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The Eclipse of Europe
For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world history.
Then came the Great Civil War of the West, our Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945), where all of the great European powers — Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia — along with almost all of the rest, fought some of history’s greatest battles.
Result: Europe’s greatest nations were all bloodied. All of Europe’s empires fell. The colonial peoples were all largely liberated and began the great migration to the mother countries. And Europe was split between a U.S.-led West and a Moscow-dominated Soviet bloc.
Yet, even during that four-decade Cold War, Europe was viewed as the prize in the struggle.
By the time that Cold War ended in triumph for the Free World, a European Union modeled on the American Union was rising, and almost all of Europe’s newly freed nations began to join the NATO alliance.
Yet one senses today that Europe’s role in world history is passing, that the American pivot to China and the Indo-Pacific is both historic and permanent, and that as the past belongs to Europe, the future belongs to Asia.
Asia, after all, is home to the world’s most populous nations, China and India; to six of the world’s nine nuclear powers; and to almost all of its major Muslim nations: Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey and Iran, as well as to the world’s largest economies outside the USA: China and Japan.
And Europe?
In 2016, Great Britain voted to withdraw from the EU. This summer, the British joined the Australians and the U.S. in an AUXUS pact that trashed a cherished French deal to build a dozen diesel-powered submarines — and to replace them with British- and U.S.-built nuclear-power subs.
Paris saw this as a “betrayal,” a “stab in the back” by allies whom Gen. Charles De Gaulle had disparaged as “les Anglo-Saxons.” Yet AUXUS was also an undeniably clear statement as to where the Australians saw their future, and it was not alongside France, but the USA.
Still, this was the worst U.S. affront of our French ally since President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the British and French out of Suez.
But, at least then, Ike could say in 1956 that he had not been alerted to the British-French invasion of Egypt and that our NATO partners had acted without his knowledge or consent.
To protest the treatment of France in the submarine deal, President Emmanuel Macron recalled his ambassador to the U.S., something that had never been done since France recognized the American colonies and came to their aid during our War of Independence.
Indeed, the submarine agreement forced cancellation of a grand party at the French embassy in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the 240th anniversary of the Battle of the Capes.
This was the critical British-French naval battle at the mouth of the Chesapeake in 1781, where a French fleet prevailed, enabling it to provide Gen. George Washington’s army cover as it surrounded, shelled and compelled the surrender of Gen. Lord Cornwallis’ army at Yorktown.
But if the British are out of the EU, and the French are estranged from their NATO allies, Germany yesterday held an election, where, for the first time in its history, the Christian Democratic Union of Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel was reduced to a fourth of the national vote.
The new leader of Germany, after months of negotiations, may be the leader of the Social Democrats, in concert with the Greens. But even that government may not be cobbled together by Christmas.
Neither of the prospective chancellors for the Christian Democratic Union or the Social Democratic Party has the stature of Merkel, who has been both leader of Germany for the last decade and a half but also de facto leader of Europe.
And consider the present condition of NATO, once celebrated as the most successful alliance in history for having deterred any Soviet invasion of NATO Europe for the entire Cold War.
In 2001, invoking Article V about an attack on one being an attack on all, NATO joined the Americans in their plunge into Afghanistan to deal with the perpetrators of 9/11.
This August, 20 years later, all our NATO allies pulled out as the Afghan army crumbled and vanished and the Afghan regime collapsed. Our NATO allies thus shared in the ignominy of the American retreat and defeat.
Not only is the center of political gravity shifting from Europe to Asia, European unity seems a thing of the past.
As Britain has left the EU, Scotland is considering secession from England. Catalonia is still thinking of secession from Spain. Sardinia is considering secession from Italy. Poland and Hungary are at odds with the EU over domestic political reforms said to be in conflict with the demands of the bureaucrats in Brussels.
As for the southern-tier EU and NATO nations, Spain, Italy and Greece, their main concern is less an invasion by Russia than the ongoing invasion from across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
It’s Time for Civil Disobedience
The $3.5 trillion-dollar spending bill I warned about the other day is revealed as a communist takeover in this excellent article. No one in this audience is fooled by the idea of elections, knowing the method for years, unveiled in the 2020 election because of the desperation of the left. It might startle some of those less attentive, however. Your Republican senators are willing to vote for this, which shows the contempt they have for not only the American people, but the American process, the republic itself.
Understand, this is at a time when Joe Biden’s approval is at 42% of likely voters and 52% disapproval. On the border issue, Biden’s approval in the largely Hispanic border counties is at 39%. There is no mandate to do things like $3.5 trillion Green New Deal legislation that secures Democrat elections forever and still, Republican representatives and senators are waffling around, unable to vote against it. This is a time to hammer this back down the Democrats throats and refuse to vote for anything that is not America First, and still they won’t do it.
So, the question then becomes what can be done about a pack of jackals in the seats of power who have thrown off any restraint whatsoever, who cynically nod and smile about elections, but are really just gaslighting and coercing donations? Knowing what “should” happen is not the question, that’s a word that means nothing, because it suggests that the obligation to act rests with someone else.
The problem with the entire right, is that it seeks solutions to problems, whereas the left only seeks the optics of solutions, the end game always being the destruction of the present in favor of their better future (communism). Each side gaslights its people in order to coerce what money they have not taxed out of their pockets to be forfeited under threat from the other side. But there is no “other” side, it is all one side and it is all communist.
The tendency to seek a restoration of the republic, while commendable, is either impossible under the current system, or impossible all together. Instead of clinging to what was, it would serve everyone better to define what will replace the communist government once it utterly fails as it must.
Wayne Allyn Root
More than Slogans
The $3.5 trillion-dollar spending bill I warned about the other day is revealed as a communist takeover in this excellent article. No one in this audience is fooled by the idea of elections, knowing the method for years, unveiled in the 2020 election because of the desperation of the left. It might startle some of those less attentive, however. Your Republican senators are willing to vote for this, which shows the contempt they have for not only the American people, but the American process, the republic itself.
Understand, this is at a time when Joe Biden’s approval is at 42% of likely voters and 52% disapproval. On the border issue, Biden’s approval in the largely Hispanic border counties is at 39%. There is no mandate to do things like $3.5 trillion Green New Deal legislation that secures Democrat elections forever and still, Republican representatives and senators are waffling around, unable to vote against it. This is a time to hammer this back down the Democrats throats and refuse to vote for anything that is not America First, and still they won’t do it.
So, the question then becomes what can be done about a pack of jackals in the seats of power who have thrown off any restraint whatsoever, who cynically nod and smile about elections, but are really just gaslighting and coercing donations? Knowing what “should” happen is not the question, that’s a word that means nothing, because it suggests that the obligation to act rests with someone else.
The problem with the entire right, is that it seeks solutions to problems, whereas the left only seeks the optics of solutions, the end game always being the destruction of the present in favor of their better future (communism). Each side gaslights its people in order to coerce what money they have not taxed out of their pockets to be forfeited under threat from the other side. But there is no “other” side, it is all one side and it is all communist.
The tendency to seek a restoration of the republic, while commendable, is either impossible under the current system, or impossible all together. Instead of clinging to what was, it would serve everyone better to define what will replace the communist government once it utterly fails as it must.
More Evidence That They Know the Covid Vaccine Is Killing and Maiming People and Yet They Continue Their Death Program
Here is the link to the video and text at Project Veritas as the YouTube posting will likely be taken down: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/federal-govt-whistleblower-goes-public-with-secret-recordings-government/
Here is a doctor and chief RN in a US Department of Health & Human Services Hospital reporting that the official protocol is NOT to report adverse reactions to the vaccine, NOT to treat Covid patients with safe and effective Ivermectin, indeed, it is impermissible to do so and you are fired if you save lives with Ivermectin, and NOT to permit staff to refuse inoculation based on informed consent from seeing the deadly effects of the vaccine on patients.
In this video you can witness the doctor and nurses speaking about the evil of the Health & Human Services federal hospital intentionally killing people and preventing doctors and nurses from saving the lives of patients. This is not happening from incompetence and lack of knowledge. People are being systematically murdered, and Covid is being blamed. All adverse vaccine reactions are blamed on Covid, not on the vaccine, and this lie is used to justify not reporting the adverse event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdI7tgKLtA You had better watch the brief video before it is taken down as “Covid disinformation.” It is a video of doctors and nurses on the front line discussing what they see and experience.
It has also emerged that the medical establishment arranged a “test” of HCQ’s effectiveness by waiting until patients were in the last stage of the disease before administering HCQ. They did this despite knowing that HCQ is effective in the early stages of Covid infection and arrests the progress of the infection. In the later stages of the disease, HCQ is not effective, or not nearly as effective.
Having rigged the test in this way over the dead bodies of betrayed patients, the medical establishment used the arranged failure of HCQ to prevent the use of Ivermectin, which is effective at all stages of the disease.
This is still the medical protocol in American hospitals despite the fact (1) that Ivermectin has cleared Covid from entire areas of India where it is used as a Covid preventative, (2) that the Tokyo Medical Association has recommended that Japanese doctors use Ivermection for the prevention and cure of Covid, (3) that large areas of Africa where Ivermectin is regularly used as a preventative and treatment for River Blindness have few Covid cases, (4) and that the vast majority of Americans who are cured of Covid by treatment are not cured in hospitals but by doctors in private practice administering HCQ and Ivermectin.
The evidence is overwhelming that the US medical, political, and media establishments are perfectly comfortable knowingly enforcing unscientific and counterfactual death policies on the American people.
Paul Craig Roberts
The Individual (Remember Him ?)
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Rudyard Kipling
Why Nazism is Socialism and Socialism is Totalitarianism
My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises.
When one remembers that the word “Nazi” was an abbreviation for “der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei — in English translation: the National Socialist German Workers’ Party — Mises’s identification might not appear all that noteworthy. For what should one expect the economic system of a country ruled by a party with “socialist” in its name to be but socialism?
Nevertheless, apart from Mises and his readers, practically no one thinks of Nazi Germany as a socialist state. It is far more common to believe that it represented a form of capitalism, which is what the Communists and all other Marxists have claimed.
The basis of the claim that Nazi Germany was capitalist was the fact that most industries in Nazi Germany appeared to be left in private hands.
What Mises identified was that private ownership of the means of production existed in name only under the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised all of the substantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive. The position of the alleged private owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that of government pensioners.
De facto government ownership of the means of production, as Mises termed it, was logically implied by such fundamental collectivist principles embraced by the Nazis as that the common good comes before the private good and the individual exists as a means to the ends of the State. If the individual is a means to the ends of the State, so too, of course, is his property. Just as he is owned by the State, his property is also owned by the State.
But what specifically established de facto socialism in Nazi Germany was the introduction of price and wage controls in 1936. These were imposed in response to the inflation of the money supply carried out by the regime from the time of its coming to power in early 1933. The Nazi regime inflated the money supply as the means of financing the vast increase in government spending required by its programs of public works, subsidies, and rearmament. The price and wage controls were imposed in response to the rise in prices that began to result from the inflation.
The effect of the combination of inflation and price and wage controls is shortages, that is, a situation in which the quantities of goods people attempt to buy exceed the quantities available for sale.
Shortages, in turn, result in economic chaos. It’s not only that consumers who show up in stores early in the day are in a position to buy up all the stocks of goods and leave customers who arrive later, with nothing — a situation to which governments typically respond by imposing rationing. Shortages result in chaos throughout the economic system. They introduce randomness in the distribution of supplies between geographical areas, in the allocation of a factor of production among its different products, in the allocation of labor and capital among the different branches of the economic system.
In the face of the combination of price controls and shortages, the effect of a decrease in the supply of an item is not, as it would be in a free market, to raise its price and increase its profitability, thereby operating to stop the decrease in supply, or reverse it if it has gone too far. Price control prohibits the rise in price and thus the increase in profitability. At the same time, the shortages caused by price controls prevent increases in supply from reducing price and profitability. When there is a shortage, the effect of an increase in supply is merely a reduction in the severity of the shortage. Only when the shortage is totally eliminated does an increase in supply necessitate a decrease in price and bring about a decrease in profitability.
As a result, the combination of price controls and shortages makes possible random movements of supply without any effect on price and profitability. In this situation, the production of the most trivial and unimportant goods, even pet rocks, can be expanded at the expense of the production of the most urgently needed and important goods, such as life-saving medicines, with no effect on the price or profitability of either good. Price controls would prevent the production of the medicines from becoming more profitable as their supply decreased, while a shortage even of pet rocks prevented their production from becoming less profitable as their supply increased.
George Reisman
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We’re Being Lied to Our Deaths
URGENT: READ THIS. YOU ARE BEING LIED TO AND DECEIVED FOR THE BENEFIT OF BIG PHARMA’S PROFITS AND YOUR LOSS OF YOUR CIVIL LIBERTIES, YOUR LOST OF YOUR HEALTH, YOUR LOST OF YOUR EMPLOYMENT, AND THE LOST OF YOUR LIFE.
WHY DO DUMBSHIT AMERICANS TOLERATE THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR HEALTH, LIBERTY AND LIVES THAT THE CORRUPT MURDEROUS AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT IS FORCING ON THEM???
There is zero hope for Americans. They are the most stupid people to ever exist. The utter dumbshits trust government because trusting government is their “patriotic duty.” Otherwise the Commies will get them.
Minnesota State Representative Erik Mortensen recently conducted a Town Hall meeting in his district due to the number of healthcare workers who were contacting him about COVID-19 vaccine mandates, where most of them were about to lose their jobs for refusing to receive a COVID-19 shot.
He also heard a lot of things from these nurses that were not being repeated in the corporate media, so the Town Hall meeting was recorded and published on AlphaNews recently.
Some of these nurses reported that they have been in their field for over 20 years, were treated as heroes last year as frontline workers in COVID wards, but were now being ridiculed and ostracized for not wanting to take a COVID-19 vaccine. [Strange the unvaccinated nurses treating Covid (or flu) patients didn’t all die from the exposure.]
One of the reasons they do not want to take the shots is because they have seen first hand how these shots have killed and injured people, including family members.
One nurse explained how the media is actually lying by stating that most of the healthcare workers are now fully vaccinated for COVID-19. She said this wasn’t true, and that she knew of departments that were only about 20% vaccinated, and that ER workers had an especially low percentage of workers who were fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
“Why aren’t people asking the nurses why they don’t want to take the shots?” she asked.
She said she ran an ER department, and that it was tragic that they were seeing so many heart attacks and strokes, and that it is obvious that they are related to the COVID-19 shots.
One of the few men who was present stated that he worked in IT with one of the largest healthcare providers in the State of Minnesota, and he was losing his job of 17 years working there in the IT as a data analyst, because they were forcing him to get a COVID-19 injection as a requirement to stay employed, even though he worked from home in his basement 24/7 and never went to the office.
One nurse stated that she was never trained about how to submit a report to VAERS [the adverse vaccine reporting database], and did not even know it existed until she did some research on her own. There is pressure to NOT report vaccine injuries and deaths, and it takes about 30 minutes to fill out the report, which few will do [and hospitals prohibit. All vaccine deaths are considered Covid deaths.]
Pulmonary Nurse of 31 Years Testifies How He Followed the COVID Protocols, Unknowingly that this Could Result in the Deaths of Patients
One nurse read a direct quote from a nursing book she was required to study in nursing school just 4 years ago, which shows that many of these nurses today are being forced to engage in criminal activities in order to appease their superiors and keep their job.
In nursing school we are taught about intentional crimes and torts. It says that an intentional tort is assault and battery. Assault is the threat of an unwanted action or a bodily contact. Battery is an assault that is carried out and includes willful, angry, violent, negligent, touching of another person’s body, clothing, or anything attached to them.
Forcibly removing a patient’s clothing and administering an injection after a patient has refused are all examples of battery.
This is out of my nursing book from four years ago. This is what they teach us. If we did this to a patient, if you told your patient informed consent, and they said no, and you did it anyway, you would go to jail, you’d get your nursing license taken away, and you’d be a criminal.
So now what they’re doing is they’re putting us in the position of saying either you become a criminal by giving the injection without their consent or you will be fired as “non-compliant” with the vaccination protocol.
Another nurse who is an educator with two master degrees stated:
I am one and a half years from retirement. I’m a nurse educator, I have two master’s degrees. They need me at my hospital. The nurses need me, the patients need me.
If I don’t get the vaccine, I’m going to lose my job. I’m going to lose thousands of dollars in retirement. I’m going to lose my health insurance, my life insurance, my over 400 days of extended illness bank hours.
I’m going to lose a lot. [The hospital, patients, health, and truth are going to lose much more.]
But I’m here because I believe in medical freedom. And I believe if we don’t stand up and stop these mandates, they’re going to keep twisting our arm, and twisting our arm, and twisting our arm, until we’re all broken.
And the system can’t handle it. The crisis is bad now. Staffing is bad now.
We haven’t seen anything yet. And an unvaccinated nurse is way better than no nurse.
Sadly, what many like these nurses are starting to learn, is that our government doesn’t care about us. Our government is run by billionaires and bankers who view us through their eugenic glasses as “useless eaters” that are polluting and killing the planet, and that therefore all of these deaths are necessary to save the earth [and the billionaires’ ski resorts].
Just look at the total disregard for life being broadcast each day as proof that your government doesn’t care about your life. And this is a nonpartisan issue. See my article on Afghanistan here showing how this is a nonpartisan issue. [For the elite, our death is preferable to our lives, which are regarded as a form of pollution of the planet.]
I know this is a very difficult concept for Americans to grasp. The thought that our government has an actual plan to eliminate most of us for a greater purpose they get to define, is not a conspiracy theory.
It is happening right in front of our eyes, but of course the corporate media is not reporting it, because they serve their masters on Wall Street, and most people are still asleep.
Will they wake up in time to save their lives, and the lives of their children and future generations?
The video recording of this Town Hall meeting is on YouTube, for now. We have also put it on our Rumble and Bitchute channels.
Nurses Speak Out at Town Hall Meeting on COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries – Lack of Reporting to VAERS https://www.globalresearch.ca/nurses-speak-out-minnesota-town-hall-meeting-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-lack-reporting-vaers/5754837
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