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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.

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

Growing Evidence that America’s Differences are Irreconcilable

Robert O’Neill, Navy SEAL credited with killing Osama bin Laden:

“People do need to realize that, you know, as opposed to yelling at each other on social media – there’s an enemy out there that wants to kill all of us. And it doesn’t matter, really doesn’t matter, what you look like – it’s your ideology,” he said. “You don’t believe what they think you should believe and they’re going to kill you.”

Yes: It’s your IDEAS that determine what you feel, and what you do. If you believe that people who disagree with you should be murdered, you are a killer and a terrorist. Similarly, if you believe people who disagree with you should be censored, or lose their jobs, or be forbidden to vote, or fly on airplanes, or walk around without a mask, or go to a doctor — then you are a tyrant.

America was divided before 9/11. The disaster that day provided a superficial and temporary unity. It showed that on a fundamental level, most Americans agreed on most things. We could all oppose the people who knocked down the towers. Today it’s different. Most Americans on one side share fundamentally different views, attitudes and beliefs from Americans on the other. These differences appear to me every bit as irreconcilable as the differences between the terrorists and America back in 2001. The people endorsing what Biden does, and the people who love what Trump stands for.. these differences are as deep and as irreparable as any can be. There’s no resolving them.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Biden’s Dictatorship: Creepy, but no Longer Creeping

If Trump were President and ordered Americans to get the vax, would Democrats obey?

“Joe Biden’s six-prong plan to fight COVID-19 will include vaccine and mask requirements, a White House official told Fox News Thursday.

The White House has teased all week that the president will detail his six-prong plan to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, as cases rise in many parts of the country because of the more contagious delta variant. Those prongs will be vaccine requirements; booster shots; keeping schools open; increasing testing and requiring masks; economic recovery; and improving patient care.

The initial list of the president’s plan is very light on details. It is not clear, for example, exactly who the president is going to call on to require masks – states, local governments, businesses, some combination of the three, or something entirely different.”

Of course the plan is light on details. It’s because it’s designed to intimidate. Not to inform, educate, protect health or anything else … just to intimidate. Leaving aside that Biden is demented and doesn’t know what he’s saying half the time, this is what authoritarians and dictators do: They yell, they scream, they demand. There’s no internal logic to what they say. There’s no rational context for it. It’s just verbal masturbation — in public, before the whole world, in this case, because the American presidency still matters (though it won’t for much longer).

This is the time to TUNE OUT. Just stop listening. Think of Joe Biden as a baby in a high chair screaming, spitting out his food and throwing a tantrum. He doesn’t matter. Your life, and your freedom, do.

YOUR body. HIS choice. Seriously? This despotic goofball gets to decide if you take the shot, or not? It’s the private sector now too. If he can do this now, the precedent will be established for the government to do pretty much ANYTHING IT WANTS to your body. So even if you want this vaccine and think these unconstitutional mandates are therefore ok, you had better think again.

The biggest issue isn’t what Biden is doing with vax mandates. Those were expected. The biggest issue is that he can’t be held accountable for anything he does. With our electoral system rigged, he and his party–despite 39 percent approval in polls already biased in their favor–know they aren’t going anywhere. Biden isn’t acting like an unpopular President in fear of losing control. He’s acting like a dictator seeking to expand and reinforce control, as quickly as possible. He’s doing it relentlessly, without stopping for air. This is how dictatorships gain their hold. If you think there’s hope for reversals in 2022 or 2024, you are living in a state of denial. Even if we could get an honest election–how?–you won’t recognize this country by the fall of 2022. An unaccountable government that KNOWS it’s unaccountable is capable of absolutely anything. You haven’t seen anything yet from these totalitarians. Not just Biden, but all of them.

Biden: “If they’ll not help, if these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the way.” Wow. He has discovered his inner Mussolini.

Biden has literally declared war on the Governors of states who are still trying to uphold the Bill of Rights. He has also declared war on the unvaccinated and others who choose to disagree with him on anything. Maybe it’s time for these states, and other localities, to reconsider the level of abuse they plan to take from Biden’s utterly lawless and unconstitutional regime.

If you have no choices, you are not free.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The People Calling You Racist are Racists

Google has reportedly launched an “antiracism” initiative that claims American capitalism is “white supremacist.”

Only a racist would equate capitalism–economic freedom–with white supremacy. Because when you claim that some races can flourish under economic freedom while some races cannot, you are in fact being racist. It takes an individualist–the total opposite of a racist–to embrace meritocracy and dispense with all concerns about race.

Today’s real racists are those fixated on race, the pompous and self-described progressives. They project their own racism onto people who cherish freedom and liberty. In the process, they are bringing down all freedom and ushering in a world where people of all races will suffer from stagnation, poverty and despair. It’s so utterly irrational, so wrong and so tragically unnecessary.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason