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Table of Contents The Faith of Entrepreneurs The Extreme and Deadly Risks We Face Are Many, and of Our Own Making Uniformity Makes Us into Animals and Machines Systemic Irresponsibility Explained The Feminization of Western Men Open Letter From Retired Military: A Plot Against the Republic? ‘At First Quietly, Then Much Less Quietly’ Leaving Team Blue for Team Red Returning to Form? From Mind Control to Viruses: How the Government Keeps Experimenting on Its Citizens Doctor Refuses To Accept Vaccinated Patients. He Will Not Let Those Who Made a Bad Decision… The Criminalization of Dissent

The Faith of Entrepreneurs Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 Ludwig von Mises didn’t like references to the “miracle” of the marketplace or the “magic” of production or other terms that suggest that economic systems depend on some force that is beyond human comprehension. In his view, we are better off coming to a rational understanding of why markets are responsible for astounding levels of productivity that can support exponential increases in population and ever higher living standards. There was no German miracle after World War II, he used to say; the glorious recovery was a result of economic logic working itself out through market forces. Once we understand the relationship between property rights, market prices, the time structure of production, and the division of labor, the mystery evaporates and we observe the science of human action making great things happen. He is right that understanding economics does not require faith, but there are actions undertaken by market actors themselves that require faith (and Mises would not disagree with this)—immense faith, faith that moves mountains and raises up civilizations. If we accept the interesting description of faith by St. Paul (“evidence of things unseen”) we can understand entrepreneurship and capitalist investment as acts of faith. Everyone who is in business understands this. It requires a thousand daily acts of seeing the unseen future to be in business. The reality of the marketplace is that the consuming public can shut you down tomorrow. All they need to do is to fail to show up and buy. This is true for the smallest business to the largest. There is no certainty in any business. Nothing is a sure thing. Every business in a market economy is only a short step from bankruptcy. No business possesses the power to make people buy what they do not want. All success is potentially fleeting. Success does yield a profit, but that provides no comfort. Every bit of profit you take for yourself comes out of what might otherwise be an investment in the development of the business. But neither is this investment a sure thing. Today’s smash hit could be tomorrow’s flop. What you perceive to be a solid investment could turn out to be a short-term craze. What you see, based on past sales, as having a potential mass appeal could actually be a market segment that was quickly saturated. Emperors can rest on their laurels but capitalists never can. Sales history provides nothing but a look backwards. The future is never seen with clarity but only through a glass, darkly. Past performance is not only not a guarantee of future success; it is no more or less than a data set of history that can tell us nothing about the future. If the future turns out to look like the past, the probabilities still do not change, any more than the probability of the next coin toss landed on heads increases because it happened previously five times in a row. Despite the utter absence of a road map, the entrepreneur-investor must act as if some future is mapped out. He or she must still hire employees and pay them long before the products of their labor come to market, and even longer before those marketable products are sold and turn a profit. The equipment must be purchased, upgraded, serviced, and replaced, which means that the entrepreneur must think about today’s costs and tomorrow’s and the next day’s saecula saeculorum. Especially now, the costs can be mind boggling. A retailer must consider an amazing array of options concerning suppliers and web services. There must be some means of alerting the world to your existence, and despite a century of attempts to employ scientific methods for finding out what makes the consumer tick, advertising remains high art, not positive science. But it also an art with high expense. Are you throwing money down a rathole or really getting the message out? There is no way to know in advance. The heck of it too is that there are no testable causes of success because there is no way to perfectly control for all important factors. Sometimes not even the most successful business is clued into what it is, precisely, that makes its products sell more as compared with its competitors. Is it price, quality, status, geography, promotion, psychological associations people make with the product, or what? Back into the 1980s, for example, Coca Cola decided to change its formula and advertise it as New Coke. The result was a catastrophe as consumers fled, even though the taste tests said that people liked the new better than the old. If the historical data are so difficult to interpret, think how much more difficult it is to discern probable outcomes in the future. You can hire accountants, marketing agencies, financial wizards, and designers. They are technicians, but there are no such things as reliable experts in overcoming uncertainty. An analogy might be a man in a pitch-black room who hires people to help him put one foot in front of the other. His steps can be steady and sure but neither him nor his helpers can know for sure what is in front of him. “What distinguishes the successful entrepreneur and promoter from other people,” writes Mises, “is precisely the fact that he does not let himself be guided by what was and is, but arranges his affairs on the ground of his opinion about the future. He sees the past and the present as other people do; but he judges the future in a different way.” It is for this reason that an entrepreneurial habit of mind cannot be implanted through training or education. It is something possessed and cultivated by an individual. There are no entrepreneurial committees, much less entrepreneurial planning boards. The inability of governments to engage in the entrepreneurial act of faith is one of many reasons why socialism cannot work. Even if a bureaucrat can look at history and claim that his agency could have made a car, dry wall, or a microchip, that same person is at a loss to figure out how innovations in the future can take place. His only guide is technology: he can speculate about what might work better than what is presently available. But that is not the economic issue: the real issue concerns what is the best means given all the alternative uses of resources to satisfy the most urgent wants of consumers in light of an infinity of possible wants. This is impossible for governments to do. There are thousands of reasons why entrepreneurship should never take place but only one good one for why it does: these individuals have superior speculative judgment and are willing to take the leap of faith that is required to test their speculation against the facts of an uncertain future. And yet it is this leap of faith that drives forward our standards of living and improves life for millions and billions of people. We are surrounded by faith. Growing economies are infused with it. Mises forgive me: this is a miracle. The post The Faith of Entrepreneurs appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Extreme and Deadly Risks We Face Are Many, and of Our Own Making Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” ~ Hannah Arendt (1951) “The Origins of Totalitarianism” It is never enough to place all blame on the ruling class, regardless of the evil present, unless one is innocent, enlightened, and powerless to protect and stand up for self and truth. So long as the common man bows to power because he assumes that it may be of some good use, he has acquiesced his soul for an unsustainable and baseless self-interested goal. This attitude is not one of morality and proper purpose, but one of egocentrism, indifference, and greed. It is easy to lay blame at the feet of politicians, until one realizes that tyrants could never survive and prosper without the consent of the governed. Accepting this legitimate reality can be the impetus for achieving a free existence. All that is going on today; the lockdowns, mask wearing, cold and heartless distancing from family, friends, and society, self-imprisonment, deadly injections, surveillance, censorship, economic destruction, and massive restrictions of life-sustaining activities, have all been willingly accepted. Does this mean that the people themselves are at fault for the horrible circumstances that currently threaten them? It certainly does, but not in the sense that the masses planned and wished for such a travesty, but in the manner that all of this carnage was voluntarily allowed to happen, even in the face of extreme hardship and suffering. It was brought about by fear, and fear can be a very convincing tool in the quiver of tyrants when they seek to trick the herd into accepting oppressive and authoritative rule in order to gain what is falsely termed as ‘safety.’ This is the result of mass propaganda meant to weaken the resolve of the many by fooling them into submission, while the power brokers simply stay in the shadows awaiting the voluntary surrender of their subjects. Given this state of affairs, and understanding the implications of these truths should strengthen the determination and courage of the general population because it is obvious that without the consent of the people, none of this could continue to threaten our very existence. The American people in other words, hold all the real power to escape this tyranny, and simply have to unite to throw off the ‘claimed’ rulers. The idea of defeating this manmade travesty is really that simple, but the desire to implement this winning strategy is still lacking among the public at large. The importance of fighting back, and reclaiming freedom is imperative if any liberty is to be salvaged. Educating as many as is possible about the power they hold is necessary in order to start a fire in the bellies of all those that have the most to lose. Those are you and me, and everyone you know. All Americans are at great risk. We are in the midst of an aggressive attack on humanity itself. Each of us at some point must accept the fact that without mass resistance, we will all be slaves. This stark realization is inevitable, and all that is required in order to stop this global reset is disobedience and non-compliance by large numbers. Without that resistance, the possible, or more likely probable, terror that we will experience will be widespread and all encompassing. The next planned and telegraphed major attack against the people, the next “9/11′ type event if you will, in all probability, “will be a massive cyber attack meant to implode the entire financial system, and allow for a government censoring and takeover of the internet. This plot was designed in the near past, and has been openly simulated and the full strategy released just a few months ago.” In addition, this event will be used to bring about a national digital system, so that monetary policy can be controlled at a national and then global level. Of course, this will mean a vast increase in surveillance and censorship, so that the mainstream narrative can be continually pushed without any offsetting truth or scrutiny. As I wrote recently: “A total digital system is desired by Klaus Schwab and World Economic Forum (WEF), along with the central banking cartel and its government and corporate partners, and the way forward with this scheme can only take place when the current economic system is destroyed. In other words, a new financial system has already been designed, and is ready to be implemented after an economic collapse. Technocratic control is sought, and we are already far into the plot to implement a takeover of the entire financial system. The new and dictatorial internet “Patriot Act” is already drafted, and will be introduced almost immediately following this staged cyber attack that is sure to come.” And this is only one part of this plot to globalize and reset our current system. The immunity passport agenda will continue in earnest, and several tactics could be used to instill much more fear in this society, including targeted releases of bio-weapon technology, more lethal effects of injections, and intentional killing in order to continue to gain compliance. The deadly ‘vaccine’ agenda will also continue, and while many are properly rejecting this poison today, how many will line up when deaths begin to stack up due to the already large number of citizens that have taken this gene-altering, and deadly concoction that can be intentionally designed to destroy the natural human immune system? In the interim, more anti-gun legislation, higher taxation, and massive inflation will consume this society, causing more unemployment, more bankruptcies, business closings, and poverty. All this will be used to decimate this already crippled economy and the weakened population will become even more dependent on government. All in all, much more hell is coming, so unity among all of us is imperative if survival and freedom are desired. America is no longer a home to free individuals, and has become the poster child for almost absolute tyranny. The individual needs to once again reign supreme, and stand in total defiance against this nation state that seeks only to capture and control the bodies and minds of the people in order to gain dominance over all. “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc. Source links:  The engineered ‘Covid-19 Crisis” is a fraud What Is Coming A planned cyber attack to affect a global financial meltdown is coming The WEF’s simulation of the planned cyber pandemic Judges new internet censorship New World Next Week The post The Extreme and Deadly Risks We Face Are Many, and of Our Own Making appeared first on LewRockwell.

Uniformity Makes Us into Animals and Machines Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 According to management, he is the lone remaining holdout at work. I’m not sure how much I trust his management. That reader writes sarcastically: Dear Allan,  We are now part of a small minority.  I am thinking of just getting the vaccine. Apparently the other five individuals have already buckled. Maybe I will get lucky and it will kill me.   Excuse my sarcasm.  Sarcastic Thomas  Thomas comments “I am part of a small minority.” I don’t like Thomas’s suggestion, because it misrepresents hopeful theory as fact. It’s not his hopeful theory either. Never represent the hopeful theory of a propagandist as fact. In so doing, you will be representing a lie as fact, and will yourself then be a liar. The talking voices of the mainstream want you and I to believe that we are part of a small group of people. The true minority is the group leading society down the path of corona communism. Only by using the many establishment mouthpieces deceitfully can such a small ultra-minority of deluded people get anyone to believe their destructive nonsense. They think that if you tell a lie enough, it becomes reality. It doesn’t. It just becomes an oft repeated lie. Some Of These People Are So Desperate  There is danger in putting your trust in people so desperate. If I turn on the broadcast news for even ten seconds, the desperation is apparent. Never in my life has it been like this. There have been, reliably, throughout my life, a few minutes of desperation in most news programs, but now literally ten seconds of airtime cannot pass without that desperation coming out. It’s a very different level of desperation and deceit, almost totally devoid of anything resembling unvarnished fact. Humans Naturally Abhor Desperation…Unless… As humans, we avoid desperate people. They lack the ease and confidence to deserve our company. That’s a natural and wonderful thing. If a desperate guy approaches you on the street today, you are going to react differently than if a calm and collected person did the same. You won’t want to have anything to do with the desperate guy. Unless…. And it’s a big unless…he can convince you “We’re all in this together.” If he can convince you that his crisis is also your crisis, then suddenly his desperation becomes an asset to you and you may even do as he says. Something Fallen Totalitarian Regimes Share In Common  Nearly every totalitarian regime in the days before it toppled looked as mighty as ever to the people living within its walls. Someone will always step forward posthumously and say they knew the end was near. They probably didn’t. Seldom does a member of a subjected populous realize how unstable and weak a regime is. If they did, others would, and the regime would cease to be. It is belief in the ability of a regime to govern that is so effective in hoisting up regimes. Many more things than lack of faith can topple a regime though. They Are So Disconnected & Desperate, Details They Prefer You Gloss Over  Turn on the TV and the desperation is so present. The brainwashing. The narrative. The near inability to tell the truth. It’s everywhere on television: desperate people saying desperate things. You may write me, dear reader, saying “I can’t believe how stupid people are. How are they able to say these things with a straight face?” and the existence of such lies in the media may depress you. That is not the case for me. The more outlandish it all becomes, the more certain I am of the end. The more clear their desperation is, the more obvious the flimsiness of the regime is. They’d like you to believe the opposite, that you are in it together with the members of the regime’s politburo, that you are all just watching out for each other like a couple of friendly neighbors exchanging pleasantries. Lots Of People Are Waiting For Permission To Act Honestly  You may see such news and write me dear reader saying “I can’t believe how stupid people are being. How are they able to believe these stories on the news?” Like you, they are all looking around and mostly nodding to keep up appearances. They are just waiting for the permission to act out, for the social cue to speak honestly, rather than politely or obediently or subserviently. But if everyone is waiting for permission from someone else, then the social cue never comes. I wish your notes to me, dear reader, were the only notes I received that told me a story of right-minded people waiting for others to act out before they deem themselves comfortable enough to act out as well. They aren’t. I hear it often. You must do the right thing at every moment in life regardless of how unpopular it is, regardless of the consequences. That is the duty of a person of values. Seldom do any of us really encounter a situation where we can’t see the difference between right and wrong. You know the difference in this situation, and if you aren’t boldly forging ahead and doing what is right, you are then doing what is wrong. You must never be one of the people waiting for permission. Lots Of People Believe The Narrative That Their Numbers Are Small  I wish you were the only person writing me to tell me that they were part of a small minority. You aren’t the only person writing that. So many people write me that self-defeating narrative that I wonder how small such a group could possibly be that it sends me so many emails. It seems to be a powerful thought that has made its way into the heads of so many. They seem to have been convinced that they are all alone. You aren’t. This Activity Will End Your Misinformed Loneliness Promptly  If you shake the hand of every person you see without a mask, you stop to talk for a few minutes, you get their phone number from them by saying “How do I keep in touch with you?” you follow up a few hours later by inviting them to sit down with you at the local park to talk next Saturday at 2 pm, and you do that every Saturday for the next 3 months, then within 3 months you will have a group of people who can upend the local school board, upend the local county board, and who might even be able to upend your local congressman. Social media isn’t inherently social. Our tendencies when we use it are about as anti-social as it gets. Use your phone and your social media and your knowledge of what’s right to get people like you outside together face-to-face regularly. There are groups like PeoplesRights.org that will help facilitate this further, or AmericasFrontlineDoctors.org Citizen Corps or MakeAmericaFreeAgain, though I have found PeoplesRights.org to be the most advanced of these group, far ahead of its peers in offering infrastructure and opportunities for socializing. Socializing with likeminded folks ultimately leads to activism. Tools like these websites are useful, but you don’t need these tools. You really only need your diligence to meet people, get their phone number, and a regular weekly meeting in a park. Do this and within three months you will never be able to say to me “I’m in a small minority.” Friend, we have no idea what anyone is thinking or doing unless we ask them and even then we may not know, at least not until they trust us. I don’t let the intermediaries such as pollsters, pundits, or politicians tell me what others are thinking. I don’t let social media gurus or marketers trying to sell me something or pitch me on an agenda tell me what others are thinking. I let individuals tell me what they are thinking, and if I’m a decent enough person, I may even be rewarded with hearing the truth. A Lot Of People Don’t Tell Others What They Are Thinking A lot of people don’t tell others the truth. A lot of people don’t tell others what they are thinking. Pollsters have known this for some time. They call it “the shy Tory” effect. If a person holds an opinion deemed by the media mouthpieces as unpopular, they are less likely to tell that opinion to the complete stranger pollster who probes them about their deepest, darkest secrets. There’s hardly anything controversial about that: the more the psychopathic leftist media machine vilifies anyone who disagrees with them, the less likely their psychopathic leftist pollster brethren will be to get truthful statements from the vilified. Dear reader, you say you are in a small minority. I’d beg to differ. My Anecdotal Evidence Is What I Have & Is More Useful To Me Than Anything In The Media  The anecdotal evidence at my disposal, hard won and honest anecdotal evidence, is what I have to work with. That’s imperfect, but it’s pretty good, and definitely more trustworthy than practically anything I’ll find in the rest of the media. By extrapolation, somewhere between 50 million and 330 million Americans do not believe the Covid narrative. I don’t know exactly how big or how small that number is. I know that it’s a pretty big number though. Though I have not travelled much during Covid, judging from my past twenty years of tirelessly traveling the world, hardly anyone on Main Street Russia, Main Street Zambia, Main Street Nicaragua, or virtually anywhere else around the world, believe the narrative of the American media. By extrapolation, I estimate that somewhere between 2 billion and 8 billion people breathing at this moment agree with you that 1.) they either don’t care enough about this silly narrative to even follow it in the news or 2.) they don’t believe the official story. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now, but it’s a constant joyful surprise to me how common it is for me to realize that a rural second world or third world farmer has far more common sense and worldliness than a well-connected, well-diplomaed, promising junior executive in New York City. The same is true for any Western technocrat. Please stop letting the lie be spoken in front of you that only a small number of people don’t believe the narrative. Whether or not that number constitutes a majority is unclear to me. A Note About The Definition Of Majority  Majority is often defined as “50% plus one.” If any government data around Covid is to be believed (it’s not), then some 30% of the population has fallen for this ruse and been vaccinated. These statisticians and bureaucrats are cut from the same cloth as the people who didn’t like how poorly inflation data made their masters look, so they stopped reporting inflation data. These are the same people who didn’t like how badly unemployment data made their masters look, so they changed the definition of “unemployed,” with each President for years whittling down the definition further. These are the same people who didn’t like the Covid data, so they redefined what it means to die of Covid. Dying “with” Covid rather than dying “from” Covid barely covers that. The data is so erroneous in so many more ways, so erroneous as to be worthless. I’m talking forty years of the scammiest deceitful behavior by allegedly revered public servants. Many readers of these pages can easily, from memory, add a dozen more government lies to this list. To such people, it goes without saying that the data from the state is not to be believed. But even then, taking all that into consideration, not even the government with their unverifiable, cooked, unfounded, invented Covid “vaccination” numbers claim a majority of people have been vaccinated.  DON’T TELL ME YOU ARE IN THE MINORITY WHEN EVEN THE DINGBAT PRETENDER IN CHIEF, DEMENTIA-ADLED INTERLOPER SAYS YOU ARE IN THE MAJORITY. About 30% of Americans have been vaccinated they claim, a number I believe to be much smaller. Even if the number is right, that means 70% of Americans have not been vaccinated. I’ll say that again. AT LEAST 70% OF AMERICANS HAVE NOT BEEN VACCINATED. YOU ARE IN THE MAJORITY, SO STOP CONVINCING YOURSELF OTHERWISE. You deserve more than to lie to yourself. Feed your spirit with the truth that you may prosper. With that firmly established, I’d like to take it a bit further. I wish you wouldn’t even trouble yourself with such a concept as majority or minority. Majority does not equal morality. Might does not make right. It is not our duty for our time on this earth to be popular or to be mighty. The duty is to do what’s right. If popularity or might follow, then so be it. Don’t be distracted from doing what’s right. Caring About Being In The Majority Or Minority Is A Distraction   “Majority” is a problematic term for he who believes in freedom. It’s a concept that the Bolsheviks happily adopted, a tool of the thug, a concept that uses democracy (a system in which mere elections are decided by the majority) and perverts the concept to deem all opinion as valid or invalid based on whether a majority agrees or not. This is a far departure from the idea of deciding a silly election for the glorified version of dogcatcher based on who gets more votes. It barely matters who gets more votes as long as government is tiny. You could just as well cast lots or flip coins. Government isn’t tiny though. That’s the problem, just the problem the Bolsheviks want. Every expansion of government power plays into their hands: the class of people who want to isolate control into the hands of a few. Bolsheviks have long used the false morality of democracy to cast their immoral ideas in a positive light, at times even going so far as to force everyone to vote in totally rigged, sham elections with predetermined outcomes setup to create the air of legitimacy rather than the stink of illegitimacy that hangs like a cadaverous and putrescine stench over the White House. The Washington D.C. Bolsheviks did it wrong. The people are supposed to be overjoyed by a properly stolen election, not emboldened. It is looking increasingly likely that it doesn’t end well for them. Democracy is a powerful tool of the totalitarian if used right. Bolshevik, by the way, is a Russian word that means “he who is in the majority.” When I use the word Bolshevik, I sometimes use it loosely to mean “every government thug who has ever tried to use morality to justify his immorality.” You may call them technocrats. You may call them communitarians or communists or many others names. These people need one thing. They need their power to be solidified by grouping humanity into predictable and controllable boxes. Disinterested in even speaking this false legitimacy of popularity and majority-rule, I prefer to keep my evaluations of Bolshevik policy in the moral and philosophical realm. Man is made in the likeness of God and possesses inalienable rights not to be denied him, a truth that does not need exposure to the litmus of popularity to be any more or less true. To fit man into a box is to dehumanize him, commoditize him, make him less God-like, a power the technocrat wishes to claim for himself. But the reality is that no one is capable of dehumanizing you but you. Grouping Humanity Into Predictable & Controllable Boxes  Dear reader, uniformity makes us into animals and machines. Of course some demonic spirit wants you to take that vaccine. And of course a bunch of misled people did exactly that. But you have read Genesis 1:27 and you know that uniformity is not what is intended of you: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” You have read the work of Ludwig von Mises and you know that your humanity comes down to your choice. How meaningful your agency and actions are. Christians call this free will, but such a term does not have to be used. You have read the work of other greats, and you know that your spontaneity, your individuality, your uniqueness, your choice is a masterful thing. Don’t be a fool and throw away what makes you special, just because someone else was foolish enough to do the same. Don’t let your Godlike nature be shoved in a box because you feel pressured to be like others. Instead, live a life of that makes it impossible for others to look upon you and not recognize their own Godlike nature, that makes it impossible for people to look upon you and to not want better of themselves. Some have not had the gifts you’ve had in the world. Some have not had the advantages. More is expected of you. The Variable Is In People Like You  Twisted people have existed in every era. Sheepish people have existed in every era. These are the constants of all human life. The variable is in people like you. Will the moral backbone of society lead? Will the moral backbone of society stay asleep? There is no one in charge. It is up to you. In your community, in your circle of friends, you are the one called to lead. Your decision to lead or to not lead will determine the direction of those around, and that decision will reverberate far beyond that. It would be nice if it was up to someone else. But it’s all up to you. America does not need Trump — a generally good and mighty man who was re-elected by a majority of the electorate on November 3, 2020 — America needs Jesus. This is true for believers and non-believers alike. And anyone who knows what he is doing is wrong and still does it, needs Jesus most of all, the believer and non-believer alike, the moral example of a man who will stand up even if no one around him gives him permission to stand. We need those examples. That example is needed of you, to be the moral man who stands up even if no one around you gives permission for you to stand. It all comes down to you, dear reader. Will you lead or will you back down? Your community needs you to choose well, to choose wisely, to put your own comfort second, and to put your values first. What do you believe in? A moment like this, a moment of clarity, is a gift that focuses the mind and lets you commit to being either a person of values or to being a person of preference. I do not care about leading the sheep. I care about waking the lions. Community by community, family by family, circle by circle we win if you will just be moved to stand up and speak honestly about what you believe, to identify your boundaries, communicate your boundaries, and defend your boundaries. To do otherwise is the most ignoble lie. And dear reader, dear friend, to do otherwise makes you nothing but a liar. And, Sir, I know you are better than that. Tell the truth. Do it now. Do it every chance you get. Both you and those around you will be most richly rewarded in life if you can do just that. The ripples you will have through the world will be so great as to be immeasurable if you can just do that. Tell the truth. Do it now. Do it every chance you get. And don’t lie by wearing a face mask. If you don’t know how to do that, resources exist to help you do that. I wrote the book “Face Masks in One Lesson,” not to make money but to help people never again wear a mask. My LRC writing offers the same. My RealStevo.com https://realstevo.com/ writing provides video options when you sign up for the email list. But most of all it comes down to you and the standard you set for yourself. Will you be that upright, moral man or will you be something else?  Let’s be the people who make all of this right again. It may not be easy, but it’s guaranteed to be glorious.  The post Uniformity Makes Us into Animals and Machines appeared first on LewRockwell.

Systemic Irresponsibility Explained Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 On average, black Americans are affected by poverty and criminality to a much greater degree than white Americans, and this has been attributed to a bugaboo called systemic racism. Slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining have all been named as the usual suspects whose ongoing effects are part and parcel of this systemic racism; occasionally thrown into the mix is the fact that the original “G.I. Bill” passed after the Second World War failed to benefit black Americans as it did white Americans at the time. So systemic racism is the reason for black poverty, it is claimed, and poverty is a breeding ground for criminality. Now while it is certainly true that the ongoing effects of the practices enumerated above can contribute to racial disparities between white Americans and black Americans, do those ongoing effects last forever, or are they attenuated over time? In other words, is the level of black poverty today the direct result of ongoing effects of racist practices from the past, or are there other factors that might have greater explanatory power? I would like to suggest here that certain behaviors—engaged in to a much greater degree by black Americans than white Americans—generate the higher poverty and criminality levels found among black Americans. The particular behavior I want to explore here is unprotected sex leading to pregnancy and childbirth among underage girls, “underage girls” here defined as those under the age of 18. The source materials consulted are the “Births: Final Data” issues of the National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR). Cumulative data from 1980 through 2001 are found in vol. 51, no. 2, p. 32, with successive issues providing data on up through 2019 at this writing. The data charts for each year provide age range and race information on childbirths along with the rate per thousand of population for each classification. Since there was no single category dedicated to underage girls, I made do with a couple of given age range categories, one for girls from 10 to 14 years of age and another for girls from 15 to 17 years of age. I did a side-by-side comparison of black and white rates from 1980 through 2019. Here’s what I found: The black rates were consistently much, much, higher than the white rates, such that dividing the black rate by the white rate yielded the magnitude of order by which the black rate exceeded the white rate. The greatest disparity was in the 10 to 14 years of age group in 2002, when the black rate was a whopping 9.5 times the white rate. The lowest disparity in that age group occurred in 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2019, when in those four years the black rate was 4 times the white rate. The greatest disparity in the 15 to 17 years of age group was also in 2002, when the black rate was 3.09 times the white rate. The lowest disparity in that age group was in 2001, when the black rate was 2.08 times the white rate. Now at this point, some may tentatively attribute this disparity to to a disparity in access to abortions by black Americans; but that is not the case. According to the Guttmacher Institute report from 2017 providing abortion rate data from 1990 through 2013 for females 15 to 19 years of age, the black rate ranged from 2.48 to 3.81 times the white rate (Table 1.7, pp. 32 – 34). A question that must be asked is why weren’t these underage girls taught that letting some stupid boy get into their pants and get them into trouble is one of the worst mistakes a girl can make? And why weren’t the black males who impregnated them ever taught that they shouldn’t go around engaging in unprotected sex, especially males of legal age with underage girls? It would appear that in some black American households virtues such as discipline, self-control, deferred gratification, and the concept that actions have consequences are simply not being cultivated as much as they should be. Underage girls getting pregnant and having babies is just one of the symptoms of that lack of cultivation of those virtues. The link between poverty and underage girls having babies ought to be self-evident: When people who have no business having babies go ahead and have those babies, and have them in impoverished inner-city environments where unemployment is high, they are literally creating even more people who won’t be able to find work, thereby perpetuating the poverty. In addition, the time, effort, and money that could have been invested elsewhere for the betterment of the household now have to be redirected into raising an unplanned child. Moreover, the same lack of cultivation of the aforementioned virtues responsible for fostering underage childbirths is also responsible for fostering criminality: The 20-year-old thug who pulls a gun and shoots someone for “disrespecting” him is is cut from the very same fabric as the 20-year-old ghetto lothario who impregnates an eighth-grader. The takeaway here is that people can create poverty and criminality by their own irresponsible behavior; and when this irresponsible behavior is culturally transmitted on a large scale decade after decade, it amounts to systemic irresponsibility. This systemic irresponsibility must be taken into consideration when the issues of white privilege and reparations come up. If a group that emphasizes discipline, self-control, deferred gratification, and the concept that actions have consequences is materially better off than a group that doesn’t emphasize those elements to the same degree, is the first group better off because they are the beneficiaries of some kind of undeserved privilege, or are they better off because they are conducting themselves in a more responsible fashion? For example, are Asian-Americans on the whole better off than white Americans because they benefit from some kind of undeserved “Asian privilege,” or are they better off on the whole because they emphasize responsible behavior to an even greater degree than white Americans? One of the justifications adduced for reparations is that present-day black poverty is supposedly the lingering result of racist practices in the past. Caving in to the demand for reparations would be affirming that falsehood. Although some of the recipients of reparation payments would spend or invest the money wisely, many would go out and blow their money, after which it would be noticed that black poverty levels were still way above the white levels. The argument would then be made that the continuing poverty is the result of not enough reparations having been paid out the first time around, so that even more reparations would be demanded. The truth, of course, would be that the continuing high levels of black poverty are due to continuing systemic irresponsibility in certain black communities. Postscript: Just before giving the draft of this article its pre-submission proofreading, I came across a Los Angeles Times piece by Jenny Jarvie, an excerpt from which is reproduced below: Black neighborhoods have felt the toll most acutely. Roughly 17% of the city’s 188,000 residents are Black, but since 2019 they have accounted for 63% of the homicide victims and 65% of the known suspects. The violence is widely viewed as a legacy of systemic racism — including the segregation of Jim Crow and redlining — that is reflected today in a Black poverty rate of 42%. That is significantly higher than in many other Southern cities. The stats are out of Knoxville. If we were to compare the rate at which black underage girls have babies with the rate at which white underage girls have babies in that city, what would we find? So is black poverty in Knoxville the result of systemic racism, or is it the result of systemic irresponsibility? The post Systemic Irresponsibility Explained appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Feminization of Western Men Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 In a remarkable interview published on Russia Insider in March 2019, RT’s Anissa Naouai interviewed Danish journalist Iben Thranholm about the disappearance of Western manhood: Dear European Men: You Are Pathetic Pussies.  This is a Danish woman’s conclusion. Thranholm says that Western men have been feminized and Western women defeminized. She says feminists have destroyed men, who are now raised to be women. Consequently, there is no one to protect white women from the sexually aggressive immigrant-invaders brought into all European countries by the anti-white European Union, an enemy of national sovereignty that wants the destruction of European ethnic nationalities.  The EU is heavily supported by Washington and American money. Thranholm’s conclusion resonated with me. For a number of years I have noticed that unless I am among older men I often only hear males with women’s voices, speaking like girls, the same intonation and the same words, “like,”  “really.”  I hear males who sound like Valley Girls. When you look at them you don’t see male strength, and neither does Camille Paglia who says androgyny is historically a sign of cultural collapse.  When I hear idiots in Washington and European capitals issuing threats to Russia, I wonder where they are going to find any men capable of fighting a Russian army. Iben Thranholm says Western men have been deprived of strength and confidence by feminism.  All over Europe, white women of European ethnicity, French, German, Danish, Swedish are raped openly in public by the privileged people of color welcomed in by scum like Merkel, the corrupt French governments, the bought-and-paid-for Italians, the dumbshit British, and the white men just look away and walk on by. Not only has feminism deprived men of any sense of obligation to their women, they are scared to death of being arrested for offending a person of color by interfering with his rape of a white woman.  Indeed, in Scandanavia women are not only afraid to leave their homes, they are afraid to report their rape, because the police might charge them with a hate crime for claiming rape by a protected person of color. In Sweden the protection of Swedish women is so nonexistent that it is becoming a right for a person of color to rape a Swedish woman.  The treasonous governments, treasonous against their ethnic populations, will not confront the mistake they made by overwhelming their nations with immigrant-invaders whom they refuse to hold accountable. Therefore, they blame the raped white women.  And the Swedes are such sheep that they reelect governments that favor immigrant invaders over ethnic Swedes. Who can imagine a Swedish army confronting a Russian army? It would be a five minute war.   The same for all of Europe.  The immigrant-invaders have shown that they can walk through European authority like a wet paper bag.  There is nothing there but self-doubt and self-hate.  Europe exists only as a geographical location. To understand Europe and the collapsing US, read Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints. How ironic it is. NATO has an army, in name if not in fact, to protect against Russia, which presents no threat.  Yet nothing can be done to protect the women of Europe from immigrant-invaders welcomed in by the excrement that comprises European governments. Does anyone less represent German ethnicity than Merkel?  Does anyone less represent French ethnicity than Macron?  Where in European politics is there any sign of concern for European ethnicities?   Iben Thranholm says that by destroying manhood, the feminists have unbalanced society and left themselves at peril.  There are no longer any men.  Here is the interview.  Everyone, especially feminists, will do very well to listen. The RT interviewer leaves something to be desired, but Iben Thranholm gets her point across.   The post The Feminization of Western Men appeared first on LewRockwell.

Open Letter From Retired Military: A Plot Against the Republic? Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 In three years, France has gone through two major crises that have not been answered: the questioning of globalization by the Gilets jaunes and the disintegration of the State by the police unions. Neither of them has received a substantial response. If the observations of these whistleblowers are shared by all, it becomes impossible to share them publicly. Democracy does not die from the absence of contradictory debates but, worse, from the erection of taboos. The Yellow Vests against globalization In 2018, France was shaken by a vast popular movement, the “Yellow Vests”. Starting as a protest against the increase in gasoline prices, it very quickly appeared as a protest against the sociological effects of trade globalization: disappearance of the Western middle classes, relegation to under-equipped countryside [1]. Two weeks after the beginning of the demonstrations, unidentified groups infiltrated the movement to sabotage it from within. Thus, while for 15 days all the demonstrators proudly waved the French flag and sang the Marseillaise -something not seen in popular demonstrations for fifty years-, hooded thugs dressed in black vandalized the Arc de Triomphe and especially the sculpture of the Marseillaise. The trial that followed showed that this group of unidentified provocateurs had no connection with the Gilets jaunes who were the only ones arrested. In the absence of a leader able to condemn this intrusion, the Yellow Vests movement slowly weakened for a year. Its questions did not disappear, however. In the past, politicians created “Theodule Commissions” to drown out the problems they did not want to see. President Macron invented a “Great National Debate” for the same purpose, in the age of continuous information media. Everyone spoke, but no one received a relevant answer, neither from the Executive nor from the Assembly. The police against the disintegration of the nation A second alert has just taken place. This time the problem is the absence of the 3rd Right of Humans and Citizens of 1789 – not to be confused with the “Rights of Man” in the Anglo-Saxon sense -: security. That is to say, the capacity of citizens to exercise their imprescriptible rights of freedom and property. Indeed, we do not observe a general increase in delinquency, but an increasingly strong geographical disparity. If the citizens of the VIIth district of Paris do not feel threatened, those of the XVth district of Marseilles can permanently fear to be attacked by delinquents. At the same time, the police who should be defending them have changed their function. They are reluctant to enter certain neighborhoods where they are attacked more and more often. Many police officers reasonably fear for their lives: a dozen of them die on duty every year. As a result, some of them are slowly becoming agents of repression of the political opposition. Thus, in many cases, police officers have used disproportionate force against the Yellow Vests and, now, against opponents of health policy. Although these cases are not so numerous across the country, they attest that this is not an accidental, but a deliberate direction, supported at the top of the state. For the time being, police officers remain attached to a republican training, that is to say, at the service of all and not only of the political authorities. Their unions are multiplying alerts in this sense and denounce the conditions of recruitment of their young colleagues. Indeed, people with psychiatric backgrounds and petty criminals are admitted to police schools today. The presidential election of 2022 This second movement, after the Yellow Vests, comes at a time when the country is preparing for a new electoral campaign: in May 2022, it will have to designate the President of the Republic. Already, two thirds of voters do not want President Emmanuel Macron to run again. Given the failures of Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, both at the end of their first and only mandate, Emmanuel Macron can only hope to obtain a second mandate by responding to popular expectations. The one expressed by the Yellow Vests against globalization and the one expressed by the police unions against the retreat of the Republic, i.e. of the General Interest. Not having any intention to subscribe to it, President Macron can also try an electoral maneuver:  artificially multiply the candidacies and discredit the candidates likely to win the first round, with the exception of one that he will have chosen, so that he will be facing him in the second round.  to organize a second round against Marine Le Pen, whom he will have demonized, and to force the majority of his opponents to vote for him rather than for her in the name of a “Republican front” against fascism. This strategy worked in 2002 for Jacques Chirac (82%) against Jean-Marie Le Pen (17%). Today it is risky, as Marine Le Pen does not have the image of a fascist like her father, but of a republican. The Élysée is therefore looking for opportunities to turn her into a repulsor. The appeal of the former military It so happens that some former military personnel have written an “Open letter to our leaders” in which they underline the current disintegration of institutions and denounce in advance a possible recourse to the army, which they consider inevitable, to resolve the question of security. This appeal was published on their website, Place d’armes, on April 13, 2021. The right-wing weekly, Valeurs actuelles, reprinted it, not in its columns, but on its website, on April 21. Marine Le Pen, who said she had long shared the diagnosis of these former soldiers, then invited them to vote for her in May. The Élysée deemed this a good opportunity and sent its ministers, one by one, to the media to denounce a “quarteron of retired generals” who, according to them, are calling on their fellow soldiers to perpetrate a military coup. All of them pretended to date their call to April 21, not April 13, so that they saw it as a factious attempt fifty years to the day after the Algiers generals’ putsch against Algerian independence. Finally, they denounced Marine Le Pen’s fascination with “the sound of boots”. Aware that he could hope to do better than Emmanuel Macron in the first round of 2022, the leader of France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, took the matter to the public prosecutor to have the “factious generals” convicted. Indeed, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had come in third place in the first round of the last presidential election (19% of the vote, against 21% to Le Pen and 24% to Macron). The place of the military in the public debate We invite our readers to read the text of this Open Letter [2] and see for themselves that it is much ado about nothing. A “state of emergency” is the term used to describe the possibility for the government to call in the army to maintain order. However, the military are not trained to do this and their intervention risks causing human losses that only the police and gendarmes are trained to deal with. In 2005, in 2015 and again in 2017, governments have decreed this. Even today, nearly 10,000 military personnel may be required as part of “Operation Sentinel” to protect citizens from terrorist risks. The same is true in Belgium and the United Kingdom. In addition, article 36 of the 1958 Constitution provides for the possibility, as a last resort, of transferring police and law enforcement powers from the Ministry of the Interior to the army. This is the “state of siege”. It has never been implemented under the Fifth Republic, even during the coup d’état of the generals in 1961. The Government and France insoumise point out that the Open Letter of the former military never mentions that they are within the constitutional framework and thus insinuates their putschist will. This is a very bad trial of intent. Nothing, absolutely nothing, allows one to accuse these former soldiers of factional intentions. All this hullabaloo has only served to draw attention to this text. More than 10,000 former military personnel have signed it, including some thirty generals. The question it poses is now evaluated by all and the inaction of the governments -all parties included- is glaring. Sanctions against whistleblowers The Minister of Defense announced that she would sanction the signatories. The opprobrium intended for Marine Le Pen now affects the people she was addressing. Only 18 out of 10,000 are still active. They are in danger of being struck off for failure to comply with the duty of confidentiality. Retirees, on the other hand, enjoy full freedom of expression. They can only be reprimanded for sounding the alarm, but it would be surprising, to say the least, if these 10,000 men were collectively sanctioned for their legitimate civic expression. The military, whether active or retired, are no longer subjects, but citizens like any others. Following the Algiers putsch, President Charles De Gaulle initiated a profound reform of the armed forces. The soldiers who had refused to obey the putschist generals were indeed punishable for failure to obey orders. General De Gaulle, who had himself refused to obey his superior, Marshal Philippe Pétain, in 1940 and had created Free France, had introduced the distinction between what is “legal” and what is “legitimate”. The Defense Code was therefore modified. It does not allow soldiers to choose sides, but obliges them to refuse illegitimate or dishonorable orders and to arrest their superiors if they engage in such acts. There is therefore no plot against the Republic. No factious conduct. The signatories of the Open Letter rightly asked to “speak as equals” with their chief of staff who insulted them. Every soldier, active or retired, has such a right as a citizen. This right is the corollary of their obligation to Obey and Serve. By calling the signatories of this Open Letter “factious”, the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, has exposed himself to criminal prosecution. The former lawyer was not arguing in a courtroom. He is therefore responsible for his words. Taboo The fact that some of the 10,000 signatories are members or close to Marine Le Pen’s party, the Rassemblement National, itself a product of the historic party of former collaborators of the Nazis and the Algiers putschists, the Front National, does not authorize her to be condemned, nor does it authorize them to be collectively condemned. In the Republic, there is no hereditary or collective guilt. All are French citizens by right. Not only have none of them been struck with national indignity, but many have served their country with glory. In their diagnosis, the former soldiers were not content to denounce the Woke rhetoric that inhibits the use of the public monopoly of violence, nor the ideology of political Islam. They also expressed their dismay at the anti-republican use of law enforcement against the Yellow Vests by the authorities. The disproportionate reaction of the State to their Open Letter shows that they have hit the nail on the head. We are witnessing an inversion of values that makes men judged by the media -and perhaps tomorrow by their military corps- not for what they have done, nor even for what they think, but because they pose a diagnosis to which all subscribe and that few dare to state aloud. The political discourse has progressively moved away from the realities. It is now entering a murky zone where, as in certain Polynesian societies, what is not mastered becomes taboo. Not only has the “circle of reason” been trying for thirty years to forbid contradictory opinions, but now it is trying to forbid the discussion of certain subjects. When the first three rights of man and citizen are lost – freedom, property and security – the fourth one intervenes: “resistance to oppression” (article 2). — [1] “How the West eats its children“, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 4 December 2018. [2] « Lettre ouverte d’anciens militaires à nos gouvernants », Réseau Voltaire, 13 avril 2021. The post Open Letter From Retired Military: A Plot Against the Republic? appeared first on LewRockwell.

‘At First Quietly, Then Much Less Quietly’ Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, was launched in 1971 as the Defense Race Relations Institute (it changed to DEOMI in 1979). But whatever the name, the mandate’s always been the same: pollute the armed forces with propaganda about how America is racist, sexist, “homophobic,” and an all-around evil place filled with Klansmen and Himmlers. DEOMI employs a trickle-down methodology, indoctrinating base commanders who then pass along the propagandizing to their rank-and-file service members. In the late 1990s I was asked by a friend of mine, a major in the U.S. Army, to serve as a researcher on a DEOMI booklet about Holocaust revisionism. I took the job because I hoped my presence would help ensure that the publication didn’t falsely label my fellow revisionists as “deniers” (to an extent, I was successful). But also, I really wanted to get a look at DEOMI from the inside, an opportunity few civilians ever secure. And thanks to that familiarity, after Obama became president and DEOMI started to go into indoctrinational hyperdrive, I was able to ferret out some of its wilder schemes. In 2011, DEOMI launched what it called “Power and Privilege,” an online training seminar that base commanders and their subordinates were required to take. “Power and Privilege” was an unashamed attack on straight white Christian males. There wasn’t even a small attempt to couch the hateful message in softer language. The course proselytized what today everyone knows as critical race theory. But back in 2011, that poison had yet to envelope the entire culture. Some examples of what the course taught: You’re “privileged” and thus an oppressor if you believe in “the idea that people fall into two distinct and complementary categories—male and female.” Christian state holidays are “discriminatory” against non-Christians (this lesson included a graphic of a store window with a sign in it reading “Closed on Christmas Day” and the caption “PRIVILEGED!”). You’re a racist if you believe, regarding violent crime, that “people of color attack white people too.” No, whites always attack POCs, never the converse. As for the Great Recession, anyone who claims that “white people had it just as bad as anyone else” is a Nazi. Speaking of Nazis, the course taught that “Hitler’s death camps claimed the lives of over 65 million people.” That’s the entire WWII death toll, now completely attributed to “Hitler’s death camps.” Also, you’re a “white privileged racist” if you say “Political correctness rules the universities.” At the end of each section, commanders and subordinates had to take a quiz to prove that they’d absorbed and could regurgitate the talking points; they could not move on until they properly answered each question. For example, at the end of the “rationalizations” section, course-takers were shown a quote from a white commander in which he states that he has no racism problems in his unit. This was followed by a multiple-choice list of “rationalizations”: Which one does that commander’s statement exemplify? The correct answer was “denial.” Once the course was completed, the graduates were given a certificate stating that they were now trained in Power and Privilege ideology and fully qualified to return to base to pass along what they’d learned. Read the Whole Article The post ‘At First Quietly, Then Much Less Quietly’ appeared first on LewRockwell.

Leaving Team Blue for Team Red Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 Another Democratic politician has left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party. Although this doesn’t happen often, it seems to happen more often than a Republican politician leaving the Republican Party and joining the Democratic Party. John Lee, the mayor of North Las Vegas since 2013, was last elected to office as a Democrat in 2017. On April 6th of this year, he tweeted: Card-carrying socialists have completely hijacked the Democratic Party here in Nevada. Today on @foxandfriends I announced my decision to switch to the Republican Party – the party of freedom, opportunity, and hope. Join me! Lee said in an interview earlier this month with “Fox & Friends”: In the Democratic Party of Nevada, they had an election recently for leadership, and four of the five people were card-carrying members of the Socialist Party. It’s not the party that I grew up with 25 years ago in this environment, and it’s not the party I can stand with anymore. The Nevada Republican Party tweeted in support of Lee: “Excited to have Mayor Lee join our party! He shares our values in protecting life, defending the 2nd Amendment, and fighting for working families.” The Nevada Democratic Party didn’t seem too upset that Lee jumped ship. Judith Whitmer, party chair, “said that Lee hasn’t been aligned with her party, citing his A+ rating with the National Rifle Association, his votes for Donald Trump, and his pro-life position.” On his website, which includes a link to join the Republican Party, Mayor Lee says: Nevada needs a switch. Switch to PEOPLE over ESTABLISHMENT. Switch to RIGHTS over RHETORIC. The switch is on! It’s time to turn off the Democratic Socialists and turn on the light of liberty. In a “Dear Friends” letter on his website, Mayor Lee says about the Democratic Party: Like President Ronald Reagan and President Donald Trump, I’ve seen firsthand how the Democrat Party has changed—radically, and not for the better. They’ve embraced a socialist, extremist agenda that is not the party of JFK, or of my parents. Their ideas hurt working-class families, restrict freedom and extinguish opportunity for millions of Americans—particularly working-class minorities who deserve the chance to give their families a better life. Here in Nevada, we’ve seen the full takeover of the Democratic Party by admitted socialists. Their goal is clear—ending the America we know and love, and replacing it with a culture of socialist conformity that erases freedom, opportunity and liberty from the American canvas. There used to be a place in the Democratic Party for conservative voices like mine. Today, that’s no longer the case. Their party demands a senseless devotion to cancel culture, socialism, and anti-American values I simply do not share. Mayor Lee defines his “stance” as: DEFENDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Activist media and bureaucrats have taken our country so far away from our founding principles. I will work for those very principles our nation was founded on—smaller government, lower taxes, free speech, protect unborn life, protect the right to bear arms, and embrace the spirit of liberty that made America so great in the first place. BATTLING THE SOCIALIST INSURGENCY Today’s Democratic Party has been taken over by card-carrying socialists. It must be defeated. The very soul of our nation is at stake. PUTTING NEVADANS FIRST We The People—that’s who our nation was founded by and for. For too long a corrupt political establishment has corroded our liberties and built a system to empower and enrich insiders and elites. This establishment has been exposed and We The People are poised to take back control. Although I applaud Mayor Lee’s stance, and am glad that he has left the Democratic Party, I don’t think he realizes that the Republican Party is simply the Red Socialist Party and the Democratic party is simply the Blue Socialist Party. He has merely left Team Blue for Team Red. Republicans believe in socialized education. Long gone are the days when they called for the elimination of the federal Department of Education. Republicans believe that the government should force some Americans to pay for the education of other Americans and their children. Republicans believe in socialized medicine. Medicaid and Medicare are nothing less than socialized medicine. Yet, in their platform, the Republicans state: “We intend to save Medicare by modernizing  it, empowering  its participants, and putting it on a secure financial  footing. We will preserve the promise of Medicaid as well by making that program, designed for 1965 medicine, a vehicle for good health in an entirely new era.” Republicans believe that the government should force some Americans to pay for the health care and health insurance of other Americans. Republicans believe in socialized charity. They have no philosophical objection to the 80 means-tested welfare programs that provide cash, food, housing subsidies, utility subsidies, and social services to poor, disabled, and lower-income Americans. And neither do they object to the programs that aren’t means-tested. As long as the welfare state is efficient, has low rates of waste, fraud, and abuse, and doesn’t increase in cost too much every year, then they support it. Republicans believe in socialized services. For years, they continually funded Amtrak, Planned Parenthood, art and culture, and federal job training. Republicans are the ones who created the TSA to provide security services to airlines. The only objection that Republicans have to President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan is its cost. They are perfectly fine with their own $568 billion infrastructure proposal. Republicans believe in Social Security. This is the granddaddy of all socialist programs. Yet, in their platform, Republicans state that all options “should be considered to preserve Social Security.” Mayor Lee, what were you thinking when you changed from Team Blue to Team Red? If you object to the socialism of the Democratic Party, then you should join the Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party, some other non-socialist third party, or simply become an Independent. All you have done is change the color of your shirt. What matters, of course, is not that you carry the label of Republican, Libertarian, Constitutionalist, or Independent, but what whether you stand for the Constitution, federalism, individual liberty, property rights, limited government, free enterprise, and the free market—things that the Republican Party claims to stand for, but doesn’t. Although he was elected governor of South Carolina in 1946 and U.S. senator from South Carolina in 1954 and 1960 as a Democrat, Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party in 1964 because it was “leading the evolution of our nation to a socialistic dictatorship.” How much more true is that sentiment today. Every decent American still in the Democratic Party should leave it and let the party be left to the feminists, the environmentalists, the Green New Dealers, the teachers’ unions, the social justice warriors, the pro-abortionists, the welfare statists, the LGBTQ+ community, and the assorted victim groups that the party uses to get votes. 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Returning to Form? Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 I refer to a couple of earlier posts where I have commented on the return of Jordan Peterson (here and here).  In the first, he noted that he had a good amount of his bravery beaten out of him, which is certainly understandable.  Both he and his conversation partner, Douglas Murray, were far more timid than either had been on previous occasions; this came in the aftermath of the US election, events at the capitol, etc.  In the second, Peterson offers that we must put our faith in man – this contrary to his previous messages that we look to something higher, above man. Peterson has recently released a conversation with Paul Rossi of Grace Church High School.  I have not listened to many of his conversations since these first two (although the one with Jonathan Pageau was quite worthwhile). Returning to the current video…Rossi recently wrote an essay, published by Bari Weiss: I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated.  (The backstory to these events can be found here.) Before the discussion begins, there is an “advertisement” (I don’t know what else to call it) from an organization called FAIR: Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (beginning here). It includes comments and endorsements from people like Coleman Hughes, Steven Pinker, John McWhorter, Bari Weiss, and Glenn Loury.  If you are familiar at all with any of these names, you will understand something of this organization – these individuals have spoken out against the destructive turn that the conversation of race has taken in the United States (beyond this, I know nothing about the organization). If you are not familiar with Rossi’s essay, it is worth reading.  In the essay, he raises concerns about how his students – and all students at his school – are being indoctrinated into race hatred and resentment (I have no better terms for this).  Hatred toward one’s self, if one is white; resentment toward everyone by everyone, regardless of skin color or nationality.  Needless to say, he has been chastised by his school. The discussion between Peterson and Rossi is over two hours.  Much of the first half is Peterson asking Rossi for the background story – how he came to such a point, the road he travelled, etc.  Further, Peterson acts as a psychologist would: why do you think you believed such and such, what was going on inside you when this or that happened? The second part gets more into the particulars.  Included in this part is a recorded conversation between Rossi and George Davison, the headmaster of the school.  The introduction to this recording by Peterson and Rossi, as well as the recorded portion played, are worth listening to – even if you don’t listen to any of the rest of the discussion.  It begins here; it will take only about four minutes or so of your time. Conclusion Peterson, at least I this conversation, is returning to form.  It is a good thing if this continues, as he has had a way of moving the conversation regarding both the destructive intolerance of society and the value of the Christian narrative as well as about anyone in the last five years. Yes, he has his shortcomings and faults.  He, like all of us, is only human. Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito. The post Returning to Form? appeared first on LewRockwell.

From Mind Control to Viruses: How the Government Keeps Experimenting on Its Citizens Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 “They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster. This is not a new development, nor is it a revelation. This is a government that has in recent decades unleashed untold horrors upon the world—including its own citizenry—in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances, all packaged in the guise of the greater good. Mind you, there is no greater good when the government is involved. There is only greater greed for money and power. Unfortunately, the public has become so easily distracted by the political spectacle out of Washington, DC, that they are altogether oblivious to the grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions that have become synonymous with the U.S. government. These horrors have been meted out against humans and animals alike. For all intents and purposes, “we the people” have become lab rats in the government’s secret experiments. Fifty years from now, we may well find out the whole sordid truth behind this COVID-19 pandemic. However, this isn’t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis or a manufactured threat. It is merely to acknowledge that such crises can—and are—manipulated by governments in order to expand their powers. As we have learned, it is entirely possible for something to be both a genuine menace to the nation’s health and security and a menace to freedom. This is a road the United States has been traveling for many years now. Indeed, grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. For instance, did you know that the U.S. government has been buying hundreds of dogs and cats from “Asian meat markets” as part of a gruesome experiment into food-borne illnesses? The cannibalistic experiments involve killing cats and dogs purchased from Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia, and then feeding the dead remains to laboratory kittens, bred in government laboratories for the express purpose of being infected with a disease and then killed. It gets more gruesome. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been removing parts of dogs’ brains to see how it affects their breathing; applying electrodes to dogs’ spinal cords (before and after severing them) to see how it impacts their cough reflexes; and implanting pacemakers in dogs’ hearts and then inducing them to have heart attacks (before draining their blood). All of the laboratory dogs are killed during the course of these experiments. It’s not just animals that are being treated like lab rats by government agencies. “We the people” have also become the police state’s guinea pigs: to be caged, branded, experimented upon without our knowledge or consent, and then conveniently discarded and left to suffer from the after-effects. Back in 2017, FEMA “inadvertently” exposed nearly 10,000 firefighters, paramedics and other responders to a deadly form of ricin during simulated bioterrorism response sessions. In 2015, it was discovered that an Army lab had been “mistakenly” shipping deadly anthrax to labs and defense contractors for a decade. While these particular incidents have been dismissed as “accidents,” you don’t have to dig very deep or go very back in the nation’s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace—citizens and noncitizens alike—making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins. At the time, the government reasoned that it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society such as prisoners, mental patients, and poor blacks. In Alabama, for example, 600 black men with syphilis were allowed to suffer without proper medical treatment in order to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis. In California, older prisoners had testicles from livestock and from recently executed convicts implanted in them to test their virility. In Connecticut, mental patients were injected with hepatitis. In Maryland, sleeping prisoners had a pandemic flu virus sprayed up their noses. In Georgia, two dozen “volunteering” prison inmates had gonorrhea bacteria pumped directly into their urinary tracts through the penis. In Michigan, male patients at an insane asylum were exposed to the flu after first being injected with an experimental flu vaccine. In Minnesota, 11 public service employee “volunteers” were injected with malaria, then starved for five days. As the Associated Press reports, “The late 1940s and 1950s saw huge growth in the U.S. pharmaceutical and health care industries, accompanied by a boom in prisoner experiments funded by both the government and corporations. By the 1960s, at least half the states allowed prisoners to be used as medical guinea pigs … because they were cheaper than chimpanzees.” Moreover, “Some of these studies, mostly from the 1940s to the ’60s, apparently were never covered by news media. Others were reported at the time, but the focus was on the promise of enduring new cures, while glossing over how test subjects were treated.” Media blackouts, propaganda, spin. Sound familiar? How many government incursions into our freedoms have been blacked out, buried under “entertainment” news headlines, or spun in such a way as to suggest that anyone voicing a word of caution is paranoid or conspiratorial? Unfortunately, these incidents are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the atrocities the government has inflicted on an unsuspecting populace in the name of secret experimentation. For instance, there was the U.S. military’s secret race-based testing of mustard gas on more than 60,000 enlisted men. As NPR reports, “All of the World War II experiments with mustard gas were done in secret and weren’t recorded on the subjects’ official military records. Most do not have proof of what they went through. They received no follow-up health care or monitoring of any kind. And they were sworn to secrecy about the tests under threat of dishonorable discharge and military prison time, leaving some unable to receive adequate medical treatment for their injuries, because they couldn’t tell doctors what happened to them.” And then there was the CIA’s MKULTRA program in which hundreds of unsuspecting American civilians and military personnel were dosed with LSD, some having the hallucinogenic drug slipped into their drinks at the beach, in city bars, at restaurants. As Time reports, “before the documentation and other facts of the program were made public, those who talked of it were frequently dismissed as being psychotic.” Now one might argue that this is all ancient history and that the government today is different from the government of yesteryear, but has the U.S. government really changed? Has the government become any more humane, any more respectful of the rights of the citizenry? Has it become any more transparent or willing to abide by the rule of law? Has it become any more truthful about its activities? Has it become any more cognizant of its appointed role as a guardian of our rights? Or has the government simply hunkered down and hidden its nefarious acts and dastardly experiments under layers of secrecy, legalism and obfuscations? Has it not become wilier, more slippery, more difficult to pin down? Having mastered the Orwellian art of Doublespeak and followed the Huxleyan blueprint for distraction and diversion, are we not dealing with a government that is simply craftier and more conniving that it used to be? Consider this: after revelations about the government’s experiments spanning the 20th century spawned outrage, the government began looking for human guinea pigs in other countries, where “clinical trials could be done more cheaply and with fewer rules.” In Guatemala, prisoners and patients at a mental hospital were infected with syphilis, “apparently to test whether penicillin could prevent some sexually transmitted disease.” In Uganda, U.S.-funded doctors “failed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women in a study… even though it would have protected their newborns.” Meanwhile, in Nigeria, children with meningitis were used to test an antibiotic named Trovan. Eleven children died and many others were left disabled. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Case in point: back in 2016, it was announced that scientists working for the Department of Homeland Security would begin releasing various gases and particles on crowded subway platforms as part of an experiment aimed at testing bioterror airflow in New York subways. The government insisted that the gases released into the subways by the DHS were nontoxic and did not pose a health risk. It’s in our best interests, they said, to understand how quickly a chemical or biological terrorist attack might spread. And look how cool the technology is—said the government cheerleaders—that scientists can use something called DNATrax to track the movement of microscopic substances in air and food. (Imagine the kinds of surveillance that could be carried out by the government using trackable airborne microscopic substances you breathe in or ingest.) Mind you, this is the same government that in 1949 sprayed bacteria into the Pentagon’s air handling system, then the world’s largest office building. In 1950, special ops forces sprayed bacteria from Navy ships off the coast of Norfolk and San Francisco, in the latter case exposing all of the city’s 800,000 residents. In 1953, government operatives staged “mock” anthrax attacks on St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Winnipeg using generators placed on top of cars. Local governments were reportedly told that “‘invisible smokescreen[s]’ were being deployed to mask the city on enemy radar.” Later experiments covered territories as wide-ranging as Ohio to Texas and Michigan to Kansas. In 1965, the government’s experiments in bioterror took aim at Washington’s National Airport, followed by a 1966 experiment in which army scientists exposed a million subway NYC passengers to airborne bacteria that causes food poisoning. And this is the same government that has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests—GPS devices, surveillance, nonlethal weapons, etc.—and used it against us, to track, control and trap us. So, no, I don’t think the government’s ethics have changed much over the years. It’s just taken its nefarious programs undercover. The question remains: why is the government doing this? The answer is always the same: money, power and total domination. It’s the same answer no matter which totalitarian regime is in power. The mindset driving these programs has, appropriately, been likened to that of Nazi doctors experimenting on Jews. As the Holocaust Museum recounts, Nazi physicians “conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent.” The Nazi’s unethical experiments ran the gamut from freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia, tests to determine the maximum altitude for parachuting out of a plane, injecting prisoners with malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis, exposing prisoners to phosgene and mustard gas, and mass sterilization experiments. The horrors being meted out against the American people can be traced back, in a direct line, to the horrors meted out in Nazi laboratories. In fact, following the second World War, the U.S. government recruited many of Hitler’s employees, adopted his protocols, embraced his mindset about law and order and experimentation, and implemented his tactics in incremental steps. Sounds far-fetched, you say? Read on. It’s all documented. As historian Robert Gellately recounts, the Nazi police state was initially so admired for its efficiency and order by the world powers of the day that J. Edgar Hoover, then-head of the FBI, actually sent one of his right-hand men, Edmund Patrick Coffey, to Berlin in January 1938 at the invitation of Germany’s secret police, the Gestapo. The FBI was so impressed with the Nazi regime that, according to the New York Times, in the decades after World War II, the FBI, along with other government agencies, aggressively recruited at least a thousand Nazis, including some of Hitler’s highest henchmen. All told, thousands of Nazi collaborators—including the head of a Nazi concentration camp, among others—were given secret visas and brought to America by way of Project Paperclip. Subsequently, they were hired on as spies, informants and scientific advisers, and then camouflaged to ensure that their true identities and ties to Hitler’s holocaust machine would remain unknown. All the while, thousands of Jewish refugees were refused entry visas to the U.S. on the grounds that it could threaten national security. Adding further insult to injury, American taxpayers have been paying to keep these ex-Nazis on the U.S. government’s payroll ever since. And in true Gestapo fashion, anyone who has dared to blow the whistle on the FBI’s illicit Nazi ties has found himself spied upon, intimidated, harassed and labeled a threat to national security. As if the government’s covert, taxpayer-funded employment of Nazis after World War II wasn’t bad enough, U.S. government agencies—the FBI, CIA and the military—have since fully embraced many of the Nazi’s well-honed policing tactics, and have used them repeatedly against American citizens. It’s certainly easy to denounce the full-frontal horrors carried out by the scientific and medical community within a despotic regime such as Nazi Germany, but what do you do when it’s your own government that claims to be a champion of human rights all the while allowing its agents to engage in the foulest, bases and most despicable acts of torture, abuse and experimentation? When all is said and done, this is not a government that has our best interests at heart. This is not a government that values us. Perhaps the answer lies in The Third Man, Carol Reed’s influential 1949 film starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. In the film, set in a post-WW II Vienna, rogue war profiteer Harry Lime has come to view human carnage with a callous indifference, unconcerned that the diluted penicillin he’s been trafficking underground has resulted in the tortured deaths of young children. Challenged by his old friend Holly Martins to consider the consequences of his actions, Lime responds, “In these days, old man, nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t, so why should we?“ “Have you ever seen any of your victims?” asks Martins. “Victims?” responds Limes, as he looks down from the top of a Ferris wheel onto a populace reduced to mere dots on the ground. “Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax — the only way you can save money nowadays.” This is how the U.S. government sees us, too, when it looks down upon us from its lofty perch. To the powers-that-be, the rest of us are insignificant specks, faceless dots on the ground. To the architects of the American police state, we are not worthy or vested with inherent rights. This is how the government can justify treating us like economic units to be bought and sold and traded, or caged rats to be experimented upon and discarded when we’ve outgrown our usefulness. To those who call the shots in the halls of government, “we the people” are merely the means to an end. “We the people”—who think, who reason, who take a stand, who resist, who demand to be treated with dignity and care, who believe in freedom and justice for all—have become obsolete, undervalued citizens of a totalitarian state that, in the words of Rod Serling, “has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom.” In this sense, we are all Romney Wordsworth, the condemned man in Serling’s Twilight Zone episode “The Obsolete Man.” “The Obsolete Man” speaks to the dangers of a government that views people as expendable once they have outgrown their usefulness to the State. Yet—and here’s the kicker—this is where the government through its monstrous inhumanity also becomes obsolete. As Serling noted in his original script for “The Obsolete Man,” “Any state, any entity, any ideology which fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man…that state is obsolete.“ How do you defeat a monster? As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, you start by recognizing the monster for what it is. The post From Mind Control to Viruses: How the Government Keeps Experimenting on Its Citizens appeared first on LewRockwell.

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The Criminalization of Dissent Tuesday 04 May 2021 11:01 PM UTC-05 “Governments and their corporate media mouthpieces are telling us that ‘objection to their authority’ will no longer be tolerated, nor will dissent from their official narratives” One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has been inching its way toward this step for quite some time, and now, apparently, it is ready to take it. Germany has been leading the way. For over a year, anyone questioning or protesting the “Covid emergency measures” or the official Covid-19 narrative has been demonized by the government and the media, and, sadly, but not completely unexpectedly, the majority of the German public. And now such dissent is officially “extremism.” Yes, that’s right, in “New Normal” Germany, if you dissent from the official state ideology, you are now officially a dangerous “extremist.” The German Intelligence agency (the “BfV”) has even invented a new category of “extremists” in order to allow themselves to legally monitor anyone suspected of being “anti-democratic and/or delegitimizing the state in a way that endangers security,” like … you know, non-violently protesting, or speaking out against, or criticizing, or satirizing, the so-called “New Normal.” Naturally, I’m a little worried, as I have engaged in most of these “extremist” activities. My thoughtcrimes are just sitting there on the Internet waiting to be scrutinized by the BfV. They’re probably Google-translating this column right now, compiling a list of all the people reading it, and their Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and professional associates, and family members, and anyone any of the aforementioned people have potentially met with, or casually mentioned, who might have engaged in similar thoughtcrimes. You probably think I’m joking, don’t you? I’m not joking. Not even slightly. The Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (“Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz”) is actively monitoring anyone questioning or challenging the official “New Normal” ideology … the “Covid Deniers,” the “conspiracy theorists,” the “anti-vaxxers,” the dreaded “Querdenkers” (i.e., people who “think outside the box”), and anyone else they feel like monitoring who has refused to join the Covidian Cult. We’re now official enemies of the state, no different than any other “terrorists” … or, OK, technically, a little different. As The New York Times reported last week (German Intelligence Puts Coronavirus Deniers Under Surveillance), “the danger from coronavirus deniers and conspiracy theorists does not fit the mold posed by the usual politically driven groups, including those on the far left and right, or by Islamic extremists.” Still, according to the German Interior Ministry, we diabolical “Covid deniers,” “conspiracy theorists,” and “anti-vaxxers” have “targeted the state itself, its leaders, businesses, the press, and globalism,” and have “attacked police officers” and “defied civil authorities.” Moreover, back in August of 2020, in a dress rehearsal for the “Storming of the Capitol,” “Covid-denying” insurrectionists “scaled the steps of Parliament” (i.e., the Reichstag). Naturally, The Times neglects to mention that this so-called “Storming of the Reichstag” was performed by a small sub-group of protesters to whom the German authorities had granted a permit to assemble (apart from the main demonstration, which was massive and completely peaceful) on the steps of the Reichstag, which the German police had, for some reason, left totally unguarded. In light of the background of the person the German authorities issued this “Steps-of-the-Reichstag” protest permit to — a known former-NPD functionary, in other words, a neo-Nazi — well, the whole thing seemed a bit questionable to me … but what do I know? I’m just a “conspiracy theorist.” According to Al Jazeera, the German Interior Ministry explained that these querdenking “extremists encourage supporters to ignore official orders and challenge the state monopoly on the use of force.” Seriously, can you imagine anything more dangerous? Mindlessly following orders and complying with the state’s monopoly on the use of force are the very cornerstones of modern democracy … or some sort of political system, anyway. But, see, there I go, again “being anti-democratic” and “delegitimizing the state,” not to mention “relativizing the Holocaust” (also a criminal offense in Germany) by comparing one totalitarian system to another, as I have done repeatedly on social media, and in a column I published in November of 2020, when the parliament passed the “Infection Protection Act,” which bears no comparison whatsoever to the “Enabling Act of 1933.” This isn’t just a German story, of course. As I reported in a column in February, The “New Normal” War on Domestic Terror is a global war, and it’s just getting started. According to a Department of Homeland Security “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin” (and the “liberal” corporate-media propaganda machine), “democracy” remains under imminent threat from these “ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority” and other such “grievances fueled by false narratives” including “anger over Covid-19 restrictions.” These Covid-denying “violent extremists” have apparently joined forces with the “white-supremacist, Russia-backed, Trump-loving “Putin-Nazis” that terrorized “democracy” for the past four years, and almost overthrew the US government by sauntering around inside the US Capitol Building without permission, scuffling with police, attacking furniture, and generally acting rude and unruly. No, they didn’t actually kill anyone, as the corporate media all reported they did, but trespassing in a government building and putting your feet up on politicians’ desks is pretty much exactly the same as “terrorism.” Or whatever. It’s not like the truth actually matters, not when you are whipping up mass hysteria over imaginary “Russian assets,” “white-supremacist militias,” “Covid-denying extremists,” “anti-vax terrrorists,” and “apocalyptic plagues.” When you’re rolling out a new official ideology — a pathologized-totalitarian ideology — and criminalizing all dissent, the point is not to appear to be factual. The point is just to terrorize the shit out of people. Read the Whole Article The post The Criminalization of Dissent appeared first on LewRockwell.

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