MCViewPoint

Opinion from a Libertarian ViewPoint

  • Home
  • About
  • Murray Rothbard

    Enemy of the State-Read the Book-Know the Man

  • Columnists

    • Jacob Hornberger
    • James Bovard
    • Joseph Sobran
    • Justin Raimondo
    • Michael Rozeff
    • Pat Buchanan
    • Ron Paul
    • Thomas DiLorenzo
    • Thomas Sowell
    • Thomas Woods
    • Walter Block
    • Walter Williams
    • William Anderson
  • Subscribe

    • Entries (RSS)
    • Comments (RSS)
  • E-mail Martin Fox

    Send an e-mail to the author
  • Unknown's avatar

    This is not a Safe Space but Baby, I don't care.

  • Counter

    • 203,480 hits
  • Favorite Sites

    • American Thinker
    • ANNA Shelter
    • Antiwar
    • ARRL
    • Citizens Against Government Waste
    • Future of Freedom Foundation
    • Information Liberation
    • James Altucher
    • Lew Rockwell
    • MotoGP
    • Murray Rothbard
    • National Rifle Association
    • Prison Planet
    • Second Amendment Foundation
    • Tenth Amendment Center
    • The Daily Bell
    • The Dollar Vigilante
    • Von Mises Institute
  • "I am not a number, I am a Free Man" - No. 6

  • RSS Information Liberation

    • Ben Shapiro Pushes Noahide Laws at TPUSA Event, Throws a Fit Over Being Quoted Word-For-Word
    • From Aid to Dependency: Israeli Agent Reveals the Real Goal of 'Merging' U.S. and Israeli Militaries
    • ADL, Jewish Groups Lobby California to Classify Jews as a Race, 'Not Just a Faith'
    • Trump Welcomes 'The Highly Respected' Alan Dershowitz Into The GOP, Shills His New Book
    • House Passes NDAA With Section 219 Aimed at 'Merging' U.S. and Israeli Militaries
    • Sen. Graham Worked With Israeli Officials to Push GOP Senators to Pass Aid Package, Amb. Reveals
    • Netanyahu Confirms Plan to 'Merge' U.S. and Israeli Militaries
    • Sen. Lindsey Graham Dead at 71
    • Israel Told Trump of 'Iranian Assassination Plot' Before He Declared MoU 'Over,' Report Suggests
    • "I'm Not an Agent for the Israeli Govt," Mark Levin Says at Israeli-Govt-Sponsored Event in Jerusalem
  • RSS Alex Jones’ Prison Planet

    • An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
  • RSS Gary North Specific Answers

    • War With Iran - De Borchgrave Interviews Two Very Rich Men, Who Predict That Israel Will Attack Iran
    • Career Advancement - Networking 101: LinkedIn
    • Great Default - Budgeting: Family Intervention for a Stubborn Parent
    • Federal Reserve Policy - What M1 Charts Are NOT Telling Us
    • Remnant Review - Replacing the Nation-State
    • Real Estate - When a Neighborhood Dies: a $65,000 house in late 2006 Gets Sold for $1. It Took 19 D
    • Retirement - Living in Denial: Americans' Confidence Regarding Their Retirement Plans, 1993-2010
    • Stocks and Bonds - How Important Are Stocks in the Economy?
    • Gary North's Miscellany - Three Cans of Paint: How to Structure the Decision-Making Process to Get t
    • Education That Works - How to Promote Future-Orientation in a Teenager's Thinking
  • RSS Antiwar

    • Very Close to a Nuclear Strike on Iran: We Can Save Ourselves
    • A Billion Dollars and the Men Who Ran Israel’s Wars
    • Till Death Do Us Part: The Unholy Matrimony Between the US and Israel
    • The Greatest Existential Risk of the Early 21st Century
    • Iran War Drags Republicans Down, Gives Democrats Blowout Victories
    • How the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Became a Country
    • Soviet Dictators Used War and Famine To Create Ukraine
    • Israel’s Ugly Election Aftermath: Netanyahu’s War Against Israeli Palestinians
    • Beyond Netanyahu: What Israel’s Election Means for Palestinians
    • Trump Is Dealing With a Different North Korea
  • RSS The Daily Bell

    • An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
  • RSS Tenth Amendment Center

    • Defend the Guard Act Passes First Step in Missouri
    • Signed by the Governor: Alabama Law Recognizes Gold and Silver as Legal Tender
    • South Carolina House Passes Bill to Prohibit Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases
    • General Welfare: You’ve Been Lied to. Here’s the Proof.
    • Arkansas House Passes Bill to Expand Gold and Silver Legal Tender Act
    • Signed as Law: Arkansas Prohibits Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases
    • Arizona Defend the Guard Act Clears Final Committee
    • TYRANNY: Legislating from the Bench is Bad – But THIS is Even Worse
    • Connecticut Bill Would Make Gold and Silver Legal Tender
    • Missouri Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Defend the Guard Act
  • RSS Economics Policy Journal

    • Robert Wenzel - 1957 to 2021
    • Once Again, Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers Warns About Price Inflation
    • Biden Drops Student Loan Forgiveness From Latest Budget
    • Defending the Shopper Who Leaves the Shopping Cart in the Parking Lot
    • Federal Reserve to Partner With MIT in Testing a Central Bank Digital Currency
    • Yellen to Attend G7 Finance Ministers Meeting in London
    • Memo Urges Republican House Members to Play Up the Accelerating Price Inflation
    • Keynes Was a Cheapskate
    • An Introduction to Austrian School Business Cycle Theory
    • Federal Reserve Chairman Powell in Unprecedented Video Issues Commentary on Digital Currencies
  • RSS The American Thinker

    • An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
  • RSS The New American

    • Dems Win Midterms — and There’s Already Talk About the Wonders of Open Borders
    • WH Memo: We’re Watching Conservatives Who Go Off Message
    • Fashionable Racism: The New White Athlete Wokesters Love to Hate
    • CENTCOM Offers $20M Reward for Info on Iran’s Nuclear Program
    • Attorney General Blanche Dismisses Privacy Fears Over Flock Surveillance Cameras
    • States, Local Governments Adopt UN “Sustainable Development” Schemes
    • AIPAC Spent $55 Million This Election Cycle on Losing Candidates, but Will Still Heavily Influence Congress
    • Talarico’s Suspiciously High Texas Numbers Have Critics Talking Vote Fraud
    • Donald Trump Jr.: Iran War Caused GOP Election Disaster
    • Rule by Algorithm
  • RSS Lew Rockwell

    • Possible Third Parties — The Liberty Party or The American Liberty Party
    • Democrats Break Decades-long GOP Strongholds in Election Shellacking
    • Entrepreneurship in Five Words
    • A Day to Remember
    • Top Survival Products You Need
    • Midterm Election Aftermath: Is a Market Meltdown Ahead?
    • Karen Kwiatkowski: Democrats on Notice, Midterms a Massive Protest Against U.S. Wars, Not Just Trump
    • The Manifesto
    • How Iran Defeated Trump’s Israel First GOP
    • Politicians Come and Go. The Machinery of Oppression Remains

To What End?

Posted by M. C. on February 10, 2022

That is the problem with closed regimes like we have in Washington. No one can see inside to figure out what is happening. Everyone inside sees everyone outside as a possible enemy, so no one talks candidly about what is happening. Everything operates inside of a black box. No one sees in and no one sees out. To the outside the world, the regime looks increasingly paranoid and dangerous. Eventually, it burns through its legitimacy and we arrive at a Ceausescu moment.

by thezman

Note: For those in need of some audio stimulation, my appearance on Cotto & Gottfried is now up on iTunes. It is mostly about the state of conservatism.


It has been noted many times now that people in the West have to read American media the same way they used to read the Soviet media. Most of what we get from mainstream sources is the natural propaganda one expects from the toadies and bootlickers that follow every authoritarian regime. Other pieces are planted by regime elements for reasons that are not always obvious. As with Kremlinology a generation ago, regime-ology is something of sport now.

For example, the regime keeps planting these stories about an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine in their favorites outlets. A few days ago this entirely made up report was sprinkled all over regime media. It painted a grim picture of the attack that we are told was happening any minute. Of course, the White House comes out every day and tells the stenographers in the press pool that the Russians will invade Ukraine as soon as tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes.

Today we have the latest regime scare story written by one of the zombies at their favorite outlet. The point of this story is to embarrass French President Emmanuel Macron who is trying to work out a deal with the Russians. He has been meeting with the parties the last two weeks to put an end to the situation. Unlike the Washington regime, Europe has no interest in war over Ukraine. The Europeans can read a map and they are not insane.

For a long time, it was assumed that the reason for the war drums from Washington was due to so many pols being on the Ukrainian payroll. We know the Biden family has been taking bribes from Ukraine for over a decade. That was one of those interesting stories that arose from the second impeachment of Trump. This tiny little corrupt country in Eurasia had a lot of friends in both political parties. The best sort of friends, the kind that can be bought and will stay bought.

That may be part of it, but it is clear that the Ukrainians have no desire to be the battleground in a new Cold War. For their part, the Russians have made clear they will never tolerate Ukraine in NATO. This should be an easy demand to meet, as no one in NATO, other than the Washington regime, wants Ukraine in NATO. Everyone in Europe understands the reality of Ukraine. It is a hyper corrupt kleptocracy that would be better off turned into a federalized neutral zone.

The other aspect of this is that the stories about the Russian military buildup appear to be mostly fake. The Russians are free to conduct exercises in their own land, which is what they have been doing thus far. They have not been sending weapons or “advisers” to the friendly militias operating in Ukraine. The CIA has been conducting covert operations with friendly militias for a decade now. In other words, this whole thing is one long running color revolution.

That raises the obvious question. If no one in Europe wants a war over Ukraine and the Ukrainians are not interested in a war, what is really going on here? One option is the permanent foreign policy establishment is infested with paranoids who wake in the middle of the night to the sound of hoofbeats. That has been an amusing line for years, but it would be a terrifying reality. Is the Ukraine mess really the result of deranged fanatics operating in the Washington foreign policy establishment?

Another less terrifying option is energy. The one thread that ties the foreign policy misadventures of the last thirty years together is energy. Russia has partnered with Iran and Syria because of energy. If they can control of natural gas out of the Middle East into Europe, that gives them leverage. Nord Stream 2 is a regular topic for the regime media, so it is fair to assume that the regime is worried about it. In this context, Ukraine is just a convenient cat’s paw in a larger geopolitical game.

What the regime is hoping for is an invasion of Ukraine that would then force the Europeans, especially the Germans, to kill Nord Stream 2. The Russians would remain the primary supplier of natural gas to Europe, but they would not become the exclusive supplier of energy. If Nord Stream 2 comes online Washington loses most of its leverage over Europe with regards to Russia. This is why they are so committed to this narrative about a Russian invasion. It has to happen.

The problem with this scenario is that it is too late to kill Nord Stream 2. The pipeline is complete and filled with gas. The last step in the project is for Germany to start using the gas and pay the Russians for it. No sane person can imagine a scenario in which this project is shut down. Even an invasion of Ukraine by Russia would only delay the opening of the pipeline. The Germans want the gas, the Russians want to sell it to them, so that deal will be consummated no matter what.

One interesting side bar to this is that the regime is certain they can jawbone the Russians into invading Ukraine. They also seem to think they can convince the world that a war is imminent. It is one of those examples where the regime reveals how disconnected they are from reality. Exactly no one seems to be falling for this disinformation campaign, especially the Russians. Yet the regime keeps running these stories in their media as if they are working.

As was the case with Kremlinology, we are left with our best guesses as to why the Washington regime is hyper-aggressive toward Russia. It could simply be cultural momentum within the foreign policy establishment. No one inside the regime knows why they have to talk about Russia as the great villain. It has just been the way it has always been. No one questions it, so the cultural inertia inside the system just keeps pushing the political class into confrontation with Russia.

That is the problem with closed regimes like we have in Washington. No one can see inside to figure out what is happening. Everyone inside sees everyone outside as a possible enemy, so no one talks candidly about what is happening. Everything operates inside of a black box. No one sees in and no one sees out. To the outside the world, the regime looks increasingly paranoid and dangerous. Eventually, it burns through its legitimacy and we arrive at a Ceausescu moment.


If you like my work and wish to kick in a few bucks, you can buy me a beer. You can sign up for a SubscribeStar subscription and get some extra content. You can donate via PayPal. My crypto addresses are here for those who prefer that option. You can send gold bars to: Z Media LLC P.O. Box 432 Cockeysville, MD 21030-0432. Thank you for your support!

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Ceausescu, Emmanuel Macron, NATO, Nord Stream 2, Russian invasion, Ukraine | Leave a Comment »

The Globalists’ Unparalleled Achievement

Posted by M. C. on February 10, 2022

Yet, while Boris Johnson of UK is abolishing the COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home requirements, Austria has gone full-bore nazi, requiring nearly all citizens over age 18 to get the genetic “vaccine.”  Those who refuse will face heavy fines and could be placed in a concentration camp or “quarantine” until they comply.

By Walter Gelles

A globalist cabal comprising less than One-Thousandth Of One Percent of humanity has succeeded in injecting over 10 billion doses of a lethal po­ison into at least 4.84 billion people.  It’s a stunning feat, by any measure.

This genetic-modification treatment, falsely labeled a “vaccine,” has already killed millions of people around the the world and severely damaged hundreds of millions, according to the official data of the US, UK, and EU.  In the months and years ahead, a lot more people will die from these so-called Covid “vaccines,” and many of those who don’t die will face lifelong medical problems and wrecked immune systems from the shots and the boosters.  Meanwhile, the vaccine juggernaut rolls on.

The experimental mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna shots has never been used before on human beings.  In all previous clinical trials, all or nearly all of the test animals died due to the mRNA “vaccine.”  For the latest coronavirus “vaccines”, the animal trials were cut short after 58 days or less, because the vaccine companies suspected what would happen if the trials lasted six months or longer.

Johnson & Johnson, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Russia’s Sputnik V, and India’s Covishield “vaccines” use a different, adenovirus-vector delivery system—but all of the above-named clot-shots reprogram the human body to manufacture hundreds of millions of toxic, synthetic spike proteins.

No medical product in human history has ever before forced people to manufacture a protein.  This grotesque, extremely dangerous genetic technology is being deployed in a wholly unnecessary global medical experiment.  The unfortunate human guinea pigs in this experiment never gave informed consent because they were never informed of the real risks.

None of the COVID-19 “vaccines” were adequately tested, but their harmful, often devastating effects were well-known to the vaccine manufacturers, who kept this information hidden from the public with the news media’s complicity.

This is clearly a genocide and a democide (“the killing of members of a country’s civilian population as a result of its government’s policy, including by direct action, indifference, and neglect”).

How did the globalist cabal manage to get away with what is shaping up to be the biggest mass murder and the worst crime in human history?  It wasn’t that difficult.  Here’s how:

1) Propaganda — The Globalist Cabal owns and controls all the major news media and entertainment industry.  Six corporations control 90% of what you read, watch, and listen to in the USA, and nine corporations control 90% of all news media worldwide.

This handful of media behemoths are essentially one big interlocking corporation because the One-Thousandth Of One Percent own all of them through Blackrock, Vanguard, and other investment houses.

By means of a massive, unprecedented round-the-clock propaganda campaign, the population was brainwashed and panicked into believing that an alleged respiratory virus (never proven to exist) would quickly kill millions of people unless they got the “vaccine.”   Never mind that COVID-19 has an infection fatality rate less than the seasonal flu, and no vaccines, lockdowns, masks, or social distancing were ever necessary.

2)  Frontmen — The globalist cabal used frontmen such as sociopathic vaccine-fanatic billionaire Bill Gates, serial killer Anthony Fauci, and former Ethiopian terrorist Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization to sell its “vaccination” program to the public.  Other frontmen owned and controlled by the globalist cabal include Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Merkel, Schellenberg of Austria, Ardern of New Zealand, and Morrison of Australia.  Donald Trump, who unleashed the deadly “vaccines” on the public via Operation Warp Speed, and who still avidly promotes the kill-shots, also belongs on this list, although some fans claim he was misled by his advisors.

The One-Thousandth of One Percent own 90% or more of the world’s wealth.  They own banks, industries, economies, Big Pharma/Big Medicine, TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, universities,  Hollywood, social-media companies, the military/armaments complex, and politicians.  Through Big Pharma “donations” (bribes) they own and control both houses of the U.S. Congress.  That’s why not a single member of the Senate or House of Representatives will call for an end to the lethal “vaccines.”  They are corrupt child-killers, complicit in mass murder through their silence and inaction.  They are also committing treason by forcing members of the U.S. Armed Services to get the kill-shots, which are decimating the ranks with astronomical increases in cancers, myocardial infarction, autoimmune disease, heart and circulatory disorders, neurological disease, pulmonary embolism, infertility, and miscarriages. China must be positively exuberant!  China’s top brass declared years ago that they would destroy the United States without firing a single shot, and they seem well on their way to accomplishing that goal.

3)  Censorship — The globalist cabal found ready accomplices in social-media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, along with all the Mainstream Media newspapers, TV and radio stations to censor, vilify, and smear anyone who dares to question the Official Narrative (“the vaccines are 100% safe and effective; the virus is a deadly threat; the unvaccinated are a danger to humanity”).

4) Data manipulation — The number of people who supposedly died from a never-isolated entity called SARS-CoV-2 has been vastly exaggerated.  In unfree America anyone who dies from a heart attack, cancer, pneumonia, or in a car crash is counted as “death by COVID-19” if they got a positive PCR test.  The fraudulent PCR test is incapable of diagnosing any disease; it generates false-positives up to 97% of the time and can’t differentiate between COVID-19 and seasonal flu, as the CDC and WHO have admitted.

Doctors and clinics are financially incentivized to record every death as a COVID-19 death.  Fear-panicked people who rushed to hospital were killed off by Dr. Anthony Fauci via lung-damaging ventilators and the mandated drug Remdesivir, which he knew is a killer-drug causing acute kidney injury and multi-organ failure leading to death within 10 days, as the disastrous Ebola trials proved.

Meanwhile, the millions of vaccine-induced deaths and life-destroying adverse events have been censored by the Mainstream Media.  Any such incident is called “a coincidence — no relation to the vaccine”—even though countless people drop dead within a few hours to a couple of days after getting the jab, and millions of other vaxxed individuals immediately start to deteriorate and never recover.  “It’s all a coincidence.  Nothing to see here. Move along,” says the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and the Pharma-paid “fact checkers”.

With a majority of the population jabbed and brainwashed in many countries, the globalist cabal intends to keep using the fake “pandemic” as a pretext to pursue its agenda of population reduction, destroying the middle class, and the creation of a New World Order ruled by a technocratic elite that will impose mandatory repeat “vaccination,” a digital ID vaccine passport, and a Chinese-style digital social-credit system to track and grade all your transactions, health decisions, tweets, and emails.

The Official Narrative is crumbling in many parts of the world, most notably in Canada where 50,000 trucks and countless citizens have converged on the capital, Ottawa, demanding an end to the vaccine mandates and other restrictions.  The bought-and-paid-for Mainstream Media will continue to vilify this courageous grassroots protest, and it remains to be seen if it will succeed or be crushed by the globalist puppet Trudeau.  Meanwhile, 11 European countries are rolling back COVID-19 restrictions, and Israel has scrapped its “Green Pass” Covid vaccine passport for restaurants, hotels, gyms, and theaters.

Yet, while Boris Johnson of UK is abolishing the COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home requirements, Austria has gone full-bore nazi, requiring nearly all citizens over age 18 to get the genetic “vaccine.”  Those who refuse will face heavy fines and could be placed in a concentration camp or “quarantine” until they comply.

The battle against this tyranny is clearly not over, and will require a massive uprising by millions of informed, aware people who have learned the truth about the fake pandemic and the dangerous Genetic Cell-Disruptor Biologics (“vaccines”) which they were tricked or coerced into taking.

If Trucker Freedom Convoys converged on major cities in many countries around the globe, demanding an end to the lethal “vaccines,” the mandates, the vaccine passports, and the oxygen-inhibiting, disease-causing masks, then the plandemic/scamdemic would be over quickly.

But don’t wait for the truckers to save us.  Everyone must do their part, at whatever level of society, by saying NO to the globalists’ criminal scheme.

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: genetic-modification, Globalists, lethal po­ison, mRNA | Leave a Comment »

DHS: Here is a list of top COVID misinformation spreaders you should investigate ASAP

Posted by M. C. on February 10, 2022

DHS

DHS

DHS is now going after COVID misinformation spreaders considering them terrorist threats. Here’s my list of people I think they should be investigating.

Enormous credit to those who do not comply

Perhaps in a future article, I can list those who should be acknowledged for not complying such as:

Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter

Summary

DHS is getting tough on COVID misinformation spreaders, i.e., people who spread information that “undermines public trust in government institutions.”

Since DHS has finite resources to pursue all these perpetrators, as a public service, I have created a list of what I believe are some of the country’s top misinformation spreaders.

I sincerely hope that the DHS will focus their efforts on these individuals since they have made statements and/or taken actions (or refused to take action) that result in the undermining of public trust in US government institutions.

It is extremely easy to tell who is telling the truth here: it’s the people who are not afraid of debate. The one thing everyone on our list has in common is that they will never agree to debate anyone with opposing views.

These people need to be stopped now and I’m grateful that DHS is finally taking this seriously as innocent lives are being lost.

The DHS memo

Read this memo issued yesterday, Feb 7, entitled Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland.

In particular, check this out this section:

Hmmm…I couldn’t come up with any “violent extremist attacks during 2021” that were inspired by this alleged COVID-19 misinformation. Can you?

To make their job easier to pursue these spreaders of COVID-19 misinformation, I’ve compiled a list of the Disinformation Dozen, the top spreaders of COVID disinformation that are literally killing people through spreading misinformation about COVID.

My Disinformation Dozen list

I believe that all of these people are involved in “The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions” and have collectively led to the tragic death of over 1M Americans.

All of these people should be detained for questioning.

I’ve also provided a handy list of questions that none of them will be able to answer with satisfactory answers.

Note that the list is subjective. Different people will likely have different lists but most people would agree on the top five.

  1. President Joe Biden
    Told the public the vaccines were safe and effective even though the data said the opposite. Wore ineffective face masks in order to mislead the public into thinking these masks could protect them. Refused to meet with any qualified scientist or doctor with opposing viewpoints before and after mandating the vaccines. Deliberately refuses to meet with scientists with opposing viewpoints so continues to spread misinformation today. He tried to scare the unvaccinated by claiming the unvaccinated would experience a winter of severe illness and death. Continues to erode public trust in the office of the President with approval ratings that are at all time lows:
  2. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
    Told people the vaccines are safe and effective and that masks work. Withheld information about early treatment protocols.
  3. NIAID Director Anthony Fauci
    Funded the virus, covered it up, knowingly spread misinformation about the source of the virus, lied about it all in Congress when questioned by Senator Rand Paul, and told Cliff Lane to not approve any early treatments in the Guidelines.
  4. US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
    Told people the vaccines are safe and effective and that masks work and said nothing about effective early treatment protocols. Compounded the error by labeling people trying to spread life-saving information as “disinformation” spreaders.
  5. Bill Gates
    Funded the misinformation campaigns (the fact checkers) including GAVI.
  6. FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock
    Said she would investigate the Maddie de Garay case that proved fraud in the Pfizer trial and then did nothing. The FDA also denied the EUA application on fluvoxamine, a drug later proven to reduce mortality by 12X in a large Phase 3 trial.
  7. COVID-19 Guidelines Chairman Cliff Lane
    Discredited every single working COVID early treatment including fluvoxamine which has a 12X reduction in fatalities. Ignored all COVID-19 early treatments that work.
  8. Tom Shimabukuro (CDC vaccine expert)
    Never mentioned the VAERS URF which underplayed the danger of the vaccines by at least 41x and deliberately misled people about causality and VAERS by claiming you can’t determine causality. Ignored all the safety signals in VAERS on all but a few symptoms. Ignored the death safety signal. Ignored every safety signal in DMED.
  9. John Su (CDC, VAERS expert)
    See Tom Shimabukuro
  10. Steven A. Anderson (FDA), the top vaccine safety official at the FDA
    Deliberately ignored all the VAERS and DMED safety signals and ignored all attempts to meet about the safety signals.
  11. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California
    Mandated vaccination in California even though he was injured by the COVID vaccine. Will not vaccinate his own kids. He knows the vaccines are dangerous from first-hand experience and deliberately misleads the people of California by claiming they are safe.
  12. Dr. Richard Pan, California State Senator
    Introduced legislation in the California legislature to close the Personal Exemption Loophole for COVID-19 School Vaccinations which will lead to the death of an unknown number of children. All done with no scientific evidence.

Top corporate spreaders of misinformation

These companies refuse to censor doctors and scientists who claim that the vaccines are safe and effective and masks work. Instead they actually compound the problem censor people who are telling the truth. Net result: hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by censoring the wrong people.

See the rest here

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: COVID misinformation, DHS, misinformation spreaders | 1 Comment »

Ottawa Cops Stole Gas, Lied to the Press, Arrested People, But the Freedom Convoy Remains

Posted by M. C. on February 10, 2022

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/ottawa-police-steal-fuel/

Aden Tate

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

(Psst: The FTC wants me to remind you that this website contains affiliate links. That means if you make a purchase from a link you click on, I might receive a small commission. This does not increase the price you’ll pay for that item nor does it decrease the awesomeness of the item. ~ Daisy)

Ottawa police recently engaged in a widespread string of thefts of privately purchased gasoline and propane throughout the city in an attempt to drive the Freedom Convoy out of the city.

Section 8 of the Charter of Rights reads “Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.” Without a search warrant, this is just theft. Governments are used to violating our privacy now, aren’t they? And the media love it. pic.twitter.com/UOYAK6OoF8

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) February 7, 2022

Recent state of emergency declared

This came about shortly after the Ottawa mayor, Jim Watson, declared a state of emergency on February 6. It was then that Watson said, “The situation at this point is completely out of control, because the individuals with the protest are calling the shots. They have far more people than we have police officers, and I’ve indicated to the chief that we have to be much more nimble and proactive when it comes to these activities.”

Watson would go on to say, “we are outnumbered and we are losing this battle right now,” as he went on to add, “We’re in the midst of a serious emergency, the most serious emergency our city has ever faced, and we need to cut the red tape to get these supplies available to our police officers and to our public works staff.”

“Declaring a state of emergency reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations and highlights the need for support from other jurisdictions and levels of government,” said a statement from the city.

It appears that Ottawa is potentially calling for federal troops to enter the scene. Other sources seem to confirm this notion.

(For information on how to starve the beast, be sure to check out our free QUICKSTART Guide.)

Shortly after the state of emergency was declared by the Ottawa mayor, the Ottawa Police Department sent out this tweet:

IMPORTANT: Anyone attempting to bring material supports (gas, etc.) to the demonstrators could be subject to arrest. Enforcement is underway. #ottawa #ottnews pic.twitter.com/tp4e5d2xe1

— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 6, 2022

And then the arrests began.

Around 9PM that night, the Ottawa Police Department reported that they’d made multiple arrests, having seized multiple vehicles as well as fuel. Members of the Freedom Convoy were frequently charged with “mischief” or “hate crimes.”

Transporting fuel into the Freedom Convoy was enough of a penalty to be slapped with a mischief charge. Other infractions members of the Convoy were charged with include not wearing a seat belt, having a defective muffler, and excessive honking.

At approximately, 7PM, the OPD had stolen 3200 L of fuel from the Freedom Convoy out of a parking lot. The OPD began the dismantling of the Freedom Convoy’s logistics camp as well:

There is a long row of tow trucks at the ready to remove transport trucks
I see 30 police officers dismantling the logistics camp pic.twitter.com/LXWPv7tFcg

— Judy Trinh (@judyatrinh) February 7, 2022

While there are some reports surfacing that claim that an Ottawa judge has ordered the police to return the stolen goods, this has not been confirmed as of yet.

Yet another rumor that is currently being floated about is that there is soon to be a mass arrest planned for members of the Freedom Convoy. Federal officers have allegedly been scouring Ottawa, gathering as much information about the members of the Convoy as possible.

The OPD set out a statement Sunday afternoon, stating, “Overnight, demonstrators exhibited extremely disruptive and unlawful behavior, which presented risks to public safety and unacceptable distress for Ottawa residents.”

However, Canadians have stated that the allegations of disruptive and unlawful behavior are being fabricated. Allegations of dancing on The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier have been made by Ottawa officials. Canadians have responded that they were actually shoveling the snow off of it.

Supporters of the convoy for freedom in Ottawa, including a disabled veteran, tell why they’re shoveling snow off the National War Memorial, take note Trudeau.#FreedomConvoyCanada2022 https://t.co/otY2rxPR9d pic.twitter.com/t96671Gq3g

— WorldWideNews24 (XII) (@News24Wide) February 4, 2022

Look at all these extremists on the streets oppressing that snow!

Justin Trudeau made the right choice by hiding in his basement from these radicals shoveling snow and picking up garbage. #TruckersForFreedom2022 #TruckersForFreedom #FreedomConvoy pic.twitter.com/PTH3jz0AJQ

— The National Telegraph (@NatTelegraph) February 4, 2022

Ottawa Police have also dismantled the Freedom Convoy’s food kitchen.

The Freedom Convoy had built a small wooden shed to serve food to Canadians out of. The Ottawa PD removed it in an effort to force the members of the Freedom Convoy to move on. Nobody was being charged for the food, as it was being freely given away to those in the area. Yet, it was removed.

There’s a homeless man parked at the corner of Wellington and Mackenzie Drive.Seen him many times over the years at the same spot.He told me he doesn’t understand why the truckers are here but they don’t bother him.They bring over food to him and he’s been invited to eat with him

— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) February 4, 2022

The Freedom Convoy has expanded.

The truckers have since expanded their Convoy to include the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan as well. As of this writing, the blockade of this bridge has been ongoing 50+ hours, and has the potential to cause severe supply chain issues.

Here is aerial footage of the bridge:

Candian Freedom Convoy causes Ambassador Bridge to be closed at the Detroit and Windsor border again today. Story: https://t.co/J9eOJEPnfG pic.twitter.com/kgZczI6d0b

— Dave Bondy (@DaveBondyTV) February 8, 2022

As discussed previously here at TOP, this Freedom Convoy idea has rapidly gained traction throughout the world of late as well. A New Zealand convoy is currently being organized, with plans to meet up in the capital city of Wellington. Scottish truckers are preparing to head to Edinburgh. English truckers are headed to London. Ireland and Wales have begun to organize. And even Austria, home of some of the most draconian levels of force against citizens, currently has truckers preparing to head out to Vienna.

It appears this movement is only going to continue to spread, particularly after the success it has seen in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where governments have promised that they will allegedly remove all restrictions in the upcoming weeks.

But as this movement does grow, we are liable to see increasing levels of political resistance.

We’ll keep you updated as events unfold.

What are your thoughts? Are there other on-the-ground stories that you’re hearing? Do you think that Trudeau will back down? Let us know in the comments below.

About Aden

Aden Tate is a regular contributor to TheOrganicPrepper.com and TheFrugalite.com. Aden runs a micro-farm where he raises dairy goats, a pig, honeybees, meat chickens, laying chickens, tomatoes, mushrooms, and greens. Aden has two published books, The Faithful Prepper and Zombie Choices. You can find his podcast The Last American on Preppers’ Broadcasting Network.

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Charter of Rights, Freedom Convoy, Jim Watson, Ottawa Cops, Stole Gas | 1 Comment »

Vaccine passport systems being withdrawn?

Posted by M. C. on February 10, 2022

Tom Woods News Letter

Some months ago on the Tom Woods Show I asked Stanford University’s Jay Bhattacharya what he thought the future had in store for vaccine passport systems in certain cities, whereby “proof of vaccination” is necessary to enter many indoor businesses.

He said he thought they would be relatively short lived. I hoped he was right.

Well, maybe he was.

Now it’s true: not all problems are solved.

But:

In Denver the requirement has been withdrawn.

In St. Paul, Minnesota, the mayor says he hopes to lift the policy this week. In Minneapolis, the mayor is planning to lift the policy sooner than expected, possibly within the coming days.

In Chicago the mayor is saying the policy could be lifted in a matter of weeks.

In Boston the mayor has finally indicated that the policy is temporary and will be lifted when three metrics are reached. One of them has already been reached, and the others are well on their way to being reached.

Now before you think Woods has gone all wimpy on you:

I’m not saying that the people in charge of these places are good or reasonable, or they wouldn’t have enacted these policies in the first place. They are hopeless. And some of them support other terrible policies, still in place.

Their crazy “metrics” are arbitrary and based on nothing.

They insist that they have the power to reimpose these measures at any time.

We cannot pretend any of this is normal or acceptable, even as we celebrate the lifting of the stupidest and most destructive policies.

But to see them back off from this insanity so quickly is a reminder that (1) measures like these crush businesses and economies, and (2) a determined minority can make things happen.

Of course, I have a certain prejudice in favor of my own determined minority, namely the folks inside the Tom Woods Show Elite.

Want to know what’s going to happen in six months? Read (and participate in) our discussions today.

It’s one of many perks Woods supporters get.

See you in there:

http://www.SupportingListeners.com
Tom Woods

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

They ALWAYS do what they accuse YOU of doing

Posted by M. C. on February 9, 2022

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Carl Vernon, Justin Trudeau | Leave a Comment »

Abp. Viganò endorses Canadian truck drivers, calls for prayers to defeat ‘infernal’ Great Reset

Posted by M. C. on February 9, 2022

‘Your protest, dear Canadian truck driver friends, joins a worldwide chorus that wants to oppose the establishment of the New World Order on the rubble of nation states.’

Help Canadian truckers at the border: LifeFunder.com

(LifeSiteNews) – Dear Brothers and Sisters Canadian truck drivers,

The global coup that in these two years of psycho-pandemic farce has been carried out by the globalist elite appears most clearly if we do not limit ourselves to considering what happened in individual Nations, but broaden our gaze to what has happened everywhere. 

Your protest, dear Canadian truck driver friends, joins a worldwide chorus that wants to oppose the establishment of the New World Order on the rubble of nation states, through the Great Reset desired by the World Economic Forum and by the United Nations under the name of Agenda 2030. And we know that many heads of government have participated in Klaus Schwab’s School for Young Leaders – the so-called Global Leaders for Tomorrow – beginning with Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron, Jacinta Ardern and Boris Johnson, and before that Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Tony Blair. 

It would seem that Canada is – along with Australia, Italy, Austria and France – one of the nations most infiltrated by the globalists. And in this infernal project we must not only consider the psycho-pandemic farce, but also the attack on traditions and Christian identity – indeed, more precisely the Catholic identity – of these countries. 

You understood this instinctively, and your yearning for freedom was shown in all its coordinated harmony, moving towards the capital Ottawa. Dear truck drivers, you are facing great difficulties, not only because you give up your work to demonstrate, but also because of the adverse weather conditions, long nights in the cold, and attempts to be cleared away that you face. But along with these difficulties you have also experienced the closeness of many of your fellow citizens, who like you have understood the looming threat and want to support you in protesting against the regime. Allow me also to express to you my support and my spiritual closeness, to which I join the prayer that your event may be crowned with success and may also extend to other countries. 

In these days we see the masks of tyrants from all over the world fall, and unfortunately we also see so much conformism, so much fearfulness, so much cowardice in people who up until yesterday we regarded as friends, even among our family members. Yet, precisely because of this extreme situation, we discover with amazement gestures of humanity made by strangers, signs of solidarity and brotherhood on the part of those who feel close to us in the common battle. We discover so much generosity and so much desire to shake us from this stupor. We discover that we are no longer willing to passively suffer the destruction of our world imposed by a cabal of unscrupulous criminals, thirsty for power and money. 

In this relentless attack on the traditional world, not only your way of life and your identity have been affected, but also your possessions, your activities, and your work. This is the Great Reset, this is the future promised by slogans like Build Back Better, this is the future of billions of people being controlled in their every move, in all their transactions, in every purchase, every bureaucratic practice, every activity. Automatons without souls or wills, deprived of their identity, reduced to having a universal income that allows them to survive, to buy only what others have already decided to put up for sale, transformed by a gene serum into people who are chronically ill. 

Today more than ever it is essential that you realize that it is no longer possible to passively assist: it is necessary to take a position, to fight for freedom, to demand respect for natural freedoms. But even more, dear Canadian brothers, it is necessary to understand that this dystopia serves to establish the dictatorship of the New World Order and totally erase every trace of Our Lord Jesus Christ from society, from history, and from the traditions of peoples. 

Demonstrate for your rights, Canadian friends: but may these rights not be limited to a simple claim to the freedom to enter supermarkets or not to be vaccinated: may it also be a proud and courageous claim to your sacrosanct right to be free men. But your demonstration should be one of true freedom, reminding you that it is the Truth – that is, Our Lord Jesus Christ – who alone can guarantee you freedom: the truth will make you free.

Let us pray that Christ will return to reign in society, in your hearts and in your families. Take up the spiritual weapon of the Holy Rosary, and pray to the Blessed Virgin, Sainte Ann, Saint George and the Holy Canadian Martyrs to protect your homeland.

I would like to conclude my appeal by asking you to pray with me, with the words that Our Lord has taught us: may they be the seal of this awakening, of this national liberation. Let us all pray it together, out loud, so that our prayer may rise to Heaven, but also so that it may resound powerfully in these squares, in these streets, all the way to the palaces of the powerful:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Archbishop Carlo Vigano, Canadian Truckers, FREEDOM CONVOY 2022, Freedom Of Religion, Great Reset, Klaus Schwab | Leave a Comment »

Mass Graves Mystery Shows The Danger of the Politics of Hysteria

Posted by M. C. on February 9, 2022

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/548547-graves-kamloops-indian-school/

When the anthropologist Sarah Beaulieu reported that she had found 215 unmarked graves near Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia last year, the story caused a sensation. A wave of hysteria engulfed the Canadian media and political landscape. But eight months later, mystery surrounds the case, as not a single body has been found – and it is unclear if there are any plans for excavation. 

What Beaulieu’s ground-penetrating radar scan found were 215 areas that showed soil disturbances such as tree roots, metal and stones – but not bodies. One bone and a tooth were discovered, but she acknowledged at the time that without conducting a proper forensic investigation no “definitive” conclusions could be drawn. Nevertheless, the media and the political class were quick to characterise what had been found as mass graves.

Read more

Canada pledges ‘historic reparations’ to indigenous children

Soon it was claimed that Kamloops Indian Residential School was implicated in an act of genocide against First Nation People. Some moral crusaders presented the discovery as integral to the colonisation of Canada by Europeans. From their perspective, the history of Canada is a story of systematic genocide against the native population. The Catholic Church, which ran Kamloops and other residential schools for First Nation children, became the target of media hostility.

The narrative of mass murder was legitimised by the behaviour of the Canadian political class. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to Beaulieu’s claim by describing it as a “dark and shameful chapter” in the nation’s history.

The news that remains were found at the former Kamloops residential school breaks my heart – it is a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history. I am thinking about everyone affected by this distressing news. We are here for you. https://t.co/ZUfDRyAfET— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) May 28, 2021

On 30 May last year, the Canadian Government lowered the flag on its buildings to half mast. It also created a new holiday to honour “missing children” and survivors of residential schools.

As alarmist stories of genocidal behaviour escalated, 65 churches were set on fire and vandalised. The desecration of these places of worship were accepted as fully justified protest. Both Trudeau and Gerald Butts, a political consultant and former principal secretary to the prime minister, described the anti-Christian violence as “understandable”.

Throughout Canada, statues of the nation’s historical figures were attacked. In Montreal, the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, was overturned, his detached bronze head symbolically rolling on the ground. The statue of Queen Victoria in front of the Manitoba Legislature was knocked down. Numerous other statues were defaced and vandalised in an orgy of violence directed at Canada’s historical legacy.

Soon numerous other unsubstantiated claims were made about the discovery of other unmarked graves near residential schools. The historian Professor Jacques Rouillard was one of the few academics who sought to expose the lack of evidence behind the Kamloops story that had sparked the hysteria. He criticised media outlets for further hyping things up “by alleging that the bodies of 215 children had been found, adding that ‘thousands’ of children had ‘gone missing’ from residential schools and that parents had not been informed.”

Those who pointed out that not one body had been found in Kamloops were even denounced as genocide deniers. Writing in The Toronto Star, K.J. McCusker stated that the call for bodies “of residential schoolchildren is nothing more than a racist rant bordering on genocide denial”. And he added that “what happened in residential schools is not about the evidence. This kind of trolling is part of genocide, as are the actual crimes”. From this perspective, not only is evidence unimportant, the very demand for it is integral to the furthering of genocide.

The cavalier use of the term “genocide” to describe an as-yet unsubstantiated claim about an unmarked mass grave is disturbing. The hysterical tone adopted by those who are so free with the term speaks to the moral disintegration of public life in Canada. But it isn’t confined to the use of “genocide”. The behaviour of Catholic Residential Schools was also likened to a Holocaust. In a statement that implicitly insults the genuine victims of the Holocaust, one commentator wrote, “It is hard and painful for me to say that the discovery of the graves of the children in Kamloops may be Canada’s Holocaust moment”.

There is something terrifying about the casual manner with which the memory of the Holocaust is opportunistically plundered to make a point about the discovery of a soil disturbance. To make matters worse, the authority of academic historians has been exploited to legitimate the use of the term “genocide”. In the wake of Kamloops, a statement issued by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) stated that the “history of violence against indigenous peoples fully warrants the use of the word ‘genocide’.”

Read more

Canada agrees to ‘historic reparations’ for 200,000 indigenous children

In response, a group of historians wrote an open letter criticising the statement in which they admonished the CHA for purporting to “promote a single ‘consensus’ history of Canada,” and adding, “with this coercive tactic, the CHA Council is acting as an activist organization and not as a professional body of scholars.”

But the reality is there has been little concerted effort to counter the alarmist campaign designed to rewrite Canada’s past as a protracted era of genocide. Public figures who ought to know better have become accomplices of the campaign to shame the country’s past. Instead of countering the outburst of anti-Catholic sentiment, leaders of the Church opted for the policy of appeasement.

When Trudeau demanded that the Pope come to Canada and apologise in person, many church leaders nodded in agreement. Father Raymond de Souza was one of the few religious figures who spoke against the grovelling Canadian bishops and pointed out that some of his colleagues had forgotten the meaning of the word sacrilege.

The history of mass hysteria and of witch hunts has shown that unless it is countered, society will fall prey to moral corruption and decay. Looking at Canada and the behaviour of its political leaders and cultural elite, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that it has become a nation that has lost its way.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

You can share this story on social media

MCViewPoint: If there was anyone deserving of reparations it is the survivors, yes survivers, of Canada’s residential schools.

See here

Cruelty | Charles Joseph | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast S4: E80

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Genocide, Indian Residential School, Kamloops, Mass Graves, Sarah Beaulieu | Leave a Comment »

The White House Now Says It Never Really Wanted Lockdowns

Posted by M. C. on February 9, 2022

Instead, these people will move on to pushing their new version of lockdownism: vaccine passports and pariah status for the disobedient. Whether they worked or not, lockdowns have clearly fallen out of favor so much that the Biden administration won’t even admit to supporting the idea. That’s a victory for friends of freedom and human rights. The next stop is to strike a similar blow against vaccine mandates.

https://mises.org/wire/white-house-now-says-it-never-really-wanted-lockdowns

Ryan McMaken

Last Friday, a reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki to respond to the Johns Hopkins covid study showing lockdowns provided no real benefit in terms of disease prevention.

In response, Psaki dodged addressing the study directly, but then pivoted to claiming that the Biden administration had never pushed lockdowns. “We are not pushing lockdowns,” she insisted. “We’ve not been pro-lockdown—most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President.”

#BREAKING: | Press Secretary Psaki responds to Johns Hopkins Study that says lockdowns had little to no effect on curving Covid mortality.

“We are not pushing lockdowns, we’ve not been pro-lockdown — most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President.” pic.twitter.com/iOKAFciOwX— El American (@ElAmerican_) February 4, 2022

We have now reached the point in the media and political narrative where the party of lockdowns realizes lockdowns are increasingly unpopular and so now claims it never supported lockdowns at all.

But how can Psaki get away with saying this? We all know that Joe Biden has always supported lockdowns. Well, that’s not quite it, and she’s not completely wrong. By the time Biden was actually sworn in as president, he had already stopped pushing for lockdowns as a continued anticovid option.

On the other hand, it is certainly true that as late as early November 2020, high-ranking Biden advisors were still holding up lockdowns as a possibility that fall and winter. For example, on November 11, 2020, Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Board, suggested the country might require a “lockdown for 4 to 6 weeks” and recommended the US government spend additional trillions to “pay for a package right now to cover all of the lost wages for individual workers.”

Osterholm also referenced an August 2020 column he cowrote with Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari in which the authors concluded, “To be effective, the lockdown has to be as comprehensive and strict as possible.”

For his part, Biden was keeping lockdowns very much on the table at least as late as August 2020. Biden declared in a joint interview with Kamala Harris that if covid numbers increased again “I would shut it down. I would listen to the scientists…. We’re going to do whatever it takes to save lives.”

By November, however, the administration appears to have shifted to a policy of using lockdowns more as a threat than as a likely plan of action. This position was also reflected in the comments of Zeke Emanuel, a long-time supporter of draconian lockdowns who also remained a Biden advisor in November. Earlier in 2020, Emanuel had advocated for long-term lockdowns, suggesting lockdowns would need to last for eighteen months or more. Yet by November, he instead insisted that whether or not the additional lockdowns would take place would depend “on what we do now.”

In other words, if enough people wore masks and get vaccinated, then the administration wouldn’t be “forced” to push for full lockdowns again. This position was already stated quite clearly by Anthony Fauci in August, when he told an audience:

I believe strongly and I’ll say it very clearly: We do not have to completely lock down if we do things right. And if we do these things right I believe we can open up the economy, get the employment back, get people out of the doldrums of being locked down—if we do it prudently, carefully, and the way the guidelines say.

For Fauci, you don’t need lockdowns if—and that’s a key “if”—everyone does exactly what Fauci tells them to. In any case, Fauci still wasn’t giving up on lockdowns into late November, stating it was “too early to say” if lockdowns could be ruled out.

In spite of this, by November 19—facing a tough election battle—the administration was openly saying it was not planning on trying to implement lockdowns again but with the subtext being that this was contingent on enough of the population getting vaccinated

Indeed, in her own disavowal of lockdowns this past Friday, Psaki pushes this very line of reasoning stating that the “president’s approach has been using the tools we have to prevent [lockdowns].” Translation: So long as vaccines and mask wearing work, lockdowns won’t be necessary. Nowhere in those words, however, is there an admission that lockdowns do more harm than good or that they are unacceptable. No, it appears the administration can have it both ways. It will say it isn’t for lockdowns while simultaneously insisting that lockdowns could be triggered by not “using the tools” that “prevent” lockdowns.

So, Psaki is correct that once Biden had been inaugurated into the White House, there was no general drive from administration officials for lockdowns. The focus had shifted to masks and vaccines.

Today, this fact allows the administration to claim that lockdowns are mostly something that “happened under the previous president.” Indeed, Donald Trump did little to prevent lockdowns and did much to provide political cover for state governors wishing to impose lockdowns. It was on Trump’s watch that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pushed heavily for lockdowns. Trump gave a daily nationwide platform to prolockdown technocrats like Fauci and Deborah Birx. Trump claimed to disagree with these bureaucrats—whom he could have easily fired—but Trump was either too craven or too incompetent to intervene. Instead, dozens of state governors imposed lockdowns on their populations, helped by the fact they could simply say they were following guidelines put out by Trump’s CDC.

Thanks to Trump’s weakness, Psaki is right that lockdowns are something we can all remember from the Trump era.

Legally, of course, it’s unlikely any administration—whether Trump’s or Biden’s—could actually get away for long with directly imposing any sort of nationwide lockdown if it wanted to. The federal courts have already sent a pretty clear message that police actions like lockdowns are prerogatives of the states’ governments.

Moreover, with gubernatorial races in thirty-six states this November, only candidates in the absolutely bluest blue states would even consider telling the voters “as governor I am poised to impose new lockdowns at the first sign of crowded hospitals. Eight weeks to flatten the curve!” That might still work in Europe or China, but it’s hard to see much support from American voters at this point. 

But as we’ve seen, we shouldn’t expect those who supported lockdowns to admit states with lockdowns showed no better results than states that barely locked down at all. Rather, the lockdown party will just split hairs to show they never really pushed lockdowns at all or that “the science changed.”  Instead, these people will move on to pushing their new version of lockdownism: vaccine passports and pariah status for the disobedient. Whether they worked or not, lockdowns have clearly fallen out of favor so much that the Biden administration won’t even admit to supporting the idea. That’s a victory for friends of freedom and human rights. The next stop is to strike a similar blow against vaccine mandates.

Author:

Contact Ryan McMaken

Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first.

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Dr. Michael Osterholm, Fauci, Jen Psaki, lockdowns, White House | Leave a Comment »

Setting Up Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine

Posted by M. C. on February 9, 2022

Despite crocodile tears that U.S. officials will openly shed for the people of Ukraine, the truth is that U.S. officials couldn’t care one whit how many of them are killed, injured, or maimed in such an invasion, any more than they were concerned about the people of Afghanistan who were killed, injured, and maimed after U.S. officials succeeded in goading the Soviets to invade Afghanistan or, for that matter, after the Pentagon and the CIA invaded and occupied the country in 2001.

Setting Up Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine

by Jacob G. Hornberger

As I have watched how the U.S. national-security establishment has set up its latest crisis, this one in Ukraine, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how it set up a similar crisis in Afghanistan in 1979. 

Back then, the goal of U.S. national-security state officials was to goad the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan. U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski put it succinctly when he told President Carter, “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.”

What he meant by that was the opportunity of getting Soviet soldiers killed, maimed, and injured for no good reason, just as the Pentagon and the CIA did to tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Additionally, the Soviet Union would have to waste large sums of taxpayer money, just as the U.S. government also did in Vietnam.

To goad the Soviets into invading Afghanistan, U.S. officials began supporting the anti-Soviet resistance that was committed to removing a pro-Soviet regime from power. U.S. officials figured that faced with the possibility that Afghanistan might end up with a pro-U.S. regime, the Soviets would have no choice but to invade.

The scheme worked brilliantly. The Soviets invaded on December 24, 1979, and for the next decade were bogged down in a guerrilla war, much like the United States was when it invaded Vietnam and, for that matter, when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. In the process, many Soviet soldiers were killed, maimed, and injured, just as U.S. officials hoped they would be. Moreover, the war helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union, which ultimately led to its dismantling. 

Needless to say, U.S. national-security state officials were ecstatic over what they had accomplished. As Brzezinski gloated, “We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.” 

Of course, the U.S. government played the innocent and portrayed the Soviet Union as a horrible aggressor. The following year, the U.S. government boycotted the Summer Olympics in Russia to protest Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.

When asked in an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998 whether he regretted any of this, Brzezinski was shocked that anyone would even ask such a question. He responded, “Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.’ Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime, a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.”

The interviewer then asked, “And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?” Brezinski responded, “What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?”

Of course, that interview was conducted prior to the blowback of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. I can’t help but wonder whether Brzezinski would have considered his scheme to be worth it in light of what those attacks did to America.

The irony is that the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989 also brought a sudden and surprising end to the U.S. national-security state’s Cold War racket, which was guaranteeing them a perpetual flow of ever-increasing amounts of U.S. taxpayer money into the coffers of the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex, the CIA, and the NSA. 

That was when U.S. officials went into the Middle East and began poking hornets’ nests, which succeeded in producing terrorist blowback. That’s when we got the “war on terrorism,” which replaced the “war on communism.” That guaranteed the continuous flow of ever-increasing amounts of U.S. taxpayer money into the pockets of the Pentagon, the CIA, the NSA, and the entire “defense” industry. 

But U.S. officials weren’t about to let go of the Russians so easily. Rather than dismantle NATO, which was nothing more than a Cold War dinosaur, they used the organization to gobble up former members of the Warsaw Pact, with the aim of stationing U.S. troops, missiles, and tanks closer and closer to Russia’s borders. The scheme ultimately called for NATO to absorb Ukraine, which would mean that the Pentagon and the CIA would be able to install their missiles, tanks, and troops on Russia’s border. 

Thus, their latest scheme has placed Russia in the position of choosing between invading Ukraine, which would thereby prevent the Pentagon and the CIA from installing their troops, missiles, and tanks on Russia’s border versus letting NATO absorb Ukraine, which would enable the Pentagon and the CIA to install their troops, missiles, and tanks on Russia’s border.

If Russia invades, there is no doubt that the U.S. national-security establishment will, once again, play the innocent and cry out against those aggressive Russians. And make no mistake about it: Despite crocodile tears that U.S. officials will openly shed for the people of Ukraine, the truth is that U.S. officials couldn’t care one whit how many of them are killed, injured, or maimed in such an invasion, any more than they were concerned about the people of Afghanistan who were killed, injured, and maimed after U.S. officials succeeded in goading the Soviets to invade Afghanistan or, for that matter, after the Pentagon and the CIA invaded and occupied the country in 2001. The people of Ukraine are as much pawns in the evil machinations of the U.S. national-security establishment as the people of Afghanistan.

EMAIL

Be seeing you

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Blowback, national-security establishment, Soviet Union, Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan, Ukraine, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Leave a Comment »

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »
 
Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    MCViewPoint
    Join 725 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • MCViewPoint
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar
Loading Comments...