There's nothing like a nice little war to rescue sagging popularity ratings and Biden's approval is deep underwater. So is the plan to urge Ukraine to provoke Russia to attack? Republicans will cheer and Democrats will cheer. Only the dead will fail to cheer. Also today: Czech drops vax mandate, Starbucks drops vax mandate, Carhartt...insists on Vax mandate!
By Chris Rossini
Throughout history, a major temptation that people routinely succumb to is the belief that the concentration of power can solve individual problems. Here we are, 7 billion exquisitely unique and one-of-a-kind individuals populating the Earth. Yet, even with this stark reality, it's still so easy to get bamboozled into believing that there are one-size-fits-all diktats that should be imposed on everyone by the state! In a world of uniqueness, solutions are sought from forced uniformity, and coerced conformity. Why? Why would people jump at an idea that can do nothing but fail? Why would anyone accept that "experts," who are flawed human beings like everyone else, could possibly tell everyone in the world what to do? It's easy to see why "experts" would find such a setup to be attractive, but why would anyone else? This writer doesn't know the answer. I chalk it up as one of the many mysteries of life. For whatever reason, and there may be many reasons, people are repeatedly swindled into believing that tyranny is in their interest, and that attempting to impose mass conformity will make them (and everyone else) happy. Of course, reality always asserts itself. The exact opposite ends up happening --- mass misery --- every single time; without exception. No institution on the planet has a worse history at creating mass human misery than government. No other institution, or group of people, can even play on the same field. The state is the king at creating corpses. This is because the state is a sword. This sword better have some very well-defined limitations that people expect and will hold their rulers to. Otherwise, the sword is up for grabs. And when the sword is up for grabs, it can be used for any purpose whatsoever --- like fighting a virus (!?). If the sword is up for grabs, then some very undesirable people will be as ruthless as they need to be in order to hold it in their hands. As flawed as America's Founders were, they at least did an admirable job in defining what the sword can be used for. The U.S. Constitution says, in essence, 'the federal government can do these listed things.' If something wasn't listed in the Constitution, it means the issue is left to the states, and to the people. Then there's the Bill of Rights which says, in essence, 'when the federal government does the things that it's permitted to do in the Constitution, it may NOT do any of these things...' In other words, in doing what the government is permitted to do, it cannot abridge free speech while doing so. It cannot take away our right to defend ourselves, and so on. So the Founders tried to make it so the sword cannot just end up being used willy-nilly by a group of special interests who happen to have superior lobbying skills. But alas, 200+ years of shredding up the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights has led us to a very dark place: an unprecedented two years of medical tyranny! If it's acceptable that the government can do whatever it can get away with, various tyrants will jockey for position. The pendulum just happened to stop on medical tyranny this time around. As a result, hundreds of millions of Americans were shocked to see their government morph into something like the governments depicted in old WWII movies. Even "show your papers" made a reappearance! And now we're finding out, day-by-day, that all the tyrannical actions were for naught. They did nothing but create mass human misery! The masks ... the anti-social distancing ... the plastic dividers ... the "stand here" stickers on the floors ... the vaccines ... the job losses for refusing to take the vaccines ... All of it...for naught! Tyranny failed to stop the spread. It was never the role of government to do any of this. That's not what the sword is for! Plead for the government to do something that it cannot possibly do, and guess what? It won't do it! Looking back has its benefits. It's how we learn; and this time period will be looked back upon for the rest of our lives, and even longer for sure. But a way forward is more important for those who desire to live the lives that God created them to live. That way forward must be pursued by getting back to first principles. It means getting out of fantasyland and back to reality. Since we're all unique, the idea of "one-size-fits-all," imposed by the sword, should be treated as an absolute joke. Such an idea should be relegated to the fringe (at best). Since "one-size-fits-all" needs to go into the dustbin of history, so too should the idea of "rule by experts." If people are so impressed by themselves, let them live out their fantasies in the metaverse. No more "rule by experts" in the real world. The colossal damage has now been done. The role of government must (once again) be reconsidered. The sword must be placed back in its holster. The idea that the sword is supposed to make everyone healthy, or wealthy, or educated (along with the thousands of other things that are expected of it) must be discarded. While the medical tyranny is falling apart each day, the collapse of the "rule by financial experts" is still ahead of us. When that occurs, the government will be shown to be broker than broke, and people will have no choice but to look elsewhere for solutions to their problems. But there's no need to wait for the Fed's fiat house-of-cards to fall. Now is the time to start getting one's own house in order and to stop looking at the government to be the savior that it can never be. Now is the time to look to the smaller. When you see the word "World" followed by some name, it's best to look elsewhere. Those people have the real world all wrong. This world is not their world to "run." Now is the time to master our own worlds; to master our own domains. Now is the time for Liberty. Narrative Collapse! From England To Israel, Governments Race To Abandon Vaccine Passports!1/19/2022
Facing a fight for his political life, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced an abrupt end to England's vaccine passport, mask mandates including in schools, and work-from-home orders as the Omicron "scare" fizzles. In Israel, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman is demanding an end to that country's vax pass. The bricks are falling from this Berlin Wall. Also today: New footage of Ashli Babbitt will NOT please the Jan 6th Committee and a new study out of Brazil will not please Fauci.
Israel's hyper-vaccine policy has hit the skids with a new study showing that the fourth booster is "not good enough" against current covid. Suddenly the vax mandate makes no sense - which has just been admitted by Israel's vaccine chief. Also today: the political war on Novak Djokovic. Finally: shot and boosted chairman of the joint chiefs...comes down with covid! What about those military mandates?
By Ron Paul
Russia-bashing is a bi-partisan activity in Washington. Both parties think it makes them look “tough” and “pro-America.” But while Republican and Democrat politicians continue to one-up each other on “risk-free” threats to Russia, they are increasingly risking a devastating nuclear war. It’s all fun and games until the missiles start flying. And in this case we are risking total destruction over who governs eastern Ukraine! Has so much ever been risked for so little? The problem with all this tough talk is that politicians start to believe their own rhetoric and propaganda. As a result they don’t make sound decisions based on objective facts, but instead make rash decisions based on faulty misinformation. When US politicians talk about Russia massing troops on the Ukrainian border, for example, they leave out the fact that these troops are actually inside Russia. With US troops in some 150 countries overseas, you’d think Washington might pause before criticizing the “aggression” of troops inside a country’s own borders. They also leave out the reasons why Russia might be concerned over its neighbor Ukraine. CNN reported recently that the Biden Administration approved another $200 million in military aid to Ukraine last month, making nearly half a billion dollars in weapons over the past year. Imagine if China was sending half a billion dollars in weapons to Mexico to strengthen and embolden a hyper-aggressive anti-US regime. Would the US not be “massing troops near the Mexican border”? Also there is that issue about the US-backed overthrow of the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in 2014, which is the starting point of all these recent problems. And this week Yahoo News reported that the CIA is training Ukrainian paramilitaries on US soil! Recent talks between the US and Russia failed before they even began, with the US side refusing to even consider ending useless and provocative NATO expansion eastward. NATO is a Cold War relic that should have been disbanded along with the Warsaw Pact. It serves no purpose and its constant saber-rattling puts us at risk in conflicts that have nothing to do with US national security. How embarrassing it was to hear Blinken ridiculing Russia for coming to the aid of ally Kazakhstan as a color revolution (with likely US backing) was brewing. “I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave,” Blinken told reporters. He said this with a straight face even as the US continues to illegally occupy a large part of Syria, continues to occupy part of Iraq against the will of that country’s parliament, and occupied a good part of Afghanistan for 20 years! Incidentally, as soon as the regime change attempt was put down in Kazakhstan, Russian and allied troops began leaving the country. But, of course, the reflexively pro-war US media doesn’t report anything outside the narrative. What to do about Russia? Stop backing regime change along Russia’s borders, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere. Stop meddling in foreign elections. Look at how we wasted four years on false claims that the Russians meddled in ours. End weapons shipments and all aid to Ukraine. End sanctions. Re-imagine the US defense budget as a budget to actually defend the US. It’s really not that complicated: stop trying to rule the world.
A shocking recent Rasmussen poll result highlights just how divided the US is after two years of covid lockdowns, restrictions, and propaganda. Nearly 50 percent of Democrats polled support fines or imprisonment for anyone questioning efficacy of covid shots on social media! This comes after several of the top "experts" have themselves radically scaled back early promises of shot virus protection. Also today, dissident doc forced to take psych exam and Virginia's new governor hits the ground running! Plus - what's up with new restrictions on Ron Paul's Facebook???
Democracy is a word that never appears in America's founding documents. America was founded as "the land of the free." People fled persecution, from all over the world, to reach America for freedom. America wasn't founded to vote for yourself other people's stuff, or to vote for yourself special privileges from the government. It was Liberty that was sacred; not democracy.
The Biden Justice Department has announced that it is setting up a new "domestic terrorism" division to monitor Americans for "extremism." How do they define it? Among other things, it's being "anti-authority." What could go wrong? Also today, voting reform...or election fixing? Bernie Sanders wants to give you a new face mask! And...major Danish newspaper apologizes to its readers for printing government covid lies.
By Ron Paul
A recent Washington Post/University of Maryland poll found that 34 percent of Americans think violent action against the government can be justifiable. This view is held by 40 percent of Republicans and 23 percent of Democrats. The result may seem surprising since leftists have been responsible for much of the recent politically-motivated violence, and many Democrats have called for violence against Trump supporters. However, the cultural Marxists appear to have (temporarily) ceased using violence as a tactic—although had President Trump won reelection, it may well have been ANTIFA members inside the Capitol on January 6 trying to “stop the steal.” The rising support for violence against government is rooted in the growing (and justified) belief that the people’s liberties are being taken by a ruling class that is indifferent at best, and hostile at worst, to their values and concerns. The devastation wrought by the lockdowns, as well as the conflict over the promotion of masks, vaccines, critical race theory, and transgenderism, heighten these social tensions. Another major contributor to the social unrest is the economy. Rising prices combined with supply shortages and the increasing national debt are all signs that we may be witnessing the final days of the Keynesian welfare-warfare state. Unless Congress immediately begins to cut spending and transition to a free-market monetary system, America will soon face a major economic crisis. The crisis will likely be caused by a collapse of the dollar’s value. This will likely lead to increased violence. The violence will start when those who believe they are entitled to live off the stolen property of their fellow citizens decide to take matters into their own hands because the government can no longer do the looting for them. The only way to avoid this fate is by a revolution. I am not speaking of a violent revolution that replaces one form of authoritarianism with another, but a peaceful revolution of ideas. This revolution aims to replace the authoritarian interventionist ideology that dominates both the left and right wings of the ruling class with the ideas of liberty. Such a revolution would restore respect for individual liberty, constitutional government, free markets, a non-interventionist foreign policy, and sound money. The revolution of ideas would resolve social conflicts by getting the government out of social issues and instead allowing private property owners to, for example, decide who can and cannot use which restroom on their property. It would also restore control over education to parents. The goal is to respect the rights of each individual to live their lives as they choose as long as they do not violate the rights of others to do the same. A free market with a sound currency would release lower-income Americans from the Federal Reserve’s inflation tax as well as provide them with expanded economic opportunities. The growing economy would reduce tensions between races and lead Americans to view immigrants as an asset rather than a burden. A free and peaceful society cannot be brought about by a violent revolution. Instead, it must occur via peaceful conversation of a critical mass of citizens. When that critical mass is reached, even many authoritarian politicians will endorse liberty and limited government out of fear of losing reelection if they do not. Therefore, the best thing those of us who know the truth can do to restore a free society is to convert as many people as possible to the movement for liberty, peace, and prosperity.
Sen. Paul was prepared as Anthony Fauci returned to the Senate to face questioning. Previous chapters of this saga have been heated - and revealing - but yesterday's cage match was loaded with truth bombs. Also today - the World Health Organization and the EU's FDA are seemingly backing off boosters - why? Finally, the Project Veritas document dump from DARPA has a few shocking tid-bits about covid treatments...
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