Is it possible to trust the CDC on the topic of vaccine safety, given the fact that they spent over  $5 billion in 2018 on vaccines? Their budget was increased to $5.9 billion in 2019.

It’s time to admit that there is no way that the CDC will ever seriously entertain or discuss concerns regarding vaccine safety given this massive conflict of interest.

I had a feeling that it would come to this.

It would be a terrible tragedy if it were to happen, and it puts Trump’s family in danger as well. My question is: did Trump think through his decision to assassinate an immensely popular Iranian military leader? Does he believe that, because he is President of the United States, that he is somehow invincible, or safely shielded from a more personal revenge attack on the part of Iranian assassins? I think of the car bomb placed under the vehicle of the captain of the USS Vicennes, the warship that shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, killing 290 people. Thankfully the car bomb didn’t achieve it’s objective of killing the captain, although it did almost kill his wife. The point being that it borders the impossible to protect against assassination, no matter how powerful the nation in which you serve happens to be. This seems to be something that our leaders should take into account. If they don’t care about the consequences of their actions for this country, they should at least worry about their own hide, and that of their family and friends.

Iran won’t soon forget the murder of Soleimani, and their revenge unfortunately may take the form of targeted strikes rather than all-out war.

Science Mag: FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law: “CONGRESS APPROVED THE CREATION OF ClinicalTrials.gov in 1997, after allegations that patients were harmed because companies withheld evidence showing their medicines were ineffective or hazardous. A widely cited case involved the GlaxoSmithKline antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine). According to legal filings and a report in The BMJ, the firm held secret data showing that in clinical trials the drug was ineffective and caused suicidal thoughts in teenagers, yet encouraged doctors to prescribe it for young people…

…Among more than 4700 clinical trials examined by Science, less than 45% had their results reported early or on time to ClinicalTrials.gov.”

PHILIP GIRALDI: Who targeted Ukraine Airlines flight 752? Iran shot it down but there may be more to the story

KELLEY VLAHOS: Yes, conservative vets want out of Afghanistan, too

Reason: Does letting police enter your house give them permission to wreck it?

Spiked: Unlearning the lessons of Prohibition

Mises.org: California’s anti-self-employment law is already crushing freelancers

PR Newswire: Tamiflu fraud bilked $1.5 billion from federal gov’t, alleges whistleblower

H/t Facebook page, ‘Malarkey’:

The best take so far on the ridiculously biased treatment against Sanders, in favor of Warren:

Oregon activists are currently gathering signatures to get the Psilocybin Services Act on the ballot in the state, which would allow licensed facilities to administer psilocybin on site in a safe and supervised environment. The movement has also earned the support of Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenaur, who was a vocal proponent of marijuana legalization.

Psilocybin has proven its power as a true “anti-depressant” that has succeeded where other, synthetic Pharma drugs have failed. The FDA has called it a “breakthrough therapy” for depression, and has shown an 80% success rate in smoking cessation. A psilocybin nasal spray has also been developed to treat PTSD and depression. This is truly unbelievable. Really, we need to pause and appreciate what is happening. The dogma of a century regarding drug prohibition is crumbling like a salt idol in Gomorrah. People are shaking off the chains they didn’t even know were there, and taking back their lives and their liberty.

We are living in strange, fascinating, and wonderful times. We have all witnessed a true miracle within the last three years: the cascading legalization of cannabis, along with the beautiful, blossoming innovation and entrepreneurship that has followed. It’s a real-world miracle for hundreds of thousands of people, and if everyone would stop looking to the sky or the government for miracles, they would see it as such.

The Psychedelic Renaissance is here. Pharma is a dinosaur, and their poisoned pill mills will follow them into extinction. The people will soon have easy and cheap access to an even greater variety of real medicine, and real healing will begin to occur. We are witness to a turning point in human evolution, in the sense that we are becoming more human. Yes, that is very optimistic, particularly so given the fact that many of us are addicted to various apocalypse prophecies, an admittedly very human trait. But the world is getting better. Contra Greta Thunberg, this past decade has been the most prosperous, strange, and interesting, that our species has ever created. We are living through an historical and evolutionary turning point. Maybe it’s more like a hockey stick. Let’s pause to appreciate that, and assist this free evolution as far and wide as possible.

The CNN moderator’s openly hostile treatment of Sanders during the most recent debate, attempting to brand him as a sexist by continuously referring to comments that he’s never made, and consistently denied, is bizarre to say the least. CNN used fabricated comments supposedly made by Sanders telling Elizabeth Warren that women can’t get elected President. It’s ironic, considering Warren’s well-established record of lying about almost everything, including her heritage (she claimed that she was Native American for decades), that she was fired from a teaching position because she was pregnant, and that she was never a Republican.  CNN’s behavior during the debate should once and for all expose the network as a tool for the Democratic party establishment, all of whom clearly hate Sanders and wish to snuff out his momentum once and for all. I imagine it will backfire.

From page 83 of volume 2 of his wisdom-packed trilogy, Law, Legislation, and Liberty:

“While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”

I have to say that the term “centrism” is really nothing more than a euphemism for someone who compromises their principles and those of their voters. Voters can’t get excited for someone like that, and why would they? Voters want someone with a spine, someone who won’t compromise. Pay attention to Grant’s rant about all the great centrists throughout history. His point is that there are none. A “centrist” stance aids your enemy, and centrism as a Democratic strategy will ensure that Donald Trump handily wins a second term. And due to this “centrism or nothing” strategy, the Democratic party is going to throw away their chance to nominate Tulsi Gabbard, the greatest Democratic candidate in my lifetime and no centrist at all but a person of principle. The party would prefer to lose to Donald Trump than elect a candidate that they can’t control. How pathetic.

The Intercept: Full Disclosure: News Pundits’ Hidden Arms Industry Ties: All those war cheerleaders on television are employed as lobbyists for the weapons industry.

Unz: Did Pompeo dupe Trump into the Soleimani hit?

BONNIE KRISTIAN: Escalation breeds escalation, in Iran and beyond

PHILIP GIRALDI: America the repugnant. Assassinating foreign leaders is an act of war.

Reason: “It’s a lie, but it’s fun”: An officer’s falsified report leads to a man’s suicide

American Spectator: Virginia’s giddy gun controllers

Miami New Times: Medical marijuana could replace opioid use, according to FIU study

Australian Financial Review: Psychedelic drugs could be the next medical breakthrough