Fort Worth PD has a Barney Fife with Punisher delusions, apparently, and it has now cost a woman her life. The woman had been playing a video game with her 8-year old nephew when they heard a noise coming from outside the home. The noise turned out to be a badged psychopath who began screaming at the woman, who was still inside her home, just before opening fire through the window, killing her. Now the boy will grow up with this hideous experience in the midst of the national pastime of rampant cop worship.

19-year old Harry Dunn was driving his motorcycle near a military base on August 27th when he was struck head-on by Anne Sacoolas, wife of a US diplomat, killing him. Because Sacoolas is American, and was probably drunk, she had been driving on the wrong side of the road at the time. She claimed diplomatic immunity and fled the country in an act of abject cowardice. It has now become an international incident, with Dunn’s parents unrelenting in their pursuit of justice for their boy. It has become an international incident, with the British public as well as many in the US demanding justice for Dunn. England now says that Sacoolas’ return to the UK is “non-negotiable‘, as her diplomatic immunity privileges have been revoked, but should never have been invoked as a shield against the consequences of killing someone in the first place.

The arrogance of the Political Class is on display here. Sacoolas believed she could get away with the killing by using her credentials as a member of the political establishment. Dragging her back to England to face justice would at least remind others in a similar station that they are not above the law.

One more point: some have said that the guilt and grief felt by Sacoolas will haunt her for the rest of her life, and will be punishment in and of itself. I disagree. I don’t know Sacoolas, but I’ve known people who have no capacity to feel guilt, remorse, or grief. Most of us have probably been acquainted with someone at one point in our lives who clearly has only their own interests at heart, and would sleep well regardless of whatever atrocity they inadvertently caused that day. These people are preternaturally skilled at making convincing displays of guilt and remorse once they’ve been caught, but only then. If they can get away with it, then they go on as if nothing has happened. Just look at OJ Simpson, who appears well-fed and well-rested and with untroubled mind every time he appears in public. No person with functioning emotional capacity could endure the ensuing inner darkness after committing such an act.

Why not allow Sacoolas to be extradited and tried in England? If found guilty, as she would certainly be, why not toss her in an English prison for a year or two? It would be long enough to ponder the meaning of her actions, to think upon the death that she caused.

Del Bigtree has a good segment up on the appalling treatment of a mother and her unvaccinated son by Pharma sycophant Tamron Hall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iViUKu5RFo4

A core tenet of the vaccine orthodoxy is that we would be overrun by medieval disease were it not for the heroic efforts of the vaccine schedule, and of the upstanding citizens who go under the needle for the sake of herd immunity. If that is the case, what about all the infectious diseases for which no vaccine exists? Why don’t we feel for scarlet fever the same superstitious fear that smallpox and polio conjure in the public mind? Scarlet fever racked up a body count far higher than both smallpox and polio before the end of the 19th century, at which time mortality an complications from the disease suddenly and dramatically declined. Without the aid of a vaccine, too, which is fundamental to understanding the deception behind modern vaccine orthodoxy.

The deception is this: that vaccines have anything at all to do with “herd immunity”. If they were society’s sole bulwark against infectious disease, we’d have been overrun long ago. There exist far more dangerous infections that we presently have a vaccine for, yet we aren’t constantly victimized by pandemics.

At best, vaccines are conferring little to no immunity to the recipient. At worst, vaccines are condemning children to living with a wrecked immune system, as the inoculation tricks the body into manufacturing antibodies against proteins that are widespread throughout the itself. All in the service of a false ideology.

A relatively plain truth is that if vaccines were safe and effective, no mandate would be necessary. People would sign up without any cajoling, shaming, or bullying. Only dangerous, defective products need expensive propaganda campaigns to trick the public into making a purchase, and the public quickly realizes they’ve been scammed. Of course, that is when coercion enters the picture. Government mandates are then rolled out, drafting the public into a domestic campaign that few, if any, have any faith in. Rather than abandoning the misbegotten policy, government doubles down, because they’ve got too much riding on the enterprise for it to fail.

The introduction of coercion is an admission of failure, whether in a war abroad or a domestic public policy. If the public will only participate when they’re looking down a barrel, it’s time to cut your losses.

Lucy Steigerwald has a thoughtful piece published at Antiwar.com, delving into the significance of friendships between members of the upper crust who superficially appear to have nothing in common. But they do have something in common, they are both initiates of the Political Class, a group for which party, policy, right and wrong have no meaning. Money, power, and influence is what matters to them.

Should war criminals be forgiven, or shown courtesy, if they can affect a hokey, warm demeanor? How much should charm be taken into account when weighing the amount of contempt directed at someone? Charming people can get away with a lot. Some can even get away with instigating a two-decade war of attrition against the poorest of the Mideast, as part of a national act of revenge.

Steigerwald makes an important point about guilt:

“Only a handful of people ever grasp that the small, bureaucratic parts they play in war or surveillance count as a moral failing. Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg understood it, and risked his freedom for it. Chelsea Manning has sacrificed hers. Edward Snowden left his home, perhaps permanently, in order to try to save it from the war-fueled surveillance state. The late Congressman Walter Jones went from being the architect of the embarrassing “freedom fries” name change on the cusp of the invasion of Iraq to a man permanently guilty about his part in a terrible wrong – as he should have been.

This is not through a desire to see Jones (or anyone else) suffer. His guilt spoke to his character. He was a good enough man to realize that he couldn’t fix what he had helped break, but that it was an obligation to try to alleviate some of that subsequent suffering.”

A capacity for guilt, and the ability to face the actions that led to that guilt, is a hallmark of good character. Does Bush feel even a modicum of the guilt that Jones did? It is doubtful, and no amount of country charm can make up for it.

The end result of a continuous propaganda campaign on behalf of vaccines is this: someone who, even after experiencing a terrifying reaction, still urges others to get the jab and possibly experience the same reaction, but in a much more dangerous setting:

This right here is the power of propaganda on the human mind. This girl experienced first-hand what many have been saying for years: that vaccines can and do cause serious harm. In her case it’s not hearsay or misinformed moms chatting on a social network, as we’ve been told. She had a near-death experience as a direct result of a flu shot, and yet she continues to advocate for the very thing that almost killed her.

h/t Hear This Well

Pat Robertson is a perfect example of someone who professes a deep faith in God yet has made it his mission in life to do the Devil’s work. He has always loved war, and has loved it even more so when it’s been Republicans instigating and escalating it. He’s clearly insane, but has in the past been useful when the Christian conservative mob needed to be brought into the pro-war fold. Bush trotted him out occasionally to spread the Imperial gospel, which he did with fervor. Now he declaims that Trump will lose his “mandate of heaven” if he ends US involvement in the blazing dumpster fire that is Syria. Oh really. A war that has nothing to do with the security of the United States, a war almost of nihilism, and yet to Pat we must remain, and for him even God himself has some interest in the outcome. There is a point that a public figure reaches, when they’ve held views so utterly antithetical to their professed spiritual or moral beliefs, that at some point one can only conclude that they are entirely devoid of conscience or character. A person with a capacity for guilt, which I believe to be the defining trait of a true human, can’t keep up the act for so long. There would be a visible deterioration etched on their manner, and it would only end with a suicide or some grand repentance followed by monasticism. Pat, despite the encroaching dementia, is positively cheery when talking up war. He probably sleeps like a baby every single night. And somehow these are the psychopaths with access to the powerful.

A huge fuss is currently being made over the Constitutional rights of the “whistleblower” who outed Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president. That this concern is being felt by the corporate news media for some presently unknown individual should raise eyebrows. If they truly cared about the rights of a whistleblower it would definitely be a first, and that fact alone should make us hesitate before placing this person in the same hallowed group occupied by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Joe Wilson, John Kiriakou, and other actual heroes. The aforementioned were not treated well at all by the same media goons currently howling about justice over the White House leaker who of course turned out to be a CIA agent, and who is now safely nestled back at that murderous agency.

The corporate media doesn’t care about whistleblowers. In fact, they actively seek to demonize, smear, and convict them at every possible turn. That they are now coming to the defense of some individual whom they’ve deemed a whistleblower suggests that this person isn’t one.

How many corporate outlets reported on the September 27th death of Joe Wilson, the person who blew the whistle on the yellowcake uranium fraud used to con the public into supporting a tragic war in Iraq?

How many of these propagandists are using airtime to talk about Chelsea Manning’s plight, or that of Julian Assange? We know the answer, and we know why. Because they don’t care about true whistleblowers. The corporate news outlets serve the permanent structure of power, and they will defend any attempt at dismantling or exposing it. In this sense, then, the White House leaker is an anti-whistleblower, because Trump, at least in this case, is seeking to expose just one instance of the unbelievable corruption that is typical among our Political Class.

To label this CIA spook a whistleblower is to steal the valor of all the courageous whistleblowers who have sacrificed their freedom so that the American people would know the truth about the crimes their government commits in their name.

…is from a 2001 article, “Personal Hygiene and Life Expectancy Improvements Since 1850: Historic and Epidemiologic Associations”, appearing in the American Journal of Infection Control:

“Between 1850 and 1900, the commonly recurring epidemics of cholera, smallpox, malaria, and typhoid were gradually brought under control. During the next 50 years, gratifying victories over such endemic diseases as tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, and scarlet fever were witnessed. These diseases were less dramatic than epidemics, but each was among the leading causes of death before 1900. By the middle of the 20th century, except for the 1918 influenza pandemic, death from infectious disease in Western industrialized countries was no longer a major component of mortality statistics.”

Vaccines have today been mythologized, and it is just assumed that they saved humanity from infectious disease. The historical record, never referred to by the acolytes and evangelists of the vaccine mythology, contradicts that assumption. Vaccines had nothing to do with the sudden, dramatic decline in infectious disease. The true cause of the decline was the enormous advances in hygiene and sanitation that occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The purification of public water supplies that was widely adopted after 1910 in the United States caused an immediate and dramatic decline in mortality rates of such waterborne diseases as diphtheria, typhoid fever, cholera, and others.

Yet the pushers of vaccine myths are not in pursuit of truth, but of power. The public mythologizing of vaccines serves an agenda, one that, in turn, serves industry, and the various agencies that protect it.