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Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2021
Zir’s Best Friend
A new study has suggested that man’s best friend is 90 percent accurate in sniffing out people infected with the coronavirus. The New York Times reported last year that the PCR test widely used currently may be reporting 90 percent false positives! So why aren’t dogs being used? Is it because they cannot be manipulated like the tests can be? Also today, Fauci does another flip-flop – this time on the origin of the virus. And more from the hypocrite hall of shame…
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Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2021
As you’ll see below, masks served as a helpful signal. Wearing one meant you were virtuous. Even more important, if someone was spotted NOT donning the sacred fabric, then you knew that they were… thoughtless, anti-science, and even evil.
A little piece of fabric told them all of that.
First, it’s overwhelmingly common that what people claim is “Science” turns out to be something they were told by some authority. The people advocating a given claim by a scientist didn’t conduct the experiment themselves. Heck, they didn’t even read the study they’re citing. They remember a headline from somewhere or a tweet published by a public figure they trust.
Political division is a primary purpose for masking.
That’s a very big claim that requires evidence. We’re going to show you that evidence. But first, let’s get something out of the way…
This column is not an argument for or against masks. That’s been debated and covered elsewhere. Here, we’re more interested in the fact that both partisan teams view mask wearing as an important social signal. Indeed, on the pro-mask side, there’s the sudden, ironic urge to “question the science” after the CDC Director says something responsible…
People who’ve been vaccinated are safe without masks. At the same time, she won’t promise safety for the people who have not been vaccinated.
Finally, the government is practicing a measure of Human Respect — returning to the state where individuals can make and determine the personal risks they’re willing to accept or prevent. But the reaction of the pro-mask crowd demonstrates that there was something bigger than science at work here.
As you’ll see below, masks served as a helpful signal. Wearing one meant you were virtuous. Even more important, if someone was spotted NOT donning the sacred fabric, then you knew that they were… thoughtless, anti-science, and even evil.
A little piece of fabric told them all of that.
On that note, we turn to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who both admits to mixed feelings over the announcement and to acceptance of the CDC director’s guidance.
To be fair, Maddow deserves a high grade for being consistent. She’s an authoritarian — and that’s not a rude ad hominem statement. It simply means that she believes science is what the authorities say it is, and that we must follow the science as reported by those authorities.
It’s a valid point of view. Here’s why…
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Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2021
There is no real “Israel” or “America”, there’s just the one empire. Lobbying, financial support, propaganda etc are just some of the glue that’s required to hold together an empire that doesn’t officially exist. The empire will use any ideology to advance imperial interests, whether it be Zionism, Christian fundamentalism, white supremacism, Islamic extremism, or woke progressivism. It’s all just narratives to move the empire along, because that’s what’s required in an unacknowledged, unofficial empire.
There is no one government in charge of all this; the official elected governments are not where the real power lies. The actual power structure keeps itself hidden and unaccountable, because it has seen what the masses can do to oppressive rulers who wear crowns in modern times:
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-isnt-an-israel-puppet-israel
The real consequence of this is that people will begin losing trust in the government and media institutions which support Israel, because without trust the empire can’t propagandize people, and without the ability to propagandize us our rulers cannot rule. There’s no risk for Israel of losing US backing due to the US government suddenly evolving a conscience or listening to its constituents, that won’t happen, but losing control of the narrative poses a major problem for the empire. Someone’s image is going to have to change, and those changes could end up benefiting Palestinians.
We’re already seeing this narrative management campaign come into play as mainstream outlets are now permitting some serious criticisms of Israel. This is done cynically to prevent people from losing trust in propaganda institutions, but it also has real effects that can benefit real people. This is a good example of how expanding consciousness is always beneficial, even on the most depraved institutions. The more aware the public becomes of abusive imperial power dynamics, the less abuse the empire can get away with. The empire losing control of the narrative is always a good thing.Don’t Extradite Assange @DEAcampaignJulian Assange’s partner @StellaMoris1 at the #Palestine Solidarity March in Hyde Park, London. “Julian published the words of Israeli government officials that were spoken behind closed doors.” #Gaza #londonprotest #assange May 22nd 2021703 Retweets1,517 Likes
As criticism of Israel’s malfeasance becomes more widespread, so too do attempts to analyze exactly what Israel’s role is on the world stage and why it receives so much support from the United States. Some say that Israel is a vassal state of Washington, serving as a functional US military outpost in the most resource-rich region on earth. Others say it’s the other way around, citing the influence of the Israel lobby in DC and often getting into ugly nonsense about Jews ruling the world.
All this is born of an immature understanding of what nations are and how they operate within the US-centralized power alliance that functions as a single empire with regard to foreign policy.
The US is not a puppet of Israel, and Israel isn’t a puppet of the US. Saying one puppets the other is like saying Ohio puppets Nevada; they’re both member states of the same undeclared empire ruled by uncrowned kings who use governments as weapons to kill and steal.
The lines between nations within the US-centralized empire are no more real than the official elected governments of those nations. It’s just a single unified power structure which uses whatever narratives it requires to justify its continued campaign to rule the entire planet.Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ @caitozNations are conceptual constructs with no independent existence outside the human imagination. Saying Israel has a right to exist is the same as saying Bugs Bunny has a right to exist, except if you needed to murder a bunch of kids every few years to keep Bugs Bunny around.May 20th 2021107 Retweets349 Likes
There are no separate, sovereign nations within the US-centralized power alliance. The imaginary lines drawn between nations are performative illusions for the little people; they don’t apply to the transnational alliance of plutocrats and government agencies that actually runs things. This alliance centralizes a large amount of its military, financial, and diplomatic firepower around the conceptual construct known as the United States, but the actual behavior of the empire is determined by the alliance, not the US government.
There is no real “Israel” or “America”, there’s just the one empire. Lobbying, financial support, propaganda etc are just some of the glue that’s required to hold together an empire that doesn’t officially exist. The empire will use any ideology to advance imperial interests, whether it be Zionism, Christian fundamentalism, white supremacism, Islamic extremism, or woke progressivism. It’s all just narratives to move the empire along, because that’s what’s required in an unacknowledged, unofficial empire.
In the old model of empire, an emperor would just issue commands and hold the empire together overtly. In this new model of empire, where imperial member states officially keep their flags and their governments but lose their sovereignty, it’s held together by narrative control.
There is no one government in charge of all this; the official elected governments are not where the real power lies. The actual power structure keeps itself hidden and unaccountable, because it has seen what the masses can do to oppressive rulers who wear crowns in modern times:
Instead, oligarchs now rule from behind the scenes in collaboration with opaque and unaccountable government agencies, because humanity has grown too conscious to tolerate overt rulers. They use narrative manipulation to keep the empire moving in alignment with their interests.
The antidote to this dynamic is of course to keep getting more conscious, to keep learning what’s going on in our world and spreading awareness of what we’ve learned. Their job is to keep truth hidden and unconscious, while our job is to help make truth visible to everyone. Whoever wins will determine our fate as a species.
Nations, like so much else in our world, are conceptual constructs with no independent existence outside the human imagination. What’s real are weapons, explosions, gunshot trauma, and the movement of resources from one area to another. Everything else you see in the news is just mental narrative promulgated at mass scale to manipulate people into accepting these movements. Our job is to help people perceive what’s real underneath all the narrative management.
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Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2021
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/no_author/the-disintegrated-states-of-america/
By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
His new book, Disintegration, completes a trilogy. And it’s a stunning departure.
Here, Martyanov, in meticulous detail, analyzes the imperial decline thematically – with chapters on Consumption, Geoeconomics, Energy, Losing the Arms Race, among others, composing a devastating indictment especially of toxic D.C. lobbies and the prevailing political mediocrity across the Beltway. What is laid bare for the reader is the complex interplay of forces that are driving the political, ideological, economic, cultural and military American chaos.
Chapter 3, on Geoeconomics, is a joy ride. Martyanov shows how geoeconomics as a field separate from warfare and geopolitics is nothing but an obfuscation racket: good old conflict “wrapped in the thin shroud of political sciences’ shallow intellectualism” – the stuff Huntington, Fukuyama and Brzezinski’s dreams are made of.
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Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2021
The last two years have greatly shaken America, and our country will never be the same as a result. If you would have told someone two years ago that in 2021 millions of people would run around wearing masks all day and that the federal government would be relentlessly pushing a large scale mass injection campaign, that person probably would have thought that you were nuts. But now this is the “new normal”. Our freedoms and liberties have been permanently eroded, and now that they have gotten away with pushing the envelope so dramatically, government entities on all levels will be ready to flex their muscles again once the next major crisis comes along.
You could argue that we should just vote out the politicians that are running things on the state and federal levels, but exactly how are we supposed to do that?
After what we witnessed last November, tens of millions of Americans won’t believe that our system of choosing leaders is legitimate ever again.
Of course those that are currently running things could attempt to restore faith in the system by getting rid of all the voting machines and by instituting real reforms that would make the process as transparent as possible, but we all know that they will never do that.
The last couple of years have been extremely painful for our economy as well. More than 70 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last year, homeless encampments started popping up like mushrooms all over the country, and countless numbers of small businesses shut down permanently. In fact, most Americans say that they have lost a favorite local business as a result of the pandemic…
Few people have escaped the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and that’s especially true for local ‘mom and pop’ shops. A new study finds half of Americans have witnessed their favorite local businesses close down because of COVID-19.
A survey of 2,000 people reveals 68 percent personally know a local business owner impacted by the pandemic. According to respondents, the most commonly impacted businesses include cafes (62%), retail shops (58%), gaming shops (55%), and book stores (54%).
On Thursday, we learned that another 444,000 Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week.
In 2019, such a number would have been considered catastrophic.
But in the “new normal”, that number is actually considered to be “good news”.
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Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2021
Reading this post and and today’s Gannett…I mean Erie Times-News story about DHS creator Tom Ridge wanting to start a new anti-Trump political leaves me with an oddly unsettling feeling.
Imagine it. A political party created by the guy that elevated spying on honest citizens to unimaginable levels.
How precisely are “libertarian extremists” — or whatever buzzword de jour the corporate media has weaponized at the moment — defined? Unsurprisingly, loosely and conveniently, however the Deep State wishes to, with a broad, imaginative brushstroke to sweep up the maximum volume of political opponents possible:
“an unholy alliance of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians”
This posturing against “right-wing extremists” (again, simply meaning any individual or group who challenges the dominant neoliberal power structure) is not new in DC rhetoric
By Ben Bartee
The Deep State has big plans for a very particular demographic among the US citizenry.
The terminologies tossed into the word salad vary (“domestic extremist,” “homegrown terrorist,” “right-wing fanatics,” “bitter clingers,”) but they all mean more or less the same thing: the conservative, Christian, gun-owning, mostly white, non-compliant remnants of the Middle America middle class.
Operating in lockstep, the apparatuses of the Deep State intelligence community/military-industrial complex—have set sights squarely on uncooperative “libertarian” elements inside the US.
How precisely are “libertarian extremists” — or whatever buzzword de jour the corporate media has weaponized at the moment — defined? Unsurprisingly, loosely and conveniently, however the Deep State wishes to, with a broad, imaginative brushstroke to sweep up the maximum volume of political opponents possible:
“an unholy alliance of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians”
This posturing against “right-wing extremists” (again, simply meaning any individual or group who challenges the dominant neoliberal power structure) is not new in DC rhetoric, but it has intensified dramatically since the so-called “insurrection” of January 6th:
“Former CIA Director John Brennan made the statement that [the] Biden intel community [is] ‘moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about’ the pro-Trump ‘insurgency’… law enforcement, homeland security, intelligence, and even the defense officials are doing everything possible to root out what seems to be a very very serious and insidious threat to our democracy and our republic.”
The CIA is by no means alone in its efforts – this is a carefully coordinated, tightly choreographed operation spanning multiple federal agencies (the so-called “alphabet boys” for their myriad acronyms), including:
The US Department of Justice, the enormously powerful agency tasked with enforcing federal law, recently requested an 11% overall budget increase to “combat domestic extremism, racial inequality, environmental degradation and gender violence”:
“Attorney General Merrick B. Garland told lawmakers on Tuesday that the Justice Department needs more money for Biden administration priorities including combating domestic extremism.… Mr. Garland has prioritized efforts to fight domestic terrorism and protect civil rights over the department’s focus during the Trump administration on street crime and gangs…
The department is also seeking an additional $101 million to address the rising threat of domestic terrorism.”
One of the major priorities of the Deep State’s “counter-extremism” operations is disarming the American population. In its plea for more resources for the cause, the DOJ submitted a “request for an additional $232 million to curb gun violence”:
“The additional funding would be used to… support improved background checks and more comprehensive red-flag laws, which allow the police to temporarily confiscate firearms from people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others.”
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In a nation whose schoolchildren learned real lessons from history and the tenants of civilized society, none of this would be tolerated. Unfortunately, instead, 21st-century children of American public schools learn about gender pronouns and critical race theory from lobotomized education majors fresh out of their indoctrination camps in the liberal social sciences.
What is afoot is the American Empire crumbling in on itself, the comeuppance of decades of public indifference to immoral foreign occupations, of millions of dead civilians overseas, all in the service of advancing the interests of a tiny globalist elite that benefits from war.
The citizenry did nothing to stop the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, and now the ruling elite’s tools of external control and subjugation of far-away populations have been turned inward.
Consequently, normal Americans – even non-violent, relatively apolitical ones who go to work, love their families, and just want to be left alone — are now in the crosshairs of a murderous, bloodthirsty national security state.
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Again, the phenomenon of a government directing its violence onto the population it theoretically exists to protect is not an overnight development.
Since the heyday of the Bush-era neocons’ Orwellian, unwinnable “War on Terror,” civil liberty activists have warned that the siege tactics employed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other immoral foreign wars would inevitably be imported onto US soil for use on the American population.
“This ain’t police work. No, it ain’t. I mean, I can send any fool with a badge and a gun up on them corners and jack a crew and grab vials. But policing? I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors. They gonna be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you’re supposed to be policing, that’s just occupied territory.”
– Maj. Howard ‘Bunny’ Colvin, The Wire
The new “War on Domestic Terror” waged by the Deep State – aided and abetted by the corporate media — is not about “liberation” or protecting democracy, just as the previous “War on Terror” at the turn of the century was not about those things in the far-off regions where it was waged.
Instead, what we are witnessing is an unprecedented attempt to assert domination and control over an uncompliant US populace increasingly frustrated with the unrepresentative federalized forces that occupy their land – only this time, the battlefields will be Nebraska and Mississippi, not Fallujah, and the “insurgents” are average Americans, not Iraqis.
When they are met with force, and agents of the repressive federal state killed, as will inevitably occur, it will not be the Nebraska corn farmer who is to blame. Self-defense is an inalienable right of free people everywhere.
Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Contact him via his blog, Armageddon Prose.
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Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2021
We know now that Fauci was up to his eyebrows in funding gain-of-function research on evil viruses – to make them even more deadly! Most sane people wonder, who would want to do such a thing?
As we predicted recently, events are going down in an accelerated manner. Politicians are not risk-takers (aside from the exceptions like Sen. Rand and RPI Advisor Rep. Thomas Massie). The Berlin Covid Wall is falling.
https://mailchi.mp/ronpaulinstitute/fauci?e=4e0de347c8
| Melting Icarus – A Cautionary Tale Dear Friends: For the past 13 or so months there has been no single person more associated with the Covid-19 panic, lockdowns, mask orders, and all-around rise of a “public health” authoritarian religious cult than Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – and President Biden’s chief Covid advisor – Dr. Anthony Fauci. It was Fauci, armed with apocalyptic computer death models that turned out to be perhaps the greatest modeling failure of all time – from the UK’s chief fabulist Neil Ferguson – who convinced then-President Trump last April to embrace the “lockdown” model to address the rising cases of a new SARS virus called “Covid-19.” The idea of locking down healthy people to combat a virus has never been even seriously suggested in all of history. Trump was highly skeptical of shutting down the country on the advice of Fauci – he even personally told Dr. Paul in a private telephone call (as Dr. Paul revealed on an episode of the Liberty Report) – but, as too often in his four years, he tossed aside his better instincts in favor of what he thought would be a politically expedient substitute. The rest is history, as every day it becomes more obvious that the emergence of a new virus was just the ticket his political opponents needed to toss a Molotov cocktail into the juggernaut called “Trump 2.0.” He stepped blindly into the trap sprung for him, like a total dope. Suddenly what seemed to most Americans a booming economy, a rare quadrennial of no new wars, even to some a flag-waving “America First” resurgence, descended into a hell of lost jobs (except for those, concentrated among the “blue” political classes, who could continue earning from home in their pajamas), confusion, disorientation, suspicion, and finally lockdown and a new, unelected regime of “public health professionals” who more closely resembled Pharisees than public servants. These demons shut America’s churches down because that’s where the people not indoctrinated into the covid cult congregated. Question their “science” and risk a trip to metaphorical Calvary. You’re fired! But the wind is changing directions. As we remember from the great Mary Poppins…”Winds in the east, mist coming in, / Like somethin’ is brewin’ and bout to begin. / Can’t put me finger on what lies in store, / But I fear what’s to happen all happened before.” Blowin’ in from the east earlier this month was Senator Rand Paul, who deserves a hero of freedom medal for being the one person most in the position – and more importantly taking advantage of that position at considerable political risk – to utterly expose the false messiah Anthony Fauci. In ten minutes of cross-examination, Senator Paul defenestrated Saint Fauci. |
| Taking off from this Fox News exchange, as I said recently on the Ron Paul Liberty Report, wouldn’t it be the ultimate irony if the one person most responsible for the escape of a “juiced up” virus from a lab he funded in China has been the patron saint of the new covid cult religion, credited for being the great Conquistador fighting against a worldwide pandemic crisis that was his own doing? We know now that Fauci was up to his eyebrows in funding gain-of-function research on evil viruses – to make them even more deadly! Most sane people wonder, who would want to do such a thing? As we predicted recently, events are going down in an accelerated manner. Politicians are not risk-takers (aside from the exceptions like Sen. Rand and RPI Advisor Rep. Thomas Massie). The Berlin Covid Wall is falling. Trader Joe’s, Costco, and even Whole Foods and Ikea (!) see the writing on the wall (dropping mask orders) and though they are despicable cowards they are also survivors. I share with all of you that attraction to revenge. Fauci and every single blue state (and many red state) governors deserve to rot in prison for murder and mayhem. And some of them may do so… But we must sometimes savor revenge as a cold dish, viewed as the smoke of a past battle in the distance. We are slowly winning, as painful as it may be. I know all of our friends understand how Ron Paul and the Ron Paul Liberty Report have been on the liberty side of this issue from the very beginning. While DC Beltway “libertarian” frauds were sucking up to the new cult by making the “libertarian” argument for vaccine passports, Ron Paul was declaring vaccine passports a RED LINE for anyone who values freedom and liberty! Behind the lines this past year you would not believe the pressure on us to bite our tongues. To pull our punches. To not give you the truth as Dr. Paul has been doing since 1974. It has been terrifying for us, particularly facing the prospect of losing the third of a million subscribers we have struggled daily to build up. We knew we could be cancelled anytime. Several of our Liberty Reports were taken down by YouTube for daring to contradict the CDC on mask mandates. Until just last week the CDC itself contradicted itself on mask mandates. You don’t get any points for being right all along. Much of our energy this past year was spent in negotiations with alterative social media sites who assured us they would never do us as wrong as YouTube and the other big sites. For whom we’ve no doubt made hundreds of thousands in commissions. Dear Friends: You are our valued partners. We are the continuing Ron Paul Movement. It remains alive and well. If this uncompromising movement against the real bad guys is important to you, please understand that we need you as financial as well as ideological partners. I hate to be so blunt, but it’s the truth. We are in a unique position to amplify your voices far and wide, but without your support we will simply have to shutter the windows…and burn the drapes. It will be over. We have exciting things happening behind the scenes at the Ron Paul Institute, including a long-overdue revamping of our website. We depend on you for your support on all levels and we appreciate you so very much. |
| Sincerely yours, Daniel McAdams Executive Director Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity |
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Posted by M. C. on May 23, 2021
JERUSALEM—Biden has approved a $735 million weapons sale to Israel. Israel will be paying for the weapons using money from foreign aid given to them by America. According to experts, Israel needs these weapons so they can shoot down Hamas rockets that were given to them by Iran, who paid for them using money given to them by America.
“Yeah, it’s all pretty straightforward,” said one Middle East expert. “Not confusing in the least.”
According to sources, Iran bought weapons technology with $1.8 billion in cash given to them by the Obama administration. They then provided those weapons to Hamas terrorists in Gaza in order to kill Jews.
Israel is responding with weapons systems purchased with American foreign aid dollars from the Trump administration.
“Yeah,” said the expert, “the entire conflict is pretty much a proxy war between Democrats and Republicans at this point.”
Some in America have started a petition to bring those dollars back to America so Democrats and Republicans can just shoot rockets at each other here at home.
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Posted by M. C. on May 23, 2021
Government’s role is to stay OUT of the economy.
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Posted by M. C. on May 22, 2021
This video was possible because the Canadian driver had a smartphone on his dashboard.
This would be an excellent use for a used smartphone.
Anyway, he was stopped by a police check. There seemed to be no reason for the check.
He was asked where he was going. “Home.” Then he was asked where home is. He refused to say.
Then things got interesting.
https://www.garynorth.com/public/22255.cfm
See link for video.
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