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That Thing We Are Voting on

Posted by M. C. on October 18, 2024

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

Thomas Paine

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Do They Want American Troops to Die?

Posted by M. C. on October 16, 2024

by Dan McAdams

Which brings us to where we are today, with the Biden Administration committing more U.S. weapons systems and more U.S. military personnel to serve on the ground in Israel in its war against Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran. All at once. How’s that for neocon ambition?

As Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder announced [yesterday]: “At the direction of the President, @SecDef authorized the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and associated crew of U.S. military personnel to Israel to help bolster Israel’s air defenses.”

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/do-they-want-american-troops-to-die/

biden and kamala harris deliver remarks during a rally in washington dc

Biden administration mismanagement—or worse—from day one of the latest Israeli multi-front war in the Middle East has led us to where we are today, at the brink of an all-out regional war with some 40,000 U.S. troops and multiple U.S. military bases in the region with targets on their back.

[President Joe] Biden’s blank check to Israel after the attacks of October 7, 2023, to launch multiple wars against its neighbors and carry out the mass murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza has drawn the U.S. right into the middle of a bubbling cauldron of [World War III]. And rather than take a sober look at actual U.S. national security interests, Biden and his neocon incompetents are busy adding fuel to the fire hanging on to the pipe dream that they could do what they failed to do so many times before: remake the Middle East in their neocon image.

According to an article in Politico this past week, while Biden administration officials publicly urged restraint and a reduction in violence, they privately were working with the Israeli government to encourage a widening of Israel’s military operations to include its northern neighbor, Lebanon. Two top Biden administration officials, Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shift Israel’s military focus from the already-flattened Gaza northward to Lebanon.

As Politico reports:

“Behind the scenes, Hochstein, McGurk and other top U.S. national security officials are describing Israel’s Lebanon operations as a history-defining moment—one that will reshape the Middle East for the better for years to come.”

Where have we heard this kind of “let’s do war to re-shape the Middle East” argument before? As Wikileaks reminds us, appearing before the U.S. Congress in 2002 and urging the U.S. to attack Iraq, Netanyahu himself promised that “If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.”

Yeah, Bibi. How’d that work out for us?

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Is Our Own Government Trying to Eliminate Appalachia?

Posted by M. C. on October 16, 2024

by John Weeks

The motive is there. The people of Appalachia are the least loyal to the United States Imperial Government (USIG), the most loyal to the tradtional concept of America and are more likely to vote Republican than Democrat. So, we have motive and action. Do we have intent?

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/is-our-own-government-trying-to-eliminate-appalachia/

On Thursday, September 26 at 11:10 p.m., category 4 Hurricane Helene made landfall at Keaton Beach, Florida, unleashing deadly flooding throughout Florida’s Gulf Coast, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

People are trapped in remote areas with no electricity, no food, no water, no medicine, and no functioning communication technology. Yet the federal government’s response has been worse than its infamously appalling performance during the 2004 Katrina disaster and so diabolically bizarre that we must ask: is the government intentionally attempting to murder thousands of American citizens throughout the Southeast?

Consider the following:

The government failed to do standard pre-storm planning and staging.
The government failed to deploy adequate resources and manpower to a rescue effort after the storm hit.
The government is preventing aid from being brought into the affected areas.
The government has sought to ground private helicopters and ban private drones from being used in the search and rescue efforts.
The government claims it lacks money to help hurricane victims but continues to spend billions of dollars on migrants, Ukraine, and Israel (also despite the fact that it can literally create money anytime it wants).
The government’s regime-adjacent media has downplayed the disaster.

Failure to plan sounds like typical government incompetence. Failure to deploy resources and manpower sounds like typical government prioritizing (they might have to fight a war or two for the Zionist project, don’t you know). But deploying manpower to prevent aid from reaching thousands of Americans facing imminent death? Sabotaging private rescue efforts? Refusing to monetize some debt and give the survivors a little quantitative easing!?

Libertarian Institute Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs Bill Buppert said, “For Hurricane Katrina, around 50,000 National Guard troops were mobilized across forty-nine states to respond to the disaster. Additionally, 22,000 active-duty federal troops were eventually deployed. In response to Hurricane Helene, over 6,700 National Guard troops from at least twelve states have been mobilized…alongside these National Guard units, around 1,000 active-duty troops.”

Are we witnessing the government’s attempt to depopulate Appalachia?

Intention is tricky theoretical business, but simply put, are we witnessing state incompetence or state malevolence?

UnHerd columnist Malcom Kyeyune has likened the Helene catastrophe to the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion disaster. But it’s worse than that. A lot worse. It is more reminiscent of the Holodomor or “Terror-Famine” that struck the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 during the Soviet Union’s catastrophic collectivization of agriculture.

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The National Security State: The Biggest Mistake in U.S. History

Posted by M. C. on October 16, 2024

by Jacob G. Hornberger

The FBI, CIA, and Pentagon began surveilling, abusing, smearing, blackmailing, infiltrating, and destroying people and organizations who were suspected of promoting communism, socialism, leftism, liberalism, or progressivism.

The CIA also began specializing in the art of assassination —

The National Security State: The Biggest Mistake in U.S. History

When the Constitution was ratified, it brought into existence a limited-government republic. That meant a government whose powers were very limited — limited, that is, to those powers enumerated in the Constitution itself.

After World War II, that all changed. U.S. officials told the American people that while the Allied powers had been victorious against Nazi Germany, that did not mean, unfortunately, that Americans could rest. The United States, they said, now faced an enemy that was arguably an even bigger threat than Nazi Germany. This new enemy, they said, was America’s World War II partner and ally, the Soviet Union, which was ruled by a communist regime.

They said that there was a worldwide communist conspiracy to take over the world, including the United States. That conspiracy, they said, was based in Moscow, Russia. U.S. officials convinced Americans that, to use the title of a movie that came in 1966, “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.” Most everyone became convinced that the United States was in grave danger of going Red, with commies ending up running the IRS and the rest of the federal government.

In addition to this supposed threat from communist Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union, Americans were told, was the threat from communism itself, which was a philosophy that entailed having government take care of people, as compared to a society in which people take care of themselves. U.S. national-security state officials viewed communism as a political and economic narcotic that, once imbibed by people, would inevitably seduce them into wanting more.

To combine this twin treat of communists and communism, U.S. officials said, it was necessary to convert the federal government from the limited-government republic on which the country was founded to what is called a national-security state, which is a type of governmental structure that characterizes totalitarian regimes. The big difference between the two governmental structures is that in a republic the government’s powers are limited while in a national-security state they are not.

The national-security state consists of a massive, permanent, and ever-growing military establishment (i.e., the Pentagon and what President Eisenhower called the military industrial complex), a secretive agency with the power to assassinate, kidnap, detain, and disappear people (i.e., the CIA), and a surveillance agency with the power to secretly monitor people’s activities (i.e., the NSA).

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Hurricane Response Proves Volunteerism is Better Than Authoritarianism

Posted by M. C. on October 15, 2024

by Ron Paul

One reason the federal government is unable to provide adequate aid to those impacted by Helene (and now Milton) is the government is sending military aid worth billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel. In fact, over 700 members of the Tennessee National Guard are deploying to the Middle East as people in the state deal with damage from Hurricane Helene!

Contrary to the lies spread by authoritarians, libertarianism does not require selfishness. Libertarians welcome voluntary action to help those in need. Libertarians object to government assistance because it is based on force. Authoritarianism leads to poverty, war, chaos in the streets, and a lack of compassion for the less fortunate. Liberty leads to prosperity, peace, and a flourishing of private charities.

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/hurricane-response-proves-volunteerism-is-better-than-authoritarianism/

Following Hurricane Helene, many private helicopter pilots launched their own search and rescue missions. One would think government officials would welcome the help of these volunteers, but instead they harassed them and even threatened to arrest them!

For example, one private helicopter pilot rescued an individual stranded by Helene. Unfortunately, he was threatened with arrest if he flew his helicopter back into the impacted area to save someone left behind on the earlier flight.

In a video shared by comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore, Jonathan Howard, a member of the Florida State Guard and volunteer for the nonprofit group Aerial Recovery, discussed how the government took credit for the rescue of an 11-day-old baby even though the rescue was done totally by volunteers. Mr. Howard stated that when he goes on a search and rescue mission he sees around forty other private helicopters and just two military helicopters.

When questioned on Fox News about Helene’s impact, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham made an impassioned plea …. for more aid to Israel. Senator Graham is far from the only member of Congress to put the needs of foreign countries and the military-industrial complex ahead of Americans.

Congress will likely consider a multi-billion-dollar disaster relief bill in the post-election “lame duck” session. Conservative Republicans will (properly) demand the spending be offset by cuts in other spending. The problem is most of these “fiscal conservatives” will vote to increase the national debt to fund the military-industrial-complex.

When I served in Congress, I voted against federal disaster aid even when the disaster impacted my district. Inevitably my office would receive complaints from outraged constituents. After a few months of jumping through the federal government’s bureaucratic hoops in seeking to recover from the disaster, many constituents would call my office to say that they now agree that they would be better off if the government would stop trying to “help” the victims of natural disasters.

One of the helicopter pilots who voluntarily flew into the areas impacted by Helene was Curves fitness chain founder Gary Heavin. Mr. Heavin, in addition to being a successful businessman, is a passionate advocate for liberty who serves on the advisory board of my Institute for Peace and Prosperity. It is not surprising that someone who believes in liberty would be willing to help those in need rather than rely on the government to provide assistance.

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J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

Posted by M. C. on October 15, 2024

by Adam Dick

Vance here supports the US acting as Israel’s devoted servant in support of whatever “fighting” Israel decides to pursue against Iran. According to Vance, the decision-making is all at the discretion of the Israel government. The US just tags along, providing unwavering support.

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/j-d-vance-israel-firster/

Donald Trump likes to talk about how he puts America first. Last night, Trump’s presidential race running mate J.D. Vance made it clear that Vance has other priorities. In answer to the first question of the vice-presidential debate, Vance asserted that his allegiance is to Israel first. Indeed, he suggested that America does not even come in second.

Here is how Vance responded to debate moderator Margaret Brennan’s question of if Vance would “support or oppose a preemptive strike by Israel on Iran”:

Now, you asked about a preemptive strike, Margaret, and I want to answer the question. Look, it is up to Israel what they think they need to do to keep their country safe, and we should support our allies wherever they are when they are fighting the bad guys. I think that’s the right approach to take with the Israel question.

Note also the use of the plural “allies” by Vance. To how many other foreign governments is Vance supporting US servitude to advance their fights against “bad guys”? Is Vance for America third, twelfth, twenty-fifth? Who knows? What is his current list of allies that he puts before America?

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A Look At The Future?

Posted by M. C. on October 14, 2024

After watching this yesterday I decided there are two earth “saving” visions at play.

One is the Zuck, Gates, Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari vision for saving mankind by eliminating most of it. Thought to self, is a retired person a useless eater (https://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/?

The other is the conquering the solar system for the benefit of mankind. If Musk is successful and we boomers don’t die of myocarditis in the next 6 years or so we may see man on Mars and colonies thereafter.

If you missed it, start a 03:25:00 and watch for 8 minutes.