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Table of Contents How the CDC Is Manipulating Data To Prop-up ‘Vaccine Effectiveness’ Physician and Nuclear Cardiologist: Covid-19 and the Covid Shots Are Man-Made Bio-Weapons A New Way To Enter Trader Joe’s and a Dozen Other Stores With No Mask The End of Paper Gold and Silver Markets Smart People Say Dumb Things: Bill Gates Edition If Everything Is Going To Be Just Fine, Why Do the Shortages Just Keep Getting Worse? And Just Like That, the Mask Mandate Ended The Five Myths of Systemic Racism in Policing The Pandemic Virus That Doesn’t Exist Will Biden Stay in Bibi’s Pocket? Time To Privatize Our Public Schools Tennessee’s ‘Anti-Trans’ Bathroom Law Furor

How the CDC Is Manipulating Data To Prop-up ‘Vaccine Effectiveness’ Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data logging and testing for “Covid19” in order to make it seem the experimental gene-therapy “vaccines” are effective at preventing the alleged disease. They made no secret of this, announcing the policy changes on their website in late April/early May, (though naturally without admitting the fairly obvious motivation behind the change). The trick is in their reporting of what they call “breakthrough infections” – that is people who are fully “vaccinated” against Sars-Cov-2 infection, but get infected anyway. Essentially, Covid19 has long been shown – to those willing to pay attention – to be an entirely created pandemic narrative built on two key factors: False-postive tests. The unreliable PCR test can be manipulated into reporting a high number of false-positives by altering the cycle threshold (CT value) Inflated Case-count. The incredibly broad definition of “Covid case”, used all over the world, lists anyone who receives a positive test as a “Covid19 case”, even if they never experienced any symptoms. Without these two policies, there would never have been an appreciable pandemic at all, and now the CDC has enacted two policy changes which means they no longer apply to vaccinated people. Firstly, they are lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected “breakthrough infections”. From the CDC’s instructions for state health authorities on handling “possible breakthrough infections” (uploaded to their website in late April): For cases with a known RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) value, submit only specimens with Ct value ≤28 to CDC for sequencing. (Sequencing is not feasible with higher Ct values.) Throughout the pandemic, CT values in excess of 35 have been the norm, with labs around the world going into the 40s. Essentially labs were running as many cycles as necessary to achieve a positive result, despite experts warning that this was pointless (even Fauci himself said anything over 35 cycles is meaningless). But NOW, and only for fully vaccinated people, the CDC will only accept samples achieved from 28 cycles or fewer. That can only be a deliberate decision in order to decrease the number of “breakthrough infections” being officially recorded. Secondly, asymptomatic or mild infections will no longer be recorded as “covid cases”. That’s right. Even if a sample collected at the low CT value of 28 can be sequenced into the virus alleged to cause Covid19, the CDC will no longer be keeping records of breakthrough infections that don’t result in hospitalisation or death. Read the Whole Article The post How the CDC Is Manipulating Data To Prop-up ‘Vaccine Effectiveness’ appeared first on LewRockwell.

Physician and Nuclear Cardiologist: Covid-19 and the Covid Shots Are Man-Made Bio-Weapons Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 This ‘vaccine’ rollout is the largest research project in the history of mankind. You are either part of the experimental group or part of the control group. Dr. Mengele is rolling over in his grave wondering why he couldn’t have the capacity to do this type of human manipulation.” – Physicist and Nuclear Cardiologist Dr. Richard Fleming Del Bigtree, host of the weekly investigative news program The High Wire, conducted a powerful interview with Dr. Fleming on May 13. After the interview Del, who always uses caution in his reporting, said The High Wire would no longer consider the possibility that Covid-19 could be a natural occurrence wherein a bat transferred the virus to humans at a wet market in China. Del firmly concluded The High Wire would take the position that Covid-19 is a man-made bio-weapon. Dr. Fleming has been pro-vaccine throughout his career but he knows the covid shots are not vaccines. A summary of his conclusions: 1. Both SARS-CoV-2 and the Covid shots are man-made bio-weapons. 2. The shots inject into the recipient’s body billions of spike proteins that have the prion on top of them. The spike protein the body creates attaches and infects human cells. Blood clots and autoimmune disorders are two of many predicted ill health results. The spike protein is the bio-weapon; the coronavirus is the delivery system. 3. The prion-like domain at the Receptor Binding Site (RBS) has the potential to cause prion (brain or Mad Cow) disease. 4. The claim the virus was never isolated because Koch’s Postulates were not fulfilled is not correct. (Editor’s note: This assertion has been made mostly by terrain theory proponents including Drs. Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman, investigative journalist Jon Rappoport, researcher/writer David Icke among others). The virus was identified by piecing RNA and DNA together and matching the parts like a puzzle. 5. About 95% of the animals used in the clinical trials for coronavirus shots over the past 20 years died within two weeks. This period of time equates to 1 1/2 years for humans. A vaccine was never successfully developed. 6. During questioning by Sen. Rand Paul at a congressional hearing, NIAID Director Tony Fauci lied when he denied involvement in gain of function research funding on SARS-CoV-2 for China’s Wuhan Lab. However, information on US grants are a matter of public record and is posted on USspending.gov. This site and the medical/scientific articles acknowledging this funding transfer were displayed on screen. 7. The gain of function research was funded by the US government. The November 9, 2015 issue of Nature shows the grant funding code USAID-EPT-PREDICT which Dr. Fleming identified as the CIA. (EPT stands for Emerging Pandemic Threats.) DoD gave $35 million to Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, the third party the NIAID selected to conduct the research. 8. The US government owns the patent for the Covid shots. 9. SARS-CoV-2 is a fusion of five nucleotides. Infectious disease researcher Ralph Baric is shown in a video interview admitting his involvement with this work. 10. Those telling people to get the jabs including Biden, the Obamas and Fauci should be put on trial for committing crimes against humanity and for violating the Biological Weapons Convention and the Nuremberg Code which forbids medical experimentation without informed consent. The post Physician and Nuclear Cardiologist: Covid-19 and the Covid Shots Are Man-Made Bio-Weapons appeared first on LewRockwell.

A New Way To Enter Trader Joe’s and a Dozen Other Stores With No Mask Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 Three minutes is all it takes to protect your freedom. Make this three-minute phone call to the manager of a Trader Joe’s, and you will always be aware of their policy. They will also feel pressure against their existing policy from your phone call. And it will open the door for you with no need to worry about repercussion. Around three out of four questions I receive about face masks can be answered by just calling a manager, asking about their policy, informing yourself about the policy and what it’s enforcement looks like, invoking the policy, and then walking through the front door of that business. Just because they tell you information one time that gets you through the door unmasked,  call each time until all of these policies have been rolled back. It’s just a matter of time before they try to catch you at the front door again in some goofy scheme to test your willingness to comply with goofiness. Continuing to call keeps you on guard, reminds you who is in charge in a relationship between a customer and customer service provider, and provides an easy opportunity for you to gauge changes and immediately confront them. The following steps will get you through the door of dozens of businesses now and is very much like the techniques from “Face Masks in One Lesson” that have been able to get thousands of others through the door all along. Step 1.) Call and ask “What is your face mask policy?”  You: “What is your face mask policy?” Likely Answer From Manager: “Everyone is required to wear a face mask.” You: “Is there anyone not required to wear a face mask?” Manager: “Children under two and the medically exempt.” You: “Is there anyone else not required?” Manager: “You do not have to wear one if you are vaccinated.” Step 2.) Inquire further about what that means.  You: “How do you confirm vaccination status?” Manager: “We do not.” Step 3.) Confirm what will happen when you get there.  You: “So when I arrive with no mask on, what exactly happens, do I just walk through the door and go about my shopping?” Manager: “Pretty much.” You: “Does ‘pretty much’ mean yes or no?Because I don’t want there to be any problems at the door.” Manager: “That would be a yes, no one who works for me will disturb you.” You: “That’s great. If anyone who works for you asks, I’ll just say I spoke to you. What was your name by the way?” Manager: “Francis.” Step 4.) Put a good word in for the employees, and prepare for the next battle ahead.  This is important as well, but should only be brought up after you have successfully answered the questions above to your satisfaction. We need to take down the employee mask mandate. To push against that lightly you can ask: “Are the employees unmasked yet?” and “When are the employees going to be allowed to work unmasked?” We need to take down the vaccine mandate. If we don’t, it will sit on the books of many big corporations silently, until it suddenly one day we realize those policies grew teeth. To push against that lightly you can ask: “And why is it any of your business if I have been vaccinated or not? It’s awful that your policy even mentions vaccines.” This phone call is important. 2020 was able to happen the way it did, because so many people forgot the authority they have over evil. So many people forgot their ability to stand in authority over such twisted policies and to say “No!” Step 5.) Walk in the front door of the Trader Joe’s or this list of other stores unmasked, just like you used to before the Ides of March 2020, when corona communism was allowed to enter our lives.  What this all comes down to is that TRADER JOE’S HAS ENDED THEIR FACE MASK POLICY. This list of other stores below, and others, have reportedly done the same. I recommend the above process: to keep yourself fully apprised of what is happening in each store, to remind yourself of authority over any evil activity taking place, and to remind others of your authority over those perpetrating evil. Come flu season, these policies could come back with a vengeance. For now, these stores claim to have relaxed the face mask policies in the United States. AJ’s Fine Foods Aldi Bashas’ Best Buy BJ’s Wholesale Club Chipotle Costco CVS Dollar General Food 4 Less Food City Foods Co Fry’s Food Stores Giant Eagle Harris Teeter Home Depot King Soopers Kohl’s Kroger Lowe’s Macy’s Mariano’s Meijer Publix Ralphs Sam’s Club Sprouts Starbucks Target Trader Joe’s Walgreens Walmart Whole Foods How To Grow Freedom, Rollback The Tyranny, & Prevent A Repeat Of 2020  If every locality had a handful of people making phone calls like this from the start, I don’t believe 2020 could have taken place the way it did. I say this based on the amount of response these phone calls are able to garner, if a person is able to ask questions and to assert themselves. Once you’ve stumbled through that activity a few times, you get good at it pretty quickly, constantly improving. Phone calls like these keep a manager on his toes and can help to provide flexibility and exemptions locally even when a national policy doesn’t. Now we know better. It has taken us a year to marshal some of our resources and are ready for a magnificent fight. Do This For You, Your Family, & Your Tribe  Don’t do that for the good it brings to an amorphous collective. Do it for the good it brings to you and the individuals around you. 2020 has been training ground for bigger battles. If you embrace that training, those bigger battles become a most special thing that you are ready for. When you are ready for bigger battles you are able to change the world around you for yourself, for your family, and sometimes even for your immediate tribe and the greater community. These baby steps of picking up the phone to inquire about policy have helped many others get used to bending policy to their will, whether that be at grocery stores or in other areas of life. Do This To Train Yourself On Being Better Than A Second Class Citizen  In our society, non-lawyers are effectively second class citizens. What makes lawyers so effective is not just their ability to go into court and fight, nor their ability to use the word lawyer next to their name on a letter, it is their ability to sway another’s opinion by making arguments backed up with a little assertiveness. That is on the job training many lawyers receive. But it is the birth right of many more of us. An opportunity of the world post-2020 is that we can be reminded that we can train ourselves to be just as assertive, just as effective, as any lawyer. You are not a second class citizen if you will make that so. Your freedom is yours for the taking if you will just reach out and grab it. Never wear a face mask for any reason. Read Allan Stevo’s best selling book on the topic “Face Masks in One Lesson,” read his LewRockwell.com articles, and sign up for videos, classes, and activism opportunities at RealStevo.com. The post A New Way To Enter Trader Joe’s and a Dozen Other Stores With No Mask appeared first on LewRockwell.

The End of Paper Gold and Silver Markets Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 This article looks at the likely consequences of the Bank for International Settlements’ introduction of the net stable funding requirement (NSFR) for bank balance sheets, insofar as they apply to their positions in gold, silver and other commodity markets. If they are introduced as proposed, banks will face significant financing penalties for taking trading positions in derivatives. The problem is particularly important for the London gold market, as described in last week’s article on this subject. Therefore they are likely to withdraw from providing derivative liquidity and associated services. This article delves into the consequences of the NSFR leading to the end of the London forward markets in gold and silver. Replacement demand for physical metal appears bound to rise, and an assessment is therefore made of available gold not tied up in jewellery and industrial uses. An analysis of gold leasing by central banks, leading to double ownership of physical gold, is included. The conclusion is that unless the BIS has an ulterior motive to trigger a chaotic financial reset of some sort, it is a case of regulators not understanding the market consequences of their actions. Introduction Last week I explained why as they stand the new Basel 3 regulations will make it uneconomic for banks to continue to run bullion trading desks.[i] The introduction of the net stable funding requirement (NSFR) means that mainland European banks, of which ten are LBMA members including the Swiss, will have to comply with the new regulations from the end of June, and all UK banks, in effect the entire banking membership of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) will have to comply by the year-end. There are 43 LBMA members listed as banks, and on Comex there are currently 17 with long and 27 with short positions in the Swaps category, which represent bullion bank trading desks in the dominant futures contracts. So being similar, the Comex numbers must broadly replicate those operating in London. It is therefore reasonable to assume that if the LBMA’s banking membership ceases dealings in unallocated bullion, then very few will continue to deal on Comex — the LBMA crowd having ceased taking trading positions. We are discussing not gold or silver but their derivatives. But there is a problem borne out of the LBMA’s insistence that it involves bullion, albeit unallocated, and not derivatives. The distinction could be important, depending on how the UK regulator applies the NSFR rules. This is because in the calculation of required stable funding, gold consumes 85% of available stable funding while gold liabilities contribute no available stable funding at all. The effect is to impart a negative factor into a bank’s overall net stable funding calculation, making unallocated gold trading hopelessly uneconomic in terms of deployment of total funding capital. The alternative, which does not appear to be under the LBMA’s consideration, is to admit that the whole unallocated gold trading business has nothing to do with gold bullion but is in fact gold derivatives; in which case capital funding penalties under the NSFR would be broadly limited to imbalances between derivative liabilities and derivative assets. Consequently, it appears that an allocation backstop of 85% of available stable funding (ASF) must be swallowed in the case of gold, which does not appear to be the case if the LBMA confesses to the paper charade.[ii] There are in London, in effect, two markets conflated into one, but they must not be confused. The unallocated market, otherwise known as dealing for forward settlement, is the product of bank credit expansion, not as the LBMA claims, physical metal whose bar origins, weights and fineness are not recorded for convenience’s sake. Perhaps the LBMA would like to let us know where they think it’s all stored; it’s certainly not in LBMA vaults, where after deducting headline figures for custodial gold the float reduces to as little as a few hundred tonnes. Unsurprisingly, the Bank for International Settlements lists these transactions as over-the-counter derivatives for statistical purposes, so we know how they are regarded by the international regulator. Physical gold held on behalf of customers is never recorded on bank balance sheets. If a bank owns physical gold in its own vault, an independent vault, or allocated to it by another bank acting as custodian with its own vaulting facilities then that appears as an asset on its balance sheet. In that case, it can hedge out the price risk with a matching liability for a zero price-haircut within Basel 3 rules. But this has nothing to do with the NSFR calculation. Clearly, unless the NSFR calculation is amended at the last moment, following its introduction the character of bullion markets will become markedly different. Gone will be roughly $600bn of paper gold[iii], while presumably some of the paper demand released will migrate to physical metal. There is also the question of how outstanding imbalances will be resolved. This article assesses the consequences. Unknown motives and politics It is difficult to understand why the Financial Stability Board, under whose aegis the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has produced Basel 3, seems intent on destroying derivative markets for gold, silver and also for other commodities. That will be the consequence of the introduction of the NSFR calculation in these markets. As the supreme authority overseeing fiat currencies, the Bank for International Settlements, which oversees the FSB, has no love for gold. One can explain the desire to do away with it: as the riskless form of money, it has been at the centre of monetary affairs for ever and the desire to do away with it must be overwhelming for neo-Keynesian modernists. But if that is the case, then it will be a serious misjudgement, because as this article reveals, the consequence of withdrawing paper supply is likely to drive the gold price significantly higher, along with silver and a host of other important commodity prices. Furthermore, this delayed act, first published in 2014, now comes at a time of rapidly rising commodity prices, reflecting the unprecedented acceleration of global money-printing in 2020, which ironically proves the importance of sound money — gold. Already, tight, gold silver and commodity markets cannot accommodate a migration out of defunct paper into physical metals and energy without massive price rises to defuse the unsatisfied demand unleashed by this action. Perhaps the regulators at the FSB know this. If they do, then we can only conclude it is a deliberate attempt at a reset of all commodity markets. Bank corruption, particularly in precious metals has been rife: major banks have been regularly fined and continue to manipulate and spoof these markets, fines being seen as little more than a cost of doing business. These are systemic risks a regulator should address. But to assume the FSB is shutting down these paper markets to curb this behaviour exhibits a touching faith in its altruism. Another popular theory is of an even wider financial reset. The BIS is coordinating research into central bank digital currencies, which if adopted cuts out the commercial banks altogether. In theory, it would allow central banks to more effectively target stimulus and do away with the destabilising cycle of bank credit. The ultimate aim could be to demote and then remove commercial banks from the financial system entirely, in which context the closure of derivative markets by regulatory means makes some sense. Quantifying gold derivatives We know from the Bank for International Settlements’ statistics that at the end of the second half of 2020, gold forwards and swaps totalled $530bn, which at the then price of $1898 was the equivalent of 8,685 tonnes of gold in paper form.[iv] But other than a triannual survey, the next being due in 2022, according to the BIS this figure is culled from dealers, mainly banks, in only twelve jurisdictions. With respect to commodities and foreign exchanges, these twelve jurisdictions have been found to capture roughly 80% of the total, so grossed up the gold tonnage rises to an equivalent of 10,806. The LBMA positions are just part of the BIS total. The LBMA only records monthly settlements in London (Loco London) reported by the four clearing members that own and operate London Precious Metals Clearing Limited. They deal solely with LBMA members. The daily average settlement for December 2020 was recorded at 18.9 million ounces, or 588 tonnes. This is only one eighteenth of the BIS figure quoted above. The first thing to note is that daily settlements are not the same thing as outstanding obligations. Furthermore, the BIS statistic includes swaps and forwards not recorded in London nor, for that matter, are they necessarily settled through the LPMCL. But even taking these factors into account the difference between the BIS and LBMA figures still need further explanation. In an analysis for Hardman & Co published in January 2020, Paul Mylchreest identified two other sources of turnover not included in the LBMA figures: trade between LBMA members and non-members, and central banks dealing in unallocated gold.[v] Now let us assume that the new Basel regulations have the effect of bringing unallocated bank trading in gold to an end. From the value of outstanding OTC contracts recorded by the BIS adjusted for the trends of its triannual surveys, we can take it to be about 10,800 tonnes. Assuming LBMA members on their own account run relatively minor net positions in the context of this enormous figure, we can assume this outstanding balance is mostly split between central banks, other non-LBMA users of the unallocated market, and OTC trades recorded in other centres. We have no idea what the central bank position is at any one time, but it would be surprising if they took long positions. Instead, they can be expected to attempt to bolster market confidence in fiat currencies, and in particular the US dollar by selling gold. And by shorting paper gold, they also would seek to encourage physical supply by shaking out weak holders in ETFs. That being the case, not only has the central bank cohort no reason to be long of gold derivatives, but if they have positions, they are almost certainly short. The only likely exception is when a central bank which has leased gold sold into the market might hedge the price risk of not getting it back. The ending, therefore, of London’s forward settlement market would remove an artificial supply of gold, which we can estimate to be the equivalent of over 10,800 tonnes of gold. To this we should add the net short Swap position on Comex, comprised of bullion bank trading desks, which is currently 486 tonnes. From the main sources of derivative supply, we can therefore see roughly 11,300 tonnes of paper gold supply being withdrawn from the markets if the bullion bank cohort ceases trading in derivative gold. We should now examine the position of central banks further. Central bank leasing — yet to be resolved In 2002, Frank Veneroso, a respected analyst, concluded that central banks had leased anything between 10,000—16,000 tonnes of gold at that time — the upper figure being about half of global central bank gold reserves at that time. He gave his reasoning at a speech in Lima on 17 May that year.[vi] Central bank leased gold was being sold into the market for dollars, which as part of a carry trade were being reinvested by banks in US Treasury bills and the like, the cost of finance being a gold lease rate of one or two per cent, for a yield of six or seven. Veneroso concluded that much of the gold was repurposed into jewellery and had effectively disappeared from the market. Between the 1980s and the turn of the millennium, gold had been in a bear market, so the general public, including investing institutions, were either genuine sellers (which was in limited physical quantities) or hedging and speculating on the short side using derivatives. This enabled the bullion banks to hedge out the price risk on gold that would have to be eventually returned to central banks by going long for forward delivery relatively cheaply. But at the time of Veneroso’s speech, gold was $325, having risen from about $255 over the previous fourteen months. Conditions were changing from a long-established bear market, which favoured gold leasing activity, into the beginning of a new bullish phase. Leasing and even undeclared sales then became a tool for central banks to supply physical liquidity to the gold market, either to rescue bullion banks from being badly squeezed or simply to suppress the price. The leased gold might not have always left the vaults of central banks in the main gold dealing centres, as Veneroso assumed. However, during the period covered by Veneroso’s analysis, I regularly lunched at The Banker’s Club opposite the Bank of England’s rear entrance in Lothbury. On most days, security vans could be observed entering and leaving the Bank’s premises, transporting physical gold to and from the Bank’s vaults. So perhaps Veneroso was right about physical being sold and delivered into the market, at least to some degree.[vii] In March 2008 gold breached $1,000 for the first time. It would have been impossible for central banks to recover their leased gold by then, because Chinese and Indian demand was beginning to suck physical gold out of Western markets at an alarming rate, in any case significantly faster than any replacement by available mine and scrap supplies. It might appear that leased gold could then have been returned to central banks during the 2012—2015 bear market, but again, Chinese and Indian demand continued to absorb most of the available physical released by any ETF sales and other sources of physical supply. Alternatively, there would have to have been substantial selling of Western-owned stockpiles, and there is no evidence of that. The best one can say is that in some years, notably 2013, there was some ETF liquidation, but not in the quantities required to resolve the leasing problem. By way of confirmation, in 2014 I was told by one of the large Swiss refiners that they were working double shifts seven days a week turning 400-ounce LBMA bars into 1 kilo 9999 bars, the new Chinese standard. Some of the LBMA bars arrived in a poor condition and obviously had not been touched for decades, scraped out from the darkest recesses in deep-storage vaults. Furthermore, customers from the Middle East were submitting LBMA bars for refining into the new 1 kilo standard and taking them back to be re-vaulted in that form. Not only did this indicate that they were aligning themselves with China’s growing gold presence, but they were definitely not selling. Clearly, the 40% decline in the gold price between September 2011 and December 2015 led to substantial unrecorded increases in physical demand, cleaning out Western vaults. It would not have been possible for central banks to regain their leased gold. There was, perhaps, further circumstantial evidence of the leasing problem, when Germany decided to withdraw her earmarked gold from the New York Fed’s vaults. The desire to do so was publicly justified on the basis that Germany’s gold no longer needed to be stored abroad, because the threat of a Soviet invasion had been removed by the collapse of communism. But given that the suppression of gold involved leasing and gold swaps in significant quantities in order to maintain the dollar’s credibility, was the true reason nothing to do with Soviet presence but that the Bundesbank suspected its gold was being used for this purpose without its permission? The Bundesbank’s first action was to request to inspect its gold, a request that was flatly refused. Following that refusal, the decision was taken to begin a process of repatriation. Why it was partial is not entirely clear but could be explained if the Bundesbank suspected it wasn’t actually there. There would be nothing to be gained by demanding the return of all of it, but a partial return might at least enable the New York Fed to find some gold from elsewhere and avoid a public crisis. It turned out that after a series of meetings it was agreed to repatriate only 300 tonnes of Germany’s gold over a period of seven years. In fact, it was returned three years early. The Netherlands also sought, and obtained, 122.5 tonnes of her gold repatriated from New York. Austria arranged for the repatriation of some of its gold from London. While some of these repatriations were in the wake of public demands, they were never important enough to trigger them on their own. But they are consistent with substantial quantities being leased and assessments by the central banks repatriating national gold stocks that they are better secured on their own territory. Since the days, as Veneroso put it, when central bank gold ended up adorning Asian women, leasing procedures, being targeted at providing liquidity and at supressing the gold price, will have changed. Wherever possible, leased gold need not leave the Bank of England’s or the New York Fed’s vaults. A ledger entry, or book entry transfer confirming it is at the disposal of the lessee is all that’s required, and for the payment for the sale of leased gold to be arranged through the appropriate channels. And from there it can be reassigned by another book entry transfer. We saw this in action when GLD, the gold ETF, ended up with the Bank of England recorded as a sub-custodian holding some 70 tonnes of gold last August precisely in these conditions. In a leasing contract, ownership remains with the lessor. When arranging gold leasing, we can be sure that in recent times the Bank of England will have comforted lessors that their gold never leaves the Bank of England’s vault, so there’s no need to worry about repossession. This would be an operational justification for continuing leasing activities to offset physical shortages in the market. But the question over how much leased gold that has left the Bank of England and the New York Fed in the past remains unresolved, but it is likely to be in significant quantities with Veneroso’s lower estimate perhaps a bare minimum. The true quantity of monetary gold It is commonly stated that the above-ground gold stock is 200,000 tonnes. While that may be a reasonable approximation, most of it is not monetary gold in any sense of the definition and is not therefore its monetary supply. The statist definition of monetary gold is physical bullion held as part of a central bank’s declared monetary reserves. According to the IMF the current total of all such monetary gold is 35,244 tonnes, though as we have seen from the foregoing paragraphs it is unlikely to be all there or unencumbered. But to this we must add gold bullion hoarded and stored by all other parties on the assumption that it is either a more stable store of monetary value than fiat or an insurance against fiat currencies losing purchasing power. It must be in a form immediately available for monetary purposes, being in bar or coin form. Of an estimated 200,000 tonnes of above ground gold, it is generally assumed that 60% is used for other purposes, mainly jewellery but also some industrial purposes, leaving 80,000 tonnes of monetary gold conforming with our definition. After subtracting official monetary gold from the total, we are left with 44,756 tonnes. In October 2014 I published an article explaining why China had considerably more gold in storage than her declared reserves, and I estimated that by 2002, when the Chinese government removed the ban on personal ownership and opened the Shanghai Gold Exchange, the state could have acquired up to 25,000 tonnes.[viii] Much of this gold would have been leased gold sold into the London market. (Veneroso’s statement about ending up adorning Asian women could not have been true for Chinese women, because they were not permitted to own gold until 2002 and Indian imports were severely restricted for some of the relevant time). That China had accumulated substantial undeclared bullion stocks was confirmed to me anecdotally by experienced China watchers. If we treat that as part of our estimate of monetary gold, and make an allowance for Russia, of perhaps an unrecorded 5,000 tonnes, monetary gold in the hands of everyone else appears to amount to only 15,000 tonnes. But this figure will have been bolstered by central bank leasing activity, perhaps even doubled, with leased gold appearing to have two or even more owners, and the actual possession being in undeclared Asian hands. It is in this context that the threat to derivative trading from Basel 3 must be viewed. Not only will paper supply estimated at 11,300 tonnes equivalent in unregulated and regulated markets be threatened with removal, but there is an additional unknown figure of central bank leasing and swaps to be unwound. Obviously, there is significant guesswork involved, but if the numbers outlined herein have the slightest validity, the ending of gold derivative markets, if it is permitted to go ahead, will create a major gold crisis, of which the BIS regulators seem blissfully unaware. Silver The mechanics behind dealing in the LBMA silver market are the same as for unallocated gold. The LPMCL settlement system is the same, providing access only to LBMA members. The basis of calculating the net stable funding requirement is the same, so silver derivatives suffer from the same balance sheet disincentives. The principal difference is no silver is vaulted at the Bank of England, nor, so far as we are aware, in the vaults of any other Western central bank. In terms of demand, it is also primarily an industrial metal, and is mostly consumed. According to the Silver Institute, of a total annual demand of roughly a billion ounces that is forecast in the current year, 253 million ounces is identified as investment demand and a further 150 million ounces as ETF/ETP demand. Bizarrely, the report estimates there will be a fall in ETF demand, when it is already rising. And of the supply, only 18.5% is from recycling. The BIS figure for outstanding silver OTC derivatives is included in “Other precious metals” at $64bn. The same NSFR treatment for all commodity derivatives, including energy, involves an estimated $858bn’s worth. Not only is the introduction of the NSFR disruptive of precious metal markets, but it also threatens to disrupt wider commodities at a time when their prices are already increasing rapidly as a consequence of falling purchasing powers for fiat currencies. — [i] See The end of the LBMA is nigh https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-end-of-the-lbma-is-nigh [ii] See the LBMA’s letter to the Prudential Regulatory Authority on the NSFR (undated but sent end-April) https://cdn.lbma.org.uk/downloads/Pages/NSFR-PRA-Letter-final_signed-20210504.pdf [iii]BIS-recorded OTC gold derivatives plus Swap positions and their equivalents in regulated futures markets. [iv] See https://stats.bis.org/statx/srs/table/d5.2 [v] See https://www.hardmanandco.com/gold-open-letter-to-lbma-board-of-directors/ [vi] See http://www.24hgold.com/english/contributor.aspx?article=1192109884G10020&contributor=Frank+Veneroso [vii] Terry Smeeton, referred to by Veneroso in his Lima speech used to join me for lunch from time to time at the Banker’s Club. I never talked business with him — now I wish I had! [viii] See https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/china-s-gold-strategy Reprinted with permission from Goldmoney. The post The End of Paper Gold and Silver Markets appeared first on LewRockwell.

Smart People Say Dumb Things: Bill Gates Edition Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster. He doesn’t get past the introduction before making mistakes that negate the rest of the book. He claims Carbon Dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero to avoid a climate disaster. Assuming that CO2 can even cause a climate disaster, about half the CO2 emitted every year is reabsorbed by the Earth – by the oceans and by plants. Thus, you don’t need zero, a fifty percent reduction would stop the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is vastly more difficult to cut out all emissions compared to cutting them in half. Gates claims we have to deploy solar and wind faster and smarter. I wrote a book about wind and solar with the title: Dumb Energy. There is no smart deployment of wind and solar. They are very dumb and very, very expensive. It is routine for solar to cost five times more than electricity from natural gas. Heavy solar deployment makes it even more expensive due to the use of auxiliary batteries. Gates says we need to create and roll out breakthrough technologies. That’s called the pie in the sky. Bill Gates strikes me as a good guy, especially compared to the nasty guys running Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. He is sincerely trying to help the poor people of the world through his foundation. He is simply out of his depth on climate and is probably talking only to the promoters of climate disaster. There are plenty of scientists that are climate skeptics. You might think that having a lot of money frees one from the chains imposed by the need to please one’s employer, friends, family, and social group. But, rarely do rich people take unpopular positions. Trump is one of the few. Rich people are as much slaves to political fashion as anyone else. The same applies to scientists. It is unusual for a scientist to question popular wisdom among his peers. As for global warming, an employed scientist risks being fired if he expresses skepticism. Global warming fear is the source of vast funding for science. The hope is that giving money to the people that perpetrated the fraud can save us from it. Most of the scientists publicly skeptical of global warming are retired or otherwise independent of large institutions that hate dissent. Gates repeats a fallacious theory that has been debunked many times. “How do greenhouse gases (mostly CO2) cause warming? The short answer: They absorb heat and trap it in the atmosphere. They work the same way a greenhouse works—hence the name.” Global warming theory is far more complicated than greenhouses. But we should note that the owners of greenhouses often install CO2 generators to make plants grow better and faster. CO2 greatly benefits agriculture. Read the Whole Article The post Smart People Say Dumb Things: Bill Gates Edition appeared first on LewRockwell.

If Everything Is Going To Be Just Fine, Why Do the Shortages Just Keep Getting Worse? Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 They keep telling us that economic conditions are improving, but if that is true why are the shortages worse than ever?  For a moment, I would like to take you all the way back to 2019.  Before the pandemic came along, we didn’t have any shortages.  If you wanted something, you just went to the store and got it or you ordered it online.  Prices were low, global supply chains were functioning smoothly, and to most people it seemed like it would stay that way for the foreseeable future.  But then the pandemic hit, and “panic buying” caused short-term shortages of certain items such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer.  It was understandable that people would want to hoard those things, because there was a lot of fear in the air.  But we also knew that those shortages were only going to be temporary. Now here we are in 2021, and we were told that things would be getting back to normal by now. But instead, there are severe shortages everywhere around us. In fact, the shortages are far worse than anything that we experienced in 2020. For example, did you know that dozens of important drugs are in short supply?  According to the official FDA website, there are shortages of more than 100 drugs in the United States right now… If you found yourself in a situation like this, you can check the FDA’s drug shortage tracking system. Right now there are currently about 120 drugs listed as having a shortage. On the website, if you type in a drug name in the database search field you can see if and why it’s in short supply. You can also see whether it is scheduled to be discontinued, and when the supply may start flowing again. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Shortages just continue to get worse for the home building industry as well… “Builders are delaying starting new construction because of the marked increase in costs for lumber and other inputs,” said Mike Fratantoni, senior vice president and chief economist with the Mortgage Bankers Association, in a report Tuesday. He added that supply shortages for appliances are also putting a damper on new home building activity. Just over our northern border, the shortages have gotten really severe.  In some cases, the construction of homes “is months behind schedule” because the shortages have gotten so bad… Home builders across Canada are getting hit by a string of supply-chain disruptions, resulting in widespread product shortages and explosive costs for the industry. In some cases, home construction is months behind schedule as developers struggle to source everything from lumber to PVC pipes, insulation to windows. Builders are also holding back on presales, unable to accurately price their homes too far in advance, given that material costs can fluctuate wildly on a daily basis. When asked about these shortages, one home building executive said that “it’s getting worse and worse every day”… “The whole supply chain is out of whack,” said Matt McCurrach, president of Homex Development Corp. in Kamloops, B.C. “It’s getting worse and worse every day,” added Sue Wastell, president of Wastell Homes in London, Ont. “Literally every day, we’re finding out something else is not arriving when it was scheduled to. … We’ve never seen anything like this.” Of even greater concern is the global shortage of computer chips.  This is something that I discussed extensively in my recent article entitled “A Severe Computer Chip Shortage Will Last ‘A Few Years’, And This Could Plunge The Global Economy Into Utter Chaos”.  Just about every industry that you can name is extremely dependent on equipment that uses computer chips, and CNN is telling us that this shortage “is going from bad to worse”… The shortage is going from bad to worse, spreading from cars to consumer electronics. With the bulk of chip production concentrated in a handful of suppliers, analysts warn that the crunch is likely to last through 2021. According to Goldman Sachs, 169 US industries embed semiconductors in their products. The bank is forecasting a 20% average shortfall of computer chips among affected industries, with some of the components used to make chips in short supply until at least this fall and possibly into 2022. Actually, as I pointed out the other day, many executives now expect the computer chip shortage to extend into 2023. For automakers, this is rapidly becoming a complete and total nightmare.  During the first quarter, global auto production was down by about 10 percent due to the chip shortage, but Ford has announced that production in the second quarter will be down by about 50 percent… Investors have heard plenty about the current state of capacity problems for months. Roughly 2 million cars—or about 10% of quarterly global automotive production—weren’t built in the first quarter because of no chips. Ford Motor (ticker: F), one of the auto makers feeling the shortage most acutely, said in late April that it expects to lose about 50% of planned second-quarter production. A 50 percent decline in production? That is nuts! If automakers can’t make vehicles, then they will have to start laying off workers. Unfortunately, that is precisely what just happened at one factory in northern Illinois… Some 1,600 jobs are being cut at a Jeep Cherokee factory in northern Illinois as automakers continue being plagued by the global shortage of semiconductors. The U.S. arm of Stellantis, formerly known as Fiat Chrysler, said Friday it was cutting one of the two work shifts at its Belvidere Assembly Plant as of July 26. That could result in the layoffs of 1,641 workers, company spokeswoman Jodi Tinson said. The economic optimists keep telling us that better days are right around the corner, but those better days never seem to materialize. Instead, employment is still way below pre-pandemic levels, global supply chains are in a state of complete and utter chaos, and we are facing severe shortages of just about everything… Copper, iron ore and steel. Corn, coffee, wheat and soybeans. Lumber, semiconductors, plastic and cardboard for packaging. The world is seemingly low on all of it. “You name it, and we have a shortage on it,” Tom Linebarger, chairman and chief executive of engine and generator manufacturer Cummins Inc., said on a call this month. Clients are “trying to get everything they can because they see high demand,” Jennifer Rumsey, the Columbus, Indiana-based company’s president, said. “They think it’s going to extend into next year.” The difference between the big crunch of 2021 and past supply disruptions is the sheer magnitude of it, and the fact that there is — as far as anyone can tell — no clear end in sight. Big or small, few businesses are spared. Europe’s largest fleet of trucks, Girteka Logistics, says there’s been a struggle to find enough capacity. Monster Beverage Corp. of Corona, California, is dealing with an aluminum can scarcity. Hong Kong’s MOMAX Technology Ltd. is delaying production of a new product because of a dearth of semiconductors. If this is the “recovery”, what will things look like when the next severe economic downturn hits us? In my entire lifetime, I have never seen such widespread shortages. Those that are running things keep insisting that they have everything totally under control and that things will eventually get back to normal. You can believe them if you want, but millions of others are preparing for a future in which their optimistic assessments of the future turn out to be very, very wrong. Reprinted with permission from The Economic Collapse. The post If Everything Is Going To Be Just Fine, Why Do the Shortages Just Keep Getting Worse? appeared first on LewRockwell.

And Just Like That, the Mask Mandate Ended Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 “Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship.” Warnings from generals that the fabric of American society has been ripped. Dr. Fauci under fire in Senate hearings. VAERS reports that the US version of Covid vaccines may have been the predicate for many thousands of injuries and deaths. Then, just like that, mask mandates end; Dr. Fauci changes his tune once again saying that masks can come off, just days after saying that we may be wearing masks forever. The CDC issues new guidelines, and major chain retailers begin changing their masked-customer/masked-employee mandate. Half a dozen states follow suit, and others are set to follow. There are no coincidences in politics, and it certainly becomes difficult amidst the rapid pace of change in the past week to score those events as random chance. Perhaps it is merely that human beings have evolved structures in the brain which favor viewing an array of phenomenon as causally related, or a pattern, where in fact it is not the case. Rather, perhaps these are just projections of the functions of mind onto the external world. In the philosophy of science, this is an ongoing debate on the epistemology and utility of, for example, theoretical physics with its reified mathematical modeling. Or perhaps it is simply more likely that, especially in human endeavors relating to power, that the present events touch on each other in causally related ways. Indeed, it makes more sense to presume that in the field of human matters such as politics, which are all but uniformly intentional, there are no real coincidences. For those reasons, we ought to take notice of the 120 retired generals and admirals of the US Armed Forces who signed a joint statement calling into question the election results of the 2020 presidential election, and also noted ‘President’ Joe Biden’s deteriorated mental and physical condition. In that statement, besides the expected criticisms of the teaching of critical race theory in the military and related cultural changes in society at large, they interestingly included a strong disapproval of the policy on lockdowns and business closures, writing: “Moreover, population control actions such as excessive lockdowns, school and business closures, and most alarming, censorship of written and verbal expression are all direct assaults on our fundamental Rights.” For some time before this, a few states, notably Florida, had bucked Biden’s calls on mandatory vaccination, public masking, distancing, shutdowns and lockdowns, and instead appeared to promote a policy in line with those of 45th President Trump. While the CDC in February admitted that it had been using the PCR test in a way which resulted in a tendency towards false positives, the logical conclusion one would draw from that wasn’t realized until May 15th when the policy was abruptly reversed. It is here that we see a very real change come into fruition – vaccinated people need no longer wear masks. But in the US there are some privacy and discrimination laws which discourage private enterprises operating in the public sphere from requiring customers to show proof either way. Because of this, there will be no way of really determining who was vaccinated – unless we later find out that vaccines came with some marking device. Of course we use the term ‘vaccine’ loosely, following the NewSpeak volume 2021 changes which alter the definition of vaccine to include MRNA gene therapies. Then, to wit, we have the election audit processes underway in Arizona, which appears to be showing evidence of fraud, with the Maricopa County authorities now claiming they do not have password access to the voting data. Strange here is that data suddenly disappeared after the legal process required those authorities to make the data available to auditors. If they do not have access to the data, then who does? But there’s more here too: New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin, all are in varying stages of doing something of a recount or audit of the 2020 election result. And it is most certainly of great interest, the coming together of these magical coincidences, the revelation that Dr. Fauci had been behind ‘gain of function’ research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Tuesday May 11th in hearings. Gain of function, to modify viruses, falls under internationally banned research on biological weapons. In that testimony, it appears Dr. Fauci perjured himself, or made a misleading qualification on the border of perjury when pressed by Senator Paul. “Paul pressed Fauci on the theory that the novel coronavirus was created in the Wuhan lab, and then somehow escaped, either because of an accident or because it was deliberately released.”, as reported by The Hill. The former head of the CDC, Robert Redfield, explained that the research and knowledge on Sars-Cov-2 showed that it was created in a lab. For some reason, reasons we are well aware of, the corporate media (who have been behind this Great Reset agenda towards a new totalitarianism and the ouster of a democratically elected US President), ignored this inconvenient fact. Scores of other virologists and epidemiologists have concurred with this assessment, or had arrived at it independently. This part is significant, because it shows that the entire Wuhan wet-market narrative was a lie, based on some amalgam of Hollywood references. Indeed, all of these events happened because citizen activists across all walks of life ‘held the line’. But there’s a few more problems to resolve as far as this goes: much of the information that has just hit the mainstream, was known about for the past 14+ months. Why now, with nearly half the population ‘vaccinated’, have the elected representatives (supported by citizen activism), decided to finally push the issue? Certainly for many Americans, the developments over the past few days are more than welcome – it looks like a door has opened and not only is there a possibility that this nightmare will end soon all together, but that justice may be served on those like Bill Gates and Fauci who have been prominent figures behind this ‘Big Lie’. But these positive developments come now with 123 million Americans having received two doses: ‘renegade’ doctors, experts in related fields, have already come forward expressing strong concerns that the ‘vaccine’ may cause serious long term health problems, including death and heart failure. Mainstream sources have been forced to admit the same, but do so in a way that mitigates the perception. Big Pharma and complicit politicians were well aware that public interest in taking the vaccine would decline rapidly if the punitive component (forced masks and lockdowns) were to end. For these reasons, we were privy to public admissions that now was a critical time, when Americans should not enjoy their rights unless those are tied to vaccination. If states were restricting tyrannical policies prior to ‘herd immunity’ (as defined in NewSpeak volume 2021 – only gene therapies now confer ‘herd’ immunity, a radical departure from language in 2020 and centuries before), then Americans would feel much less compelled to get vaccinated. Perhaps at the end of the day, the time of all of these developments are simply how long it takes to reverse-course on a narrative that the corporatist technocracy was pushing 24/7. Or maybe they have accomplished their goals, and the potentially horrific consequences upon the population have not yet been realized. Perhaps they are satisfied with the bail-outs, with the destruction of all those small businesses they could destroy, the vax company stock dividend pay-outs, and the upwards redistribution of wealth that went along with this (Amazon, et al). And maybe, just maybe, there is yet another pandemic that will ‘accidentally’ escape from a lab in the coming months or years. Maybe everything we have experienced so far is just a test for something much bigger in the works. And what of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Compared to the US, some parts of these countries have been all but glorified prison colonies. The mandates have been far more draconian, the consequences far more serious. Given the special relationship that the US has with the Anglosphere, what will happen next? Does science and medicine work differently in those countries? What has happened in the US that has so radically changed the discourse here? Again, in politics there are no coincidences. It’s very hard not to look squarely the letter from 120 retired generals and admirals. Their message counts for something, perhaps something big. These aren’t men who live private lives or live in bubbles. For every one retired general or admiral with these expressed concerns, we would be errant not to surmise the existence of many more generals and admirals still in their positions, simply following the rules on expressing dissenting political speech. They have followers and supporters still within the military. But within the rubric of an inter-elite conflict, with sides lining up surrounding implementation of the Great Reset agenda, such dissent at high levels in the military – whom some Americans could call ‘white hats’ – is most disconcerting to the powers that be. But here’s a final thought on immunization. Just maybe through all of this, enough of the public has been immunized against the Big Lie politics of endless lockdowns and a tyranny justified by a pandemic. In closing, it’s important to reflect on the warnings given to Americans several hundred years ago by Dr. Benjamin Rush, personal doctor to George Washington and a signer of the Declaration of Independence: “Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic…” The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation. The post And Just Like That, the Mask Mandate Ended appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Five Myths of Systemic Racism in Policing Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 The belief that law enforcement is infused with systemic racism is a myth. As the evidence demonstrates, blacks are not disproportionately killed by the police. Moreover, the perception of white officers as trigger-happy is also baseless. Here is a rebuttal of five popular lies. Myth 1: Blacks are disproportionately killed by the police. Blacks are 13.4 percent of the population yet they account for 48.9 percent of murder offenses, according to 2019 FBI crime statistics. Telling us that they are more likely to be killed by the police relative to their share of the population is irrelevant. Obviously, if blacks are overrepresented in committing violent crimes, then the likelihood they will be killed by police will be higher as well. The harsh truth is that blacks are disproportionately perpetrators and victims of violent crime. Furthermore, research reveals that since 2015, police have shot and killed 168 unarmed white people, 135 unarmed black people, and 74 unarmed Hispanic people. Since more unarmed whites were killed by the police than unarmed minorities, the logic of activists suggests the real victims of systemic racism are whites. Myth 2: White officers are trigger-happy. Researchers have known for a long time that black officers show a greater tendency to shoot unarmed suspects compared to white officers. A possible explanation for the aggression of black officers is that they may more often be stationed in volatile areas requiring greater use of force. Work by the Crime Prevention Research Center compared cities where whites are killed to cities where blacks are killed, and found the latter exhibit higher rates of violent crime on average. Another issue is that officers are usually situated in communities in which most citizens are of the same race. Hence the findings of Greg Ridgeway, that black officers are more inclined to employ deadly force, could be driven by these factors: Black officers had more than three times greater odds of shooting than white officers. This finding runs counter to concerns that white officers are overrepresented among officers using lethal force and is consistent with several previous studies of officer race and police use-of-force. Likewise, a 2015  Philadelphia Police Department study found that black officers were 67 percent more likely than their white peers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect. John Lott is the latest researcher to confirm these results. Read the Whole Article The post The Five Myths of Systemic Racism in Policing appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Pandemic Virus That Doesn’t Exist Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 For the past year, I’ve been offering compelling evidence that: no one has proven SARS-CoV-2 exists. [1] I’ve explained that the virus was never isolated. In fact, researchers use the word “isolated” to mean its very opposite: “We ASSUME we have the virus surrounded by, and embedded in, a great deal of other material, and we never extract it or purify it.” No isolation=no discovery of a virus. I’ve explained that it’s impossible to put together the genetic sequence of a virus that has never been found. Unless, of course, you’re lying. I’ve published an article in which Dr. Andrew Kaufman [2] took apart, step by step, a typical published study in which the authors described how they isolated SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Kaufman tore this description to pieces and revealed how absurd it is. [3] When confronted with a mountain of so-called science plus sheer propaganda, most people find it impossible to accept the fact that, at the core of the mountain, there is… NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. “Oh, that couldn’t be. There has to be SOMETHING, and the something must be a virus.” This is on the order of a child saying, “There has to be a ghost in the closet every night when I go to sleep.” All that fear, and there is nothing? No, no. But in the medical universe, there are actually several huge institutions that are based on nothing. Here is one: PSYCHIATRY. The official bible of the psychiatric profession, the DSM, lists, describes, and labels some 300 separate and distinct mental disorders. If you plow through the bible, you will notice that NONE of these mental disorders has a defining laboratory test. No saliva, blood, hair, urine test. No brain scan. No genetic assay. NOTHING. Yes, people have problems, troubles. People experience suffering and pain. But that is quite, quite different from arbitrarily carving up all that suffering into 300 academic and clinical categories called “mental disorders.” And on top of the astonishing scientific con, the patients who are diagnosed are given toxic drugs, some of which push them over the edge into committing suicide and murder. All based on a scientific nothing. (A warning: Suddenly withdrawing from psychiatric drugs can be very dangerous, even life-threatening. Withdrawal should be done gradually, supervised by a caring professional who knows what he’s doing. See breggin.com.) [4] In a PBS Frontline episode, Does ADHD Exist? [5], Dr. Russell Barkley, an eminent professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, unintentionally spelled out the fraud. PBS FRONTLINE INTERVIEWER: Skeptics say that there’s no biological marker—that it [ADHD] is the one condition out there where there is no blood test, and that no one knows what causes it. BARKLEY: That’s tremendously naïve, and it shows a great deal of illiteracy about science and about the mental health professions. A disorder doesn’t have to have a blood test to be valid. If that were the case, all mental disorders would be invalid…There is no lab test for any mental disorder right now in our science. That doesn’t make them invalid. Oh, indeed, that does make them invalid. Utterly and completely. All 300 mental disorders. Because there are no defining tests of any kind to back up the diagnosis. We are looking at a science that isn’t a science. That’s called fraud. Rank fraud. Here is one more newsflash: The so-called “chemical-imbalance” theory of mental illness is dead. Dr. Ronald Pies, the editor-in-chief emeritus of the Psychiatric Times, laid the theory to rest in the July 11, 2011, issue of the Times with this staggering admission: “In truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend — never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists.” [6] Boom. Dead. However…urban legend? No. For decades the whole basis of psychiatric drug research, drug prescription, and drug sales has been: “we’re correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain.” The problem was, researchers had never established a normal baseline for chemical balance. So they were shooting in the dark. Worse, they were faking a theory. Pretending they knew something when they didn’t. In his 2011 piece in Psychiatric Times, Dr. Pies tries to protect his colleagues in the psychiatric profession with this fatuous remark: “In the past 30 years, I don’t believe I have ever heard a knowledgeable, well-trained psychiatrist make such a preposterous claim [about chemical imbalance in the brain], except perhaps to mock it…the ‘chemical imbalance’ image has been vigorously promoted by some pharmaceutical companies, often to the detriment of our patients’ understanding.” Absurd. First of all, many psychiatrists have explained and do explain to their patients that the drugs are there to correct a chemical imbalance. And second, if all well-trained psychiatrists have known, all along, that the chemical-imbalance theory is a fraud… …then why on earth have they been prescribing tons of drugs to their patients… …since those drugs are developed on the false premise that they correct a chemical imbalance? The chemical-imbalance theory is a fake. The entire branch of medicine called psychiatry is based on NOTHING. But again, people find that difficult, if not impossible, to accept. They prefer to believe there must be SOMETHING. That’s what they want to believe. That’s what they’ve been trained to believe. “Well, you see, every effect has a cause, and that cause is actually the effect of an earlier cause, and you can go back farther and farther in the chain…” And this idea is somehow the basis for assuming that, if a pandemic is announced, there must be a virus. “I’ve got to have a virus. I NEED a virus.” “I fear the virus. I want the virus. I love the virus.” There are all sorts of variations on the theme. “The pandemic? There must be something at the core of it. There must be.” THERE IS NOTHING. And if someone responds with the familiar battle cry, “Then why are all these people dying?”, I’ve covered that issue from stem to stern in a dozen articles or so. [7] The entirety of illness and death attributed to the “pandemic” can be explained by multiple factors (not one), and none of those factors involves a virus. “People dying equals a virus” is about as convincing as “all-cause mortality rising is the result of plane crashes.” As sure as I’m writing this sentence, someone somewhere will think, “Hmm, plane crashes. I should look into that…” And he will. He’ll look into planes flying through underground caves, carrying passengers intent on exploring the center of the Earth, where doctors are producing a longevity drug that extends life for 500 years. But the planes are having accidents. That level of fantasy is on the same bookshelf as “the virus is causing the pandemic.” SOURCES: [1] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/?s=SARS-CoV-2+exists&submit=Search [2] https://andrewkaufmanmd.com/ [3] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/04/21/isolation-of-sars-cov-2-refuted-in-step-by-step-analysis-of-claim/ [4] https://breggin.com/ [5] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/experts/exist.html [6] https://web.archive.org/web/20160720061355/https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychiatry-new-brain-mind-and-legend-chemical-imbalance [7] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/tag/dying/ Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog. The post The Pandemic Virus That Doesn’t Exist appeared first on LewRockwell.

Will Biden Stay in Bibi’s Pocket? Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 Netanyahu’s own words, videotaped two decades ago, show his disdain for the malleability of former U.S. presidents. As it turns out, Netanyahu had good reason to hold them in contempt as he “maneuvered” around them to ensure unstinting American support for status-quo Israeli domination of the Palestinians. How about now? Will he see President Biden as a wimp, with Biden’s mealy-mouthed comment to Netanyahu earlier today that Biden “expects to see a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire” in Gaza. If past is precedent, Netanyahu’s likely response will be a half-polite, “Joe, please take that and shove it … and oh, by the way, I meant to thank you for your proposed sale of $735 million-worth of smart bombs a couple of weeks ago. It came at just the right time for me.” You readers will be quick to point out, Netanyahu could not survive, were the US to stop its misconceived, lemming-like, unprecedentedly generous support for Israel. And you would be correct. Still, the odds are against anything more effective than pious calls for steps “on the path to a ceasefire”, until Israeli forces accomplish what the Israelis now admit they have long planned to achieve in Gaza. Here’s Why Netanyahu thought the camera/sound was off 20 years ago, when he spoke with unspeakable candor to a small private group, explaining, “America is a thing that can be easily moved … moved in the right direction. They [Americans] will not bother us.” In this 5-minute video, leaked and aired on Channel 10 News in Israel, Netanyahu in 2001 discussed the Oslo Accords, the peace process, Bill Clinton, and Israel’s power to move the US”in the right direction’. Translation (based on the subtitles) follows, with Netanyahu in bold. “The Arabs now are preparing a campaign [war] of terror, and they think that this will break us. “The main thing is, first and foremost, to hit them hard. “Not just one hit … but many painful, so that the price will be unbearable. “The price is not unbearable now. “A total assault on the Palestinian Authority. “To bring them to a state of panic that everything is collapsing. ” … fear that everything will collapse … this is what we’ll bring them to … [Woman interrupts: But wait a minute. At that point the whole world will say, ‘What are you, occupiers?] “The world will say nothing. The world will say we are defending ourselves. Read the Whole Article The post Will Biden Stay in Bibi’s Pocket? appeared first on LewRockwell.

Time To Privatize Our Public Schools Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 Recently, a good friend related to me some of the experiences his daughter was having in a high school not too far from him. You see, his daughter is a history teacher—or should we say “social studies” teacher, to be politically correct? It seems that the curriculum she must teach and the approved texts her students must use in the classroom are redolent thematically with the idea that from its beginning America was characterized by ingrained racism: indeed, a white racism which infected and colored practically everything, from the social structures in the colonies and later codified by a racist Constitution, to the dealings—both legal and familial—between inhabitants, to the very language they used to communicate their thoughts, beliefs, and ideas. Like other teachers at her school my friend’s daughter is instructed to impart these insights as part of an overall educational template that suggests that from its earliest settling the America colonies, and then the American republic, were moored historically in a quasi-religious belief in “white supremacy” and the pervasive “racism” which defined it. While not as forward or fulsome perhaps as the “1619 Project’s” recommendations and its embrace of “Critical Race Theory,” grammar and high school curricula echoing the “Project” now shape students in such a way as to prepare them, if they are college bound, for a fuller indoctrination as they continue their education. Given that most freshly minted teachers coming out today from the vast majority of our country’s schools of education already possess a well-developed predisposition and vision that comports with the vision projected by the “1619 Project,” and that many local school boards are dominated by the same vision, is it any wonder what students in public schools are being taught? And for those who go on to college, the ground is well prepared. From a young seven year old boy who is proud that his conservative parents supported Donald Trump, who goes to church with them regularly, whose everyday thoughts turn to games, sports and friends, and are millions of miles away from “wokeness,” we transition to the molded college journalism grad at age twenty-two from the University of North Carolina or from any number of other institutions of higher learning across the nation, who mouths fierce and unrelenting slogans about “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “intersectionality,” and demands “equity.”  And “equity” is a weasel word never fully defined, but an essential ingredient in the Critical Race Theory (CRT) lexicon. As Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, in their volume, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2012, 49) describe it, CRT calls for “aggressive, color conscious efforts to change the way things are,” meaning the use of race as the determinant in making decisions as to how property, positions of power, and prestige are allocated in society. And since for the past two millennia the white race has oppressed and abused black and brown peoples around the world, simple equality of opportunity is not enough, in fact is evil, just one more effort of the white man to maintain his privileged position. Indeed, what is entailed in the current talk about “equity” is the requirement for various forms of reparation, a kind of reverse discrimination to satisfy the social injustices and the effects of white colonialism, slavery, and exploitation of black and brown peoples over past centuries. True, while the curricula in thousands of public schools may not be this explicit, they nevertheless seed impressionable minds and groom students for what is to come. The results are evident…on the downtown streets this past summer of nearly every large or medium-sized American city set ablaze by howling mobs, or as dozens of historical monuments have come down because they honor white people who helped create this nation, or as “woke” corporate executives, media barons, entertainment glitterati, as well as the educational establishment censor and cancel hundreds and thousands of years of Western civilization and culture…because it was created by whites. For some twenty years I have chaired North Carolina’s Confederate Flag Day, held in early March each year. Sponsored by the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the event was held in the House of Representatives chamber of the historic 1840 State Capitol building, honoring the historic flags of the Confederacy and the citizen soldiers who fought under those flags. The event was always peaceful. Back in 2019, with heightened racial tensions nearly everywhere after the Charleston shootings, as we ended our observance, a large violent mob of Antifa thugs, Black Lives Matter demonstrators, and others assembled outside the Capitol blocking our exit. I’ve recounted what happened in a column published on March 11, 2019. Nearly 200 armed police and State Troopers had to form a cordon to enable us to exit the building safely and find our way to our cars. I wrote then: “As I exited with other attendees I looked into the faces of the mob: what I observed was a very real madness, an unleashed fury, eyes filled with uncontrolled hatred…. Those angry faces—those glaring and fierce eyes…betrayed ruptured souls, corrupted and demonized, existing in a kind of counter-reality with their own set of always-advancing rules, but dedicated in a fearsome and unambiguous way to the destruction—salvation through destruction—of Western Christian civilization, of mankind as we have known it.” That hatred, that fury, that lunacy so apparent in the eyes of those demonstrators in March 2019 and so evident in thousands and thousands like them, begins in our schools with administrators and teachers, and with local school boards, dousing our children with the flammable ingredients which corrupt and pervert, and turn them into what I have termed modern “pod people.” These “pod people” serve a larger and more fearsome purpose: the ultimate success of the Revolution against God and man. For their fanatical assault against what they perceive as white supremacy and racism is in fact an attack on Creation itself, on the natural laws of that Creation, and the God Who made it. It is time for our cowardly legislators to begin the process of privatizing the public schools and turning education over once more to the parents where it belongs. Reprinted with the author’s permission. The post Time To Privatize Our Public Schools appeared first on LewRockwell.

Tennessee’s ‘Anti-Trans’ Bathroom Law Furor Thursday 20 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 Activists are denouncing as “dehumanizing” a newly-enacted Tennessee law that requires businesses to post a notice about allowing transgender people to use their bathrooms. Forget tolerance, nothing less than affirmation will do. Governor Bill Lee signed into law House Bill 1182/Senate Bill 1224 on Monday. Under the law, which will go into effect in July, a public or private entity that operates a building or facility open to the general public – and has a “policy of allowing a member of either biological sex to use any public restroom within” – is required to post a notice to that effect. “This facility maintains a policy of allowing the use of restrooms by either biological sex, regardless of the designation on the restroom,” is the verbiage mandated by the law. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a law that requires businesses to post signage if they allow trans people to use the restroom that aligns with their gender identity. A similar bill directed at public school districts was signed last week.https://t.co/04NITkmCeH — NPR (@NPR) May 19, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The law was immediately dubbed “anti-trans” by major media outlets, from the publicly funded NPR to corporate cable channels. Some activists have even called it “segregation.” At first glance, it’s difficult to guess why. Wouldn’t trans individuals want to know which facilities welcome them to use the bathroom of their choosing? Ah, but the legal verbiage includes that horrible phrase “biological sex,” which is simply anathema to the woke. “Denying transgender people the ability to access a bathroom consistent with their gender identity is degrading and dehumanizing – and can have real health and safety consequences,” howled Alphonso David of the Human Rights Campaign, in reaction to the Tennessee law. Except nobody is denying anything to anyone! Does David mean to say that businesses will somehow be shamed or inconvenienced by the legal requirement to put up a sign – the same businesses that happily hang up the Pride flag or any number of other woke virtue signifiers? Seriously? The irony here is that the entire reason for the signage is that biological women using the bathrooms don’t want to deal with biological men for literally the reasons of “health and safety.” David is literally making the argument the other side has invoked to keep the bathrooms separated by sex – something that goes back centuries and across cultures. Over the past several years in the West, however, there has been a veritable crusade – or jihad, we don’t discriminate – to replace the concept of biological sex with “gender,” a category previously reserved only for language. According to this, gender is all in one’s head, and if a person decides they are really of a different gender than the one “assigned” to them at birth, society has an obligation to “affirm” this – with some surgical assistance, should the person so desire. Question this and you’re a bigot. Refer to the person by their previous identity – “deadnaming” – and you’re committing a hate crime! More recently, there has been a push to make “gender-affirming” surgeries and puberty blockers available to minors without parental consent. You can’t buy tobacco before 18 or alcohol before 21, but you can pick your gender at eight or 10 – at least according to US President Joe Biden. There are even knitted genitalia being marketed to “trans” toddlers. Object to any of this, and you’ll get “canceled” by the woke – not just the activists, but the political parties, media and corporate cartels aligned with them. Even the Tennessee law, innocuous as it is on its face, must be denounced and disavowed as “dehumanizing” and as “segregation” when it is clearly neither. All in the name of diversity, inclusion and equity, of course – the Trojan Horse of “tolerance” having served its purpose and now long abandoned. Indeed, one cannot “tolerate the intolerant” as the meme attributed to philosopher Karl Popper goes. The paradox of tolerance, or why good people have a responsibility to be intolerant of intolerance. pic.twitter.com/zAJ1UYWvwV — Vince Wall (@VinceWallAU) May 15, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js One gets the impression this isn’t really about trans individuals. Maybe it never has been. Perhaps the point is in getting people to publicly declare that A is not-A. Once they’ve done that, they can be made to do anything, after all. The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT. The post Tennessee’s ‘Anti-Trans’ Bathroom Law Furor appeared first on LewRockwell.

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