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My homily last Sunday was entitled The False Doctrine Of Christian Zionism Is Starting To Fall Apart. In this message, I said:

It is the Epstein case that is creating the cracks in the lie of Christian Zionism. Make no mistake about it: The Epstein pedophile network and the Israeli genocidal wars in the Middle East are indissolubly linked.

The reason the ruling class in Washington, D.C., and New York City are so determined to support Israel no matter how demonic its actions might be is directly due to Epstein’s (the Mossad’s) blackmail campaigns. And the members of Congress that are not blackmailed into submission by the Mossad are bribed into submission by AIPAC.

Americans put Trump in office because they saw the filth and corruption of Washington, and they thought Trump was truly different. Now, they are awakening to the truth that Trump has been neck-deep in Israel’s corrupting clutches all along. And they are also now seeing Israel for the vile, demonic state that it always has been.

The truth about Epstein, the truth about Israel, the truth about the Mossad, the truth about Netanyahu, the truth about Congress, the truth about Trump and the truth about Scofieldism-Dispensationalism is now beginning to shine through the cracks of Christian Zionism.

From Candace Owens to Clayton Morris to Tucker Carlson to Piers Morgan to Joe Rogan to Larry Johnson to Max Blumenthal to Phil Giraldi to Judge Andrew Napolitano to Pepe Escobar to Scott Ritter, and on and on, they are all courageously shining the light of truth on the deception of Christian Zionism.

Short videos from my podium at Liberty Fellowship are circulating around the world. One person wrote to us this week and said that one of my clips has been posted on TikTok and viewed by over 500,000 people—and that was several days ago. 

Since Sunday, an online follower wrote and told me that one of my short videos on TikTok has over 2 million views.

Here are a couple of my short videos that are being circulated around the Net:

People by the thousands are leaving evangelical churches due to their support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza 

“If you’re still supporting Israel in the year 2025, there’s something seriously wrong with you as a person.”

I said all of that to say this: It came as a pleasant surprise (and shock) when on Monday I received a video clip, from which I will quote in this column.

The video clip is attributed to the famous actor Denzel Washington. My office attempted to confirm this speech and could not. We know that people are using AI to fabricate all kinds of videos (good and bad). And some people are saying this is what Denzel’s speech is. However, my office could not invalidate the speech either. We found no statements by Denzel denouncing or disassociating himself from the speech. Obviously, someone spoke or wrote the words contained in this clip.

With that disclaimer, I am going to provide readers with a transcript of “Denzel’s” speech. If the speech was indeed delivered by Denzel or one of his associates on his behalf, it further strengthens my regard for the actor.

Regardless, the content of this speech is AWESOME! And I believe the content to be TRUTH.

This speech mirrors what I said last Sunday, even though my approach came from a different direction. After you read it, you’ll understand why I was so pleasantly shocked when I saw it.

The speech is entitled The Fall of the Israel Lobby Has Begun — And This Is Just the Start.

Here are excerpts:

Ladies and gentlemen, what you’re about to hear is not just a speech; it’s a wake-up call. This is a message for the thinkers, the truth seekers, the ones who refuse to be told what to believe and dare to ask why.

For too long, a powerful lobby has shaped our politics, our media and our silence.

But the ground is shifting, and the mask is coming off.

This isn’t about hate; this isn’t about sides. This is about truth, about humanity, about seeing what’s really been happening behind the curtain of power and propaganda.

So, I ask you: Don’t blink, don’t scroll, don’t tune out. Because by the time we reach the end, you won’t just understand the fall of the Israel lobby, you’ll understand why it had to begin. Stay with me, because history doesn’t belong to the loudest voices; it belongs to the bravest hearts.

The Israel lobby has long been considered one of the most powerful and influential political forces in the United States. It has maintained a decades-long grip on foreign policy, campaign contributions, media narratives and congressional loyalties.

But today, that seemingly invincible image is beginning to crack.

What was once untouchable is now being questioned, criticized and, in many cases, outright opposed. These cracks are not just cosmetic; they reveal deep structural weaknesses in a machine that relied for too long on intimidation, loyalty buying and narrative control.

More politicians are beginning to resist the pressure to blindly support Israeli policies, and more voices in mainstream political discourse are daring to speak truths that were once considered career-ending.

The unwavering bipartisan support the lobby once enjoyed is faltering, even within institutions that were once tightly aligned with its goals: universities, media outlets and religious communities. A new courage is rising, and the silence is being shattered.

From the bombardment of Gaza to the expansion of illegal settlements, from the displacement of families to the killing of journalists, the world has watched in real time. And the lobby’s usual defense tactics—labeling all criticism as antisemitic or anti-American—are losing their power.

People are distinguishing between a religion and a regime, between a people and a policy. And that distinction is shaking the foundations of the lobby’s traditional talking points.

The aura of invincibility that the lobby enjoyed for decades is eroding. The taboo of questioning its influence is no longer as paralyzing as it once was. And this change is not coming from top-down political maneuvering; it’s coming from the ground up. Ordinary citizens, students, activists, veterans, scholars and even former insiders are refusing to stay silent. They are pushing forward, pulling back the curtain and showing the world that the emperor has no clothes.

The cracks are not just forming, they are spreading. Social media and independent journalism have become the most potent weapons against the once ironclad grip of the Israel lobby.

For decades, the narrative surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was carefully curated, filtered and sanitized by mainstream media outlets that rarely questioned the lobby’s influence or Israel’s military actions.

But that monopoly on information has collapsed in real time. Platforms like X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have become battlegrounds where truth meets propaganda.

And increasingly, the truth is winning.

Ordinary people on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank and across the diaspora are broadcasting unfiltered stories, videos and testimonies that pierce through the corporate news silence. These first-hand accounts are raw, emotional and impossible to ignore. They have become the front line of resistance, where the camera lens becomes mightier than the pen of paid pundits.

Independent journalists, many of whom operate without the backing of powerful media institutions, are leading a new era of fearless reporting. They are naming names, following the money and exposing the lies. While traditional outlets often hide behind neutrality, independent voices are stating facts with clarity and urgency. They are covering stories that used to be buried: massacres, illegal occupations, media manipulation and war crimes.

The lobby can no longer suppress these stories by influencing editorial boards or blacklisting dissenting voices, because the gatekeepers are no longer in control. Decentralized platforms have shattered the information bottleneck. Algorithms may still suppress some content, and smear campaigns still target truth-tellers, but the reach of alternative media has already broken through.

Viral videos of bombings, testimonies of survivors and reports by credible yet unaffiliated journalists now trend globally within minutes. These visuals and voices do not ask for permission, they demand attention. And with every image that contradicts official statements, with every testimony that challenges the lobby’s script, public opinion shifts further.

This digital awakening is not confined to the fringes. Influencers, artists, athletes and even celebrities are amplifying these voices despite the risks. In doing so, they are dismantling decades of narrative control, brick by brick. What was once hidden is now center stage.

The truth doesn’t whisper anymore. It roars across screens and hearts around the globe. The Israel lobby’s long-standing dominance over information is no longer guaranteed, because a new generation is writing its own script and broadcasting its own truth. Public opinion is undergoing a profound shift, and that shift is striking at the very heart of the Israel lobby’s power.

For decades, the average citizen, especially in the West, viewed the Israel-Palestinian conflict through a narrow lens crafted by political elites, lobby-funded think tanks and mainstream media. Israel was framed as the sole democracy in a hostile region, constantly under threat and acting in self-defense.

But that narrative has begun to collapse under the weight of real-time evidence, global outrage and growing awareness. Younger generations in particular are no longer buying into the binary story of good versus evil. They are asking deeper questions, researching independently and, most importantly, listening to the voices that were long silenced or ignored.

Polls now show that public sympathy for Palestinians is rising, while support for unconditional aid to Israel is declining. This isn’t a temporary spike in concern. It’s a long-term generational realignment.

The shift is visible not only among the public but also within religious communities, labor unions and even within segments of the Jewish diaspora itself. Many Jewish Americans, especially younger ones, are increasingly vocal in their opposition to the Israeli government’s policies, distinguishing their faith from the political state and challenging the weaponization of Antisemitism to silence legitimate criticism.

In a world where empathy is spreading faster than propaganda, the ground is shifting beneath the lobby’s feet. People are seeing, thinking and feeling differently. The tide is turning, not because someone told them to care, but because they can no longer look away.

There is a powerful moral awakening sweeping across communities, nations and platforms that can no longer ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people. For years, the narrative was shrouded in diplomatic language, conflict, security, peace process. But now the vocabulary has changed.

People are calling it what it is: apartheid, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, occupation. This shift in language reflects a shift in conscience.

The cries of children under rubble, the grief of mothers burying their sons and the desperation of entire families driven from their homes are being felt in the hearts of people who once saw this struggle as distant or too complex to understand.

This awakening is not driven by ideology but by human decency. It’s not a matter of left or right religion or race. It’s about the simple undeniable truth that no people should live under siege, under occupation, under constant fear.

The stories of Palestinians are no longer being dismissed as propaganda or buried beneath the headlines. Their voices are being heard and honored.

From refugee camps to social media timelines, their pain is resonating in ways that transcend borders. And with that comes a deeper understanding of the systemic injustice that has been normalized for decades.

People are no longer swayed by terms like “security operation” or “collateral damage,” because they’ve seen the faces behind the statistics. They’ve watched journalists targeted, ambulances bombed, hospitals turned to rubble. The moral cost is now visible and is too high to ignore.

Faith communities are speaking up. Artists are using their platforms. Educators are refusing to stay quiet. Even those who were once hesitant are finding the courage to call out oppression when they see it.

This awakening is not about sides. It’s about right and wrong, about justice, about finally listening to the voices that have been crying out for generations.

The political breakdowns that are unfolding today are exposing the weakening influence of the Israel lobby in a way that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago.

For generations, politicians in the United States and many Western countries were expected to offer unconditional support to Israel or risk severe political consequence. The lobby ensured compliance through financial backing, coordinated smear campaigns and immense pressure from allied institutions.

But now that grip is slipping. More and more lawmakers are refusing to toe the line, openly questioning the billions of dollars in military aid sent to Israel every year, especially in light of mounting evidence of human rights abuses and war crimes.

These moves are not just symbolic. They’re structural and substantial. They represent cracks in the bipartisan consensus that the Israel lobby worked tirelessly to maintain.

Even international bodies, long held back by the political muscle of pro-Israel lobbying networks, are pushing forward with investigations, sanctions and legal frameworks that hold Israeli officials accountable.

What we’re witnessing today is not just the weakening of the Israel lobby’s grip. It’s the start of something far bigger, a foundational shift that signals this fall is only the beginning.

The movement for Palestinian rights is no longer confined to protests or hashtags. It’s becoming a global moral reckoning that transcends politics, geography and identity.

The structures that propped up the lobby’s power, political intimidation, media control and financial pressure are all beginning to crumble, and in their place, grassroots movements are rising, fueled by conviction, clarity and courage.

This is just the start, because the systems that enabled decades of silence are finally being confronted. Schools, churches, unions and art communities are no longer afraid to speak out.

Even within Israel itself, there are voices challenging the occupation, the violence, the status quo.

People have learned that questioning power does not make them disloyal, and standing with the oppressed does not make them radical. It makes them human.

And what makes this even more unstoppable is the interconnection of causes. This fight is no longer viewed in isolation. It is tied to struggles for racial justice, indigenous sovereignty, anti-colonial resistance and the broader fight against systems that dehumanize for profit and power.

The same systems that justified silence on Palestine are being called out in every corner of the world. That’s why this isn’t just a moment of political change. It’s a cultural, emotional and spiritual shift.

The fall of the Israel lobby doesn’t mean the end of something old. It means the rise of something new: A future shaped by people who believe in truth over fear, justice over convenience and humanity over politics.

This is no longer about one lobby or one policy. It’s about reclaiming our shared humanity.

The fall of the Israel lobby has begun, and with it comes the rise of truth, justice and a future built not on dominance, but on dignity.

This is just the beginning. History is watching. And this time the people are writing it.

Thank you for standing, for listening, for questioning what others feared to question.

Stay awake. Stay courageous. Speak when others go quiet. And never underestimate the power of your voice, because the world doesn’t change when the powerful decide. It changes when the people refuse to be silent.

This speech is not only eloquent in expression but also exceptional in exegesis.

Compromised pastors and politicians will be the last ones to recognize the collapse of the Israel lobby and the false doctrine of Christian Zionism. Seldom do men have the character and courage to forsake a malevolent benefactor or faulty opinion having been long held. We cannot look to them for guidance.

But the words of Denzel Washington (or whoever wrote them) are truth without a doubt.

Of course, that does not mean that the void will not be filled with something else just as sinister. But the collapse of the Israel lobby (and perhaps the Zionist state as well) and the monstrous false teaching of Scofield Rapturism will provide an opportunity for men of truth in the pulpits to reacquaint the American people with the New Covenant Gospel, the same New Covenant Gospel that influenced America’s founders and forged the American nation.

To the nation, it is the message of peace, good will toward men. (Luke 2:14) It is the message of unity over division, goodness over greed, compassion over prejudice and freedom over bondage. In other words, our pulpits and churches can stop living under the Old Covenant law of Moses and start living in the New Covenant love of Christ.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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Last week, the popular rapper Zuby, who has amassed a significant following on social media as a self-described “epitome of toxic positivity,” posted an article titled “My Honest Advice For Gen Z Men.” He includes 12 life tips for young men from his perspective as a “successful Millennial.” The article is actually quite good and I recommend young men read it. But as Catholics, we can go deeper. So here’s my advice specifically for young Catholic men, based on my own experiences as a GenX man as well as observation of what works in men I admire. Of course, these are general tips that should be (must be) adapted to each person’s particular situation and state of life.

1) Make Catholicism the Center of Your Life

This one should be obvious, but it bears placing at the top of the list. In literally everything you do, your Catholic Faith must take precedence. This applies to decisions large and small. In deciding what college or field of work to pursue, in choosing a wife, in deciding where to live—Catholicism must come first. It should also be the basis for your weekly and daily routine, as we’ll see in some of the upcoming bits of advice.

Over the years I’ve seen too many Catholic men who sincerely believe, but they slide into a pattern of life in which Catholicism is not prioritized. When they reach their forties, they then realize that their life choices have made it more difficult to pass on the faith to their children, or even to practice it themselves. Perhaps they took a job that undermined their practice of the faith, and now they feel as if they can’t escape the grind to be more serious about Catholicism. Or they chose a wife that didn’t prioritize being Catholic and now the children are being led astray. Or they sent their children to a Catholic school which normalized a “beige” Catholicism.

Above all, put Catholicism first.

2) Rise Early and Be Disciplined

There’s something magical about the early hours of the day, when it’s still dark and most people are still sleeping. Monks have always known this: they rise extremely early, and the longest prayers of the Divine Office are the first ones of the day. Get in a habit of rising early (before 6 a.m.) and don’t hit that snooze alarm. Rising right when your alarm clock goes off is an excellent first penance of the day (see Tip #4).

After rising early, continue with a disciplined routine throughout the day. Don’t check your phone when you wake up; instead, spend the first hour of your day in prayer (see Tip #3). Only after that time of prayer should you allow yourself to look at a screen. Create a regular daily routine (as much as your state of life allows): eat at the same times, and most importantly, sleep at the same times. Discipline in the time of retiring for the night is the necessary corollary of early rising.

If you don’t have a disciplined routine, it will be almost impossible to follow much of the rest of this advice.

3) Pray Regularly

A saint is a man of prayer, and if you want to be a saint (hint: you should), you must pray. This means, first and foremost, that you start each day with an hour of prayer, as I’ve already mentioned. What if you only pray 5-10 minutes a day right now? Then increase the amount of time you spend praying by 5 minutes each week until you reach one hour a day. This is the time allotment that’s been recommended by spiritual advisors and saints for centuries.

What do you do during this hour? There are a lot of options, but I would recommend including the Divine Office (Liturgy of the Hours), Scriptural reading, mental prayer, and the Rosary. Experiment with what works for you until you have made it a good and fruitful habit.

And, that first hour of the day should not be the only time you pray. Insert short times of prayer throughout the day; perhaps say the Angelus every day at noon, and the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3 p.m. Your state of life will help determine the exact practices you follow. Be sure also to end your day in prayer, making an examination of conscience before your head hits the pillow.

4) Do Penance Regularly

Nothing is more neglected in modern Catholicism than penance. In fact, we tend to look with horror on stories of ancient saints using the discipline or engaging in vigorous fasts. The problem is not with them, but with us. Our Faith revolves around a man who was brutally tortured and killed for our salvation and who asked us to take up our own crosses to follow Him; surely, penance should be central to our practice of discipleship.

Young men in particular are called to penance, since in general young men are the most physically healthy people in society and so can handle severe penances. They are also the most willing to do physically demanding tasks for a greater good. So while all Catholics should do penance, young men should be leaders on this front.

What type of penances should one undertake? Again, a person’s state of life must be taken into account. And as St. Josemaría Escrivá advised, “Choose mortifications that don’t mortify others.” In other words, if your penance makes you uncharitable to others or generally unpleasant to be around, you need to rethink what you are doing.

But don’t be a wimp or make excuses: penances are supposed to be hard. A few examples of penances: fasting for at least 24 hours at a time, cold showers, a pebble in your shoe, and giving up coffee and/or sugar. Fasting is the most common form of penance for good reason: it’s easy to incorporate into almost any state of life since it primarily involves not doing something rather than doing something (and of course it imitates Our Lord in the desert).

Finally, we’re not stoics simply enduring hardships; our penances should be united in prayer to Christ for our salvation and the salvation of others.

5) Take Care of Your Body

Although the Catholic Faith is incarnational, it took me far too long to realize the deep connection between body and soul. For years I didn’t understand that one’s physical health can directly impact one’s spiritual health. I’m not talking about illness or injury, which can be an opportunity for spiritual growth, but the malaise and fog that accompanies a modern lifestyle of sitting in front of a screen all day and engaging in almost no physical activity. That way of living leads to both physical and spiritual death.

Young men need to be as physically active as possible. I don’t mean you should be a gym rat who stares in the mirror all day flexing. But it’s not healthy to be sitting at a desk all day, every day (I realize this is much harder in some jobs than others, but consider that when choosing a career). At the very minimum walk at least 20 minutes a day and do some basic strength training at least three times a week. Even better, run and/or ruck a few times a week, which has the added benefit of getting you outside, which is good for both your mind and your body.

Taking care of your body also means you are disciplined about what goes into your bodies. We’re surrounded by things that weaken the body: energy drinks, cigarettes, zin, junk food, et. al. Not only do they enfeeble the body, many of them also pacify the mind, making it more submissive to the spirit of the age.

You don’t need a gym membership to take care of your body, just the discipline to be consistent with exercise and what you eat (see Tip #2).

6) Attend the TLM If You Can

This is likely to be my most controversial bit of advice, but I think it’s so important I can’t leave it out. Anyone who attends a traditional Latin Mass regularly can speak of a particular phenomenon: it usually is filled with many more young men than attend regular Novus Ordo parish Masses. This is no coincidence. The reality is that the TLM is far more attractive to young men because it’s frankly just more masculine. It allows a man to worship God without the effeminate energy that too often dominates the typical celebration of the Novus Ordo. By being more demanding, the TLM speaks to the soul of young men in a way not found anywhere else in today’s culture (or today’s Church). It more clearly calls him to become a soldier for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

I realize not every young man has regular access to a TLM nearby. If you don’t, at least make an effort to attend a TLM a few times a year, or even consider moving closer to a regular TLM. It’s worth it.

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I wear seasonal clothes, eat seasonal foods and like to write about seasonal topics. During the past few weeks, I’ve written about summer experiences. This week, I’ll continue to celebrate this season of daylight and warmth.

Though some days are warmer than we like.

I’ve done much outdoor work in the summer, including as a food and flower grower, garbageman, roofer, landscaper and camp counselor/swim teacher. I’ve also often played sports outdoors. Being out in so much sun has beaten up my skin. Mistakes were made.

So were memories.

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I still love immersing in either fresh or salt water. Depending on their ages, human bodies are between 60-75% water. It’s unsurprising that people are drawn to it.

I learned to swim in a river a block from my childhood home. As was that river, much freshwater is surrounded by trees. Some such settings have rocks from which you can dive or jump. Some are streams you can sit in. Some you go to with friends. Some you go to with your girlfriend. Immersing in these places is a slice of paradise.

I’ve stepped into liquid in such places as Bear Creek Lake in Southern Indiana, with its rope swing. Copake Falls on the New York/Massachusetts border are beautiful and user-friendly. Ithaca, NY has several nice spots for swimming, diving and jumping off cliffs of various heights. I’ve swum in a farm pond and an abandoned strip coal mine in Central Pennsylvania as well as in the broad Hudson River near Beacon, NY. I’ve slid down and leaped and dived from rocks in Western North Carolina and outside Chattanooga and into Northern California’s Rainbow Pool, just outside of Yosemite. I’ve submerged in the Delaware River and in New York State’s Catskills and Adirondacks, as well as in Washington State’s ice-cold Cascade lakes. I’ve bathed beneath waterfalls in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, in Puerto Rico, on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and the Pacific Coasts of Choco, Colombia and Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Among other places. If you tell me about a good swimming hole, maybe we can meet there.

When I see other people in these off-the-books swim settings, they’re smiling, shouting and laughing. The setting induces that reaction. For example, Richmond, Virginia’s James River has several places where one can slide, seated, dozens of yards, riding the current atop and between rocks.

One August 2012 day, a burly, forty-something guy rolled up alongside the James on his Harley.He stepped down the small riverbank and began snorkeling in shallow water. I asked him what he was looking for. He said he often found rings that had slipped from the wet, shrunken fingers of those whose hands scraped the rocks as the water swept them, blissfully distracted, through these gaps.

This treasure hunter told me that he struggled in school because he had a learning disability. He dropped out as soon as he could and started a window-washing business. His work paid all his bills and enabled him to buy a house and his Hog. He said his flexible work schedule allowed him to drop into the river often during the summer. I was impressed that despite adversity he had built a life he loved.

He said that, based on engraved initials and embossed dates and schools on the rings, he had located some of these rings’ owners and returned their rings to them. He told me that he found and saved so many unmarked wedding bands that he eventually filled a bread bag with them. When the price of gold crested, he sold the bag for $43,000 in pre-Scamdemic dollars.

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I like the way natural water looks, feels, sounds, tastes and smells. Some people consider lake or river water spooky and yicky because you can’t see through it and it often has a rocky, slimy or weedy bottom. I’ve put my feet into plenty of river and lake bottom muck and vegetation. Nothing bad ever happened. Some also fear that a fish will bite them. They’ve taken too seriously Jaws and documentaries about Amazonian piranhas. Lake fish, which are mostly sunnies, can’t even break the skin. In El Salvador, dozens of small fish harmlessly nibbled on our feet for a half hour as we sat on rocks in a hillside stream.

Besides swimming in rivers and lakes, I’ve also often swum in the ocean, typically at the Jersey Shore. I like to swim during the twilight hours after the lifeguards have left, and sometimes in the dark. One evening 35 years ago, near sunset, I got pulled out by a rip tide. Based on that experience—five others drowned nearby on that same day—I can understand how some who get caught in such a current drown, as Malcolm Jamal Warner just did. Ocean swimmers should have decent skills, remain calm, avoid taking a big gulp, resolve to stay afloat when swimming parallel to shore doesn’t immediately yield progress and reassure themselves that salt water exerts extra buoyant force.

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At some lakes, rivers and streams, immersion is allowed. But other places have “No Swimming” signs. Police or ranger efforts to prevent plunges into these places vary, depending on the location and the day.

My wife, Ellen, is a rule follower. In contrast, I think some rules should be broken. Not in a way that endangers or annoys others. And not for its own sake. Instead, just to do something that you enjoy. Swimming during hot weather, for example.

Inverting Adam and Eve, I’ve often talked Ellen into entering forbidden water. I convinced her that we wouldn’t get caught. And that if we did, we wouldn’t get arrested. And that we wouldn’t get fined. And that if we did, paying the fine would be worth the fun we would have had.

As were those who said “two weeks to stop the spread” and “vaccines are safe and effective,” I was making all this up. It was Salesmanship 101: you convince other people to go along and leave them to deal with any unfavorable consequences.

While this is plainly unethical, much of the world operates in this way, including in much higher-stakes matters than the misdemeanor I proposed. Back in the day, many human lives were created via such short-sighted persuasion. It’s part of my heritage.

Ellen hates the heat. When it was above 95 degrees, she was more amenable to suggestion. She put on a bathing suit under summer clothes, grabbed a towel and came along with me, never agreeing aloud that we should do this. Accomplices often exhibit silent, tentative affirmation.

I told her that if something went wrong, she could blame me. Ellen is nicer than I am. I could imagine a municipal court judge fining and scolding me and letting her go. When we want to, we can imagine many implausible things. During Coronamania, many adults imagined that healthy people would die from a respiratory virus. It was as if they thought there was a monster under their bed.

After my sales pitch, I drove Ellen 20 miles to the vicinity of swimming spots I knew near the edge of the New York City Metro area. During droughts, officials locked the gates to the gravel parking lots in these water-containing, semi-wild areas. We parked a half-mile away and walked to the gate, wiggled past it and, in order to avoid being seen, ran down and/or up paths where, once around a bend and behind trees and boulders, we became invisible to the police or rangers.

Having sneaked in, we soaked for hours, some afternoons in a lake and others in a river with water in the mid-70s. On one of these occasions, as we sat in the river wedged between boulders, we saw a boy and a girl in their late teens also defying the park closure. Each gripped a towel as they sprinted across a bridge 75 yards away, toward the lake atop a long hill that Ellen and I went to on days when the park was open. Their mischief was a beautiful sight. In the same way that one roots for a movie hero to avoid capture, we silently rooted, from our river niche hideaway, for the sprinting teens to evade detection, as we had. As in REM’s Nightswimming, the fear of getting caught was part of the fun for them and us.

Because I had been there many times, I knew there was an un-treed area up ahead of the scofflaws and that a ranger might have been waiting there to nab them. That’s why we opted for the river that day, instead of the lake, which I calculated was A Bridge Too Far.

Nowadays, security cameras would capture all of our furtive movings about.

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Some days we brought along my parents’ golden retriever. He swam well and followed me into the water after I dove off a ten-foot boulder and into the lake, in which swimming was prohibited, even when the park was open. As many times as I dove in and swam out and back again, he leaped in and chased me. Because he tried to climb on me in the water, when he got near, I soon learned to dive below the surface and swim underwater, beneath him and back toward the lake’s edge. When I surfaced, I saw the confused, paddling dog wondering where I had gone. I called for him and he turned around and chased me. By then, I had a big enough lead that I could get back to the lakeshore, unscathed by his paws. When he got near the shore, I again dove off the rock and over his head and swam back out toward the lake’s center as he resumed his chase. Rinse. Repeat. Multiple times. He went home tired but happy.

So did we. After each of these long water sessions, Ellen and I remained cool for hours. On hot days, we still talk about how we used to chillax in water surrounded by trees and the delightfully refreshed aftermath. Since we’ve moved away from North Jersey, we go the Shore instead. It’s good. But I miss the woodsy water.

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As I have long maintained, the systems that modern-day Americans have embraced have served to produce a very dysfunctional society. The best manifestation of this dysfunction are the suicides of young people. When youngsters are checking out of life early, that’s a powerful sign that something fundamental is wrong.

There is also the fact that America is a drug-addled society, which is reflected by the fact that the U.S. government still has to maintain a vicious, nationwide drug-war police state. The government’s drug war is designed to prevent an estimated 70 million Americans from getting their hands on drugs and ingesting them. When around 25% of a society are checking out of reality in favor of drug fantasies, that’s a fairly good sign of a highly dysfunctional society.

But I have also long contended that another demonstration of the dysfunctional nature of American society are the irrational mass killings that periodically take place in our society. Yesterday, people in New York City experienced another one of these irrational killings. A guy entered a NYC high-rise with a high-powered rifle and killed four people and then killed himself.

It’s not just guns. Last week, a guy at a Walmart in Michigan went on a knife-stabbing spree in which he injured 11 people. Seven are in fair condition and four are in serious condition. There was no apparent motive for the attack.

Here is what I have long contended:

In every society, there are off-kilter people. In a healthy, functional society those off-kilter people don’t bother anyone. Everyone can see that they are off-kilter but most everyone displays tolerance, kindness, and consideration for them. “There but for the grace of God go I.”

But a healthy, functional society is obviously not the type of society in which we live. We live in a society where the government tightly controls, manages, regulates, and directs people’s lives and the use of their resources. In the process of doing that, the state, decade after decade, has engaged in a continuous process of tightening its screws on the American people.

It is my contention that this tightening of the screws causes something to go haywire within the off-kilter people. That’s when they go off and engage in their irrational killing sprees.

I’ve already mentioned the drug war, a vicious government program that has involved decades of screw-tightening on the American people with things like no-knock raids, asset forfeiture, mandatory minimum sentences, violent arrests, and humiliating pat-down searches.

There is also the U.S. national-security establishment’s own killing sprees in overseas countries, ones that have resulted in the deaths and injuries of millions of foreigners. The official attitude has always been that Americans need not fret about the fact that their government is killing so many people. So long as large numbers of U.S. soldiers aren’t dying, Americans are expected to focus their attention on their families, work, and vacation. I contend that those killing sprees — invasions, sanctions, embargoes, wars of aggressions, coups, provoking wars — trigger something in the off-kilter people that causes them to engage in copycat killing sprees here at home.

There is also the welfare state, where large numbers of Americans use the IRS to seize as much as possible of the income of other people, including their children, while, at the same time, everyone is using deductions and other tax devices to protect their income from being plundered. It is a system in which Americans are waging war against each other while acting normal and friendly to each other, especially in church on Sunday.

There is also the regulated society, which consists of an ever-growing array of rules, regulations, licenses, controls, orders, and directions, all of which add to the tightening of the government’s screws.

There is also the decades-old immigration police state that is now expanding beyond the borderlands into cities and towns across the country. With its brutal, vicious, and frightening arrests, kidnappings, incarcerations, and deportations, the government is now tightening the screws even more on both foreigners and the Americans who are hiring them, selling to them, and renting to them. Is it just a coincidence that the two irrational killings sprees in New York and Michigan have occurred in the midst of the reign of terror that Homeland Security, ICE, and the Border Patrol are inflicting across the country?

The worst part of America’s dysfunctional society is that so many Americans have been taught that the systems they have adopted are normal and healthy and, in fact, that they constitute “freedom.” I’d be willing to bet that if a survey were taken, at least 90 percent of Americans would respond, “Well, of course we live in a free society. We are Americans.” They have no idea that they embody perfectly the words of Johann Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved that those who falsely believe they are free.”

One problem is that Americans acquired this false mindset of “freedom” in the public (i.e., government) schools to which their parents were forced to send them. The state’s educational system, of course, constitutes more tightening of the screws. Another problem is that that when people deny reality, it compounds the problem because a denial of reality leads to psychosis.

In our public (i.e., government) schools, students are inculcated with the notion that Americans who lived in the Gilded Age were bad people because of the systems they adopted. Americans in the late 1800s hated and rejected everything Americans today stand for and favor. That’s why there was no income taxation, IRS, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, welfare state, economic regulations, minimum wage laws, drug laws, war on immigrants, paper money, Federal Reserve, occupational licensure, national-security state, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, FBI, coups, state-sponsored assassinations, torture, and other such things that today’s Americans love and adore.

Ironically, those Americans also believed they lived in a free society, just as Americans today do who live under completely opposite systems. It’s probably worth mentioning that Gilded Age Americans lived in the most prosperous, most charitable, healthiest, end most educated society in history up to that time.

Interestingly enough, Gilded Age Americans did not live in a society that was besieged by irrational mass killings. Maybe that’s just a coincidence. Or maybe it’s because they refused to adopt systems that would permit the state to tighten its screws on them.

Reprinted with permission from The Future of Freedom Foundation.

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We’ve noted the tendency of insufferable busybodies to make, magnify, or invent messes… and then “solve” those problems by making them worse.

In doing so, the do-gooders enhance their status, inflate their finances, and divert attention from more serious shenanigans happening off-stage. Today we retract the curtain, and shine a light on the prime protagonist of most public pathologies.

Paw Prints

CS Lewis considered Pride the worst of the deadly sins, because it was the source and stimulus of all the others. Among government institutions, the same can be said of the Federal Reserve.

We know the Fed isn’t technically a government agency. Officially, it’s a State-sanctioned “private” cartel whose governors happen to be appointed by the President, approved by Congress, and serve at the behest of big banks.

“The Creature from Jekyll Island” was constructed a century ago at a clandestine conclave off the coast of Georgia, to which top-tier Senators, Wall Street barons, and captains of industry traveled under assumed names.

By the time they‘d settled into their dining cars for the return trip north, the foundational concrete had been poured. The meeting was secret, but the fat cats left enough paw prints in the cement to let us know who was there, and what they did.

Using the Panic of 1907 as a handy excuse to erect an edifice they’d long wanted to build, these luminaries gathered to ensure that “the system” would never again be compromised by the irresponsible acts of a few bad banks.

Instead, from then on they’d all be in on the scam! Their new “lender of last resort” would serve as a controlled croupier, dealing financial favors from the bottom of the deck.

No longer would a few rogue banks over-extend themselves atop the inverted pyramid of diminishing reserves. Now, every bank would do so. And the process would be carefully coordinated by a new captain, steering a hull that hauls its own icebergs.

Sophisticated Consigliere

The government, as comedian Dave Smith put it, is the mafia masquerading as a human rights organization. The IRS is its street-corner muscle, the brass knuckles that instills fear to empty pockets.

The Fed is a more sophisticated consigliere. It operates behind the scenes, surreptitiously fleecing the flock to fund the racket.

Whereas the IRS storms the cellar and steals the wine, the Fed slowly dilutes it. But only after pouring the Château Margaux into the glittering goblets of its connected cronies. The general public gets the remaining rotgut. While the Big Shots catch a buzz, the hoi polloi suffer the hangover.

It is this counterfeit cocktail that numbs average Americans while ripping them off. By taking our money to keep our booze, the central bank bartender siphons funds from the outsiders to the insiders, Main Street to the Deep State, the makers to the takers. This home-made hooch “pays for” the wars, bail-outs, stimulus checks, pay-offs, annual bonuses, and big boats that keep the grift afloat.

By counterfeiting currency to buy “assets“ and monkey with rates, the Fed distorts the structure of production, jams price signals, precipitates cyclical booms, and necessitates painful busts. The Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970s, the dot-com bust, the 2008 meltdown, and the “everything bubble” that’s starting to leak were all consequences of monetary malfeasance.

Transparent Marbles

But funny money also enables colossal crises that otherwise couldn’t occur. The First World War…and the incessant conflicts and carnage it bequeathed the subsequent century…would have been impossible, or severely constrained, without a steady infusion of counterfeit cash.

Like transparent marbles across a ballroom floor, each injection of phony money becomes a hidden catalyst for a new calamity. It isn’t only the dogs of war that it loosed from their leash. Fake money freed a litter of ravenous hounds, that have grown into embedded institutions that get hungrier as they eat.

As with any counterfeiting racket, the beneficiaries of the fraud are those who first receive the funds. With their conjured cash, they compete with unsuspecting suckers for an unchanged quantity of desirable goods.

Without creating real resources, the initial recipients use this new “money” to pilfer wealth. By the time the sham cash reaches later recipients, its intrinsic value has become apparent. Prices have risen, goods are gone, and the masses are left holding the bag.

Trunk of the Vine

But where did its contents go? After World War II, and particularly since the 1960s, government money fertilized a thicket of connected industries that grew like weeds.

Their growth was initially inhibited by the herbicide of gold. But since that constraint was removed in 1971, these crony rackets have covered the country like kudzu over Georgia. They spread in every direction, but the trunk of the vine is the financial services sector.

Loans are the coin of the realm in a debt-based system. Using monetarist pixie dust, the central bank conjures cash from thin air to buy government debt. When the Fed lowers rates or reduces reserves, it entices banks to create money by extending loans.

This river of money soon flows to and from its fertile banks. It overflows them as liquidity rises, to nourish the industries, boondoggles, bamboozles, and scams that crave the wave.

For half a century prices have risen on an ocean of debt. Among those washed while we get cleaned are the Educational, Pharmaceutical, Military, and Medical complexes that soak us today.

The catalogue of carnage governments committed couldn’t have been published without clipped coins, debased money, or counterfeit currency. Neither World War, nor most martial misadventures since, would have been possible without a Niagara of ink from the Federal Reserve.

Whenever there’s a question, the answer is always more “money”. A respiratory virus? Fire up the presses. “Supply chain” disruptions? Need more “liquidity”. Rambunctious Russkies? Create more “cash”.

Much as our wise central bankers should remove the punch bowl and take the keys, some wiseacre always orders another round and puts a new song on the jukebox. No matter what happens, the Fed is at the wheel…pressing pedal to the medal, and careening toward a cliff.

And its fated to fall from a deepening hole. US government debt recently crested $37,000B.

That’s billion, with a “T”.

At the turn of this century, the tab was “only” $6T. Ten years later, after launching two idiotic wars and bailing out its wealthiest benefactors, the feds owed $14T.

They had so much fun doubling the debt in a decade that they decided to do it again. When 2020 ended, they were $28T in hock. Half a decade later, they’re closing in on forty. According to the Institute for International Finance, worldwide debt is about $325 Trillion – more than three times global GDP.

But that was five months ago. Who knows what heights they’ve ascended since? As noses bleed and heads spin, creditors wait anxiously at the base camp.

They have to know that if their money comes down, it’ll be a skeletal remnant of the flesh that went up. It’s wandering aimlessly in the thin air of uncharted territory. The scouts and sherpas to whom it’s entrusted are unreliable guides. How were the able to climb so high?

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Today marks the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—soldier, mystic, founder of the Society of Jesus. Once, this name commanded respect from Catholics worldwide. Today, it often evokes embarrassment among the faithful who witness some of his spiritual sons betraying everything he fought to defend.

Yet, Ignatius was a warrior—literally. A cannonball shattered his leg at Pamplona, thus transforming a worldly knight into Christ’s most disciplined general.

His Jesuits were the face of the Church Militant—soldiers trained for spiritual warfare, organized with military precision, devoted to one sacred motto: Ad majórem Dei glóriam (“For the greater glory of God”). They spearheaded the Counter-Reformation, building an empire of souls that stretched from European universities to Asia and the New World.

What would this authentic warrior make of his order’s pseudo-celebrities today? Men like James Martin masquerade online as shepherds while leading the flock toward perdition. Fr. Martin, a modernist, represents everything St. Pius X condemned in his encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907), when he called modernism the “synthesis of all heresies,” seeking to marry Catholic truth with atheistic rationalism.

This atheistic cocktail is a favorite libation of the modernists—a poisonous blend of faith and false philosophy, creating a pseudo-Christianity devoid of supernatural truth. Modernists like Martin present themselves as defenders of the faith but systematically undermine its foundations.

They craft a “rational Christianity” stripped of miracles, moral absolutes, and divine authority. This is precisely what Pius X warned would destroy the Church from within.

These are the “false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them.” Christ’s words are indeed prophetic.

Every day on social media, one will witness Martin and his ilk using their clerical collars to advance agendas that contradict two millennia of Catholic teaching. They exploit their position as shepherds to scatter the flock instead of protecting it.

The contrast could not be more stark. Ignatius was a devoted soldier of the Church Militant—Christians on earth engaged in spiritual warfare against sin and error. Martin represents the Church Submissive, an institution that genuflects before contemporary culture rather than challenging it with eternal truth.

Where Ignatius demanded discipline and obedience to Church teaching, Martin promotes “dialogue” with a chaser of disorder. Where the Basque saint built institutions to defend Catholic doctrine, his supposed spiritual son builds bridges to relativism.

Reflect. This betrayal would have horrified the man who wrote the Spiritual Exercises, whose mission was to train souls for authentic spiritual combat.

Traditional Catholics recognize the battle lines. On one side stands the authentic Church—militant, uncompromising, faithful to Christ’s teachings. On the other? The modernist counterfeit, submissive to worldly opinion, eager to accommodate error, and desperate for secular approval.

Consider asking St. Ignatius for his intercession. Pray for his Society’s return to orthodoxy. The cancer of modernism has metastasized, but Christ’s promise to the Church remains: “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

The faithful remnant will rebuild what these wolves have attempted to destroy.

This article was originally published on The O’Leary Review.

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When you study history, it’s always striking how frequently dysfunctional cycles tend to repeat themselves—which is why many of us were able to foresee much of what came to pass with the disastrous COVID-19 vaccines. Medicine has its fair share of erroneous beliefs (which frequently have little to no evidence supporting them). Sadly, my profession has held tightly onto them for centuries regardless of the problems those beliefs create and I believe the vaccination meme is one of the most harmful ones.

As all of this began with the smallpox vaccines which “ended” the scourge of smallpox, I believe it’s critical to review exactly what actually happened as:

• The mythology of the smallpox vaccines has served as the justification for all the other vaccination atrocities which followed.

• Many issues emerged during that campaign (resulting in immense public backlash) which are almost identical to what we’ve seen again and again since then (including throughout COVID-19). As such, to break this dysfunctional cycle which has consumed our culture, it is critical to understand what’s actually happened.

• I believe the smallpox vaccines served as an inflection point in humanity’s health, as after them, an era of chronic illness (particularly autoimmune and neurologic ones) began which has continued to increase ever since. In fact, many of the unusual complications of the COVID-19 vaccines are very similar to what was observed from the smallpox vaccine over a century ago.

The Vaccine Positive Feedback Cycle

Edward Jenner is credited with having the insight milk maids exposed to cowpox never caught smallpox, and hence that smallpox could be prevented with a survivable cowpox infection. In truth, this was a longstanding folk belief the medical community had rejected (as cowpox often failed to prevent smallpox), and over the years, many came forward attesting that Jenner was a charlatan who continually changed his positions to protect his grift (detailed here).

As such, when the smallpox vaccine created in 1796, it was met with widespread skepticism by the medical profession initially because it had almost no supporting data and because it simply didn’t work. Nonetheless, governments around the world rapidly adopted it because it provided a simple top-down solution (something government always prefers) for smallpox and the medical profession gradually got behind it because of both the political power and money they received from the vaccinations.

Many doctors still spoke out against the vaccine, with many providing robust data to support their objections (e.g., large cohorts showed the vaccine did not prevent smallpox and erysipelas, an agonizing and sometimes fatal skin infection, was commonly observed in vaccinated individuals). Sadly, these dissident doctors became a smaller and smaller minority and reports exist from the time of doctors in the early hospitals falsifying medical records in order to conceal the vaccine’s dangers and its ineffectiveness in preventing smallpox (something which has since happened with many other vaccines for the sake of “public health”).

However, the largest problems with the smallpox vaccine was that vaccination tended to increase rather than decrease the occurrence of smallpox.

Note: many other examples of increasing vaccination increasing smallpox outbreaks can be found here.

When this happened, governments tended to respond to that emergency by viewing it as a result of not enough people being vaccinated and doing what they could to increase vaccination rates. Since the working class was well aware of both the dangers of the smallpox vaccine and its ineffectiveness, harsher and harsher mandates needed to be implemented to continue meeting the vaccination quotas.

As things continued to escalate, assaults on officers enforcing vaccination occurred, and riots periodically broke out.  This 1874 quote from Emeritus Professor F. W. Newman encapsulates the mood of the time:

“Decorous and admissible language fails me, in alluding to that which might have seemed incredible thirty years ago—the commanding of vaccination on a second child of a family, when vaccination has killed the first; and then sending the father to prison for refusal.”

Note: to address the widespread failures of their vaccine, the medical profession moved their goal-posts from the vaccine providing a lifelong “perfect” immunity to simply ensuring a “milder disease,” a playbook that persists to this day and (e.g., it was used for the COVID-19 vaccines).

At the same time increasingly draconian mandates were being enacted, many early activists argued that smallpox and many other infectious diseases were primarily due to the common people living in absolute squalor (it’s hard to even begin to describe just how bad their living conditions were—particularly for children). After decades of work, activists were able to improve the basic living conditions of the working class (e.g., through public sanitation so people no longer slept next to infectious microbes) and a massive benefit was seen in the reduction of deaths from all infectious diseases:

Note: this chart and many others like can be viewed at dissolvingillusions.com.

The medical profession however coopted the activist’s work and claimed the reduction in deaths was due to the introduction of vaccination, something not at all supported by the data (e.g., scarlet fever, the biggest killer of the era but now an almost entirely forgotten condition never had a vaccination developed for it). Since this time, the belief that medicine rescued us from the dark ages of infectious illness and that all infections can be prevented with a vaccination has become one of the central mythologies the practice modern medicine is founded upon.

Note: I call all of this a positive feedback cycle because normally when something doesn’t work (e.g., in the body) a signal activates to stop it (known as negative feedback). Positive feedback systems are much rarer (as they are inherently unstable), but due to our society’s faith in vaccination, one exists here.

In response to the increasingly draconian vaccination mandates, a massive protest (attended by citizens across Europe) broke out in Leicester (England) in 1885 which resulted in Leicester’s mandatory vaccination laws being repealed and replaced with measures to both improve public sanitation and quarantine both individuals with smallpox (along with their sick contacts). When this approach was proposed by Leicester, the medical profession attacked the citizens of Leicester, loudly proclaimed their policy would result in mass deaths and stated Leicester would serve as a lesson to the world to never to abandon vaccination. The opposite instead happen, Leicester conquered smallpox, and their methods (often done it tandem with vaccination) were then copied, allowing us to at last eliminate smallpox.

As you might have noticed, there are many, many parallels between those events from over a century ago and what we all witnessed over the last few years.

Note: a more detailed summary of Jenner’s fraudulent behavior along with additional documented failures of the smallpox vaccine can be found here.

Early Schools of American Medicine

In the early 1900s, there were four main schools of medicine in the United States—Allopathy (conventional medicine), Homeopathy, Naturopathy (call the eclectic school at the time) and Osteopathy. Allopathy was losing favor because its treatments often didn’t work and were highly toxic.

At the same time, two of the richest individuals in history (Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller) realized they would need to diversify beyond their respective industries (steel and oil) after Theodore Roosevelt decided to break up their monopolies. Allopathic medicine was identified as a promising way to make a lot of money and a variety of investments were made to cause Allopathy to go from falling out of favor to it becoming the leading form of medicine within the United States (e.g., the Flexner report, published in 1910 was used to close most of America’s competing non-allopathic medical schools). Because of this, Allopathic medicine became “medicine” and the term “Allopathy” became extinct. In turn, while Allopathic medicine has greatly improved from that time, it still retains many of the same foundation issues Allopathy had, and hence routinely injures patients or fails to cure their illnesses.

Note: The Robber Barons, which details exactly how Rockefeller went about monopolizing the oil industry, provides an insightful perspective on what he appears to have also done with the medical industry.

Since the monopolization of American medicine, Allopathy has had the remarkable accomplishment of always costing the country more each year than it did the year before while simultaneously abjectly failing to address many of the major health issues facing our country—we spend more than the rest of the world on healthcare but our national healthcare outcomes are worse than almost all of the developed world.

Most of the non-allopathic schools of medicine at the time were strongly opposed to vaccination because of the harms they saw it create. Sadly, in order to gain acceptance within the lucrative medical industry, one by one, they wholeheartedly adopted the vaccination narrative. For example, Bastyr, the premier Naturopathic medical school in the United States mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for its students, a move which was met with disgust by many of the more traditional Naturopathic Physicians in practice as that mandate went against everything Naturopathy had stood for. Likewise, the Osteopathic profession fully supported and frequently advocated for them.

In researching this series, I thus explored what each of those early schools of medicine had reported at the time, as their early literature was much more willing to criticize the sacred cow of vaccination. It’s worth noting all of them were describing similar events that differed primarily due to the unique lens their model of medicine saw the body through.

Note: With what follows, I would have also liked to have included the Ayurvedic perspective (e.g., Ghandi strongly opposed vaccination) and what was seen in Japan (the Japanese suffered immensely from the smallpox vaccinations). Unfortunately, I could not locate a good reference for any of these.

Homeopathy:

Within Homeopathy, an idea exists known as Hering’s Law of Cure.  It posits that diseases enter the body superficially, and then can either be expelled at the surface (e.g., through the skin), or travel deep into the body.  When the disease stays at the surface, acute reactions such as skin eruptions and fevers occur, while when allowed to instead travel into the patient, a variety of chronic debilitating diseases are likely to occur. Likewise, the mind and spirit are considered “deeper” than emotions, so in many cases, suppressing an emotional issue can create a permanent physical one.

Note: Many opponents of the smallpox vaccines believed it was not a good idea to introduce the vaccine directly into the bloodstream since that allowed the cowpox virus to establish itself deep within the body.

Hering’s Law hence argues that the goal of treatment should be to facilitate the outward expulsion of disease, which contrasts to the (now) prevailing school of Allopathic thought which strives to suppress those symptomatic expulsions.  For example, treating an unpleasant fever accompanying an illness often worsens the long term prognosis of the condition (e.g., debilitating childhood vaccine injuries are often preceded by fevers that were “treated” with Tylenol). Unfortunately, fevers are reflexively medicated by doctors—something that was immensely problematic throughout COVID-19 because of how frequently suppressing a fever worsened the COVID-19’s prognosis (whereas in contrast I frequently find heating up unhappy patients with fevers makes them feel better and clear the illness faster).

One Homeopathic physician of the time, J. Compton Burnett, M.D., in 1884 authored “Vaccination and Its Cure by Thuja, with Remarks on Homeoprophalaxis,” which provides one of the best illustrations of Hering’s Law I have come across.

In his book, Burnet advanced the argument that the medical field had mistaken correlation with causation in the smallpox vaccination programs.  The vaccine was only considered to be effective if it “took” after vaccination, meaning that a large skin eruption emerged at the site of vaccination. In turn, if the vaccinations did not “take” this argued that the vaccine needed to be re-administered, or the individual was not “vaccinated.”

Burnett and others argued that the vaccine “taking” was a sign of the individual having a strong immune system, and that if the immune system was strong enough to “take” the vaccine, it was also already strong enough to repel a smallpox infection and had no need to be vaccinated in the first place.  As he discussed the conflicting perspectives of the pro-vaccinational literature and anti-vaccinational literature (the terminology of being “anti-vaccine” is over a century old), he argued that the pre-existing immunocompetency of the vaccinated individual could explain the divergent observations in mortality by each side of the debate.

Conversely, he found that almost all cases of severe chronic illness following vaccination (termed vaccinosis) occurred in individuals who had had a smallpox vaccine that did not take, and instead moved deeper into the body creating chronic pathology.  One of his strongest arguments for this was his observation that homeopathic Thuja preparations would frequently treat the conditions that he temporally correlated with vaccination.

Note: the issue Burnett and others found appears to be shared by the COVID-19 vaccines. In one recent study (discussed here), teenagers and young adults who developed post-vaccination myocarditis were compared to those who did not. It was discovered that those with myocarditis had free spike protein in the bloodstream their immune systems could not develop neutralizing antibodies to (and likely would not develop from a COVID-19 infection either).

When I learned of this, I recalled that one of the only therapies I had ever seen reported in support groups to work for COVID-19 vaccine injuries were the early monoclonal antibodies developed for combatting the original COVID-19 variants (which used the same spike protein still found in the vaccine). Unfortunately, the Biden administration pulled the “outdated” monoclonal antibodies from the market so they are now almost impossible to get ahold of (whereas they continued to mandate the “outdated” vaccines).

Burnett’s book begins with a description of vaccinosis, and is primary composed of noteworthy vaccinosis cases, some of which I will share.

The diseased state, then, engendered by this vaccinial pus, by vaccination, is vaccinosis; and in it are not included any other diseases whose causes may be accidentally or incidentally contained in the vaccine pus,—such as scrofulosis, syphilis, or tuberculosis.

Note: many others also complained about the consequences of contaminated or improperly produced vaccines.

In my assessment, many of the chronic symptoms Burnett and other physicians reported (particularly the various “neuralgias” repeatedly mentioned) were a consequence of “blood stasis,” a Chinese medicine diagnosis I correlate with impaired zeta potential.

Vaccinosis shews itself as formidable acute disease that may terminate fatally, or it may manifest itself as a chronic affection. The ordinary forms of vaccinia must be included under acute vaccinosis. (p. 6-7).

Chronic vaccinosis more particularly lies completely beyond the ken of ordinary medicine , and although it will sometimes turn up in literature as “Ill effects of vaccination,” it is, nevertheless, but an unrecognised waif, much to the disadvantage of suffering mankind and of medical science . It has not [barring a few exceptions] yet been sufficiently studied to be readily defined; except causally, indeed, its very existence is not generally admitted . But a study of the following cases will afford ample evidence that its symptoms are very like the pathogenetic symptoms of Thuja Occidentalis.

Some may, perhaps, say that vaccinosis is the same as vaccinia; this is, however, not so; vaccinosis is vaccinia and something more, for if a person is vaccinated unsuccessfully he has not had vaccinia, whereas some of the worst cases of (my) vaccinosis which I have met with were just those in whom the vaccination did not ” take,” as the saying goes. Hence, I must call attention to what I believe is a fact, that it often does take deep hold of the constitution without calling forth any local phenomena, and , not only so, but such cases may be even very severe in their internal developments manifested by the supervention of various morbid symptoms after vaccination.

Let us dwell a little on this novel assertion , I was going to say fact, yet probably very few will admit that it is a fact at all , but only a fad of mine , since every body holds that if the vaccination does not “take” the individual has remained uninfluenced by the process of putting vaccine under the cuticle. In other words, when a person is vaccinated and does not take; is, in fact, unsuccessfully vaccinated, it is held that said person is proof against vaccination, and we certify accordingly. Everyone believes that the unsuccessfully vaccinated individual has not in any way been affected or altered by the vaccination.

Close and minute observation , however, teaches me that such is by no means necessarily the case , for not a few persons date their ill health from a so-called unsuccessful ,vaccination. My own conception of the thing is just this :—the vaccinated person is poisoned by the vaccine virus ; what is called the “taking” is, in point of fact, the constitutional re-action whereby the organism frees itself more or less from the inserted virus. If the person do not “ take,” and the virus has been absorbed , the “ taking ” becomes a chronic process-paresis, neuralgia , cephalalgia, pimples and acne. The less a person “takes,” therefore, in such a case, the more is he likely to suffer from chronic vaccinosis, i.e., from the genuine vaccination disease in its chronic form , very frequently a neuralgia or paresis.

Most practitioners will agree that neuralgia is more prevalent now than ever before within the present age, and experience has forced me to ascribe many such cases to vaccinosis.

Burnet cited a case of 10 week old baby who had been healthy, and then suddenly became at risk of dying with the cause of the baby’s illness being impossible for anyone to identify.  After investigating further, he discovered the wet-nurse (surrogate breast milk supplier) for the infant (who was in good health) had received a smallpox booster the day before the infant became ill and she reported the site was “a little painful.”  Burnett also cited another case of a breast-feeding child becoming ill from the smallpox vaccine and another developing eczema and a chronic rash:

Therefore I gave Thuja 6, in pilules , both to babe and nurse, but whether every half-hour or every hour I do not now remember. Calling later in the evening I noticed baby was asleep and looking a little less ghastly. Next morning it was indeed still pale, but practically well ; and the vaccinial vesicles on the nurse’s arm had withered, and they forth with dried up completely, in lieu of becoming pustular. That baby never looked back, and is now a bonny child. (p. 17-18)

Note: there have been also been issue with the COVID-19 vaccines shedding into breast milk.

Burnett’s next case illustrates another key aspect of vaccinosis:

Its subject, a lady of very high rank, over fifty years of age, had been in turns, and for many years, under almost all the leading oculists of London for this neuralgia of the eyes, i.e. , terrible pain at the back of the eyes, coming on in paroxysms and confining her to her room for many days together ; some attacks would last for six weeks . Some of the neuralgic pain, however, remained at all times . Her eyes had been examined by almost every notable oculist in London , and no one could find anything wrong with them structurally, so it was unanimously agreed and declared to be neuralgia of the fifth nerve.

Latterly, and for years, she had tried nothing; whenever an attack came on, she would remain in her darkened bedroom , with her head tied up, bewailing her fate.  To me she exclaimed “My existence is one life-long crucifixion!”

I should have stated that the neuralgia was preceded, and accompanied by influenza.

In the aggregate these attacks of influenza and post-orbital neuralgia confined her to her room nearly half the year. In appearance she was healthy ,well-nourished, rather too much embonpóint, and fairly vigorous. A friend of hers had been benefited by homeopathy in my hands, and she therefore came to me “in utter despair”
…
I reasoned thus : This  lady tells me she has been vaccinated five or six times, and being  thus very much vaccinated, she may be just suffering from chronic vaccinosis, one chief symptom of which is a cephalalgia like hers, so I forthwith prescribed Thuja (30).  It cured, and the cure has lasted till now. The neuralgia disappeared slowly ; in about six weeks (February, 14,1882) I wrote in my case book “The eyes are well!”

Note: impairments of physiologic zeta potential can be cumulative, and sometimes an influenza infection (which also decreases zeta potential) can be sufficient to tip someone with an impaired zeta potential (something commonly seen in the elderly) over their critical threshold.

Upon further follow-up with this patient, she reported her chronic illness of 20 years remained fully resolved 3 years later at the time Burnett’s book went to press.

Next, Burnett details the case of a 12-year old who began losing hair after a vaccination that did not take, and the hair loss reverting following administration of Thuja:

It might have been so, as the hair is very powerfully influenced by the vaccine poisoning.

Note: hair loss is also common with COVID-19 and sometimes occurs after COVID vaccination—which I suspect is due to poor circulation or the cell danger response (CDR) being triggered since hair loss responds to to treatments for those pathologies.

Next, Burnett details the case of a gentleman suffering from recurrent colds, boils, pimples, warts, severe frontal headaches, chest pain and chronic fatigue preventing him from working at the office:

The habitual influenza, the chronic frontal headache, the pimply skin, the feeling of general malaise point, according to my experience, to vaccinosis.  But had patient been vaccinated? Yes. Four times, and did not “take” the last three times….This case made a considerable sensation in the gentleman’s large office-circle, partly because the change in his condition was so sudden and complete, and partly because he came to homeopathy demonstratively unwillingly, and in consequence of the earnest solicitations of his chef de bureau.

Next Burnett details the case of a woman who had been vaccinated three times:

On December 22nd, 1882, a young lady of 26 came under my care for an ugly state of the nails of her fingers. Naturally a lady of her age would not be indifferent to the state of her nails. These nails are indented rather deeply, and in addition to these indentations there are black patches on the under surfaces of the nails, reaching into the quick…Has continued the Thuja 30 for just about three months, with the result that  within a fortnight from commencing with it the black patches under the nails began to disappear, and there is now no trace of them.

Next, Burnett details the case of a young lady with a variety of issues including a drooping eyelid who had seen two skilled homeopaths prior to him, and like both of them, Burnett could only achieve partial symptomatic improvement until he utilized Thuja:

She still complained of ptosis of the left side, sleepiness, reeling to the right when walking out of doors, tendency to fall to the right…her tongue was cracked…These more or less well-chosen remedies wrought a great change in the patient, but on the 29th July, 1882, she still complained that the left eye was wrong.  It made her feel sea-sick when she read ; pains in left eye worse in the early morn ; some ptosis of left upper lid; eye-ball stiff, and an aching across it and right across the forehead, and she was giddy in walking about.

The case having thus come to a standstill, I cast about for some aetiologico-therapeutic approaches, and in so doing learned that she had been vaccinated four times in all ; the last time, three years ago, took but faintly.

Thuja 30 soon cured the ptosis and the other described symptoms.

The next case can be summarized by Burnets concluding statement:

Loss of virile power is frequently a result of vaccination, and when the local debility is due to this cause it is really wonderful how the case is altered by a few doses of Thuja.

He had had slight hemiplegia of the right side, and still shewed some symptoms of paralysis, e.g., weakness of right arm, occasional dragging of the legs, loss of memory, impaired vision, and loss of power generally.  His effective virility was extinct and had been so for two or three years, and naturally this did not tend to raise his spirits. I treated him for a few months with but slight benefit, when one day he complained of a frontal headache that at once reminded me of the Thuja headache. I gave him Thuja occidentalis 30 (4 in 24) and within a few days he remarked a very notable improvement, feeling better than he had for three years. Getting this report at his next visit, I fell to questioning him about vaccination, which I had previously not done…”How many times have you been vaccinated?” “I have been vaccinated six or seven times.” “Did it take every time?” “No, never.”

Following the four doses of Thuja, he also experienced a “hypopubic resurrection of great importance” and after additional Thuja, “he became ,in his wife’s words “quite a different man; all paralytic symptoms having disappeared, and the old headache had not returned at the end of 1883, when I last saw him.

Note: erectile dysfunction is another side effect I periodically hear about from vaccine injured patients.

Next, a case is detailed of a partially disabled woman who had been vaccinated five times with one not taking.  She had achieved minimal benefit from medical care up to that point, minor benefit from other homeopathics, and experienced a complete resolution from Thuja:

Her symptoms were legion; she was bent forward, could scarcely walk, her spine very tender and painful; twitchings; pain all down the back; and chilliness, worse at night. Her liver was decidedly enlarged and there was pain in the right side…. “I have not been so well for three or four years ; I feel strong, and can do anything.”

Another complex case discusses a patient who was vaccinated three times, with the last vaccination not taking.  The patient experienced partial improvement from homeopathics targeted to her symptoms and complete resolution following Thuja:

…complaining of much epigastric beating, pain in left side, great chilliness, and
writer’s cramp of the right side.  An examination showed enlargement of the spleen, and a swelling of the left ovary of about the size of a hen’s egg. Her breath is heavy, and she gets giddiness. She has frontal headache of a severe kind almost every day for a long time….Questioned on November 16th as to which medicine cured the headache and the cramps, she instantly said it was the powders (i.e.,the Thuja).

Another case discusses a 16 year old girl with arrested development and partial paralysis present for most of her life, who was born to parents of good health and high intellect (precluding a hereditary cause for her disability).  She received a smallpox vaccination at 3 months which did not take, but did take at 6 months when both arms were subsequently vaccinated:

This was her state: roof of mouth very much arched; left side of face drawn to the left so that her mouth is awry. She speaks very badly ; cannot articulate properly; and is very deaf.  Has always been so.  Has a polypus in left nostril; the tonsils are enormously hypertrophied; breathes very loudly. Left mamma smaller than the right; left side of thorax generally smaller than the right. Tongue is cracked; pain in left side for years; frontal headache for a twelve month.

Following Thuja, her headaches, articulation, hearing and facial palsies greatly improved. A second homeopathic, Ceanothus Americanus was also administered following Thuja which restored the decreased growth of her left side.

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‘Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance’.

So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style ‘Jewish nationalism.’

Another renowned Jewish thinker, Arthur Koestler, warned that Israel was becoming ‘a nasty little Sparta.’

This past week, much of the rest of the world, sickened by the mass slaughter and destruction in Gaza wrought by Israel, joined in calls for creation of a Palestinian state. This obvious solution to the agonies of five million stateless Palestinian refugees would be a start to making whole one of the world’s largest refugee problems. Over 147 nations have recognized the Palestinian state. But until now, the United States, France, Britain and Germany have refused to heed the cries of the savagely abused Palestinian refugees.

This week, France, true to its libertarian traditions, finally announced it would recognize the Palestinian state this September.  Spain, Australia, Ireland and Saudi Arabia (which has been watching Gaza from the sidelines) and even usually timid Canada joined in. So too all of Latin America.  Germany, still handcuffed by accusations of wartime crimes, is still dithering.  Britain claimed it would recognize Palestine with certain conditions, giving it a way to wriggle out of the promise. A large part of the UK Labour Party has revolted, demanding an end to the massacres in Palestine as the Rothschilds strain to support Israel.

Interestingly, Egypt, the largest and most important Arab nation, remained quiet.  It has been secretly colluding with Israel in repressing the Palestinians.

The United States continues to openly back Israel’s draconian policies that have so far killed at least 60,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.  President Trump has revealed himself as a Trojan Horse for Israel’s expansionist far right. He, so far, seems unconcerned that his military, financial and diplomatic support for Israel’s hard right has hurt America’s image around the globe.  It may take American voters to change his mind.  But they remain beguiled by the corporate-controlled media which promotes Israel’s arguments.

Still, it’s clear there has been a sea-change in the world’s view of Palestine. Behind all the fevered talk about removing Palestinians there are moderate-minded Jewish politicians and soldiers who realize that they must eventually find a way to live with Palestinians and share the land – as Rabbi Berger advised. The alternative is ethnic cleansing, genocide and more slaughter. 

What a stain on the honor of Judaism, what a horror after the WWII holocaust.  Israel’s repression in Gaza and strong-arming of Palestinian supporters and the media around the globe have created a tsunami of antisemitism.  Rabbi Berger warned that the Arab-Israeli conflict would eventually infect the United States and endanger our republic. He was very right.

The core of this conflict is attempts by Israel’s far right parties to seize more land for the Jewish state, notably the occupied West Bank, Gaza, southern Lebanon and bits of Syria. 

Greater Israel is the grand strategy. For some of the more fanatical groups now running Israel’s government (and giving marching orders to the spineless US Congress) Israel might expand into more of Syria, Iraq’s oil fields, even Saudi Arabia and Egypt. 

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In 1761 lawyer James Otis delivered a five-hour speech in a packed Boston courthouse in which he dismantled Parliament’s claim that general search warrants known as writs-of-assistance were constitutionally valid.  Though Otis lost the case his scholarly and fiery rhetoric won the support of onlookers such as 25-year-old John Adams, who near the end of his life wrote about his experience:

Every Man of an immense crowded Audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take Arms against Writs of Assistants. Then and there was the first scene of the first Act of opposition to the Arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the Child Independence was born.

What did Otis say that revolutionized so many people?  Author-researcher A. J. Langguth tells us the King’s advocate Jeremiah Gridley delivered a death blow to Otis’s case by claiming “the British constitution was now only and whatever Parliament said it was.”  Therefore, case closed.

But not for Otis.  He fought back taking Enlightenment philosophy to its logical conclusion.  As you read Otis’s words consider how utterly foreign they sound in today’s world, while at the same sparking exhilaration to know men once spoke like this:

Every man was his own sovereign . . . No other creature on earth could legitimately challenge a man’s right to his life, his liberty and his property. That principle, that unalterable law, took precedence—here Otis was answering Gridley directly—even over the survival of the state. [emphasis added]

Given that today states are sovereign entities wherever they exist, and by virtue of that status can legally overpower any domestic challenger, to assert that each individual is sovereign would seem at best wishful thinking.  Individuals can act like they’re sovereign but the state will carry them off somewhere, if necessary.  If “state” is defined in Rothbardian terms as a criminal gang writ large, then the adage “might is right” permeates state behavior.  Stripped of its august facade that’s what state sovereignty means.  Otis was saying we don’t need states.

In his inflammatory 1776 pamphlet Common Sense Thomas Paine wrote that “Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. . . . Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. . .” Though he made a critical distinction between government and governed, Paine unfortunately went on to equate a lack of government with “miseries.”

In his autobiography Thomas Jefferson wrote that

the question was not whether, by a Declaration of Independence, we should make ourselves what we are not; but whether we should declare a fact which already exists. That, as to the people or parliament of England, we had always been independent of them, their restraints on our trade deriving efficacy from our acquiescence only, and not from any rights they possessed of imposing them.

Acquiescence has marked mankind’s long history.  Most people have preferred to surrender their sovereignty than assert it.  Today, in spite of Otis, Paine, and Jefferson, they don’t even realize they were born with it.

Following the Revolutionary War, Paine went to England to build an iron bridge and became friends with MP Edmund Burke.  As the revolution in France was transpiring they soon disagreed — strongly — as to its merit, with Paine praising it and Burke feeling threatened by it.  When Burke made his views public Paine wrote Rights of Man as a rejoinder to Burke’s position.

Paine invoked the “state of nature,” an Enlightenment phrase, to attack Burke’s defense of the corrupt English government:

It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom to say that Government is a compact between those who govern and those who are governed; but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist . . .

The fact therefore must be that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.  [emphasis added]

The government so formed would be the creation of people who were delegated to form a government.  But in doing so the delegates, intentionally or not, transfer sovereignty from the individuals to the government, and the result is the chaos and corruption that follows.

By contrast, on the free market under laissez-faire, which means without coercive interference, individuals conduct their economic lives without surrendering their sovereignty.

It’s not as if governments don’t realize the economic value of freedom.  The ones in charge seem to have heard about Aesop and his tale of the goose.  Paine spent the first 37 years of his life in England and had experienced this first-hand:

The portion of liberty enjoyed in England is just enough to enslave a country more productively than by despotism, and that as the real object of all despotism is revenue, a government so formed obtains more than it could do either by direct despotism, or in a full state of freedom, and is, therefore on the ground of interest, opposed to both.

Paine, however brilliant at times, is no stranger to inconsistent writing.  At the conclusion of the American Revolution he wrote the final installment of his American Crisis essays.  Elated by the American victory, he seemingly transferred sovereignty from its source to the collective:

Sovereignty must have power to protect all the parts that compose and constitute it: and as UNITED STATES we are equal to the importance of the title, but otherwise we are not. . . .

It is with confederated states as with individuals in society; something must be yielded up to make the whole secure. In this view of things we gain by what we give, and draw an annual interest greater than the capital.

No one would question that “something” must be yielded to gain a definite result.  But surrendering sovereignty should never be on the table.

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In some ways it is refreshing to have a president who is so profoundly ignorant that one’s expectations regarding what good policies might actually come out of the federal government are really, really low. It took Donald Trump six months to accept the reality of the slaughter going on in Gaza where Israel is killing roughly one hundred Palestinians every day whose only crime is that they are looking for food, water and shelter. Admittedly Trump has actually been bold enough to challenge his Israeli masters by declaring that videos from Gaza show a lot of people who Trump admitted were “starving”, and promised to “take care” of it. Yet he has done nothing but support the Israeli blockade and repress or even deport any voices in America who protest against the war crimes. And right before Trump promised to “take care” of starving Palestinians, an Israeli official described his pleasure to report that when it came to pressuring Israel “to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, Trump [has] made no such requests.” So the killing continues, financed armed and supported by Donald J Trump just as was the case under Genocide Joe Biden.

Indeed, instead of pushing Israel to allow in aid, Trump partnered with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to destroy the existing United Nations system for delivering it. As Trump took office in January, Israel banned access to Gaza by the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, and Netanyahu was and still is backed up by Trump. Trump’s chief negotiator Steve Witkoff has boasted that there is “no space” between the president and Netanyahu on handling the Gaza issue, with Trump continuing to call on the Israelis to “finish the job,” which clearly means doing whatever necessary to get rid of the Palestinian “problem.” Trump has also made clear that Israel will “manage” and “preside over” the distribution of goods as part of its security measures to keep Hamas from stealing the food, which is a lie that has been heavily promoted by Israel. Armed Israeli settlers have also been given a green light to intercept and blockade food and medicine convoys as they approach the Gaza border.

Trump’s odd pledge to provide assistance to Gaza came as he sat alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week. He said “I know your nation’s joining us, and we have all of the European nations joining us, and others also called and they want to be helpful. So we’re going to set up food centers and where the people can walk in and no boundaries. We’re not going to have fences.” He elaborated “We’re going to be getting some good, strong food. We can save a lot of people. Some of those kids — that’s real starvation.” Trump earlier last Monday had been asked if he agreed with Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments that there was no starvation in Gaza. He responded somewhat incoherently “I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly, because those children look very hungry.”

And it is certain that the children will stay hungry as Israel concentrates the Gazan population into restricted areas that will become death traps. Trump’s way of discussing the Gaza issue is, characteristically, very awkward and poorly expressed with “good, strong food” and “no boundaries…no fences.” His pledge to provide aid is also basically a lie or a “misspoke” as Trump has deferred to Israel in terms of how the flow of assistance will actually work. The reality is that both Trump and Starmer are reacting to popular sentiment in both the UK and the US, where voters have been rapidly losing any sympathy they might have had for the Israeli “security” policy vis-à-vis the Palestinians. Both leaders can reasonably be described as dedicated Zionists who are “controlled” by the Israel lobbies in their respective countries.

But more bloodshed was not the only Trump news during the past week. Apparently his outstanding performance in going to war with Ukraine, Iran, Syria and the Palestinians simultaneously has earned him recognition and rewards that will bring honor to his name for years to come. We are still waiting on possible receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize as recommended by no less an international notable than Bibi Netanyahu, but the Republican Party in the US has stepped in to fill the gap with legislation that will change the name of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, removing the Kennedy and replacing it with Trump. Inside the building itself the main opera house will be renamed for the First Lady Melina Trump.

I must admit to being turned off by the promiscuous honoring of people in public life who have no honor and who, in Trump’s case, probably cannot spell or pronounce the word. My local post office here in Virginia was threatened with being posthumously named after Madeleine Albright by a virtue of a bill submitted to Congress by our local Democratic Party representative. As one recalls, Albright was completely unapologetic, quite the contrary, over the killing of 500,000 Iraqi children which she described as “worth it.” That makes her similar to our current crop of brainwashed psychopaths, including Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden, who have been complicit in Israel’s war crimes. In the case of my local post office, the bill to honor Albright did not advance, suggesting that some smells are too extreme even for members of Congress.

One might recall that the Kennedy Center has been around for a long time and was meant to honor an assassinated president. JFK and his wife were, in fact, active supporters of the arts both when he was in the Senate and after he became president. Trump and First Lady Trump’s ties to theater and cultural events is somewhat more elusive unless one considers parties at Jeffrey Epstein’s various residences to be high culture.

The real tragedy is that the name change is doable, even though there are several hoops that have to be jumped through to accomplish it. The federal government first authorized the Center’s construction in 1958. The project, funded by both the government and private donations, stalled and was revived under President John F. Kennedy, whose family led an effort to get the center funded and built. It was named in his honor following his assassination. Two months later, President Lyndon B Johnson signed the legislation making it a living memorial to Kennedy. The law relating to the building states that “After December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.” Notably, there are four large new portraits of the first and second couples, the Trumps and Vances, in the center’s Hall of Nations, the main entryway to the facility. Until this year, the public spaces included only a bronze bust of President John F. Kennedy, so Trump or his facilitators have to a certain extent ignored that ruling. Nevertheless, as the Center’s names are protected by law it would require a new law to change that, which in turn would have to obtain 60 of the votes in the Senate to pass. As the Democrats are not likely to go along with that, the necessary majority would be lacking.

And that’s not all. The beatification of Donald Trump by Republicans in Congress continues to grow, and, let us not forget the Israeli government, which has called him the most pro-Israel president ever, meaning that the accolades with be fully backed by the immensely powerful Israel Lobby.

There are in fact a number of bills and other proposals floating around in Washington that would elevate Donald Trump the Man, turning him into something many magnitudes greater. Imagine getting the day off work in the near future to celebrate not only Flag Day on June 14th but also Donald Trump’s birthday as part of the federal holiday. Or going to a bank on the Washington Metro which will be called the Trump Train to withdraw money and receiving a $100 bill with Donald’s portrait on it. Or landing in an airplane at Donald J. Trump International Airport, formerly Dulles International, near the nation’s capital before going to a performance at the Donald J. Trump Center for Performing Arts. Any and all of the above would be possible if a series of bills and measures Republican lawmakers have sponsored this year were to be approved.

Trump is little more than six months into his second term, but some Republicans are ready to elevate him into the pantheon of American greats, proposing an ever-growing list of bills paying tribute well before his second term ends. One lawmaker even proposes carving his face into Mount Rushmore next to Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt. Trump has told friends that would be his “dream” to be carved into Mount Rushmore. Fortunately perhaps, the National Park Service, which oversees Mount Rushmore National Memorial, has cited two reasons that Trump’s face cannot be added. First, it considers Mount Rushmore to be a “completed work of art.” Second, there is no room: “The carved portion of Mount Rushmore has been thoroughly evaluated, and there are no viable locations left for additional carvings.”

And the honors list grows longer and longer. Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina carries a pamphlet he gives to colleagues asking them to sponsor a bill that would direct the Bureau of Printing and Engraving to design and print a $250 bill in June 2026 bearing Trump’s image. The honor would coincide with the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. It is, by the way, illegal to put the image of a living person on US paper currency or on a coin but Trump’s people seem to believe that rules exist to be broken.

If all of this sounds crazy to the reader, well it is, and it is intended to demonstrate the extent to which our country’s essentially ignorant leader has embraced a cult of personality about himself that goes beyond what Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Adolph Hitler had to offer. This immature but hubristic nut case will have us in more wars before too long just to demonstrate that he is so powerful and righteous that he can do it, not because there is any benefit to Americans or to the United States. Just witness the nonsense that has been going on over the past six months replete with phony negotiations leading to the recent warnings to Russia, the incessant pandering to Israel’s sadism, and the brain-dead attack on a non-threatening Iran. And in the latest development, Trump has declared that a “trade deal” with neighbor Canada will be “very difficult” because Ottawa intends to recognize Palestine! The US also stated on Thursday that it is going to impose sanctions on the Palestinians’ self-governance organization as well as on the body that represents it on the international stage. The sanctions will affect both the Palestinian Authority (PA) which was established by the Oslo peace accords, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) which was recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people in return for it recognizing Israel and renouncing violence. The State Department said it will starting now deny visas to PLO members and PA officials.

Who needs any more of this nonsense?

Reprinted with permission from Unz Review.

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Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily life all around you, no matter how superficial it may at first seem, you will catch many glimpses of why this may be so. The signs of falsehood are everywhere here in the land of make-believe, for those willing to decipher them. The big lies and deceptions of politicians, intelligence services, and their media minions have their counterparts in trivial encounters where, as Melville said, “A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.” Such smiles plaster not just human faces, but appear in the signs and symbols of the wider culture everywhere you look. They are meant to tranquilize with trivia. They are offered as bait to induce people to stop worrying and be happy as their leaders smash the world to bits.

I recently chanced to look down the cereal aisle of a supermarket where my already florescent-irritated eyes were further dazzled by an entire row of technicolor boxes of the garbage that Americans eat to begin their days. First came the poison laid low down for the kids so they can reach the traps and pester their parents for what would better be served to rats. These I passed, only to stop at a big orange yellow box that was advertised on sale. I had seen it before, just as often as I had seen pictures of Van Gogh’s sunflowers adorning dentists’ offices and funeral homes, twin bright colors before which we are beseeched to smile and be happy like Vincent. The cereal was General Mills’ Honey Nut Cheerios.

At the center of the box in large letters outlined in bright orange screamed the words “made with REAL HONEY.” I quickly grabbed a box since I am always searching for reality, but then it struck me, as I fell off my motorized horse like Paul on the road to Damascus (not today’s bombed Damascus), that such an assertion was strange, for the cereal is called Honey Nut Cheerios, which would imply it was  made with honey. So why are they boldly asserting it is? Perhaps because the honey used is so minuscule it’s necessary to use a bullhorn to assert its reality. Or perhaps the clue lies in that word “real,” whose meaning is really confounding. It sounded like politicians in reverse who claim war is peace when it isn’t or introduce all their words by saying “to tell you the truth,” as they proceed to lie. So it always was, is, and will be? But then my existential search brought me to that ah-ha moment as I looked at the ingredients list and realized there were no nuts in the cereal. Where were the nuts, the people buying the cereal or me? By next year will the box announce REAL HONEY and REAL NUTS?

Or will they say it is made with REAL HOLES? Who knew that? Who knows that the holes are more real than that which surrounds them, or that nothing is more real than nothing? Why are some people always trying get something or other into holes, while others try to ignore their reality, even as the final holes patiently await us?

It then occurred to me that this semiotic search of mine (the analysis of cultural objects like advertisements, food, or activities such as golf, etc. for deeper meanings and social myths), like those of Roland Barthes in his acclaimed 1957 book, Mythologies, would not go over well with those who like being deceived, which seems to be most people. But my search continued, despite my wife calling out, “Come on, Honey,” to which I murmured to the cereal box, ”Really?”

My existential search then went into rapid overdrive, for when a wife says, “Come on, Honey,” who can hold back? I saw that the box cover read that the cereal was “naturally flavored,” which felt so reassuring until I wondered what they meant by “naturally” and why they were so insistent upon announcing that as well. Lower down on the box in large bold letters it said that eating the cereal “Can help LOWER CHOLESTEROL* as part of a heart healthy diet.” That asterix led down to much smaller and harder-to-read gibberish words that said that eating the cereal, within a larger low-fat diet, “may reduce the risk of heart attack.” Mr. Death is natural, too, I thought, but he wasn’t mentioned.

I was getting sick of my search and took another look at the cover whereupon the picture of a cartoon-looking bee with a honey wand – Buzz the Bee, I later learned they call him – reminded me of Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, the story of a boy who never wants to grow up because death comes in time as with the crocodile who has swallowed a clock and eats Captain Hook. No one dies in Neverland except the bad guy. Yet everyone seems to do that in our Neverland, where the bad guys kill the good people through a cornucopia of means.

For a long time there was a store in the town where I live called Crystal Essence that recently closed.  I called it the rock shop. It sold a wide assortment of New Age products from crystals and rocks through incense and books on how to be happy forever. Somehow deathless. One day I passed this store, which was highly successful with tourists and locals alike, and saw a poster for Fairy Dusting. Perverse thinker that I am, I inquired within about this procedure. They sent me upstairs in the rear of the store where a woman greeted me with a big smile. “Did I want to be fairy dusted?” she asked. I said I was just inquiring as to what it was and how much it cost. She said $40, and you lie on a table as I circle you while dusting you with my wand filled with fairy dust, as Tinker Bell did. “What was the point?” I asked. She said it cleansed your aura and gave you a healthy journey through life and multiple reincarnations. “So it will help me not to die?” I asked. “Yes, she said with a huge smile. I said, “Thanks” and left, but not without thoughts of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and a country that will never grow up. A look around in the most ordinary places will confirm that.

Still standing in the cereal aisle, I thought of my fairy duster and Buzz the Bee with his wand on the cover of the box that I held in my hand. Everywhere we look we see promotions for products that will dust us so we will live forever. The American culture of death threatens and kills while simultaneously offering anodynes. Deny, affirm, and cure. Honey Nut Cheerios, full of good cheer.

As I shoved the box back on the shelf, I noticed it said down low on its side that it was bioengineered. They want to bioengineer us all, I thought, mechanically petrify us, and so I revved up my engine and hurried to find my wife.

She had already checked out and was waiting for me at the door. She called out, with an enticing smile, “Come on, Honey!” And despite my deep existential semiotic search for truth in the cereal aisle, and with an inner nod to Barthes, I ran after her, for when a woman says such words to you, what man can hold back?

Cheerio!

As Jeffrey Epstein wouldn’t say: Beware the honey trap, My Lost Boys.

Cheerio!

Reprinted with the author’s permission.

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Some months ago, I pointed out that a benefit of Preacher Johnnie Moore’s taxpayer-funded defense firm, the Orwellian labeled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, had one benefit and one benefit only.  It would allow its American employees, former soldiers in many cases, to be on the ground in Gaza seeing what the US is faithfully funding, and what Israel has done and is doing.

Israel, with the active support and blessing of over 80% of Israelis since late 2023, has been violently destroying Gazan structures, food and water systems, education, healthcare, along with many of the 2.3 million Palestinians who had created a culture and an economy – in spite of decades of periodic attacks, and the occupying state’s military domination and constantly evolving restrictions on trade, travel and movement.  In spite of this, and perhaps shocking to many Zionists, Gaza has survived and thus far, resisted its intended demise.

The tiny strip is now a moonscape, courtesy of the equivalent of 8 Hiroshima sized nuclear detonations, over half a million Gazans have been killed or lost in the rubble, and the intentional starvation, intensified in March by Israel, is reaching its tipping point.

Acute famine is part of the US and Israeli strategy for Gaza. IPC Phase Five has been purposely created in Gaza, and the upcoming and imminent stage is massive human losses as the weakest and sickest are already dead, and the stronger and healthier segments of society themselves begin to starve to death.  Resistance to disease for Gazans has already collapsed.

How do we know what starvation does to a population?  Because state-enforced starvation is a common historical tactic of empires and states against those they intend to punish and dominate.  The US government is happy to recognize and abhor the state starvations of populations, as we see in this recent US commemoration of the 91st anniversary of the Holomodor.  We study in universities the state conducted starvation and genocide against Jews and others by the World War II Axis powers. The government of Israel, and that of the United States, presides over a deep body of knowledge about engineering starvation and famine, and profiting from it.

The powerful conversation between Tucker Carlson and recently retired Army LTC Tony Agular this week is a point of light emerging from the fact that US soldiers are now on the ground supporting this imperial project of death and destruction.  Just as the US has experienced in other imperial wars, our own soldiers and Marines – like Lt General Smedley Butler – end up being the best witnesses, the angriest citizens, the boldest truth-tellers.

Agular is a military hero, which means his story is pertinent to Americans and politicians alike.  He is reporting on a genocide that is technically removed from a direct US policy – as far as I know, Trump and the US Congress, with the exception of porcine scum Randy Fine, have not endorsed genocide or starvation publicly.  Because of this, Agular’s story is particularly powerful.  He is an American soldier with a dozen deployments supporting American foreign policy of the last 25 years.  He is apolitical. He is focused on military best practices, law and justice. As a West Point grad, he does not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate anyone who does. He is ethical. Perhaps most importantly, unlike most Americans, he is unafraid.

The US taxpayer funds the Gazan genocide.  The US government authorizes and allows the starvation there, and yet, President Trump has the power to do two things right now.  He can freeze aid and weapons to Israel, and he can authorize military force against Israel in order to create a hundred road entry points to Gaza from the two largest US foreign subsidy recipients (Israel and Egypt), through which the US government can drive in thousands of trucks a day filled with food, water, and medicine, doctors, nurses, and health specialists.  The trucks and the donations are there.  Why doesn’t he?

Only a few weeks ago, Trump had no problem bombing a country for no discernable national security reason, without notifying Congress nor seeking its consent.  The aftermath of Trump’s “bold” decision to spend $200 million in order to have a cutely monikered “12 Day War” was confirmation that he presides as the current American emperor, as blatantly wasteful as Caligula and confirming growing suspicions that Trump may be our very own Commodus, or perhaps more appropriately, Caracalla.

Fascinated by war and conflict, Caracalla ended up militarizing and centralizing power in the Roman Empire, but “the extravagance and brutality of Caracalla’s reign ultimately undermined his authority.”  His reign was in the pre-Christian era Roman Empire, where state ethics were unhinged from societal ethics or religion as we understand them today.

Unhinged does indeed describe the US government today.  Whether you are angered that Trump reversed himself on Epstein, or happy that you are getting a consolation prize in the “reveal” of  Obama, Clinton, and Biden criminality – you are ruled by the unhinged.  Whether you love the military because it is “Number 1” or are happy that the US military is no longer “Number 1,” you are ruled by the unhinged.  Whether you oppose genocide in Gaza, or you cheer it – you are ruled by the unhinged.

Unhinged can be a psychological judgement, and there is evidence that Israeli society today satisfies that mental health criteria.  I’m using unhinged simply as a construction concept, the disconnect of a door with its frame.  The frame of the US government – the Constitution – is rotted and tattered.  These frames won’t hold any door, and thus we have unhinged function, where force or impetus for good may be applied to the state, but it doesn’t – and it cannot – result in the desired result. Case in point, Israel is self-destructing as a blatant murderous, ethnostate bent on geographical expansion and war above all.  What is worse, the average American Republican, Democrat and Independent – on record opposing US policies of fighting other peoples’ wars, subsidizing other people’s economies, militaries, education and health care – lives under a government that is orchestrating and tolerating genocide in Gaza, one they both know about and oppose! The American population is deprived of their money, their will, their voice, and their political function because the state framework is decrepit and corrupted beyond repair.

True freedom of speech is rarely observed, and barely tolerated, yet it is possible, as Tucker Carlson and Tony Agular, and millions of others who see and share this interview are demonstrating.  Colonel Agular also offers a number of specific steps that could be taken today, from a practical perspective – but the US state, unhinged, is not only unpredictable under pressure, it is inoperative, broken.  To my Marxist and Republican friends, who believe they could just fix the state, and or change its leaders, to make it work “as it should,” you are fantasists of a dead era, and complicit cowards.

This state-designed, funded, and implemented genocide in Gaza, and those to come, closer to home – are on you.

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato fuori controllo negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non pu avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorit . Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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Quando Avril Haines, Direttrice dell'Intelligence Nazionale, annunciò durante l'esercitazione pandemica Event 201 nel 2019 che avrebbero “inondato la zona di fonti attendibili”, pochi compresero questo anticipo di controllo coordinato delle narrazioni. Nel giro di pochi mesi lo abbiamo visto dispiegarsi in tempo reale: messaggistica unificata su tutte le piattaforme, soppressione del dissenso e controllo coordinato della narrazione che ha ingannato gran parte del mondo.

Ma non tutti sono rimasti ingannati. Alcuni hanno capito subito, mettendo in discussione ogni aspetto fin dal primo giorno; altri hanno pensato che si trattasse semplicemente di un governo incompetente che cercava di proteggerci. Molti inizialmente hanno accettato il principio di precauzione: meglio prevenire che curare. Ma poiché ogni fallimento politico puntava nella stessa direzione – verso un maggiore controllo e una minore azione umana – il modello è diventato impossibile da ignorare. Chiunque non fosse completamente assorbito dal sistema ha dovuto alla fine confrontarsi con il suo vero scopo: non proteggere la salute o la sicurezza, ma espandere il controllo.

Una volta riconosciuto questo schema di inganno, due domande dovrebbero sorgere immediatamente nella mente di ogni persona ogni volta che le notizie più importanti dominano i titoli dei giornali: “Su cosa stanno mentendo?” e “Da cosa ci stanno distraendo?”. Lo schema di inganno coordinato diventa inequivocabile. Basti pensare a come i media abbiano trascorso tre anni a promuovere le cospirazioni del Russiagate, alimentando una divisione sociale senza precedenti e gettando le basi per quella che sarebbe diventata la più grande operazione psicologica della storia. Oggi, mentre i media ci inondano di notizie sull'Ucraina, BlackRock si posiziona per trarre profitto sia dalla distruzione che dalla ricostruzione. Lo schema diventa inequivocabile una volta che lo si vede: crisi create ad arte che chiedono “soluzioni” pianificate in anticipo che espandono sempre il controllo istituzionale.

I media generalisti operano su un doppio inganno: depistaggio e manipolazione. Gli stessi conduttori che ci hanno venduto le armi di distruzione di massa in Iraq durante i telegiornali della sera, promosso la “collusione con la Russia” e insistito sul fatto che il portatile di Hunter Biden fosse “disinformazione russa” occupano ancora le fasce orarie di punta. Proprio come accade con la nomina di RFK Jr. all'HHS, lo schema è costante: attacchi coordinati sostituiscono il dibattito concreto, punti di discussione identici compaiono su tutte le reti e domande legittime vengono liquidate con la diffamazione anziché con le prove. Sbagliare sistematicamente non è un caso, è voluto. Il loro ruolo non è informare, ma fabbricare il consenso.

Il modello è chiaro: saturare i media con spettacoli emotivi, promuovendo al contempo i programmi istituzionali con un controllo minimo. Come si impara a riconoscere un sorriso falso, o a percepire una stonatura in un brano musicale, allo stesso modo si sviluppa un istinto per il tempismo.

Denaro e potere:

• Mentre i media erano concentrati sul 6 gennaio, BlackRock e Vanguard hanno silenziosamente rafforzato la loro presa sul mercato immobiliare residenziale.

• Mentre la stampa era ossessionata dal ban di Trump su Twitter, il Congresso ha approvato il più grande trasferimento di ricchezza con la scusa degli “aiuti Covid”.

• Mentre un’informazione senza fiato seguiva ogni mossa del processo a Johnny Depp, la FED ha stampato più denaro che in tutto il secolo precedente.

• Mentre i media ci inondavano di notizie sull’Ucraina, restrizioni senza precedenti sulla produzione di energia hanno rimodellato l’economia globale.

• Mentre i giornalisti seguivano con il fiato sospeso le accuse a Trump, le banche centrali acceleravano i piani per una valuta digitale programmabile.

Controllo sanitario:

• Mentre i media si concentravano sulla promozione del vaccino tramite le celebrità, un numero senza precedenti di giovani atleti è crollato in campo.

• Mentre le reti televisive trasmettevano ininterrottamente le sparatorie nelle scuole, i documenti rivelavano che Pfizer era a conoscenza di centinaia di effetti collaterali.

• Mentre la copertura mediatica si concentrava sulla “disinformazione” anti-vax, i dati delle assicurazioni mostravano tassi di mortalità in eccesso allarmanti.

Controllo digitale: 

• Mentre i media erano ossessionati dalla moderazione dei contenuti di Twitter, l’infrastruttura dell’ID digitale veniva costruita silenziosamente in tutto il mondo.

• Mentre la copertura mediatica si concentrava sulle preoccupazioni relative alla privacy di TikTok, le banche centrali hanno accelerato lo sviluppo delle valute digitali.

• Mentre gli infiniti dibattiti sui chatbot AI dominavano i titoli dei giornali, i sistemi di sorveglianza biometrica si espandevano a livello globale.

Man mano che questi inganni diventano più evidenti, emergono diverse forme di resistenza. La ricerca della verità assume forme diverse. Alcuni diventano esperti di inganni specifici: documentando i primi successi terapeutici con farmaci riadattati, scoprendo fallimenti nei protocolli ospedalieri, o esplorando l'impatto dei danni da vaccino. Altri sviluppano una prospettiva più ampia per comprendere come le narrazioni stesse vengano costruite.

La brillante capacità di Walter Kirn di riconoscere schemi ricorrenti colpisce il cuore della nostra realtà artificiale. I suoi tweet, che analizzano la copertura mediatica dell'omicidio dell'amministratore delegato di United, rivelano come persino i crimini violenti vengano ormai confezionati come spettacoli di intrattenimento, completi di archi narrativi e colpi di scena. Il lavoro di Kirn evidenzia una dimensione critica del controllo mediatico: trasformando ogni crisi in una narrazione di intrattenimento, l'attenzione viene deviata da questioni più profonde. Invece di chiedersi perché le tutele istituzionali falliscano, o chi ne tragga beneficio, il pubblico viene catturato da un'indignazione attentamente sceneggiata. Questa distrazione deliberata garantisce che i programmi istituzionali procedano senza controlli.

Il suo lavoro rivela come il confezionamento dell'intrattenimento sia al servizio del più ampio sistema di controllo. Mentre ogni indagine richiede una competenza specifica, questo schema di manipolazione narrativa si collega a una rete più ampia di inganni. Come scritto nei pezzi L'industria dell'informazione e Ingegnerizzare la realtà, tutto, dall'istruzione alla medicina, fino alla valuta stessa, è stato catturato da sistemi progettati per plasmare non solo le nostre scelte, ma la percezione stessa della realtà.

La cosa più rivelatrice è ciò che non coprono. Notate la rapidità con cui le notizie scompaiono quando minacciano interessi istituzionali. Ricordate la lista dei clienti di Epstein? L'accaparramento di terreni a Maui? I crescenti danni da vaccino? Il silenzio la dice lunga. Considerate le recenti testimonianze di informatori che rivelano preoccupazioni represse sulla sicurezza presso Boeing, un'azienda da tempo coinvolta con agenzie di regolamentazione e appalti governativi. Due informatori – entrambi ex-dipendenti che avevano lanciato l'allarme su problemi di sicurezza – sono morti in circostanze sospette. La copertura mediatica delle loro morti è scomparsa quasi da un giorno all'altro, nonostante le profonde implicazioni per la sicurezza pubblica e la responsabilità aziendale. Questo schema si ripete in innumerevoli casi in cui la responsabilità sconvolgerebbe strutture di potere radicate, lasciando domande cruciali senza risposta e narrazioni strettamente controllate.

Queste decisioni non sono casuali: sono il risultato delle caratteristiche dei media moderni, dell'influenza degli inserzionisti e della pressione dei governi, garantendo che la narrazione resti strettamente controllata.

Ma forse la cosa più sorprendente non è l'inganno dei media in sé, ma quanto profondamente plasmano la realtà dei loro consumatori. Osservate con quanta sicurezza ripetono frasi chiaramente elaborate nei think tank. Ascoltate come ripetono a pappagallo punti di vista con convinzione religiosa: “Il 6 gennaio è stato peggio dell'11 settembre”, “Fidatevi della scienza ™”, “C'è in gioco la democrazia” e, forse la menzogna più infame della storia moderna, “Sicuro ed efficace”.

La classe dei sedicenti esperti si dimostra particolarmente suscettibile a questa programmazione. La loro competenza diventa una prigione di status: più investono nell'approvazione istituzionale, più difendono con fervore le narrazioni istituzionali. Guardate con quanta rapidità un medico che mette in dubbio la sicurezza dei vaccini perde la licenza, con quanta rapidità un professore che mette in discussione l'ideologia di genere affronta una revisione, con quanta rapidità un giornalista che esce dai ranghi viene inserito nella lista nera.

Il sistema garantisce il rispetto delle regole attraverso la cattura economica: il mutuo diventa il vostro guinzaglio, il vostro status professionale la vostra guardia carceraria. Lo stesso avvocato che si vanta del suo pensiero critico bloccherà aggressivamente qualsiasi messa in discussione delle narrazioni ufficiali. Il professore che insegna a “mettere in discussione le strutture di potere” diventa furioso quando gli studenti mettono in discussione le aziende farmaceutiche.

La validazione circolare rende la programmazione quasi impenetrabile:

• I media citano gli “esperti”

• Gli esperti citano studi sottoposti a revisione paritaria

• Gli studi sono finanziati dall'industria

• L'industria plasma la copertura mediatica

• I “fact-checker” citano il consenso dei media

• Il mondo accademico fa rispettare le conclusioni approvate

Questo circolo vizioso forma un perfetto circuito chiuso.

Ogni componente convalida gli altri, escludendo al contempo informazioni esterne. Provate a trovare il punto di accesso alla verità in questo sistema chiuso. L'orgoglio della classe degli esperti per il proprio pensiero critico diventa ironico: esternalizzano le proprie opinioni a “fonti autorevoli”.

La cosa più inquietante è la loro spontanea volontà di rinunciare alla sovranità. Guardateli mentre si arrendono:

• “Seguo la scienza” (traduzione: aspetto conclusioni approvate)

• “Secondo gli esperti...” (traduzione: non penso con la mia testa)

• “I fact-checker dicono...” (traduzione: lascio che siano gli altri a stabilire la verità)

• “Il consenso è...” (traduzione: mi allineo con il potere)

La loro empatia diventa un'arma usata contro di loro. Mettere in discussione i lockdown? Stai uccidendo la nonna. Dubitare della chirurgia di transizione per i minori? Stai causando suicidi. Resistere alle iniziative di equità? Stai perpetuando l'oppressione. La programmazione funziona facendo percepire la resistenza come crudeltà.

Qualcosa di straordinario sta accadendo sotto il rumore di superficie, però: un autentico risveglio che sfida i tradizionali confini politici. Lo si vede nei sottili scambi tra colleghi quando le narrazioni ufficiali mettono a dura prova la credibilità; nel silenzio crescente alle cene, mentre i discorsi propagandistici cadono nel vuoto; negli sguardi complici tra sconosciuti quando il teatro della salute pubblica raggiunge nuove vette di assurdità.

Questo non è un movimento in senso tradizionale – non può esserlo, poiché le strutture dei movimenti tradizionali sono vulnerabili a infiltrazioni, sovversioni e cattura – è più simile a un'emergenza spontanea, un risveglio distribuito senza una leadership centrale o un'organizzazione formale. Chi vede attraverso gli schemi riconosce la formazione di massa per quello che è, mentre i suoi soggetti proiettano la propria programmazione sugli altri liquidando gli schemi sopraccitati come “teorie del complotto”, “antiscienza”, o altre etichette progettate per impedire un'analisi autentica.

La verità più difficile da accettare non è riconoscere la programmazione, ma confrontarsi con il suo significato per la coscienza umana e per la società stessa. Stiamo assistendo a prove in tempo reale che dimostrano come la maggior parte delle menti umane possa essere catturata e reindirizzata attraverso sofisticate operazioni psicologiche. I loro pensieri non sono i loro, eppure morirebbero per difendere ciò in cui sono stati programmati per credere.

Non si tratta più solo di critica: è una questione esistenziale sulla coscienza umana e sul libero arbitrio. Cosa significa quando la capacità di pensiero indipendente di una specie può essere così dirottata? Quando l'empatia naturale e gli istinti morali diventano armi di controllo? Quando l'istruzione e la competenza riducono la resistenza alla programmazione?

Quest'ultima funziona perché dirotta le pulsioni umane fondamentali:

• Il bisogno di accettazione sociale (ad esempio, mascherarsi come simbolo visibile di conformismo);

• Il desiderio di essere visti come buoni/morali (ad esempio, adottare certe posizioni su questioni sociali senza una comprensione più profonda);

• L'istinto di fidarsi dell'autorità (ad esempio, la fiducia nei funzionari della sanità pubblica nonostante i ripetuti cambiamenti di politica);

• La paura dell'ostracismo (ad esempio, evitare il dissenso per mantenere l'armonia sociale);

• Il conforto del conformismo (ad esempio, ripetere a pappagallo le narrazioni per evitare la dissonanza cognitiva);

• La dipendenza dallo status (ad esempio, segnalare la conformità per mantenere la posizione professionale o sociale).

Ogni tratto umano naturale diventa una vulnerabilità da sfruttare. I più istruiti diventano i più programmabili perché la loro dipendenza dallo status è più profonda. Il loro “pensiero critico” diventa un copione in esecuzione su un hardware corrotto.

Questa è la sfida più importante del nostro tempo: la coscienza umana può evolversi più velocemente dei sistemi progettati per dirottarla? Il riconoscimento di schemi e la consapevolezza possono diffondersi più velocemente del consenso artificiale? Un numero sufficiente di persone può imparare a leggere tra le bugie prima che la programmazione sia completa?

La posta in gioco non potrebbe essere più alta. Non si tratta solo di politica o di alfabetizzazione mediatica: si tratta del futuro della coscienza umana stessa. Se la nostra specie manterrà la capacità di pensiero indipendente potrebbe dipendere da coloro che ancora vi riescono ad accedere, aiutando gli altri a liberarsi dall'incantesimo.

La matrice del controllo si intensifica ogni giorno che passa, ma lo stesso vale per il risveglio. La domanda è: cosa si diffonde più velocemente, la programmazione o la consapevolezza? Il nostro futuro come specie potrebbe dipendere da questa risposta.

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