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The Artful Dilettante is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of Penn State University. He is a lover of liberty and a lifelong and passionate student of the same. He is voracious reader of books on the Enlightenment and the American colonial and revolutionary periods. He is a student of libertarian and Objectivist philosophies. He collects revolutionary war and period currency, books, and newspapers. He is married and the father of one teenage son. He is kind, witty, generous to a fault, and unjustifiably proud of himself. He is the life of the party and an unparalleled raconteur.

Vaccines: Is Our Government Guilty of War Crimes ?

It’s not Dr. Josef Mengele experimenting on twins or WWII-era Japanese scientists vivisecting people without anesthesia. But one writer contends that our government’s attempt to foist experimental “vaccines” on the people is only different in degree, not kind. In fact, J.B. Shurk explicitly states that by making COVID-19 genetic-therapy agents (GTAs, a.k.a. vaccines) mandatory under threat of career destruction and ostracism, the Joe Biden administration is guilty of war crimes.

Writing at American Thinker, Shurk begins by quoting Biden stating, “We are going to protect the vaccinated workers from unvaccinated coworkers.” That’s a switch. Just over a month ago, CDC head Rochelle Walensky and other leftists insisted that even vaccinated people should mask up to protect the unvaccinated. In other words, the government claimed the unvaccinated were imperiled, not the vaccinated.

Has the virus since then decided to direct its wrath at those who’d dare “vaccinate” against it?

Shurk writes that whatever “the friendly U.S. government is injecting into people, it’s certainly not inoculating against or inhibiting transmission of the Fauci Virus if the ‘vaccinated’ must walk around in bubble-boy suits for the rest of their lives.” The message, he states, is that you just need to keep taking more shots — Dr. Uncle Sam will tell you when you’ve had enough.

Yet is “there some unwritten rule that we must endure fake vaccinations during fake presidencies?” Shurk then asks, after pointing out that our science/state marriage has helped create a situation where a “vaccine” is now defined as a drug that may or may not protect you against disease. You must, however, take it, anyway. Why? Because the government says so.

In fact, Revelation 13:17 predicted that a time will come when “no one will be able to buy or to sell, except he who has the mark”; now it’s essentially, no one will be able to buy or to sell, except he who has the shot.

To be precise, proposed is the idea that people should suffer career loss and social ostracism if they refuse the GTAs. Not only is this based on no good science whatsoever — the most “vaccinated” nations also tend to have the highest coronavirus infection rates — but Shurk, again, labels it a war crime.

Making his case, he cites the 1947 Nuremberg Code’s “first stated principle outlining the bare minimum required of medical professionals ‘to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal’ duties.” To wit:

The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision [emphasis mine].

Shurk then asks about the above’s highlighted segment: “Does this set off any alarm bells for ethicists concerned about not following in the footsteps of Nazi medical science or treating civilians as guinea pigs for experimental research?”

“Is it possible that Herr Biden’s angry threats against healthy citizens for not partaking in his medical research might amount to ‘duress’ or ‘coercion’?” he continues. “Let’s see — jab this in your arm, or we will fire you, render you unemployable, threaten the financial survival of you and your family, and maybe leave you destitute and homeless.”

Shurk points out that Food and Drug Administration regulations also prohibit human experimentation.

Going further, the writer then cites how the Fourth Geneva Convention labels collective punishment a war crime, stating, “Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.” “The 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions ensure that real or threatened collective punishments are crimes against humanity ‘at any time and in any place whatsoever,’” Shurk adds.

Despite this, the Biden administration “has targeted unvaccinated citizens without any regard as to whether they might individually have natural immunity or have gained immunity from having already been infected with the Fauci Virus,” Shurk also points out. “Instead, D.F.’s vaccine mandates are structured to punish an entire class of Americans who have the temerity to believe that adults should be able to make personal decisions about their own health.”

“Class” is the word, too. Consider the following September 10 Newsweek headline: “Members of Congress and Their Staff Are Exempt From Biden’s Vaccine Mandate.” Seriously?

How much more criminal does the mandate seem when the leaders exempt themselves from the experimental GTAs that “are necessary to keep us all safe!”?

Then there’s how, last month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was at a large fundraiser at a densely packed table, and everyone was unmasked (video below. Relevant portion begins at 1:38) — everyone, that is, except for the “little brown people” serving them, as pundit Tucker Carlson put it. How’s that for class distinction?

Note that Pelosi foists masks on others, but, despite being in a high-risk category at 81 years old, didn’t seem too concerned about The Virus™. Curious, huh?

Lastly note the evolution on GTAs. First the Democrats were highly skeptical of any vaccine whose development Donald Trump facilitated (example below. Relevant portion begins at 1:30).

Selwyn Duke

Everything King Midas Touched Turned into Gold; Everything the Democrats Touch Turns into Excrement

The Democrats in the latter half of the 20th and early 21st centuries transitioned from a reform party into America’s worst enemy. Essentially, the Democrats destroyed America. They replaced the white population with Third World “people of color” who have different values and different cultures. Assimilation was halted. To assimilate immigrants was declared to be racist, cultural supremacy, and hostility to “multiculturalism,” which somehow became an overriding value. It became more important to be a Tower of Babel than to be a united Nation.

It was the Democrats who imposed disunity on America. It was the Democrats who changed the immigration laws and overran a white population with people of color living off of handouts imposed on the white population.

It was the Democrats who invented Identity Politics and who institutionalized in the educational system Critical Race Theory and Systemic Racism that demonize white Americans.

It was Democrats who destroyed Equality Under the Law by violating the statutory basis of the Civil Rights Act and imposing racial quotas, a form of preferment before the law.

It was Democrats who sicced women on men. Men became oppressors unless they were homosexuals. If they were straight white men, they were triple-time oppressors—women, persons of color, and homosexuals.

In America today heterosexual white men, that is, totally normal people, are subject to every epithet known to mankind. They are demonized relentlessly. They cannot protest hate speech or hate crimes against them. They cannot exercise free speech. They are totally dispossessed of their rights and humanity. But they are “privileged.”

This attack on white men was an attack on the basic strength of the country. Amazons are a fanciful story, but women have always been dependent on men, and the pretense that they are not, now institutionalized throughout American society, is one great delusion. It is the stupid feminists who are turning men into misogynists.

Think about that 4-starred quota-hired Uncle Tom moron who is Secretary of Defense and is imposing “racial sensitivity training” on white soldiers. Does this imbecile think any white heterosexual male will fight for him, for a country that conducts an relentless campaign against white heterosexual males?

Washington relies on Southern “redneck racists” to fight its wars. With the destruction of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, no real Southerner will ever again fight for the United States. Robert E. Lee as a person is so far superior to any person currently in Washington or Richmond, the Pentagon, state capitols, media, universities, wherever, that to desecrate Lee’s memory is to desecrate the country. Now that America is self-desecratated, it has no future.(Republished from PaulCraigRoberts.org by permission of author or representative)

If Newsom Prevails, Watch Out Patriots and Dissidents

California residents, beware: If Newsom prevails today, there will be retribution. He’s a classic Communist/fascist dictator. We know this from how he used his arbitrary powers (pre-recall effort) to lock down and open up, showing favoritism to some counties and cities over others based upon political loyalty. If Larry Elder pulls this off (I don’t see how he can with mail-in voting), then heaven help him, his family and his loved ones.

Governor Elder would be up against unbelievably evil and dishonest people in the heart of the lion’s den. He’s so courageous even to take this on. But if the recall doesn’t succeed, Newsom will be more brutal and empowered than ever. Kind of like striking the rattlesnake, missing and then letting the rattlesnake loose. And, of course, he will have his eyes on the presidency of the national dictatorship (formerly the American republic) being firmly established through Biden by Obama, Soros, Zuckerberg, Jobs’ widow and all the others.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The COVID Lie Grows Like Pinocchio’s Nose

Take 15 minutes and listen to this interview with a hospital nurse — https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/09/no_author/whistleblower-nurse-destroys-delta-narrative-vaccinated-patients-fill-hospital/

She says that what are called “breakthrough cases” and Delta variant cases are affecting mainly the vaccinated and are in fact adverse reactions to the vaccinations. She says hospitals and hospital doctors will not acknowledge the fact of adverse reactions and report adverse reactions to the vaccine as new Covid cases. The more Covid cases and Covid deaths, the more money the hospital makes, so reporting adverse vaccine reactions as new Covid cases is the way hospitals are maximizing their profits. Obviously, a hospital doctor who disagrees is out of a job. In other words, the truth about Covid and the vaccine is too costly to the hospital to be acknowledged.

The interviewed nurse says that half of the nurses at the hospital where she works are about to lose their jobs, because they refuse to be vaccinated. We have seen, she says, the terrible effects of vaccination on patients and are unwilling to do this to ourselves. Many nurses want to quit regardless, because they cannot stop doctors from making people ill by vaccinating them. Medicine, it seems, has ceased to be about health.

This hospital’s policy is essentially the policy of all the hospitals. It suits NIH, CDC, and FDA, because it protects the vaccine’s reputation and that of the regulators who approved its emergency use, and it protects Big Pharma’s profits, some of which flow back to the regulators.

As Stew Peters sums up the interview, it is murder for money.

The nurse says that the only treatment the hospital gives Covid patients is Remdesivir and puts patients on ventilators. Remdesivir has serious adverse effects of its own, and ventilators are a known killer of Covid patients.

Asked about Ivermectin, hospitals refuse to use it even if a doctor prescribes it for a patient. As I reported, at another hospital a wife had to get a court order that the hospital had to give the dying husband treatment with Ivermectin. But the hospital dragged its feet, and apparently Big Pharma got to the judge and he withdrew his order. The patient has likely been murdered by the refusal of treatment with Ivermectin. For hospitals, it is Big Pharma protocol over life.

Contrast this with the successful widespread use of Ivermectin in India to control Covid, and the decision by the Tokyo Medical Association to recommend that all doctors treat Covid patients with Ivermectin. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/09/07/the-powerful-case-against-covid-mrna-vaccine/

The conclusion is that when it comes to Covid treatment, the American medical system is the most backward one in the world.

Unfortunately, the presstitutes will not report any of this, and unfortunately most Americans are too busy wasting their time in the ways they do to save their lives by watching a 15 minute interview.

The Covid lie began with the PCR test run at high cycles that made the test unreliable and a generator of a high rate of false positives. This is how the “pandemic” was created. Millions of people who did not have Covid were reported as having Covid because of the false positives generated by the PCR test. This intentional lie was used to create the fear that drove people to be guinea pigs for a dangerous experimental “vaccine.”

Fear was also driven by financial incentives given to hospitals. Covid deaths meant bonus payments. This cleverness gave hospitals incentives to report all possible deaths as Covid deaths. The flu season, heart attacks, cancer, pneumonia, all became Covid deaths. The greatly exaggerated figure was used to heighten the fear factor.

In truth the people dying were people with Covid and co-morbidities, and they were dying because they were not being treated except with ventilators, which turned out not to be a treatment that addresses Covid.

Known and safe treatments were withheld, because otherwise emergency use could not be granted the pending vaccines. Emergency use authorization is dependent on the absence of treatments that cure. This is why in the US and Europe HCQ and Ivermectin, both long approved, long in use, and so safe that they are available for over-the-counter purchase in most of the world, were demonized as “dangerous,” “unapproved,” and it is why false stories financed by Big Pharma are spread, such as this one— https://www.rt.com/usa/534011-ivermectin-horse-dewormer-doctor-debunked/ — which convince people that there is no alternative to the “vaccine.”

The vaccine is not a vaccine. It is an effort to substitute experimental RNA technology for a vaccine, and it has failed big time. What was yesterday “fully vaccinated” is today unvaccinated. A booster shot is needed, and Fauci now says one will be needed every 8 months or despite numerous shots you will be unvaccinated. In Israel where 84% are “vaccinated,” the pandemic among the vaccinated is so great that the Israeli health czar already has Israelis on a second booster. It seems humanity is to become a pin cushion for vaccine needles.

The so-called vaccine not only fails to protect, it produces serious and deadly adverse effects. Indeed, the likely case is that the great majority of what are said to be new Covid cases are in fact adverse reactions to the vaccine. This would explain why the great majority of what are labeled new Covid cases are among the “fully vaccinated” and why new cases rise with vaccination. See the Israeli table for example— https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/09/07/the-powerful-case-against-covid-mrna-vaccine/

If already there are variants, it is highly likely that they are results of the vaccine which top rank scientists believe enables the virus to escape immune response. In other words, the more vaccination, the more variants, the more Covid spreads.

It would be impossible to design a greater failure or a greater threat to public health and civil liberty than the mRNA vaccines and the campaign behind them. Many distinguished experts have reached this conclusion and speak it, but they are censored. Why? Is it only because they threaten vaccine profits?

Despite the massive undeniable total failure of the Covid Vaccine, there is enormous pressure from everywhere for universal vaccination. Biden wants it mandated by the Labor Department that every firm with 100 employees requires vaccination as a condition of employment. Hospitals and HMOs are requiring it of their doctors and nurses. Universities are refusing to allow unvaccinated students to even take online courses! https://www.globalresearch.ca/rutgers-university-freezes-accounts-several-non-vaccinated-students/5755319 There are calls to deny unvaccinated people access to restaurants, hotels, public transportation, sports events, hospitals, and even visits to their own doctor and dentist. A Covid Passport which has to be updated every 8 months means endless paperwork. Every time you turn around it is time to get a new passport.

The pressure is unrelenting. If you make a purchase from a pharmacy in the state of Georgia, it will be handed to you in a red and white bag reading in giant letters: “I said Yes to the Vaccine to Help End the Pandemic.” “Covid Vaccine is safe,” declares the bag. “Side effects are mild and last a day or two.” Now do your part to control the pandemic—Get Vaccinated. Department of Public Health, Government of Georgia.

This from a public health department despite the fact that vaccination does not protect, requires endless booster shots, and is causing a pandemic of adverse reactions and new variants!

The only possible conclusion is that either public officials, employers, and university administrators are so completely stupid that they cannot fathom the clear evidence or they want more adverse vaccine reactions, more new variants, and more Covid cases.

Biden’s Handling of Afghanistan Makes Jimmy Carter Look Good

President Biden is making Jimmy Carter look like Winston Churchill.

Carter, president from 1976 to 1980, is generally held by critics to be a failed, one-term president. He was defeated for re-election by Republican Ronald Reagan.

This assessment is based on four years of an economic crisis that featured skyrocketing inflation, soaring interest rates, an energy shortage, long gasoline lines for scarce and overpriced gas, joblessness and, most importantly, the violent Iranian takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.null

In that takeover, Iranian militants on Nov. 4, 1979, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. They were blindfolded and humiliated before they were imprisoned and held for ransom.0:00 / 0:00Read More

The attack was in retaliation for Carter welcoming the shah of Iran, who had abandoned his country to the radical Islamists, to the U.S. for medical treatment.

If this hostage story sounds familiar, it should. Because it it is what President Biden has given us today with his abandonment of hundreds of U.S. citizens left behind in Afghanistan.

Only now the stakes are much higher.

But there is one key difference between Carter back then and Biden today.

And that is that Carter, when all diplomacy failed, launched a clandestine military mission to rescue the Americans.javascript:false;javascript:false;ADVERTISEMENTSCROLL TO CONTINUE READINGADVERTISEMENTSCROLL TO CONTINUE READING

Biden has done the opposite. Instead of sending troops in to rescue the Americans, he pulled the troops out, leaving hundreds of Americans and their families behind, along with thousands of Afghan allies.

Another difference is that the Carter hostages were treated as heroes.

Biden and his feckless Secretary of State Antony Blinken have shamelessly tried to blame the stranded Americans in Afghanistan for not getting to the Kabul airport in time.

Also, Carter hardly let a day go by without commenting on the plight of the 52 Americans held in Tehran. He saw it as his duty to free them.

Granted the Carter rescue mission failed miserably. It cost the lives of eight Americans when a helicopter crashed into one of the C-130 transport planes on the ground at a staging area outside of Tehran. But at least he tried, and at least he took responsibility.

In an address to the nation, Carter said, “It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed. The responsibility is fully my own.” Carter later admitted that his obsession with freeing the hostages may have cost him re-election.

At the time, Carter, who was challenged for the Democrat nomination by Sen. Ted Kennedy, thought it inappropriate to campaign while the hostages were in captivity. He would use the time to free them. So he adopted what was then called the stay at home “Rose Garden Strategy” and did not campaign in any of the Democrat primary states. He won the convention but lost the election.

Contrast that to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigning in California for Gov. Gavin Newsom while Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan.

The Iranian hostages, after 14 months of captivity, were freed on the last day of Carter’s presidency after $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets were released. The next day Carter, now a private citizen, flew to West Germany to greet them on their way home.

Biden, meanwhile, while calling his botched evacuation a success, is desperately trying to put the abandonment of the stranded Americans behind him.

Rather than talk about the Americans he left behind, or the increased likelihood of another terrorist attack on the U.S., Biden he is talking about the “existential threat” of climate change and COVID-19.

Meanwhile the abandoned Americans are at the mercy of the Taliban and other associated terrorist groups, while the Biden administration pleads with the Taliban to gain their release.

So far, their only hope of rescue has come not from the U.S. government, but from U.S. veterans who previously served in Afghanistan, and who have been able to get some Americans and Afghan interpreters out of the country.

Thanks to Biden’s ineptitude, the Taliban are calling the shots.

Biden promised that U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan until all Americans who wanted to come home were able to come home.

He broke his promise. He lied to them and to the country.

Joe Biden is no Winston Churchill. He is not even Jimmy Carter.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter and columnist.

We Can’t Even Count on the Supreme Court to Save Us from the Bidenistas

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Courts Will Rule Against Biden on Mandate Penalties, per Newsmax headline.

The courts will likely agree that the federal government has the power to enforce vaccine mandates, but they’ll say that the rules and punishments will have to come from Congress, not from President Joe Biden, Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax.

He also told Friday’s “American Agenda” that he expects the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a preliminary ruling within a month over whether Biden should have issued the mandates, and the decision will depend on the answers to several questions.

“No. 1, is this something the federal government can do as compared to the states?” Dershowitz said. “The states have police power. The federal government doesn’t have police power. The federal government’s powers have to derive from the text of the Constitution.”

Interesting. Dershowitz believes the Supreme Court will reject Biden’s mandate — NOT because it’s a savage violation of individual rights, but on pragmatic grounds, i.e because the Congress should do it, not the President. Seriously? Would it be ok for the federal government to force abortions or to sterilize people, or to put them in political prison camps, so long as Congress ordered it rather than the President!? If so, our Constitution is in ashes. Nevertheless, I don’t trust the Supreme Court even to issue the pragmatic decision Dershowitz predicts. After their refusal even to consider the considerable evidence suggesting election fraud in 2020, we can never trust them with anything again. Biden will get his way.

Will people refuse to comply? We shall soon know.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason