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by Walter E. Block 

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/why-the-gop-should-be-nicer-to-the-lp/

Full disclosure: I have been a member of the Libertarian Party ever since 1969 when I ran for New York State Assembly, two years before the creation of the national party in 1971. But I hold no office with them and cannot speak for them.

Marc Victor is not going to win the 2022 senatorial campaign in Arizona. The best prognostications are that he’ll only garner some 15% of the vote! So why write about him? Simple: he is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but a third party Libertarian candidate poised to “ruin” yet another election, at least from the perspective of the latter.

Needless to say, every single election for senator this coming November is crucial. Each and every one of them without exception. The entire U.S. Senate is now on a razor’s edge, with our vice president, whose name escapes me for the moment, breaking tie votes. The next allocation between the elephants and the donkeys might well be just as close. The election in Arizona is particularly important, since without Mr. Victor, a former Marine, in the race, it would be almost a dead heat between Republican Blake Masters (backed by The Donald) and Mark Kelly, the Democratic incumbent.

Last week the three of them went head to head to head in a debate. You read that right; typically, the two major parties are able—who says cooperation across the aisle is a dead letter in today’s hyper nasty times?—to prevent any such occurrence, but this time Mr. Victor snuck in amongst his supposed betters. This Libertarian candidate must have done well, at least in the eyes of the voters, since before the debate he was polling at 6% of the electorate but has recently moved up to 15%.

There is now much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst Republicans. It is much exacerbated since Shane Hazel (another former member of the U.S. Marine Corps—is something going on here that we don’t know about?) pulled off a similar feat in the election of 2020 which vaulted Democrat Jon Ossoff into that august body instead of Republican David Perdue, who almost certainly would have otherwise won.

Then there is the fact that Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president in 2020, reaped more votes than separated Biden’s and Trump’s totals in several very competitive states.

In the view of conservative commentator Edward Ring, the LP should disband. He states, “Siphoning off voters from the side that’s fighting the hardest to preserve individual liberty and economic freedom is not principled. It is nihilism.”

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There are 23 scientists credited with helping create the study, and the acknowledgements identify it was funded by a major grant from the NIH/NIAID [National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases].

The study provides a detailed, step-by-step recipe for how to genetically enhance the Omicron virus to make it vaccine-resistant, lung-penetrable, and 80% lethal.

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

Mercola.com

Less than two months ago, we reported scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have resurrected the Spanish flu virus through reverse genetics.

Disturbingly, the scientists appeared frustrated by the fact that the recreated virus failed to kill the macaque species selected for the experiment, even at the highest doses tested.

They argued a more dangerous version of the Spanish flu virus must be created in order to develop better vaccines against it. This despite the fact that, until they resurrected this virus, it no longer existed in nature and posed zero threat to mankind. It kind of reminds me of a Mary Shelley quote, the author of “Frankenstein,” who in 1818 stated:

“Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.”

Massively Lethal Omicron Hybrid Has Now Been Engineered

Now, we come to learn that mad scientists at Boston University’s biosafety level 4 (BSL4) laboratory have engineered an Alpha/Omicron hybrid strain of SARS-CoV-2 with an 80% lethality in mice.¹

In the video above, John Campbell reviews this paper. He, like many others, are calling on the U.S. government to immediately close down this kind of research, and to destroy all the Frankenstein viruses already created. If they don’t exist in a lab somewhere, then they cannot escape.

Considering SARS-CoV-2 was most likely concocted in a lab, just like this hybrid, the fact that they continue tinkering with it to make it more lethal is indeed mind-bogglingly reckless. What’s to prevent this souped-up hybrid from escaping and wiping out mankind? Sure, BSL4 labs have the tightest safety precautions,² but that is no guarantee the virus won’t get out (especially if someone intentionally wants it out).

There have been plenty of lab leaks in the past, and as discussed by The Lancet COVID Commission chairman Jeffrey Sachs in the video at the end of this article, evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a U.S.-backed research program in China.

Granted, effects on mice are not directly translatable to humans, but since SARS-CoV-2 appears particularly adapted to infecting humans,³ these results are certainly cause for concern. And again, the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 somehow reassembling itself into a Wuhan strain with Omicron spike protein “in the wild” is just about nil. Why? Because the original Wuhan strain has vanished from the environment.

It has mutated out of existence already and been replaced by a series⁴ of new variants. So, the chance of the first, original strain getting mixed with one of the last — in nature, by itself — is beyond remote. Were it not for these madmen, we would never have had to worry about this kind of recombination.

Yet here we are, facing the possibility of an unimaginably deadly coronavirus — thanks to scientists who continue to act without moral compass. Just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done. As noted by Steve Kirsch:⁵

“Presumably there is some benefit to creating a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 that has a case fatality rate (CFR) of 80% (up from the average 0.2% CFR for the current variants) and is highly contagious. I’m baffled as to what it is …

Here’s an idea how fast it could spread. Look at the slope of the purple curve … that’s Omicron. This is from a CDC paper.⁶ So expect the virus to spread everywhere in about a month. How fast will it wipe out the entire US population if released? It depends on how quickly the virus kills humans.”

How This Souped-Up Hybrid Was Created

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation

In economics, stagflation or recession-inflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high or increasing, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high. It presents a dilemma for economic policy, since actions intended to lower inflation may exacerbate unemployment.

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Is change coming? If so, how long before it degenerates? After all, this is government.

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/nondepressing?e=fa1aba8cd8

I thought you should see this.

A member of the Tom Woods Show Elite often shares with us his excellent and copious notes on conferences he attends and podcast episodes he listens to. He just shared his notes on the recent Children’s Health Defense conference in Knoxville. (Children’s Health Defense is RFK Jr.’s organization.)

It’s not entirely grim and depressing, so I thought it might be a nice change.

Here’s what he shared with us:

There was a showing last night of Part 1 of the movie The Real Anthony Fauci. RFK Jr. said it was the first time he had seen the movie.

In the Q&A period, he was asked about the upcoming election. RFK Jr. said he expects the Republicans to sweep the election and take over the House and the Senate. He expects this will cause the Covid fanatics in DC to back off. They won’t apologize, but will admit “mistakes were made.” He said you see that happening now. 

He said both Ron Johnson and Rand Paul will become committee chairmen with jurisdiction over Covid once Republicans take over the Senate. He said it was one thing for Fauci to push out his content-free chatter when Rand has only 5 minutes to ask questions. It will be a very different thing when Fauci or the CDC sock puppets are forced to testify for hours, being forced to answer hard questions under oath on unredacted documents. It is coming. 

RFK Jr. said he had talked with Ron Johnson by phone the day before. He said the Republicans in a private meeting were all celebrating the crummy Lancet article that claimed that mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives. (The Lancet article was a worthless simulation with nutty assumptions.) 

He warned the audience that the CDC/FDA/etc. are corrupt from top to bottom. He joked that he was not pushing to burn the CDC to the ground, but that perhaps we should leave one foot of the building intact! He said Big Pharma owns the regulatory agencies, and funnels huge campaign money to Republicans and Democrats. We still have a huge battle ahead of us to take down the bad guys. 

That tied into another question on the 1986 Vaccine Act that gave immunity to Big Pharma. He said even with the expected Republican wave in November, we do not have the votes to get rid of the liability protection on vaccines. Big Pharma does not want this to happen, and they control the votes in Congress. We have more work to do there. 

CHD has about 60 lawsuits under way now. They use lots of “big game hunters” (their phrase for outside consultants) to assist the in-house legal team. This included people like Robert Barnes. RFK Jr. said they are looking at using the fraud exposed in the Pfizer vaccine trials as a way of getting around the liability protection in the 1986 Vaccine Act. He thinks that is the best avenue for holding Pfizer accountable.

Is RFK Jr.’s optimism justified? We’ll see. But I definitely want those hearings.

Meanwhile, the free viewing period for the movie is coming to an end, and they’ve just posted part 2 (which I have not seen yet but can’t wait to), so definitely don’t miss The Real Anthony Fauci:

http://www.tomwoods.com/fauci
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