Yep, these cruel and destructive measures feed their egos and lust for power—-but as if that weren’t more than enough incentive, DC also pays them to imprison serfs in their homes. Here’s the execrable Head Cheese of Wisconsin refusing to concede his emergency powers because the state will “lose” $35 million in “food security assistance” from the Feds:

In the sixty years that have passed since I began attending elementary school, through the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, Vietnam, the assassinations of Malcolm X, MLK, and RFK, the Watergate Scandal, massive continuous inflation and the collapse of the Keynesian economic paradigm, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the 1980 October Surprise Scandal, disastrous interventions in Central America, Africa, and the Middle East, the Iran-Contra Scandal, the Balkan Wars, the Clinton Impeachment, 9/11, the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, up to the Trump RussiaGate hoax, the two Trump impeachments, and the 2020 theft of the presidential election by the decrepit usurper Biden — Why would anyone believe anything these bastards tell us?

Authoritative researchers such as Peter Dale Scott and Robert Barnes have attempted to shine light on these deep events that have dramatically affected and shaped our common history and the tragic course our collective lives have been forced and manipulated.

Through it all the establishment corporate media of presstitutes and regime stenographers have piled lie upon duplicitous lie, as craven adjuncts of the deep state.

With the death of their paragon Walter Cronkite, the true collective face of the Establishment media was exposed once and for all. It was not the noble visage of an intrepid crusader for truth, but a sagging countenance, oily and obsequent by decades of lying and servility to their masters. But of course this is not how the press perceive themselves. They are not like you or me. They are a special class of beings. They are the Fourth Estate, an imaginary extension of the rigid class structure of pre-Revolutionary France from the Estates General.

In the Ancien Regime there was the clergy, the nobility, and lastly, the bourgeoisie and commoners.

The Fourth Estate see themselves on an equal par with the first two elevated classes, and above the third. It is the aristocratic notion that gentlemen and ladies of the press serve a vaunted “public interest,” and do not soil themselves with activities of a rank and sordid commercialism. Such endeavors would be a violation of their hoary journalistic ethics.

They have a public trust to enlighten the masses in their duties to their betters, those who compose the deep state and their adjunct servitors in the kept press.

Consider the following numbers:

House of Representatives: 435

Senate: 100

President/Vice-President: 2

Supreme Court: 9

Add the numbers up for 546 heads of the federal government. Each one will have a target on their head once this goes hot. …

…the rats will flee once the assassinations start. My money is on retired military to kick this off. The current military structure is complicit in this coup and will not honor their oath. The only question I have is who is more culpable in the coup: the ones who seized power or the military which is bound by law to overthrow the Deep State election fraud? …

Foreign nations which want us to collapse do not have to attack us physically. Cyber warfare and agitating people here to act are more effective. American excellence and the middle class have been destroyed but that does not mean we are lost. [Director of National Intelligence] Avril Haines [who warned rulers about serfs harboring “antigovernment sentiment”] is correct: the people are the main threat to the traitors.

For an answer, we turn to Paul Sheridan, who, Ms. Anonymous informs us,

has been involved in automotive product safety for virtually his entire career. As a person who has really dedicated his life to keeping people safe, his disdain for the product liability immunity enjoyed by big pharma knows no bounds! For his work in automotive safety at great personal and professional cost, the Civil Justice Foundation awarded Paul their Civil Justice Foundation Champion Award in 2005.

She continues, 

Mr. Sheridan identified Anthony Fauci as key to this “COVID” operation, sounding the alarm early on to then-President Trump. Mr. Sheridan also wrote two extensive communications directly to Anthony Fauci only to be ignored. MD’s such as George C. Fareed, Brawley, California; Michael M. Jacobs, MD, MPH Pensacola, Florida; and Dr. Donald C. Pompan, Salinas, California wrote an open letter to Anthony Fauci last Aug expressing serious concerns about Fauci’s rejection of hydroxychloroquine. Ignored. Renowned and esteemed MD and epidemiologist, Dr. Harvey Risch, published two articles on the same topic last May and July, respectively. Completely ignored by the “mainstream”.  

[Here’s] Mr. Sheridan’s third communication to Anthony Fauci, laying out the case for the hundreds of thousands of deaths directly connectable to him. This time, Fauci’s office attempted to reject this communication outright while Mr. Sheridan’s other two letters remain unacknowledged except for delivery confirmation.

In the first section of the file, Mr. Sheridan painstakingly and with evidence makes the case for Fauci’s direct accountability for these deaths. Please note pages 15-16, especially the text quoting Dr. Harvey Risch and his assessment of what he’s seeing playing out (“This has gone on before”) as it pertains to “America’s doctor”.

This file contains several other documents, including work by Denis Rancourt, PhD and “The Fauci/COVID Dossier” by David E. Martin, PhD. Dr. Martin’s dossier represents 22 years of research providing the basis for, among other things, additional legal action against Anthony Fauci.

I can serve on the jury: oh, please, oh please!

Ms. Anonymous has “never heard of [Curtis Chang] before,” but she smelt a rat in his enthusiasm for vaccines. So she dug into his background and that of the staff at his consulting firm (ahem: didn’t consultants disappear with the 1990s?), and, what-ho: 

Someone on his staff has connections to Johnson & Johnson…

Say it ain’t so! 

Remember, Chang and his accomplices present themselves as concerned and conscientious Christians. Yet they’re really just shills for Big Pharma. Indeed, as Ms. A observes, “Chang is perfectly positioned for what he is doing because of his work w/ nonprofits & his connections to govt.”

Which are extensive, enough that he “won an Obama WH award.” That prompted our researcher to quip: “He is not a ‘Parson Goat’; he is a ‘Consultant Goat.’”

Chang is as disingenuous and corrupt as any politician. And that’s saying something.

Protestants don’t ex-communicate, but boy, this is one of those times I wish we did. 

Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One, by Glenn Greenwald

The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate.

Media Culture Wars: Engineering Consent and Obedience to Authority  (Amazon book list)

Keith Snyder tells me that he has “has absolutely NO skin in this game… I am neither Jewish nor Christian.” Nonetheless, the priest in Texas who called the cops on a congregant outraged him so vastly that he unearthed the snitch’s email: mryan@htccd.org.

Keith advises:  

I know it is impolite but I think [his inbox] should be flooded with criticism. … Same thing as here in NYC with the threatening of the Hasidic community who have been pretty good on resisting all the nonsense. … unless people put an end to this it will not stop.

May I also suggest that Roman Catholics withhold their offerings until the Church ejects these wolves from its flock? Plenty of deserving charities will more prudently use your funds than one that sics police on expectant mothers.

From: Walter Block <wblock@loyno.edu>

Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 8:17 PM

To: ‘Josh Klenoff’ ; ‘Michael Edelstein’

Cc: ‘Malcolm Greenhill’  ‘Mort Kantor’ ; ‘David Pressman’

Subject: RE: Anti-Mask

Dear Josh:

My writing on this might be of interest to you.

Block, Walter E. 2020. “A libertarian analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1; https://jls.scholasticahq.com/article/17836-a-libertarian-analysis-of-the-covid-19-pandemic?auth_token=1jZ-UoctwxQnkYZLFJZR

Best regards,

Walter

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From: vonuvonu

Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 2:43 PM

To: wblock@loyno.edu

Subject: Shane Hazel should be a libertarian Ross Perot?

Shane Hazel should be a libertarian Ross Perot?

That might make sense if Gary Johnson were more than an accidental libertarian.

Regards,

Bill Fargo

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From: Ennis Bragg

Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 3:07 PM

To: wblock@loyno.edu

Subject: respectfully, we don’t owe you anything

Hi Walter,

Huge fan. I’ve embraced the evictionism philosophy and share it’s libertarian merits with both left and right zealots across the prolife/prochoice divide.

Just read your open letter to Georgia libertarians. I currently live in GA. I voted for Shane. I also would have voted for a Libertarian Presidential candidate over Trump if we had one worth voting for which we haven’t had since Badnarik. I honestly don’t remember if I even voted for a presidential candidate in 2008 or 2012.

Anyway, I wanted to say that implying that those of us who voted for Shane owe everyone a moral debt to support Perdue and Loeffler. In the great words of our fake pres-elect, “come on, man!”  🙂  I don’t think implying an obligation to vote a certain way or even to vote at all is going to resonate with many thick libertarians. The argument sounds too much like my mom convincing me to vote for Dole in 96 for which I had to close my eyes to do and still look back on with embarrassment.

Libertarians for Trump was an interesting organization and in some ways illustrative of the lack of national leadership in the party. I understand the idea and precept but it’s a little silly imho. Vote libertarian where it doesn’t matter…..to send a message. That message will not be heard. Many libertarians who voted for Trump weren’t doing it for the pragmatism. If so, those same libertarians would have been voting for Bush and Romney. Trump won much libertarian support because of his fearlessness to speak truth and expose posers (at least sometimes).

I suppose that for libertarians who embraced the precept of Libertarians for Trump, your call to moral obligation makes sense. But, for the rest of us, we owe you nothing but non-aggression and respect.

still a fan,

Ennis

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From: Buck Johnson

Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 8:13 AM

To: wblock@loyno.edu

Subject: Georgia

Dr Block,

I have been a fan and consumer of much of your work for many years. I wanted to compliment you on your recent piece (that I found on LRC), “Open Letter to Libertarians in Georgia”.

Block, Walter E. 2020. “Open Letter to Libertarians in Georgia.” December 5; https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/walter-e-block/open-letter-to-libertarians-in-georgia/

Reprint: http://www.varight.com/news/dr-walter-blocks-answer-to-those-who-want-to-boycott-the-georgia-elections/

The points you made are not only valid, they’re of the utmost importance right to now. I’m sure that you’ll receive plenty of pushback but I wanted to thank you for writing it.

Thank for what you do.

Cordially,

Buck Johnson

Death To Tyrants

Anti-Warfare, Anti-Welfare, Pro-Liberty Past guests include: Ron Paul, Tom Woods, Paul Gottfried, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, Scott Horton, Ilana Mercer and more.

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From: Ben Veal

Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 12:49 PM

To: wblock@loyno.edu

Subject: Counter-arguments you could have made in your debate with Richard Wolff

Dear Prof Block,

I watched with interest your online debate with Richard Wolff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiiOSDvcDT0

Sorry if this is teaching grandma to suck eggs, but I was a bit irked that you didn’t pick Prof Wolff up on a couple of things:

At one point Prof Wolff was arguing that the employer has far more power over the employee in any wage negotiation, and your counter argument was that this is not always the case, and the employee is always free to leave the job and look elsewhere for employment. To which he responded that it’s almost always the case that the employer has more power than the employee, even if there are a few exceptions.

A point that I think you should have made, is that it’s also almost always the case that there are many more employees than employers, and the employer is subject to the aggregate negotiating power of ALL the people she/he wants to employ; if the working conditions are too poor, or wages are too low, then nobody will want to work for the employer, and he/she will go out of business.

Another argument that I think you missed was a counter to Prof Wolff’s argument about the rich getting rich at the expense of the poor. This line of thought seems to be based on relative rather than absolute wealth, i.e. when somebody gets richer it’s automatically the case that other people become relatively poorer in comparison. But in terms of human well being (envy aside) what really matters is absolute wealth, which seems to increase faster (across all classes) in capitalist economies.

Once again, I realise that you’re probably aware of those points, but I just wanted to make sure, in case you are in any more debates like this in the future.

Regards,

Dr. Veal (econometrician).

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Parts 1 and 2
Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn survived both World War II and the horrors of Stalin’s camps. He became the voice of the nameless millions who died. Some of his famous works include The Gulag Archipelago, The Red Wheel and In The First Circle. Solzhenitsyn’s books teach us never to forget and stay loyal to our first principles under any circumstances. It was the principle he followed throughout his life.

• Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, by Michael Scammell
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich –– Novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Feature Film

• The Gulag Archipelago: Volume 1 — Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The Gulag Archipelago: A New Foreword by Jordan B. Peterson

(Jordan Peterson: Foreword to The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary Edition — Visual Presentation)

The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labor camp system. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author’s own experiences as a prisoner in a gulag labor camp. Written between 1958 and 1968, it was published in the West in 1973 and, thereafter, circulated in samizdat (underground publication) form in the Soviet Union until its appearance in the Russian literary journal, Novy Mir, in 1989, in which a third of the work was published over three issues. GULag or Gulág is an acronym for the Russian term Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitelno-trudovyh Lagerey (Главное Управление Исправительно-трудовых Лагерей), or “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”, the bureaucratic name of the governing board of the Soviet labour camp system, and by metonymy, the camp system itself.

The original Russian title of the book is Arkhipelag GuLag, the rhyme supporting the underlying metaphor deployed throughout the work. The word archipelago compares the system of labor camps spread across the Soviet Union with a vast “chain of islands”, known only to those who were fated to visit them. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Russian Federation, The Gulag Archipelago has been officially published, and it has been included in the high school program in Russia as mandatory reading since 2009.

• The Gulag Archipelago: Volume 2 –– Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Gulag Archipelago: Volume 3 — Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Deirdre Hairston is happily married, nursing and newly pregnant with the couple’s second child, but her pastor, ostensibly more concerned with mask-compliance, called the cops on her during Holy Mass.

A conscientious objector to masks, owing largely to nausea from pregnancy, Deirdre sat with her husband and baby in the back of the church, on the far right, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Dallas.

After the usher failed to force her to put a mask on, he alerted the pastor.

Deirdre Hairston [recounted]: The head pastor, Fr. Milton Ryan, approaches me in the middle of Mass. … He says, “I am the boss here. I am the pastor. What I say goes. Now, if you want to be an obedient Catholic, you put that mask on or you’ll have to leave.” … So I whisper back, “I am not leaving.” He goes, “Fine, But I’m calling the police.”

Which Milt promptly did. The cops didn’t arrest Mrs. Hairston, nor fine her, but they did issue a citation for trespassing after bullying her and her family.

Recall that Texas no longer imposes a “mandate” for diapers—but the Roman Catholic bishop does:

Bp. Edward Burns called for protocols to remain in place, including face coverings: “Catholic faithful in the diocese of Dallas [are] to continue to wear masks out of charity and concern for all those around them.”

Ergo, 

Deirdre contacted St. Joseph Foundation in Ohio for clarity on her rights as a Catholic.

She learned no practicing Catholic in the state of grace can be denied the sacraments. But the clergy involved do not seem interested in canon law.

And that explains it all. The Goats serve a new master, and it isn’t the Lord Jesus. As Mrs. Hairston puts it, 

It’s almost like [the Goats] become demonic or possessed with fury and angry. It’s bizarre. It’s honestly just bizarre behavior. It’s extremely aggressive. I mean, you’re going to arrest a 28-year-old nursing mom who’s already socially distanced? I mean it proves that it’s not really about the health. It’s just about control.

The first drag queen was recently certified as a candidate for United Methodist ministry. Hope United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Illinois, celebrated Drag Sunday on April 11, although I think it was a virtual service since the church has apparently bought into the coronavirus pandemic nonsense.

This last year has impressed on all of us, Christian and non-believer alike, that the American Church is in serious jeopardy. Its pastors obey government, not God, nor do its members object to such apostasy. With its closed doors, virtual “services” and requiring of reservations before a lost sinner can hear the Gospel, the Church is no longer a light to the world but a blight on it.

The reasons for the Church’s dereliction are legion, but allow me to introduce one of them: Curtis Chang. He is “a former pastor[,] and now I teach pastors as a seminary professor.”

Chang “graduated from Harvard and is a former Rockefeller Fellow.” Several “Fellows” plague us courtesy of the Rockefellers. I’m unsure which group includes ol’ Curt, but it doesn’t much matter: all are fascist, a la this one that proclaims its “partnership” between New York City’s government and its “business leaders.” 

No wonder Chang now festers “on the faculty of the Duke Divinity School and is a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary.” Duke wallows in its Marxism: on its “About” page, three paragraphs promulgate communist philosophy while only two discuss Duke. Fuller’s website offers an overflowing buffet of word-salads in which it sprinkles “evangelicals” and “for the kingdoms” like croutons, but I’m danged if I can discover its stance on such essentials as Scripture’s inerrancy and inspiration, Christ’s substitutionary death for our sins, and the absolute sufficiency of His sacrifice. (more…)

Biden invites Putin to crunch summit amid deteriorating ties between Russia & US, as American warships chart course for Black Sea. Basically, the real risk of a derelict usurper in the White House is not that he pushes the big red button . . . it’s that someone else does, because he’s busy taking a nap.

Hunter Biden Interview Body Language: what do four of the world’s top body language and behavior experts make of the Hunter Biden interview and his comments on the Hunter Biden laptop, Ukraine, and his father President Joe Biden?

(On a personal note, the first interviewer of Hunter Biden shown is Anthony Mason of CBS News. Years ago Mason interviewed me when he was a novice reporter in Tulsa for KJRH (Channel 2). That interview was in regard to the Ed Clark 1980 Libertarian Party presidential campaign that year, of which I was the Oklahoma media coordinator.)

On this Tax Week in April (even though the real individual filing deadline for this year has been extended to May 17, 2021), some conservatives are discovering that Milton Friedman isn’t the hero they thought he was. Friedman was behind “one of the most far-reaching extensions of federal power,” the purpose of which was to keep federal coffers copiously filled to fight World War II.  Of course the war ended but Friedman’s “gift that keeps on giving,” federal withholding, is still here.  More than just making federal taxes appear lower than they actually are, through typical overpayment withholding gives the federal government a nice, big interest-free loan every year.  Thanks, Milton!

Jeff Deist, call your office. Stephanie Ruhle’s segment on April 13 dances around the 7-ton albino elephant in the room. One of the alleged causes of inflation in the U.S. economy right now? “Driver shortages.” Central bank? What central bank? What are some of the tools at our disposal for fighting this inflation? For some comic relief (and no spoilers), watch them yourself to see the inanities on display.

This little clip is a must-see. Here is the backstory.

In the interest of fairness, we should concede the good news about the chocolate rations.

Today is April 15, the traditional historic day associated with the coercive collection and seizure of federal income taxes from the American people. Here are some timely thoughts and pertinent reflections upon this usurpation and egregious violation of individual rights and liberties, where confiscation and stealing is rationalized as essential to the health of the state, to the utter detriment and well being of all chastised inhabitants of this “home of the free and the brave.” Here are more episodes on Essential Libertarianism.

The West’s Rejection of God Will End in Misery and Terror – Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic 1983 Warning

The West has yet to experience a Communist invasion; religion here remains free. But the West’s own historical evolution has been such that today it too is experiencing a drying up of religious consciousness…. the tide of secularism that, from the late Middle Ages onward, has progressively inundated the West. This gradual sapping of strength from within is a threat to faith that is perhaps even more dangerous than any attempt to assault religion violently from without.

By Mick Jagger.  “We’re gonna escape these prison walls” sings the Rolling Stones legend.

The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way [. . . ] they must perish in the revolutionary holocaust  —  Karl Marx

Marx and Engels’s Theory of History: Making Sense of the Race Factor, by Erik van Ree

“In the Interests of Civilization”: Marxist Views of Race and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, by Diane Paul

Karl Marx: Racist, by Nathaniel Weyl, and

The Lost Literature of Socialism, 2nd Edition, by George Watson