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The society of false flaggers

If you spend any time checking out the commentary of MSNBC or CNN, there are a number of hosts, anchors, analysts, panelist, pundits, contributors — or whatever they call them – who deserve special recognition.  Among the most notable (in no particular order) are Michael Steele, Elise Jordan, Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, Joe Scarborough, David Jolly, Ana Navarro, Jennifer Rubin and there are others.

Have you guessed what they have in common?  Maybe the headline was your clue.  They all claim to have Republican and/or conservative backgrounds AND they are all among the harshest critics of President Trump, Republicans, conservatives and the millions of Americans they demeaningly refer to as “the political base.”  It must be that old zeal of a convert that makes them so damn vicious in their opining.

They all can be seen frequently on MSNBC — the most un-journalistic of the cable news outlets – with occasional appearances on CNN.  The appearances are offered up in an obvious attempt to use their history or titles to exhibit a faux bipartisan balance on those ubiquitious panels.  Rather than offering any legitimate counterpoints to the networks’ narratives, however, they are just more squawking voices in the Pandemonium of parroting panelists.

(If you are scratching your head over the use of the word “Pandemonium,” it is one of the names for a flock of parrots – and by happy coincidence, in this case, when capitalized it is a reference to the capital of Hell from Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”  Two apt allusions for the price of one.  But I digress.)
Though each and everyone of them have shifted away from the Republican or conservative roots, at least former Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough, of “Morning Joe,” and fellow former Florida Congressman David Jolly have officially left the GOP.

Jennifer Rubin has been billed as the conservative Republican editorialist for the Washington Post.  She has never had a discernible or consistent political philosophy or loyalty throughout her career — but has bowed to the bucks.  Her cash on the dresser currently comes from the political anti-Trump left.  Consequently, this so-called conservative is now among the most strident anti-Trumpers in the media.  Her “conversion” has been rewarded with frequent appearances on the most hardcore left-wing propaganda programs – such as “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell and the Rachel Maddow Show.

Many in this group list their occupation as “Republican strategist” – which makes one wonder if they are being hired by Republican candidates or organizations.  Ana Navarro and Steve Schmidt fall into that category.  Their extreme rhetoric – and they can go to the irrational extreme – seems motivated by a lack of cogent and common-sense arguments.

Other false-flaggers simply reference past positions — Elise Jordan as a one-time advisor to President W. Bush and Nicole Wallace as Communications Director in the same Bush White House.  Of course, Michael Steele was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee.  The one-time top salesman for the GOP has sold out to be a shill for MSNBC.

And “sold out” is the proper term.  Mostly these are folks who would have drifted off into political oblivion were it not for the money and the airtime that the left-wing media provides for their cash-on-the-barrelhead opinions.  It would appear to be all about the money and the television exposure.  It has also allowed them to earn more money from speaking engagements, books and other benefits of fame.

It also may be a bit of bitterness that they got left out of the action in Washington when Trump took over the big mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  People like Steve Schmidt were flunkies for John McCain.  They have one thing in common with the radical Democrats they now serve.  They did not expect – and did not want – Donald Trump to get elected.  They bet their professional careers on the belief that Trump would first not get the GOP nomination and then that he would get crushed in the General Election.  Their bitter disappointment is comparable to that of the Hillary Democrats. 

Hence, the alliance.

As shameful as the false flaggers may be, it is the networks who employ them that deserve the greatest criticism.  They are abandoning any measure of journalist integrity and ethics to push a biased politically partisan propaganda narrative.  The false-flaggers are used as a pathetic effort to appear to have a variance of perspectives – but propagandists do not allow the expression of opposing viewpoints.

It is ironic that the very new media that keeps calling on Republicans to put country ahead of partisan politics is … putting partisan politics ahead of country – and using a cadre of false-flaggers to help them.

So, there ‘tis.

The Leftist Religious Cult of Diverse Conformity

WORTH REPEATING, ALTHOUGH HIS IDEAS ARE NOT FULLY DEVELOPED YET.

;-)

There is a common misconception among newer activists in the liberty movement that the idea of the "false left/right paradigm" means that there is no political spectrum; that the entire notion of left vs right is a fabrication. This is not exactly the case. When we talk about false paradigms in regard to politics (or geopolitics), what we are actually referring to is the elitist class, otherwise known as globalists, and the fact that they have no left or right political orientation. They do not care about Democrats or Republicans; they have no loyalty to either party. Their loyalty is to their own agenda, and they will exploit both sides to get what they want whenever possible.

NO. GLOBALISTS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS LEFTISTS - ALL HYPOCRITES. NONE OF THEM REALLY BELIEVES IN THE LIES ABOUT GROUP SAFETY (SLAVERY) THEY ALL SPEW - EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM SEEKS SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT AS A NICHE LEADER, AND DESIRES FOR THE REST TO BE THEIR LOYALLY ENSLAVED FOLLOWERS. LEFTARDATION IS A RELIGION OF HYPOCRITES WHO ONLY "TRULY BELIEVE" IN THEM SELVES - BUT UNLIKE CONSERVATIVE INDIVIDUALISTS, THEY ALSO CAN'T TRUST THEM SELVES, AND SO PRETEND TO BELIEVE NOBODY ELSE CAN BE TRUSTED, EITHER. WE ARE ALL DIVERSELY EQUAL HYPOCRITES WHO NATURALLY OPPOSE EACH OTHER. CONSERVATIVES BELEIVE IN FREE-WILL THOUGHT AND AN ABILITY TO MAKE CHOICES - TO TAKE SELF-RELIANT RESPONSIBILITY AND TO AGREE TO NOT ATTACK EACH OTHER FIRST. CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT IS BASED ON THE EMOTION OF HOPE. LEFTOPATHS HOLD THE EXACT OPPOSITE VIEW, AND THEIR FEARS OF FEAR KILL OFF ALL OF THEIR OWN POTENTIAL THOUGHTS AND THINKING.

Beyond the globalists, average people do indeed fall on a political spectrum that could be broken down and simplified to a couple basic ideals or ideologies. On the left side of the spectrum we find the collectivists and socialists, who believe that society (the group) is vastly more important than the individual and that the actions of individuals must be strictly monitored and governed to prevent negative effects on the group.

The core argument of the leftists is: "We are all a part of society and must act in harmony with society so that the system continues to function. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few..."

On the right side of the spectrum we find the individualists, sovereignty activists and true conservatives. People who, in varying degrees, believe that society should be restricted from dictating the life of the individual and that group participation should be voluntary. Where leftists seek to centralize, people on the right seek to decentralize.

The argument of the conservative is: "Without the individual the group does not exist. The group is an abstraction created in the mind. When groups do form, they should only exist to serve and protect the inherent rights of individuals, not be used as a mechanism of control by weak people who are afraid to function on their own..."

This separation of philosophies is simple and easy to follow. Where things start to become confused and convoluted, however, is when political "gatekeepers" or globalist-controlled pundits and media outlets get involved and muddy the waters. For example, there are some egregious misinterpretation of conservative principles in the mainstream, especially in places like Europe where the word "conservative" is considered dirty and is barely spoken.  Gatekeepers who have no loyalties to actual conservative values have attempted to soil the image of conservatives as a whole by misleading them down the wrong path or acting as false representatives.

Inevitably, these pied pipers try to lure conservatives to support leftist ideologies, like big government interference in people's lives, or in the politics of other nations, or even in free markets. In other words, they want to sabotage real conservatives by making them look like hypocrites. But, the ideals of conservativism and centralization are mutually exclusive — if a conservative supports big government controls, they are no longer a conservative. Period.

It is certainly the case that similar gatekeepers on the left side of the spectrum are misleading leftists to destructive ends, but not in the same way that they try to mislead conservatives. While globalists will attempt to trick conservatives to act more like socialists, they do not try to trick leftists into acting more like conservatives. Rather, they trick leftists into becoming even more extreme in their collectivist tendencies.

The end goal of the globalist cabal is to eventually reach a point where everyone in the world is a supporter of totalitarian centralization — a world where everyone is a leftist, whether they realize it or not.

How they plan to achieve this goal is rather indirect but potentially very effective. By pushing one side (the political left) to extremes, they hope to drive the other side (conservatives) to respond with extreme measures to defend themselves that they would otherwise consider contrary to their principles. To avoid this outcome, conservatives must understand the root motivations and contradictions of what has become the leftist cult. To avoid falling into madness, we must examine the behaviors of the insane.

It is hard to say exactly where the left began to migrate away from more centrist politics and go full bore communist. Some would say it started when the Frankfurt School of academics transplanted to the U.S. during and after WWII, bringing with them the ideology of cultural Marxism. Some might argue that they have been this way since the 1960s and 1970s during the rise of the anti-war movement and second wave feminism. But if leftists were raging socialists back then, for decades after that chaotic generation there was at least some self-discipline among them in terms of revealing their true intentions outright.

I would place their transformation, or violent mutation, closer to 20 years ago as college campuses shifted completely away from a focus on practical skill sets and STEM fields over to hackneyed social sciences. This was the moment that the conspiracy to completely radicalize the left was truly implemented.

Colleges became centers of worship, but of a new religion called "social justice."  This religion relies on rehashing and reigniting old social conflicts as if they had never been discussed and embraced before. They act as if America had never come to terms with slavery, racism, women's rights, sexual orientation, etc., as if all of these problems were boiling in the background waiting for the social justice warriors to finally grace us with their presence and solve them. The reality is that while there will always be some conflict related to these issues, there is no need for the existence of "social justice" today. They are rebels without a legitimate cause, and so they create causes out of thin air.

Many pundits on the political left are careful not to publicly associate with SJWs, and attempt to portray Democrats and progressives as somehow separate. And for some of these people this might be true. But social justice mantras and disinformation have absolutely permeated Democrat language and discussions. 

Gatekeeping media outlets like The New York Times, Vox, and The Atlantic have seen to this, as they flood Democrat-oriented web spaces with article after article written like editorials but presented as if they are factual journalism rather than opinion.

Every new article starts with paragraphs written in descriptive prose by leftist authors chasing delusional dreams of becoming the next Steinbeck. Or they launch into contrived and flowery anecdotal accounts of their personal experiences which have very little to do with the subject matter and lack any relation to investigative fact-based writing. True journalism is now dead — hot garbage factories like The New York Times and Vox killed it and replaced it with a Roman bathhouse of narcissism and iniquity.

The job of these outlets is to continue fueling leftist faith. The colleges made them zealots; insane devotees of the cult. The media keeps them on the path and ensures they do not stray. But what beliefs define this religion beyond vague notions of "social justice."  Let's examine a few...

Burn it all down?

While the Molotov cocktail was actually invented (or at least popularized) by the Finnish during the Winter War to help stop a massive communist invasion from the Soviet Union, it has now become a kind of symbol of communist rebellion in the West today. The Frankfurt School and Marxism in general teach that existing systems are not changed diplomatically but demolished violently through the exploitation of social conflicts. In traditional Marxism the idea was to use economic class conflict and to rally the lower classes to overthrow the upper classes. Cultural Marxism relies not just on economic disparities but also social tensions to bring down a civilization.

After the dust settles the socialists/communists introduce their own "Utopian" system and take control as the nation lays weak and helpless in the midst of complete breakdown.

When the existing system works in their favor and feeds their sense of public influence, leftists sing its praises. When it stops working in their favor, they seek to tear it apart and remake it. These are the people you cannot play chess or checkers with — when they start to lose, they cry foul and dash the board to the ground in a rage.

Everyone is born the same

This notion is biologically absurd, but it is gaining momentum in leftists movements. Essentially collectivists believe that all human being are born as blank slates and that their entire personality is a product of their environment. While psychologists, anthropologists and scientists from across the spectrum from Carl Jung to Joseph Campbell to Stephen Pinker have all shown extensive evidence of inborn psychological traits and inherent constructs within the human psyche, this evidence is utterly ignored by leftists as it runs counter to most of their fundamental assumptions.

If everyone is born different, then fairness in society becomes subjective and inapplicable. If people's characters are not necessarily ruled by their environment, then this means there is no need for a social Utopia to micro-manage every aspect of our lives to "keep us safe."  If psychopaths are not made but born, then the question of inherent evil becomes a possibility, and according to leftists there is no such thing as evil people, only evil systems that make good people evil. If gender is inborn and the ast majority of people fall on one side or the other psychologically, not just biologically, then leftists can no longer claim that gender is a social construct that must be dismantled.

The blank slate, or Tabula Rasa, is a key factor in the leftist religion that must be defended at all costs. Otherwise, half their ideology falls apart.

(BUT THEN HE IMMEDIATELY ARGUES FROM THE OPPOSITE POLEMIC LOL! - of course, that might not be the author's fault, but merely his observation of the innate double-standards hypocrisy of the left, who always want to have it both ways)!

Everything can and should be fair?

Anyone who has actually lived in the world for a while on their own knows full well that life is not fair. Some people are born with advantages while others are born with handicaps. Some advantages and disadvantages have to do with family and wealth, while others are simply genetic. What leftists don't seem to grasp is that perceived disadvantage is not always a bad thing.

People who struggle and overcome life's obstacles tend to be much wiser and more skilled than people who never had to put in the effort. Leftists want to take away all adversity, not in the name of equal opportunity, but in the name of equal outcome. In the process, they make all of society weaker, wimpier, less innovative and less productive. In a leftist world, humanity would have to create artificial "adversity camps" just to retain its survival instincts.  But then, of course, those camps would have to be siphoned through the fairness filter as well...

Intellect is more important than experience?

Leftists worship intellect as a divine power. So much so that the notion of real-world experience rarely crosses their minds as important in making decisions or forming opinions. When social justice warriors talk of thing like "racism," most of them have never and probably will never experience or witness legitimate racism. They read about it in books and hear about it in lectures but have no personal relationship to it.  They believe it is rampant everywhere; around every corner and under every bed because they must. Their reality depends on blind faith that this is true.

The idea of social inequality between men and women also relies on blind faith in misrepresented statistics and fraudulent accounts of crimes never committed.  To this day these people still argue that the "gender wage gap" is a real thing despite the fact that it has been debunked endlessly. This behavior requires a cult-like devotion to fantasy.  It is not normal or logical, it is extreme mental illness. If these people were to go into the working world and study real business models and talk to man and women who are not members of their own echo chamber, they would see through experience that their assumptions are wrong, but when intellectual notions outweigh experience or observation there is no hope of this..

I WOULDN'T CALL THAT "INTELLECT" BUT ABSTRACTION - SUSPENDING AND REMOVING IDEAS FROM ALL FREE-WILL CAUSE AND EFFECT PARAMETERS; aka "IDOLATRY." ABSTRACTION IS THE OPPOSITE OF INTELLECT - IT'S AN EMOTION-BASED FEAR AND REJECTION OF CAUSES, EFFECTS, AND OF SCARY DYNAMIC FREE-WILL CHOICES.

Conservatives are evil incarnate?

Part of the reason I started writing this essay was because I've noticed a steady stream of articles in mainstream media outlets posing as studies of "conservative extremists."  In reading some of these pieces I find that leftists have created their own language completely separate from the rest of the world and reality. That which they interpret as "racism," or "misogyny," or "fascism" does not fit the textbook definition of said labels. They have developed their own bewildering vocabulary filled with made-up words and illogical concepts to describe the world in a way that fits their desires and supports their accusations.

Conservatives don't live in this world and frankly, we don't ever want to. 

ER, WHAT?! WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY "THIS WORLD!"? THAT WE, TOO, ABSTRACT EVERYTHING FROM ITS REAL-WORLD CAUSE AND EFFECT CONSEQUENCES, IN FAVOR OF RELIGIOUS IDOLATRY?! OR THAT WE DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN "THEIR" CRAZY WORLD? (OR - BOTH!?)

;-/

We are heretics, or barbarians. In their eyes we are the dirty untouchables, the "deplorables."  We cannot be saved and should be destroyed. Zealots always seek to treat ideological outsiders as mortal enemies even when those individuals have done nothing to them. The fact is, most modern political crimes and genocides have been enacted in the name of socialist ideals; in the name of concepts the left holds dear. We continue to suffer under these ideals in the name of globalism.

How many people have suffered in the name of decentralization and individual rights?  How many people have been exterminated in the name of the non-aggression principle?  Conservatives are certainly not evil, or extreme. But in the twilight zone of leftist thought, we are now the monsters.

The leftist gods

The social justice embrace of Atheism seems to have left them unfulfilled, as their explanations of existence do not satisfy the innate human relationship to the metaphysical. 

WHAT "METAPHYSICAL!" BRANDON?

YOU CAN'T DEFINE THIS TERM ANY MORE THAN THESE LIBOCRITES OR LEFTOPATHS CAN!

The leftist cult is always seeking out gods these days, with all-encompassing government filling in as a proxy for now. The next deity of the left is clearly nature, or "mother earth," and this god satisfies their need for a vengeful and omnipotent force.

Many leftists desperately desire a kind of apocalypse, but an apocalypse on their terms. The globalists are giving them one, or at least a farcical version of one called "climate change," in which mankind angers nature with his production and progress, but is smote down with catastrophe while the devout leftists watch on in their purity saying "We tried to warn you, but you would not repent..." This is of course science fiction, not fact, based on junk science funded by organizations with agendas to manipulate the masses.

The solution to this apocalypse, coincidentally, always ends up being more government, more control over human trade and progress, population reduction, and perhaps even global governance of every aspect of life. Otherwise, we might incur the wrath of the great leftist war god of destruction — carbon fed global warming. In the minds of leftists, that will be the moment when we all understand that they were the sane ones, that their cult was right all along, and we will come to them willingly, prostrating ourselves before their mighty intellectual superiority.

It is this type of thinking that makes the left an easily exploited tool for the powers that be. It is the source of calamity through the ages.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith                                           

Socialism IS Barbarism

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THE NEW BARBARIANS David Kupelian on how the left is erasing America's history, culture, institutions and blessings

“Socialism or barbarism!” That’s the classic Marxist theme, the title of many far-left books, and the stark existential choice posed by socialists of all stripes: Either adopt our enlightened way – or sink into barbarism. However, as with most everything else on the left, this is pure projection since history proves that, intentionally or not, barbarism is precisely the end result of socialism. Really? you ask. I know socialism ignores all the laws of economics and always seems to fail, but BARBARISM? Yes, barbarism. And we’re not talking just about the unprecedentedly barbaric death toll of over 100 million during the 20th century’s global bloom of communism, nor more recently about the once-thriving, now-socialist-hellhole nation of Venezuela. We’re talking about the looming reality that today’s ever-more-leftwing Democratic Party, right here in the United States, if given the power it craves will lead America into a level of barbarism and destruction beyond our comprehension. Stay with me here. Most people’s primary association with the word “barbarians,” of course, is savage men on horseback – like ISIS jihadists – raiding and devouring a host society. But as life teaches us, sometimes the same evil can take different forms. In fact, we don’t need to scratch very far beneath surface appearances to discover that in every meaningful way, today’s far left, which has already taken over – one might even say raided and devoured – the Democratic Party, is now dragging America down a barbaric road to ruin. ‘Bar bar bar’ The word “barbarian” comes to us from ancient Greece, initially coined to describe all non-Greek-speaking peoples, like Persians and Egyptians, whose speech sounded like babble (“bar bar bar”) to the Greeks. Hence, their ancient onomatopoetic word “bárbaros” meant “babbler.” Over the centuries, this original meaning evolved into today’s darker and more universal association of “barbarians” as wildly unmoored people raining havoc and destruction on a host society. As we will soon see, today’s increasingly unhinged American left fits both meanings of “barbarian.” To set the stage, consider what conservative author Rod Dreher writes in his bestselling book, “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.” Dreher observes that the cultural moment in which we live is strongly reminiscent of the fall of the Roman Empire, today’s Western World having largely abandoned both faith and reason in favor of moral relativism, emotion and maximum personal freedom. To live in a culture like today’s America, contends Dreher, “is to dwell in a society that not only can no longer agree on what constitutes virtuous belief and conduct but also doubts that virtue exists.” To arrive at such a state of social disintegration, writes Dreher, citing moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s acclaimed book “After Virtue,” requires “abandoning objective moral standards; refusing to accept any religiously or culturally binding narrative originating outside oneself” and “repudiating memory of the past as irrelevant.” “This state of mind,” Dreher concludes, “approximates the condition known as barbarism”: When we think of barbarians, we imagine wild, rapacious tribesmen rampaging through cities, heedlessly destroying the structures and institutions of civilizations, simply because they can. Barbarians are governed only by their will to power, and neither know nor care a thing about what they are annihilating. By that standard, despite our wealth and technological sophistication, we in the modern West are living under barbarism, though we do not recognize it. Our scientists, our judges, our princes, our scholars, and our scribes – they are at work demolishing the faith, the family, gender, even what it means to be human. Our barbarians have exchanged the animal pelts and spears of the past for designer suits and smartphones. Indeed, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, commenting recently on the wildly unrestrained, ongoing coup attempt against the Trump administration, sized up the current zeitgeist this way: “It’s as if facts no longer matter at all – only emotion, ambition and the overriding will to power. These apparently are the new rules in Washington.” While there are many ways the new barbarism is ravaging American society – from identity politics dividing our nation into angry warring tribes, to today’s deranged gender orthodoxy encouraging men to invade women’s locker rooms and conquer the world of women’s sports – nothing more viscerally demonstrates the left’s capacity for hardcore barbarism than the issue of abortion. Abortion proponents call new pro-life laws ‘barbaric’ When we contemplate barbarian crimes of the past, some of the most extreme examples we might mentally conjure up – like wartime atrocities of soldiers ripping babies out of their mother’s wombs – are actually being committed right now, as you read these words, here in America. Except the carnage is all clean, clinical, legal, and most of all, hidden from view. Hundreds of second-trimester D&E (“dilation and evacuation”) abortions are performed every day on beautiful American babies, about 100,000 per year. Former abortionist Anthony Levatino, M.D., describes what the practitioner does to the unborn child after artificially inducing dilation in the mother and suctioning the amniotic fluid from her uterus: After the amniotic fluid is removed, the abortionist uses a sopher clamp – a grasping instrument with rows of sharp “teeth” – to grasp and pull the baby’s arms and legs, tearing the limbs from the child’s body. The abortionist continues to grasp intestines, spine, heart, lungs, and any other limbs or body parts. The most difficult part of the procedure is usually finding, grasping and crushing the baby’s head. After removing pieces of the child’s skull, the abortionist uses a curette to scrape the uterus and remove the placenta and any remaining parts of the baby. The abortionist then collects all of the baby’s parts and reassembles them to make sure there are two arms, two legs, and that all of the pieces have been removed. What about third-trimester abortions, which elicited such high enthusiasm among Democrat lawmakers recently that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo jubilantly lit up the spire of One World Trade Center in pink to celebrate his state’s new law explicitly permitting abortion up to the moment of birth? Third-trimester abortions today typically involve the abortionist injecting a chemical like digoxin into the fully formed, viable and pain-feeling preborn child to cause him or her to suffer a heart attack, then inducing labor over a period of two to three days and delivering a dead baby. Such “induced abortions” account for about 1.2 percent of all U.S. abortions, about 12,000 children per year, or 33 every single day. Ironically, while a few right-of-center news sources accurately used the word “barbaric” in headlines to describe New York’s new abortion law, the left’s projection machine cranked into high gear, with abortion supporters describing current efforts in more conservative states to pass legislation opposing or restricting abortion as “barbaric”! That’s right. Commenting on Georgia’s recent “heartbeat bill,” which prohibits abortion after a heartbeat can be detected in the unborn child, author Clementine Ford wrote, “The Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act – also known as HB 481 – was signed on Tuesday by Governor Brian Kemp, a cisgender man who will never be able to become pregnant and consequently will never have to be subjected to the barbarism of the law he’s enacting.” And while interviewing Ben Shapiro, the BBC’s Andrew Neil opined that the same Georgia law would “take us back to the dark ages.” Meanwhile, across America, vicious and sometimes violent attacks on peaceful pro-lifers demonstrating and praying outside abortion clinics are on the increase. ‘People without historical memory’ One of the most-cited characteristics of barbarians in all places and times is that they are “people without historical memory.” Indeed, some of the most appalling genocides of the last century were committed not by wild, rudderless savages, but by people in the grip of what they believed to be morally superior utopian ideologies, holding in contempt the values, history and institutions of the society they were obsessed with “reforming.” Modern history’s most egregious example, at least in terms of the staggering death count, would be China’s revolutionary communist leader Mao Zedong, whose so-called “Great Leap Forward” between 1958 and 1962 – a campaign aimed at rapidly transforming China from an agrarian economy into a socialist utopia – caused at least 30 million deaths, with some estimates ranging up to 55 million. (Eerily, during Barack Obama’s presidency, his White House communications director Anita Dunn proclaimed publicly during a speech that Mao Zedong, the greatest mass murderer in human history, was one of her two “favorite political philosophers.”) To carry out such a catastrophic “leap forward” in China, Mao – just like Pol Pot and his infamous Khmer Rouge two decades later, who slaughtered two million of their countrymen in Cambodia’s “killing fields” – had to extinguish all memory of the past and begin history anew, since what came before was of no consequence or value. (Pol Pot turned the calendar in Cambodia – which he renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea – back to “Year Zero.”) This is why both Pol Pot and Mao Zedong made a point of executing teachers, lawyers, businessmen, writers, academics, scientists and other intellectuals, since they represented the impure old order that had to be purged, to allow the unpolluted new socialist utopia to be established. The point of this brief historical review is that a barbarian takeover of a country is not possible without discrediting and annihilating the shared values, history and key institutions that have unified that society and enabled it to work. With that in mind, consider what the left has already done to America, and what it currently – as unashamedly advocated by the various Democratic Party presidential candidates – claims it intends to do in the near future. This list is by no means complete, just a quick representative sampling. Institutions targeted for destruction The Supreme Court: America’s courts have long been leftists’ go-to branch of government, since radical agendas like abortion-on-demand and same-sex marriage could never have won sufficient popular support to be implemented via the legislative branch, but had to be imposed on the country by activist judges. Thus the hysteria over President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court last year, who along with previous Trump pick Neil Gorsuch have rendered the court’s complexion more conservative. In response, Democrats now desperately want to rig the system to render the Supreme Court a permanent servant of the left. Presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg, for example, both have expressed enthusiasm over a scheme to increase the number of Supreme Court justices from the current nine to 15! “What if there were five justices selected by Democrats, five justices selected by Republicans and those 10 then pick five more justices independent of those who picked the first 10,” O’Rourke suggested. Meanwhile, a progressive group unashamedly called “Pack the Courts” is pushing for Democrats to add four justices to the court so as to “nullify” Donald Trump’s two recent appointees. Why four? As the group’s executive director, Aaron Belkin, told The Hill: “To nullify the theft of the Garland seat, two justices would have to be added to nullify Gorsuch’s votes and to the extent that President [Trump] obtained the presidency by breaking the law, then two seats would have to be added to nullify the Kavanaugh seat.” Two seats are necessary to nullify each “stolen seat,” Belkin clarified, since just one liberal judge would simply cancel out a conservative justice. But the second leftwing judge, explains The Hill, would in Belkins’ mind “represent the Democratic judge that he believes should be on the court instead of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.” The Electoral College: Democrats are openly advocating the elimination of the Electoral  College, which was put in the Constitution to prevent the tyranny of big states over small states (same reason the U.S. Senate was created). But today, the Democratic Party would like nothing more than for their massive urban concentrations of left-leaning voters on the two coasts to choose America’s president without having to worry about all those tens of millions of ignorant, MAGA hat-wearing, center-right voters in “flyover country.” (Take a look at a red-blue Election 2016 map showing which states Trump won.) Higher education: The most radically leftwing places in America, this nation’s once-great colleges and universities are increasingly considered a waste of time and money. Worse, they are transforming a sizeable segment of the next generation into hysterical, entitled narcissists obsessed with faux victimization and committed to perverse ideologies from gender anarchy to socialism. America’s history: Everyone has watched in amazement over the last several years as activists on the left have waged an ongoing campaign to eliminate America’s historical memory, starting with toppling Civil War statues across the country. But that was just the beginning. Howard Zinn’s irredeemably dark history book, “A People’s History of the United States,” is widely used in public high schools and colleges nationwide to turn American children against their founders and ancestors, painting all previous generations as racists, slaveholders and genocidal monsters. With such national self-hatred being inculcated into America’s youth, no surprise that even artwork featuring images of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington is now being targeted. The First Amendment: Not in our lifetimes has the right to free speech come under such withering assault as from today’s left, which – just to pick one example – totally controls social media where much of America’s policy debate takes place. Every day, conservatives, Christians and other right-of-center voices are banned, suspended, de-platformed, de-monetized, shadow-banned, branded “hate speech,” suppressed in search results and censored in many other ways. Likewise, the left has utterly corrupted the free press, also enshrined in the First Amendment. The classic role of the journalist – to tell the truth without fear or favor, regardless of whom it helps or hurts – is dead, except for a few courageous news outposts that are somehow managing to weather the storm. The Second Amendment: The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates unabashedly favor eliminating law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D.-Calif., literally advocates forcing law-abiding citizens to surrender their legally purchased semi-automatic firearms (aka “assault weapons,” “weapons of war”) or else go to prison. “Just take the 15 million that are out there and buy them back,” he says. Meanwhile, Sen. Kamala Harris, D.-Calif., widely anticipated to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate (to balance the “old white man” at the top of the ticket), says if Congress fails to pass stricter gun control laws in her first 100 days in office, she would act on her own – citing a wide variety of gun-control executive orders like allowing victims of crimes committed with guns to sue firearms manufacturers and dealers. Free and fair elections: Democrats have long specialized in voter fraud and abuse in myriad forms, but now they’ve expanded their repertoire beyond things like opposing voter ID laws, which enables non-citizens to vote. Today they also want 16-year-olds to vote, felons to vote, voting by phone, and even – as Bernie Sanders recently called for – convicted terrorists including Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be allowed to choose America’s next president. Democrat legislators in at least 18 states are even trying to pass laws taking Donald Trump’s name off the 2020 presidential ballot, tied to some new requirement that candidates must submit all of their tax returns. And of course, the growing Democratic Party call for “slavery reparations” is a transparent attempt at bribing black voters to continue monolithically to vote Democrat, without which support the party that spawned the Ku Klux Klan cannot hold on to power. Peaceful transfer of power: America has long taken pride in its constitutional and political stability, most evident in the fact that, however rancorous its election seasons, once the contest is over a peaceful transfer of power always follows. No more. The Democrats have never accepted the election of Donald Trump as president – as demonstrated by the incredibly damaging Russia collusion hoax, which in reality has constituted a full-fledged attempted coup d’etat. Even after the Mueller Report’s release, little has changed, with Democrats still insisting Trump is guilty and demanding he be removed from office by impeachment or otherwise. Even Joe Biden recently agreed publicly that Trump is an “illegitimate” president. Trust in government: Sadly, not only did the Obama administration weaponize federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to illegally spy on the Trump campaign, destroying reputations and lives in the process. But even after Donald Trump became president, rogue actors within these bureaucracies continued to use America’s most respected governmental institutions, including the FBI and Department of Justice, as weapons of political war, managing to simultaneously degrade both America’s criminal justice system and her political system. Immigration and border control: What is more quintessentially barbarian than a  massive invasion of a society by people who don’t share its values, respect its Constitution, speak its language or honor its history? In its craven pursuit of votes and power, since the Obama presidency the Democratic Party has encouraged, facilitated and literally invited a massive, rolling invasion of America across her southern border, creating havoc in every area imaginable – from massive crime to wage suppression for unskilled labor, to dilution of America’s culture to a gargantuan drain on taxpayers. Indeed, the fact that today’s Democrats say they want both open borders and a massive welfare state open to all is widely recognized as a formula for the total and rapid financial ruin of America. The Islam problem There is one more form of barbarian invasion being both promoted and excused by the left, thanks to what author David Horowitz calls the “unholy alliance” between radical Islam and the American left, since both share a common enemy – namely Christianity. Islam, by its very nature, and as history proves again and again, tends not to assimilate but to conquer. It’s politically incorrect in the extreme to say so, but “barbarian invasion” is what Islam has specialized in for most of the last 14 centuries. A look across the pond to Europe, which has been transformed, probably permanently, by the massive legal and illegal Islamic immigration into that formerly Christian continent, is a harbinger of what America has in store if it continues down its current immigration path. To be offended by this plain acknowledgment of history doesn’t change the truth of it. There is a fundamental problem with Sharia Islam in that it is intrinsically at odds with America’s constitutional system of governance. That’s exactly the point Judge Jeanine Pirro was making when, referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D.-Minn., she said on-air (before being suspended for two weeks from her top-rated Fox News show for saying it): “Omar wears a hijab which according to the Quran 33:59 tells women to cover so they won’t get molested.  Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?” Result of barbarian invasions In the end, what do societies look like historically after they’ve been invaded and ultimately conquered by people who don’t honor their culture, their values and their God? That’s a simple question to answer. Their past is obliterated; ever larger segments of the population have no shared memory of their nation’s history. Their former culture and value system is replaced by an angry babble of competing languages, beliefs and moral standards. Their key institutions are invaded, subverted and transformed, if not outright destroyed. Little respect remains for the transcendent value of human life because reverence for God has all but vanished. All that was previously cherished is gone – or gone underground, to live in fear. Is that not precisely what the left has been doing to America? The preceding is an abridged version of David Kupelian’s introductory story in the May issue of Whistleblower magazine, titled “THE NEW BARBARISM: How the left is erasing America’s history, culture, institutions and blessings.” Whistleblower is WND’s flagship subscription product, and becoming a subscriber is one of the very best ways to provide much-needed support to WND, while in return receiving some of our most powerful information and insights every month. Whistleblower is available in both print and digital versions, and makes a much-appreciated gift. ======================= Socialism says individuals have no rights to own or defend property, not even to the ownership and defense of their own bodies. Socialism is idolatry in that it places the rights of the individual human beneath the group and/or gang and/or state.  Therefore socialism is slavery. And simply calling slavery "socialism" will never make slavery sociable. Socialism is gang-might-makes-right barbarism, because one cannot trade freedom for security.  Because freedom from others is the only security, it can only be traded for group slavery.  ;-)

The next stage of the engineered global economic reset has arrived

From Bob Livingston Alerts, Wednesday 5 June, 2019.

When discussing the fact that globalists often deliberately engineer economic crisis events, certain questions inevitably arise. The primary question being "Why would the elites ruin a system that is already working in their favor...?" The answer is in some ways complicated because there are multiple factors that motivate the globalists to do the things they do. However, before we get into explanations, we have to understand that this kind of question is rooted in false assumptions, not logic.

The first assumption people make is that that current system is the ideal globalist system — it's not even close.

When studying globalist literature and white papers, from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, to H.G. Wells' book The New World Order and his little known film Things To Come, to Manly P. Hall's collection of writings titled 'The All Seeing Eye', to Carol Quigley's Tragedy And Hope, to the Club Of Rome documents, to Zbigniew Brzezinski's Between Two Ages, to former U.N. Director Robert Muller's Good Morning World documents, to Henry Kissinger's Assembly Of A New World Order, to the IMF and U.N.'s Agenda 2030, to nearly every document that is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, we see a rather blatant end goal described.


To summarize: For at least the past century the globalists have been pursuing a true one world system that that is not covert, but overt. They want conscious public acceptance of a completely centralized global economic system, a single global currency, a one world government, and a one world religion (though that particular issue will require an entirely separate article).

To attain such a lofty and ultimately destructive goal, they would have to create continuous cycles of false prosperity followed by catastrophe. Meaning, great wars and engineered economic collapse are their primary tools to condition the masses to abandon their natural social and biological inclinations toward individualism and tribalism and embrace the collectivist philosophy. They created the current system as a means to an end. It is not their Utopian ideal; in fact, the current system was designed to fail. And in that failure, the intended globalist "order" is meant to be introduced. The Hegelian Dialectic describes this strategy as Problem, Reaction, Solution.

This is the reality that many people just don't seem to grasp. Even if they are educated on the existence of the globalist agenda, they think the globalists are trying to protect the system that exists or protect the so-called "deep state." But this is a propaganda meme that does not describe the bigger picture. This big picture is at the same time much worse, and also more hopeful.

The truth is that the old-world order of the past century is a sacrificial measure, like the booster stage of a rocket to space that falls away and burns up in the atmosphere once it is used. If you do not accept the reality that the globalists destroy in order to create opportunities for gain, then you will never be able to get a handle on why current events are taking the shape they are.

Of course, in public discourse the elites have learned to temper their language and how they describe their agenda. Public knowledge, or at least general awareness, of the "new world order" is growing, and so they are forced to introduce the idea of a vast societal and economic shift in a way that sounds less nefarious and is relatively marketable. They also tend to hint at events or warn about disasters that are about to happen; disasters they are about to cause. Perhaps this is simply a way to insulate themselves from blame once the suffering starts.

The International Monetary Fund began spreading a meme a few years ago as a way to describe a global economic crash without actually saying the word "crash." Managing Director Christine Lagarde and others started using the phrase "global economic reset" in reference to greater centralization of economic and monetary management, all in the wake of a kind of crisis that was left mostly ambiguous. What she was describing was simply another name for the new world order, but it was one of the first times we had seen a globalist official actually hint that the change or "reset" would be built on the ashes of the old-world system, rather than simply built as an extension of it.
Lagarde's message was essentially this: "Collective" cooperation will not just be encouraged in the new order, it will be required — meaning, the collective cooperation of all nations toward the same geopolitical and economic framework. If this is not accomplished, great fiscal pain will be felt, and "spillover" will result. Translation: Due to the forced interdependency of globalism, crisis in one country could cause a domino effect of crisis in other countries; therefore, all countries and their economic behavior must be managed by a central authority to prevent blundering governments or "rogue central banks" from upsetting the balance.

The IMF and the CFR also refer to this as the "new multilateralism," or the "multipolar world order."
I believe the next stage of the economic reset has now begun in 2018 and 2019. In this phase of the globalist created theater, we see the world being torn apart by the "non-cooperation" that Lagarde and the CFR warned us about in 2015. The trade war is swiftly becoming a world economic war drawing in multiple nations on either side. This scenario only benefits the globalists, as it provides perfect cover as they initiate a crash of the historically massive 'Everything Bubble' which they have spent the last 10 years inflating just for this moment.

As I predicted in my article 'World War III Will Be An Economic War', published in April 2018, the tariff conflict between the U.S. and China has become an excellent catalyst for the global reset. In my article 'America Loses When The Trade War Becomes A Currency War', published in June 2018, I stated:

One question that needs to be addressed is how long the current trade war will last? Some people claim that economic hostilities will be short-lived that foreign trading partners will quickly capitulate to the Trump administration’s demands and that any retaliation against tariffs will be meager and inconsequential. If this is the case and the trade war moves quickly, then I would agree — very little damage will be done to the U.S. economy beyond what has already been done by the Federal Reserve.
However, what if it doesn’t end quickly? What if the trade war drags on for the rest of Trump’s first term? What if it bleeds over into a second term or into the regime of a new president in 2020? This is exactly what I expect to happen, and the reason why I predict this will be the case rests on the opportunities such a drawn-out trade war will provide for the globalists.

The economic world has a very short attention span, but a year ago in the alternative media the trade war was being treated by Trump cheerleaders in particular as a novelty — a non-issue that would be resolved in a matter of a months. Today, those same people are now vocal trade war fans, waving their pom-poms and screaming for more as they buy completely into the farce. Mentioning the fact that the trade war is only serving as a distraction so that the globalists can complete their economic reset agenda does not seem to faze them.

They usually make one of two arguments: Trump is an anti-globalist that is tearing down the "deep state" system and the trade war is part of his "4D chess game." Or the globalists don't have enough control over the current system to achieve the kind of "conspiracy" I describe here.

First, going by his associations alone, it is clear that Donald Trump is controlled opposition playing the role of "anti-globalist" while at the same time stacking his cabinet with the very same elites he is supposedly at war with. As I have outlined in numerous articles, Trump was bought off in the 1990s when he was saved from possibly permanent bankruptcy in the 1990s by Rothschild banking agent Wilber Ross. Trump made Ross his Commerce Secretary as soon as he entered the White House, and Ross is one of the key figures in the developing trade war.

At this point I have to say that anyone arguing that Trump is "playing 4D chess" with the banking elites while he is surrounded by them on a daily basis must be clinically insane. 

Every policy Trump has initiated in the past two years has served as a smokescreen for the globalist-controlled demolition of the economy. As the reset continues in the midst of the trade war, it will be Trump and by extension all conservatives that get the blame. Trump is a pied piper of doom for conservative movements, which is why I have always said any attempts to impeach Trump (before the crash is completed) will fail. The globalists like him exactly where he is.

Second, there is a globalist controlled central bank in almost every nation in the world, including supposedly anti-globalist countries in the East like Russia and China. All of these central banks are coordinated through the Bank for International Settlements in Brussels. The globalists covertly dictate the economic policy of nearly the entire planet. They can easily create an economic collapse anytime they wish. This is a fact.

However, what they do not control is how elements of the public will react their reset agenda. And this is where we find hope. They do not have their "new world order" yet, which is why they have to resort to elaborate theatrics and psychological operations. They know that an awake and aware segment of the population could annihilate them tomorrow with the right motivation, and so, they continue to distract us with a swarm of other concerns and calamities.

The purpose is to convince the masses to focus on all the wrong enemies while ignoring organized and psychopathic elites as the root of threat to humanity. We are supposed to hate the Russians, or hate the Chinese, or hate people on the left, or hate people on the right, and so it goes on. But these conflicts are just symptoms of a deeper disease. The great danger is that the focus on globalists as the virus will fade from public consciousness and conservative circles as the trade war becomes a world war and economic collapse results in financial pain.

The reset is upon us. The narrative of the collapse is being written before our eyes. The end game rests not on the globalists, though, but proponents of liberty and sovereignty. Either we keep our crosshairs on the true enemy, or we get sucked into the maelstrom and forget who we are and why we are here. If the latter occurs, then the globalist reset will be assured.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith                                           

Statins found to cause ALS

From here:

Shocking new drug danger discovered: Statins found to cause ALS, a fatal nervous system disorder

June 5, 201According to a new study that was published in the Drug Safety journal, statins could be one of the driving factors behind sporadic cases of ALS, which account for roughly nine out of ten ALS diagnoses. In the study, researchers looked at the reporting odds ratio, or ROR, of statins in relation to ALS and ALS-like symptoms. An ROR of 6 or greater generally suggests probable cause.

While the RORs for ALS were considered elevated for all of the statins studied, they discovered that lipophilic statins like Lovastatin (Altoprev) had an alarmingly high ROR of 107. Meanwhile, the ROR for Simvastatin (Zocor) was 23, while that of the popular statin Atorvastatin (Lipitor) was 17 and Rosuvastatin (Crestor) was 9.09. The researchers concluded that there is indeed a concerning connection that warrants further exploration.

Statins have lots of side effects, few benefits

If you take statins, ALS isn’t the only medical problem you have to worry about. They’ve also been linked to a higher risk of heart disease and memory loss. The most common side effects include cognitive problems, fatigue and muscle symptoms, while some people note aggression, higher irritability, and numbness or tingling in their extremities. And while they are intended to reduce the risk of suffering an ischemic stroke, they can raise the risk of hemorrhagic strokes.

Statins have also been shown to double the risk of developing diabetes. The risk is even higher among post-menopausal women, with one large study of more than 150,000 women showing that this group’s risk of diabetes rises by 71 percent by taking statins.

Statins are a huge moneymaker for doctors and pharmaceutical companies, so it’s unlikely that prescriptions will slow down any time soon. Thankfully, many people can avoid them by making lifestyle changes that will improve their health and bring their cholesterol to healthier levels. While it’s not quite as easy as taking a pill, improving your diet and getting regular exercise won’t raise your risk of ALS or any other illness – in fact, it will have the opposite effect.

The first step is adding more foods to your diet that are known to fight cholesterol. Focus on getting plenty of omega 3 fatty acids and fiber, and eat foods like oats, fish and garlic. Try to increase your physical activity levels, whether you’re going from being sedentary to taking a few slow strolls round the block after dinner each week or turning a couple of your weekly jogs into runs. No matter what you’re currently doing, there is a way to raise the intensity.

With nearly one out of every four people in the U.S. over the age of 45 taking statins, it’s important that everyone is aware of the risks posed these drugs and the safer alternatives for lowering your cholesterol and protecting your heart health naturally.

Hey, Frankie, when you’ve already got yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING!

From here and stuff ...

Pope Francis compared the border wall going up between the U.S. and Mexico to the Berlin Wall built in 1961 to keep East Germans from escaping into West Berlin and freedom. In a wide-ranging television interview, Pope Francis compared President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall to the Berlin Wall that divided communist East Germany from freedom in the West.

LifesiteNews Among a series of questions posed by correspondent Valentina Alazraki of the Mexican Televisa network, the Pope touched on a range of issues, including President Trump, migration and border security, violence against women, clerical sex abuse, and drug trafficking.

Alazraki reminded Pope Francis of the Mass he celebrated in 2015 at the border between the U.S. and Mexico, adding that little had changed since then as witnessed by “heartbreaking images of children separated from their families.” In response, the Pope said that he does not understand “this new culture of defending territory by building a wall.”

He went on to say, “We knew of one, of Berlin, and the many headaches and suffering it caused us….But it appears that man does what animals don’t, right? Man is the only animal that falls twice into the same hole, right?

We are returning to the same thing, right? Building walls as if it were a defense, right? Defense is dialogue, growth, acceptance and education, integration, and the healthy but human limit of ‘no more than this.’”

The interview took place earlier in May, and the transcript was released by the Vatican on May 28.

Not limiting himself to the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the pontiff also addressed the ongoing rush of immigrants illegally entering Spain’s possessions in North Africa. In Ceuta and Melilla, thousands of mostly male migrants have braved razor wire barriers in order to seek admission as refugees.

It is the greatest cruelty,” the pontiff said. “To defend what? Territory, or the economy of the country or who knows what, right? But they are schemes of thought that turn to the political task, and make a policy of that type, right? It’s very sad, is it not?”

When the Pope was asked what he would say to President Trump if he had been present, he said that it would be “the same, the same because I’ve said this in public. I also said in public that he who builds walls winds up a prisoner of the walls he builds.

Instead, the one who builds bridges makes friends, gives a hand, even though he stays on the other side … But there is dialogue, right? And you can defend the territory perfectly with a bridge … not necessarily with a wall. I speak of political bridges or cultural bridges, right? We’re not going to bridge all the borders, right? It is impossible.”

At the bottom of it, he said, is “environmental abuse and economic abuse.” As for the latter, he said, “There are increasingly fewer wealthy people, no! Fewer wealthy with a majority of the world’s wealth. And there are increasingly more poor people with less than the minimum to live…In other words, all the wealth is concentrated among quite small groups in relation to others … And the poor are more.”

Because there are more poor people, the Pope said, they are seeking new opportunities.  Pope Francis said that migration is a “priority throughout the world,” and is thus a focus of his attention but not at the cost of preaching against abortion and other issues.

“Migration has reached a point today that I have taken into my own hands the office for refugees of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development,” he said, noting that “every day, the Mediterranean is becoming more like a cemetery,” in reference to mostly African Muslim refugees who cross from North Africa in flimsy boats in the hope of reaching land in Europe or being picked up by European naval forces.

From 2016: