shared, calculations were manual, and newspapers were the main source of information. Thoughts were recorded on typewriters, not computers.

Your early years were stable. The post-WWII period ushered in a hopeful future – absent of terrorism, the internet, and discussions about global warming. It was a prosperous time marked by optimism, progress, and security.

You are the final generation to have lived when:

Black-and-white television was advanced technology.

Major roads were not yet freeways.

Shopping involved visits to central business districts.

Polio was a significant health threat.

While your parents dedicated themselves to rebuilding after the war, you matured in an environment of abundant opportunities. You flourished during an era of peace, advancement, and safety that the world may never again experience.

If you are beyond 77 years old, feel a sense of pride in having navigated these remarkable times. You are among the fortunate 1% who can truthfully say, “I lived through the best of times.”

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Kennedy/Johnson apparatchik Bill Moyers of state-generated PBS performed “limited hangouts” on the Deep State of today and the Secret Government of the Nixon (Watergate) and Reagan (Iran-Contra) years.

The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

While Moyers has done some very courageous and commendable investigative journalism over the years (as the above exemplary programs demonstrated), he has remained one of the premier establishment media gatekeepers and shrill partisan voices of a faux progressivism of the eternal regime.

Don’t expect to see a tell-all PBS broadcast on The Confessions of Bill Moyers. Although tortured by inner demons and decades-long doubts in his role as a LBJ loyalist, he will never go near the career-destroying “third rail” of the November 22, 1963 JFK murder and coup d’état and his own craven role as an accessory in establishing the Warren Commission because of his close proximity and intimate engagement to those responsible for these events.

“Made Man” Moyers was the consummate insider, twelve years as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Bilderberg group.

In his long suppressed 1980 PBS two-part interview, “The World of David Rockefeller,” Moyers observed concerning the Machiavellian centenarian:

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work”.*

And so did Bill Moyers. It was time for him to come clean about his activities in the Deep State during the 1960s.

But alas, he took those treasonous secrets to the grave.

*Transcript of “The World of David Rockefeller,” Bill Moyers’ Journal, February 7, 1980 (WNET/Thirteen, 356 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019)

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Bill Moyers was a Great Society liberal, President Johnson’s confidante and press secretary.

In ’67 Moyers broke with LBJ over the Vietnam War and resigned.  Later, as the host of the PBS program “NOW with Bill Moyers,” he featured opponents of Bush’s elective war in Iraq including Lew Rockwell, Chris Hedges, and me.  I appeared on his last episode of NOW, on December 17, 2004 talking about my experience as an anti-war talk show host.

National media exposure was hard to come by for anti-war voices then, and I am grateful for the attention Moyers gave us.

He passed away June 26 at the age of 91.

Bill Moyers, RIP.

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In Sweden there exists an electrified road for Electric Vehicles (EVs) to charge while driving, see Endnote [i].  The 2 km stretch of road is the world’s first of its kind, and an expansion of a further 3,000 km of electric road by 2045 is planned. It all sounds rather cool and futuristic, and I am reminded of a song lyric from the 1980s, the singer Eddie Grant sang “we’re gonna rock onto Electric Avenue”.

However, let us consider whether these expensive EVs are actually environmentally friendly or are yet mega-corporate marketing scam? This article demonstrates that the latter is the case.

The reality is that the misled environmentalists buying these cars are suckers for mega-corporate advertising, seemingly proud of their so-called low-carbon eco-cars. Apparently, unaware that the manufacture of millions of electric car batteries, requires huge mining operations to acquire and refine large quantities of rare earth metals, such as lithium, rhodium and cobalt; that these metals have to be mined out of the ground using machinery which is powered by carbon-emitting vehicles powered by diesel or petrol; and importantly, that the mining and refining processes can cause significant and extensive pollution to land, air and water systems, for example in rural China and Mongolia, see Endnote [i]. Unlike the fake climate agenda, these are real environmental problems.

Further to my recent article 1900 Scientists Say ‘Climate Change Not Caused By CO2’ – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked, and my book Climate CO2 Hoax, a ‘devastator’ can been described as a lie so big it devastates and bewilders. “Buy an electric car to save the planet” is one such devastating lie.

Below is a picture of a lithium leach field. This is what your EV batteries are made of. It is so neuro-toxic that a bird landing on this stuff dies in minutes. Take a guess what it does to your nervous system? Pat yourself on the back for saving the environment.

Furthermore, the push to end gasoline or diesel transport by 2035 in favor of e-vehicles is based on a lie as the lithium-ion battery-powered vehicles have a total “carbon footprint” when the effects of mining lithium and producing all parts are included, that is worse than diesel autos.

Furthermore, electric cars are still driven by electricity produced from fossil fuels and will most likely continue to be. Despite decades of government subsidies wind power provides less than 5% of the world’s energy, and solar just 1 %. The use of electricity to charge vehicles and devices is also an extremely in-efficient use of energy, according to a study by the European Association for Battery Electric Vehicles commissioned by the European Commission (EC):

“The ‘Well-to-Tank’ energy efficiency (from the primary energy source to the electrical plug), taking into account the energy consumed by the production and distribution of the electricity, is estimated at around 37%. “

Let us take a look at the deceptive marketing for electric vehicles. The first misleading marketing trick that millions of environmentalists fell for was the ‘hybrid’. Hybrid cars are actually gasoline powered cars with a little battery assistance and the little battery has to be charged from the gasoline engine. If the EPA-certified mileage is 55 mpg, then it is no different from a non-hybrid that achieves 55 mpg. A world 100% full of ‘hybrid’ drivers is still 100% addicted to oil.

Now consider a cleverly designed marketing pitch for electric cars by Elon Musk, Co-Founder & CEO of Tesla Motors. In an article published on the Tesla Motors website, see Endnote [i], he states:

“the overarching purpose of Tesla Motors… is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy…  A common rebuttal to electric vehicles as a solution to carbon emissions is that they simply transfer the CO2 emissions to the power plant. The obvious counter is that one can develop grid electric power from a variety of means, many of which, like hydro, wind, geothermal, nuclear, solar, etc. involve no CO2 emissions. However, let’s assume for the moment that the electricity is generated from a hydrocarbon source like natural gas… the hands down winner is pure electric:

This system can be… set up as a carport and will generate about 50 miles per day of electricity. If you travel less than 350 miles per week, you will therefore be “energy positive” with respect to your personal transportation… you will actually be putting more energy back into the system than you consume in transportation!”

However, Elon Musk does not mention the fact that:

1. The move from mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy in itself requires a vast expenditure of fossil-fuel energy to re-purpose the entire worldwide industrial system, as well as build vast new energy grids for wind and solar energy, etc, simply to reduce CO2 emissions. A new industrial framework which in itself will still be very polluting to land, air, and water in virtually the same ways as the old framework as it creates more and more ‘product’ to be marketed and sold, such as electric cars, which we are now incorrectly told is okay because its ‘green product’;
2. The Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROEI) for solar and wind energy is too low to be viable, and therefore to repurpose and rebuild the world energy and industrial system to de-carbonise the economy is a waste of vast amounts of fossils fuels (no wonder the sector seeks subsidies);
3. The manufacture of potentially hundreds of millions of new electric cars and electric car batteries involves a continuation of widespread mining and processing of rare earth metals, such as lithium, rhodium and cobalt, which appear to be a limited resource. The mining and processing of rare earth metals has been shown to be polluting to land, air, and water systems, such as rivers.
4. If you charge the car with solar energy, you may be putting slightly more energy back into the system than you consume in ‘driving the car’. However, driving the electric car is only one small part of the entire energy consuming process from mining to manufacture to distribution, not to mention the embedded energy in the manufactured materials of a new worldwide supply-chain industrial infrastructure, including cars, factories, energy grids, windmills, photovoltaics, etc.
5. And importantly, CO2 emissions are not the cause of climate change. Are you aware that almost 2,000 of the world’s leading climate scientists and professionals in over 30 countries have signed a declaration that there is no ‘CO2-induced’ climate emergency and have refuted the United Nations claims in relation to man-made ‘CO2-induced’ climate change? See the list of signatories here. I have also signed this declaration.

How can I make such an assertion? I have experience in the field as a former scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK Government; and as former staff member at United Nations Environment, where I was responsible for servicing the Pollution Release and Transfer Register Protocol, a Multinational Environmental Agreement, involving the monitoring of pollutants to land, air, and water worldwide. Real pollution exists, but the problem is not CO2. Industrial globalisation has produced many substances that are registered as pollutants, including thousands of new man-made chemical compounds, toxins, nano-particles and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that are in violation of the scientific pre-cautionary principle.

A book I published also provides ample evidence and testimony from many renowned scientists that there is no ‘CO2-induced’ Climate emergency. The book titled ‘Climate CO2 Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement’ is available on Amazon here and on Realitybooks.co.uk

The problem is not CO2. CO2 is not actually a pollutant, it is an odorless gas, it is not soot and it is not poisonous. Actually, CO2 has beneficial properties for humankind because it is a fertilizer – without sufficient CO2 plants and crops will not grow. The biology of the earth is driven by CO2. Climate change is not due to CO2 emissions, neither is it ‘cow-made’ due to methane emissions as the UN claim.

It appears, the little ice age ended as recently as around 1800, so it is no surprise that we are now experiencing a little warming. However, this warming period will end, and we will move again to a colder phase. It appears that is how the Earth’s climate system has behaved for billions of years. I am also a signatory of the World Climate Declaration, a declaration that refutes the United Nations narrative on climate change.

6. Electric cars are a source of exposure to electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation; and that human health implications of EMF exposure have been documented in numerous studies (these concerns are not exclusive to electric cars).

An example of why electric cars are fake environmentalism – consider a Tesla model Y battery

t takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car. To manufacture it has been estimated that you need:

12 tons of rock for lithium; 5 tons of cobalt minerals (most cobalt is made as a byproduct of the processing of copper and nickel ores. It is a very difficult to obtain and is very expensive.); 3 tons of nickel ore; and 12 tons of copper ore. In addition, you must move 250 tons of soil to obtain: 26.5 pounds of lithium; 30 pounds of nickel; 48.5 pounds of manganese; and 15 pounds of cobalt. To manufacture the battery also requires 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and/or plastic and 112 pounds of graphite.

A Caterpillar 994A vehicle is commonly used for the earthmoving to obtain the essential minerals. It has been estimated to consume between 250 and 775 gallons of diesel in 12 hours, see Endnote [i]. Finally, you get a “zero emissions” car. Presently, the bulk of the necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries comes from China or Africa; and much of the hard labour for acquiring the minerals in Africa is done by children!

The cost of Tesla batteries for the Tesla car models ranges from $5,000 to $20,000. It takes seven years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The average life expectancy of the batteries is 10 years. Only in the last three years do you begin to reduce your carbon footprint. Then the batteries have to be replaced and you lose all the gains you made in those three years.

The reality should be distinguished from the lies we are all being told by governments, the UN, the WEF and mega-corporate advertising. The word “sustainable” was hijacked decades ago, and it is now deceptively used to advance the agendas of mega-corporate-communist interests who couldn’t care less about the environment. The aim is to catapult humanity into the ‘fake-sustainable’ totalitarian arms of UN Agenda 2030 and other deceptive marketing plans entirely designed by the mega-corporations of the ultra-wealthy Davos group. Its not about saving the planet – it’s about political and mega-corporate control, control over your energy, your money, and your freedom.

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[1] Source: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/05/09/sweden-is-building-the-worlds-first-permanent-electrified-road-for-evs-to-charge-while-dri

[1] Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-rare-earth-village-pollution

[1] The relevant article written by Elon Musk is available at: https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me

[1] Source: https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/cat-994-fuel-consumption.94089/

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Although today’s massive wealth disparities are plain as day, it is important to note that wealth is now generally accumulated not by adding material value but by financial sleights of hand and therein is the crux of the matter.

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.

Although the above quote is often erroneously attributed to Gibbon’s seminal The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, it might more aptly be applied to the decay of the Anglo-American system which we are now living through in real time. If we sequentially go through them, we see social discourse being dominated by tittle tattle about celebrity nobodies and those nobodies often being elected to high office. What with Sir Keir Starmer having gangs of Ukrainian male prostitutes tailing him like he was a bitch in heat, degenerates like Jesuit top dog Fr Bill Currie being spit roasted on a nightly basis as top journalists dress in French maids’ uniforms to kiss the boots of black transexual prostitutes, and all such nobodies being in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book, their behaviour could just as well be from the set of 120 days of Sodom, which has been described as the sickest film of all time.

Le Soir, the liberal paper that spearheaded Belgium’s collaboration during the Nazi occupation, provides us with another relevant example of NATO hoisting themselves by their own petard as any praise for their liberal credentials in republishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons must be tempered by noting they hired Philippe Servaty, whose party piece was to ejaculate and and urinate into the faces of impoverished Moroccan women and post his “art” on the Internet before the women’s incensed relatives put a bounty on his head.

Talking of these degenerates, although what passes for Hunter Biden-style art today is barely worth a mention, we must note that our aesthetic tastes are continually being shaped by Zelensky’s Brownshirt enforcers, whose Pavlovian impulse is to swing a sledgehammer every time they hear Russian culture being mentioned. Whoever said that book burning had gone out of fashion?

Although today’s massive wealth disparities are plain as day, it is important to note that wealth is now generally accumulated not by adding material value but by financial sleights of hand and therein is the crux of the matter. Historically, we had two forms of economies, the stock-driven one of the Netherlands, Britain and America and the debt-driven one of Germany and Japan, both of which have been thoroughly derailed by the Anglo Americans, whose stock market based system was supposed to fund relatively risky ventures unsuited to the more risk averse debt financing the main Axis powers typified.

That idyllic Wall Street sheen is no more and the emphasis is now on milking captive audiences through needless pharmaceuticals, narcissistic purchases and nihilistic wars: that is where the money is and, as the politicians have long ago been bought off, there is no real protection for the ordinary citizen against any of these 5G forms of draining their wallets dry. Instead of trying to add value, the emphasis is on wasting weapons in NATO’s endless wars and knowing that the taxpayer will, at day’s end, have to pick up the tab for their profligacy. It is a risk free scam. As Craig Murray has recently pointed out, Wall Street’s hedge funds actually own the RAF’s Top Guns, meaning, firstly, that it is in their profit maximising interests to charge top dollar for the under performing junk Russia is turning into scrap metal in Ukraine and, secondly, that all Starmer, Trump, Kallas and von der Leyen are left with are their hedge funds, who scam the RAF and whatever other rich NATO pickings that Halliburton, Blackwater and BlackRock have not yet picked bare.

As for the ordinary public, who are not members of NATO’s self-selected elite, technology has made them largely irrelevant to the economy, except as unthinking consumers or, as is the case with Britain’s abortion-up-to-birth laws, as raw inputs into cosmetics and some similar luxury goods products. As for euthanasia, well why not? If the ordinary public cannot add value to the elite, why not put them down? Maybe, in this brave new world, Hitler and the Anglo-Americans, who inspired his Austrian death factories, had a point in all of that.

As it was then with the the boys, and girls, from Brazil, so is it now. The latest resurrected Nazi is Blaise Metreweli, whose grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, aka The Butcher, was one of Hitler’s chief Ukrainian collaborators, a notorious mass murderer and torturer for the Waffen-SS in Ukraine and the entire eastern front. Although the Waffen-SS still have their Russophilic critics, there is evidence galore that having friends and forefathers in that infamous group never did the careers of their families any harm in modern-day Blighty, or in Canada, the United States and Germany for that matter.

Although we are told the Waffen-SS are yesterday’s men because the ideological sheens the Anglo Americans used to oppose them are things of the past, with no more ongoing relevance than whatever drove the Assyrians or the Carthaginians on their own conquests all those millenia ago, their Nazi networks remain there to be activated when needed. Even though the Anglo-Americans still have the world’s most well-oiled and best performing propaganda industry, and even though they have the resources of Nazi families like the Butcher’s to draw on, they are losing their lustre because they can no longer innovate or regenerate to the degree that is needed.

Take the recent Iranian-Israeli dust up, where the Iranian missiles performed as I predicted. There will be no Iranian Operation Paperclip and Iran (the land of the Aryans), Persia if you prefer, will no longer be the buffer state it once was following the 1856/7 Anglo Persian war. When Iran puts its formidable missile technological know-how up for sale, their main customers will be the Russians and the Chinese, who are no slouches at the hard sums themselves, and that is not good news for the Anglo-Americans or the rust buckets masquerading as aircraft carriers they pin their faith on to control the world’s choke points.

And nor is it good news for the informal networks NATO uses as velvet handcuffs for the world’s satraps. I am referring here to military academies like Sandhurst and to the public schools like Harrow and Eton Sandhurst draws its dullards from. Why, except to engage in their BDSM hazing rituals, ape NATO’s toy soldiers when Iran and its allies are showing that victory in the Waterloos of the future will owe far more to the STEM researchers of China and Iran than they do to Paddington Bear and the playing fields of Eton?

The idea of giving Iran room to breathe or even having buffer states to stop the bigger elephants crashing into each other is now obsolete. The Baltic pimple states as well as Hitler’s former Finnish allies are now but staging posts to attack Russia and to hell with any Russian nuclear or other response as, in a perversion of Pascal’s wager, the risks of summoning Armageddon are well worth it for even the smallest chance of robbing Russia of its vast natural resources. Besides British guile and the long shot of dividing and conquering those who count, there seems no other way to dent Russia and those who stand with her.

If today’s Great Game was only confined to Russia’s southern and northern borders, then there might be hope. But look towards Africa and to the great Nile River where the intrigues of empire remain problematic. When Britain divided up the waters of the Nile between Sudan and Egypt, they omitted Ethiopia, which not only also needs that water but it is where the Nile actually begins its long march to the sea. As Ethiopia is now extending its own dam to the possible detriment of both Egypt and Sudan, expect more trouble in that volatile region, which, not so long ago, saw the Soviet Union fund Egypt’s Aswan dam, a move which helped Nasser pivot towards the anti Anglo-American Soviet bloc, from which it was afterwards half-wrested.

As Israel has recently annexed Syria’s water supply, just as it previously robbed the River Jordan from Jordan, expect all those postcolonial squabbles to come to bear when Russia and China become serious players in the region. And maybe even expect other countries to replace Israel as the area’s key choke point. The historical tides are currently changing course and patch quilt dykes here and there will not change matters when those titans tag team their way into the ring.

Whatever about the rise of China and Russia, the Anglo-Americans, like the Romans before them, are suffering from the problems centuries of privilege bring. They have thinned out their economies and their people, who are no longer the stout hearted peasantry Oliver Goldsmith pined about in The Deserted Village but are, instead, a sordid gaggle of degenerates Chinese vloggers and anthropologists scratch their heads in baffled bemusement about.

Critical though the fate of the Western empire is, it would not be imminently fatal if the sort of urgent remedial action Japan undertook in the post-Wars years to steady its own ship was taken. Though these steps would include a massive streamlining of NATO’s judicial and loan sharking systems, a massive crackdown on the drug and perversion industries and the mass internment of corrupt politicians and government functionaries, none of that can now happen as the West is on the different trajectory of robbing Europe of the last of its sovereign wealth and, as the ongoing Syrian genocide shows, to hell with the longer term consequences.

Far from being the idyll of liberal imperialism the West pretends to be, it is, in essence, a giant Ponzi scheme where the elite pick the pockets and, now, the vital organs of the rest, who no longer even have the right to decide how to dispose of their own bodies. Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and similar French, Russian and German classics of the Victorian era show us things were not that different then, the only cultural difference being, perhaps, that more of us can read and write, an almost now-obsolete skill that was necessary to impart to the working class because of the great demand for lowly clerks towards the end of Queen Victoria’s reign.

Although there remains oases of goodwill throughout the Anglo American world, they resemble those Brideshead Revisited Catholic aristocrats of Olde Englande, who did not abandon their faith, mere puddles from the past, oddities of no greater strategic significance.

Instead of folk like Alexander Graham Bell, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thomas Crapper, John Dunlop, Thomas Edison and George Stephenson, all we now have is NATO mob boss Mark Rutte flaunting his sociopathic daddy issues to the world, and Bonny Blue, a British slapper, who is hailed as a hero because her party trick is to lie down and think of England as 1000 losers use her as their collective sperm bucket.

Although, given her demographics, China probably has countless similar losers, her core engineering capabilities far outclass anything the Anglo American empire can currently muster and, as for Bonny Blue, she is not that very different from von der Leyen and Kallas, who likewise would better belong in San Fernando Valley. Though the Anglo American empire will hobble on with von der Leyen, Kallas and Bonny Blue doing what they do best, just as Rome hobbled along up to and even after the fall of Constantinople, it no longer calls the shots. All we are left with are its jagged pieces, epitomised by Bonny Blue, Kaja Kallas, Keir Starmer, Fr Bill Currie and their Ukrainian rent boys. And, as for China’s future generations of anthropologists, vloggers and historians, they will wonder how these larpers ever took their ancestors for such an expensive ride.

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The Failure by our Corrupt Elected Officials and Bureaucrats of the Administrative State to Obey our Great Constitution is the Root Cause of all Treason and Denies Us Our Freedoms and the American Dream.

Failure  to obey our Constitution is the foundation of our inability to prosper because the people’s wealth has been squandered on unconstitutional  wars for profit, foreign aid, financing Communist cities, financing usurped state functions, financing corporate welfare, financing Invaders (which is Treason), financing the corrupt FBI & CIA and etc, etc.

Our officials and bureaucrats will certainly go to hell for slaughtering 105,000 members of our military in the last 80 years, millions of civilians, and devastating entire countries without a single Declaration of War, all for their profit, not our national security.

All of this has been done while the officials and bureaucrats knew that the United States could not be invaded by a foreign power. It can only be defeated by weapons of Mass Destruction or from within by the 20 million strong Democratic/Communist army of Illegal invaders. Because of this, our military must be returned home from 150 countries, where they are like canaries in a coal mine.

There is no reason, none, for defending Europe or Israel, because they can’t reciprocate, and it is none of our business.

I have no actual proof, only the words of countless professionals I respect, and what I can observe to support the following statement: Our government is controlled by the Jewish Lobby and they own our media. Government officials are petrified by the Jewish Lobby, Jews being only 2% of our Population. But the Jewish Lobby shares control of the government with the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC), consisting of the wealthy families directing their greedy minions in corporations and all levels of government.

Another observation by others is that most of our elected officials hate Trump, America, and the people. Many Republicans profess to support “America First”  but this is a lie because Trump is reducing their potential for receiving bribes by reducing related income for the PSRRC .

At this point, you should agree that the root cause of all our problems is the criminal and traitorous refusal of our elected officials and bureaucrats to obey the Constriction to the letter. Their qualification for office included swearing a sacred Oath to protect and defend and obey this highest authority in the land. Violating this Oath lawfully disqualifies them from office.

I can guarantee that if sure and certain punishment would result from violating the Constitution and government corruption, then our people could once again enjoy the pursuit of the American Dream. Nothing would motivate honest government better than the public hanging of Traitors and the certainty of prison sentences for government and corporate criminals.

As I said in my last article, all payments to states must end and a large portion of federal income taxes collected in a state must be returned to the state. Alternatively, you could fund the Federal Establishment with tariffs and excise taxes while terminating the income tax

My primary problem with Public Service Law Firms is that all of their efforts are directed at the results, and not the root causes of criminality. If they continue this way, they will have employment thru eternity…and the public will have no sense of justice or redress of grievances.

I, and many others, estimate that a majority of the Federal Establishment is a Criminal Enterprise

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On the Fourth of July, as on any momentous occasion, myths mingle with reality. Even the date we’re supposed to remember was initially in question.

Congress voted for independence two days before it was formally declared. John Adams always thought July 2 the more appropriate day to celebrate, and expected it would be the perpetual date to do so. There was some merit to his argument, and more than a little envy that prompted it.

As relations with Great Britain deteriorated and war raged to the north, separation became inevitable. Adams suggested to Thomas Jefferson that Jefferson write a declaration of independence.

Adams viewed the document as something of a press release, and certainly nothing epochal. After the tumult passed – either with new states on the world scene or a hangman’s noose around signatories’ necks – few would remember it. The actual vote was what mattered.

Jefferson was reluctant, and wondered why Adams shouldn’t write the announcement himself. Other than Robert Livingston, Jefferson was the youngest member of the committee of five assigned by the Second Continental Congress to draft a rationale for independence.

How was he qualified?

Jefferson brought unique ability…what Adams called “a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent for composition”, as well as a “peculiar felicity of expression.” Adams then elaborated, with three additional reasons he preferred to defer to his younger colleague.

“Reason first”, he began, “you are a Virginian, and a Virginian should be at the head of this business.

“Reason second”, he continued, “I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise.

“Reason third”, he concluded, “you can write ten times better than I can.”

Adams was right, and won that battle. But Jefferson won the war. From then on, the former always thought the latter had run away with the revolution. With a bit of retrospective bitterness, Adams continued to think July 2 was the date that truly mattered.

The Declaration ended up meaning more than Adams thought it would (or should), and the date atop the document became the one the rest of us would celebrate. That Adams and Jefferson both died on July 4… fifty years to the day after independence was declared…further cemented its mystique, reinforced their reputations, and gave us a day to remember.

But the Fourth wasn’t always and everywhere remembered fondly. While the day is an annual celebration of a successful secession, some Americans spent many generations mourning a thwarted attempt… which effectively died on the Fourth of July.

The Siege

General Grant had planned to approach Vicksburg the way Captain Lawrence attacked Aqaba: from the land. Much as Turkish guns aimed over the gulf, Confederate forts guarded the river. Grant’s only option was from the east.

But unbeknownst to Grant, General McClernand had proposed taking Vicksburg from upstream, using his own army of Illinois recruits. Lincoln agreed, but hadn’t told Grant.

As rumors swirled and word spread, Grant became aware of what was afoot. Wanting to take control of the project, he changed course and summoned Sherman to Memphis. But the Confederates intervened.

Bedford Forrest and General Van Dorn snuck behind Union lines, capturing supplies, severing railroads, and disconnecting telegraphs. With Grant stalled, Sherman proceeded without expected support, and was forced to wait on the west side of the river.

An irate McClernand and an irritated Grant eventually joined him. After nine months cutting futile canals in hopes of circumventing Vicksburg, Grant decided to march downstream, thru the thick marshes on the Louisiana side. Eluding Confederate guns, his army proceeded south, and crossed the Mississippi thirty miles below Vicksburg.

Their first target was Jackson, to cut Confederate supplies that came thru the capital. From there Grant moved west, and laid siege to the village of Vicksburg. The deprivation lasted forty-seven days.

Like so many southern farms, hamlets, and homes ravaged by Lincoln’s armies, Vicksburg was full of women, children, infirm, and elderly. As these civilians were shelled they dug shelters to survive. Many succumbed to starvation and disease.

The Surrender

About the moment Pickett’s charge was failing in Gettysburg, General Pemberton asked Grant for terms. The next day… four score and seven years after the Declaration was adopted… Vicksburg fell.

The defenders were reluctant to capitulate on Independence Day, thinking it would amplify their humiliation and provide fodder for Yankee propaganda. General Pemberton conceded the point, but offered a competing one.

Tho’ a Confederate general, Pemberton was a Pennsylvanian who knew the Northern mind:

“I know my people”, he assured objectors on his staff. “I know their particular weaknesses and their national vanity. I know we can get better terms from them on the Fourth of July than on any other day of the year. We must sacrifice our pride to these considerations.”

It initially seemed he needn’t have bothered. Grant responded to the request for terms with his familiar demand for “unconditional surrender.” But overnight negotiations softened him slightly.

The morning of the 4th, an acceptable agreement was arranged. Confederates would be paroled rather than imprisoned. Officers could retain their side-arms, clothing, and a single horse. The rank-and-file kept their clothes and nothing else.

Grant’s men took possession of the city. Despite surrendering on the 4th of July, there was apparently little of the gloating Confederates had feared. Perhaps the invaders felt pangs of conscience upon witnessing what they’d wrought: countless corpses, frail frames, and gaunt bodies reflected the civilian toll of Yankee shelling and siege.

Fighting persisted almost two more years, with unspeakable carnage inflicted on the South. But the fall of Vicksburg severed the Confederacy, and effectively decided the war.

For four generations… from Appomattox to Pearl Harbor… Vicksburg ignored the Fourth of July. For good reason. If anyone invaded my state, shelled my city, and tried to kill my kids or ruin my family, I’d be hard pressed to celebrate the date that evoked those atrocities.

Who wouldn’t?

Only after the Second World War did Vicksburg’s ambivalence begin to melt, with the holiday celebrated as the “Carnival of the Confederacy”. Not till the Bicentennial in 1976 did July 4 officially reclaim its “Independence Day” title.

Compact Fact

Most Americans who cherish the Fourth of July misunderstand why they should. They proudly recall thirteen colonies separating from a central power, while cheering that eleven states were later forbidden to leave.

If anything, the American states have more legal claim to secede than the colonies did. The Crown chartered the colonies, and never claimed to be a federation of sovereign entities.

But the states created the US government, a voluntary association from which they presumed they could depart. This isn’t merely a compact “theory” of the Union. It’s a compact fact.

The meaning of this day, as Jefferson put it, is to recall the right of free people “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” [emphasis added]

The final paragraph of the Declaration removed any doubt:

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America [note the lower-case ‘u’], in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these [note the plural] United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”

These states seceded as “separate” sovereign entities, no different than Spain, Sweden, Russia, or France. “State” and “country” were synonymous. Jefferson regularly used the latter appellation when referring to Virginia, as most founders did regarding their own states.

Their people wanted to be left alone to manage their own affairs, without interference from external busybodies. Akin to the Catholic notion of subsidiarity, the idea was to enable empowerment at the most local level… to prioritize family over community, precinct over town, city over state, state over union. This is the core and essence of Jeffersonian philosophy, and of self-government.

The notion that states had a right to self-determination was precisely Jefferson’s argument in his Summary View of the Rights of British America. The states never yielded their sovereignty to a central government.

This was obvious under the Articles of Confederation. But even under the Constitution, states simply delegated specific powers they remained free to reclaim.

The state ratifying conventions were emphatic about this, with advocates for the Constitution assuring skeptics that fears of usurpation were overblown… and that the document included adequate mechanisms to inhibit any attempts.

As is abundantly evident in our own day, these safeguards weren’t good enough. But when they fail, the Declaration of Independence remains a welcome reminder of a worthy remedy.

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