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The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes

Posted by M. C. on January 7, 2022

Far too many centers of political and economic power benefit from an exaggerated and even false narrative about January 6 to expect it ever to end.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-histrionics-and-melodrama-around

Glenn Greenwald

The number of people killed by pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol. That is the same number as the total of Americans who — after a full year of a Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is heralded as “the most expansive federal law enforcement investigation in US history” — have been charged with inciting insurrection, sedition, treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a result of that riot one year ago. Coincidentally, it is the same number as Americans who ended up being criminally charged by the Mueller probe of conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, and the number of wounds — grave or light — which AOC, who finally emerged at night to assure an on-edge nation that she was “okay” while waiting in an office building away from the riot at the rotunda, sustained on that solemn day.

That number is zero. But just as these rather crucial facts do not prevent the dominant wing of the U.S. corporate media and Democratic Party leaders from continuing to insist that Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory was illegitimate due to his collusion with the Kremlin, it also does not prevent January 6 from being widely described in those same circles as an Insurrection, an attempted coup, an event as traumatizing as Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead) or the 9/11 attack (2,977 dead), and as the gravest attack on American democracy since the mid-19th Century Civil War (750,000 dead). The Huffington Post’s White House reporter S.V. Date said that it was wrong to compare 1/6 to 9/11, because the former — the three-hour riot at the Capitol — was “1,000 percent worse.”

Indeed, when it comes to melodrama, histrionics, and exploitation of fear levels from the 1/6 riot, there has never been any apparent limit. And today — the one-year anniversary of that three-hour riot — there is no apparent end in sight. Too many political and media elites are far too vested in this maximalist narrative for them to relinquish it voluntarily.

The orgy of psychodrama today was so much worse and more pathetic than I expected — and I expected it to be extremely bad and pathetic. “House Democrats [waited] their turn on the House floor to talk to Dick Cheney as a beacon for American democracy,” reported CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere; “One by one, Democrats are coming over to introduce themselves to former VP Dick Cheney and shake his hand,” added ABC News’ Ben Siegel. Nancy Pelosi gravely introduced Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton to sermonize and sing about the importance of American democracy. The Huffington Post‘s senior politics reporter Igor Bobic unironically expressed gratitude for “the four legged emotional support professionals roaming the Capitol this week, helping officers, staffers, and reporters alike” — meaning therapy dogs. Yesterday, CNN’s Kaise Hunt announced: “Tomorrow is going to be a tough one for those of us who were there or had loved ones in the building. Thinking of all of you and finding strength knowing I’m not alone in this.” Unsurprisingly but still repellently: Kamala Harris today compared 1/6 to 9/11.

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Ending Fiat Money Won’t Destroy the State | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on January 7, 2022

The ideological grip states have over the public in this regard is extremely strong. Unless ideologies change in a big way, most people in the world are likely to continue to look to states to offer protection from various perceived evils. Consequently, separating the state from money won’t fundamentally change the world of geopolitics.

https://mises.org/wire/ending-fiat-money-wont-destroy-state

Ryan McMaken

A certain meme has become popular among advocates of both gold and cryptocurrencies. This is the “Fix the money, fix the world” meme. This slogan is based on the idea that by switching to some commodity money—be it crypto or metal—and abandoning fiat currency, the world will improve greatly. 

Taken in its moderate form, of course, this slogan is indisputably correct. State-controlled money is immoral, dangerous, and impoverishing. It paves the way for government theft of private wealth through the inflation tax, and thus allows the state to do more of what it does best: wage wars, kill, imprison, steal, and enrich the friends of the regime at the expense of everyone else. Privatizing the monetary system and imposing a “separation of money and state” would help limit these activities.

But it’s also important to not overstate the benefits of taking money out of the hands of the state. The temptation to push the “fix the world” idea to utopian levels is often seen among cryptocurrency maximalists, and among some gold promoters as well.

For example, at least one bitcoin enthusiast thinks bitcoin will bring “the end of the nation states.” And in one particularly over-the-top paragraph from another bitcoin promoter, we’re told that cryptocurrency will essentially cure every ill from poverty to corruption to environmental destruction. 

The idea that changing to different money will somehow end theft, poverty, or even war is the sort of messianic thinking that would have given old-school Marxists a run for their money.

Yes, we can all agree that if we “improve the money” we also “improve the world.” But removing the state’s money monopoly won’t make states fold up their tents and slink away in the night. (And, needless to say, simply changing the money won’t make bad food or poverty disappear either.)

States existed before states took control of the money. And they’ll exist afterward—unless profound ideological changes take place as well.

States Predate Fiat Money

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Almost Half of Americans Believe FBI Acts as ‘Biden’s Personal Gestapo’ | Neon Nettle’

Posted by M. C. on January 7, 2022

The agency is also accused of playing a significant role in the January 6th riot.

Even left-wing outlet Newsweek cited a group of “shadowy commandos” based at Quantico (the FBI academy) playing a covert role in the riot.

https://neonnettle.com/news/17943-almost-half-of-americans-believe-fbi-acts-as-biden-s-personal-gestapo-

Many American voters now believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is acting as Joe Biden’s “personal Gestapo,” referring to Adolf Hitler’s secret German police.

In a new poll, forty-six percent of likely U.S. voters revealed they have a favorable impression of the FBI.

But just 15 percent claim to have a “Very Favorable” view of the agency.

In May last year, 60 percent had a favorable impression of the FBI.

Forty-seven percent now view the FBI unfavorably, and those who have a Very Unfavorable impression sit at 26 percent.

The FBI has been branded as “a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.”

Forty-six percent of voters agree with this description.

Twenty-nine percent “Strongly Agree.”

The figures come following recent FBI raids on journalists who reported on the diary of Biden’s daughter Ashley, which claimed the President showered with his young daughter.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was also accused of working with insiders on the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case.

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Doug Casey on the Failures of the Justice System and a Viable Solution

Posted by M. C. on January 7, 2022

But in practice, it’s an interrogation process by which lawyers try to ensure they get a jury that will believe whatever they tell them. This usually means that anyone exhibiting the least bit of independent thinking or is prone to value justice over law enforcement will get removed and never serve on a jury.

https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-failures-of-the-justice-system-and-a-viable-solution/

by Doug Casey

International Man: What is the role of a justice system in a society, and what should the State have to do with it?

Doug Casey: In my view, what really holds a society together isn’t the laws enacted by legislatures or dictators, but peer pressure, social opprobrium, and moral approbation. In general, society is pretty self-regulating. It’s why people pay their bills at restaurants even though there’s not a cop at the door. Criminals are the exception, not the rule—although, it must be said, they naturally gravitate towards the government.

When somebody commits a crime, there’s a trial to determine what harm has been done, who should be compensated, and so forth. Courts determine these things. But I would argue that the state is not a necessary part of any of this. Society, like markets, tends to be self-ordering.

With a minimal “night watchman” sort of state like that described by Ayn Rand, the proper role of government is simply to defend you from force and fraud. This implies an army to defend you from force external to your society, a police force to defend you from force within your society, and a court system to allow the adjudication of disputes without resorting to force.

I could live in a society like that—it would be a vast improvement over what we have now. A proper court system, with either arbitrators or judges and juries system, would be part of it. But I’d go on to argue that juries and courts should be privatized.

International Man: What would a privatized justice system look like? Would it have juries?

Doug Casey: There might be either arbitrators, or juries, or both. The jury should be composed of independent thinkers who aren’t easily swayed by rhetoric or pressured by groupthink. Today, however, they’re just random people who aren’t clever enough to avoid jury duty.

In theory, juries can counter the tremendous power of judges. Judges today are either elected or appointed. If elected, they have to campaign like any other politician and are subject to the same perverse incentives any other politician is. If they are appointed, it can be even worse. Appointees are often just collecting political favors. While they’re allegedly more independent, in many ways, they’re even less accountable.

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My Two-Bit Political Awakening – The Future of Freedom Foundation

Posted by M. C. on January 7, 2022

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/my-two-bit-political-awakening/

For almost a century, American coinage and currency policies have veered between “government as a damn rascal” and “government as a village idiot.” The dollar has lost 85 percent of its purchasing power since Nixon closed the gold window. I remain mystified how anyone continues trusting politicians after the government formally repudiates its promises.

by James Bovard

Samuel Johnson may have been wrong when he declared, “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” But for young kids, collecting coins is a less pernicious pastime than becoming a pyromaniac or Tik-Tok star. My own experience collecting, buying, and selling coins vaccinated me against trusting politicians long before I grew my first scruffy beard.I remain mystified how anyone continues trusting politicians after the government formally repudiates its promises
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The thrill of coin collecting

Handling old coins was like shaking hands with the pioneers who built this country. I wondered if the dented 1853 quarter I purchased was ever involved in Huckleberry Finn–type adventures when “two bits” bought a zesty time. My grandfather gave me a battered copper two-cent piece from 1864, the same year that Union General Phil Sheridan burned down the Shenandoah Valley, where I was raised. Some of the coins I collected might now be banned as hate symbols, such as Buffalo nickels with an Indian portrait engraved on the front.

I was enthralled by early American coin designs, especially those featuring idealized female images emblazoned with the word liberty. I was unaware that George Washington refused to allow his own image on the nation’s coins because it would be too “monarchical.” Until 1909, there was an unwritten law that no portrait appear on any American coin in circulation. That changed with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, whom the Republican Party found profitable to canonize on pennies.

By the mid-20th century, American coinage had degenerated into paeans to dead politicians. Portraits of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Dwight Eisenhower were slapped onto coins almost as soon as their pulses stopped. This reflected a sea change in values as Americans were encouraged to expect more from their leaders than from their own freedom.

When I first started collecting, I assumed that a coin’s value was largely determined by its age. That delusion was blown to smithereens at the first coin show I attended. Prices varied based on how many coins were minted each year, the popularity of different designs, and the rising number of Baby Boomers hustling to fill each slot in their blue Whitman coin folders. Coins were akin to used cars: Those with too many miles — too much visible wear and tear — traded at a sharp discount. A pristine 1950 nickel minted in Denver was worth more than a worn 1841 half dime minted in Philadelphia. Similarly, a 1931 Lincoln penny minted in San Francisco was worth more than a 1898 Indian Head penny or a 1857 large cent. Those valuations were simply supply and demand, not a sign of collective depravity.

Coin collecting as history lesson

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James Bovard is a policy adviser to The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is a USA Today columnist and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, Playboy, American Spectator, Investors Business Daily, and many other publications. He is the author of Freedom Frauds: Hard Lessons in American Liberty (2017, published by FFF); Public Policy Hooligan (2012); Attention Deficit Democracy (2006); The Bush Betrayal (2004); Terrorism and Tyranny (2003); Feeling Your Pain (2000); Freedom in Chains (1999); Shakedown (1995); Lost Rights (1994); The Fair Trade Fraud (1991); and The Farm Fiasco (1989). He was the 1995 co-recipient of the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought, and the recipient of the 1996 Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. His book Lost Rights received the Mencken Award as Book of the Year from the Free Press Association. His Terrorism and Tyranny won Laissez Faire Book’s Lysander Spooner award for the Best Book on Liberty in 2003. Read his blog. Send him email.

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Dear Conservatives: It’s Time to Separate School and State – The Future of Freedom Foundation

Posted by M. C. on January 7, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the New York Times‘ fact-deficient 1619 Project, let the mask drop completely

“I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught,” she told NBC’s “Meet the Press” – as if this was a suggestion recently floated and not the entire basis on which the government-run school system fools parents into believing that teachers and administrators give a damn what they think.

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/dear-conservatives-its-time-to-separate-school-and-state/

by Scott McPherson

For decades, so-called “progressives” and other leftists have claimed that elected local school boards give parents control over education. Everyone knows it’s a lie, but few have had the courage to speak up. Still, the delusion persists. On the day after Christmas, Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the New York Times‘ fact-deficient 1619 Project, let the mask drop completely.Let parents and families find the best school without government interference
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“I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught,” she told NBC’s “Meet the Press” – as if this was a suggestion recently floated and not the entire basis on which the government-run school system fools parents into believing that teachers and administrators give a damn what they think. “We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have expertise in the subject area.”

No, Ms. Hannah-Jones, children go to school to learn fundamental skills, like reading, writing, and arithmetic. Across the nation, “public” schools are failing to deliver – despite their large staffs of credentialed faculty. Schools are instead expensive indoctrination centers, “day jails for kids,” as John Holt once wrote, completely hostile to parents and focused on promoting mind-destroying concepts like “gender fluidity,” “critical race theory,” “restorative justice,” “psychoeducation,” and other modern tenets of Marxist ideology. Still claiming otherwise is the height of perfidy.

Hannah-Jones’ view of parental involvement is no outlier. Pennsylvania’s governor, Tom Wolf (D-Teachers Unions), recently vetoed a bill that would have put curricula online, and in Scottsdale, Arizona, the school board is actually conducting opposition research on uppity parents. Scariest of all, the National School Boards Association, the Department of Justice, and the White House all colluded to brand protesters at school board meetings (read: concerned parents and taxpayers) as domestic terrorists! What was once said quietly at cocktail parties is now becoming public policy.

Most people are (finally) waking up. A survey by Free to Learn found majorities expressing concern over the politicization of schools and access to curricula. Sixty-seven percent support the ability of parents to exempt students from anything they believe is “harmful or inappropriate,” and a resounding 81 percent said they were “concerned” about the overall quality of education children are receiving – 48 percent saying they were “very concerned.” Driven in part by COVID-19 hysteria, an exodus from government schools to private and religious schools is currently underway, and according to the Census Bureau, the percentage of homeschooled students has more than tripled in the last year.

Conservatives are the most alarmed by the state of public schools, and with good reason. Right-leaning ideas, individuals, and organizations in schools are treated with hostility, while leftist insanity goes unchecked. For example, in Michigan’s Farmington Public Schools, students are encouraged to join Black Lives Matter protests and to “donate to bail efforts” for those arrested. The Mankato School Board in Minnesota voted unanimously in favor of “additional” pay for non-white teachers. A teacher in Paso Robles, California, told members of a high school Conservative Club to “jump off a bridge.” Taft High School in Chicago denied students the opportunity to form a chapter of Turning Point USA.

Unfortunately, conservatives are drawing the wrong conclusions. The trend seems to be in favor of taking over schools, believing this will improve quality. In a commentary for RedState, Kira Davis told her readers, “It’s time to get unpleasant.”

“There’s no playing nice with these people. The whole thing has gotten out of hand, and we parents are to blame. We got too comfortable. We believed the people we elected to our school boards were on our side. After all, they are our neighbors, they are our fellow citizens. These aren’t hardened politicians. They’re local concerned citizens who want to serve.

“But we were wrong. They are not just regular citizens. They are not on our side. They are not here to serve.”

Davis is correct, but her prescription that conservatives should run for school board positions is flawed. “I say the time has come to cause trouble and keep causing it until we get what we want,” she writes. A few states, like Arizona, Florida, Missouri, and Tennessee, are considering making school board elections partisan. Another mistake is so-called “parental rights” bills being considered in state legislatures. The conservative group U.S. Parents Involved in Education, which lobbies for an end to federal meddling in education, warned that the actual language in these laws could undermine the stated intent.

Conservatives who want to “take back our schools” or implement a system of “school choice,” are certainly acting in good faith; they genuinely want good schools where kids can learn and where teachers and administrators respect parents’ values. But viewing parents as “customers” is simply misguided when the government is running the show. In this politicized atmosphere, every decision related to a child’s education is a zero-sum game: one side must lose in order for the other to win. A sense of triumph over political enemies may bring temporary gratification, but that will soon evaporate when the “other side” wins the next election. It is in the marketplace alone where diverse demands can be met without one side losing.

If conservatives want better schools, they really should “cause trouble, and keep causing it.” What is missing is an accurate assessment of what that requires. Many political analysts are predicting a swing to the right in the years ahead, which could well place conservatives in positions where they have an opportunity to radically alter the status quo. Nothing could better guarantee an end to the monolithic power of teachers’ unions and government-school bureaucracies, and a rebirth of quality education in America, than a complete separation of school and state.

Let parents and families find the best school without government interference. That’s real choice.

This post was written by: Scott McPherson

Scott McPherson is a policy adviser at the Future of Freedom Foundation, and author of Freedom and Security: The Second Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. An advocate of the Free State Project, he lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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NASCAR rescinds approval; no LGBcoin car at Daytona

Posted by M. C. on January 6, 2022

Likely afraid Uncle will cancel the “free” flyovers.

NASCAR is a PC suckhole.

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NASCAR has walked back its approval for the LGBcoin car, citing that higher-ups hadn’t yet reviewed the proposal and lower-level bosses gave the go-ahead prematurely. The Xfinity Series No. 68 car was slated to race at Daytona in February. A petition is underway in hopes to make it happen.

According to driver Brandon Brown — yes, that Brandon — the “Let’s Go Brandon” trend cost him sponsors; finding ones for the ’22 season proved difficult. Then in late December, Brown introduced LGBcoin as his team’s full-season, primary sponsor, revealing a red, white, and blue Camaro, ready for racing.

The cryptocurrency company’s Major HODLer James Koutoulas shared on social media copies of email correspondence from NASCAR Senior Racing Operations Manager Dale Howell approving the sponsor, requesting only some graphic clean-up.

NASCAR told Autoweek that the team was told in November that “no form of this derogatory and vulgar euphemism would be allowed on any paint scheme or sponsorship.” Koutoulas said they were advised not to spell out “Let’s Go, Brandon” and that “LGB” when referencing the cryptocurrency’s name was approved.

Since the canceling news emerged, $LGB has doubled its 5,000 coin holders, and nearly 1,000 supporters have signed the petition urging NASCAR CEO Jim France to honor the original agreement.

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Anarchist’s Progress | Mises Institute

Posted by M. C. on January 6, 2022

When I came upon the saying of Lincoln, that the way of the politician is “a long step removed from common honesty,” it set a problem for me. I wondered just why this should be generally true, if it were true.

https://mises.org/library/anarchists-progress-0

Albert Jay Nock

When I was seven years old, playing in front of our house on the outskirts of Brooklyn one morning, a policeman stopped and chatted with me for a few moments. He was a kindly man, of a Scandinavian blonde type with pleasant blue eyes, and I took to him at once. He sealed our acquaintance permanently by telling me a story that I thought was immensely funny; I laughed over it at intervals all day. I do not remember what it was, but it had to do with the antics of a drove of geese in our neighborhood. He impressed me as the most entertaining and delightful person that I had seen in a long time, and I spoke of him to my parents with great pride.

At this time I did not know what policemen were. No doubt I had seen them, but not to notice them. Now, naturally, after meeting this highly prepossessing specimen, I wished to find out all I could about them, so I took the matter up with our old colored cook. I learned from her that my fine new friend represented something that was called the law; that the law was very good and great, and that everyone should obey and respect it. This was reasonable; if it were so, then my admirable friend just fitted his place, and was even more highly to be thought of, if possible.

I asked where the law came from, and it was explained to me that men all over the country got together on what was called election day, and chose certain persons to make the law and others to see that it was carried out; and that the sum total of all this mechanism was called our government. This again was as it should be; the men I knew, such as my father, my uncle George, and Messrs. So-and-so among the neighbors (running them over rapidly in my mind), could do this sort of thing handsomely, and there was probably a good deal in the idea. But what was it all for! Why did we have law and government, anyway! Then I learned that there were persons called criminals; some of them stole, some hurt or killed people or set fire to houses; and it was the duty of men like my friend the policeman to protect us from them. If he saw any he would catch them and lock them up, and they would be punished according to the law.

A year or so later we moved to another house in the same neighborhood, only a short distance away. On the corner of the block—rather a long block—behind our house stood a large one-story wooden building, very dirty and shabby, called the Wigwam. While getting the lie of my new surroundings, I considered this structure and remarked with disfavor the kind of people who seemed to be making themselves at home there. Someone told me it was a “political headquarters,” but I did not know what that meant, and therefore did not connect it with my recent researches into law and government. I had little curiosity about the Wigwam. My parents never forbade my going there, but my mother once casually told me that it was a pretty good place to keep away from, and I agreed with her.

Two months later I heard someone say that election day was shortly coming on, and I sparked up at once; this, then, was the day when the lawmakers were to be chosen. There had been great doings at the Wigwam lately; in the evenings, too, I had seen noisy processions of drunken loafers passing our house, carrying transparencies and tin torches that sent up clouds of kerosene smoke. When I had asked what these meant, I was answered in one word, “politics,” uttered in a disparaging tone, but this signified nothing to me. The fact is that my attention had been attracted by a steam calliope that went along with one of the first of these processions, and I took it to mean that there was a circus going on; and when I found that there was no circus, I was disappointed and did not care what else might be taking place.

On hearing of election day, however, the light broke in on me. I was really witnessing the august performances that I had heard of from our cook. All these processions of yelling hoodlums who sweat and stank in the parboiling humidity of the Indian-summer evenings—all the squalid goings on in the Wigwam—all these, it seemed, were part and parcel of an election. I noticed that the men whom I knew in the neighborhood were not prominent in this election; my uncle George voted, I remember, and when he dropped in at our house that evening, I overheard him say that going to the polls was a filthy business. I could not make it out. Nothing could be clearer than that the leading spirits in the whole affair were most dreadful swine; and I wondered by what kind of magic they could bring forth anything so majestic, good, and venerable as the law. But I kept my questionings to myself for some reason, though, as a rule, I was quite a hand for pestering older people about matters that seemed anomalous. Finally, I gave it up as hopeless, and thought no more about the subject for three years.

An incident of that election night, however, stuck in my memory. Some devoted brother, very far gone in whisky, fell by the wayside in a vacant lot just back of our house, on his way to the Wigwam to await the returns. He lay there all night, mostly in a comatose state. At intervals of something like half an hour he roused himself up in the darkness, apparently aware that he was not doing his duty by the occasion, and tried to sing the chorus of “Marching Through Georgia,” but he could never get quite through three measures of the first bar before relapsing into somnolence. It was very funny; he always began so bravely and earnestly, and always petered out so lamentably. I often think of him. His general sense of political duty, I must say, still seems to me as intelligent and as competent as that of any man I have met in the many, many years that have gone by since then, and his mode of expressing it still seems about as effective as any I could suggest.

II. Reformers, Noble and Absurd

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Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870–August 19, 1945) was an influential American libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle twentieth century. Murray Rothbard was deeply influenced by him, and so was the whole generation of free market thinkers of the 1950s.

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Humanity as it Exists Today Is Facing Extinction – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Posted by M. C. on January 6, 2022

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/01/gary-d-barnett/humanity-as-it-exists-today-is-facing-extinction-an-inevitable-threat/

By Gary D. Barnett

“The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.”

~ Aristotle

What Aristotle understood about tyrants and the weakness and pathetic nature of man over 2,400 years ago, still holds true today. What this means is that with all that time passed, all that history, all the benefit of the great thinker’s minds over thousands of years, modern ‘education,’ modern technology, and every opportunity for a human awakening, the common man has not advanced intellectually, nor has he succeeded concerning any quest to affirm his own freedom. Reality suggests, in fact, that humanity has not actually progressed at all, but has descended deeper into a state of chaotic ignorance.

Considering this long term habituated state of being, how then can any critical thinking individual expect humanity as a whole to suddenly change during this current totalitarian onslaught against individual freedom? Throughout history, some countries and some parts of the world, were under more brutal and tyrannical rule than others, but some collective freedom did always exist briefly in certain societies. This always led to a ‘hope’ that the possibility of liberty was just around the corner, or at least attainable to those willing to fight for it. This of course was never assured or achieved because the populations of these less-abused societies were never willing to face the truth, or to take full responsibility or risk for their own well-being. Real freedom can never exist so long as governments continue to rule over others, regardless of what governing structure is in place, but the perception that freedom remained attainable for the crowd was kept alive. Was this by design?

The major difference today is that this attempted fascist and communistic takeover is a total global effort, so virtually every country on earth is under siege by evil governing forces and those who control them. In other words, there is a concerted effort by the so-called master class, to assure a global takeover of humanity, thereby stifling any and all thought of individual thought and freedom among the collective masses. There is only one sanctuary in a world such as this, and that sanctuary can only exist in the intellectually mature psyche and souls of free-thinking independent individuals. If the few can rule the many, why then cannot the billions defeat the ruling cabal attempting to destroy humanity as it exists today? The threat of human destruction should have been recognized by most all as inevitable long ago considering all historical accounts of totalitarian aggression, not to just those few who have had the courage to face the truth.

War has been used for thousands of years to subdue and control the masses, all in the name of safety. The threat of war will continue to be an arrow in the quiver of the ruling monsters, just as is being witnessed today with the aggressive posturing by the U.S against Russia, China, and much of the rest of the world. But conventional war has ceased to be the first tool of tyranny, as now the bogus threat of non-existent ‘viruses’ and plagues, created division, and purposely stoked hatred have become the ‘modern’ methods of warfare. Modern war is no longer war against far away imagined enemies using guns and bullets under the guise of nationalism, but war directed specifically against the domestic populations on a global scale. This tactic not only allows for total control over societies, but also allows for mass murder by the state of its own citizenry, which is democide. One of the most state desired benefits of this atrocious approach to killing, is that it allows the rulers to target specific individuals or groups that are falsely made out to be a threat to government and the public. All those said to be out of favor with the ruling class are said to be a danger to the status quo, causing at the same time due to unending propaganda, the frightened general population to support aggression toward those brave enough to stand against the state.

The very people that could save humanity will be the targeted classes. This will include truthtellers, whistleblowers, dissenters, courageous anti-vaxxers, freedom advocates, honest protesters against the state, and all others not willing to be obedient fools and lay down and bow to heinous false authority. These are the saviors of mankind, but will be said to be the enemy of the people, when in fact they are the defenders of freedom and the enemy of tyranny.

The plan of the non-human claimed ‘elites’ and their minions in government is to depopulate this earth, murder those willing to defend themselves and others against this totalitarian takeover called “The Great Reset,’ monopolize all monetary systems and create a global digitized system in order to gain control of all money and property, alter the human genome so as to create a fully controllable cyborg society under technocratic management; all under the dishonest auspices of safety and protecting the earth from fake manmade climate change. This can be done with injectable bioweapons falsely called ‘vaccines,’ and other invasive techniques as well, but so far has mostly been accomplished by fully voluntary cooperation by the pathetic masses.

What is to come of modern man? Human problems, fears, lack of courage and conviction, desire to escape responsibility, indifference, and reliance on others instead of self, have caused not only a lessening of intellect, but also have exposed the underbelly of the miserable modern human animal. The four most evident characteristics of modern man are weakness, ignorance, dependency, and fear, and all of these traits can lead only to an empty life of servitude.

But I’m just kidding. Continue as you do, take no responsibility for self, hope and wish for better times, hide in the shadows, never put down your phone, watch only mainstream news, turn in your neighbors that do not comply with state orders, show your papers wherever you go, wear your masks, get your ‘Covid’ injection and every booster, and sing the national anthem loudly. Your “new normal” will be here before you know it!

“If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: “Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!” And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Gary D. Barnett [send him mail] is a retired investment professional that has been writing about freedom and liberty matters, politics, and history for two decades. He is against all war and aggression, and against the state. He recently finished a collaboration with former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and was a contributor to her new book, “When China Sneezes” From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Political-Economic Crisis.” Currently, he lives in Montana with his wife and son. Visit his website.

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Guess Which Term Fauci Wants To Abandon – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Posted by M. C. on January 6, 2022

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/01/thomas-woods/guess-which-term-fauci-wants-to-abandon/

By Tom Woods

From the Tom Woods Letter:

Ron DeSantis was ridiculed for suggesting that someday the definition of “fully vaccinated” could change, and people could lose their jobs for not getting a third mRNA shot.

I don’t know why the lizard people bother ridiculing those who speculate about where the dystopia is going, because everything they speculate about winds up coming to pass.

There are already booster requirements all over the place.

And now we have this from Fauci: we’re not going to use the expression “fully vaccinated” anymore. Why? Because it commits what we laughingly call our public health establishment to determining a definitive endpoint.

He said, “We’re using the terminology now ‘keeping your vaccinations up to date,’ rather than what ‘fully vaccinated’ means. Right now, optimal protection is with a third shot of an mRNA or a second shot of a J&J.”

But with every booster, compliance falls significantly.

With every school closure — nearly two years into this nonsense — more normie parents decide they’ve had it.

With every throttling of a Joe Rogan episode, an audience of (literally) tens of millions gets exposed to previously excluded perspectives.

Does this mean we win?

Well, we have a lot more fighting to do, that’s for sure.

But there are a lot of us. And our numbers are growing, while theirs are falling.

This may seem cheesy to some, but it’s my approach right now:

I am planting some big flowers — for you:

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Tom Woods [send him mail; visit his website] is the New York Times bestselling author of 12 books and host of the Tom Woods Show, which libertarians listen to every weekday. Get a free copy of Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About the Lockdown: A Non-Hysteric’s Guide to COVID-19.

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