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* Epictetusalpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.comBlogger2398125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-34930786386359339102024-03-01T16:08:00.001-05:002024-03-01T16:08:00.244-05:00Hidden Facts That Will Shock You. Is Homosexuality Life-giving? Benign? Dangerous?<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/862QiwgUwh4" title="Hidden Facts That Will Shock You. Is Homosexuality Life-giving? Benign? Dangerous?" width="677"></iframe> </p><p><span style="color: red;"><b>Please share this.</b></span></p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-79779613258516313022024-02-29T19:36:00.002-05:002024-02-29T19:36:23.354-05:00Nathan Abrams on Jews in the American porn industry<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosvpUMWa2daaPGVCbOOABhhG4w8Ud1r12jtRCcEcHt5baMbtTLqfnfKpk9-oj7_-f3ssfRha4NkBwvNpFPUbchb4PFLWNSpowfAA9PApID2OQmSwZHXwabvlDeQB2wCodn2ZJDLqXIDlEHKFkoEjqcXNerrlL2FqyYZf8ilYkwPag7joGPjQlJaeFUoKi/s1200/Nathan%20Abrams%20on%20Jews%20in%20the%20American%20porn%20industry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="927" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosvpUMWa2daaPGVCbOOABhhG4w8Ud1r12jtRCcEcHt5baMbtTLqfnfKpk9-oj7_-f3ssfRha4NkBwvNpFPUbchb4PFLWNSpowfAA9PApID2OQmSwZHXwabvlDeQB2wCodn2ZJDLqXIDlEHKFkoEjqcXNerrlL2FqyYZf8ilYkwPag7joGPjQlJaeFUoKi/w494-h640/Nathan%20Abrams%20on%20Jews%20in%20the%20American%20porn%20industry.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br />from Jewish Quarterly 2004,<p></p><p>A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywood’s seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we’d prefer to pretend that the ‘triple-exthnics’ didn’t exist, but there’s no getting away from the fact that secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have helped to transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are the ‘true blue Jews’.<br /><br /><b>Smut peddlers</b><br /><br />Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography. Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890 and 1940 were immigrant Jews of German origin. According to Jay A. Gertzman, author of Bookleggers and Smuthounds:The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), ‘Jews were prominent in the distribution of gallantiana [fiction on erotic themes and books of dirty jokes and ballads], avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and flagitious materials’.<br /><br />In the postwar era, America’s most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the ‘Walt Disney of Porn’. According to the US Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country. Born in 1924, Sturman grew up in Cleveland’s East Side. Initially, he sold comics and magazines, but when he realized sex magazines produced twenty times the revenue of comic books, he moved exclusively into porn, eventually producing his own titles and setting up retail stores. By the end of the 1960s, Sturman ranked at the top of adult magazine distributors and by the mid-70s he owned over 200 adult bookstores. Sturman also introduced updated versions of the traditional peepshow booth (typically a dark room with a small colour TV on which the viewer can view X-rated videos). It was said that Sturman did not simply control the adult-entertainment industry; he was the industry. Eventually he was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died, disgraced, in prison in 1997. His son, David, continued running the family business.<br /><br />The contemporary incarnation of Sturman is 43-year-old Jewish Clevelander Steven Hirsch, who has been described as ‘the Donald Trump of porno’. The link between the two is Steve’s father, Fred, who was a stockbroker-cum-lieutenant to Sturman. Today Hirsch runs the Vivid Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft of the porn world, the top producer of ‘adult’ films in the US. His specialty was to import mainstream marketing techniques into the porn business. Indeed, Vivid parallels the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in its exclusive contracts to porn stars who are hired and moulded by Hirsch. Vivid was the subject of a behind-the-scenes reality TV show recently broadcast on Channel 4.<br /><br /><b>Nice Jewish girls and boys</b><br /><br />Jews accounted for most of the leading male performers as well as a sizeable number of female stars in porn movies of the 1970s and ‘80s. The doyen of the Hebrew studs is Ron Jeremy. Known in the trade as ‘the Hedgehog’, Jeremy is one of America’s biggest porn stars. The 51-year-old Jeremy was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family in Flushing, Queens, and has since appeared in more than 1,600 adult movies, as well as directing over 100. Jeremy has achieved iconic status in America, a hero to males of all ages, Jewish and gentile alike - he’s the nebbischy, fat, hairy, ugly guy who gets to bed dozens of beautiful women. He presents an image of a modern-day King David, a Jewish superstud who supersedes the traditional heroes of Jewish lore. No sallow Talmud scholar he. His stature was recently cemented with the release of a pornomentary about his life, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy. As probably the most famous Jewish male porn star, Jeremy has done wonders for the psyche of Jewish men in America. Jeremy has also just released a compilation CD, Bang-A-Long-With Ron Jeremy. For £7.99 (including delivery), the lucky listener gets to enjoy Jeremy’s hand-picked favourite porno grooves along with narration by ‘the legend’ himself. As the publicity blurb gushes, ‘Out of the brown paper wrappings and into the mainstream’.<br /><br />Seymore Butts, aka Adam Glasser, is everything that Jeremy is not: young, handsome and toned. Glasser, a 39-year-old New York Jew, opened a gym in 1991 in Los Angeles. When no one joined, he borrowed a video camera for 24 hours, went to a nearby strip club, recruited a woman, then headed back to his gym and started shooting. Although the movie stank, with a bit of chutzpah and a few business cards he wangled a deal with a manufacturer and started cranking out films. Within a few years, ‘Seymore Butts’ – his nom de porn which is simultaneously his sales pitch – became one of the largest franchises in the adult-film business. As the king of the gonzo genre (marked by handheld cameras, the illusion of spontaneity and a low-tech aesthetic meant to suggest reality), he is today probably the most famous Jewish porn mogul. Seymore Inc., his production company, releases about 36 films annually, most of them shot for less than $15,000, each of them grossing more than 10 times that sum. Glasser employs 12 people, including his mother and cousin Stevie as respectively genial company accountant (and matchmaker for her single son) and lovable but roguish general gopher. Glasser currently even has his own reality TV show (also broadcast on Channel 4), a ten-episode docu-soap called Family Business, whose opening credits show Glasser’s barmitzvah photo.<br /><br /><b>In search of a buck</b><br /><br />Jews became involved in the porn industry for much the same reasons that their co-religionists became involved in Hollywood. They were attracted to an industry primarily because it admitted them. Its newness meant that restrictive barriers had not yet been erected, as they had in so many other areas of American life. In porn, there was no discrimination against Jews. During the early part of the twentieth century, an entrepreneur did not require large sums of money to make a start in the film business; cinema was considered a passing fad. In the porn business, it was similarly straightforward to get going. To show ‘stag’ movies or loops, as they were known, all one needed was a projector, screen and a few chairs. Not tied up with the status quo and with nothing to lose by innovation, Jews were open to new ways of doing business. Gertzman explains that<br /><br />"Jews, when they found themselves excluded from a field of endeavour, turned to a profession in which they sensed they could eventually thrive by cooperating with colleagues in a community of effort . . . Jews have for a very long time cultivated the temperament and talents of middlemen, and they are proud of these abilities".<br /><br />The adult entertainment business required something that Jews possessed in abundance: chutzpah. Early Jewish pornographers were marketing geniuses and ambitious entrepreneurs whose toughness, intelligence and boundless self-confidence were responsible for their successes.<br /><br />Of course, the large number of Jews in porn were mainly motivated by the desire to make profits. Just as their counterparts in Hollywood provided a dream factory for Americans, a blank screen upon which the Jewish moguls’ visions of America could be created and projected, so the porn-moguls displayed a talent for understanding public tastes. What better way to provide the stuff of dreams and fantasies than through the adult-entertainment industry? Performers did porn for the money. As ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman commented, ‘Those Jews who enter the pornography industry have done so as individuals pursuing the American dream.’<br /><br /><b>Secular sex</b><br /><br />Like their mainstream counterparts, Jews who enter porn do not usually do so as representatives of their religious group. Most of the performers and pornographers are Jewish culturally but not religiously. Many are entirely secular, Jews in name only. Sturman, however, identified as a Jew - he was a generous donator to Jewish charities - and performer Richard Pacheco once interviewed to be a rabbinical student.<br /><br />Very few, if any, porn films have overtly Jewish themes, although Jeremy once tried to get several Jewish porn stars together to make a kosher porn film. The exception is Debbie Duz Dishes, in which Nina Hartley plays a sexually insatiable Jewish housewife who enjoys sex with anyone who rings the doorbell. It has sold very well, spawned a couple of sequels and is currently very hard to buy - perhaps indicating a new niche to exploit. Indeed, according to an editorial on the World Union of Jewish Students website,<br /><br />"there are thousands of people searching for Jewish porn. After things like Jewish calendar, Jewish singles, Jewish dating, and Jewish festivals comes ‘Jewish porn’ in the list of top search keywords that GoTo.com provide".<br /><br /><b>Sexual rebels</b><br /><br />Is there a deeper reason, beyond the mere financial, as to why Jews in particular have become involved in porn? There is surely an element of rebellion in Jewish X-rated involvement. Its very taboo and forbidden nature serves to make it attractive. As I written in these pages before, treyf signifies ‘the whole world of forbidden sexuality, the sexuality of the goyim, and there all the delights are imagined to lie . . .’ (‘Reel Kashrut: Jewish food in film’, JQ 189 [Spring 2003]).<br /><br />According to one anonymous industry insider quoted by E. Michael Jones in the magazine Culture Wars (May 2003), ‘the leading male performers through the 1980s came from secular Jewish upbringings and the females from Roman Catholic day schools’. The standard porn scenario became as a result a Jewish fantasy of schtupping the Catholic shiksa.<br /><br />Furthermore, as Orthodox Jew and porn gossipmonger Luke Ford explains on his website (lukeford.net): ‘Porn is just one expression of [the] rebellion against standards, against the disciplined life of obedience to Torah that marks a Jew living Judaism.’ It is also a revolt against (often middle-class) parents who wish their children to be lawyers, doctors and accountants. As performer Bobby Astyr put it on the same website, ‘It’s an “up yours” to the uncles with the pinky rings who got down on me as a kid for wanting to be musician.’<br /><br />As religious influences waned and were replaced by secular ones, free-thinking Jews, especially those from California’s Bay Area, viewed sex as a means of personal and political liberation. America provided the freest society Jews have ever known, as manifested by the growth of the adult industry. Those Jewish women who have sex onscreen certainly stand in sharp contradiction to the stereotype of the ‘Jewish American Princess’. They (and I’m speculating here) may have seen themselves as fulfilling the promise of liberation, emancipating themselves from what feminist Betty Friedan in 1963 called the ‘comfortable concentration camp’ of the household as they set out into the Promised Land of the porno sets of Southern California. It signified their economic and social freedom: they were free to choose to enter, rather than coerced into it by economic and other circumstances. Once they had lain down, they could stand on their own two feet, particularly as female performers typically earn twice as much as their male counterparts.<br /><br /><b>Sexual revolutionaries</b><br /><br />Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP establishment in America. Some porn stars viewed themselves as frontline fighters in the spiritual battle between Christian America and secular humanism. According to Ford, Jewish X-rated actors often brag about their ‘joy in being anarchic, sexual gadflies to the puritanical beast’. Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result of an atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken the dominant culture in America by moral subversion. Astyr remembers having ‘to run or fight for it in grammar school because I was a Jew. It could very well be that part of my porn career is an “up yours” to these people’. Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw, said (on lukeford.net), ‘The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don’t believe in authoritarianism.’ Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged. Porn is no longer of the ‘what the Butler saw’ voyeuristic type; instead, it is driven to new extremes of portrayal that stretch the boundaries of the porn aesthetic. As new sexual positions are portrayed, the desire to shock (as well as entertain) seems clear.<br /><br />It is a case of the traditional revolutionary/radical drive of immigrant Jews in America being channelled into sexual rather than leftist politics. Just as Jews have been disproportionately represented in radical movements over the years, so they are also disproportionately represented in the porn industry. Jews in America have been sexual revolutionaries. A large amount of the material on sexual liberation was written by Jews. Those at the forefront of the movement which forced America to adopt a more liberal view of sex were Jewish. Jews were also at the vanguard of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Goodman replaced Marx, Trotsky and Lenin as required revolutionary reading. Reich’s central preoccupations were work, love and sex, while Marcuse prophesied that a socialist utopia would free individuals to achieve sexual satisfaction. Goodman wrote of the ‘beautiful cultural consequences’ that would follow from legalizing pornography: it would ‘ennoble all our art’ and ‘humanize sexuality’. Pacheco was one Jewish porn star who read Reich’s intellectual marriage of Freud and Marx (lukeford.net):<br /><br />"Before I got my first part in an adult film, I went down to an audition for an X-rated film with my hair down to my ass, a copy of Wilhelm Reich’s Sexual Revolution under my arm and yelling about work, 'love and sex'."<br /><br />As Rabbi Samuel H. Dresner put it (E. Michael Jones, ‘Rabbi Dresner’s Dilemma: Torah v. Ethnos’ Culture Wars, May 2003), ‘Jewish rebellion has broken out on several levels’, one being ‘the prominent role of Jews as advocates to sexual experimentation’. Overall, then, porn performers are a group of people who praise rebellion, self-fulfilment and promiscuity.<br /><br /><b>What are we ashamed of?</b><br /><br />This brief overview and analysis of the role and motivations behind pornographers and performers is intended to shed light on a neglected topic in American Jewish popular culture. Little has been written about it. Books such as Howard M. Sachar’s A History of the Jews in America (New York: Knopf, 1992) simply ignore the topic. And you can bet that the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Jews in the United States did not include any celebrations of Jewish innovation in this field. Even the usually tolerant Time Out New York has been too prim to deal with it, although the more iconoclastic Heeb plans an issue on it. In light of the relatively tolerant Jewish view of sex, why are we ashamed of the Jewish role in the porn industry? We might not like it, but the Jewish role in this field has been significant and it is about time it was written about seriously.<br /><br />Nathan Abrams is a Lecturer in Modern American History at the University of Aberdeen. He has just completed a book on neo-conservatism in the United States. </p><p>https://archive.is/N1XuC#selection-389.0-633.144 <br /></p><p><span style="color: red;"><b>Please share this.</b></span></p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-60558024428666871922024-02-23T16:16:00.003-05:002024-02-23T16:16:23.491-05:00Acta Pilate (Letter of Pilate to Caesar about Jesus, His Crucifixion & Resurrection) - ARCHKO VOL.<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nQUJGceTH9I" title="Acta Pilate (Letter of Pilate to Caesar about Jesus, His Crucifixion & Resurrection) - ARCHKO VOL." width="677"></iframe><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">ARCHKO VOLUME or ARCHEOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF THE SANHEDRIM AND TALMUDS OF THE JEWS is a collection of texts dating from the first century, discovered in the XIXth century in Constantinopole - they have been translated in English and published in 1913, then preserved in the Library of Vatican. </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">Downloaded from </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHpwVXRVWWtsdFg5MUNtTTJxMWdrMS1OZy0yQXxBQ3Jtc0tscTVFU1QwVTdhd0FNaWhOTkUxa2N2dXZ3MWhuYzBiSU9RTWpIbEpTZEp5WXJzUWd2bXA3THE4YVJyNVJjWGQxZElxZkJ1WHhyX3J4TFFGTnpRbFcwbWpadHVtSjNETGRkQ1k0UHQ2ckN1WnNuVkx5RQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Farchkovolumeorth028454mbp&v=nQUJGceTH9I" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/archkovol...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">The testimony of Pilate appears to be in full agreement with the biblical Gospels and also with the New Revelation through Jakob Lorber and Gottfried Mayerhofer ( The Great Gospel of John) - ref:
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</span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHR6NVdGUzhJOC1HNHFlS3B5VUQzR2ZDamE0d3xBQ3Jtc0tuT2dEcEhJRzRXcF8zbE1OdmlOVE9XWlpjTnVGQVZpU09uRzg5UnA5Mk84OHhZallLZzR5MG8tS0Q4TDlxaE11OG5tVkhZYWhIcHg2cGxzdUxjWjQ0SEtma1NyREFqWF9LSUhjNVBSSDctRWlPZ1ZRbw&q=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FTheLordAsAPoorManHG2%2FBrochure%2520-%2520NR%2520-%2520ABOUT%2520LORDS%2520DEATH%2520AND%2520RESURRECTION%2Fpage%2Fn1%2Fmode%2F2up&v=nQUJGceTH9I" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TheLordAs...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">This is a clear confirmation of the supernatural event of the Lord's resurrection which is today also attested with scientific means of investigation of the shroud of Turin. </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">See, for ex.: </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--highlight-text-decorator" style="background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.051); 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBjv7B3ERWySIx7_8im7-xKyr5yTAtbbpdpoBNRAudJQZ6UvLecY9m49a9TAIeCfydxJJrxwxTA4HABkNICukwn1j-P8Av8WMrfkYrwLcVz8fVBB4881R1YPuwNhbEw7YxlG0Fd_IzusVm8ncWaHieCUi6mJMwVHd1ermBP4qAGlE66WyUn5Jp3ajgFUfN/s700/mRNA%20COVID-19%20Vaccines%20Caused%20More%20Deaths%20Than%20Saved%20Study.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBjv7B3ERWySIx7_8im7-xKyr5yTAtbbpdpoBNRAudJQZ6UvLecY9m49a9TAIeCfydxJJrxwxTA4HABkNICukwn1j-P8Av8WMrfkYrwLcVz8fVBB4881R1YPuwNhbEw7YxlG0Fd_IzusVm8ncWaHieCUi6mJMwVHd1ermBP4qAGlE66WyUn5Jp3ajgFUfN/w400-h240/mRNA%20COVID-19%20Vaccines%20Caused%20More%20Deaths%20Than%20Saved%20Study.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br />Researchers called for a ‘global moratorium’ as the study revealed ‘well-documented’ serious adverse events and an unacceptable harm-to-reward ratio.<br /><br />With considerably lower efficacy rates, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause more deaths than save lives, according to a new study whose researchers called for a “global moratorium” on the shots and “immediate removal” from childhood immunization schedule.<br /><br />The peer-reviewed study, published in the Cureus journal on Jan. 24, analyzed reports from the initial phase 3 trials of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. These trials led to the shots being approved under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in the United States. The study also looked into several other research and reviews of the trials. It found that the vaccines had “dramatically lower” efficacy rates than the vaccine companies claimed.<br /><br />Moreover, based on “conservative assumptions, the estimated harms of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines greatly outweigh the rewards: for every life saved, there were nearly 14 times more deaths caused by the modified mRNA injections.”<br /><br />“Given the well-documented SAEs (serious adverse events) and unacceptable harm-to-reward ratio, we urge governments to endorse and enforce a global moratorium on these modified mRNA products until all relevant questions pertaining to causality, residual DNA, and aberrant protein production are answered.”<br /><br />The authors also recommended an “immediate removal” of the COVID-19 vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule. They pointed out that children were at very low risk from the infection.<br /><br />“It is unethical and unconscionable to administer an experimental vaccine to a child who has a near-zero risk of dying from COVID-19 but a well-established 2.2 percent risk of permanent heart damage based on the best prospective data available.”<br /><br />Very Low Efficacy Rate<br /><br />Following the first trials of Pfizer and Moderna, it was claimed that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines had a 95 percent reduction of symptomatic COVID-19. The study pointed out that this efficacy assumption was false.<br /><br />Pfizer’s claim was based on the fact that only eight out of 22,000 vaccine recipients contracted COVID-19 during the trial compared to 162 out of 22,000 people in the placebo group. In total, 170 confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in both groups.<br /><br />However, the researchers pointed out that a large number of infections fell under the “suspected” COVID-19 category, which was ignored. A total of 3,410 such suspected cases were identified in the trial, which is 20 times the 170 confirmed cases.<br /><br />“There were 1,594 such cases in the vaccinated group and 1,816 in the placebo. When factoring in both confirmed and suspected cases, vaccine efficacy against developing symptoms drops to only 19 percent, far below the 50 percent RR (relative risk) reduction threshold required for regulatory authorization,” the study said.<br /><br />“Thus, when considering both confirmed and suspected cases, vaccine efficacy appears to have been dramatically lower than the official 95 percent claim.”<br /><br />The study’s authors declared no financial support from any organization for their work. A few conflict of interest disclosures were made.<br /><br />One author received a grant from Quanta Computer Inc. Another author, cardiologist Peter A. McCullough, declared employment and owning stock/stock options in The Wellness Company. A third author is the founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF).<br /><br />Lives Saved Versus Deaths<br /><br />Researchers criticized the Pfizer and Moderna trial reports for “exclusive focus” on relative risk or RR measure while omitting absolute risk reduction. They argued that absolute risk reduction “gives a better indication of a drug’s clinical utility.”<br /><br />“Both types of risk estimation are required to avoid reporting bias and to provide a more comprehensive perspective on vaccine efficacy. Omitting the absolute risk statistics leads to overestimation of the clinical benefits of the vaccines.”<br /><br />In contrast with the 95 percent efficacy rate using the RR measure, absolute risk reduction for Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were 0.7 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively, the study stated.<br /><br />“An absolute risk reduction of approximately 1 percent for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccinations meant that a substantial number of individuals would need to be injected in order to prevent a single mild-to-moderate case of COVID-19.”<br />To prevent one case of COVID-19 infection, 142 individuals would need to be vaccinated with Pfizer’s shot, the study said. When it came to Moderna, 88 people had to be injected.<br /><br />Taking into account these numbers as well as the infection fatality rates of COVID-19, the researchers concluded that roughly 52,000 people would need to be vaccinated to prevent one COVID-19-related death.<br /><br />This would mean two lives saved for roughly 100,000 injections of the Pfizer vaccine. However, there is a risk of 27 deaths per 100,000 doses of Pfizer shot, the researchers calculated. As such, for every life saved by the jab, almost 14 lives would be lost due to the mRNA vaccine, the study stated.<br /><br />Authors noted that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) “did not include absolute risk reduction measures” when reviewing vaccine data.<br /><br />This action deviated from FDA guidelines “which state that both approaches are crucial in order to avoid the misguided use of pharmaceuticals.”<br /><br />Serious Adverse Events<br /><br />Researchers cited a September 2022 analysis to detail the pervasiveness of serious adverse effects (SAE) among the vaccinated group in the trials. The analysis looked at both Pfizer and Moderna trial data, discovering roughly 125 SAEs per 100,000 vaccine recipients. This indicated one SAE per 800 vaccines.<br /><br />“The Pfizer trial exhibited a 36 percent higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group (compared to placebo) … The Moderna trial exhibited a 6 percent higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group,” the analysis stated.<br /><br />“These findings stand in sharp contrast with the FDA’s initial claim that SAEs reported by the two pivotal trials were ‘balanced between treatment groups,’” researchers from the Jan. 24 study noted.<br /><br />This discrepancy could be because the FDA only counted the number of individuals with serious adverse events rather than the total SAEs experienced by the trial subjects, they said.<br /><br />Since a single person can have multiple SAEs, counting only individuals would produce a lower number than the total number of such adverse events.<br /><br />“When the SAEs were viewed collectively, the risks in the vaccine group were substantially elevated beyond those previously determined by the FDA,” the researchers wrote.<br /><br />The analysis found that the excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest (AESI) among the vaccine group was 10.1 per 10,000 individuals. However, the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization in the placebo group was only 2.3 per 10,000 people.<br /><br />This meant that the vaccinated subjects were at over four times the risk of suffering AESIs after getting the shots than the placebo subjects were of getting hospitalized from the infection. In the Moderna trial, vaccinated individuals were more than two times at risk of experiencing AESI.<br /><br />“To put these findings in perspective, the official SAE rate for other vaccines is only 1-2 per million,” the Jan. 24 study said. The 2020 analysis’ “estimate based on the Pfizer trial data (1,250 SAEs per million) exceeds this benchmark by at least 600-fold.”<br /><br />Rushed Vaccines<br /><br />In the Jan. 24 study, researchers noted that the safety of mRNA products was “never assessed” in a manner consistent with scientific standards for vaccines or for gene therapy products (GPT), which they claim is “the more accurate classification” for these jabs. “Many key trial findings were either misreported or omitted entirely from published reports.”<br /><br />The usual safety testing protocols and toxicology requirements were bypassed by the FDA and vaccine manufacturers. As the two trials were terminated prematurely, there was never an “unbiased assessment” of potential serious adverse events.<br /><br />“It was only after the EUA that the serious biological consequences of rushing the trials became evident, with numerous cardiovascular, neurological, reproductive, hematological, malignant, and autoimmune SAEs identified and published in the peer-reviewed medical literature.”<br /><br />In addition, the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines produced and evaluated in the trials were not the same ones that were manufactured and administered to people around the world. The global vaccination campaign used a vaccine produced by a different process, which has been shown to have “varying degrees of DNA contamination.”<br /><br />The researchers pointed out that several excess deaths, cardiac events, strokes, and other serious adverse events have wrongly been ascribed to COVID-19 rather than the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines since early 2021.<br /><br />Injuries from these vaccines overlap with both post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) and severe acute COVID-19 illness, which end up often obscuring the vaccine’s contribution to such conditions. “Multiple booster injections appear to cause immune dysfunction, thereby paradoxically contributing to heightened susceptibility to COVID-19 infections with successive doses.”<br /><br />For the “vast majority” of adults below 50 years of age, the perceived benefits of the mRNA vaccines were dwarfed by their “potential disabling and life-threatening harm.” The study said older adults may be at higher risk of such harm.<br /><br />CDC and FDA Criticized<br /><br />Commenting on the study, Mat Staver, the founder and chairman of nonprofit Liberty Counsel, said that in the paper, scientists “confirm what sound scientific research has been showing for years, that these shots have never been safe nor effective.”<br /><br />“The FDA and the CDC are supposed to protect the people, but they have become the lapdog of the pharmaceutical industry. This must change.”<br /><br />The CDC is currently under scrutiny for suppressing an alert for myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle called the myocardium.<br /><br />A document recently obtained by The Epoch Times shows that in May 2021, the CDC had prepared a draft alert for myocarditis related to the jabs.<br /><br />The agency was supposed to send the alert to federal, state, and local public health officials and doctors nationwide through its Health Alert Network (HAN). However, the alert was never sent as some officials were worried about appearing “alarmist.”<br /><br />The Epoch Times reached out to the agencies for comment.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>Please share this.</b></span>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-71060078066528423452024-02-02T20:13:00.001-05:002024-02-02T20:13:55.986-05:00Fr. Chad Ripperger: Levels of Spiritual Warfare & Our Lady - January 25th 2024<iframe width="677" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KQOSzZprIO4" title="Fr. Chad Ripperger: Levels of Spiritual Warfare & Our Lady - January 25th 2024" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Please share this.alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-40701219783326178302024-01-31T19:08:00.002-05:002024-01-31T19:08:35.315-05:00Tucker Carlson Ep. 70 Governments colluded to shut down and destroy Russell Brand. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ep. 70 Governments colluded to shut down and destroy Russell Brand. This is his first interview since that happened. Watch it when you get a minute. It's one of the most brilliant explanations of the modern world you'll ever hear. <a href="https://t.co/bCZDTYfZAZ">pic.twitter.com/bCZDTYfZAZ</a></p>— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1752466469454061656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Please share this.alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-23512966718475701322024-01-31T19:06:00.000-05:002024-01-31T19:06:16.428-05:00MOST CORRUPT VIII: Justin Trudeau - Forgotten History<iframe width="677" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c3j2p-oeIuU" title="MOST CORRUPT VIII: Justin Trudeau - Forgotten History" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Please share this.alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-69602250622662602192023-12-11T08:17:00.000-05:002023-12-11T08:17:00.135-05:00Did the Holocaust really happen? Pastor Steven Anderson<iframe width="640" height="360" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border: none;" src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/iVbDMs08ySS9/"></iframe>Please share this.alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-69349639532644769422023-12-09T14:21:00.004-05:002023-12-09T14:21:39.399-05:00Canadian Government and Media Colluded to ‘Instill Fear,’ Coerce Citizens Into Taking Vaccines: Report<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTWqkZ0usMMzsnDyNTzC7ICupBUS9Orin2ttBxAYjssfWzeuEbvC5bdHQ2H266lR7ksaSVf64LXhol4PzOeE06zfPqkdSgiiVS9dDjAZDhF5UPgGVzUpn5iD7av7V1nola1IYHXV879znrQN-l5Ix24LS2xCysUlgaQ5w_NzfvczfllWV7VTlqUtjIEEU/s1200/Canadian%20Government%20and%20Media%20Colluded%20to%20%E2%80%98Instill%20Fear,%E2%80%99%20Coerce%20Citizens%20Into%20Taking%20Vaccines%20Report.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1200" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTWqkZ0usMMzsnDyNTzC7ICupBUS9Orin2ttBxAYjssfWzeuEbvC5bdHQ2H266lR7ksaSVf64LXhol4PzOeE06zfPqkdSgiiVS9dDjAZDhF5UPgGVzUpn5iD7av7V1nola1IYHXV879znrQN-l5Ix24LS2xCysUlgaQ5w_NzfvczfllWV7VTlqUtjIEEU/w640-h428/Canadian%20Government%20and%20Media%20Colluded%20to%20%E2%80%98Instill%20Fear,%E2%80%99%20Coerce%20Citizens%20Into%20Taking%20Vaccines%20Report.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br />The 5,000-page report detailed how the COVID-19 response by the
government was vastly irresponsible, unscientific, and against basic
human rights.<p></p><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">The
Canadian government and media spread fear among citizens about the
COVID-19 pandemic while implementing measures to force them into taking
vaccines under threat of potential reprisals, according to a report by
the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI).</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 600px;">“The
pandemic was a textbook case of the collaboration of government and
industry to subvert the democratic institutions and convince the
citizens of the validity and truthfulness of a narrative that was
objectively false from the start,” <a href="https://archive.is/o/ZJhod/https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NCI-FINAL-REPORT-FULL-Inquiry-into-the-Appropriateness-and-Efficacy-of-the-COVID-19-Response-in-Canada-November-28-2023.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #364d88; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(54, 77, 136); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto;" target="_blank">the Nov. 28 report reads</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">The
Canadian government, together with provincial governments and the
mainstream media, “embarked on an information campaign designed to
instill fear in the hearts of the citizens and ensure that they did not
resist any and all draconian measures that were announced,” it states.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">The
NCI, a citizen-led and -funded effort to examine Canada’s pandemic
response, pointed out in its report that the principle of “my body, my
choice,” popularized by feminists, “vanished during the second year of
the pandemic.” Instead, there was a “constant drumbeat” from public
officials and media characterizing COVID-19 vaccines as “safe and
effective.”</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">Politicians and public figures chimed in, saying pandemic restrictions wouldn't be lifted unless everyone “did their part.”</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">“Canadians
who hesitated to get vaccinated were branded as anti-vaxxers, despite
having voluntarily received every other vaccine, recommended by public
health, in their lives,” the report reads.</div><p> “Politicians
encouraged people to blame the unvaccinated for the restrictive
measures that stopped them from getting back to normal. Those who had
taken the COVID-19 vaccines felt morally superior and validated in
scorning those who didn’t ‘do the right thing.’ Public shaming became a
societal norm.”</p><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">The
government framed issues in a “particular way, using emotionally
charged language, or by exploiting existing biases,” spreading them to
the public through media. This allowed them to influence how “people
perceived events, individuals, or groups,” according to the NCI.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 600px;">The report points to the example of the Freedom Convoy protests—<a href="https://archive.is/o/ZJhod/https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/freedom-convoy-protests-are-spreading-throughout-world-as-truckers-fight-against-mandates-4261451" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #364d88; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(54, 77, 136); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto;" target="_blank">a series of demonstrations</a>
by Canadian truckers who wanted to do away with COVID-19 mandates
imposed by the government that affected truckers who worked between
Canada and the United States.</div><p> The Freedom Convoy demonstrators “peacefully protested” against mandates, according to the report.</p><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">"[Yet]
the government used mainstream media to portray these people as
violent, racists, and anarchists, who were threatening the very lives of
the people of Ottawa,” it reads.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">Propaganda was used to stifle dissenting voices and alternative perspectives, according to the report.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">“Both
media and government personalities demonized dissenting opinions. Their
labels of ‘anti-vaxxer’ or ‘science deniers’ were intended to associate
people who did not consent to the experimental injections with
‘Holocaust deniers.’ Many people fell prey to the fear of being labelled
and remained silent,” it reads.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">Whether
the media was “state-controlled” during the pandemic or simply bought
into the governments’ messaging and began repeating such narratives
without question was “not discovered through testimony at the inquiry.” A
deeper investigation into the matter needs to be carried out, the
report states.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 600px;">“Regardless,
the cooperation of the media with the government during this time
created a campaign of propaganda and terrorism that represents a grave
violation of human rights, democratic values, and the principles of
international law,” it reads.
<h2 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.72px; line-height: 1.2; margin-block-end: 19.92px; margin-block-start: 20px; margin-bottom: 19.92px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Vaccine Mandates</h2>
The report points out that coercion was applied to “virtually every
aspect of Canadians’ lives” during the pandemic. Workplace vaccination
mandates forced even workers who never intended to get a COVID-19
vaccine to take the shot, as people were afraid to lose their jobs. The
government also blocked employment insurance for people who lost jobs
because they didn't get vaccinated.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">The
NCI heard testimony from several witnesses who said that “they or a
loved one felt compelled to take the injection, under the threat of
losing their livelihood.”</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">Several
educational institutions implemented vaccination requirements, such as
denying unvaccinated students access to classes to “coerce students to
get vaccinated.” The government imposed vaccine mandates for domestic
and international travel.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">The
announcement that unvaccinated people wouldn't be allowed to sit near
vaccinated individuals on planes came at a time when “it was already
known that vaccinated people could transmit the COVID-19 virus to other
vaccinated people.”</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">“This inconvenient fact went unacknowledged so that pressure on the unvaccinated could continue,” the report reads.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">Vaccine
passes were designed to prevent unvaccinated individuals from accessing
anything not deemed essential, including visiting their children’s
school and services such as restaurants, gyms, and movie theaters.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">“The
message was clear: if you want access to these people/things that you
like/love, you must submit to vaccination,” the NCI stated.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">In
October 2021, the Canadian federal government imposed vaccine mandates
in the public sector, requiring proof of vaccination from federal public
servants as well as people employed in federally regulated industries
such as banking. Individuals who didn't show proof of vaccination or had
a medical or religious exemption were placed on unpaid leave.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">People
traveling on VIA Rail trains and on cruise ships also had to show proof
of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 600px;">In
Alberta, Canada, the provincial government required movie theaters,
restaurants, and sports venues to ask patrons for vaccination proof or
negative COVID-19 test results. British Columbia also imposed such
restrictions.
<h2 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.72px; line-height: 1.2; margin-block-end: 19.92px; margin-block-start: 20px; margin-bottom: 19.92px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Vaccines 'Should be Stopped Immediately'</h2>
The NCI report is based on the testimony of more than 300 members of the public and expert witnesses.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">Although
subpoenas were issued to 63 members of the government, authorities, and
regulators, none of them appeared at the hearing to give testimony.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">In
his remarks during the hearing, NCI Commissioner and Chairperson Ken
Drysdale said the testimonies “provide irrefutable evidence that an
unprecedented assault has been waged against the citizens of Canada,”
according to a Nov. 28 statement.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">“Not
since World War II has the nation experienced such a devastating attack
on its people,” he said. “Many public and private bodies such as
schools, medical providers and regulators, unions, justice and policing
all failed Canadians. These institutions and individuals must also be
held to account.”</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">The
report recommends that the “current use of COVID-19 genetic vaccines in
Canada that were authorized under the revised provisions of the Interim
Order and the newly revised Food and Drug Regulations, should be
stopped immediately.”</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">A
full judicial investigation into the authorization process under which
the COVID-19 vaccines were approved must be carried out, it states.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 24px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-inline-end: 22px; margin-inline-start: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;">Representatives for Health Canada didn't respond by press time to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.</div><p><span style="color: red;">Please share this.</span></p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-72746873935603905642023-12-03T10:47:00.004-05:002023-12-03T10:47:53.930-05:00"If I Were the Devil" A Warnig to America, Paul Harvey<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In 1965, Paul Harvey broadcasted “If I Were the Devil.” It is really amazing to realize over 58 years ago how accurately he “prophesied” the future spiritual condition of the United States. Many of his statements were considered ridiculously outlandish at that time in history.… <a href="https://t.co/I9FEJt92sv">pic.twitter.com/I9FEJt92sv</a></p>— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1731040148689744294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-77337729744460488822023-12-01T10:36:00.002-05:002023-12-01T10:36:31.226-05:00If I was going to dismantle the United States here’s how I’d do it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdJwDy0v2kmejJETx99B7dOJYByTRX9TAcCTtkKlOwOBgnru07cNqAHcVCNn3SGr0E-CgxCD78CHit0fRQk_uuLTl8bLJpcBgCSF0zV2Lqad_dlssUBFZ0TUTn6jNAoTWaUNMjwkxkuIpGYpKd0kf8QLpYZUWieKrVD0IWCBtW2cP-Hh8XhDD6dN8Fhhb/s644/If%20I%20was%20going%20to%20dismantle%20the%20United%20States%20here%E2%80%99s%20how%20I%E2%80%99d%20do%20it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="644" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdJwDy0v2kmejJETx99B7dOJYByTRX9TAcCTtkKlOwOBgnru07cNqAHcVCNn3SGr0E-CgxCD78CHit0fRQk_uuLTl8bLJpcBgCSF0zV2Lqad_dlssUBFZ0TUTn6jNAoTWaUNMjwkxkuIpGYpKd0kf8QLpYZUWieKrVD0IWCBtW2cP-Hh8XhDD6dN8Fhhb/w640-h314/If%20I%20was%20going%20to%20dismantle%20the%20United%20States%20here%E2%80%99s%20how%20I%E2%80%99d%20do%20it.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>1. Criticize belief in God, make it sound absurd and fanciful. Associate it with bigotry and ostracism. <br /><br />2. Entice men with sexual immorality and alcoholism to numb them so they will abandon all self-control and virtue, making them unable and unwilling to resist tyranny. <br /><br />3. Pit wives against their husbands to undermine the authoritative structure of the home, causing families to break down and wives to abandon their duties to their children and husband. <br /><br />4. Teach children to disrespect their parents and elders so they will reject familial and cultural traditions. <br /><br />5. Abduct schools to propagandize and corrupt the morals of the coming generation who will then be used to propel the cultural revolution. <br /><br />6. Bribe and blackmail judges and politicians to usurp control of the legislative and judicial branches and begin to pass wicked laws to further accelerate moral degradation. <br /><br />7. Utilize overtaxation and bad economic policy to deprive men of their wages and outsource local production and labor thereby obliterating the middle class.<br /><br />8. Promote infanticide and promiscuity to eliminate the passing of traditional values through the household. <br /><br />9. Shame promoters of patriotism and nationalism while endorsing multiculturalism and diversity. This will destroy any sense of unity amongst the people. <br /><br />10. Open the country’s borders to flood it with uncivilized, military aged males who have no loyalty to the United States and will not obey its laws. <br /><br />11. Divide the population along political, racial, and economic lines to provoke animosity and fuel civil war to justify use of totalitarian power. <br /><br />12. Capture the news media to ensure total control of information and engage in daily psychological warfare against the people. <br /><br />13. Rig or steal every federal and regional election to ensure that none of your power is lost and the people remain under constant subjugation. <br /><br />Sounds familiar? It should. We’re living through it right now. <br /><br />For the love of all that is Holy, give up the silly myth that it is possible to remain religiously neutral in the affairs of our country.<br /><br />Every society is ruled by a god. It’s not a matter of if we’ll have a god, but which God we will have. <br /><br />As for me, I reject these earthly gods and choose the one, true God—Jesus Christ. Submit yourself to His rule, because He is overthrowing every throne and authority that arrogantly exalts itself against Him.<br /><br />And He cannot lose.</p><p><br />Please share this.</p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-83694469576308344972023-09-14T20:41:00.000-04:002023-09-14T20:41:06.437-04:00The One Question to End Abortion—WHAT IS IT? | Full Movie<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3L5OaJNulRE" title="The One Question to End Abortion—WHAT IS IT? | Full Movie" width="677"></iframe>Please share this.</p><p>You were you from the moment of fertilization—a unique human being who will never be repeated in all of human history. Abortion is one of the most hotly debated and complex topics in the world. Hitting the streets with common-sense reasoning, Mark Spence, Ray Comfort, and Emeal (“E.Z.”) Zwayne use science, philosophy, and theology to change people’s minds on abortion. This complex issue can be decided by answering one simple question: “What is it?”<br /><br />The team behind award-winning movies like “180,” “Evolution vs. God,” and “Audacity” is back at it, changing people’s minds on abortion and proclaiming the gospel. This riveting documentary will equip Christians, change minds, and (by the grace of God) be used to bring sinners to a saving faith.<br /><br />Visit https://www.LivingWaters.com to view more free Christian videos, articles, and to get tracts and other resources by Ray Comfort and the Living Waters team.<br /><br />Invite us to speak at your church or event by going here:<br />https://livingwaters.com/request/<br /><br /><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">FACEBOOK
Living Waters: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWJFOURLTFVDR3I2eGRMbE9OWE9sTFV5ZFNhZ3xBQ3Jtc0trZkxtZExBRGVCMl9OX2ktMTZLUzBqeElsY09Pb0lvaXFjRG9kNWJWaV9fNERhLWpablc5c0VHQWh6aDVxcjFHNFJiMkwyUmFTcV9iTzk3b1hvemRqTUk4N1F0Q3l4VXR4Vlh1MkIwQnl3eWFmZTNKaw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Flwwotm&v=3L5OaJNulRE" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/lwwotm</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">Ray Comfort: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqay1vc20tQVpzdDdUeDZoS3JzeVo0ZUU4dzFxUXxBQ3Jtc0tscUxrTUF1ZVJXdEwtTVVrVWxDdlZVSWxYVXkyWlZZcHM3MzhwUDFJSE5GbndMeW9LLVY5bWdvN2tsYXJrcHczMDRPbXFzcUU0bndMdnp2T19hY2xBN0tFbTV4QmVucTNteE1mcXphZ1JlVThKdU0zcw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fofficial.Ray.Comfort&v=3L5OaJNulRE" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">Emeal ("E.Z.") Zwayne: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmo2eWFqcUllN1ZLVnE5QmdRcUpnWEdZeDg4QXxBQ3Jtc0trTFlaWXhKSDN4bHlIYTA4RjB3YnFyMFVkTlczQWR4dGdXT2xwTEFwWjRFcG1vU0lpRmFfTzJHVnM2ckxYX0dtdEMzQTNtbFZnZFB0M2VPNTBFUnF6T2xzMnJVWlRiMkRsaUtFcGxwUERVOVd0bGRPcw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fofficial.EZ.Zwayne&v=3L5OaJNulRE" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/official.EZ....</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">Mark Spence: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXF5OVloWnlMb1JyaHNDRF9kWTZwcGhXRUhGd3xBQ3Jtc0trbFNoQkoyYlZSLWhJWHhUSXZqM0hZM2pPMklOUkVTZjBHMXBKSXZMZTRRWFpPSEZmQXE2N1JFVEJsTF8yRExya1pxZjkzTEFhM25jTF8wSV96UVRnbGdkM01vS0paMnNxcTMzb0I1ZlRHQWtlX3kyMA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOfficialMarkSpence%2F&v=3L5OaJNulRE" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMark...</a></span></span></p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-31504841562861151902023-09-06T15:48:00.000-04:002023-09-06T15:48:09.866-04:00The Origin Of The ADL<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Leo%20Frank.jpg?itok=L50dddgQ" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Leo%20Frank.jpg?itok=L50dddgQ"><picture><figure class="caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images align-center" role="group"><img alt="Leo Frank" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="59704c0a-6e23-4d88-93d2-f5f6da89c2e9" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="400" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Leo%20Frank.jpg?itok=L50dddgQ" width="326" /><figcaption><em>Leo Frank, whose case was the impetus for the formation of the ADL.</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a><h2>Elon Versus The ADL </h2><p>As Zero Hedge <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-choice-musk-threatens-suit-against-adl-blames-activists-most-xs-revenue-loss">reported</a> yesterday, Elon Musk has threatened to sue the ADL (The American Defamation League) for defamation: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgssJQ0P-9KwtoVr9XWoQTU9MMK-QX4bpdwl-43l9R9EQm-71ZDtl1OP0srwkRJ6on3WgO2y59FgGsj3XFhZ6s8Yu4IIOEsfzbkCnU39Qj7mvb4UWSobkeSYJPmiuV0SCEMl6TPvzXnI3PotCTrUmJtsFZb3rAz6eh4lc5Hp38-M9repUJXFpLVVrwwWLTB/s632/adl%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="632" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgssJQ0P-9KwtoVr9XWoQTU9MMK-QX4bpdwl-43l9R9EQm-71ZDtl1OP0srwkRJ6on3WgO2y59FgGsj3XFhZ6s8Yu4IIOEsfzbkCnU39Qj7mvb4UWSobkeSYJPmiuV0SCEMl6TPvzXnI3PotCTrUmJtsFZb3rAz6eh4lc5Hp38-M9repUJXFpLVVrwwWLTB/w400-h239/adl%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 100%;"></div><p>The ADL <a href="https://www.adl.org/about/mission-and-history">describes</a> its mission this way, </p><blockquote><p>To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all</p></blockquote><p>But
as Zero Hedge noted in yesterday's article, conservative Jews such as
Chaya Raichik, who runs the popular Libs of TikTok X account, have found
themselves in the ADL's sights as well.</p><p>The case that sparked the
growth of the ADL is instructive here, particularly since the
organization just brought it up, causing a minor controversy on Elon
Musk's site. </p><h2>Remembering Leo Frank </h2><p>Leo Frank, who was
Jewish, was the manager of a pencil factory in Georgia where a 13 year
old employee (labor laws were different then) named Mary Phagan was
found strangled to death. Frank was tried and found guilty of the
murder, and sentenced to death. After numerous appeals, the governor of
Georgia commuted Frank's sentence from death to life imprisonment.
Following that, a group of outraged Georgians broke Frank out of prison
and lynched him.</p><p>Last month, the ADL commemorated the anniversary of Frank's death with post quoted below (<em>z"l </em>is an abbreviation of a Hebrew phrase meaning "of blessed memory"). </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxv6cwzkiYNHesTnewtD17_GHGLRMOTeuDMc3NlyfgksIwtx9WrNNQUaHIAg6cD_ZQk-8KwRhTPzw8Ydcqs_2hjYY0CQMSPZHBf1Jc8j5SIhHt7OlGgW_2LPjSIp8ol_L5SXIqTw9s4ImFYacJUrh9ZVGTOdqrpIcDjJ0uBTBBVjXlG2P00tUGzJXqjTI/s703/adl%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxv6cwzkiYNHesTnewtD17_GHGLRMOTeuDMc3NlyfgksIwtx9WrNNQUaHIAg6cD_ZQk-8KwRhTPzw8Ydcqs_2hjYY0CQMSPZHBf1Jc8j5SIhHt7OlGgW_2LPjSIp8ol_L5SXIqTw9s4ImFYacJUrh9ZVGTOdqrpIcDjJ0uBTBBVjXlG2P00tUGzJXqjTI/w460-h640/adl%202.jpg" width="460" /></a></div> <span style="opacity: 0; position: absolute; user-select: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1698828606598734225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1698828606598734225%7Ctwgr%5E1b273afa40774f7f97e19bc0ea3529c25ef7ecdf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2023-09-06%2Forigin-adl</span><p></p><p>One
of Elon Musk's innovations was adding "Community Notes" to posts on X,
where designated users can offer factual corrections to tweets. A
community note questioned the ADL's use of "unjustly convicted", noting
there was copious evidence at the time of Frank's guilt. Clicking on <a href="https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1692249341526757384?s=20">their post</a> now, it appears the ADL successfully made that note disappear. </p><h2>Was Frank Guilty? </h2><p>The software entrepreneur, researcher, and editor Ron Unz (himself Jewish), addressed that question in <a href="https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-leo-frank-case-and-the-origins-of-the-adl/">a very long post</a>
on his site earlier this year ("American Pravda: The Leo Frank Case and
the Origins of the ADL"). His short answer was "yes", but below is a
brief excerpt elaborating on that answer. Following that, we'll close
with a new update on that biotech trade we discussed here recently. </p><p>After mentioning a commemoration of the centennial of the ADL's founding, Unz writes [emphasis mine], </p><blockquote><p>In
the past, Frank’s name and story would have been equally vague in my
mind, only half-remembered from my introductory history textbooks as one
of the most notable early KKK victims in the fiercely anti-Semitic Deep
South of the early twentieth century. However, not long before seeing
that piece on the ADL I’d read Albert Lindemann’s highly-regarded study <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521447615/" title="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521447615/"><em>The Jew Accused</em></a>, and his short chapter on the notorious Frank case had completely exploded all my preconceptions.</p><p id="p_1_7"><strong>First, Lindemann demonstrated that there was no evidence of any anti-Semitism behind Frank’s arrest and conviction</strong>, with Jews constituting a highly-valued element of the affluent Atlanta society of the day, and <strong>no references to Frank’s Jewish background, negative or otherwise</strong>, <strong>appearing in the media prior to the trial.</strong> Indeed, <strong>five of the Grand Jurors who voted to indict Frank for murder were themselves Jewish</strong>,
and none of them ever voiced regret over their decision. In general,
support for Frank seems to have been strongest among Jews from New York
and other distant parts of the country and weakest among the Atlanta
Jews with best knowledge of the local situation.</p><p id="p_1_8">Furthermore,
although Lindemann followed the secondary sources he relied upon in
declaring that Frank was clearly innocent of the charges of rape and
murder, the facts he recounted led me to the opposite conclusion,
seeming to suggest strong evidence of Frank’s guilt. When I much more
recently read Lindemann’s longer and more comprehensive historical study
of anti-Semitism, <em>Esau’s Tears</em>, I noticed that his abbreviated
treatment of the Frank case no longer made any such claim of innocence,
perhaps indicating that the author himself might have also had second
thoughts about the weight of the evidence.</p></blockquote><p>Unz
goes on to discuss the details of the case, but basically, the other
main suspect was a black janitor at the factory, and for white
Southerners 110 years ago to convict Frank instead of a black man
suggests they weren't motivated by bias, as Lindemann demonstrated
above. If the American South had been a hotbed of antisemitism, the
Confederacy wouldn't have had a Jewish man, <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/judah-phillip-benjamin">Judah P. Benjamin</a>, as its Secretary of War. </p><h2>Why Does The ADL Keep Bringing Up Leo Frank? </h2><p>Every
time the ADL mentions the Frank case, particularly when they say he was
unjustly convicted, without offering evidence in support of that claim,
it generates a lot of hostile commentary, some of which could be
construed as antisemitic. So why does the ADL do it?</p><p>Here's a theory: they do it precisely to generate hostile commentary, which they can then use to argue for more censorship. <br /></p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-47928317726340480732023-08-23T17:51:00.000-04:002023-08-23T17:51:12.986-04:00How the World Really Works | Martin Armstrong<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tbtZW_lIWaI?si=nQLusUr-sp9_3f8Y" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><p>Please share this.</p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-49103726534951301572023-08-06T19:25:00.002-04:002023-08-06T19:25:30.360-04:00Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless, Said World War II's Top US Military Leaders <div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-8--HFpIK"></div><div class="visibility-check"></div><div class=""><div class="available-content"><div class="body markup" dir="auto"><p>The
anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present
an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of American history —
that those twin acts of mass civilian slaughter were necessary to bring
about Japan’s surrender, and spare a half-million US soldiers who’d have
otherwise died in a military conquest of the empire’s home islands. </p><p>Those
who attack this mythology are often reflexively dismissed as
unpatriotic, ill-informed or both. However, the most compelling
witnesses against the conventional wisdom were patriots with a unique
grasp on the state of affairs in August 1945 — America’s senior military
leaders of World War II. </p><p>Let’s first hear what they had to say, and then examine key facts that led them to their little-publicized convictions: </p><ul><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/lesson-plans/re-thinking-dropping-atomic-bombs-lesson-2" rel="">General Dwight Eisenhower</a><span> </span></strong><span>on
learning of the planned bombings: “I had been conscious of a feeling of
depression and voiced to [Secretary of War Stimson] my grave
misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already
defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and
secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world
opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no
longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief
that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a
minimum loss of ‘face’.”</span></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://apjjf.org/2021/20/Kuzmarov-Peace.html" rel="">Admiral William Leahy</a><span>,</span></strong><span>
Truman's Chief of Staff: “The use of this barbarous weapon…was of no
material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already
defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade
and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.” </span></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/" rel="">Major General Curtis LeMay</a><span>, </span></strong><span>21st Bomber Command: “The war would have been over in </span><a href="https://pearlharbor.org/blog/america-hadnt-dropped-bombs/" rel="">two weeks</a><span> without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb…The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.” </span></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://duluthreader.com/articles/2015/08/05/105115-no-one-saves-lives-by-dropping-bombs-on-cities" rel="">General Hap Arnold</a><span>,</span></strong><span>
US Army Air Forces: “The Japanese position was hopeless even before the
first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their
own air.” “</span><a href="https://duluthreader.com/articles/2015/08/05/105115-no-one-saves-lives-by-dropping-bombs-on-cities" rel="">It</a><span> always appeared to us that, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse.”</span></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hotter-Than-Sun-interviews-Alperovitz/dp/1733647368" rel="">Ralph Bard</a><span>,</span></strong><span>
Under Secretary of the Navy: “The Japanese were ready for peace, and
they already had approached the Russians and the Swiss…In my opinion,
the Japanese war was really won before we ever used the atom bomb.”</span></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hotter-Than-Sun-interviews-Alperovitz/dp/1733647368" rel="">Brigadier General Carter Clarke</a><span>, military intelligence officer</span></strong><span>
who prepared summaries of intercepted cables for Truman: “When we
didn’t need to do it, and we knew we didn’t need to do it…we used
[Hiroshima and Nagasaki] as an experiment for two atomic bombs. Many
other high-level military officers concurred.” </span></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2012-09-19/html/CREC-2012-09-19-pt1-PgH6128-2.htm" rel="">Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz</a></strong><span>,
Pacific Fleet commander: “The use of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The
Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.”</span></p></li></ul><div><hr /></div><p>Putting
out feelers through third-party diplomatic channels, the Japanese were
seeking to end the war weeks before the atomic bombings on August 6 and
9, 1945. Japan’s navy and air forces were decimated, and its homeland
subjected to a sea blockade and allied bombing carried out against
little resistance. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4570d215-97b4-4d6f-87e0-4d7159d700db_740x585.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4570d215-97b4-4d6f-87e0-4d7159d700db_740x585.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":585,"width":740,"resizeWidth":616,"bytes":474489,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null}" height="486.97297297297297" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4570d215-97b4-4d6f-87e0-4d7159d700db_740x585.jpeg" width="616" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Full of midget submarines, a drydock in the port city of Kure, Japan lies in ruins </strong></figcaption></figure></div><p><span>The Americans knew of Japan’s intent to surrender, having intercepted </span><a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/28458-document-39b-magic-diplomatic-summary-war-department-office-assistant-chief-staff-g" rel="">a July 12 cable</a><span>
from Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, informing Japanese
ambassador to Russia Naotake Sato that “we are now secretly giving
consideration to the termination of the war because of the pressing
situation which confronts Japan both at home and abroad.” </span></p><p>Togo
told Sato to “sound [Russian diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov] out on the
extent to which it is possible to make use of Russia in ending the war.”
Togo initially told Sato to obscure Japan’s interest in using Russia to
end the war, but just hours later, he withdrew that instruction, saying
it would be “suitable to make clear to the Russians our general
attitude on ending the war”— to include Japan’s having “absolutely no
idea of annexing or holding the territories which she occupied during
the war.” </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fece1dd6c-9b17-4ae4-acf3-eb7d2f9bfdf7_1095x552.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ece1dd6c-9b17-4ae4-acf3-eb7d2f9bfdf7_1095x552.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":552,"width":1095,"resizeWidth":596,"bytes":161512,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="300.44931506849315" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fece1dd6c-9b17-4ae4-acf3-eb7d2f9bfdf7_1095x552.jpeg" width="596" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>An
excerpt from a July 12, 1945 US War Department summary of intercepted
cables from Japan’s Foreign Minister to his ambassador to the Soviet
Union</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Japan’s central concern was
the retention of its emperor, Hirohito, who was considered a demigod.
Even knowing this — and with many US officials feeling the retention of
the emperor could help Japanese society through its postwar transition
—the Truman administration continued issuing demands for unconditional
surrender, offering no assurance that the emperor would be spared
humiliation or worse. </p><p><span>In a </span><a href="https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945Berlinv01/d592" rel="">July 2 memorandum</a><span>,
Secretary of War Henry Stimson drafted a terms-of-surrender
proclamation to be issued at the conclusion of that month’s Potsdam
Conference. He advised Truman that, “if…we should add that we do not
exclude a constitutional monarchy under her present dynasty, it would
substantially add to the chances of acceptance.” </span></p><p><span>Truman
and Secretary of State James Byrnes, however, continued rejecting
recommendations to give assurances about the emperor. The final </span><a href="https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/potsdam-declaration/" rel="">Potsdam Declaration</a><span>,
issued July 26, omitted Stimson’s recommended language, sternly
declaring, “Following are our terms. We will not deviate from them.” </span></p><p>One
of those terms could reasonably be interpreted as jeopardizing the
emperor: “There must be eliminated for all time the authority and
influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into
embarking on world conquest.” </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p><em><strong>Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey:</strong></em> Invigoratingly unorthodox perspectives for intellectually honest readers</p></div><div class="subscribe-widget" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-center--SQPji"><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__container--OfBh4"><form action="/api/v1/free?nojs=true" class="form frontend-components-free_email_form-module__form--LDIzl" method="post" novalidate=""><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__sideBySideWrap--yhsgv"><input class="pencraft frontend-components-free_email_form-module__emailInput--BLQGf" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..." type="email" /></div></form></div></div></div></div></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="subscribe-widget" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-center--SQPji"><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__container--OfBh4"><form action="/api/v1/free?nojs=true" class="form frontend-components-free_email_form-module__form--LDIzl" method="post" novalidate=""><div id="error-container"></div><div class="subtle-help-text below-input frontend-components-free_email_form-module__links--G_QlQ"></div></form><div class="frontend-login-typo_handler-EmailTypoHandler-module__animationWrapper--UT0du"></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>At
the same time the United States was preparing to deploy its formidable
new weapons, the Soviet Union was moving armies from the European front
to northeast Asia. </p><p><span>In May, </span><a href="https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945Berlinv01/d26" rel="">Stalin told the US ambassador</a><span>
that Soviet forces should be positioned to attack the Japanese in
Manchuria by August 8. In July, Truman predicted the impact of the
Soviets opening a new front. In a </span><a href="https://hsi.wm.edu/cases/bomb/bomb_documents.html" rel="">diary entry</a><span> made during the Potsdam Conference, he wrote that Stalin assured him “he’ll be in the Jap War on August 15th. </span><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fini" rel="">Fini</a><span> Japs when that comes about.” </span></p><p>Right
on Stalin’s original schedule, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan
two days after the August 6 bombing of Hiroshima. That same day — August
8 — Emperor Hirohito told the country’s civilian leaders that he still
wanted to pursue a negotiated surrender that would preserve his reign. </p><p><span>On August 9, Soviet attacks commenced on </span><a href="https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/soviet-japan-and-the-termination-of-the-second-world-war/" rel="">three fronts</a><span>. </span><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/wholesale-slaughter-of-japanese-non-combatants-in-wwii-was-evil/" rel="">News of Stalin’s invasion</a><span>
of Manchuria prompted Hirohito to call a new meeting to discuss
surrender — at 10 am, one hour before the strike on Nagasaki. The final
surrender decision came on August 10. </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5847194-8b6d-46b7-a6a3-e2f8c2d035e2_629x439.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c5847194-8b6d-46b7-a6a3-e2f8c2d035e2_629x439.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":439,"width":629,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":48984,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="279" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5847194-8b6d-46b7-a6a3-e2f8c2d035e2_629x439.jpeg" width="400" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Three-year
old Shinichi Tetsutani, burned as he was riding this tricycle when the
atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, died a painful death that night</strong><span> (Hiroki Kobayashi/</span><em><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photography/2020/08/the-elusive-horror-of-hiroshima" rel="">National Geographic</a></em><span>)</span></figcaption></figure></div><p>The
Soviet timeline makes the atomic bombings all the more troubling: One
would think a US government that’s appropriately hesitant to incinerate
and irradiate hundreds of thousands of civilians would want to first see
how a Soviet declaration of war affected Japan’s calculus.</p><p><span>As it turns out, the Japanese surrender indeed appears to have been prompted by the Soviet entry into the war on Japan — </span><em>not </em><span>by
the atomic bombs. “The Japanese leadership never had photo or video
evidence of the atomic blast and considered the destruction of Hiroshima
to be similar to the dozens of conventional strikes Japan had already
suffered,” wrote Josiah Lippincott at </span><em><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/wholesale-slaughter-of-japanese-non-combatants-in-wwii-was-evil/" rel="">The American Conservative</a></em><span>. </span><strong> </strong></p><div><hr /></div><p><span>Sadly,
the evidence points to a US government determined to drop atomic bombs
on Japanese cities as an end in itself, to such an extent that it not
only ignored Japan’s interest in surrender, but worked to ensure that
surrender was delayed until after upwards of </span><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2020/08/counting-the-dead-at-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/" rel="">210,000 people — disproportionately women, children and elderly — were killed</a><span> in the two cities. </span></p><p><span>Make
no mistake: This was a deliberate targeting of civilian populations.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they were pristine, and could
thus fully showcase the bombs’ power. Hiroshima was home to a small
military headquarters, but the fact that both cities had gone untouched
by a strategic bombing campaign that began </span><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/27/2001330168/-1/-1/0/AFD-100927-081.pdf" rel="">14 months earlier</a><span> certifies their military and industrial insignificance. </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F56aff397-a126-45ce-b2d8-81707e485afa_2048x1044.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/56aff397-a126-45ce-b2d8-81707e485afa_2048x1044.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":742,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":643109,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="204" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F56aff397-a126-45ce-b2d8-81707e485afa_2048x1044.jpeg" width="400" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>“The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing,” Eisenhower would later </span><a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/japan-was-already-defeated-the-case-against-the-nuclear-bomb-and-for-basic-morality/" rel="">say</a><span>. “I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.”</span></p><p><span>According to his pilot, </span><a href="https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2021/06/05/who-opposed-nuking-japan/" rel="">General Douglas MacArthur</a><span>, commander of US Army Forces Pacific, was “appalled and depressed by this Frankenstein monster.” </span></p><p>“When
I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb,” wrote
journalist Norman Cousins, “I was surprised to learn he had not even
been consulted…He saw no military justification for the dropping of the
bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United
States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the
institution of the emperor.”</p><div><hr /></div><p>What then, was the purpose of devastating Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs?</p><p><span>A key insight comes from Manhattan Project physicist Leo Szilard. In 1945, Szilard organized </span><a href="https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/szilard-petition/" rel="">a petition</a><span>, </span><a href="https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/atomic-bombing/hiroshima/page-6.html" rel="">signed</a><span>
by 70 Manhattan Project scientists, urging Truman not to use atomic
bombs against Japan without first giving the country a chance to
surrender, on terms that were made public. </span></p><p><span>In May
1945, Szilard met with Secretary of State Byrnes to urge atomic
restraint. Byrnes wasn’t receptive to the plea. Szilard — the scientist
who’d drafted the pivotal </span><a href="https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/einstein-szilard-letter/" rel="">1939 letter</a><span> from Albert Einstein urging FDR to develop an atomic bomb — </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_-dEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT58&lpg=PT58&dq=szilard+%22russian+troops+had+moved+into+hungary%22+manageable&source=bl&ots=wN-7Q6Y7CJ&sig=ACfU3U0XeDv0DVlbYvk5TK8eK_QYE7aE-g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidsaTYvLmAAxVTkmoFHd7HCqA4FBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=szilard%20%22russian%20troops%20had%20moved%20into%20hungary%22%20manageable&f=false" rel="">recounted</a><span>: </span></p><blockquote><p><span>"[Byrnes]
was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved
into Hungary and Romania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult
to persuade Russia to withdraw her troops from these countries, that </span><strong>Russia
might be more manageable if impressed by American military might, and
that a demonstration of the bomb might impress Russia.</strong><span>"</span></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffbcef56-5046-4898-8a19-25675756f7ab_735x490.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ffbcef56-5046-4898-8a19-25675756f7ab_735x490.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":490,"width":735,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":56761,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="267" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffbcef56-5046-4898-8a19-25675756f7ab_735x490.jpeg" width="400" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong> Burned to impress Stalin: A victim of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima</strong><span> (AP /The Association of the Photographers of the Atomic Bomb Destruction of Hiroshima, Yotsugi Kawahara)</span></figcaption></figure></div><p>Whether
the atomic bomb’s audience was in Tokyo or Moscow, some in the military
establishment championed alternative ways to demonstrate its power. </p><p><span>Lewis Strauss, Special Assistant to the Navy Secretary, said he </span><a href="https://studylib.net/doc/8421323/atomic-bombs-dbq---ottumwa-community-schools" rel="">proposed</a><span>
“that the weapon should be demonstrated over… a large forest of
cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the
Japanese version of our redwood… [It] would lay the trees out in
windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though
they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. It
seemed to me that a demonstration of this sort would prove to the
Japanese that we could destroy any of their cities at will.” </span></p><p>Strauss
said Navy Secretary Forrestal “agreed wholeheartedly,” but Truman
ultimately decided an optimal demonstration required burning hundreds of
thousands of noncombatants and laying waste to their cities. The buck
stops there. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p><strong>Join more than 2,200 other Stark Realists™ who enjoy monthly, ad-free insights</strong></p></div><div class="subscribe-widget" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-center--SQPji"><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__container--OfBh4"><form action="/api/v1/free?nojs=true" class="form frontend-components-free_email_form-module__form--LDIzl" method="post" novalidate=""><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__sideBySideWrap--yhsgv"><input class="pencraft frontend-components-free_email_form-module__emailInput--BLQGf" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..." type="email" /></div></form></div></div></div></div></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="subscribe-widget" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-center--SQPji"><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__container--OfBh4"><form action="/api/v1/free?nojs=true" class="form frontend-components-free_email_form-module__form--LDIzl" method="post" novalidate=""><div id="error-container"></div><div class="subtle-help-text below-input frontend-components-free_email_form-module__links--G_QlQ"></div></form><div class="frontend-login-typo_handler-EmailTypoHandler-module__animationWrapper--UT0du"></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span>The
particular means of inflicting these mass murders — a solitary object
dropped from a plane at 31,000 feet — helps warp Americans’ evaluation
of its morality. Using an analogy, historian </span><a href="https://original.antiwar.com/ralph-raico/2009/08/05/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/" rel="">Robert Raico</a><span> cultivates ethical clarity: </span></p><blockquote><p>“Suppose
that, when we invaded Germany in early 1945, our leaders had believed
that executing all the inhabitants of Aachen, or Trier, or some other
Rhineland city would finally break the will of the Germans and lead them
to surrender. In this way, the war might have ended quickly, saving the
lives of many Allied soldiers. Would that then have justified shooting
tens of thousands of German civilians, including women and children?”</p></blockquote><p><span>The
claim that dropping the atomic bombs saved a half-million American
lives is more than just empty: Truman’s stubborn refusal to provide
advance assurances about the retention of Japan’s emperor arguably </span><em>cost</em><span> American lives.</span></p><p><span>That’s
true not only of a war against Japan that lasted longer than it needed
to, but also of a Korean War precipitated by the US-invited Soviet
invasion of Japanese-held territory in northeast Asia. More than 36,000
US service members died in the Korean War — among a staggering </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Korean-War/Back-to-the-38th-parallel" rel="">2.5 million</a><span> total military and civilian dead on both sides of the 38th Parallel. </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70f3f270-edea-479a-81fa-38a301e7fe5e_1200x1232.png" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/70f3f270-edea-479a-81fa-38a301e7fe5e_1200x1232.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1232,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":652,"bytes":824610,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="400" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70f3f270-edea-479a-81fa-38a301e7fe5e_1200x1232.png" width="390" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We
like to think of our system as one in which the supremacy of civilian
leaders acts as a rational, moderating force on military decisions. The
needless atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — against the wishes
of World War II’s most revered military leaders — tells us otherwise. </p><p><span>Sadly,
the destructive effects of the Hiroshima myth aren’t confined to
Americans’ understanding of events in August 1945. “There are hints and
notes of the Hiroshima myth that persist all through modern times,”
State Department whistleblower and author Peter Van Buren said on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIK8p-5DTV4" rel="">The Scott Horton Show</a><span>. </span></p><p><span>The
Hiroshima myth fosters a depraved indifference to civilian casualties
associated with US actions abroad, whether it’s women and children
slaughtered in a drone strike in Afghanistan, </span><a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/iraqi" rel="">hundreds of thousands dead</a><span> in an unwarranted invasion of Iraq, or a baby who dies for </span><a href="https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/advocates-of-economic-sanctions-mirror" rel="">lack of imported medicine</a><span> in US-sanctioned Iran.</span></p><p><span>Ultimately,
to embrace the Hiroshima myth is to embrace a truly sinister principle:
That, in the correct circumstances, it’s right for governments to
intentionally harm innocent civilians. Whether the harm is inflicted by
bombs or sanctions, it’s a philosophy that </span><a href="https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/advocates-of-economic-sanctions-mirror" rel="">mirrors the morality of al Qaeda</a><span>. </span></p><p>That’s
not the only thread connecting 1945 to 2023, as Truman’s insistence on
unconditional surrender is echoed by the Biden administration’s utter
disinterest in pursuing a negotiated peace in Ukraine. </p><p>Today,
confronting an adversary with 6,000 nuclear warheads — each a thousand
times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan — Biden’s own
stubborn perpetuation of war puts us all at risk of sharing the fate of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s innocents. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p><em><strong>Don’t miss the next enlightening article from Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey</strong></em></p></div><div class="subscribe-widget" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-center--SQPji"><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__container--OfBh4"><form action="/api/v1/free?nojs=true" class="form frontend-components-free_email_form-module__form--LDIzl" method="post" novalidate=""><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__sideBySideWrap--yhsgv"><input class="pencraft frontend-components-free_email_form-module__emailInput--BLQGf" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..." type="email" /></div></form></div></div></div></div></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="subscribe-widget" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-center--SQPji"><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__container--OfBh4"><form action="/api/v1/free?nojs=true" class="form frontend-components-free_email_form-module__form--LDIzl" method="post" novalidate=""><div id="error-container"></div><div class="subtle-help-text below-input frontend-components-free_email_form-module__links--G_QlQ"></div></form><div class="frontend-login-typo_handler-EmailTypoHandler-module__animationWrapper--UT0du"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F69111382-9310-4ee3-b482-13fe90717f8c_1500x500.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/69111382-9310-4ee3-b482-13fe90717f8c_1500x500.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":485,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":664,"bytes":98546,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="133" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F69111382-9310-4ee3-b482-13fe90717f8c_1500x500.jpeg" width="400" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4 class="header-with-anchor-widget">Let’s eradicate the Hiroshima myth: Please share this article</h4><h4 class="header-with-anchor-widget">https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/hiroshima-nagasaki-bombings-were <br /></h4><span style="color: red;"><b> Please share this.</b></span>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-14461623918678304852023-07-22T17:03:00.000-04:002023-07-22T17:03:03.305-04:00How to Recognize Propaganda | Cold War Era Educational Film | ca. 1957<iframe width="508" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ATY0KhMSOfY" title="How to Recognize Propaganda | Cold War Era Educational Film | ca. 1957" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><p><br /></p><p>This Cold War era film – originally titled as "Defense Against Enemy Propaganda" – is an episode of the U.S. Army's "The Big Picture" television series. It was released in circa 1957.<br /><br />This film examines enemy propaganda and its danger to American way of life. It is an absorbing film presentation set in an exhibit room containing examples of media such as pamphlets, posters, broadcasts, and photographs, which were used by the enemy (primarily by the Soviet Union) to disseminate propaganda. A member of the Office of Special Warfare, whose job it is to recognize propaganda, describe its purpose, and discuss the methods of dissemination that may be utilized, narrates this film as stock footage and original shots of enemy propaganda are shown. The film concludes with the lesson that the best defense against enemy propaganda is the ability to recognize it for what it really is – lies and distortion with little or no basis in fact.<br /><br /><br />HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT<br /><br />Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented. Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.<br /><br />In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term. A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites.<br /><br />The West and the Soviet Union both used propaganda extensively during the Cold War. Both sides used film, television, and radio programming to influence their own citizens, each other, and Third World nations. The United States Information Agency operated the Voice of America as an official government station. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which were, in part, supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, provided grey propaganda in news and entertainment programs to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union respectively. The Soviet Union's official government station, Radio Moscow, broadcast white propaganda, while Radio Peace and Freedom broadcast grey propaganda. Both sides also broadcast black propaganda programs in periods of special crises.<br /><br />(Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass, or misrepresent the enemy. Black propaganda contrasts with grey propaganda, the source of which is not identified, and white propaganda, in which the real source is declared and usually more accurate information is given, albeit slanted, distorted and omissive. Black propaganda is covert in nature in that its aims, identity, significance, and sources are hidden.)<br /><br />When describing life in capitalist countries, in the US in particular, propaganda focused on social issues such as poverty and anti-union action by the government. Workers in capitalist countries were portrayed as "ideologically close". Propaganda claimed rich people from the US derived their income from weapons manufacturing, and claimed that there was substantial racism or neo-fascism in the US.<br /><br />When describing life in Communist countries, western propaganda sought to depict an image of a citizenry held captive by governments that brainwash them. The West also created a fear of the East, by depicting an aggressive Soviet Union.<br /><br />George Orwell's novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are virtual textbooks on the use of propaganda. Though not set in the Soviet Union, these books are about totalitarian regimes that constantly corrupt language for political purposes. These novels were, ironically, used for explicit propaganda. The CIA, for example, secretly commissioned an animated film adaptation of Animal Farm in the 1950s with small changes to the original story to suit its own needs.<br /><br /><br />How to Recognize Propaganda | Cold War Era Educational Film | ca. 1957<br /><br />TBFA_0151<br /><br /><br />NOTE: THE VIDEO REPRESENTS HISTORY. SINCE IT WAS PRODUCED DECADES AGO, IT HAS HISTORICAL VALUES AND CAN BE CONSIDERED AS A VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. THE VIDEO HAS BEEN UPLOADED WITH EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. ITS TOPIC IS REPRESENTED WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT. THE VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAIN SENSITIVE SCENES AT ALL!</p><p>Please share this.</p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-16326401354329824582023-07-13T16:21:00.000-04:002023-07-13T16:21:03.151-04:00WEF Klaus Schwab<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzlJBj-7Rs1q1eCJw4bkkuvpssNeiWlJUo4iCCibVkHtfx1n1_Z7smKUzBae2NRvpLc1zhgXyioSe_ijAftfA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />Please share this.alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-26296651458970110992023-07-09T19:22:00.003-04:002023-07-09T19:22:52.340-04:00St. Maria Goretti<iframe width="702" height="395" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FjuZJQdEcdg" title="St. Maria Goretti" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><p>Please share this.</p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-61494795034706133072023-06-09T20:57:00.001-04:002023-06-09T20:57:06.959-04:00Sleep is your superpower Matt Walker<iframe width="677" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5MuIMqhT8DM" title="Sleep is your superpower | Matt Walker" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Please share this.alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-86947552055080812312023-05-22T15:41:00.005-04:002023-05-22T15:41:28.234-04:00Canada's got a drinking problem — and one senator says Ottawa needs to step up<p>The federal government pitched a sizeable increase to the alcohol
excise tax earlier this year — only to walk back that commitment in
response to backlash from some MPs, lobby groups and cost-conscious
Canadian drinkers.</p><p>Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's budget kept the annual tax increase much lower than inflation — it'll <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-alcohol-producers-excise-tax-1.6798484">grow by just 2 per cent</a>
this year — after a well-organized letter-writing campaign convinced
the government that the political repercussions of such a hike weren't
worth the relatively modest revenue bump.</p><p>There was similar
blowback when the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
recently issued new drinking guidelines that claimed <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drinking-health-risks-study-1.6565723" target="_blank">no amount of alcohol is safe</a>.</p><p>The recommendation prompted <a href="https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2023/01/ontario-canada-new-alcohol-guidelines/">derision</a>
from some who said the health professionals behind the research are
fun-averse teetotalers bent on needlessly worrying people about the
risks of wine, beer and spirits. The government-funded data still hasn't
been posted publicly by Health Canada.</p><p>These incidents reveal
just how deeply entrenched alcohol is in Canadian life — and how
reluctant the government is to crack down on drinking.</p><p>"You
know, alcohol is the favourite substance of many policymakers and
indeed for a lot of us. It has sort of an iconic cultural status.
Politicians — they don't want to do much about it," said Dr. Tim Naimi,
the director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the
University of Victoria.</p><p>"It's the leading cause of preventable
death in Canada. It's the government's job to protect Canadians from the
tremendous harms caused by alcohol. For some reason, they feel
threatened by the facts."</p><p>At least one politician wants to do something to curb consumption.</p><p>Quebec Sen. Patrick Brazeau is a recovering alcoholic. His <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brazeau-court-tuesday-assault-1.3228567">struggles with addiction</a> have been well-documented.</p><p>Sober for three years, Brazeau now wants other Canadians to avoid the potentially life-altering effects of alcohol abuse.</p><p>"If
you had told me 10 years ago I'd be sober and introducing a bill to
label alcohol products, I would've told you you're crazy,"
Brazeau told CBC News. "I was drinking way too much because I was
hurting inside. I was trying to kill the pain."</p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full"><div class="placeholder"><img alt="Senator Patrick Brazeau is seen sitting during an interview." height="225" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6850188.1684534411!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/patrick-brazeau.jpg" style="aspect-ratio: 1.7765 / 1;" width="400" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Sen. Patrick Brazeau has introduced Bill S-254, which would mandate health labels on all alcohol bottles. (Olivier Hyland/CBC News)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Brazeau said alcohol is the only known carcinogen that comes without warning labels.</p><p>He's introduced Bill <a href="https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/s-254">S-254</a>, which would mandate health labels on all alcohol bottles alerting consumers to the possibility of cancer.</p><p>Tobacco, vape and cannabis packages are already plastered with dire warnings, he said, and alcohol shouldn't get a pass.</p><p>"There's still a lot of taboo around alcohol — it's so widely accepted in our society," he said.</p><p>"But
alcohol is not good for us and we have to stop pretending that it is.
[It] doesn't seem there are too many people on Parliament Hill, elected
officials, who are willing to take the bull by the horns and do
something."</p><p>According to data collected by Naimi's institute,
about 25 per cent of Canadian drinkers have no idea that alcohol can
cause seven fatal cancers.</p><p>Other jurisdictions have tried to publicize these risks.</p><p>Dozens of <a href="https://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.55920">countries around the world</a>, including the U.S., already require health labels.</p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full"><div class="placeholder"><img alt="Alcohol bottles with warning labels are pictured at a store in Whitehorse, Yukon." height="225" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.5562091.1684534629!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/labels.jpg" style="aspect-ratio: 1.7765 / 1;" width="400" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Liquor
labels, including one warning that alcohol can cause cancer, were
placed on alcohol containers at a store in Yukon by researchers. (Supplied by Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Researchers in Yukon placed warnings on liquor bottles in 2017.</p><p>The results were immediate — <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-alcohol-warning-labels-study-results-1.5556344">sales dropped by 6.6 per cent</a> at
a Whitehorse store as more consumers saw the prominently placed red
labels. The project was scrapped amid pressure from some industry
groups.</p><p>A spokesperson for Spirits Canada, a lobby group that
represents the distilled spirits industry, did not respond to a request
for comment on Brazeau's bill. Beer Canada has said the industry can <a href="https://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/2023/01/17/canadas-alcohol-industry-says-warning-labels-about-health-risks-unnecessary.html">regulate itself</a>.</p><h2>A cash cow for governments</h2><p>Governments depend on liquor sales to generate billions of dollars in revenue to fund public programs.</p><p>The federal and provincial governments <a href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230224/dq230224a-eng.htm">earned an eye-popping $13.6 billion</a> from alcohol sales in 2021-22, according to Statistics Canada.</p><p>Drinkers — about <a href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/211220/t001c-eng.htm">76 per cent</a> of all Canadians consume alcohol in a given year — are understandably reluctant to pay more for a product that, statistics <a href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/211220/t001c-eng.htm">show</a>, many regularly enjoy.</p><p>Some drinkers
also bristle at the suggestion that moderate consumption is a problem,
and defend alcohol as one of life's little pleasures.</p><p>While much
attention has been paid to the ongoing opioid epidemic — a tragic health
event that has claimed the lives of thousands of Canadian drug users —
publicly available data reveals there's a parallel crisis underway.</p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full"><div class="placeholder"><img alt="A man is seen holding a can of corn." height="225" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6850211.1684535690!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/tim-naimi.jpg" style="aspect-ratio: 1.7765 / 1;" width="400" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Dr.
Tim Naimi, the director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use
Research at the University of Victoria, holds a can of corn. He says
food packages contain nutritional information and alcohol bottles should
be no different. (Michael Mcarthur/CBC News)</figcaption></figure></div><p>"The opioid epidemic is a massive public health problem, but we have a very serious problem with alcohol, too," said Naimi.</p><p>"It's
just that alcohol has been with us for a long time. We've essentially
learned to live with a high rate of problems from many, many years."</p><p>Canada recorded 3,875 alcohol-induced deaths in 2021, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada — a <a href="https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/2877-dry-february-you-say">21 per cent increase over 2019</a> that likely was driven by a pandemic-related spike in consumption.</p><p>Other Canadian research suggests alcohol is even more deadly than those numbers suggest.</p><p>A
peer-reviewed study published by the Public Health Agency of Canada
suggests alcohol consumption in Canada is associated with approximately <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publications/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice/vol-40-no-5-6-2020/alcohol-death-hospital-admissions-prevented-pricing-taxation-policies.html">15,000 preventable deaths</a> (including 7,000 cancer deaths) and 90,000 preventable hospital admissions every year.</p><p>(Preventable
deaths from alcohol are defined as alcohol-related cancers,
cardiovascular disease, liver disease, unintentional injuries and
violence.)</p><p>Those
numbers closely track what's been reported in the U.S., a country with a
population almost ten times that of Canada. The United States
reports about <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html">140,000 alcohol-related deaths</a> each year.</p><p>While
the government has rolled out a suite of policy measures to curb
opioid-related deaths — there are more safe-consumption sites now and
naloxone kits are ubiquitous — it's said comparatively little about what
can be done to reduce alcohol-related death and disease.</p><p>Data shows that about 20 per cent of Canadians reported alcohol consumption that classified them as "<a href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-625-x/2019001/article/00007-eng.htm">heavy drinkers</a>," according to Statistics Canada.</p><p>The
numbers are higher in Newfoundland and Labrador (27.7 per cent) and
Quebec (21.2 per cent) and lower in Manitoba (16 per cent) and Ontario
(17.3 per cent).</p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full"><div class="placeholder"><img alt="A person's purchases are seen in a shopping cart at a government-run liquor store in Vancouver." height="285" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6850215.1684535946!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_780/bcgeu-job-action-20220819.JPG" style="aspect-ratio: 1.40272 / 1;" width="400" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption">A
pandemic-driven boom in alcohol-related deaths and disease has prompted
health advocates to call for warning labels on alcohol bottles. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Over
the past decade, about 600,000 Canadians have become physically
dependent on alcohol — a condition that can lead to injuries, violence,
alcohol poisoning, risky sexual behaviour, heart disease, stroke, liver
disease, cancer and mental health problems.</p><p>While alcohol is a cash cow for all levels of government, researchers say that profit is dwarfed by other costs.</p><p>The
provincially owned Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the world's
largest alcohol importer, generated an annual dividend of roughly <a href="https://www.lcbo.com/content/dam/lcbo/PDFs/AnnualReport/LCBO%20FY2021%20ANNUAL%20REPORT%20-%20FINAL%20ENGLISH%20-%20AODA%20COMPLIANT.pdf">$2.4 billion</a> in 2020-21.</p><p><span class="text-items"><span class="pullquote-quotation">I have 26 years left in the Senate so I'm in it for the long haul.<svg class="pullquote-quotation-close" height="22px" viewbox="0 0 52.157 39.117" width="23px" x="0px" y="0px"><g><g></g></g></svg></span></span></p><blockquote class="pullquote"><span class="text-items"><cite class="pullquote-source">- Sen. Patrick Brazeau</cite></span></blockquote><p>By comparison, the collective impact of alcohol use on health care, crime and lost productivity has been pegged at an estimated <a href="https://www.ccsa.ca/lost-productivity-due-substance-use-cost-canadian-economy-224-billion-new-report">$22.4 billion a year</a> —
a figure higher than the costs of tobacco use and the costs of all
other psychoactive substances combined, including opioids and cannabis —
according to research by Naimi's institute in Victoria.</p><p>"This is a
big ticket item. Taxpayers are footing the bill for what amounts to ...
a subsidy on alcohol and heavy drinking in particular," Naimi said.</p><p>A
spokesperson for federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn
Bennett said the government will "continue to monitor" Brazeau's bill as
it makes its way through Parliament.</p><p>As for the charge that it
hasn't done enough to curb problem drinking, the spokesperson said
"alcohol use is a serious and complex public health and safety issue."</p><h2>Government won't support bill, Brazeau says</h2><p>The
government is investing in programs to prevent alcohol use during
pregnancy, funding substance use and addiction support programs,
restricting alcohol content in some beverages and financing research,
the spokesperson said.</p><p>Brazeau knows he's facing an uphill battle.</p><p>In a meeting with Bennett, the minister told Brazeau the government likely won't support his bill, he said.</p><p>He's also routinely approached by lobbyists who are intent on killing the legislation, he added.</p><p>Brazeau
said he's getting some support from other senators to push the
legislation to committee — but he's not naive about the challenges that
lie ahead in taking on such a popular vice.</p><p>"I have 26 years left in the Senate so I'm in it for the long haul," he said.</p><p>Referring back to his now infamous <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trudeau-stops-brazeau-in-charity-bout-1.1220147">boxing match</a> with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Brazeau said, "I'm not afraid of getting in a fight or getting knocked around."</p><p>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-canada-alcohol-problem-health-warning-labels-1.6850180 <br /></p><span style="color: red;"><b>Please share this.</b></span>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-39383740682222249512023-05-07T00:01:00.000-04:002023-05-07T00:01:00.129-04:00Fr. Chad Ripperger on the Levels of Spiritual Warfare<iframe width="677" height="381" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6uFZA88SnQs" title="Fr. Chad Ripperger on the Levels of Spiritual Warfare" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Please share this.alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-79153650133670975832023-05-05T15:45:00.002-04:002023-05-05T15:45:23.716-04:00"Woke, a culture war against Europe"<p>We are in an informational civil war and James Lindsay is a general. Must watch speech <br /></p><p>James Lindsay discusses that woke ideology is an evolution of Marxism, designed to attack the West and transform societies through tactics similar to Maoist cultural revolutions. By using Americanized identity categories and provoking middle-level violence, it seeks to dismantle Western civilization. Europe must understand the nature of this threat to effectively respond, as giving in or overreacting could lead to dire consequences. The ultimate goal of this movement is to establish a global citizenry, focused on global responsibilities rather than rights, creating a future that resembles China's oppressive regime. It is crucial to fight back against this movement by understanding and identifying the true nature of the enemy.<br /><br />Lindsay is the perfect example of why it's important to judge people by actions, not labels. He is an atheist, but his morals align with that of a god fearing man.<br /><br />March 30, 2023 "Woke, a culture war against Europe" Identity and Democracy Foundation https://id-foundation.eu and MEP Tom Vandendriessche at the European Parliament<br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="378" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iE4MmscK44k" title="We are in an informational civil war and James Lindsay is a general. Must watch speech" width="672"></iframe><br /><br />Transcription:<br /><br /><br />Hello, thank you. I'm glad to be here. I want to address something Tom just said, which is in fact that Woke is supposed to advance equity in Europe. So here's the definition of equity and see if it sounds like a definition of anything else you've ever heard of?<br /><br />The definition of equity comes from the public administration literature. It was written by a man named George Frederickson and the definition is:<br />- An administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal.<br /><br />Does that sound like anything you've heard of before? Like socialism, they're going to administer an economy to make shares equal? The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property that they redistribute the type of shares they're going to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material capital.<br /><br />And so this is my thesis: when we say what is woke, woke is Maoism with American characteristics. If I might borrow from Mao himself who said that his philosophy was Marxism, Leninism with Chinese characteristics, which means woke is Marxism and it's a very provocative statement. It's something you will certainly hear. It is not that it is different and the professors and the philosophers will spend a large amount of time explaining to you. Why? No, no. It's about economics when it's Marxism, this is social, this is cultural, this is different. It's not different.<br /><br />I need you to think biologically for one moment. And I don't mean about your bodies. We could do that. That's a different topic. I want you to think how we organize plants and animals. When we study them, they're species but above species, they are the genus of the animals. So you think like the cats, all the cats, but you have tigers, you have lions, you have house cats, you have whatever leopards, many different kinds of cats. If we think of Marxism as a genus of ideological thought, then classical economic Marxism is a species radical. Feminism is a species in the same genus. Critical race theory is a genus or sorry. A species in this genus. Queer theory is a species in this genus, postcolonial theory. That's plaguing Europe is a species in this genus and they have something that binds them together called intersectionality that makes them treated as if they are all one thing. But the logic is Marxist and I want to convince you of that because Marx had a very simple proposition, but we get lost. We think that Marx was talking about economics because he often talked about economics. He wrote a book called Capital. It's a very famous book. And we think, well, this is about economic theory, but this isn't true. It, it's only true on the surface. If we go below the surface, what Marx was talking about was something different.<br /><br />We know what Marx's hypothesis was, was that we must seize the means of production. If we're going to bring socialism to the nations, to the world, we have to seize the means of production. So we have to ask, what does he mean? And if we think that it's about capital, then we miss what he means. If you think it's about the means of production in the factory with a hammer and the means of production in the field with a sickle, then you miss what it means because Marx explained what makes human beings special in his earlier writings and what makes human beings special is that man is a being that is incomplete and knows that he is incomplete. He is a man whose true nature has been forgotten to him, which is social being.<br /><br />He is a socialist at heart who doesn't realize it. And the reason he doesn't realize it is because of the economic conditions operating as a means of construction or production, not just of the economy, but of him, but of man, of society and particularly of history.<br /><br />Marx said that he had the first scientific study of history. How is history produced by man doing man's activity and man's key activity was economic activity as he saw it. And so economic production doesn't just produce the goods and services of the economy, it produces society itself and society in terms produces man. He called this the inversion of practice.<br /><br />And so when he says, we must seize the means of production. And he's talking about factories and fields, he's actually talking about how we construct who we are as human beings so that we might complete ourselves, so that we might complete history. And at the end of history, mankind will remember that he is a social being and we will have a socialist society, a perfect communism that transcends private property is how he put it.<br /><br />He said in fact that communism is the transcendence of private property as human self estrangement. That's a quote from the economic philosophic manuscripts of 1944 18 44. So Marx was interested in controlling or understanding and controlling how man produces himself. And he writes about this exclusively in the 18 forties very deeply.<br /><br />How do we do this? And he looks at the economic conditions and he says this is where it is. And that's why we get economic Marxism. And that's why we think Marx was an economist, but Marx was never an economist. He was a theologian. He wanted to produce a religion for mankind that would supersede all of the religions of mankind and bring him back to his true social nature. And this is the true fact of Marx.<br /><br />And what the goal was like I said is to complete man. So what he said is, well, how are we building man? Currently, all of his economic analysis is about how are we building man at present through what he called material determinism. And he said, well, what we have is a special form of private property in our society. Our society is organized around private property. And so all of our thoughts organize around private property.<br /><br />In other words, there's a special kind of property that the bourgeois elite class has access to. And then they organize society to exclude everybody else from access to that property, through exploitation, through alienation, through estrangement, through oppression.<br /><br />And so what Karl Marx was proposing is the economics becomes a vehicle to separate society into a bourgeois class that has access to a special form of property. The people who have access wish to retain that. So they oppress people and keep other people out of that special form of property. They erect a system of classism to do that. It's enforced by an ideology called capitalism that believes that this is the right way to engage in the world.<br /><br />And what we have to do is awaken the under class, the proletariat to the real conditions and the fact that they are historical agents of change and bring them to do a revolution and transform society so that we would have equity or socialism, whichever word you want, they have the same definition.<br /><br />Now, let's say that we step out, we, this is we, we step back from this species, this economic species, homo economicus. And we step back to the genus. And we look at this idea, a special form of property that segregates society into people who have the bourgeois and the people who do not have, who are in class conflict with an ideology that keeps this in place and the under class must awaken with consciousness to fight back and to seize the means of production of that form of deterministic property.<br /><br />And now we say change out class put in race and watch. We get. Critical race theory falls out of the hat just like that. Very simple.<br /><br />In 1993 Cheryl Harris wrote a long article for the Harvard Law review called Whiteness is property. She explained that whiteness or White privilege constitutes a kind of cultural private property. She says it must be abolished in order to have racial justice, just like Karl Marx said that in the Communist Manifesto, he wrote communism can be summarized in a single sentence, the abolition of private property.<br /><br />Well, that is why critical race theory calls to abolish whiteness because whiteness is a form of private property. People who have access to this property are whites or white adjacent or they act white. These are words out of the American lexicon that they've used to describe how how people gain access to the private property people without that are people of color and they are oppressed by systemic racism.<br /><br />Systemic racism is enforced by an ideology of white supremacy instead of capitalism. If you think of whiteness as a form of cultural capital, white supremacy as they define, it is identical to capitalism, it's the belief, it's not believing that white people are superior. It's believing that white people have access to the control of society and should maintain that even if you don't actually believe that if you merely support that you have adopted the, the ideology of white supremacy into your mind. And so you have the exact same system. And the goal is to awaken a racial consciousness in people so that they will band together as a class and seize the means of cultural production so that white cultural production is no longer the dominant mode.<br /><br />It's a big mystery in Europe. I know in the UK throughout Europe. I hear this question again and again, why on earth is this very American phenomenon about slavery and so on? That doesn't apply to our country? Why is it popular here? It's because it's not about history at all. It's not about slavery at all. Those are excuses that they use. It's about creating a class consciousness that's against this form of property called whiteness, that's against the dominant culture. That may just be a matter of fact say if you're in Europe, that's why because it becomes a site by which people can come together and they can channel resentment and try to claim power.<br /><br />I wrote a book called Race Marxism and I defined Critical Race Theory as it really is in that book. On the first page. I said that critical race theory is calling everything you want to control racist until you control it. But couldn't we say the same about Marxism? It's calling everything you want to control bourgeois until you control it. But those mean the same thing, they mean exactly the same thing.<br /><br />But what about say queer theory, how is that Marxist? It's very strange. All this gender and sex and sexuality. Well, Tom said, what is woke attack? The idea of being normal? Well, the queer theory thinks that there are certain people who get to set the norms of society, they are privileged, they call themselves normal. They say this is normal. It's normal to consider yourself a man and look like a man and act like a man and dress like a man and eat meat like a man. And then there are women that should be feminine and pretty and all these things. And so they get to define what's normal. They're heterosexuals. So they get to define the heterosexuality as normal and other sexualities are abnormal. And so you have a conflict across this cultural property of who gets to be considered normal and who is a pervert or a freak or some other term that gets used in their literature, but technically who is a queer, which sounds like a slur, but they adopted it and it's a technical academic term. Now, it means an identity without an essence, by the way, an identity that is strictly oppositional to the concept of the normal, as defined by queer theorist David Halperin. In his 1995 book, Saint Foca Toward a Gay he Geography. I didn't make that up. I'm not extrapolating.<br /><br />So you see queer theory is just another species of the genus of Marxism. What about postcolonial theory? Which is plaguing Europe? Thanks to Franz Fanon and his biggest European fan. Jean Paul Sartre. What about this? What's the same? You have the West as the oppressor, they have access to the material and cultural wealth of the world because they've decided their culture is the default and have gone and colonized the world to bring culture to the world as they say. And so the oppressed the, the, the the natives around the world, the people have to band together and their activity is going to be called decolonization. They have to remove every aspect of Western culture.<br /><br />So when they come to Belgium or they come to France or they come to the United States and they say we're going to decolonize the curriculum or they go to the UK and say we're going to decolonize Shakespeare. This is what they mean. We're going to remove the cultural significance of your cultural artifacts because those cultural artifacts themselves are oppressive to us.<br /><br />This is the same system. It's another species and the exact same genus and that genus is Marxism, which is a way of thinking about the world. And the goal is always to seize the means of control of the production of man and history and society. Marx merely believed it was through economic means. Now it's through socio-cultural means.<br /><br />The evolution into this sometimes called Western Marxism began in the 19 twenties. We had a Russian revolution in 1917 and this did not happen in Europe and the Marxists in Europe were confused. And so Antonio Gramsci sat down and wrote out some things and George Luca sat down and wrote history and class consciousness after the failure of the revolution in Hungary. And they wrote what became Cultural Marxism, the idea that we have to enter the cultural institutions in order to change them from within because Western culture has something about it that's repelling socialism. So we have to go inside and change the culture to make it socialist.<br /><br />Now you aren't allowed to talk about Cultural Marxism. Now they've categorized this as a conspiracy theory. They say that it is anti-Semitic, this is not true. Antonio Gramsci wrote books. George Lucas wrote books, you can read those books. They have a philosophy. If they don't like the name Cultural Marxism, we can use the name that other people at the time used Western Marxism.<br /><br />So much like, uh I don't know, a virus adapting to the conditions, it changed, it changed to try to infect a new host. It worked in feudal societies. Marxism took over in Russia. It took over later in China, it took over in all of these kind of agriculturally driven feudal societies, but it wouldn't work in actual capitalist nations because Marx was wrong.<br /><br />Then several Germans from the Frankfurt School started to study this phenomenon in more depth. And they evolved the idea further. They evolved the idea into what's called critical Marxism. They developed what's called the critical theory. And Max Horkheimer, who designed the critical theory, explained the critical theory. And what did he say?<br /><br />He said, well, what we came to realize was that Marx was wrong about one thing. Capitalism does not immiserate the worker, it allows him to build a better life. So I developed the critical theory because it is not possible to articulate the vision of a good society on the terms of the existing society. So critical Marxism criticizes the entirety of the existing society. Everything is somehow needing to be subjected to Marxist conflict analysis. But how is that to be done?<br /><br />They sought an answer through the middle part of the 20th century and World War Two breaks out. The Frankfurt School comes to America, which in this metaphor is the Wuhan Institute of Virology because gain of function began to happen on the Marxist virus very quickly in America and American universities adopted these professors from Germany and Herbert Mara.<br /><br />Writing in the 19 sixties said extremely clearly this writing in 1969 not only did he say capitalism delivers the goods, gives people a good life, makes them wealthy and comfortable and happy. He also said that the working class is no longer going to be the base of the revolution because of these things. In other words, we don't have to be responsible to the working class anymore, which opens up the ability for Marxists who are seeking power to make friends with the corporations, the bosses are no longer the enemy. They're an opportunity because the working class is irrelevant.<br /><br />He said the energy is somewhere else. He said it's in the racial minorities, the sexual minorities, the feminists, the outsiders, that's who he said have the energy for a Marxist revolution in the West, not the working class. And so Marxism was able to evolve to abandon the working class. And so what did they do? Well, all they had studied for 30 years was what they called the culture industry. An industry that commodifies and packages culture and sells it back to people. So supposedly stripped of what it actually is empty, abstract now.<br /><br />And so what of course did they do? They seized the means of production of the culture industry because that's what they do. And so they started to transform the culture industry to sell racial, sexual gender, sexuality based agit prop as though that were genuine culture. And so we get concepts like cultural appropriation, we get concepts like cultural relevance, cultural, this cultural, that cultural everything and it's all provided in past, it's all provided as a mockery of what's really going on.<br /><br />And this evolved in America's highly racialized context. And we ended up with woke, a form of identity based Marxism, a constellation of Marxist species that all work with the same operating premise, but locate themselves in different and I'll use the German term here for this folk. LGBTQ is a folk and they get folkish identity there and become activists. The black community is a folk. How do I know? That's what W E B. Du Bois said it would be when he laid down the foundations that became critical race theory later. They think of themselves as nations, don't they all have flags? Don't they put them on your buildings like colonizers, don't they hang them in your streets?<br /><br />They think of themselves as occupying nations, but they see themselves as bound together just like the various colonized nations around the world and seeking liberation from Western civilization. And so we end up with Western Marxism taking many forms, but with one overarching approach and the approach that they use, I started off by saying, is Maoist not merely Marxist.<br /><br />Now, you know, the theory is Marx, it's just evolved into different species to attack the West at its weakest points through our tolerance, through our acceptance, through our openness, through our generosity, through our best traits. Actually, the things that we should be proud of being, the things that we are proud of being.<br /><br />But Mao Zeon knew how to use identity politics. I don't know how you study in Europe. But in America, we have very red washed education, as we might say, the communists have stripped out all education about communism entirely. You don't learn about it in America at all. So we don't learn anything about Mao and maybe you don't know this.<br /><br />But I tell this to American audiences and they're shocked, Mao used identity politics. He created 10 identities in China, five he labeled red for communist, and five he labeled black for fascist. And he categorized people into these identity categories. What they are doesn't really matter. Of course, they were communists. They were things like landlord and rich farmer and things like this right winger is a bad category in and of itself by the way, conservative. All of them bad, bad influences. That's another one.<br /><br />You could be a bad influence for just thinking the wrong thing or saying the wrong thing at any time or because the government decides it doesn't like you. These are the bad categories. And if you have a bad category, very importantly, your children have a bad category by default. So they create a social pressure for your children to identify as revolutionaries. At which point they get a red identity, a communist identity, a good identity and they get rewarded for it.<br /><br />And the youth led the revolution in China because Mao did this identity politics to the children in the schools that should feel very uncomfortable to you. Because here we have, at least in the United States, we tell our children being white is bad, being white is oppressive. You automatically hurt people of other races by your very existence. But by the way, if you become queer, we'll celebrate you and you can create a radical army of people who identify as gender minorities and sexual minorities.<br /><br />At seven years old, you can lead them into paths of puberty blockers in transition, medical transition, which of course big pharma profits off of at seven years old behind their parents' back. There's a reason for this. It's the same program that Mao Zedong used to radicalize the youth in China.<br /><br />The only thing different is the identity categories have shifted. It's Maoist cultural revolution with American characteristics and it's being exported to Europe. And just like how critical race theory has come to Europe, even though it doesn't make sense, it will come to Europe whether it makes sense or not. And you will have a cultural revolution here too. You guys even had a kind of offshoot one in 2020.<br /><br />George Floyd dies in Minnesota, which has nothing to do with you, and you guys have statues coming down in Europe. Total nonsense. It doesn't matter though, the point is to destroy Western civilization from within using Maoist's techniques. One last point about Mao to kind of drive that point home: Mao said in 1942 that his formula to transform China was called unity, criticism, unity. First, you try to create the desire for unity, then you criticize people for not living up to that, then you bring them into unity under a new standard.<br /><br />Does that feel like what you're being put through? But the words are different. We use words like inclusion and belonging. We'll have a place where everybody feels like they belong. We just want to have an inclusive space. But unfortunately, you have racist ideas and you have to criticize for you. We have to criticize you for those, you need to criticize yourself. For those, you need to go study in Mandarin exactly like Mao said and then we can bring you into unity under a new standard which Mao called socialist discipline, which we in the West would not buy, we call it in the West inclusion.<br /><br />And so we have this new program and within inclusion, we have or above inclusion. Actually, we have sustainability. We have a sustainable and inclusive future. I see the agenda 2030 here with an X over it, the sustainable and inclusive future is the new socialist standard that we will have freedom under socialist discipline. And Mao said the way that that will work is through what he called democratic centralism. We call that stakeholder capitalism. And my shot at the World Economic Forum is taken because it's one of the things coordinating this.<br /><br />My shot at the United Nations is taken because it's one of the things that's coordinating this so woke is Marxism. It's advancing through Maoist cultural Revolution. It's using Americanized identity categories. And while some of those will not work in Europe, I guarantee you the colonial aspect will, they will find your weakness. They will adapt the theory to fit because it's like a virus that will evolve to its host and Europe is at great risk.<br /><br />Now, the last thing I'll mention is this risk is twofold when you endure Marxist provocation, Marxist strategy is always of the same type. It's called middle level violence. They don't come at you with full blown Bolshevik assault very often. It's middle level violence they provoke which means if you give in and you do like Jean Paul said in his foreword to the wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon, the postcolonial book. He said the violence is coming. So Europe's best bet is to give it away so that they don't kill you, they'll murder you and take it or maybe you can give it away, give your culture away, give your countries away and they'll let you live. They're coming for you and this is what Europe needs to learn.<br /><br />That's what he says in the forward of wretched of the earth, you can read it for yourself probably in the original French that I can't read. And I think that's the path Europe has followed. So you can give away, that's one side because they provoke at the middle, or you can react and overreact, which sadly Europe has had a rough history in the last century with overreactions. And if they, if you overreact, what will they do? They will weaponize your overreaction for a century, forever, and gain moral authority so that you end up having to give it away later anyway.<br /><br />So you have to stand firm in your principles, but you have to do so cleverly. You have to do so understanding that you're being provoked, which means you don't react as the provocateur wants you to react; you have to outsmart them, which is not possible unless you know the diagnosis of your problem. It's a Polish Proverb: never attempt to cure what you don't understand.<br /><br />Woke is Marxism evolved to attack the West. If you don't understand that, you will not act correctly, you will not cure it, and it will conquer your countries, it will conquer all of Europe, and we will have a very, very long sustainable and inclusive future with absolutely no freedom because the goal is to make us into what they call global citizens.<br /><br />Have you heard this term? This term? Is nonsense. There's no global sovereign. So there is no global citizenship. There's no relationship because there's no ruler, and we don't want a ruler of the globe. It's a nonsense term. But they tell you if you actually read their literature, what is a global citizen? It's somebody, I kid you not, I make no joke. They say this themselves. It's somebody who supports the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030. That's a global citizen.<br /><br />And they say, what are the rights of a global citizen? This is in a book about global citizenship education published two years ago. What are the rights of a global citizen? And the answer, one paragraph later, is we're not that interested in rights with global citizenship. It's more about global responsibilities. In other words, slavery, this is a pivotal moment in the history of the Western world.<br /><br />The model that they are pushing us to, using the means and mechanisms of that place, is the model we see in China. If you want to know what your future looks like if we don't stop the woke, look at China, look at the social credit system, look at the oppression, look at people disappearing for having the wrong opinions. One of their greatest billionaires, Jack Ma, said the wrong thing about the government and disappeared. A billionaire. If you want to know what the future of Europe and America and the Five Eyes or whatever the countries, it's China.<br /><br />That's the model. So we have to fight back against woke, but to fight back against woke, we have to understand it. And I will close by restating my thesis: woke as Marxism evolved to take on the West. And it's been very successful so far because we haven't known our enemy. We cannot name our enemy. And I've come here to name our enemy. So thank you for your time and attention and letting me do that.<br /><br />Please share this.</p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-78256682562396718572023-05-03T12:26:00.003-04:002023-05-03T12:26:53.241-04:00How to Defeat the Woke Apparatus<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_zXH4IwtbaZHs2WZLfrEZ5WYHPHzoIzoKoKmhgDOr5lMfKGk7jT6SGPafJ4DURaxBg4nJY_3WRBAKiT-S65YrsSgc9MncH7xEWkXMDE7-cuv4rU2E1jxNlMz_dK-61vDVvgrPW1NzWFoM54U8LIw-D9He587ru5HHPk1vV6T4NzUS9KP3B6SalY68YA/s700/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_zXH4IwtbaZHs2WZLfrEZ5WYHPHzoIzoKoKmhgDOr5lMfKGk7jT6SGPafJ4DURaxBg4nJY_3WRBAKiT-S65YrsSgc9MncH7xEWkXMDE7-cuv4rU2E1jxNlMz_dK-61vDVvgrPW1NzWFoM54U8LIw-D9He587ru5HHPk1vV6T4NzUS9KP3B6SalY68YA/w400-h240/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Have you ever wondered what the “woke” industrial complex actually means? Over the past century, several iterations of Marxism have been rolled out in a number of nations. In recent years, the woke movement in America has displayed eerie similarities to the language and behaviors associated with these Marxist doctrines practiced in autocratic regimes.<br /><br />While these modern forms of Marxism are riddled with internal contradictions, naive individuals can be deceived by their false promises of “liberation” from oppression and “social transformation.”<br /><br />The bottom line is that the woke movement attempts to reconstruct the moral foundations of the American republic in order to amass and consolidate power over others via fear. First, this secular theology seeks to dismantle the building blocks of society such as community, family, faith, free markets, and responsible liberty. It also attempts to emasculate good men and demean values-driven women—all to supposedly create a new, utopian world.<br /><br />“Wokesters” don’t wish to be empowered to govern themselves. That’s too difficult, because it requires discipline and intellectual inquiry, which can be uncomfortable. Wokeness demands that everyone adhere to an arbitrary vocabulary of convoluted phrases and words that are deemed “inclusive.” If some rebel against this bondage, they’re excommunicated. The capricious nature of the ideology is meant to keep people on their heels so that leftist elites can exercise an insatiable appetite for raw power.<br /><br />Disciples of wokeism utilize the Saul Alinsky playbook of targeting opponents, isolating them, freezing them, and then canceling them. It becomes an Orwellian world where vices are virtues and virtues are vices, lies are truth, and truth is a lie. In this fantasy, men can be women and women can be men. This inverted ideology manifests as transhumanism, which runs counter to universally accepted moral and natural laws. It’s the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde form of nature tampering.<br /><br />Wokeism’s primary tools of repression consist of manufactured grievances, economic ignorance, unearned entitlement, revisionist history (1619 Project), race- and gender-based employment quotas, and a perpetual victimhood mindset. In other words, folks who are attracted to this vision lack the ability to move beyond emotions to a realm of realism and reason. They’re doomed to repeat the history they never absorbed (George Santayana).<br /><br />Wokeists battle perceived racism with racism by evaluating folks by their skin color, ethnicity, or gender. This identity politics is the opposite of what Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela preached. Indeed, “progressives” peddle critical race theory and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) narratives, but essentially these theories are racist against Caucasians and Asians, who are considered to be “white adjacent.”<br /><br />Woke advocates for women’s rights are strangely silent regarding the suffering of women around the world. They also don’t lift a finger when female sports under Title IX are demolished by the transgender industry under the guise of equity and inclusion. There’s plenty of virtue signaling minus genuine virtues.<br /><br />Card-carrying members of “progressivism” often lack the curiosity to search for factual truths because moral relativism is their guide. For example, many believe that the AR-15 stands for assault rifle. It actually means ArmaLite Rifle, which was the firm that developed the firearm.<br /><br />Moreover, unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic mandates were coerced upon Americans while countless unlawful immigrants streamed into this country without vetting for health or security risks. To the left, criminals are treated as victims, while crime victims are regarded as criminals in this topsy-turvy world.<br /><br />These harebrained ideas have infiltrated many institutions and dumbed down society, especially in blue states such as California. Homelessness and lawlessness have flourished because of idiotic anti-law enforcement policies. Even liberal San Francisco has ousted its George Soros-funded district attorney, Chesa Boudin, and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón might face another recall election because of his soft-on-crime policies.<br /><br />Left-leaning moneyed elites who finance the woke apparatus would have us believe that the middle class and poor minorities have created the narrative of oppression in a free society. Hogwash! It’s narcissistic elites who focus on America’s past misdeeds instead of taking a balanced approach to the sweep of U.S. history. They’ve given up on the human race, taken their blessings for granted, and ignored the divine spark in every individual. They’re also immune to the repercussions of their dystopian edicts.<br /><br />Hoover Institute contributor and University of Toronto psychology professor emeritus Jordan Peterson was a liberal at one time. However, when the academic community began making demands such as requiring professors to use students’ preferred pronouns and write DEI statements as a precondition to receiving research grants, his eyes were opened regarding the insidious nature of the woke movement. Now, he’s a warrior for common sense and exposes the irrational narrative that has infected many of our key institutions.<br /><br />How can reasonable folks defeat the diabolical woke apparatus? Unfortunately, many young people are attracted to this form of socialist indoctrination because it appeals to the baser aspects of human nature.<br /><br />However, there’s hope because woke “revolutionaries” lack the attention span and dedication of genuine revolutionaries of the past who endured great suffering. It’s unlikely that hardcore leaders of the woke movement can be reasoned with, but the young fence-sitters might be persuaded to move toward reality. They’re still developing their philosophy of life and likely see facets of wokeism that just don’t compute. They seek answers in many of the wrong places but still question what they hear and see.<br /><br />First, decent folks with moral principles should never apologize to the woke crowd. It’ll only be perceived as weakness, and they’ll be eaten alive. Be fearless in exposing the corruption and hypocrisy of the entire woke propaganda. Get involved in the process of refuting it and replacing it with a more objective narrative concerning human nature, American history, and the importance of merit-based success instead of introducing new forms of discrimination. There are countless examples of self-initiated success regardless of color, creed, gender, or race.<br /><br />Next, seize opportunities to celebrate America’s tradition of natural diversity and systemic opportunity. Most folks understand that life is unfair for everyone and that maturation challenges shape character. We must teach this lesson over and over again to young people who are faced with conflicting messages from academia, government, and the legacy media.<br /><br />Third, get involved in the political process by attending meetings at all levels of government. If necessary, run for the city council, board of education, county board, state office, and Congress. Familiarize yourself with the work of the Leadership Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Turning Point USA, and Young America’s Foundation, among others. They all do excellent work in countering Marxist propaganda disseminated by the government, media outlets, and public education.<br /><br />If reasonable folks, across all points of the economic and political spectrum, carry out even some of these actions, the woke industrial complex will someday collapse under the weight of its internal contradictions. What’s at stake is the very heart and soul of the American republic.<p></p><p>https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-to-defeat-the-woke-apparatus_5218558.html?utm_source=OP_article_free&src_src=OP_article_free&utm_campaign=opinion-2023-05-03-ca&src_cmp=opinion-2023-05-03-ca&utm_medium=email&est=wJY%2BFviofHuuftr8MAqA06uWm5jQXVtDjbnjdhKj9hDFmlBAViyyTs5iFw%3D%3D <br /></p><p><span style="color: red;">Please share this.</span></p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-746604046733918602023-05-02T17:11:00.002-04:002023-05-02T17:11:35.415-04:00Adolf Hitler The Greatest Story Never Told (Full)<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/mZpeJkSNjcA3/" style="border: none;" width="640"></iframe>
This documentary like many others that are exposing the greatest lies of the 20th century surrounding the life and story of Adolf Hitler and WWII, has been deleted, blocked, and banned world wide not only on YouTube but also iTunes and other platforms. Such desperate attempts to keep the truth hidden from the deceived masses should be a major red flag for anyone who is seeking the truth and the escape from the web of lies and delusion that has been bestowed upon us.<br /><br />We have all been unfathomably deceived. Our enemies and the greatest threat to humanity - organized international Jewry, has concealed, through lies and deceit the most heinous crimes of theft, rape, sadistic torture and brutal and unthinkable murder of 10’s of millions of innocent men, women and children pre, during and after the so called “good war” - WWII.<br /><br />Please watch, share and repost this video to help expose the greatest kept secrets and the most unimaginable lies. Lets rise up together, as one, united against Jewish tyranny.<br /><br />"Lord God, give us the strength so that we may retain our liberty for our children and our children's children, not only for ourselves but for other peoples of Europe, for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for your German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind." - Adolf Hitler<br /><br />Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)<br />To support the amazing and incredible Dennis Wise and the team please visit http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/ for more information on this documentary and to order your HD hard copy please follow this link: https://twofilms.tv/the-greatest-story-never-told/ (they now accept credit/debit card again after their account was terminated by stripe for showing people this truth).<br />https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3526810/</p><p>Please share this.</p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082314896560496321.post-50050043504244281662023-03-11T18:09:00.001-05:002023-03-11T18:09:19.073-05:00Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Ivar Giæver Exposes the Pseudoscience of Global Warming<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="395" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a15EqcRl8W4" title="Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Ivar Giæver Exposes the Pseudoscience of Global Warming" width="691"></iframe><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #def1ff; color: #0f0f0f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.</span></p><p>Please share this.</p>alpha411nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05603062960909868865noreply@blogger.com0