It's a trap! The wave of repercussions as the Middle East fights 'The Last War'

Few people are familiar with a little event around 1200 B.C. called the Bronze Age Collapse in the region known as the Levant (now known as the Middle East). Most folks are taught that history and progress travel in a straight line and that each generation improves upon the culture and innovations of previous generations. This is a delusion constructed around a limited Smithsonian-influenced view of the past. In reality, history tends to go in a circle, or a spiral, with innovation leading to ease, ease leading to laziness and corruption, and corruption leading to weakness and collapse.

Over and over again, humanity reaches for Elysium on Earth only to be slapped back down again and again. The survivors then build grass huts on top of the ruins of the old empires, and they start over from scratch.

For a moment I want to talk about the Bronze Age and the catastrophe that broke it to pieces. The Levant at this time was rich with civilization and trade, composed of a host of kingdoms including the Egyptians, Babylonians, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Hittites, etc. They had vast economic networks, agriculture, industry and written libraries. The proximity of the kingdoms allowed for such extensive trade relations that this period is often referred to by modern historians as the first "globalized economy."

What took centuries to build was destroyed in a single generation by a series of disasters. A "mega-drought" caused kingdoms without major water resources to lose agricultural production leading to widespread famine and disease (yes, the climate can and does change dramatically regardless of human carbon footprint). Trade was disrupted by internal disputes, and a mysterious invasion of a group of nomadic raiders called the "sea people" is documented as a primary factor in collapse.

The Sea People attacked numerous kingdoms but were also refugees flooding into the region. They disrupted cultures and economies and dragged a number of empires into the dust. This all happened in less than 30 years. Sadly, because only the elites of these civilizations were able to read and write, many languages and historic documentation were lost.

This initiated a dark age that lasted for centuries. Humanity was set back, essentially to zero, while living among temples and pyramids of past generations. They must have looked up at those decaying marvels of architecture from hundreds of years ago and wondered "What the hell happened to us?"

Not everything perished, of course. The Egyptian dynasties were in decline, but they managed to hold together far better than their counterparts across the Levant. But the event represented a setback to human knowledge that was detrimental. One might suggest that if the Bronze Age Collapse never occurred, we might be a space-borne species traveling the stars by now.

Then again, maybe these cultures were so corrupted that they needed to fail so that something better could be built in their place.

What does any of this have to do with the state of the Middle East today?  The smart readers out there surely see what I'm getting at. The intricate relationships and trade mechanisms of the Bronze Age led to great wealth and prosperity, but they were terribly fragile. That same interdependency resulted in their demise as they tumbled like dominoes on top of each other.

The globalization of today is leading to a similar worldwide implosion. Our irrational ties to foreign entanglements and economies could very well destroy civilization again. Consider what are we about to see as the Israel/Palestine war unfolds...

Multiple Nations Dragged Into The Conflict

I will make my position on the situation clear... I don't care about either side. The same goes for Ukraine and Russia. Their wars are not our wars, and I am highly suspicious every time any political leader tries to lure Americans into choosing one side or the other. To summarize, all wars are banker wars.

The Israelis enjoy our money, but they have a history of proven illicit operations to lure us into war in the past (USS Liberty, anyone?). The Palestinians and most of the Muslim world despise the West and Christianity in general (and I don't really care who started it, the fact remains that our cultures are completely incompatible).

Both sides use tactics that actively target civilians. I'm not talking about collateral damage like we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, I'm talking about groups that are consciously engaged in plans for genocide. Bottom line?  There are no "good guys" to join with. It's a complete s**t show of ancient tribal nonsense that we should stay away from.

Corporate media and some political leaders are already suggesting that the recent full-scale attack on Israel was planned by governments outside of Gaza. Some are accusing Iran, and others accuse Lebanon. From the extensive amount of footage of the attack that I have examined, I have no doubt that someone other than the Palestinians planned the event. The tactics were far too advanced and far too coordinated; the Palestinians have never been all that smart when it comes to military strategy.

Who planned the attack is another question entirely. So far there are a lot of rumors but no hard evidence leading to any specific governments. Another big question is, how did the Palestinians manage to organize all of this and execute the invasion WITHOUT Israeli intel services knowing about it?  Mossad is known to be one of the most intrusive and pervasive covert agencies in the world, yet they were caught completely off guard by this massive attack?

I think not. I'm reminded of the events of 9/11 and the strange series of intelligence failures that preceded it. I'm also reminded of the lies, propaganda and reactionary response, which led to two decades of meaningless war.

I'm going to call it here... in a couple of weeks, we will find out that many of the soldiers involved in the incursion were NOT Palestinian. Some of them will be from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, etc. There will be intel that says Iran was a major backer of the plan (The Wall Street Journal already claims this is the case, but they have not provided any compelling proof, yet).

A U.S. carrier strike group is on the way to the region now, and this is just the beginning. Europeans will be pressured to go to war, American conservatives in particular will be waterboarded with propaganda telling us that an "attack on Israel is an attack on the U.S.." It will be a lot like the rhetoric Neo-cons and leftists used during the initial invasion of Ukraine but multiplied by a hundred. And, both Biden and Trump have been rattling sabers and testing the waters of war, so don't think that we can avoid this simply by voting.

East vs West

Depending on the extent of the Western reaction, the BRICS nations may be compelled to get involved as well. This may not be on a kinetic level, but there is a chance. Russia has strategic treaties with Iran and Syria. China has numerous economic interests and influence in the region as the world's largest importer/exporter.

These nations might retaliate with the same kind of financial warfare that the West used against Russia — with China and the BRICS cutting off the dollar as the world reserve currency. This would add to the crippling inflation we are already experiencing.

Terror Attacks And False Flags

If you were wondering when the next major terror attack/false flag was going to hit the U.S. or EU, wonder no longer. I would be shocked if we made it another six months without multiple attacks tied back to Islamic groups. Some of them will be real and some of them will be staged, and telling which is which will be difficult.

The thing is, wide-open borders in the West have made this far more possible — and the establishment knows it. In my opinion, they WELCOME it. If they can get at least one crazy Muslim to shoot up a strip mall or blow up a football stadium, they will have all the leverage they need to hook Americans into foreign conflicts that don't concern us.

Europe in particular is playing with fire. National governments and the EU have invited tens of millions of these people to their doorsteps and now they have a problem. There are Sharia Law communities all over Europe, there are millions of military-age Muslim men with every opportunity to do great harm. And there are millions of woke leftists currently cheering them on, thinking that they will not be affected and that this is some form of "decolonization."

Closure Of The Strait Of Hormuz, Skyrocketing Oil Prices

I have been warning about this scenario for many years; it was only a matter of time before tensions with Iran gave them a rationale to close the Strait of Hormuz and shut down 30 percent of all oil exports from the Middle East to the rest of the world. Keep in mind, Europe is suffering extensive energy inflation, in part because of the economic crisis and also because of sanctions against Russia.

Biden has been trying to hide inflation by dumping oil from the strategic reserves onto the market, but now those reserves are the lowest they have been in decades and, conveniently, this happened right before the strike on Israel. Our reserves are depleted as we go to war. Oil prices and gasoline prices will explode if Iran is implicated in the Israel attack. Iran will run a few giant oil tankers into the Hormuz, sink them, and make the strait impassable for months. Don't be surprised if we see $200 per barrel of oil next year, which will translate to around $7 per gallon gas or higher for much of the U.S.

A Push For A New Draft

Let's be honest, current U.S. recruitment numbers are a joke and the woke-ification of our military is making it weaker by the month. No American with a legit warrior mindset or combat aptitude is going to join. The establishment will try to regale conservatives and patriots with tales of "fighting the good fight for family and country" but most will not buy in. With attempts to ignite multiple fronts against Russia, China and the Middle East, they will start talking about a new draft system.

My belief is that this will fail miserably and would start a civil war rather than fill the ranks of the Army or Marines, but they may have a scheme to deal with this outcome...

Is This the Real Reason Why U.S. Officials Are Encouraging The Migrant Invasion?

During the Bronze Age Collapse, certain empires (like Egypt) survived using an odd tactic – Instead of fighting off the invading hordes of refugees, nomads and sea people, they HIRED them and inducted them into important positions within their military. Corrupt authoritarian rulers ultimately found that they faced more of a threat from their own starving peasants than they did from the outsiders, so they joined with them to put down local rebellions.

This might not be as useful in Europe, but in the U.S. I wonder if this was the intention all along; to bring in millions of military-age foreigners with little sympathy for the existing culture, then in the midst of collapse offer them automatic citizenship and benefits if they join the military. Not on the small scale the federal government has today, but on an enormous scale the likes of which we have never seen.

Maybe the plan was always to leave the gates open and allow illegals to stroll in so that they could act as a mercenary contingent to fight in foreign wars or fight against American citizens should rebellion arise?

Plan C

The timing of the conflict in Israel is incredibly beneficial to globalists, and this might explain Israel's bizarre intel failure. Just as U.S. and British leaders had prior knowledge of a potential Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 but warned no one because they WANTED to compel Americans to fight in WWII, the Palestinian incursion serves a similar purpose.

The COVID pandemic and mandates failed to get the desired result of a global medical tyranny. The war in Ukraine failed to get the desired results as the warhawks' demands for boots on the ground against Russia fell apart. Perhaps this is just Plan C?

The establishment seems particularly obsessed with convincing U.S. conservatives and patriots to participate in the chaos; there are a number of Neo-cons and even a few supposed liberty media personalities calling for Americans to answer the call of blood in Israel. Some have described the coming conflagration "the war to end all wars."

I believe that the real war is yet to truly start, and that is the war to erase the globalists from existence. They want us to fight overseas in endless quagmires in the hopes we will die out. And when we do, there will be no one left to oppose them. It's a predictable strategy, but its success is doubtful. Another interesting fact about the Bronze Age Collapse — the elites were some of the first groups to be wiped out after the system broke down.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith

The Monkey Wrench Gang: A theory on America's increasing infrastructure disasters

 By Brandon Smith of Bob Livingston's Personal Liberty

Accidents happen, all the time in fact, and often the American public barely takes notice of the number of such events that occur on a monthly basis. The reason for this is that the vast majority of accidents leading to industrial and infrastructure damage are small in scale.

Look at the statistics for train derailments in the U.S. and you might be surprised to discover that there are thousands of these incidents every year. "Fact-checking" websites are quick to cite these statistics as a way to dismiss concerns over increasing disaster events in the U.S. What they don't mention, however, is that the vast majority of these incidents are minor, with negligible damage.

When was the last time the U.S. saw a train derailment similar to the chemical destruction in Ohio?  Not since 2002 when a train carrying ammonia crashed in Minot, North Dakota, and kept clean-up workers at bay due to air hazards. The generalized data used by fact checkers lumps events with a single boxcar derailment in with widespread environmental catastrophes (which are exceedingly rare).

The multiple Ohio events in particular are very concerning to me for a number of reasons. The media barely reported on the train derailment and chemical cloud the first week. Joe Biden has essentially refused to address the severity of the East Palestine disaster and has not announced plans to visit the area to survey the damage. There has also been confusion over the deployment of FEMA; not that I'm a fan of FEMA, but I'm starting to get Hurricane Katrina vibes from this mess, as if the government is trying to deliberately ignore it.

Even Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg waited 20 days to visit the train derailment. And when he finally did, he disguised himself in a worker's uniform in a quick appearance in the early hours of the morning to avoid the public.

I generally don't engage in theory without considerable evidence detailing clear motive or clear involvement. Call it a gut feeling that I think needs to be addressed, but something very strange is going on here.

Why is the White House acting like this? How easy would it be to make a quick appearance and put people's minds at ease? This is the kind of behavior that leads the public to entertain "conspiracy theories."

We have seen many conspiracy theories proven true over the past couple of years, from the COIVD pandemic lockdowns, mandates and death numbers being exposed as a sham, the former Twitter management colluding with government officials to censor conservatives, and, according to Seymour Hersh's sources, the U.S. government blowing up the Nordstream gas pipeline to Europe. Conspiracy theorists are racking up an impressive list of wins lately.

So, I would like to offer my theory on recent events surrounding what seems to be a spike in major infrastructure accidents including numerous food distribution plants catching fire, trains derailing, factories exploding, etc.

Hiding in the swarm

Imagine you are incredibly evil or incredibly mentally deranged, or both, and you wanted to incrementally destabilize the U.S. from the inside. How would you do it?

First, you would have to have some help from government authorities because if serious investigation was a concern, you are likely to be caught. Officials would have to look the other way, which in the case of Ohio and many other disasters, they currently are. Questions of sabotage are actually attacked as ridiculous, rather than considered as a possibility that needs to be pondered.

With the government on your side, as it remains passive, you can then operate with impunity. But what then? You would have to commit acts of sabotage in a way that avoids drawing too many public questions. You would have to make the events look like accidents. Industrial and infrastructure failures are statistically common and nuance in terms of scale is often overlooked. As noted above, if a person looks at the stats out of context, they might think a disaster like the one in East Palestine, Ohio, is a normal occurrence.

Then, you go to work, rigging localized crises across the U.S. using simple tactics. It doesn't take much to sabotage a train track, or set a fire in a food plant, or explode a metal factory. And, your acts of subterfuge mix in with other commonly occurring disasters, washed away in the swarm as the public becomes too overwhelmed to focus on any single calamity.

Slowly but surely, you and whatever group you are working with are able to wreak havoc on U.S. infrastructure while operating in perfect cover.

The Monkey Wrench Gang

In 1975, author Edward Abbey published a politically charged fiction book titled The Monkey Wrench Gang. The book portrays a group of environmentalist extremists out to stop the "pollution" of the southwestern U.S. using sabotage of machines and infrastructure as a means to grind development to a halt.

The Monkey Wrench Gang has long been considered an inspirational work of fiction for the political left, but it is also treated as a sort of instruction manual for leftists and anarchists. A guide for bringing down the system. It depicts the destruction of minor targets like billboards and bulldozers, up to and including the destruction of bridges, the derailment of trains and the attempted bombing of a dam. 

It's sort of like the leftist version of The Turner Diaries.

After witnessing the background activities of groups like Antifa and BLM during the riots, I don't find it hard to believe that there may also be an environmental or political element in the U.S. that is engaging in infrastructure terrorism. This is not to say that the protesters themselves are highly organized, but there is evidence that they are managed by organized people behind the scenes.

For example, law enforcement offices in multiple cities reported numerous pallets of bricks and rocks magically appearing on mornings before protest marches and riots. Media fact-checkers once again tried to protect leftist groups by claiming that the strategic piles of bricks and other riot fodder were "for construction," only to be fact-checked themselves later. There was no construction in those areas.

Media outlets asserted that Antifa essentially "doesn't exist" during mass rioting by groups calling themselves Antifa. CNN claimed that riots in Kenosha by BLM and Antifa were "fiery but mostly peaceful" while the city burned in the background. And, if you try to Google information on leftist riots the majority of the results you get back will be on the Jan. 6 event instead of the two years of SJW actions across the country.

When mass civil unrest is protected by corporate "journalists" and leftist groups are funded or even coordinated by think tanks like the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation, we have to consider the scenario of organized sabotage in the U.S. as a means to ratchet up the chaos.

Remember, the motto of these people is "burn it all to the ground."

A rising flurry of disasters?

Again, what I am discussing here is merely a theory, but it is not outlandish to suggest that there may be an organized monkey-wrench campaign made to look like a series of unfortunate "accidents." I suspect that there will be an increasing number of these localized disasters in the coming year with an increasing level of severity. And mark my words, one day you will begin to hear whispers of law enforcement investigations into terrorism surrounding these events.

The value of a compartmentalized sabotage effort cannot be overstated. The overall instability it would cause creates national panic and fear, but if ever exposed as deliberate the campaign could also be blamed on a useful scapegoat. Would China or Russia engage in such attacks?  Maybe, but it would also be advantageous to the current administration to place the culpability on foreign enemies.

The White House response to the East Palestine disaster alone warrants inquiry, and the steady drone of the media chanting that "there's nothing to see here, move along" is revealing. Certainly, most of these events including the train derailment in Ohio will be labeled fatal accidents and the public will move on. Just keep an eye on the news feeds, because, very likely, there are many more East Palestines on the way.

To truth and knowledge,

BRANDON SMITH

The dark side of the Democrats

Democrat politicians have successfully positioned themselves as the party of the poor, and they've created an enmity between the poor and the rich.

Democrat leaders perpetuate this enmity with popular slogans like "living wage," "fair share," "wealth tax," "greedy rich," "rich Republicans" and "evil profits." Their rank and file have bought it hook, line and sinker, never once thinking that they must be kept "poor" in order for their party to thrive.

It also doesn't matter that Democrat policies have been devastating to the poor and middle-class workers in this country for almost 100 years. The poor and middle class still turn out in droves to vote for them.

The Great Society

By the late 1950s, America had somewhat recovered from the effects of Woodrow Wilson's policies — the Federal Reserve, the income tax and World War I — and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policies — the New Deal and World War II — and prosperity was returning.

Then along came Lyndon Baines Johnson, the Great Society and the next great expansion of the nanny state. Previous Democrat administration policies had been destructive to the people they purported to help and, with his Great Society programs Johnson continued the assault on the poor, always under the auspices of "helping."

Within three years of assuming the Presidency in 1963, Johnson had requested 200 major pieces of legislation and Congress had approved 181 of them. According to Leslie Carbone in Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform, "Roosevelt had peddled the drug of government giveaways primarily in the poor neighborhoods; Johnson set up shop in middle-class cul-de-sacs, and most Americans, willingly or unwillingly, wittingly or unwittingly, are forced to shoot up. Johnson's sweeping proposals sought to address almost every issue of concern to Americans: civil rights, poverty, education, health, housing, pollution, the arts, cities, occupational safety, consumer protection, and mass transit, to name only the most prominent."

And what have these programs wrought? Mark Owen, adjunct professor of economics at Northwood University, wrote a column for LewRockwell.com entitled The Welfare State: Shredding Society. In it he said:

 

"Births out of wedlock were consistently at or below 5% between 1940 and 1960. By 1970, the rate had risen to over 10% and has continued to rise..."

(It is almost 40% today)

 

"Divorce rates increased from 9 to 23 per 1,000 married couples annually from 1960 to 1980, while leveling off at 20 per 1,000 through 1998 ... While crime and family destabilization may be two of the more obvious results of the welfare state, there are many others. The stigma for single mother births has virtually disappeared. Intergenerational dependency on government programs with the related lack of skills for self-sufficiency, much like a farm animal unable to live without the farmer for food and shelter, has created people without hope or ambition."

Now there are third and fourth generations of single women living off welfare and raising children in single-parent homes. Typically these women live in urban areas and their children are held hostage to failing inner-city school systems. And Democrat politicians, who have run these cities for decades, are to blame for these failing schools.

Poverty mindset — manna comes from the government

In 1965 Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It provided for aid to poor children in slums and rural areas, created a five-year program for school libraries to buy textbooks and other instructional materials and provided for educational research, among other things. Essentially, the Federal government took over the education of the children.

Carbone wrote: "Representative Charles Goodell warned that the bill's ‘clear intent is to radically change our historic structure of education by a dramatic shift of power to the federal level.'"

The National Education Association (NEA) teacher's union, a supporter of Democrat candidates and causes, opposes any and all efforts to inject competition or reform into the failing schools. Therefore Democrats oppose them as well. Combined with local teacher unions, the NEA also fights efforts to change the tenure system which protects the jobs of bad teachers to the detriment of the children.

LBJ's War on Poverty programs were dismal failures. The only success these programs had was in exploding the size of government and its reach into our lives. "Within two generations, more than $10 trillion have been spent on this war, more in current dollars than was spent to win World War II," Carbone writes.

And through all that, Democrats are still looking for ways to spend money to fund programs to "fight the War on Poverty." Who benefits? As always, follow the money! Michael Barone wrote for The Washington Examiner, "One-third of the 2009 stimulus money went to state and local governments – an obvious payoff to the public employee unions which gave hundreds of millions of dollars to Democrats and got hundreds of billions of dollars in return, to insulate public employee unions from the effects of the recession which has affected everyone else."

There was another provision in the $787 billion stimulus bill that provided a sop to unions. The money for "shovel-ready" construction projects required it to be spent on firms using union labor. This raises the cost of the projects and freezes out many non-union poor or middle-class construction workers.

This is not to absolve Republicans of responsibility. They were complicit in that they didn't do enough to try and stop the practices before they were implemented nor have they done much to repeal them. Republicans like big government almost as much as the Democrats.

The government has never before been under the complete rule of ideologues of such stripes. They've pushed the government to take over many of the roles traditionally carried out by families and local communities. It doesn't take a village... but "it" also should not be up to the Feds. The cradle-to-grave welfare state of Sweden has always been the envy of the American left, and after implementing as much of it as possible, Americans now get to experience the dark side of the nanny state of high taxes, a sluggish economy that struggles to adapt and innovate, and the erosion of family and community.

Democrats are determined to engage in his type of faith-destroying, socialist legislation to expand the welfare state. They want to grow the government to solve a problem created by the government, and to do so under cover of mob rule (the vote).

The government has nothing good or nice to give to you. The government is in the business of shrinking freedom (and wealth), not expanding it. Growing government and creating a cycle of dependency is always the goal of the Democrats. Only old dogs waiting under the table for scraps survive under Democrat policies.

Freedom and happiness are only restored through self-reliance and acting on our own judgment. Self-sufficiency and self-worth produce ultimate happiness and human liberty.

Manna to the group is poison to the individual.

- Bob Livingston = 

How Soros works to make humanity go extinct

The following message is from George Soros' own AVAAZ emailer, dated Dec 13, 2022 at 1:26 a.m EST; and here's proof he owns the UN:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/7/humanity-has-become-a-weapon-of-mass-extinction-un

And i can only assume the text is right-justified because it was translated into English by its own Hebrew writers:

Extinction epidemic

Dear friends,

Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction.

As the human population tops 8 billion, the rest of life is being decimated. We've destroyed two-thirds of the rainforests, half the coral reefs, and a million species are now facing oblivion.

For the future of life on Earth, the next 5 days are absolutely critical.

Right now, governments and scientists are in final negotiations for a new global deal to stop the destruction of nature -- but there's real danger it will be weak and full of holes.

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'Fate of the living world' will be decided at Cop15, say scientists (The Guardian)

The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature (BBC) 

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Being alert for medical fraud is not paranoia but survival

Fraud always operates under the color of law. Look for fraud anywhere. You will find it in government, in politics, in religion, in money and finance and absolutely in organized medicine.

Fraud and deceit has carried teeming millions to an early grave. Just think of the millions of young boys and men who have died in phony wars camouflaged with propaganda. Now consider the millions who have suffered a living hell and then were sent to an early grave at the hands of "orthodox medicine."

It's called "iatrogenic death," that is, death induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures. In the U.S. annually is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Some estimates put the total even higher — at almost a million deaths a year. That makes the medical-industrial-pharmaceutical complex itself possibly the leading cause of death in the U.S., period.

Yes, orthodox or organized medicine has a pretty face and is almost untouchable. In fact, organized medicine, which should be called "organized promotion of sickness and death," persecutes and prosecutes truth in healing with all the police power of government.

Orthodox medicine is modern medicine that promotes "treatment" but denies healing. Money is in treating but never in curing. So-called "medical research" is hunting but never finding. This is the cloak of modern medicine. We succumb to this deception and fraud because we are too trusting and too lazy to question establishment medicine. The price is high.

In this instance, we have on our mind the millions of men, dead and alive, who have been victims of "cancer treatment" burning and poisoning, which is actually an industry under the color of conventional and orthodox medicine, sanctioned by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the force of law.

Yes, the force of law. Just try an alternative cure and see what happens to you.

Things that are equal to each other are equal to the same thing. Evil is evil, no matter the pretense. Does it matter by what name we call the death of human liberty?

The "health" arm of the U.S. government, The Food and Drug Administration (clever propaganda in that name; placing in the mind of the citizen the notion that drugs are somehow equal in importance to food) has always worked for the best interests of large corporations — Big Pharma and Big Farms — rather than the best interests of the consumer — or the small food producer.

The FDA's record of "protecting" consumers is shoddy at best. It has gone out of its way to ignore critical evidence about dangerous drugs to the benefit of Big Pharma. It censors the scientific truth about natural remedies and nutritional supplements and has killed more people than the CIA, FBI, ATF and DEA combined.

Founding father Dr. Benjamin Rush argued before the American Continental Congress:

"Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship… to restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are un-American and despotic, and have no place in a Republic... The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom."

Unfortunately, the right to medical freedom was not added to the Bill of Rights in the Constitution; and now we have the government, medical and pharmaceutical groups working together to limit our health choices. In short, we have a monstrous medical monopoly enforced by the increasingly compromised and corrupt Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which routinely censors truthful health claims.

Additionally, the U.S. Government promotes and protects the organized crime of the FDA by protecting their pals at Big Pharma with the new pre-emption policy that bans private lawsuits against drug companies in State courts once a drug and its label have been approved by the FDA. I don't know about you, but that seems like a protection racket for their financiers at big Pharma.

For an understanding of medical organized crime, read the book The Medical Mafiaby Ghislaine Lanctôt.

What is health, then?

The FDA's position has always been that natural products are either illegal or harmful, yet falsely marketed drugs from Big Pharma, with at best dubious research on their effectiveness, are perfectly okay for consumers.

It seems that the protected criminality goes on and on. But the reality is that even criminal organizations always self-destruct. Their satanic greed consumes them. The medical mafia commits many overt crimes with the complicity and blind obedience of doctors. But it will eventually end in a state of collapse. It is so evil that it cannot sustain life support.

The medical mafia has built a huge financial empire out of and on fiction like cholesterol and open-heart surgery. The only success they have achieved is a multibillion-dollar medical monopoly.

Medical care in America is political. It is what the "consensus of medical opinion" says it is. "Consensus of medical opinion" is mysteriously stamped on American medicine as a control system to create conformity; alias monopoly. Medical monopoly kills medical freedom and causes costs to skyrocket.

Medical care today is commerce. It's money, and healthcare is only incidental.

To get serious healthcare in America today, one has to avoid the "consensus of medical opinion" and seek out alternative medical care wherever it can be found.

If you keep listening to the extremists... that means modern medicine and the nutritionists — who will endlessly tell you what to eat and what not to eat this holiday season, as if they know anything except what standard medicine allows — and dieticians, you'll never get off the disease-producing treadmill.

One of the ways medicine profits most handsomely from you is this: The advertisements all ask you to "talk to your doctor." They do this because they know what standard doctors have been taught — drugs and surgery.

Would you like to get off this treadmill to nowhere?

If so, my team and I have identified the group of doctors who resist the medical-industrial complex's money-grabbing scheme. we have put together a report to tell you about who they are, where they are, and how you can contact these holistic doctors.

Holistic means "whole body," and that means these doctors don't just treat one symptom, they look at all of you. Maybe that's why they're also called "alternative" doctors. If you are looking for one near you, just go here to get a copy of this exclusive guide right now.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®

Here's why a majority of leftists would not survive an economic collapse

There is one factor that constantly stands out as absolutely essential to a person's chances of surviving a crisis event, and that factor is mindset. Experience and training are highly valuable. Having proper tools and preps on hand is a huge advantage, but in the end, without mental toughness and the ability to adapt the most prepared person in the world will still likely bite the dust.

Mental toughness is something that can be taught... to a point. This is the entire purpose of basic training methods used in the military: To take mundane details and elevate them in the minds of trainees while wearing them down with physical punishment. The goal is to condition the mind to ignore distraction and to ignore fear and pain while focusing on the task at hand. Failure is not an option in war, just as it is not an option in survival. Those who embrace distraction and embrace failure because they think it will make things easier for them are filtered out of the recruitment pool, or the gene pool.

It is no coincidence that the U.S. military is dealing with some of the worst recruitment conditions they have ever seen in terms of people being physically and mentally capable of finishing basic training. The Pentagon currently estimates that 77 percent of young Americans are unfit for recruitment without a waiver for obesity, drug use and mental health problems. Meaning, Gen Z is so unfit physically and mentally that if there was a major war, almost 80 percent of them would be erased from existence.

The problem has gotten so bad that militaries in the U.S. and throughout the west are being forced to lower standards just to meet minimum personnel goals. One can argue that many young people don't want to join the military anyway, but this is beside the point. Even if they wanted to, they would be incapable.

There are a number of reasons for this development, but I would suggest that the spread of leftist ideology among 63 percent of Americans aged 18-29 has created a survival vacuum. A generation of mental weaklings. It's important to remember that younger people have adopted more liberal views for decades, but the political left is not liberal today. The leftists of today are full-bore Marxists, both economically and culturally. They support establishment centralization, they support economic centralization, they support corporate centralization, they support authoritarianism and censorship, they support moral relativism, and they applaud the concept of an all-pervasive welfare state.

In 1980 you might have been able to find a large number of mentally tough people that considered themselves on the left. Today, you will not find anyone.

With America hovering in a precarious netherworld between stagflationary crisis and deflationary crisis depending on which poison the Federal Reserve chooses to give the country, the stage has been set for an economic disaster similar to the Great Depression or worse. In two years, our system, which is already dealing with a number of threats including high prices and supply chain instability, will not remain functional in the manner most people are accustomed.

If we accept this inevitability, we must then ask a logical question: Who is going to rebuild? Whoever inherits the mantle will either bring America back to freedom and prosperity or plunge our society into perpetual tyranny. It all depends on who survives the crisis.

One thing that gives me some hope is the fact that leftists as a sub-group of our population are completely incapable of surviving a major economic crisis event. This is not to say that I wish them all to die; I'm only pointing out the reality that most of them won't make it because they are ill-equipped to handle a calamity. Here are the reasons why a post-collapse world would probably be devoid of leftists...

Leftists Thrive On Crisis... But Die Out During Collapse

Leftists tend to exploit crisis and tragedy to shore up power and expand their numbers through fear, but there's a problem with this tactic. If the crisis is fabricated, a tempest in a teapot, then they do very well; if the crisis turns into an actual disaster with real-world consequences including financial decline, supply chain disruptions, shortages, and civil unrest, they have no tools to deal with the effects other than mob action and looting.

What happens if they use mob action and looting when the rule of law is no longer a factor in a country with millions of guns? They will die, by the tens of thousands, as people defend their businesses and homes. The violent hordes we witnessed during the BLM riots would not last long during a collapse scenario where people are more inclined to fight back.

Leftists Are Anti-Preparedness

The political left has spent the better part of the past 15 years demonizing the concept of preparedness as a tinfoil hat philosophy for “right-wing extremists.” They have set themselves up for complete failure by refusing to acknowledge the practicality of prepping, just so they can attack their political opponents. The stupidity of it is truly mind-boggling.

There are some indications that the COVID lockdowns may have shocked a small number of them out of their foolishness. It's hard to deny the threat of economic collapse when the beginnings of collapse are right in front of your face. That said, prepping is not the only requirement for survival, and progressives buying a few months of food and some guns is not going to save them.

Leftists Have An Aversion To Hardship

The vast majority of people that argue in favor of an expanding welfare state are on the left. While conservatives support individual charity for those that deserve it, leftists believe that people need to be forced by the government to provide and pay for others who may not deserve it. This ideal is driven by their desire to avoid hardship.

I often find that leftists have delusions of grandeur. They assume that they are destined for great things, that they are smarter than the rest of us and that work or sacrifice are problems relegated to the rural “peasants” in “flyover country.” Their vision of work is a daycare, a place to socialize, find comfort and self-identity, do the minimal amount of labor required and then collect a paycheck. Just look how leftist-dominated Twitter was being operated a few months ago. It was not a workplace, it was a day spa for lunatics.

These kinds of people are not equipped to endure backbreaking struggle to build a survivable environment. They wouldn't know where to begin.

Leftists Have No Practical Skill Sets

The avoidance of technical skill sets is a real problem for progressives. There are a handful of people on the left that engage in micro-farming and other basic skills as a form of activism, but they are few and their methods are limited by their ideology. As noted above, leftists believe themselves to be too valuable to be wasted on production. Rather, they see themselves as “management,” the people in charge of the people that do the actual work.

A person could get by on that kind of thinking in a first-world environment where office jobs, tech jobs and social work is the norm, but in a collapse environment there are no management positions, there are no office workers, there are no elementary school teachers, there are no trust and safety advisers, there are no platform moderators and there are no bureaucrats. You either have a valued knowledge set that can be traded, or you have nothing. You can either produce necessities for yourself, or you can't.

The development of the information age and the data-driven economy of first-world nations has made matters even worse by convincing people that data is a currency. This is a concept that leftists in particular adore because they think labor will become a thing of the past; they will only need their brains and laptop to provide everything they need. This is a delusion. The “Metaverse” is a facade, a con, and there will always be a need for humans to dig in the dirt, to forage and hunt, to farm and to build with their own hands. As the economy derails further, progressives are going to realize this too late.

Leftists Rely on Government To Fix Their Problems

If the idea of taking matters into your own hands is abhorrent to you, then you might be a leftist. Leftists view individual action during a crisis as almost criminal; it is important to them that the correct authorities with the correct permissions handle any dangerous situation. Leftists love to defer to the “experts” because this takes the responsibility out of their hands, along with the blame should something go wrong.

But what happens when government is not functional enough to save the day? What happens when inflation or supply chains or personnel shortages make it impossible for government officials to help? What happens when government officials don't want to help? What happens when they are corrupt and want to see you suffer?

Leftists rarely consider such possibilities. For them, the idea that government could break down, that the grid could break down and that the rule of law could break down is a conspiracy theory. It's only happened hundreds of times around the world in modern history, but because they have never experienced the threat personally, they think it is impossible. These are the kinds of people that die very quickly during collapse.

Leftists Value Feelings Over Reason

The root foundation of leftist ideology is that everything is relative according to one's personal feelings. That is to say, they believe that their feelings shape their reality, and that “their truth” is the only truth that matters. There are some subjective truths that are near-universal which is why moral conscience is a thing that exists in every culture in the world. That said, personal ideals are still subject to the forces of nature.

You cannot pretend that you are not starving when you are starving. You cannot pretend that you are not dehydrated when you are desperately thirsty. You cannot feel your way out of a crisis, the crisis is not subject to your fantasies, the crisis will step on your throat and teach you otherwise.

At bottom, their feelings do not matter. They are irrelevant. And this is a lesson leftists will learn as the system continues to degrade. They can cry and scream and wail and make all the demands they want for fairness and equity and welfare but in the end, they will face the clarity of self-reliance or they will face the Ferryman.

It's not my purpose here to revel in the erasure of the political left. I am only pointing out that leftist ideology is a product of extremely safe and controlled environments where people have the privilege to engage in frivolity. 

They think they want deconstruction. They think they want chaos as a means to break the system and rebuild it in their image. What they don't realize is that if they get what they want most of them will die in the process and they will not be around to rebuild.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith

What the gun grabbers' rhetoric can teach us

Do you remember the Obamas' interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, where President Barack and First Lady Michelle joked about the president's second term being a ploy to continue having their young children protected by guns?

In the highly personal interview, the President and first lady discussed their marriage and family life in the White House. When the conversation moved on to the Obama's two daughters, the President joked, "One of the main incentives of running was continued Secret Service protection so we can have men with guns around at all times."

This is the same man who tried to skirt the Constitution by issuing a flurry of gun control executive orders; who appointed an anti-gun zealot as a representative to the U.N. assembly; encouraged doctors to ask their patients about guns in their homes; said federal gun control was necessary because it was government's responsibility to protect innocent Americans from deranged extremists armed with "weapons of war" (that means taking guns away from American citizens who own them, because of course, anyone who does is a "terrorist" and an extremist anti-government zealot); and who told participants of an Internet Q&A session that he felt his biggest frustration as President was his inability to convince Congress to pass stricter gun control legislation.

Because the rules are always for thee, and not for me, according to those in the elected class.

They want you to think citizens don't need, shouldn't have, and weren't ever meant to have any kind of armaments... but it's perfectly fine for them when they feel they need protection.

They don't have a care in the world that the intent of the Founders was for free men to be able to protect themselves, especially from the evils of government. But don't take my word for it. The Militia Acts of 1792 were some of the first bills passed by the First Congress and as Mike Maharrey pointed out correctly, "Every able-bodied free man was part of the militia. You'll also note that the act actually requires all men between the age of 18 and 45 to have military-grade weapons. This kind of undermines the whole, 'the Second Amendment wasn't so you could have an assault rifle' argument."

The Founding Fathers and members of the first Federal government feared a standing army and wanted individual citizens to be armed and ready at all times.

Contrast this with today's gun-grabbers, of whom Obama was just the most prominent example. John Rappaport pointed out, "During the reign of Barack Obama, mass shootings prompted a White House declaration that community mental health centers would be created across America, in order to spot and treat persons before they committed violent acts. ... The Trump administration consider[ed] a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior," so that their guns could be confiscated.

Still at it

Despite the Supreme Court's ruling that is having the effect of nullifying many unconstitutional gun restrictions...

(Rollcall.com reports: "A judge in West Virginia this month cited the Supreme Court case when he struck down a federal law that required guns to have serial numbers. So did a judge in Texas who ruled last month that people under criminal indictments can still possess guns and a judge who this month tossed New York's prohibitions on carrying concealed firearms in Times Square, summer camps, subways and theaters. More than a dozen other challenges to gun control laws are pending in federal courts, which legal experts say could leave holes in efforts to curb gun violence and the use of weapons in crimes.)

...President Biden is continuing his anti-gun rhetoric and his lies about guns in general.

According to Reason.com, Biden said in a recent speech: "'Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun, five times — is lighter — and can pierce Kevlar?' he insisted on August 30 while touting his administration's "Safer America Plan," which includes tighter firearms restrictions.

"Really? Well, no. 'President Biden's statement that a bullet shot from an AR-15 travels 5x faster than a bullet shot out of "any other gun" is false,' Greg Wallace, a Campbell University law professor who focuses on Second Amendment issues, told the Washington Post early in September. As for bullets fired from AR-15s piercing Kevlar, 'that is true of almost all centerfire rifle bullets. Body armor protection against rifle bullets requires steel, ceramic, or composite plates. Biden was clearly wrong in his statement,' Kessler concluded."

The lies are part of a much wider net being cast by the anti-gun crowd. They want you to think owning a gun is a disease. Daniel Webster, a health policy expert and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore, said that disease patterns, observing how a problem spreads, applies to gun ownership, and that gun ownership — a precursor to gun violence — can spread "much like an infectious disease circulates."

In discussing gun ownership as if it were a disease, it follows the trend of many news stories that have appeared after shooting tragedies that portray gun ownership as an oddity at best, at worst, something you need to be cured of, or that goes against God's wishes. I wish I were kidding. Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) once told MSNBC that Republicans on his committee were "...murderers' Row; that's Foxx, Gehrig and Ruth. They all like their guns... I think their guns are next there to their Bibles. I'm not sure which they find more important to them... I think guns trump Bibles on that side of the aisle."

Handguns, not just 'assault weapons' (which are already banned)

During a CNN presidential town hall, the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action points out that "Joe Biden expressed his support for a ban on commonly-owned handguns. Responding to a question about the recent increase in violent crime [he] stated, 'I'm the only guy that ever got passed legislation, when I was a senator, to make sure we eliminated assault weapons. The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it's a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it's a rifle, is ridiculous. I'm continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things.' Of course, any semi-automatic firearm capable of accepting a detachable magazine has the "ability to fire" in the manner Biden deemed objectionable. Therefore, the president's statement was a call to ban all semi-automatic handguns, rifles, and shotguns capable of accepting a detachable magazine."

As Ron Paul often pointed out, that cultural Marxists and progressives like Biden and Cohen and their fellow Democrats push for gun control and conveniently "ignore how gun control has been used against African-Americans in the past and how new gun control laws will disproportionately harm racial minorities" whom they purport to protect.

Unfortunately, for 100 years the courts and politicians and the power elite have used laws and propaganda to slowly but steadily erode the 2nd Amendment protections that guarantee the right of self-defense for everyone. Even Supreme Court rulings that seemed to uphold the right to keep and bear arms were designed to erode that right, as we explained regarding the District of Columbia v. Heller ruling written by Justice Antonin Scalia, mistakenly hailed as a gun rights defender by conservatives.

The gun control problem is a mind control problem. The authorities know full well that they, even with all their high-tech weapons, cannot subdue a determined people with private arms. This is why they want your guns. Therefore, they use all manner of spurious persuasion to get you to give up your arms and to exert hostility toward others who won't. Same old divide and conquer.

Nothing is more dangerous to liberty than an unarmed populace. As always, it is why I urge you to purchase a firearm, become trained in its use and maintenance, and practice with it. Here's a list of waiting periods by state before you can take possession of a gun you wish to purchase. If you need a conceal-carry license, go here for one that works in multiple states.

The man or woman who silently keeps arms and learns to effectively use them is the greatest force there is in defense of freedom.

As of now, there are only a few federal politicians with the courage to try and make this illegal, though they have done all possible to impress upon the public mind that private arms possession for any reason is un-American and even sick or terroristic behavior. Their debate is twisted nonsense, but people believe it.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®