REPUBLIC REBORN

Philip Giraldi’s latest piece at Unz looks at Israel’s overt spying on our own government, and our own government’s fear of doing anything about it.

Salient points: “The reality of Israeli large-scale spying in the United States is indisputable. One might cite Jonathan Pollard, who stole more highly classified information than any spy in history. And then there were Ben-Ami Kadish, Stuart Nozette and Larry Franklin, other spies for Israel who have been caught and tried, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. Israel always features prominently in the annual FBI report called “Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage.” The 2005 report states “Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States. These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel’s sizable armaments industry.” It adds that Israel recruits spies, uses electronic methods, and carries out computer intrusion to gain the information…

…So, did Israel really spy on Donald Trump? Sure it did. And Netanyahu is, metaphorically speaking, thumbing his nose at the American president and asking with a grin, “What are you going to do about it?””

Tulsi’s tweet from earlier today: “Trump awaits instructions from Saudi masters. Having our country act as Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not “America First”.” 

It was in response to this tweet from Trump:

“Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!”

Could you imagine a U.S. soldier going to war at the behest of a foreign power, much less a totalitarian fundamentalist hellhole like Saudi Arabia? This may very well happen if the warmongers are able to spin the Houthi attack on Saudi oil fields in an anti-Iran direction.

So the Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia on their home turf? Is it much of a surprise? Saudi Arabia, with the help of the US and Britain, has been pounding Yemen for several years, killing thousands of innocents, targeting port cities, municipal water supplies, schools, mosques, etc. So far, the Saudi’s have felt none of that war within their borders. Now they have. And now our government suddenly cares.

Saudi Arabia, like Israel, France, and every other country, isn’t worth an American life or an American dollar. Let the barbarians of the world fight their battles and massacre each other. U.S. soldiers don’t deserve to be sacrificed for the idiocy of our supposed allies.

Fascinating look into Buchanan’s writing world, including his admission that he writes his best at night, something I’ve heard from almost every writer when asked.

C-SPAN: Pat Buchanan on how he writes

Shocking, but is it really surprising? Joseph Wesbecker began taking Prozac just a month before his September 14th, 1989, mass murder that left 8 dead and 12 wounded. The survivors made the connection between his medication and the violent outburst, and sued Eli Lilly. The pharma company, in turn, paid those survivors $20 million in exchange for withholding damaging evidence from the jury about another drug that had been recalled earlier.

The mass shooters are almost always taking a cocktail of these insanity-inducing “anti-depressants”, and that fact is almost always suppressed.

Unbelievable. Blatant surveillance of a sitting President by a foreign power is ignored, because that foreign power happens to be Israel.

During the election, anti-Trumpers from all sides were warning that Trump would be a loose cannon, starting wars willy-nilly, and in all probability launch a nuke. Instead, almost the exact opposite has occurred. Trump has met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un three times, even becoming the first sitting President to walk within the Hermit Kingdom’s borders. He’s demanded an end to the twin military quagmires of Syria and Afghanistan, and came very close to hosting the Taliban at the White House. The same people pearl-clutching over Trump’s alleged war fever are now denouncing him for the attempt to meet with people rather than bomb them. Bombing them has not worked, clearly, and so talking with them would naturally be the only other option. Yet peace, when pursued by Trump, is unacceptable to his political enemies, regardless of how much carnage and death would result from their satisfied collective ego.

There is much about Trump to criticize, but his detractors appear to oppose his every action out of spite, even if he does something that aligns with their political or moral beliefs. Trump is against war? Then they are for it. Trump throws out chickenhawk warmonger John Bolton? Then they screech into the blue about the injustice of it all. The insincerity has entered the surreal, and revealed that vanishingly few with a platform hold any hard and fast principles.

Vaccine Impact has the details.

In response to any criticism of current vaccine policy, the polio vaccine inevitably gets dragged into the debate by the pro-vax side. What they don’t understand, because they’ve never bothered to find out, is that the polio vaccine, from the 50’s to the present, has a history that does not help their argument for vaccine safety. One historical tidbit left out of the discussion is that the polio virus used in the vaccines was cultivated on monkey kidneys, a process thought to be harmless at the time. It turned out not to be harmless, because the monkeys were infected with simian virus 40, and passed it on to 90 million Americans via Jonas Salk’s vaccine. SV40 is a prime suspect as the cause of mesothelioma, a fast-moving, lethal cancer that suddenly appeared sometime after 1950, one that kills around 3,000 Americans each year.

Another historical episode that never seems to make it into any discussion is the Cutter Incident, which refers to the mass vaccination campaign of 200,000 children in 1955. The problem was that the polio virus had been improperly inactivated, resulting in vaccine-induced polio in over 40,000 children, including many deaths.

Something else that is interesting: the monkeys used to culture the polio in mass quantities necessary for vaccine production were infected with simian immunodeficiency virus, similar to the human immunodeficiency virus, of which there is no documented case in a human before 1959. Vaccine scientist Hilary Koprowski conducted polio vaccine experiments in Africa between 1957 and 1960, administering his experimental vaccine to over 300,000 equatorial Africans. His vaccine was never approved. The first known case of HIV was eventually traced to a patient that visited a clinic that administered Koprowski’s experimental vaccine in 1959.

From the SF Chronicle

The observation that voters who are closely wedded to a single political party will usually blindly follow that party on any issue, regardless of what it concerns, is fairly common. This instinctual herd behavior has probably contributed to our survival as a species in a fundamental way, but it’s nevertheless disheartening to see it in action in regard to politics. For example: the Iraq War of 2003 was universally seen as a Republican war, because it was a Republican White House that launched it and expanded upon it. Republican voters virulently defended the actions of their President, no matter how often destructive to liberty or peace. It was mindless support.

Now, if the Iraq War had been launched by a Democratic President, it would be the mass of that party’s voters who would have been unconditionally defending every overseas atrocity. They would have defended the Patriot Act, rather than oppose it, it a Democratic President had signed it. Because we humans are hardwired for a religion of some type, we fill that need with whatever doctrine is most emotionally satisfying, one that everyone takes part in.

I say this due to the fact that the Democratic Party of various states appears to be the sole driver of vaccine mandates. California is in the news for its recent legislation that severely weakens the ability of a medical doctor to write a vaccine exemption for a child that the doctor deems to be at risk for injury. But Democrats have traditionally been the party that questioned the power of corporations, and sought to weaken those corporations’ hold upon government and the public. But we see Democrats voting unanimously to force a pharmaceutical product on citizens who would rather abstain. They are granting a corporation vast power and wealth, while it is the Republican Party, traditionally seen as the pro-business party, is the one attempting to stave off this massive attack on the ability to choose what is injected into our bodies.

The Democratic Party has been the defender of “my body my choice”, which is a wonderful slogan. Just imagine where that simple motto would take you if extended to every area of life! That affirmation of bodily sovereignty should be extended to an inject-able pharmaceutical product, but because the pro-vaccine hysteria has short-circuited the critical-thinking capacity of so many, it is ignored, or downplayed. The “greater good” argument has been used by corporate-captured legislatures to thrust upon the public vaccine mandates, while remaining willfully blind to the dangers of those vaccines.

Which brings me to my final point: people are stubbornly immune to facts that contradict the tenets of their political herd. Beliefs that they’ve tethered their emotions to, even false beliefs, will be clung to, and no amount of evidence will change their minds. Which is fine for the most part. We all have unfounded beliefs that might not stand up to scrutiny. My problem is with the blindly-held beliefs in the political realm that affect everyone via legislation. They believe that their beliefs should be forced upon others, that their ideas about the appropriate direction for all of society should be mandated. That’s our primal nature, though, to feel a desire to force our beliefs on others. But it’s also in our nature to thrive in an environment of liberty, where force is removed from our interactions with others. It is the sole duty of government to ensure the elimination of force. Any action beyond that makes the government an instrument of someone else’s desire.