Lew. as your posted Political Theatre blog noted, CNN commentator Van Jones stated on Monday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin were not found guilty of killing George Floyd, America would be in a “dangerous position as a country.”  Van Jones is a Communist. If you want to see the virulent anti-Trump regime media in all its hateful and venomous glory, look no farther than this self-proclaimed radical communist activist and agent provocateur who was appointed by Barack Obama to serve as the Obama administration’s “Green Czar”. He announced his resignation at midnight, September 6, 2009 after a series of controversies over past inflammatory statements.

Jones was a founding organizer and leader of the communist revolutionary organization, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).

The organization had its roots in a group protesting “U.S. Imperialism” during the Persian Gulf War of 1991. The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM’s influences as “third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism).”

STORM’s own literature describes its “Maoist orientation” which conducted “a group reading of Mao’s On Practice and On Contradiction.” The group studied Lenin’s theories of the state, revolution, the party, and “the political ideas of Mao Tse-tung.”

STORM’s own history further states, “We also pushed at or went beyond the limits of the traditional Marxist canon, studying such topics as revolutionary feminism, the Palestinian liberation struggle, transgender liberation, methods of evaluation, self-care for cadre and revolutionary mass [community] organizing.”

STORM was extensively involved in the community organizing movement. In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were co-sponsors of the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a left wing anti-Semitic front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party (WWP).

On April 29, 1992, more than a year after the founding of STORM, members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots.

The RCP is known as the premier Maoist party in the United States. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP, which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods, circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled It’s Right To Rebel, a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead and more than 2,300 people injured.

While studying law at Yale, Van Jones traveled to San Francisco in the spring of 1992 when the leftist Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hired several organizers to be on hand for the trial of policemen charged with the beating of Rodney King.

Jones was arrested in the aftermath of the riots. While in jail Jones is said to have experienced a jailhouse conversion to communism although the record shows Jones founded STORM a year earlier as a communist organization.

Adapted from the Van Jones reference on Conservapedia.

There are the important questions which matter and should be asked of anyone who discusses “politics.” Unfortunately, most people are oblivious to seeking these deeper insights. They are deferential to what they learned in school and from their peers, from their willfully ignorant parents, and from the regime media.

They are unaware of the post-WWII creation by the National Security State of synthetic “liberal” and “conservative” ideological movements which sought to rationalize the projection of power and hegemony of the American empire. The American people have been pawns on the deep state’s chessboard for seven decades. — Charles Burris,  How the CIA Bamboozled The Public For 70 Years

Here is a select retrospective of my LRC contributions which explore this connection between political ideologies and the intelligence community.

Old Right, New Right

The Phony Legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr.

“I’m Convinced That The Whole National Review Is A CIA Operation” — Murray Rothbard

Our Establishment Church: Its Rules and Credo

Servants of the Empire

America’s Synthetic Political Ideologies At Home And Covert Intervention Abroad

Conservatism: Roots and Essence

Liberalism: Origins and Corruption

Western Liberalism

“Political Identity Theft”

Who Was Eric Voegelin?

Eric Voegelin and the New Gnostic Religion of “Intersectionality”

A Crash Course on Progressivism

The Racist Roots of Progressivism

Ideas Have Consequences

National Socialism and the Occult

Ideas Continue To Have Consequences

Épater le bourgeois

The True Face of the Left Revealed

Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America

Cultural Maoism

The Left and the Art of Political Witch-Hunting

Leftist “Strategy of Provocation” Agitprop Returns Masquerading As “News”

Foxes, Badgers, Weasels, Skunks, and Wolves

Tucker Carlson – Warren Commission Stooge and Deep State Shill

Industrial Policy = Fascism

Down The Orwellian Memory Hole

Government: The Deadliest Scourge

“The national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy was one of the pivotal events in our lifetime, and it continues to have an adverse impact on American life today,” noted Jacob G Hornberger.  Accordingly, the Future of Freedom Foundation has been conducting The National-Security State and the Kennedy Assassination, an on-going, multipart series of excellent online webinar presentations by authoritative experts concerning different related facets of this seminal existential event which forever changed subsequent world history. Four superb webinar presentations have been performed at this point which are readily available online.

I specifically want to call your attention to one presentation by Douglas Horne on the JFK Medical Coverup, which I have posted above. It is powerful and meticulously documented. Viewing it could prove to be one of those decisive ‘red pill’ moments I previously discussed here at LRC which will acutely alter or change your consciousness/world view and perceptions of how you see the world.

The speaker, Douglas Horne, will be participating in a live Q&A session relevant to this talk on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Registration is FREE. You may register here: https://www.fff.org/national-security…

Horne is the former Chief Analyst for Military Records for the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), established by the JFK Records Act of 1992, which was tasked with defining, locating, and ensuring the declassification (to the maximum extent possible under the JFK Act) of all Federal Records considered “reasonably related” to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Horne details the numerous anomalies and interrupted chain of custody and destruction of key evidence regarding the president’s body, in the autopsy report(s), the autopsy photo collection (particularly the JFK brain photographs), the deliberate alteration and forgery of the extant Zapruder film, and the supposed “magic bullet” found at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He is the author of the five volume book, Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK. Horne has also written the concise authoritative summary volume, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated.

Watch Douglas P. Horne’s definitive five part video documentary series which summarizes his exceptional research,  Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK, Assassination Medical Evidence.

• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence Part 1 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence Part 2 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 3 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 4 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 5 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Final Report of the Assassinations Records Review Board
• Photographic Evidence of Bullet Hole in JFK Limousine Windshield ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ — Douglas P. Horne article
• The Two NPIC Zapruder Film Events: Signposts Pointing to the Film’s Alteration — Douglas P. Horne article
• The Zapruder Film Mystery — Documentary

While serving as chief analyst of military records at the Assassination Records Review Board in 1997, Douglas P. Horne discovered that the Zapruder Film was examined by the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center two days after the assassination of President Kennedy. In this film, Horne interviews legendary NPIC photo interpreter Dino Brugioni, who speaks for the first time about another NPIC examination of the film the day after the assassination. Brugioni didn’t know about the second examination and believes the Zapruder Film in the archives today is not the film he saw the day after the assassination. Drawing on Volume 4 of his book Inside the ARRB, Horne introduces the subject and presents his conclusions.

Former Pfizer VP Sounds Alarm: COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign “Madness” That May Be Used For “Massive-Scale Depopulation”

Thanks to Monnie for sending this chilling expose of the “evil” devouring us, as the “former Pfizer VP” puts it. He adds, 

…if someone wished to harm or kill a significant proportion of the world’s population over the next few years, the systems being put in place right now [of compulsory vaccination] will enable it.

It’s my considered view that it is entirely possible that this will be used for massive-scale depopulation.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has surprisingly ruled against Trump’s bump stock ban that he sought after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. The case began as Gun Owners of America, Inc. v. Barr, but is now known as Gun Owners of America, Inc. v. Garland, since it is now the Biden Justice Department that is the one defending Trump’s sweeping use of executive power.

How quickly people forget when Republicans enact gun control policies and laws. How many people remember when Republicans in Florida increased gun control laws after the Parkland shooting in 2018? It is a myth that Republicans are in favor of gun rights. They just don’t want to appear as bad as Democrats on the issue.

“The U.S. command that oversees Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Delta Force and other covert warriors has hired its first ‘chief of diversity and inclusion.'” Your beloved U.S. military is sure going down fast.

One of America’s greatest contemporary historians offers excellent insights and observations on the true role authentic history plays in shaping and enhancing our lives.

Any fool can write history, and many do.  Please do not assume that I mean by this statement to vaunt the “expert” and slight the amateur.  In writing history the amateur is sometimes gifted, and there is no more pestiferous fool than the smug, pretentious “expert” who thinks of his own mind as the repository of ultimate truth.  What a good historian most needs is not “expertise” but the qualities we look for in a juror: intelligence and an inclination to avoid snap judgments and get to the bottom of things, to weigh evidence honestly, and to imagine times and places that are no longer recoverable in the flesh.  No juror can entirely escape his own bias, but some are a lot more honest and fair than others.

Anybody who has been following the pronouncements that have been issuing from the mouths and word processors of professors of history (and official government historians) in recent years ought to be disabused of trust in the competence and good faith of “experts”—even if he has not seen firsthand the gutting of graduate education that has been taking place.  There was a time when professors of history, whatever their viewpoints and degrees of talent, had to have proved themselves by the rigors of primary research and literate, balanced exposition.  Increasingly they are just people who stayed in school a long time and learned the fashionable attitudes that entitle them to become spokespersons for the ruling party.  The juror has been replaced by the commissar.

Young people should not study history for final answers but to expand consciousness.  History is (properly) about human life—about the conflict of human perspectives, experiences, and values.  On all human experience there is always the possibility of a differing  perspective.  Even the “facts” are often not as solid as they seem, having been selected out of a host of possibilities.  Human life (and therefore history) is not a logical proposition, nor a source (chiefly) of entertainment, nor a mine of ideological precepts and pseudomoral judgments, nor a repository of accepted conclusions.   It is a drama taking place in the mind of God, and only He knows the end.  In a drama we look for a deeper meaning than “the facts.”  We look for understanding of the mystery of our existence.  Since we are human, all that is human should interest us.

The Mises Institute has created an excellent series of instructive videos to introduce the basic principles, concepts and ideas of Economics. This series succinctly provides brief overview presentations on these elemental features to students, parents, and anyone interested in how Economics impacts society. Each concise presentation is less than five minutes.

I taught Economics in a public high school setting for twenty six years and this series is an excellent introductory tool for exploring Economics.

In these days of government-mandated lockdowns, compulsory distance learning, declining school standards of rigor and academic excellence due to ideological indoctrination and bureaucratic malfeasance, more and more persons are abandoning the disintegrating tax supported compulsory government schools or are supplementing their children’s education and learning with innovative alternative instruction, at all levels from K-to college and beyond.

This series is a superb place to begin this transformative educational experience.

Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves, by Glenn Greenwald

Powerful media figures now invoke sexist and racist tropes to cast themselves as so fragile and marginalized that critiques of their work constitute bullying and assault.

Mike Carl sends an article “about the hazards of the antibody vaccine for Coronavirus.”

But it’s the video at the end of the piece for which we all owe Mike even more gratitude. The clip records observations by Robert Kennedy, and Mike transcribed those insights because he “wish[es] every American could hear or read what [Kennedy] says.The MSM certainly won’t report any of it.”

Herewith, Mr. K’s comments:

Governments have been trying for almost thirty years to develop a Coronavirus vaccine and its been unsuccessful. Beginning in 2002 there were three outbreaks of Coronavirus, called SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] and MERS [Middle East Respiratory Syndrome] at that point. The first SARS was a natural illness, transferred from bats to humans, the other two were made in a lab and escaped.

China and a consortium of western governments got together and put millions of dollars into an effort to develop a Coronavirus vaccine between 2002 and 2014. They developed about 35 vaccines and 4 of them were really promising. They gave those 4 to ferrets which have an upper respiratory system response to illness most like humans. The ferrets had a brilliant robust and durable antibody response. Then something horrible happened. When those ferrets were challenged, when they were exposed to the wild virus they got horribly sick. They got inflammation throughout their bodies and they died.

Those scientists remembered that something very similar had happened in 1960 where they had developed a vaccine for RSV [Respiratory Syncytial Virus] which is very similar to Coronavirus, an upper respiratory infection. They had skipped the animal testing and given the vaccine to 35 children. And the children developed a very robust antibody response but when those children were exposed to the wild virus they got very, very sick, much sicker than the unvaccinated children. And two of those kids died. It was a scandal.

And they realized when this same thing happened with the ferrets that it was something that they called Enhanced Immune Response. It’s also called pathogenic priming. What it means is that when you get the vaccine it appears that you have an antibody response, but when you actually encounter the wild virus you become much sicker, and it actually creates a pathway that that virus hurts you a lot more than with unvaccinated people. So this was 2012.

In 2014 NIH {National Institute of Health], under Fauci, developed a Dengue vaccine which had some signals in it that there was pathogenic priming. In other words, in the clinical trials they saw some signs that you could get an antibody response but get much sicker when you were exposed. But they ignored them and gave it to the Philippines and they gave hundreds of thousands of children this vaccine. And when the Dengue came around those children became horribly ill and 600 of them died.

And in the Philippines today people are being criminally prosecuted for that. So the danger of Coronavirus vaccine is that you really need to test on animals first to make sure whatever the vaccine, that we don’t get that really great immune response followed by lethal infections. And it’s very strange to me and seems almost criminally reckless that Anthony Fauci is allowing these companies to skip animal trials and go directly to human trials.

I continue to ask: wasn’t Mengele enough? Why do serfs allow their governments to intrude into medicine? Yes, governments promise to pay your doctor for you. But as politicians and bureaucrats often kill you in the process, is it worth it?

Every once in a great while I’ll catch a dude striding around Manhattan in a fur coat—and it always sets my teeth on edge. Unless you’re a trapper in 1850s Minnesota, leave the pelts to the ladies, gents.

Ditto for masks. Nothing unmans a guy more than a muzzle. Indeed, it prompts as much speculation about the wearer’s masculinity—or lack thereof—as does a mink.

Researchers now confirm what we have long suspected: the plastics comprising most masks shrink a certain male organ.

Yeah, I, too, am wondering how scientists could tell.

Nonetheless, one 

warns that humanity is facing an “existential crisis” in fertility rates as a direct result of the chemical phthalates, and most men may be infertile by 2045.

The lady advancing that claim has written a book about it, so perhaps she exaggerates a tad to help sales. But either way, her scenario is sobering; almost as catastrophic is the “staggering toll” 

Covid face mask pollution has already taken … on the environment, with an estimated 1.56 billion masks – “amounting to between 4,680 and 6,240 metric tonnes of plastic pollution” according to ecological experts – entering the world’s oceans in 2020.

So bare your face proudly and boldly! You’re not befouling the seas for posterity as are the Morons around you—and you’ll have posterity.

Thanks to the decidedly unmasked gentleman who sent me this story and whose eyes are teary from laughter.

And why communism will save you from it.  JP explains.

Several of LRC’s readers tell me that Basilico’s Pasta e Vino marries a love of liberty to delicious Italian food (but I repeat myself: what Italian food isn’t delicious?!). Dining on mediocre fare without masks or other reference to the plandemic would immensely hearten any Patriot; wedding that experience to fine food boosts the event to forever memorable!

Stephen agrees:

We celebrated my birthday there a couple of weeks ago and were again treated like human beings. 

How encouraging: an entrepreneur who manifests that he’s glad for your business instead of reacting as if you’re a leper!

Since the last time I was there, a new sign had been added on the door, highlighting Sheriff Richard Mack’s Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA). 

And Lee Olson “stopped in” 

a couple weeks ago … during lunch on my way home from a doctor’s visit in Corona Del Mar. 

As I was walking up to the entrance to Basilico’s Pasta e Vino, I noticed a young man working outside who appeared to be a staff member. I asked him (jokingly) if this was the rebel place. He replied in the affirmative. I then asked him if he was Tony (I’d not yet seen a photo of Tony). He joked back by replying that he was Sargent (so and so, I didn’t commit the name he gave to memory). It was so refreshing to be able to dine in peace. I ordered a salad. It was not only good but gigantic. It made for two delicious meals. I’ve been trying for a long time to get other local restaurants to follow Tony’s lead. Perhaps his video you linked will do the job. Restaurants are gradually opening reopening but not fully like Tony. …Tony has posted [signs] on the windows of Basilico’s Pasta e Vino declaring it a mask free zone. Masked Zombie’s are not allowed in.

Another reader asked whether Basilico’s delivers to the Midwest!

James Corbett joins Keith Knight of DontTreadOnAnyone to share moments in their life where they were “red pilled” on various issues. From identity papers and Obamacare to class warfare and the Salem witch trials of COVID-1984, this wide-ranging conversation shows how the scales fall from people’s eyes and how to capitalize on these moments of revelation.

What was your “red pill” moment(s) which prompted your awakening to the programed fake reality and ideological indoctrination which substantially altered/changed your consciousness/world view and perceptions?  Here are two of mine — 1, and 2.  Email me at anarchteacher@yahoo.com and share your story.

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Letter 1

From: Blake Anderson

Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2020 11:48 AM

To: wblock@loyno.edu

Subject: Self-Ownership and Argumentation

Hi, m name is Blake Anderson and I had some questions in regards to self-ownership.

In the argument for argumentation ethics and self-ownership, libertarians often demonstrate that the individual has exclusive control over themselves and therefore own themselves. To add on, they demonstrate that people presuppose certain norms during the course of argumentation, one of those norms being self-ownership and property rights. My question here is, how does one deduce self-ownership and property rights specifically from these agreed-upon ideas. Could we not be presupposing the norms put forth by philosophers such as Max Stirner in his concepts such as the ‘ownness’? Now I don’t necessarily agree with Stirner in his concept of ‘ownness’ but it seems you need to take a leap to jump from exclusive control over your body to property rights. So what exactly allows this jump to property rights from exclusive control? Does this idea simply presuppose property rights and then attempt to justify property rights through some other method?

Thank you in advance,

Blake Anderson

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. . . that will be required for travel and most likely eventually, to enter a store, buy groceries, see a doctor, live your life.  At the same time, the Demo-Nazis are pretending hysteria over a new Georgia law requiring everyone — not just black people — to produce some form of I.D. to vote.  They are screaming “racism” (ho hum) at anyone who supports voter I.D., the obvious assumption here being that they believe that black people — and only black people — are just too stupid to know how to get a drivers license or some other form of I.D.  Makes sense to me: I never, ever see any black people driving cars, making it through security at an airport, buying alcohol at a grocery store or Target, etc.  And of course, no black American has ever traveled internationally because, as Schumer, Pelosi, Biden, Harris, and all the other Demo-Nazis will tell you, they are all too stupid to figure out how to apply for a passport.

Maybe I’m too much of a cynic, but my theory is that their policy of flooding the country with COVID- and TB-infested illegal alien peasants from the Third World, combined with vicious, hysterical opposition to voter I.D. is about adding millions of additional votes from undocumented “Democrats.”

How odd that I need a passport to go to Mexico, but millions of passportless aliens can just walk into the U.S. through the southern border, and even get free transportation and hotel rooms courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers.

From: Lipton Matthews

Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 11:59 AM

To: Walter Block <wblock@loyno.edu>

Subject: RE: Covid-19

Dear Professor Walter Block:

I just saw your libertarian analysis of Covid-19.  We need to ask an important question: Is it practical to prevent Covid-19? No one wants to get sick but we tolerate a litany of ailments even dangerous ones.  Most people who contract covid-19 won’t die, neither do they even require hospitalization.  So in the context of a sluggish economy, is hysteria sensible? I say no.  Chris Calton has a good piece evaluating the efficacy of masks and from my reading, they are not effective.  Many researchers admit that masks are at best marginal, if effective, nevertheless they recommend usage under the guise of altruism.

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From: Jeremy Brown

Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 12:13 PM

To: wblock@loyno.edu

Subject: Voting and the NAP

Dear Walter,

I hope this finds you healthy and well. I’ve been considering and thinking through the idea that voting is a violation of the Non-Agression Principle. In trying to perfect or disprove this line of thinking I have been unable to find any writings that either support or oppose this idea. Do you have any thoughts on this, or have you written, or read, about this idea? Any words of wisdom or guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely

Jeremy Brown

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From: Disraeli-Macdonald Institute

Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2020 5:04 PM

To: Tom Woods

Cc: Professor Walter Block <wblock@loyno.edu>

Subject: Fwd: NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON DUMP TRUMP: WHY CONSERVATIVES SHOULD PUNT ON NOV. 3RD

01 November 2020

Dr Woods,

Reading this notice from David Stockman, I cannot help but remember Walter Block’s lectures involving the idea of the “lesser evil,” between overseer “goodie” who only beats the slaves once a week and overseer “baddie” who beats them once a day.

Stephen

__________________________________________

Stephen Michael MacLean, M.Phil. (Humanities)

‘Let human transactions be free, and I assert that they are not and cannot be anything else

than a reciprocal exchange of services — services always diminishing in price, always increasing in utility.’

~ Frédéric Bastiat

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Letter 1

From: Joshua Crosby

Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 5:00 PM

To: Walter Block <wblock@loyno.edu>

Subject: ABCT

Dr Block, would you please direct me to your paper describing your alternative to the austrian business cycle theory?

Thanks!

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From: Jan K

Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 6:52 PM

To: walter block <wblock@loyno.edu>

Subject: Libertarians for Trump

Dear Walter,

On an unrelated topic: what happened with your “Libertarians for Trump” since last election and what is your take on next week’s election?

kind regards,

Jan

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A long-time colleague who knows my interest and enchantment with classic cinema of Hollywood’s Golden Era forwarded me this long forgotten gem, Miss V from Moscow. It is a pro-Soviet/anti-Nazi counter-intelligence drama concerning a lookalike espionage agent. The Miss V of the title is Vera Marova, a Soviet spy sent to Paris to impersonate her lookalike, a German spy recently liquidated by the French Resistance. As with other, better-known American films produced in the midst of World War II like Mission to Moscow, The North Star, and Song of Russia, the film has a pronounced pro-Soviet tone.

The film stars Lola Lane, one of Warner Brothers legendary four Lane sisters (Leota, Lola, Rosemary, and Priscilla) featured in such vehicles as Four Daughters, Four Wives, and Four Mothers. The first film, Four Daughters, also contained the breakout role for the extraordinary actor John Garfield, whose brilliant short career was ended by a heinous combination of health problems and persecution for his leftist political beliefs by being called to testify before the U.S. Congressional House Un-American Activities Committee where he denied Communist Party affiliation and refused to “name names”, effectively ending his film career. Probably the most noted of the Lane sisters (and my personal favorite) was Priscilla, who was an almost dead ringer for contemporary actress Hayden Panettiere. Watch her performances in the Alfred Hitchcock espionage thriller, Saboteur (1942), or the hilarious screwball comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

The mythos of Atlantis was at the seminal core of how Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism and occultism to manufacture a new Germanic mythology, the religion of National Socialism, that combined ancient legends and esoteric cosmologies with cutting-edge theories of genetic science, in their quest to create an Aryan super race.

The study of the construction of pseudo-secular gnostic religions has been one of the principal obsessions of my life since I heard Gerhart Niemeyer of Notre Dame lecture on it in 1975 at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Western Summer School at Thomas Aquinas College.

Niemeyer was a keen student of Eric Voegelin on these matters, as was Murray Rothbard. I believe understanding this 2000 year battle between orthodox Christianity and Gnosticism is the ultimate key to unlocking the history of the previous two millennia.

Christianity and the West have been at war for hundreds of years with a succession of gnostic political religions and mass movements seeking to impose brutal elite rule and mastery of their subject peoples.

These sinister efforts have been responsible for untold death, destruction, and misery.

Over one hundred million persons alone perished in the 20th Century as a result of these murderous totalitarian regimes.

• The Enigma of the Swastika — Documentary

From the occult origins of the Nazi party to the death of Hitler in the flaming ruins of Berlin, the emergence of the doctrine of National Socialism took place in a dark and sinister world of rituals and beliefs.

• Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy — Documentary

Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy is a documentary on how Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism and occultism to win the war. The Nazi’s also used occult mind control techniques to brainwash Germans to perceive themselves as the master-race. Astrology, Reincarnation, a new blood religion. In this chilling yet fascinating glimpse at recent historical events, discover how Nazi beliefs were based on a perversion of ancient myths, pagan lore and the occult.

In their quest to create an Aryan super race, the Nazis left no myth or religion unexploited, using astrological forecasts to plan battles; pendulums to locate allied battleships; the prophesies of Nostradamus to frighten the Allies, and sacred symbols, such as Nordic runes, to inspire their warriors to battle. Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy explores the disturbing ways the Third Reich linked occult practices with political aims and created a reign of terror unparalleled in history.

• The Occult History of the Third Reich – Part 2: SS Blood and Soil  — Documentary

In the early 20th century, the young Adolf Hitler was just one of many German-speaking people attracted by a new Germanic mythology that combined ancient legends and esoteric cosmologies with cutting-edge theories of genetic science. In the hands of the Nazis, the result was a new ideology that saw racial purity as the key to human destiny.

This was a belief-system of arcane rituals and potent symbols, with the ancient swastika appropriated for the Nazi cause. By the time of the Third Reich, Hitler and the Nazis had evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler’s SS. It was a religion based on obedience, power, and the cult of the leader, with Hitler himself conceived in Messianic terms.

• The Occult History Of The Third Reich – Part 3: Adolf Hitler — Documentary

Describes how this film investigates Hitler’s own occult beliefs, in particular the German mysticism of Guido von List and Jorg Lanz, as well as the tremendous impact on him of the anti-Semitic German composer Richard Wagner and how they informed his upbringing and his racist political beliefs.

• The Occult History Of The Third Reich – Part 4: Himmler The Mystic — Documentary

“The Abusive Exploitation of the Human Religious Sentiment”: Michael Burleigh as Historian of “Political Religion” –– Daniel J. Mahoney article

• Religious aspects of Nazism — Wikipedia entry

• Germanic Paganism — Wikipedia entry

• The Nazi Gospels — Documentary

• The Foundations of the 19th Century — Book by Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Chamberlain was extensively influenced by the anti-Semitic German composer Richard Wagner (he later married Wagner’s daughter Eva and in 1909 he moved to Bayreuth where he lived at the family’s famous home until his death in 1927).

It was in 1899 he published his greatest work, ‘Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts‘ (The foundations of the Nineteenth Century), a volume of over twelve hundred pages, in German.

Despite its length and difficulty it eventually sold over a quarter of a million copies, and, in the event, made its author a rich man.

The work was stupendous, both in its breadth of scholarship and its complexity of thought. It profoundly impacted and shaped both Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler, both of whom he knew well.

• The Myth of the 20th Century: An Evaluation of the Spiritual-Intellectual Confrontations of Our Age — Book by Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg’s The Myth of the 20th Century was the second most important book in Germany’s National Socialist Third Reich next to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf (My Struggle). The title is a homage to Chamberlain’s The Foundation of the 19th Century.

• The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology — Book by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 is a book by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke about Nazi occultism and Ariosophy, tracing some of its roots back to Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945. The foreword is by Rohan Butler, who had written The Roots of National Socialism in the 1930s. The book is based on Goodrick-Clarke’s 1982 Ph.D. thesis The ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935: Reactionary political fantasy in relation to social anxiety.

This book has been continually in print since its first publication in 1985, and has been translated into twelve languages, including French, Polish, Italian, Russian, Czech, German and Greek.

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Here is a two part BBC series, Heroes of the Enlightenment, which provides an interesting examination of that crucial period in the history of Western Civilization.  The first episode describes the impact that Issac Newton, Denis Diderot, the Marquis de Pombal, and Erasmus Darwin made upon the advancement of science and knowledge in the Age of Reason, while the second episode discusses the impact of the ideas and actions of the French philosopher Marquis de Condorcet, American statesman and philosopher Thomas Jefferson, and King Frederick the Great of Prussia in shaping the Enlightenment.

One cautionary note: the series is unfortunately imbued with the residual ahistorical bias against the Roman Catholic Church of Andrew Dickson White’s two-volume A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896). White’s conflict thesis has been widely disputed among contemporary historians of science (see notes 35, 36, and 37). This discredited warfare depiction unfortunately remains a popular view among critics of religion and the uninformed general public, and the secularists of the BBC series continue to further this historical distortion.

For a corrective and objective overview and analysis of the true relationship of the Church and scientific inquiry and exploration, see Thomas E. Woods’ authoritative How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. 

I have received over sixty wonderful emails from readers around the world urging me not to cease writing and expressing their deep gratitude for my previous efforts of almost two decades of 2000+ articles and blogs of published work. Very humbling.  Accordingly I have seriously reconsidered returning to LRC but with no special privilege status. I, as most writers I am aware of, do not mind or object to criticism of one’s work. We welcome vigorous intellectual debate. We only deplore mean-spirited or baseless attacks, so redundant in our discordant and demented “cancel culture” environs of today.

I have always looked upon LewRockwell.com as one of the last bastions of the Republic of Letters, where our predecessors gathered in salons, coffeehouses, and other venues to discuss and foster ideas challenging coercive power and the elite forces of tyranny and oppression inflicting the people at large.

Charlene hearkens back to our series on the abominable USPS to note: 

Everyone hates the Post Office. Rightly so. It’s filled with morons and incompetents. Last week when I picked up my chicks from a local hatchery, my chicken lady told me she’d love to expand their business. But they cannot ship to anyone outside of the upper midwest. In the upper Midwest they can use DHL shipping, but if they ship with the USPS, the post office kills their chicks by letting them sit in the plant for a week. The lady I bought books from on Ebay told me she’s losing customers because the USPS takes a month or more to deliver her packages. My package from this vendor sat in a postal facility for FOUR weeks before moving on. 

I’ve started documenting my bad delivery experiences, complete with tracking numbers. I’ve written the Postmasters of the facilities responsible and—big surprise!—got no response. There is simply no consequence for bad service. 

I think it’s time to make some consequences. I’d love to see a website that tracks the Post Offices incompetence. Sort of like an Amazon customer rating or Yelp. Not only could someone document their bad experiences with the USPS, but it should name names: who is the Postmaster and the MDO (plant manager) responsible, so we can track them if they get promoted or transferred to spread their incompetence. There could be a Monthly Top Ten Worst Post Offices Award.

Charlene asks whether any of LRC’s readers are 

capable of designing such a website? It could be a very profitable website if it were to have some clever or funny catches that would inspire frequent visits to the site. And thankfully, (or not) the USPS is an unending source of insanity, so that shouldn’t be too hard. 

I remain mystified that in this age of instant communication, FedEx, UPS, and online payment of bills, our taxes subsidize the monumental boondoggle that is the USPS. Let’s stamp out this bureaucracy!

An F-35 shoots itself and causes $2.5 million in damage. That’s the U.S. military for you. I note that the “total cost for the entire F-35 program is estimated to be more than a $1 trillion over the course of the program’s lifetime.” To defend us against non-existent enemies.

Thanks to M.L.

I ran across this tweet and this meme.

Obviously, Dr. Peterson should contact the Mises Institute.  Walter Block would also be an outstanding interview, especially as he is also a target of the Academic Gulag-mongers and Thought Police from the Socialist Justice Warriors at his university.

Kathleen reports that Tony Roman’s video 

so inspired me that I had to pick up the phone and call his restaurant. (Months ago, I did so when I’d heard about him from Peggy Hall; I called to thank and encourage everyone there.) 

…as I spoke to the person who answered, he was very grateful for my call; he said so and I could hear it in his voice. He went on to say that Tony was actually there, having a meal with a person who’d just interviewed him. … I said, “Would he (Tony) have a chance to come to the phone?” He hesitated, saying Tony was busy with this person…but…”Wait a sec…He wants to speak with you.” 

Next thing I know, I’m hearing that voice. 🙂 We had a lovely chat–natural, flowing–clearly two people on the same page. I wanted so much to encourage him, to tell him the great service he is carrying out, to thank him for his courage, etc., etc. I told him that [my family] and I are so adamant about masks that the only way we’d ever wear them would be as corpses. Tony appreciated that. Next thing I know he’s thanking me and giving me his mobile phone number so we can “stay in touch.”

Kathleen also maintains an email list. She forwarded Mr. Roman’s video to her audience with this request:

Please take a few minutes (about 14) to listen to this amazing man–persecuted by those in that organized crime syndicate we call “government”. Tony Roman owns and operates Basilico’s Pasta e Vino in Huntington Beach, CA. He speaks directly to Gavin “Pelosi” and then addresses all those minions in the “agencies”–the people we pay who in turn turn on us and persecute and prosecute us…

She also issued a plea for action:

…One way that he said we can help him is to call the “ABC”–the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and “bombard” them with support for his restaurant. The phone number for that organized crime unit is (916) 419-2500. They can be emailed at headquarters@abc.ca.gov. The new director is Eric Hirata. He needs to know that he needs to back off…

Effective intel for all those itching to fight for freedom!