I am not qualified to speak on this topic, but since those who should** do not, I feel compelled to try.

**Our entire government; our entire news media; our entire education system.

USURY is condemned in The Bible’s Old Testament, just to put a time stamp on it. Its harms have been understood for a very long time.

For us now, and even since the 1828 Webster Dictionary, the ancient meaning has been obscured:

1. Formerly, interest; or a premium paid or stipulated to be paid for the use of money.

2. In present usage, illegal interest; a premium or compensation paid or stipulated to be paid for the use of money borrowed or retained, beyond the rate of interest established by law.

3. The practice of taking interest. Obsolete

**1828 Webster Dictionary

We will learn that these definitions are woefully inadequate.

Typically, we associate usury with gangsters and thugs … leg breakers … “ya got two days!” … “don’t forget the vig” …

Indeed, that is usury, but in the end, a minor scenario intended to satisfy our sense of righteous indignation.

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The true meaning of usury, and the gradual forgetting of same, has led to the validity of this famous boast:

Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.

**Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790

(Read this 10 times, even if you already know it; then whack yourself upside the head with a stout piece of wood, then read it 10 more times)

This 200‑years‑ago conceit bespeaks the defeat of the 400‑years‑ago prohibitions on usury.

The character of Usury has nothing to do with the taking of high or low interest. It is concerned with something quite different.

Usury is the taking of any interest whatever upon an UNPRODUCTIVE loan.

** Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953)

The element of productivity is tied to a phenomenon sometimes called “the eleventh dollar.” This mathematical problem has been understood since, literally, 4,000 years ago!

In Babylonia after a bad crop year, the farmers would be forced to go to the priests of Baal for a loan to buy seed for the following year. Let us say a farmer named Seth was one of those who needed money for seed. The temple priests were most accommodating and graciously allowed Seth to borrow 10 talents under condition that he repay 11. His land, livestock, wife, children and he himself served as collateral.

In that day there was little money in circulation. The sudden appearance of 10 talents in circulation allowed Seth (and similar farmers) to buy seed and plant great fields of grain. Here we have a situation of a debt of 11 talents coming due while there are only 10 talents in circulation with which to pay.

We can imagine that Seth was panic-stricken after having paid back 10 talents and finding that he still owed one more, and that there was no way to pay because there was no more money in circulation. He could offer the priest hundreds of bushels of grain in payment, but the contract he signed was due to be paid in TALENTS ─ not grain.

Since Seth could not pay his debt of 11 talents when there were only 10 talents in circulation, he must forfeit his collateral. His livestock went first, his lands next, then his children were sold into slavery as well as his wife, and then he himself became a slave.

** Richard Hoskins, War Cycles, Peace Cycles (1985)

Let’s give a more recent expression of the dilemma:

While economic textbooks claim that people and corporations are competing for markets and resources, I claim that in reality they are competing for money ─ using markets and resources to do so. Greed and fear of scarcity are being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using. For example, we can produce more than enough food to feed everybody, and there is definitely not enough work for everybody in the world, but there is clearly not enough money to pay for it all. In fact, the job of central banks is to create and maintain that currency scarcity. Money is created when banks lend it into existence. When a bank provides you with a $100,000 mortgage, it creates only the principal, which you spend and which then circulates in the economy. The bank expects you to pay back $200,000 over the next 20 years, but it doesn’t create the second $100,000 ─ the interest. Instead, the bank sends you out into the tough world to battle against everybody else to bring back the second $100,000.

**Bernard Lietaer (1942-2019), Belgian economist

Wow ─ same old, same old.

This dilemma is often likened to the children’s game of Musical Chairs. Given enough time, and enough greed, and enough lawlessness, it can be likened to the dystopian Hunger Games.

Let’s reinforce our understanding of a productive loan:

Usury has nothing to do with the rate of interest at all, be it high or low. You can have an interest rate of 100% - and most people would agree that that is exorbitant - which is NOT usurious, while you could have an interest rate of 0.5% - and most people would agree that this is very low, perhaps unbelievably low in our age - which would be complete usury and which, during the Middle Ages would have had you excommunicated, and even in English Courts in the 18th century had you sent to prison. This will seem paradoxical until you understand that usury is the taking of any interest at all on a loan that is not productive.

This means that for a loan to be non-usurious it must be used in such a way that it generates new wealth, and from this new wealth the lender of the money gets a percentage, which is his profit. This is only right and fair. But if the money is used in such a way that it generates no new wealth, but bears a burden of interest, be it high or low, it is usury.

**Editor of the Saint George Educational Trust

Let me paraphrase an example I read by Hillaire Belloc.

Cast your mind back to the 17th Century spice trade era:

Suppose I’m a wealthy Brit. A seasoned sea captain proposes to sail to Ceylon and procure a valuable cargo of spices to sell back in Jolly Old England. If I can provide and provision a proper ship, and pay the crew’s salary, he can find worthy seamen, and knows how to get there, procure the spices, and return home with the bounty.

(This next part is my own fabrication): The ship, provisions, and salaries – and insurance ─ amount to 12,000 pounds. It turns out the spices are worth 26,000 pounds on the market. We agree to split the profit evenly. I make a 58% return on my investment.

My action is not usurious because new wealth was created.

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Now let’s contrast this with our beloved gangsters from up the page: I lose $700 betting on the horses (please don’t tell my wife). I go to a rather shady individual to borrow $500 to pay the rent and groceries. I owe “him” $600 by next Tuesday. “He” is a usurer because no new wealth was created.

He’s also a usurer under current laws because he’s not licensed to lend money, but we will soon learn that this is not as goody‑two‑shoes as it seems.

This “productive” dimension … what happened to it? Why did it take me years of dabbling to learn about it? If you web‑search “usury” you won’t find any information about it.

The wrong and the very nature of usury came to be forgotten with the great expansion of financial dealings which arose in the middle and end of the Seventeenth Century in Europe. In the simpler times, when commercial transactions were open and upon a comparatively small scale, and done between men who knew each other, you could pretty usually tell, as you can in private life, whether a loan were a loan required for a productive or an unproductive purpose. The burden of proof lay upon the lender. It was no excuse in lending a man money to say: “I did not know what he wanted to do with it, so I charged him 10 per cent, thinking that very probably he was going to use it productively.” The courts of justice would not admit such a plea. For under the simple conditions of the old days the judge would answer: “It was your business to know.”

The attitude of the law on moneylending in the old days was very much what it is today with regard to certain poisonous chemicals which may be used well or ill. The seller of those chemicals has to ask what they are going to be used for and is responsible if he fails to inquire.

But as trade became more and more complicated and much larger and lost its personal character, as the banking system arose on a large scale and great companies with any number of shareholders, and as it became impossible to lay the weight of proof upon the lender ─ when, indeed, most lenders could not know for what their money was being lent, but only that they had put it into some financial institution with the object of increasing it ─ then the opportunity for Usury came in, and soon permeated all commerce.

** Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953)

Back to the loan shark for a minute, to learn an even greater problem:

This is only my kindergarten understanding of the process, but you will get the point:

The Web says loans sharks charge 300-400% … let’s say for one year to keep it simple.

You borrow $500 and owe $1,500 after 12 months … 300%.

Ouch!

A bank charges you 10% per annum. Borrow $500 and pay back $550.

That’s better, yeah?

BUT

With the bank’s privilege of FRACTIONAL RESERVE LENDING (legislated at law, enforceable with the police powers of the state) banks are allowed to lend out at a ratio of up to 9:1 vis‑a‑vis their actual money holdings.

At 9:1, they are really only lending you $56.

When you pay back $550 after 12 months, their interest rate comes to 982%.

That’s nine hundred eighty-two, with no decimal point.

(I know this is loosey-goosey, but you get the drift).

You probably know the story of the medieval goldsmiths who had safes to keep their gold in and agreed to keep other people’s gold, silver and coin secure for them, issuing redeemable notes equivalent to the physical holding.

After a while the “customers” decided the notes were more convenient to transact with than the metals.

Then the goldsmiths noticed that the demand for the actual gold or coins was considerably less than the total held. This then led to them issuing notes which had no physical counterpart, and this is how we got FRACTIONAL RESERVE LENDING.

We naturally think we’re smarter than ancient people since they didn’t have airplanes and Uzis and Jiffy Pop. But every year you can witness a new YouTube about how the pyramids were built … and, every following year, it’s not quite the right answer.

Archaeologists digging in the ruins of ancient temples, or ziggurats, in Babylonia have discovered extensive evidence of the economic system practiced by the priests of BaaI. Instead of finding money (or coins) as we know it, we mostly find clay tablets representing promises to pay ─ or lOU’s. Along with the clay tablets has been uncovered the secret of their economic system, a system in some respects more efficient than our economic system today.

** Richard Hoskins, War Cycles, Peace Cycles (1985)

With what I know after nearly 20 years of studying LYING, I’m guessing that the goldsmith story was scattered about for years to make it seem like the practice of lending something from nothing just unfolded organically … “gee, isn’t it amazing how things happen?”

To misrepresent is an offense against your fellow man. It’s a sin and, often enough, a crime. There’s really no way to pretty it up.

Fractional-reserve banking is the system of banking under which banks that take deposits from the public keep only part of their deposit liabilities in liquid assets as a reserve, typically lending the remainder to borrowers. Bank reserves are held as cash in the bank or as balances in the bank’s account at the central bank.

The country’s central bank may determine a minimum amount that banks must hold in reserves, called the “reserve requirement” or “reserve ratio”.

**Wikipedia

This is a steaming pile of manure, and in the “history” section Wiki regurgitates the goldsmith fairy tale.

Let’s get a second opinion:

This is a commentary that should never have needed to be written. What is euphemistically called “fractional-reserve banking” is obvious fraud and obvious crime. By its very definition, it transforms the banking sector of an economy into a leveraged Ponzi scheme, and as with all Ponzi schemes, there is no possible happy ending here.

In order to conceal the criminality and insanity of our present system to the greatest degree possible, the bankers have to hide their dirty deeds within their own convoluted jargon.

Down through the centuries, under normal circumstances, it has always been observed that only a tiny percentage of depositors will claim their actual wealth at any one time. Thus, the temptation is for bankers to “lend” more funds than they actually possess; they are “lending” what does not even exist. This is “fractional-reserve banking” – the ultimate euphemism of banking and fraud.

Suppose ABC Bank holds $1 billion in total deposits. In the original form of our fractional-reserve fraud, the fraud ratio was set at 10:1. This meant that for every dollar that a bank actually held, it was allowed to “lend” ten. Where does the other $9 billion come from? It is conjured out of thin air via fractional-reserve fraud.

It automatically transforms our monetary system into an institutionalized Ponzi scheme.

… “run on a bank” … is intended to insinuate that the mere act of depositors taking possession of their own property is somehow a “crime” against the financial system. Indeed, our own governments will institute “bank holidays” ─ yet another banking euphemism where depositors are legally prohibited from taking possession of their own property.

It thus becomes necessary for governments to abandon the Rule of Law and legally prevent their citizens from taking possession of their own property as the only means of preventing the complete implosion of this system.

The bankers are granted absolute legal protection to perpetrate their fraud/crime, at the direct expense of the law-abiding citizens of that society.

Why would our governments have ever turned our entire financial system into such institutionalized fraud? They were convinced to do so on the basis of the promise of the bankers. The bankers promised that they would respect the enormous legal privilege that they had been granted by acting in a responsible manner and doing nothing to jeopardize this institutionalized Ponzi scheme. In reality, the banks have done the precisely the opposite.

**Jeff Nielson, Canadian financial writer, precious metals expert (verbiage slightly shortened)

I guess we can’t accuse Mr. Nielson of sugar-coating the topic!

(His 4-part 7,000-word essay is no longer available on the Web. If you’re keenly interested, you can write to me).

THIS IS NOT ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE. THIS HAS GONE ON FOR AT LEAST THREE CENTURIES:

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

**William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, 1694

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The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

AND

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

**John K. Galbraith

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The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again...

Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

**Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England (circa 1920)

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Our federal government is fully complicit in these crimes by virtue of:

Establishing legal tender laws

Promulgating regulations which make the system appear legitimate

Allowing private bank credit to equal currency

Enforcing deceptive debt obligations in courts of law

Never informing the public of the system’s true workings

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They hang the man and flog the woman

who steal the goose from the Common

But the other man they let go loose

who steal the Common from the goose

**Old English Nursery Rhyme

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I ran across this diagram in my archives whilst working on this post. I don’t know where it’s from or how true it is, but it is properly suggestive of the breadth and depth of influence needed to perpetuate for decades such a fundamental offense to humanity. The Illuminati are roughly coextensive with the cabal and the bloodline families and the international bankers:

OK, let’s start over.

There are 3 ways to generate income:

AGRICULTURE: Nurture God’s plants and animals and sell their products to your fellow citizen.

INDUSTRY: Make something that your neighbor might want – a basket, a knife, a computer, a car, a song, a book, a cure for gout, a shirt, a peppermint toothpaste, a muffin, etc.

THEFT: The psychopaths’ chosen profession. The cabal’s eternal MO.

There are 3 duties of a nation to its citizens:

MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER

PROTECT THE CITIZENRY FROM FOREIGN AGGRESSION

PROVIDE A STABLE MONEY SUPPLY FOR COMMERCE

People who will not turn a shovel of dirt on the project, nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money, from the United States, than will the people, who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest (usury). But here is the point: If the nation can issue a dollar bond, it can also issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference, between the bond and the bill, is that the bond lets the money-broker collect twice the amount of the bond, and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort, provided by the Constitution, pays nobody, but those, who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd, to say that our country can issue bonds, and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the people were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation, when the Government, to insure the national wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

**Thomas A. Edison

Thank you, sir. That’s the long and the short of it.

In June 2006, when I learned that the Federal Reserve is a private enterprise, and that the “national debt” should not even exist AT ALL, I was numb for 2 weeks. All of a sudden, I was living in a world full of dumbasses, and I was one of them.

When I shared this with my brother, he instantly accepted the insight and said, “Yeah, it’s kind of like the water works – you use it every day, but you don’t really think about it.”

This oversight, nothing to be ashamed of initially, applies to usury as well.

It seems natural that someone lending some money would want a little extra back.

Yet, we are a product of our times, and other viewpoints have prevailed.

One book I read for this assignment was:

Usury

A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View

by Calvin Elliott

Published by the Anti-Usury League

Millersburg, Ohio

Copyrighted 1902

Much of it was too Biblical for me, you know, like “Ezra came out of the desert, and the Hamites were dashed against the rock…” and so on. But some passages were exhilarating in their revealing of Noble Thoughts from more ethical times.

It is only intelligent energy that can produce wealth. Even the natural resources must be subdued and shaped by intelligent energy to be of service to man. Trees do not betake themselves into the form of houses. Land does not transform itself into farms and gardens. Coal does not come to our fires without hands. Ore is not iron, nor is clay pottery. They must be carefully manipulated by the intelligent laborer.

Nothing man can make has the power of self-propagation. All wealth is as barren as silver and gold, though Shylock claimed he could make them breed like ewes and rams. Life alone is productive, and the secrets of life man has not touched. A tree or animal grows by the life that is in it, but the accretions of wealth are from the efforts of intelligent energy outside of itself. Wealth is an effect, a result. The vital energy of a person, of “a willing intelligent being” produces wealth, but it does not follow that it has the qualities of its cause. It has no intelligence, nor has it self-determining power, nor is it vital, nor has it energy, it has not in itself the force to overcome its inertia, the energy must be applied. It has no power to increase or grow. A fortune is built, as a building is built, brick after brick is added by intelligent hands. All wealth must have the living hands applied to cause it to increase even the smallest amount. There is no such thing as “productive” capital. It is so called when it is used to gather and appropriate the earnings of others, but wealth in none of its forms has the quality or power of producing.

**Usury by Calvin Elliott

This is so pure, so wise. This is a deep insight into the human condition and the miracles of God’s Creation. This renders Gordon Gekko’s place in the Universe equivalent to one grain of sand, and no more.

This is the grail of my original query, “What is usury, historically; and why was it excoriated for centuries?”

Thank you, Mr. Elliott.

Notice the reference to the breeding of sheep. The ancient magicians of interest‑taking did not discourage the analogy of the accretion of money to the fecundity of crops and livestock. If someone gave you a ewe and a ram, eventually you would return to them a ewe and a ram plus a lamb, right? Only fair, right?

Luther was violent in his opposition, using the strongest language he could command. “Whoever eats up, robs and steals the nourishment of another, commits as great a murder, as he who carves a man or utterly undoes him. Such does a usurer, and he sits the while on his stool, when he ought rather to be hanging from the gallows.”

**Usury by Calvin Elliott

Geez, why so crabby? Because money is dead and to pretend to breathe life into it is a sacrilege. In our present asswipe culture, where you can get in trouble for saying Merry Christmas, few folks are going to worry about something being sacrilegious.

Blackstone is a bit more reserved about the matter:

Blackstone says : “When money is lent on a contract to receive not only the principal sum again, but also an increase by way of compensation for the use, the increase is called interest by those who think it lawful, and usury by those who do not.”

**Usury by Calvin Elliott

True dat.

There is something else going on here. Comity. Civil society. Dignified social intercourse. Respect, and a calmness about one’s niche in the world. Witness:

The prayer of Agur, “Give me neither poverty nor riches,” is the prayer we should offer and the prayer we should try ourselves to answer. We are to seek freedom from poverty on the one hand and from ensnaring riches on the other. This is the condition we should try to secure in the community and in the commonwealth. We should discourage excess of riches and we should endeavor to relieve all of distressing poverty. We should hedge about accumulation with such conditions as to make it very difficult to gain great wealth, and at the same time we should so ease the conditions of accumulation that only gross indolence or great misfortune could cause dependent poverty.

The so-called middle class are those who neither have great riches nor yet are they in fear of want. The great mass of our people belonged to this class until very recent times. Now we find the excessively rich have multiplied and a vast number of our industrious, honest and virtuous population are struggling for life’s necessities. The middle class is less numerous while both those in opulence and those in poverty have been increasing.

We should level up and level down to the medium which is best for the development of the highest manhood and best also for the strength and perpetuity of our republican institutions.

The rich should be limited in their accretions while the poor are lifted out of their poverty; but how can this be accomplished without interfering with individual liberty and our personal rights? The problem is not easily solved. While usury remains, which is an ever active centralizing force adding wealth to wealth, no remedy can be found. Do away with usury, and the evil is overcome.

**Usury by Calvin Elliott

Agur’s prayer is from the Bible and it is beautiful:

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

**Proverbs 30:8-9

And here is a passage that you will never see in today’s media, ANYWHERE, EVER:

The greatest factor in life in all ages is not material wealth, nor social position, nor genius, nor education, but character. Since man is above things, the highest purpose is not the gathering of that beneath him, but the developing of the best and noblest that is in him.

The highest possible purpose and work is the developing of virtuous manhood.

This was the thought of our fathers when they came to these shores and built their homes and established the free institutions which we now enjoy. They sacrificed material advantages that they might be free men and secure for themselves and for their children the opportunity to reach in faith and practice the ideal manhood.

No material advantage can be regarded with favor that is detrimental to the characters of men. Position, wealth, education, are worse than worthless when associated with a corrupted manhood.

**Usury by Calvin Elliott

Such principled people have existed, and exist to this day, but they have been drowned out by the mad screechings of a society operating in constant panic mode.

One last lesson from Mr. Elliott’s obscure book:

“I have not so perverted my soul nor palsied my brain as to expect to be advantaged by that adhesion (usury). I do not expect that because I have gathered much to find Nature or man gathering more for me; to find eighteen pence in my box in the morning instead of the shilling as a reward of my continence, or to make an income of my Koran by lending it to poor scholars. If I think he can read it and will carefully turn the leaves by the outside, he is welcome to read it for nothing.”

**John Ruskin

(1 shilling=12 pence)

Here is a man proud of what he has earned in life, and happy to benefit others who are themselves respectful of their neighbors.

It is so simple; and so powerful.

Intrigued, I looked at some more quotes from Mr. Ruskin (1819-1900):

There is no wealth but life.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

**John Ruskin

Noble Thoughts are spiritual sustenance of eternal importance. The cabal, with their Frankfurt Group and their Tavistock Institute and their South Park TV cartoon and their vile rap music have transmogrified many of us into adolescent snickerers who view Noble Thoughts as, at best, mildly corny.

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Islam prohibits usury, unto the present time. I just found a website which explains this (link) and copied these 8 reasons. Usury:

Creates an Unjust Social System

Leads to Economic Instability

Undermines the Principle of Trust in Financial Transactions

Is Considered a Form of Gambling

Encourages Greed and Materialism

Violates the Principle of Mutual Cooperation

Goes Against the Principles of Charity and Compassion

Can Lead to Moral Corruption

Only the second reason is “mathematical” – the rest are moral/ethical in breadth.

Here is an insight into wealth and charity from ancient Asia:

The Giver Should be Thankful

While Seisetsu was the master of Engaku in Kamakura he required larger quarters, since those in which he was teaching were overcrowded. Umezu Seibei, a merchant of Edo, decided to donate five hundred pieces of gold called ryo toward the construction of a more commodious school. This money he brought to the teacher.

Seisetsu said: ‘All right. I will take it.’

Umezu gave Seisetsu the sack of gold, but he was dissatisfied with the attitude of the teacher. One might live a whole year on three ryo, and the merchant had not even been thanked for five hundred.

In that sack are five hundred ryo,’ hinted Umezu.

“You told me that before,’ replied Seisetsu.

‘Even if I am a wealthy merchant, five hundred ryo is a lot of money,’ said Umezu.

‘Do you want me to thank you for it?’ asked Seisetsu.

“You ought to,’ replied Umezu.

‘Why should I?’ inquired Seisetsu. ‘The giver should be thankful.’

**from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps

One principle of the older (and now lost) characterization of usury vis-à-vis society, taught that the lending of money (or a resource) to a poor person was never to enrich to the lender. The lender must merely hope to be compensated; and if not that, to let it go.

My best sense of this (and the Zen anecdote) is that we should be grateful if we are not poor, and doubly grateful if we are able to assist the less fortunate.

To prey upon the poor is to be viewed by the principled person as cowardly and vile.

I always try to point out that the cabal are Satanically greedy: Not only do they want everything; they don’t want anyone else to have anything. Thus, they are naturally drawn to usury.

The quality of mercy is not strain’d.

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:

It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes

The throned monarch better than his crown.

**William Shakespeare

If that last section was too touchy-feely for you, fear not, we will now examine some tangible dilemmas from allowing usury ─ the consequences of forgetting its perils.

The Federal Reserve was instituted in 1913, with Woodrow Wilson sealing the deal. He did this for a bribe of $40,000 to pay a blackmailer who had letters from a woman WW had an affair with. Here’s what he thought of the common citizen:

We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

**Woodrow Wilson

Indeed, when the Fed was established, the public schools stopped teaching economics and history. The great Dumbing Down project had begun in earnest.

The proclaimed central virtue of the Fed was that it would be non-political, neutral, even-handed, pragmatic, coolly scientific.

American history in the twentieth century has recorded the amazing achievements of the Federal Reserve bankers. First, the outbreak of World War I, which was made possible by the funds available from the new central bank of the United States. Second, the Agricultural Depression of 1920. Third, the Black Friday Crash on Wall Street of October, 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. Fourth, World War II. Fifth, the conversion of the assets of the United States and its citizens from real property to paper assets from 1945 to the present, transforming a victorious America and foremost world power in 1945 to the world’s largest debtor nation in 1990. Today, this nation lies in economic ruins, devastated and destitute, in much the same dire straits in which Germany and Japan found themselves in 1945.

**Eustace Mullins

The Fed is a private company. We don’t have phone books anymore, but when we did, a Fed regional bank was not listed under the “government” section of the guide.

Funnily, one of the first proofs of this in court was a car crash case where the citizen whose car was struck by a Federal Reserve staff car was told he couldn’t sue the government because it wasn’t a government car.

When the Fed was established in 1913, its Class A stockholders were legislated as secret, and remain so. Nevertheless, here’s who the original group probably was:

The shareholders of these banks which own the stock of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are the people who have controlled our political and economic destinies since 1914. They are the Rothschilds, of Europe, Lazard Freres (Eugene Meyer), Kuhn Loeb Company, Warburg Company, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, the Rockefeller family, and the J.P. Morgan (*) interests.

**Eustace Mullins, 1952

(*) J.P. Morgan the bank, not the person

From Idaho Senate testimony in 1983, we have the following list of owners declared:

* Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin

* Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris

* Israel Moses Sieff Banks of Italy

* Warburg Bank of Hamburg, Germany, Amsterdam

* Lehman Brothers Bank of New York

* Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York

* Chase Manhattan Bank of New York

* Goldman Sachs Bank of New York

“Mr. Chairman, sir, there are approximately three hundred people, all known to each other and sometimes related to one another, who hold stock or shares in the Federal Reserve System. They comprise an interlocking, international banking cartel of wealth beyond comprehension.”

**Archibald Roberts Lt. Col., guest witness

Nice. Surely, all these international fat cats have your and my best interest at heart.

(Here is a chart of the original owners which was produced by Eustace Mullins in his seminal 1952 work about the Fed, “The Secrets of the Federal Reserve”):

Mullins Who Owns Fed

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Also, in 1913 the income tax was instituted via the 16^th Amendment to the Constitution. This was and is illegal, and not only because the amendment was never properly ratified.

The IRS is another private company – it is not the government. It operates under color of law and is illegal.

Originally it only taxed capital gains, affecting only the top 1% of US citizens.

Now, that is flipped on its head, as in this example:

The private equity firm, however, is entitled to an annual management fee of 2 percent of the capital raised. If the company’s sale and any dividends paid amount to more than the “hurdle rate” - an agreed-upon rate of return, such as 8 or 10 percent - the private equity firm also earns a performance fee comprising 20 percent of the profits (above the hurdle rate). This performance fee is known as the private equity firm’s “carried interest.” Together, these two inputs in fund managers’ salaries are known as the “2 and 20.”

Under existing U.S. tax rules, the manager’s carried interest earnings are taxed not as normal income, but as capital gains - earnings accrued from the purchase and sale of assets. The tax rate on capital gains is just 15 percent, whereas the manager’s salary would otherwise be taxed at a rate of 35 percent, the top U.S. income tax rate. Some prominent figures in the financial world, such as former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, have argued that managers’ profits should be taxed as normal salary.

**Arnie’s Archives

I don’t know where this stands now but it doesn’t matter. What I understand is that the income tax was meant for profits and now it’s upside down, where earnings are taxed at a greater rate than capital gain profits.

Your earnings from a job are not profits, they are the fruits of a contract. You have traded your labor for money. Additionally, the constitution declares the sanctity of contracts, and then the IRS violates that sanctity. This is just my kindergarten understanding of it but I’m pretty sure it’s true.

Big surprise ─ we’re getting screwed six ways from Sunday.

INFLATION

There’s a small town 30 miles west of me where I go for spring water. There’s a nice family restaurant there where I used to enjoy getting a Reuben sandwich with fries. Before the CORONAVIRUSCRIME, this item cost $7.99. Now it costs $15.99 … FOREVER.

Yes, inflation is forever. It won’t “go back.” (and I won’t go back to that restaurant … I can’t afford it anymore).

But you already know this.

When I was in high school in 1966 I was in a convenience store with a couple of buddies and one of them, making a purchase, asked the other for a penny, so that he wouldn’t have to “break” a dime (which was enough to buy a Snickers bar). Now we’ve got rid of pennies, and I know there are some youngsters who struggle to count out change.

About 20 years ago, I read that a 1960 dollar was (then) worth 2 cents. Imagine its value today.

This all goes back to the duty of a nation to provide a stable money supply. The government should introduce new money into the system in correspondence with the conditions of commerce. For example, one way of doing this I’ve seen over the years is by paying for all infrastructure improvements, whether new or reparative (the current methods involve taxation and enriching rich people with bond schemes).

You’ve seen the Consumer Price Index (CPI) reports, and you know they’re LYING. For example, a number of years ago energy costs were removed from the “basket of goods” (link).

A recent further trick is the adoption of “substitution” for consumer purchases. For example, the price of a T-Bone Steak became shockingly high, so the brainiacs in DC substitute Flank Steak, because, well, it’s beef, right?

They act like it’s mere hair-splitting, but here’s the territory we are entering today:

Not can’t afford Filet Mignon; not can’t afford to go to Disney World anymore; no, can’t afford to LIVE. This was a real gut punch for me. Never forget, we didn’t use to have homeless people in the US, for the most part. It wasn’t that long ago, either.

(The day after writing this paragraph, I encountered this news item):

Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990, a new study has found. (link)

(The “new study” is from The Lancet medical journal)

ALWAYS REMEMBER: THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE WORLD IS POVERTY.

Several years ago, I learned from Devvy Kidd that the unspoken purpose of the income tax is to damp down inflation (Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy!) The Swamp Creatures don’t need that tax money because they just create what they want out of thin air. Thus, inflation occurs when all the stealing from you and me still isn’t enough to prevent inflation, due to their profligacy.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, during Congressional testimony on August 1, 2009 (abridged):

Mr. PAUL: I want to address the subject of inflation being actually a tax.

I maintain really that inflation is a tax, and if Federal Reserve and you, as Chairman, have this authority to increase the money supply arbitrarily, you’re probably the biggest taxer in the country. You’re a bigger taxer than the Congress.

I maintain that inflation, that is the increase in the supply of money for various reasons, is a tax. It’s an unfair tax, it’s a regressive tax, it hurts the poor, it hurts the retired people more.

Is this completely off base or is there something really to this?

Mr. BERNANKE: I couldn’t agree with you more that inflation is a tax and that inflation currently is too high.

Many citizens want more government control of the economy to curb rising prices. It is the worst strategy imaginable. Interventionist governments never reduce consumer prices because they benefit from inflation, dissolving their political spending commitments in a constantly depreciated currency. Inflation is the perfect hidden tax. The government makes the currency less valuable by issuing more units of fiat money, partially dissolves its debt in real terms, collects more taxes, and presents itself as the solution to rising prices with subsidies in an increasingly worthless currency.

** Daniel Lacalle, 2024 (internet link already a 404)

Here is an example of a money system far more stable than you and I know:

The four centuries lasting from the 1200s through the 1500s is a most misunderstood period. The “establishment”, with reason, wishes to portray the period as being one of poverty, tyranny, dirt, and backwardness.

Such was hardly the case. The greatest display of a nation’s wealth, cathedrals, were built all over Germany, France, and England during that period. The “skilled” labor was mostly volunteer. Thorold Rogers, Professor at Oxford University in the middle of the last century wrote: “At that time a laborer could provide all the necessities for his family for a year by working 14 weeks.” The rest of the time was his to do as he pleased. Many parts of Europe were so prosperous during the 14th century that hundreds of communities averaged between 160 to 180 holidays a year. Some labored for themselves; some studied; some fished; others volunteered their labor to build these massive structures. Lord Leverhume, writing at the same time, said, “The men of the 15th century were very well paid.”

AND

It is said that the price of bread remained the same for four centuries in the Hanseatic League.

** Richard Hoskins, War Cycles, Peace Cycles (1985)

(Arnie: The two time periods mentioned overlap significantly)

If usury is gunpowder, fractional reserve lending is TNT, compounding interest is the atomic bomb, and derivatives are the hydrogen bomb.

(Just two more topics, and they are zingers!)

Derivatives are one of the three main categories of financial instruments, the other two being equity (i.e., stocks or shares) and debt (i.e., bonds and mortgages).

Some of the more common derivatives include forwards, futures, options, swaps, and variations of these such as synthetic collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps.

**Wikipedia

I get a creepy feeling that the cabal are glad I don’t really understand this shit.

Derivatives are basically just bets. Like at a racetrack, you don’t need to own the thing you’re betting on in order to play. Derivative casinos have opened up on virtually anything that can go up or down or have a variable future outcome. You can bet on the price of tea in China, the success or failure of a movie, whether a country will default on its debt, or whether a particular piece of legislation will pass. The global market in derivative trades is now well over a quadrillion dollars – that’s a thousand trillion – and it is eating up resources that were at one time invested in productive enterprises. Why risk lending money to a corporation or buying its stock, when you can reap a better return betting on whether the stock will rise or fall?

The shift from investing to gambling means that not only are investors making very little of their money available to companies to produce goods and services, but the parties on one side of every speculative trade now have an interest in seeing the object of the bet fail, whether a company, a movie, a politician, or a country. Worse, high-speed program traders can actually manipulate the market so that the thing bet on is more likely to fail.

**Ellen Brown, 2010

Uh-huh, just as I suspected; something criminally avaricious and damaging to society at large.

We might call the “2008 financial crisis” the “COVID-19 pandemic” of the banking universe. Not the end of the world, but an in‑your‑face reveal of the cabal’s true ethos.

I remember well when Henry Paulson told Congress to give THEM a gigantic amount of money or THEY would crash the economy.

September 18, 2008: In a dramatic meeting, United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and Chair of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke met with Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and warned that the credit markets were close to a complete meltdown. Bernanke requested a $700 billion fund to acquire toxic mortgages and reportedly told them: “If we don’t do this, we may not have an economy on Monday.

**Wikipedia

(Sidenote: This is why we need to study this stuff as best we can. Since I knew before 2008 that the Fed was a den of thieves, I could assume the whole calamity was engineered … just as I assumed from day 1 that COVID-19 was crap).

Not only were these “banks” lending funds which grossly exceeded their current assets, they were gambling with these funds, and at even greater ratios of leveraged fraud. The result of combining extreme fraud with extreme financial recklessness was the Crash of ’08. The Big Banks literally “blew up” the Western financial system with their extreme, reckless gambling – gambling which began with the deposits that they claimed to be holding as trustees.

Instead of our governments punishing these Big Banks for their extreme, reckless fraud, they rewarded them. Using our money, these Traitor Governments indemnified the Big Banks for every cent of their reckless, fraudulent gambling. Then they did something much, much worse.

Our Traitor Governments bowed to the will of their banker Overlords, and dubbed these institutions of fraud as being “too big to fail.” Translation? Instead of preventing these institutions of financial crime from continuing their reckless gambling, they promised to pay off all of the banksters’ gambling debts, forever.

**Jeff Nielson, Canadian financial writer, precious metals expert

As seen farther up the page, we can rely upon Mr. Nielson to tell it like it is!

For the following quote: Never mind the numbers; I’ve seen far larger, and who knows anyway? Focus on the repercussions of derivatives gambling.

Ever since December 2008, the Federal Reserve has held short-term interest rates near zero. This was not only to try to stimulate the housing and credit markets but also to allow the federal government to increase its debt levels without increasing the interest tab picked up by the taxpayers. The total public U.S. debt increased by nearly 50% from 2006 to the end of 2009 (from about $8.5 trillion to $12.3 trillion), but the interest bill on the debt actually dropped (from $406 billion to $383 billion), because of this reduction in interest rates.

One of the dire unintended consequences of that maneuver, however, was that municipal governments across the country have been saddled with very costly bad derivatives bets. They were persuaded by their Wall Street advisers to buy credit default swaps to protect their loans against interest rates shooting up. Instead, rates proceeded to drop through the floor, a wholly unforeseeable and unnatural market condition caused by rate manipulations by the Fed. Instead of the banks bearing the losses in return for premiums paid by municipal governments, the governments have had to pay massive sums to the banks – to the point of bankrupting at least one city (Montgomery, Alabama).

**Ellen Brown, 2010

“Instead, rates dropped…” Consider:

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and Bank of America are consistently in the top 5‑10 of bank derivatives holdings, in the $40-50 trillion range.

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and Bank of America are probably among the OWNERS of the Federal Reserve System crime syndicate.

Are you smelling what I’m smelling?

Who whispered in whose ear, and when did they do it? The fox is in the hen house AND the farmhouse!

And these bailouts were matched and even exceeded during the 2019 thefts which were then soon forgotten in the turmoil of the $camdemic; in the same manner as the Pentagon’s missing $2 trillion was memory-holed by the traumatic 9-11 crime. Also, notice the increasing trillions tied to each successive event, gradually numbing the public the word “trillion.”

Again, I don’t understand this stuff, I just know that it’s HUGE and it’s WRONG.

Here’s another tidbit from Arnie’s Archives (I could go on for days, but we need to quit soon):

“We’re looking at a form of corporate tyranny previously unseen in America.”

**Pam Martens, Wall Street on Parade

(Arnie: Her quote is the subtitle for the article this excerpt is from)

The 2008 financial crisis was the worst in the United States since the Great Depression. Century-old Wall Street financial institutions were collapsing like a house of cards. And yet, the Fed only funneled a total of $3.144 trillion in repo loans to its primary dealers from January 2 through December 30, 2008. Instead, the Fed decided to set up an alphabet soup list of emergency bailout facilities through which it secretly issued $29 trillion in cumulative loans from December 2007 to July 2010.

**Brian Shilhavy, Editor, Health Impact News

(link)

OK, here’s the final point on derivatives, and it will knock your socks off if you don’t already know:

(2013): The international bankers (the Financial Stability Board) who are behind the G20-wide bank bail-in scheme, have sought to portray it as being designed to “resolve” failing banks, while at the same time, “protecting” bank depositors.

However, the truth is that the FSB bail-in scheme is really designed to ensure that the mega-banks — “systemically important financial institutions (SIFI)” — will receive priority for payout on their derivatives positions, in any “resolution” of a failing bank.

Because for the bankers, propping themselves and their compadres up is all that matters. What we call “theft”, they call “ensuring financial system stability”.

**barnabyisright-dot-com (domain defunct, article link now triggers a virus scare screen)

Here’s a further detailing of this principle, from Ellen Brown (who wrote the excellent Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth about Our Money System and How We Can Break Free):

Bank of America Corporation moved its trillions in derivatives (mostly credit default swaps) from its Merrill Lynch unit to its banking subsidiary in 2011. It did not get regulatory approval but just acted at the request of frightened counterparties, following a downgrade by Moody’s. The FDIC opposed the move, reportedly protesting that the FDIC would be subjected to the risk of becoming insolvent if BofA were to file for bankruptcy. But the Federal Reserve favored the move, in order to give relief to the bank holding company. (Proof positive, says former regulator Bill Black, that the Fed is working for the banks and not for us. “Any competent regulator would have said: ‘No, Hell NO!’”)

The reason this risky move would subject the FDIC to insolvency, as explained in my earlier article here, is that under the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005, derivatives counter-parties are given preference over all other creditors and customers of the bankrupt financial institution, including FDIC insured depositors. Normally, the FDIC would have the powers as trustee in receivership to protect the failed bank’s collateral for payments made to depositors. But the FDIC’s powers are overridden by the special status of derivatives. (Remember MF Global? The reason its customers lost their segregated customer funds to the derivatives claimants was that derivatives have super-priority in bankruptcy.)

**Ellen Brown, 2013 (link)

All this criminality flows from ignoring a problematic behavior which was identified 4,000 years ago: USURY.

Since I was young, I have been trained to fear the hydrogen bomb (which, by the way, doesn’t even exist), when I should have been schooled in a fear of usury.

BIS (BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS)

(last topic)

In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive … Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world’s most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.

**Keith Bradsher, New York Times, August 5, 1995

The BIS headquarters is just under 50 miles WNW of Zurich. It is a strange-looking building, except to those who know its purpose, and are familiar with the following quote:

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

**O’Brien (the inquisitor) from George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

The (Basel) Committee’s key area of activity is the definition of standards on capital adequacy for banks. All of the Committee’s documentation is centred around an incredibly simple ratio: equity: a bank’s capital = capital adequacy ratio.

Kabbalists of the money world are looking for this ratio’s magic number, which would guarantee the stability of the banking system. In fact, the Committee is seeking to legitimise what is a crime. In Europe, a system of so-called partial, or incomplete, coverage of obligations by banks as borrowing and lending organisations has already existed for a long time (at least since the 18th century). Figuratively speaking, this system allows banks to make money out of thin air. For example, for every 1 dollar of lawful money that depositors place in a deposit account, banks are allowed to release 5 or 10 dollars of non-cash money by way of credit. This used to be called counterfeiting and was strictly punishable by law. Nowadays, it is called the norm, or principle of banking, legalised by national laws, and in economic textbooks it is known as the money multiplier. The principle of partial coverage (reservation) is protected by a supranational structure called the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which lends the principle an appearance of respectability.

No cunning standards and formulae will remove the main effect of the partial coverage (reservation) of obligations – the banking crises. In the almost four decades that the Committee has existed, the world has been witness to a countless number of banking failures and crises. In order to prevent such problems, obligations need to be covered 100 percent, but then banks would be deprived of the opportunity to engage in their own financial alchemy. There is a strict taboo on the honest and frank discussion of partial reservation both in central banks and the Committee: they are trying to convince the public that it is possible to invent a magical formula for capital adequacy so that banks can continue to make money out of thin air as before. This is outright deception.

AND

At the turn of the century, a new version of the standard began to be prepared called Basel II, which was to start in 2004. … It once again demonstrated that the Basel standards are no more than a fig leaf covering the tyranny of the world’s usurers.

**Valentin Katasonov, 2013 (link)

“Capo di tutti capi” … “boss of all bosses” … a phrase we confer upon “the Mafia” based on movies and TV shows. Slight problem: The popularized Mafia was merely a tiny creature of the cabal, allowed to exist for ulterior purposes. Here, the BIS is the bank of all banks, and COMPLETELY LEGAL. “The Mafia” never wielded that kind of influence! Check this out:

The formation of the BIS was agreed upon by its constituent central banks in the so-called Hague Agreement on January 20, 1930, and was in operation shortly thereafter.

AND

In 1931, central bankers and their constituents were fed up with government meddling in world financial affairs. Politicians were viewed mostly with contempt, unless it was one of their own who was the politician. Thus, the BIS offered them a once-and-for-all opportunity to set up the “apex” the way they really wanted it ─ private. They demanded these conditions and got what they demanded.

AND

A quick summary of their immunity, explained further below, includes:

Diplomatic immunity for persons and what they carry with them

No taxation on any transactions, including salaries paid to employees

Embassy-type immunity for all buildings and/or offices operated by the BIS

No oversight or knowledge of operations by any government authority

Freedom from immigration restrictions

Freedom to encrypt any and all communications of any sort

Immunity from any legal jurisdiction

*Patrick M. Wood, 2005 (link)

Here’s another take on the matter:

A band of criminals got together a century ago and decided they were going to own the world, hold all of the power, create and hoard all of the money, and keep everyone on a constant spin cycle to fool them. Not only were they going to construct it as they saw fit, but they were going to build the most elaborate enslavement system this world has ever seen – one that gives them full immunity, allows them to operate outside the law entirely, and they were going to do it without anyone realizing it until it was too late. These self-imposed “rulers” believe themselves to be untouchable, have created documents stating as much, and are laughing at humanity as people move about their lives unaware of this elaborate scheme.

AND

This dualistic world they have created goes far beyond what most have imagined. It’s not so much that these individuals and organizations are “above the law,” as it is that they are operating entirely outside of the law, and have granted themselves permission to do so by executive orders, treaties, and the creation of BIS. The structure they have created is much like a pyramid scheme in a sense. At the top of the ivory tower, sit BIS, the Bank for International Settlements, with sovereign immunity. When carrying out specific activities under BIS, this immunity extends to its members, which is made up of 63 global central banks and monetary authorities, the Federal Reserve System, plus insurers, and payment systems through their subsidiary, that BIS deems “systemically important institutions.”

As if that’s not bad enough, it gets worse. The U.S. has given 76 public international organizations immunities, privileges, and tax exemptions dating back to 1946, just 10 years after BIS expanded its immunities with The Hague Convention of 1936. In addition, some of these organizations have added immunities through treaties.

**Corey Lynn, 2022 (link)

Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.

**Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790

Ya gotta admit, the bastard had foresight!

Does Arnie think our current financial situation will change for the better?

No, it’s too deeply ingrained. But we must ─ each of us ─ try to be Noble and Good.

Another blast from the vile Rothschilds explains why I am skeptical:

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages … will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests.

**Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

We must learn what we can and share what we learn.

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The People

By Tommaso Campanella

(Italian philosopher, 1568–1639. Translation by J A Symonds)

THE PEOPLE is a beast of muddy brain

That knows not its own strength, and therefore stands

Loaded with wood and stone; the powerless hands

Of a mere child guide it with bit and rein;

One kick would be enough to break the chain,

But the beast fears, and what the child demands

It does; nor its own terror understands,

Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain.

Most wonderful! With its own hand it ties

And gags itself—gives itself death and war

For pence doled out by kings from its own store.

Its own are all things between earth and heaven;

But this it knows not; and if one arise

To tell this truth, it kills him unforgiven.

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OK, that’s it, I’m bushed. I hope you learned as many interesting things as I did. Bless you for your patience!

As Columbo would say, “One more thing.”

Here is a link to a 700 page “book” about usury, in case you just can’t get enough on this topic (I did not read it):

(link)

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Greetings from Arnie, your happy host. That’s right, let’s have a chuckle!

Conspiracy believers are regular folk too, you know. We simply know things that the majority of people don’t know, innocently, or resist knowing.

We’re not saddo’s – we like a good laugh like anyone would.

We will share some favorites, but first I have a few points to make. You can easily skip down the page to the jokes if you’re not in the mood.

Conspiracy believers are not negative people, they are skeptical. They are not angry by disposition; they are selectively angry at outrageous behaviors in the public sphere. Foremost, they are angry on behalf of the innocent and the unaware. Who else will tenaciously lobby on behalf of the severely autistic child poisoned out of all normalcy, for life? Who else will tenaciously lobby on behalf of the small business owner who was financially ruined by idiotic pretend laws wielded by self-satisfied government morons?

HAPPY THOUGHTS … NOT

The parasitic cabal rely on the general good nature of normal people to facilitate their predations. They rely on forgiveness and “making a fresh start” and a “let’s be positive” outlook.

If your fish tank is contaminated with a bacterial bloom, you can’t fix it by adding Happy Water. You need to remove the bacteria.

We’ve all seen cowboy movies, yes? The stagecoach arrived at the next town undisturbed by virtue of the man “riding shotgun” and not by the passengers singing “Oh! Susanna” and smiling toward the horizon.

This is all so much easier to talk about since the $camdemic. Anyone who, by this present time, doesn’t realize the COVIDEXCUSEFORFASCISMCRIME had some serious-as-hell hidden agendas is basically a dumbass.

About 2-1/2 years after the lockdowns started, Atlantic magazine published an editorial promoting the idea of an amnesty for those decision makers who, as it turned out, made monumentally bad decisions because, you know, it was all so weird.

My fifth post ever (January 2023) argued against this plea for forgiveness, citing legal precedents.

Also, I have a file of 13 essays (totaling 15,000 words) describing why this should not happen, and a PDF of those writings will appear at the end of this non-funny section of this post.

Here is an excerpt from one of them:

The thrust of the dishonest Atlantic piece is pure lies: “We didn’t know” what we didn’t know at the time.

…

Okay, but here is what you did know on day one…

You did know… The elderly were most at risk, and yet you still flooded nursing homes with infected COVID patients and then aided and abetted the cover up.

You did know… The risk of catching the China Flu was the same in a big box store or a small business. You still closed and bankrupted small businesses.

You did know… Everyday American had to watch their loved ones buried via Zoom, and then you attended the funeral for John Lewis.

You did know… The risk to children was minimal, and you still closed schools and practiced the cruelty of forcing crying and confused toddlers into masks.

You did know… People illegally traveling to America were as capable of spreading infection as those legally entering America. Yet, you still refused to stop illegal immigration.

…

You did know… You declared liquor stores “necessary” while locking Churches and Synagogues.

…

You did know… There was zero proof the vaccine stopped the spread of infection or prevented anyone from becoming infected. Yet you lied and said it did to justify firing, fining, ridiculing, harassing, dehumanizing, bullying, and discriminating.

…

No.

There will be no amnesty before there is accountability for the savages who forced our loved ones to die alone.

There will be no forgiveness before there’s a reckoning for the mercenary liars who abused our elderly and children.

There will be no moving on before there’s justice for those who were bankrupted, fined, jailed, mourned alone, forced into lonely despair, and stripped of youth’s magic and irreplaceable moments.

Most of all, there will be no reprieve because you are not sorry; because given the opportunity, you will do it all over again; because you are vicious, heartless, mercenary, politically-driven bullies only asking for amnesty so you can catch us off guard the next time.

**John Nolte, Breitbart (link)

Alex Berenson wrote a 464 page book, Pandemia, for which the 15-page Introduction is still available online (link). Alex is controlled opposition and was tasked with disseminating “reckless” disinformation about Covid within the conservative camp.

Here are some excerpts from that Introduction, each followed by a comment from yours truly:

This is the true story of how media hysteria, political partisanship, overreliance on unproven technology, and scientific illiteracy brought the United States and the world to the brink of breakdown.

No, it was media collusion, political coordination, purposely useless and purposely deadly technology, and science-themed gaslighting.

Of how a public health emergency became big business overnight, as governments spent trillions of dollars to fight the coronavirus ─ and unnecessary lockdowns destroyed small businesses, hugely enriched giant corporations, and forced people off paid employment onto government checks.

It was not an emergency ─ it was a gigantic criminal psyop, and raid on the public treasury.

All in response to a virus much less dangerous than the Spanish flu, much less Ebola.

Well-played, Alex. It was actually less dangerous than the annual flu, let alone the following two scare-monger ailments.

Meanwhile, the models that had predicted apocalyptic outcomes proved wrong. Aside from a few bad days in New York City in March and April 2020, American hospitals were never close to being overrun. In fact, they were so empty in the spring of 2020 that many laid off workers. Even in New York, the field hospitals and medical ships went largely unused.

But no one seemed to notice, much less care.

Many noticed; and cared deeply. They were chopped off at the knees by the complicit media and State medical boards. The hospitals were bribed with billions in taxpayer dollars to remain silent.

Instead, the Times, CNN, and the rest fixated on a single number, the count of Americans who had (reportedly) died from the coronavirus. … They never put the figure in context. They never explained that our methods for recording Covid-linked deaths were likely producing overcounts.

The overcounts were central to the strategy. Anyone who died “with” Covid died “of” Covid. And the tests used were largely false-positive due to dishonest lab procedures. This was the “casedemic” which pumped the numbers into the stratosphere.

Inevitably, they made mistakes, as when the Times called the murder of a twenty-seven-year-old Iowa man a Covid death.

No mistakes were made. This was pure evil running on all 12 cylinders.

Reporters are crucial watchdogs against government mistakes and overreach.

Reporters? Crucial? Really?

The social media companies worked with organizations such as the World Health Organization to become quasi-governmental censors. In suppressing honest debate and dissent, they set a dangerous precedent—and fed the rise of wilder conspiracy theories.

Well, the wilder the crime, the wilder will be the description thereof.

This is the true story of the pandemia: one part pandemic, five parts hysteria.

There was no pandemic. Any hysteria was scientifically induced by the conspirators. Your essay is one part lies and five parts bullshit.

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Let me give you two more hints at what I mean.

There’s an old Russian proverb, “When salt is needed, sugar won’t do.”

Or recall the scene in Godfather II where Michael Corleone says to his adopted brother Hagen, “I don’t feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.”

Yes, and my enemies are the LIARS who inhabit the pages of LIAR$$WORLD.

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Comedian Joe E. Lewis was thanking a friend for a racing tip:

“You said it was a great horse, and it was. It took 11 other horses to beat that horse!”

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busy at work. So, he went and got his gun, then came back and stood quietly in the doorway.

“Friend,” he said, “I would do thee no harm for the world, but thee standest where I am about to shoot.”

An apparently drunken cowboy lay sprawled across three entire seats in a posh Amarillo Theater. When the usher came by and noticed him, he whispered to the cowboy, “Sorry, Sir, but you’re only allowed one seat.”

The Cowboy just groaned but didn’t even budge. The usher became impatient and insistent: “Sir, if you don’t get up from there, I’m going to have to call the manager.” Once again, the cowboy just groaned.

The usher marched briskly back up the aisle, and in a moment, he returned with the manager. Together the two of them tried repeatedly to move the cowboy, but without success. He just lay there in a dazed stupor.

Finally they summoned the police. A Texas Ranger arrived, walked up to the cowboy and said: “Alright, buddy, what’s your name?” “Sam,” the Cowboy moaned. “Where ya all from, Sam?” asked the Ranger.

With terrible pain in his voice, a grim expression, and without moving a muscle, Sam said, “The balcony.”

A married couple had been out Christmas shopping at the mall for most of the afternoon. Suddenly, the wife realized that her husband had “disappeared”. The somewhat irate spouse called her husband’s cell phone and demanded: “Where ARE you??? ”

Her husband responds, “Darling, do you remember that jewelry shop where you saw that diamond necklace that you totally fell in love with, and remember how I told you I didn’t have much money at the time but said, ‘Baby, it’ll be yours one day’?”

Wife, with a smile in her voice, blushing: “Yes I remember that, my love.”

Husband: “Well, I’m in the pub next to that place.”

A blonde, wanting to earn some extra money, decided to hire herself out as a handywoman and started canvassing the neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her.

“Well, I guess I could use somebody to paint my porch,” he said. “How much will you charge me?” The blonde quickly responded, “How about $50?” The man agreed and told her the green paint and everything she needed was in the garage.

The man’s wife, hearing the conversation, said to her husband, “Does she realize that our porch goes all the way around the house?” He responded, “That’s a bit cynical, isn’t it? Of course, she does.”

The wife replied, “You’re right. I guess I’m starting to believe all those dumb-blonde jokes.”

A short time later, the blonde handywoman came to the door to collect her money. “You’ve finished already?” the husband asked. “Yes,” the blonde replied, “and I had paint left over, so I gave it two coats ─ no extra charge.”

Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50 and handed it to her.

“And by the way,” the blonde added ... “it’s not a Porch ─ it’s a Mercedes!

LENTEN HUMOR

An Irishman moves into a tiny hamlet in County Kerry and soon visits his new pub and orders three beers at once.

The bartender raises his eyebrows, but serves the man three beers, which he drinks quietly at a table, alone. An hour later, the man has finished the three beers and orders three more. This happens a third time then the man leaves.

A week later the man does the same thing, and for a few more weeks.

Finally, the bartender broaches the subject on behalf of the town. “I don’t mean to pry, but folks are wondering why you always order three beers?”

‘Tis odd, isn’t it?” the man replies, “You see, I have two brothers, and one went to America, and the other to Australia. We promised each other that we would always order an extra two beers whenever we drank as a way of keeping up the family bond.”

Everyone loved the story, and he became a minor celebrity.

Then, one day, the man comes in and orders only two beers. The bartender poured them with a heavy heart, not commenting. Sure enough, the man orders two, twice more.

The next week, the bartender says to the man, “Folks around here, me first of all, want to offer condolences to you for the death of your brother … you know … the two beers and all...”

The man slowly grows a smile, then replies, “You’ll be happy to hear that my two brothers are alive and well. It’s just that I, meself, have decided to give up drinking for Lent.”

A cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the pearly gates. “Have you ever done anything of particular merit?” St. Peter asked.

“Well, I can think of one thing,” the cowboy offered. “Once, on a trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota, I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a young woman. I told them to leave her alone, but they wouldn’t listen. I went to the biggest of the bunch and smacked him in his face, ripped out his nose ring, and kicked his bike over. Then I yelled, ‘Now, back off, or I’ll kick the crap out of all of you!’”

St. Peter was impressed. He leafed through the great book he held. “And when did this happen?”

“Just a few minutes ago.”

Inner Peace:

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can be understanding when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can sleep without the aid of sleep aids,

Then you are probably ......... the family dog!

A company chairman was given a ticket for a performance of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. Since he was unable to go, he passed the invitation to the company’s Quality Assurance Manager.

The next morning, the chairman asked him how he enjoyed it and, instead of a few plausible observations, he was handed a memorandum:

1. For a considerable period, the oboe players had nothing to do. Their number should be reduced, and their work spread over the whole orchestra, thus avoiding peaks of inactivity.

2. All twelve violins were playing identical notes. This seems unnecessary duplicative, and the staff of this section should be drastically cut. If a large volume of sound is really required, this could be obtained through the use of an amplifier.

3. No useful purpose is served by repeating with horns the passage that has already been handled by the strings. If all such redundant passages were eliminated, the concert could be reduced from a half hour to about ten minutes.

In light of the above, one can only conclude that had Schubert given proper attention to these matters, he probably would have had the time to finish his symphony.

A fellow had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high-tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him in private and presented him with three numbered envelopes. “Open these in order if you run up against a problem you don’t think you can solve,” he said.

Well, things went along pretty smoothly, but six months later, sales took a downturn and he was really catching a lot of heat. About at his wits’ end, he remembered the envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first envelope.

The message read, “Blame your predecessor.”

The new CEO called a press conference and tactfully laid the blame at the feet of the previous CEO. Satisfied with his comments, the press ─ and Wall Street ─ responded positively, sales began to pick up, and the problem was soon behind him.

About a year later, the company was again experiencing a dip in sales, combined with some production problems. Having learned from his previous experience, the CEO opened the second envelope.

The message read, “Reorganize.”

This he did, and the company soon rebounded. After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times. The CEO went to his office, closed the door and opened the third envelope.

The message began, “Prepare three envelopes ...”

An elderly woman walked into the local country church. The friendly usher greeted her at the door and helped her up the flight of steps. “Where would you like to sit?” he asked politely. “The front row, please,” she answered.

“You probably don’t want to do that,” the usher said. “The pastor could see if you’re dozing off.”

“Do you know who I am?” the woman inquired. “No,” he said.

“I’m the pastor’s mother,” she replied indignantly.

“Do you know who I am?” he asked. “No,” she said.

“Good,” he answered.

A guy is driving around the backwoods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of an old farmhouse: “Talking Dog For Sale.”

He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees an average size Border Collie sitting there.

“You talk?” he asks.

“Yep” the Collie replies.

After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says, “So, what’s your story?”

The dog looks up and says, “Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I contacted the CIA. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running ... but the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger, so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals. I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I’m just retired.”

The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner how much he wants for the dog.

“Ten dollars” the owner says. “Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on Earth are you selling him so cheap?”

“Because he’s a liar. He’s never been out of the yard.”

A jury trial in a small Southern town. The prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly woman, to the stand. He approached her and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know me?” She responded, “Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a boy, and frankly, you’ve been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you’re a big shot when you haven’t the brains to realize you’ll never amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you.”

The lawyer was stunned but had to continue. He pointed across the room and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?”

She again replied, “Why yes, I do. I’ve known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. He’s lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He can’t build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him.”

The defense attorney started nervously shuffling papers on his table.

The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench and, in a very quiet voice, said, “If either of you idiots asks her if she knows me, I’m sending you both to the electric chair.”

My Mother taught me about RECEIVING....

“You are going to get it when we get home!”

My mother taught me LOGIC…

“Because I said so, that’s why.”

My Mother taught me MORE LOGIC...

“If you fall out off that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

My Mother taught me PHYSIOLOGY…

“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.”

My Mother taught me how to MATURE...

“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”

My Mother taught me about my ROOTS...

“Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”

My mother taught me FORESIGHT…

“Make sure you wear clean underwear; in case you’re in an accident.”

My mother taught me about STAMINA…

“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL…

“If you don’t straighten up, I’ll knock you into the middle of next week!”

My mother taught me IRONY…

“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

My mother taught me RELIGION…

“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

My Mother taught me about GENETICS...

“You’re just like your father.”

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE…

“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside; I just finished cleaning.”

My Mother taught me about WISDOM OF AGE...

“When you get to be my age, you will understand.”

On the way home from his successful fund-raising meeting, a powerful US Senator, drives his car into a tree and dies. His soul arrives at the Pearly Gates, and is met by St. Peter.

“Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, we have a special protocol for a person of your stature, to make sure that you are given appropriate accommodations.”

“No problem, says the Senator. “Just let me in and we’ll work it out.”

“Actually,” St. Pete says, “our process requires that you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.”

“Not necessary. No need to waste my time. I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the Senator.

“I’m sorry, but those are our rules, and there can be no exception,” says St. Peter, who escorts the Senator to the elevator and hits the “Down” button. The Senator gets anxious as the elevator wooshes waaay dooown.

The elevator stops abruptly, the doors open, and the Senator steps out into the middle of a lush resort. The sun is shining, there’s a beautiful beach, tennis courts, golf courses, yoga studios. At the main lounge, he finds all of his old friend and colleagues who greet him enthusiastically ─ everyone as healthy and charming as the day he met them. Also present is the devil, who turns out to be a very friendly guy, and who welcomes the Senator warmly. The Senator passes the day with the lot of them, frolicking in the sun and surf, and in the evening he joins his companions in a gourmet dinner, followed by drinks and dancing.

Before he realizes it, the day has passed, and he finds himself in the elevator, going up, up, up. When it stops, the door opens, and St. Peter greets him, saying: “Now it’s time to visit heaven.” So the Senator passes the next 24 hours with a small group of contented souls, going from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing church hymns. He has a good enough time, and before he realizes it, another day has gone by, and St. Peter returns.

“Well, then, Senator you’ve now spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Choose your eternity.”

The Senator thinks for a minute, then answers: “Well, I never thought I would say this, but, although heaven has been delightful, I think I would rather be in hell.”

So, St. Peter puts him in the elevator and he goes back down to hell.

Now, when the elevator opens, the Senator is in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage, reeking of the foulest odors. He sees all his friends, covered in shredded rags, scrounging in the muck for offal. The devil himself comes over to him, puts his arm around his shoulders, and says: “Welcome to eternity.”

“I don’t understand,” stammers the Senator. “Yesterday I was here and there was a beautiful beach, and beautiful people, and great food, and fun and dancing. Now there’s just a horrid wasteland full of miserable, tortured souls. What happened?”

The devil smiles at him and says: “Yesterday we were campaigning. Today, you voted.”

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m doing community service this week.’ The florist was pleased and left the shop.

When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a ‘thank you’ card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop came in for a haircut, and when he tried to pay his bill, the barber again replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m doing community service this week.’ The cop was happy and left the shop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a ‘thank you’ card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill , the barber again replied, ‘I can not accept money from you. I’m doing community service this week.’ The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.

The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.

How to wash the cat.

1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1 oz. of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl.

2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close the lids. You may need to stand on the top lid.

4. The cat will self-agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a ‘power-wash and rinse’.

6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.

7. Stand to the side of the toilet as far away as you can and quickly lift the lids.

8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom, and run outside, where he will dry himself off.

9. Both the toilet and the cat will be sparkling clean.

Sincerely yours,

The Dog

An old geezer became bored in retirement and decided to open a medical clinic. He put a sign up outside that said: “Get your treatment for $500. If not cured, get a $1,000 refund.”

Doctor Young, who was positive that this old geezer didn’t know beans about medicine, thought this would be a great opportunity to get $1,000 so he went to Dr. Geezer’s clinic.

Dr. Young: “Dr. Geezer, I have lost all taste in my mouth. Can you please help me?

Dr. Geezer: “Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in Dr. Young’s mouth.”

Dr. Young: “Aaagh !! ─ This is Gasoline!”

Dr. Geezer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your taste back. That will be $500.”

Dr. Young, very annoyed, goes back after a couple of days to recover his money.

Dr. Young: “I am losing my memory. I can barely remember anything.”

Dr. Geezer: “Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient’s mouth.”

Doctor Young: “Oh no you don’t ─ that’s Gasoline!”

Dr. Geezer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your memory back. That will be $500.”

Dr. Young, now down $1000, leaves angrily and comes back after several more days.

Dr. Young: “My eyesight has become weak ─ I can hardly see!

Dr. Geezer: “Well, I don’t have any cure for that, so here’s your $1000.”

Dr. Young: “You sneak, you just gave me five singles.”

Dr. Geezer: “Congratulations! You got your vision back! That will be $500, plus the $5 I just gave you.”

On the first day, God created the dog and said, “Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this I will give you a life span of twenty years.”

The dog said, “That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?” And God said that it was good.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said, “Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.”

The monkey said, “Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?” And God again said that it was good.

On the third day, God created the cow and said, “You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.”

The cow said, “That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?” And God agreed it was good.

On the fourth day, God created humans and said, “Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.”

But the human said, “Only twenty years? How about my twenty, plus the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back? That makes eighty, right?”

“Okay,” said God, “You asked for it.”

So that is why for our first twenty years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years, we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years, we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic were soon to perform Mahler’s Second Symphony, which requires additional instruments compared to the usual orchestra score.

A week before the first rehearsal the conductor mentioned to his players that they still needed one more trumpet.

One of the horn players said he had a good friend who lived in town and performed regularly in jazz venues.

Bernstein quickly replied, “Thanks, but no thanks. I’ve learned my lesson with jazz musicians. They don’t seem to like schedules, and they love to add their own little flourishes to everything they play. Let’s keep searching our traditional sources.”

A few days went by and still no luck, and Bernstein approached the horn player and said, “Let’s give your friend a try. We have to make this happen.”

The trumpet player came promptly to the first rehearsal and performed exactly as required. The same with the second rehearsal. Afterwards, Mr. Bernstein approached the man and said, “You know, you’ve changed my outlook on jazz musicians. I had developed a rather bad attitude about their habits, but you’ve been here on time and played precisely as needed. I want to thank you.”

The trumpet player replied, “Well, that’s nice, Mr. Bernstein, that means a lot. And I’m glad you told me today because I can’t make it to the gig tomorrow.”

After the Spanish class instructor explained that Spanish nouns, similar to French nouns, are expressed as male or female, a student asked, “What gender is ‘computer’?” Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer’ should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men’s group decided that ‘computer’ should definitely be of the feminine gender (‘la computadora’), because: 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic; 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else; 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval; and 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine (‘el computador’), because: 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on; 2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves; 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better model.

When Forest Gump died, he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter said, “Welcome, Forest. We’ve heard a lot about you.” He continued, “Unfortunately, it’s getting pretty crowded up here and we find that we now have to give people an entrance examination before we let them in.”

“Okay,” said Forest. “I hope it’s not too hard. I’ve just been through a big test, because my momma used to say, ‘Life is like a final exam. It’s hard.’ “

“Yes, Forest, I know. This test is only three questions. Here they are.”

1) Which two days of the week begin with the letter ‘T’?”

2) How many seconds are in a year?

3) What is God’s first name?

“Well, sir,” said Forest, “The first one is easy. Which two days of the week begin with the letter ‘T’? Today and Tomorrow.”

St. Peter looked surprised and said, “Well, that wasn’t the answer I was looking for, but you have a point. I give you credit for that answer.”

“The next question,” said Forest, “How many seconds are in a year? Twelve.”

“Twelve?” said St. Peter, surprised and confused.

“Yes, sir. January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd …”

St. Peter interrupted him. “I see what you mean. I’ll have to give you credit for that one, too.”

“And the last question,” said Forest, “… God’s first name is Andy.”

“Andy?” said St. Peter, in shock. “How did you come up with ‘Andy’?”

“I learned it in church. We used to sing about it.” Forest broke into song, “Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me I am His own.”

St. Peter opened the gate to heaven and said, “Run, Forest, Run!”

A 69-year-old man went to the doctor for a checkup and toward the end the doctor remarked, “You’re in wonderful shape for a man of 59; to what do you attribute your good health?”

The old timer said, “Who says I’m 59, doc? I’m a golfer, 69 years old, and that’s why I’m in such good shape. I’m up well before daylight and out golfing up and down the fairways.”

The doctor said, “Well, I’m sure that helps, but there’s got to be more to it. How old was your father when he died?”

The old timer said, “Who said my father’s dead?”

The doctor said, “You mean you’re 69 years old and your father is still alive? How old is he?” The old timer said, “He’s 87 years old and, in fact, he golfed with me this morning. That’s why he’s still alive, he’s a golfer.”

The doctor said, “Well, that’s great, but I’m sure there’s more to it. How about your grandfather? How old was he when he died?” The old timer said, “Who said my grandpa’s dead?”

The doctor said, “You mean you’re 69 years old and your grandfather’s still living! How old is he?” The old timer said, “He’s 105 years old.”

Now the doctor was getting a bit sceptical. He said, “I suppose he went golfing with you this morning too?”

The old timer said, “No, Grandpa couldn’t go this morning because he just got married.”

The doctor said in amazement, “Got married! Why would a 105-year-old guy want to get married?”

The old timer shot back, “Who said he wanted to?”

A judge was interviewing a woman regarding her pending divorce, and asked, “What are the grounds for your divorce?”

She replied, “About four acres and a nice little home in the middle of the property with a stream running by.”

“I mean,” he continued, “What are your relations like?”

“I have an aunt and uncle living here in town, and so do my husband’s parents.”

The judge said, “Do you have a real grudge?”

“No,” she replied, “We have a two-car carport and have never really needed one.”

“Please,” he tried again, “is there any infidelity in your marriage?”

“Yes, both my son and daughter have stereo sets. We don’t necessarily like the music, but the answer to your question is yes.”

“Ma’am, does your husband ever beat you up?”

“Yes,” she responded, “about twice a week he gets up earlier than I do.”

Finally, in frustration, the judge asked, “Lady, why do you want a divorce?”

“Oh, I don’t want a divorce,” she replied. “I’ve never wanted a divorce. My husband does. He said he can’t communicate with me.”

A farmer named Clyde had a tractor accident. In court, the trucking company’s lawyer was questioning Clyde. “Didn’t you say, at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine,’?” asked the lawyer.

Clyde responded, “Well, I’ll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite cow, Bessie, into the…”

“I didn’t ask for any details”, the lawyer interrupted. “Just answer the question, please. Did you, or did you not say, at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine!’?”

Clyde said, “Well, I had just got Bessie into the trailer behind the tractor and I was driving down the road…”

The lawyer interrupted again and said, “Your Honor, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the Highway Patrolman on the scene that he was just fine. Now, several weeks after the accident, he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question.”

By this time, the judge was interested in Clyde’s story and said to the lawyer, “I’d like to hear what he has to say about his favorite cow, Bessie”.

Clyde thanked the Judge and proceeded. “Well, as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite cow, into the trailer and was driving her down the highway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my John Deere Tractor right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch, and Bessie was thrown into the other. I was hurting real bad and didn’t want to move. However, I could hear old Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans.

Shortly after the accident a Highway Patrolman came on the scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning, so he went over to her. After he saw her fatal condition, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes to put her out of her misery. Then the Patrolman came across the road, gun still in hand, looked at me, and said, “How are you feeling?”

“Now, what the heck would YOU say?”

The king wanted to go fishing. He called on the royal weather forecaster and inquired as to the weather forecast for the next few hours. The weatherman assured him there was no chance of rain in the coming days. So, the king went fishing with the queen.

On the way, he met a farmer on his donkey. Upon seeing the king the farmer said, “Your Majesty, you should return to the palace! In just a short time I expect a huge amount of rain to fall in this area”.

The king replied: “I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an extensively educated and experienced professional. And I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him.”

So the king continued on his way. However, a short time later, a torrential rain fell from the sky. The king and queen were totally soaked, and their entourage chuckled upon seeing them in such a shameful condition.

Furious, the king returned to the palace and gave the order to banish the professional. Then he summoned the farmer and offered him the prestigious and high paying role of royal forecaster.

The farmer said, “Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my donkey’s ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain.”

So, the king hired the donkey, and thus began the practice of hiring dumb asses to work in government and occupy its top positions ─ a custom unbroken to this day.

Twisted Zen advice

“Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me alone.”

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.”

“It’s always darkest before dawn. So, if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.”

“Always remember that you’re unique. Just like everyone else.”

“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.”

“If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.”

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will hang out on the boat all day ignoring calls from his wife.”

“If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”

“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip.

They were awakened in the middle of the night, the fire dwindling nearby, and Holmes said: “Watson, look up and tell me what you see”.

Watson said “I see a fantastic panorama of countless of stars”.

Holmes: “And what does that tell you?”

Watson: “Astronomically, it suggests to me that if there are billions of other galaxies that have roughly similar stellar population densities as represented by my view, that, potentially, trillions of planets may be associated with such a galactic and, therefore, stellar population. Allowing for similar chemical distribution throughout the cosmos it may be reasonably implied that life ─ and possibly intelligent life ─ may well fill the universe.

Also, being a believer, theologically, it tells me that the vastness of space may be yet another suggestion of the greatness of God and that we are small and insignificant.

Meteorologically, the blackness of the sky and the crispness of the stellar images tells me that there is low humidity and stable air and therefore we are most likely to enjoy a beautiful day tomorrow.

Why? What does it tell you, my dear friend?”

Holmes: “Someone stole our tent”.

A police officer pulls a woman over for speeding and has the following exchange:

Officer: May I see your driver’s license?

Driver: I don’t have one. It was suspended when I got my third DUI.

Officer: May I see the owner’s card for this vehicle?

Driver: It’s not my car. I stole it.

Officer: It’s stolen?

Driver: That’s right. But come to think of it, I think I saw the owner’s card in the glovebox when I was putting my gun in there.

Officer: There’s a gun in the glovebox?

Driver: Yes sir. That’s where I put it after I shot the woman who owns this car and stuffed her in the trunk.

Officer: There’s a BODY in the TRUNK?!

Driver: Yes, sir.

Hearing this, the officer immediately called his captain. The car was quickly surrounded by police, and the captain approached the driver to handle the tense situation:

Captain: Ma’am, can I see your license?

Driver: Sure. Here it is.

Captain: Whose car is this?

Driver: It’s mine, officer. Here’s the registration.

Captain: Could you slowly open your glovebox so I can see if there’s a gun in it?

Driver: Yes, sir, but there’s no gun in it. (Sure enough, no gun).

Captain: Would you mind opening your trunk? I was told there’s a dead body in it.

Driver: No problem. (The trunk is opened ─ no body).

Captain: I don’t understand it. The officer who stopped you said you told him you didn’t have a license, stole the car, had a gun in the glovebox, and that there was a body in the trunk?

Driver: Yeah, and he probably told you I was speeding too!

I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma, which showed his full name.

Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name who had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could this be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then?

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School.

“Yes, I did. I’m a Mustang!” he beamed with pride.

“When did you graduate?” I asked.

He answered, “In 1959. Why do you ask?”

“You were in my class!” I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely for a moment, then asked, “What did you teach?”

BUSY DAY

I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I laid my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full, so I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go there, where I find a can of Pepsi I’d been drinking. I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so I don’t accidentally knock it over. The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye ─ they need water. I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I’ve been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I’m going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote which someone left on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I’ll be looking for the remote, but won’t remember that it’s on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor so, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do…

…later, at the end of the day: The car isn’t washed, the bills aren’t paid, there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter, the flowers don’t have enough water, there is still only one check in my check book, I can’t find the remote, I can’t find my glasses, and I don’t remember what I did with the car keys. Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I’m really baffled, because I know I was busy, and I’m really tired!

Three construction workers – an Aussie, an Irishman and an American – are about to have lunch while sitting on the 40th floor of a construction site.

The Aussie opens his lunch box and sees a Vegemite sandwich. He groans and says, “You know what, if my wife makes me another Vegemite sandwich I’m going to jump off this damn building.”

The American then opens his lunch box to find a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He says to the other two guys, “You know what, if my wife makes me another peanut and jelly sandwich I’m jumping off too.”

The Irishman then opens his lunch box and sees a ham sandwich. He in turn says to the other two, “If I get another corned beef sandwich I’m jumping as well.”

The next day at lunch the Aussie opens his lunch box to discover another Vegemite sandwich so, true to his word, he jumps.

The American opens his lunch box too and sees another peanut butter and jelly sandwich, so he also jumps off.

The Irishman then opens his lunch box and finds another corned beef sandwich. So he also jumps too.

The funeral is a week later and all their wives are gathered together in a circle crying, having heard about the pact the men made, from a co-worker.

The wife of the Aussie says, “Why, oh why, did I only make him Vegemite sandwiches? I could have changed it at least once and he’d still be here.”

The American wife says, “I should have made a different sandwich and not forced him to have the same one every day.”

The wife of the Irishman stands back in confusion, looks at the other two women and says, “I don’t understand it – he always made his own lunch.”

A wise old farmer went to buy a pickup truck that he saw advertised for a certain price. After telling the salesman which truck he wanted, they sat down to do the paperwork. The salesman handed the farmer the bill, and the farmer declared, “This isn’t the price I saw!”

The salesman went on to tell the wise old farmer how he was getting extras such as power brakes, power windows, special tires etc. and that’s what caused the price increase. The farmer needed the truck soon, so he paid the price and drove home.

A few months later, the salesman called up the farmer and said, “My son just joined 4-H for the summer and he needs a cow. Do you have any for sale?”

The farmer said, “Yes, I have a few I could sell for $500. Come look at them and take your pick.”

The salesman said he and his son would be right out. After spending a half hour in the field checking out the four cows, the boy decided on one and the salesman proceeded to write out a check for $500.00.

The farmer said “Now, wait a minute, that’s not the final price of the cow. You’re getting extras you have to pay for too.”

“What extras?” asked the salesman.

Below is the list the farmer gave the salesman for the final price of the cow:

Basic Cow – $500.00

Two tone exterior – $45.00

Extra stomach – $65.00

4x4 traction drive – $125.00

Straw compartment – $90.00

4 Spigots @ – $20 ea – $80.00

Leather upholstery – $60.00

Dual horns – $45.00

Automatic fly swatter – $38.00

Fertilizer attachment – $185.00

Grand Total – $1,233.00

And, in honor of the recent passing of Chuck Norris, a few of the famous “he’s so tough” one-liners. I’ve only seen a few of his shows (I’m a BritBox guy) but he hates villains, and so do I.

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Chuck Norris can hear silent films.

Chuck Norris can unscramble an egg.

Chuck Norris can cut scissors with paper.

Chuck Norris can play the violin with a piano.

Chuck Norris can light a fire by rubbing two ice cubes together.

Chuck Norris can order a Big Mac at Burger King …and actually get a Big Mac.

Chuck Norris can go up Niagara Falls in a cardboard box.

When genies want their wishes fulfilled, they ask Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris once bowled a perfect game with nothing more than a marble.

Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

When the Boogeyman goes to bed at night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

When Alexander Bell invented the telephone, he had 3 missed calls from Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris has a grizzly bear carpet in his room. The bear isn’t dead, it’s just afraid to move.

Some magicians can walk on water; Chuck Norris can swim through land.

Chuck Norris won the World Series of Poker using Pokémon cards

Chuck Norris played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

Chuck Norris and Superman once fought each other on a bet. The loser had to start wearing his underwear on the outside of his pants.

Chuck Norris once sold eBay to eBay on eBay.

Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

The government actually pays Chuck Norris taxes.

Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.

Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero, and he’s already counted to infinity... twice!

Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch. HE decides what time it is.

If Chuck Norris were to travel to an alternate dimension in which there was another Chuck Norris and they both fought, they would both win.

Chuck Norris can pass a vision test with his eyes closed.

Chuck Norris doesn’t turn on the shower; he stares at it until it starts to cry.

Chuck Norris can tie his shoes with his feet.

Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.

When the Hulk gets really angry, he turns into Chuck Norris.

Well, that’s it, folks! Thanks for stopping by!

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The way I do this now-7-part series is view my saved screen shots from the Covid Con era, in calendar order, and see what comes to the fore. I’ve got 3,544 images from 2020, then (2021: 825) ─ (2022: 630) ─ (2023: 155) ─ tapering as you might expect. The selections for this post date through the end of August 2020, so we’ve still got a long way to go!

This time, I was going to focus on the British Nudge Unit, which gained notoriety for covertly influencing the public to (e.g.) wear masks and hope for vaccines. Knowing about this back then, I felt rather cutting edge in my intel-gathering! For one, I learned about The Doughnut, a classy 2003 building which houses “intelligence” agencies, maybe like the CIA headquarters, only cool-looking, like the Pentagon. Its round shape probably symbolizes an all-seeing eye, like the CBS logo (the cabal love little weirdisms like this).

Alas, knowledge about nudge units has become old news, and similar groups are now found in many nations.

A search at Google, the top information suppressor on the net, yields gobs of information willingly, although usually with verbiage such as this:

… uses deep understanding of human behaviour to improve people’s lives

… a group of experts that applies behavioral science to improve public policy

… a specialised team that identifies opportunities to design better policies

… how-to-save-lives-with-a-nudge

As many of you know, I am a crabby old man and probably won’t stand for such saccharine praise attached to this purported trend.

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Nudging is in fact the promulgation of propaganda, so the behavior is not new; after all, “Remember the Maine” dates from 1898. Thus, the entire 20^th Century and one quarter of this one are brimming with propaganda.

Upon reflection, I would guess that the stories about nudge units were a planned element of the overall $camdemic BS! Because nudging sounds … almost cute. What’s not to like?

Nevertheless, I learned some interesting things during this inquiry, and we will share them soon.

Let’s pause for a few screen shots first.

I’m nearly 77. All my life, when you “got sick” (as in I-can’t-go-to-work), if you were sneezing, you had a cold, and if you were barfing, you had the flu. That was it. The rest was a waiting game. Typically, you would just declare that you “have a bug.”

It makes sense. If THEY were going to make us scared of everything, why not up the game and make us scared of nothing too? Nifty trick, that.

GOTTA LOVE THOSE TEETH!!

OK, back to nudging.

Any study of this topic will invariably include mention of a famous book written by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler (in 2008, updated in 2021).

I read this book, plus 3 scholarly papers (2 cowritten with Sunstein) and another book about conspiracy theories, plus other stuff.

I have excerpted from these sources for you, and that material is featured in four nested PDF’s down the page, so that the primary post isn’t crazy‑long.

As usual, I am learning along with you, and I discovered that Cass Sunstein stands out as a good example of an agent, an operative, in service to the cabal.

You could say that the first one (Arnie: nudge unit) began in 2009, when the US government recruited Cass Sunstein to head The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) (Arnie: Until 2012) to streamline regulations. In 2010, the UK established the first Behavioural Insights Unit (BIT) on a trial basis, under the Cabinet Office. Other countries followed suit, including the US, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, and Germany.

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OIRA oversees the implementation of government-wide policies in, and reviews draft regulations … that it receives from federal agencies … and develops and oversees the implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information technology, information policy, privacy, and statistical policy.

**Wikipedia

Sunstein joined the Department of Homeland Security in February 2021 as an advisor to the Biden administration on immigration policy.

**Wikipedia

Sunstein serves as the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. He was previously a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1981 to 2008. In 2014, studies of legal publications found Sunstein to be the most frequently cited American legal scholar by a wide margin.

**Wikipedia

No lightweight, he!

Still, my friend, this does not mean he’s not full of shit. For crying out loud, he advised Sleepy Joe about immigration policy!

But, stay tuned, you will be able to judge for yourself.

Huh?

Bear with me.

The Mamas & the Papas were an American folk rock vocal group that recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968, with a brief reunion in 1971.

… released five studio albums and 17 singles, six of which made the Billboard top 10, and have sold close to 40 million records worldwide.

**Wikipedia

This is a media blitzkrieg. This is highly organized. The music industry is tightly controlled. The hippy movement and, yes, the British Invasion, were social engineering projects of the highest order. I don’t know if any of these four had a lick of talent, nor do I care. They were chosen, and it happened. (BTW, I loved numerous of their songs … I’m not THAT crabby!)

PAPA CASS

Cass Sunstein is a hit-maker in his own right.

Supposedly, he wrote 44 books in 35 years.

Supposedly, he also co-wrote 20 more books during this time period.

Mind you, this is not “summer reading”:

(1995) Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech

(1996) Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict

(1997) Free Markets and Social Justice

Here’s one year’s output:

(2019) On Freedom

(2019) How Change Happens

(2019) Conformity: The Power of Social Influences

I don’t buy it.

I’m sure the guy is smart, much smarter than me anyway, but I say there’s an apparatus which makes his astounding‑ness possible.

He’s an intellectual operative, a trendsetter, a megaphone for societal changes desired by the cabal, long noted for their extensive reach, to everywhere that matters.

If you think I’m whacko on this point, no biggie ─ from here on I will only discuss what the man has written.

Let’s pause to reminisce some more:

Words of wisdom!

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Here is someone actually doing something about this dilemma:

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Here is someone who’s gotten downright creative and is offering a long-term solution to fearing airborne viruses in perpetuity:

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Here is someone who, using the scientific approach, perceived that masking would be unnecessary if people would just accurately calibrate their interpersonal distances:

It’s amazing what we can do when we put our minds to it.

NUDGING AGAIN

Here are 3 rave reviews from the recent 2021 updated Sunstein/Thaler book:

“Nudge has changed the world. You may not realize it, but as a result of its findings you’re likely to live longer, retire richer, and maybe even save other people’s lives.”

—The Times (London)

“Probably the most influential popular science book ever written.”

—BBC Radio 4

“Save the planet, save yourself. Do-gooders, policymakers, this one’s for you.”

—Newsweek

What a wagonload of horse poo. I read half the book, and it was pretty weak tea ─ one indicator: I didn’t finish it!

The first half explained nudging – the topic we are investigating.

The second half had a long section on financial advice. Excuse me, but I think most people realize that someone who has a superior financial strategy keeps it secret. The notion that there are super smart influencers tripping over themselves to help you make more money is a real stretch.

Then there’s a chapter about organ donation, and the government hoping to gently encourage that. This assumes that organ donation is a desirable practice, but I will leave that to you.

Then it ends with “environmental” something or other. Sadly, this is a highly corrupt topic in our present-day society, and I nearly always give it a pass.

The book is basically about persuasion, and that’s not a new concept.

In 1961 Vance Packard wrote a book about persuasion. I read it when I was in the 8^th grade and it was very interesting. The take‑away was that there’s always someone, somewhere trying to get you to do, or not do, something.

The Nudge book, and many of the writings akin to it, heavily emphasize a nurturing motivation for these subconscious techniques.

I call bullshit, and I say this is anti‑freedom. People who love freedom, love freedom for everyone, and don’t try to manipulate their fellow citizens. It’s that simple.

Also suspicious, is the year of the updating of this book (2021) and promoting it as a best seller (which may or may not be true). This was the second year of worldwide governmental agencies and corporate informational entities highly regulating behavior and reportage: the $camdemic.

Of course THEY want those soul-crushing lockdowns portrayed as benevolent.

Let’s refresh our memories with a few screenshots:

Again, when I was in the 8^th grade, our cafeteria had long tables like this. A bully named Dennis P. would not allow anyone else to sit at “his” table. I will forever associate this memory with maladaptation and neurosis. What will these sweet youngsters remember? Hopefully, just a silly idea that didn’t last.

At least we know the schools are thoroughly sprayed with toxic poisons, to assure that no one becomes ill.

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I get it – the passion for protection is most intense for one’s own child. And the same sentiment facilitates the vaccine holocaust we are living in. It’s a big mess. We must try and educate each other and never give up.

I think we can consider that a BIG CLUE as to the “mask as prophylaxis” LIE.

Early in the mask-wearing, people used all manner of coverings, e.g. cowboy bandanas. Any mask readily displayed compliance. After a while THEY started whining about “only N95 masks” and so forth, but that was a bridge too far, and the cheapo models were accepted through to the end.

After all, the serfscattlegoy were beginning to chafe about their livelihoods being destroyed and their small business being ruined and their children committing suicide.

NUDGING EXPLAINED

Fear not, dear reader, this will be brief.

Down the page you will find a PDF which contains excerpts and commentary from all the things I read, for those who are further interested.

A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. To count as a mere nudge, the intervention must be easy and cheap to avoid. Nudges are not taxes, fines, subsidies, bans, or mandates. Putting the fruit at eye level counts as a nudge. Banning junk food does not.

**(the book)

(Arnie: “Fruit” refers to product placement in a grocery or cafeteria, i.e. promoting)

Many people who favor freedom of choice reject any kind of paternalism.

This policy has been pushed in many domains, from education to health care to retirement savings programs.

The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made by someone else. We claim that this assumption is false—indeed, obviously false. In fact, we do not think that anyone actually believes it on reflection.

AND

Suppose a chess novice were to play against an experienced player. Predictably, the novice would lose precisely because he made inferior choices—choices that could easily be improved by some helpful hints.

**(the book)

The authors know most people don’t like condescension, so they have to mention it.

Then they helpfully explain that, by their reckoning, most people are dumbasses.

You are a mere chess novice, but help has arrived, in the form of Sunstein and Thaler.

Praise be!

Is a GPS device an intrusion on freedom, even if it is paternalistic, in the sense that it tries to tell you how to get to your preferred destination? When no coercion is involved, we think that some types of paternalism should be acceptable even to those who most embrace freedom of choice.

**(the book)

This is like saying a rectal thermometer paternalistically tells you to call the doctor. Logic fail.

Now I can share their genius concept “LIBERTARIAN PATERNALISM.”

It means, “OK, paternalism, but the really nice kind.” Here are two roughly synonymous titles I concocted:

ANARCHIC AUTOCRACY

LIBERATION PENOLOGY

And who is to manage this libertarian paternalism? Another of their genius creations:

“CHOICE ARCHITECTS”

Let’s recall how things actually went down, in this era of supposed “nudging”:

On Aug. 20, leaders of the Small Business Association of Michigan, the chambers of commerce from Grand Rapids, Detroit and Michigan sent a letter to the governor asking that gyms and movie theaters be allowed to open.

The business leaders’ letter politely requested an opportunity to work with Whitmer’s team on identifying how more businesses can safely reopen, deferring property tax payments while no customer revenue in coming in, and protecting employers from “needless” epidemic-inspired lawsuits. It stated (in part):

“With your leadership, we have flattened the curve and Michigan has been able to safely reopen many sectors of our economy. Thank you.”

“We believe that if industries like restaurants, public swimming pools, casinos and others can find a way to safely open in some capacity, we can also find a way to safely open gyms,

“Thank you for your consideration. We look forward to continuing to be your partners in creating a safe and prosperous Michigan.”

**Arnie’s archives

I would rate that somewhere between sterling civility and desperate ass-kissing. Now this:

Still, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday (Aug. 25) said she’s not budging -- yet -- when it comes to opening gyms, theaters and bowling alleys that have been shut since March in the lower part of the state, the Detroit Free Press reports.

“I’m not going to be bullied into making that decision,” she said at a Lansing press conference, noting that the reopening call depends on facts and data.

Bullied … ?

As you probably know, one common behavior of psychopaths is to accuse their victims of the behaviors they themselves are displaying/effectuating.

This toxic loon was rated with Newsom and Cuomo as among the most surly authoritarians of the COVIDEXCUSEFORFASCISMCRIME; and these three (plus PA) distinguished themselves by housing frail seniors with Covid sufferers, excluding family members of contact, and causing many premature deaths.

ALSO FROM MICHIGAN:

A western Michigan restaurant owner was arrested before dawn Friday and hauled to jail, a dramatic turn in a months-long dispute over her persistent refusal to comply with orders and restrictions tied to the coronavirus.

Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, 55, will remain in jail until she pays $7,500 and authorities confirm that Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria in Holland, Michigan, is closed, a judge said.

“She has put the community at risk. We are in the middle of a pandemic,” Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said.

State investigators said Pavlos-Hackney had allowed indoor dining when it was banned, wasn’t enforcing mask rules and was ignoring capacity limits.

**Arnie’s archives

This was in March of 2021, seven months after Governor wHitler complained of being bullied.

Let’s observe two, more recent, public interchanges by Queen Gretchen:

18 SEP 2025:

With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placing new restrictions on eligibility for the updated COVID-19 vaccine, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed an executive directive intended to ensure vaccines remain accessible ahead of cold and flu season.

(link)

The FDA did not place restrictions; they simply reduced/narrowed their recommendations. Anyone can still get the jab, if they’re stupid enough to want it.

7 JAN 2026:

(Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian is the Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan)

“Just this week, we saw a complete overhaul of the US vaccine schedule by HHS. And this was done without consultation of ACIP, without input from those scientific advisors and without a great deal of transparency,” Dr. Bagdasarian said.

Dr. Bagdasarian advised, “We recommended to clinical providers here in Michigan to follow the vaccine recommendations and the childhood vaccine schedule put out by the American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP and the American Academy of Family Practice, AAFP.”

(link)

So, during the $camdemic, the CDC proclamations were sacrosanct, but now when they dial back and ease up, they’re defective and must be ignored.

Actually, I admire when individual US States declare their own viewpoint on a given matter. As with any decision, someone’s going to be annoyed, and this time it’s me. Oh well.

Here’s a Governor during Covid who gave me great hope:

Consider also:

Retired Manitoba judge Brian Giesbrecht recently showed that “the death toll in New York as of September was approximately 1,700 per million population, in New Jersey 1,800 per million, and in Haiti fewer than 19 per million.” The discrepancy is staggering. Why is this? Haiti was too poor a country to install lockdown measures and sailed through the pandemic with little damage. The same is true of Belarus.

AND

“Belarus’s beleaguered government remains unfazed by covid-19. President Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events like the Belarusian football league or the Victory Day parade. Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe—just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million with over 73 000 confirmed cases.”

**Arnie’s archives

Rather embarrassing, dontcha think?

… and, back Stateside:

This was high summer! A gorgeous late-August day in the sunshine. I don’t think these people were even “required” to wear their masks in this setting.

Speaking of outdoor rules, check this out:

Who needs nudging, when you can fine people $5,000 for singing?

Fortunately, the US saw some pockets of resistance:

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I’m pretty sure this one was from the UK:

“Don’t even look at other people.”

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I’m wondering if farther down the trail you might have seen this posted:

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Ah, but all is not lost in the British Isles.

We can still hold on to fantasies of dressing like a princess, or a prince:

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Let us awaken from our sweet reverie and return to the daily life of the commoners:

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Let’s see what’s going on back in the classroom:

Those are classy cubicles, not cardboard and duct tape. Must be an affluent school district. The kids have designer masks, not cheap throwaways. Coated with snot, no doubt.

The following meme isn’t from 2020 – I made it a few weeks ago:

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A few days later, this came through from Babylon Bee:

A person cannot stand for Freedom if he or she cannot be genuine, cannot be who they really are. We see it all the time; this is just a bit on the silly side.

Speaking of Freedom, here are some words from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Berlin, August 28, 2020, launching Children’s Health Defense European chapter:

For many years totalitarian or authoritarian states have used the power of fear to engineer compliance in populations. I grew up understanding what happened in World War II in our country. During the Nuremberg Trials, Herman Goering was asked by the prosecutor, how did you make the German people comply? Goering said, it’s not just Germany, this works in any country, whether it’s a fascist country or a communist country or a monarchy or a democracy. All the rulers need to do is to tell the people that there’s something they need to be fearful of. Point a finger at that source of their fear and you can make human beings do anything you want. You can make them go to the slaughter like sheep; you can make them obey.

During the same Great Depression that spawned Adolf Hitler we were very lucky in our country that we had a leader, Franklin Roosevelt, and he said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He understood that fear would drive us into totalitarianism.

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Now they have a source of fear that is the most pervasive, an all-encompassing power that they’ve ever had which is the fear of pandemic.

Governments love pandemics the same way that they love wars because it gives them power; it gives them control and it gives them the capacity to impose obedience on human beings.

This excerpt from his outdoor speech contains the word “fear” eight times. We can probably agree that fear is the ultimate motivator, and fear has many gradations. The Plandemic mostly used severest option, “You will DIE if you don’t…”

I declare that “nudgers” are not anything new but merely fear merchants trying to appear congenial.

The following poster from WHO was meant to rally the troops – the nudge platoons battling vaccine hesitancy:

Isn’t that just so colorful and friendly-looking? Gee, social engineering sure is fun.

Maybe they should have distributed this map along with the poster:

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Well, time to wind down.

Although I have been dismissing nudging as same-old, same-old, it is important, mostly because it is a present-day real-time sales pitch for TECHNOCRACY; and “Covid” was a premier exercise in the concept. At least 47 US State Governors abdicated their duty to lead, their duty to protect, and fobbed it all off onto fuzzily identified “experts” and “scientists.” Pass the buck run amok.

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I was going to quit here, but then I ran across a few articles about a new scientific paper in Nature Communications about PRESTIGE PSYCHOLOGY. Here are a few excerpts from another science magazine, commenting on the purported discoveries:

One of the most striking revelations is that such … influence … can be intrinsically beneficial. This … ensures that the most competent or knowledgeable individuals disproportionately guide group decisions, optimizing outcomes for the collective.

Understanding the dynamics of prestige and influence can inform the design of more effective leadership structures … and communication strategies. It may also provide keys to mitigating the spread of misinformation …

In a rapidly changing world marked by … complex social networks, such insights … remind us that the patterns of who we listen to and why are deeply rooted in our cognitive architecture and evolutionary heritage …

… this work stands as a seminal contribution … not only to appreciate the adaptive significance of social hierarchies but also to harness this understanding towards fostering more informed, equitable, and competent collective decision-making frameworks.

This verbiage points to the supporting of technocracy, as if it’s encoded into human DNA. This is smart-sounding people lecturing us on why we should do what smart-sounding people say we should do.

Here is one excerpt from the paper itself:

… the processes involved are non-coercive, being driven by individuals freely seeking high quality information.

This echoes the principles of nudging wherein no one is forced to do anything, but they end up doing what their overlords wish because it’s the right thing to do.

This is a good example of what Jacques Ellul meant when he said that propaganda must be total. Who would expect that a seemingly scientific anthropological paper would be advertising the virtues of technocracy?

Am I being paranoid? No, I’m being observant. Social engineering relies upon people not noticing things consciously.

(A more detailed look at this information appears below in the “Prestige Psychology” PDF)

OK, now we’re done. This political cartoon is from February 3, 2026. And we thought the days of mask-wearing were finally debunked and got rid of forever! Guess not, eh?

Arnie here, signing off. Thanks for stopping by!

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(Hey, don’t look at me; I’m not real happy about this either!)

The Summer of 2006 I learned that the Federal Reserve is a criminal extortion racket. This was the beginning of my studies of the cabal, and my 30,000‑file archive.

About a year later I began learning that vaccines are unnecessary and harmful.

But it was another five years or so until I learned they are WEAPONS.

Malice aforethought weapons. Mens rea weapons.

Source? Patrick Jordan’s book “ICD-999.”

You can purchase it at his website, VACCINE FRAUD (link)

Patrick was the first full-throated, damn the torpedoes explorer I had encountered on this topic. His chock‑a‑block writing style reminds me of Eustace Mullins in a way ─ a hurricane of information, with bits and bobs frequently pelting the house, along with the occasional thuds and loud cracks of larger constructs threatening the very barrier of reason itself.

But … there have been three other more recent events which prompted this post, and we will discuss all four influences, and more.

This kind of information is so much easier to share since the Plandemic, the $camdemic, the COVIDEXCUSEFORFASCISMCRIME. Thanks a bunch, Tony!

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REASON ONE

The first recent event which got me clenching my jaw was Sasha Latypova’s September 3 post “The Second Shot.” (link)

The post involved a discussion of anaphylactic shock and a seminal medical researcher from the turn of the last century named Charles Richet.

Rest easy, dear reader, because the point here is so simple that even Zack from Big Bang Theory could understand it.

Sasha:

This led me to become intensely interested in Richet’s work. I found his book describing the work on anaphylaxis published in 1913. I am including several screenshots from it, so you can read for yourself.

Richet alluded to vaccination being a failure from the first attempts, because, instead of producing expected immunity it produced violent reactions or even death from minute (not considered dangerous) amounts of the toxin at the 2nd exposure. This happened in a random % of the population. One example quoted anaphylaxis rates from injecting cattle with anthrax serum: approximately 10% became violently ill and many died. The population who would react anaphylactically is a priori not distinguishable from others, because it is not known who is already sensitized to which biological substances.

Richet was fiddling around with the concept of vaccination, or whatever they called it in the 1890’s. He gave a jab and not much happened. Later, he gave a second jab, and all hell breaks loose!

Hmmm. What say you, Zack?

CORRECTAMUNDO, PROFESSOR! DON’T STICK POISON NEEDLES INTO PEOPLE OR ANIMALS. JUST DON’T DO IT.

Charles Robert Richet (25 August 1850 – 4 December 1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis”. Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining the term “ectoplasm”. He believed in the inferiority of black people, was a proponent of eugenics …

**Wikipedia

In their rather brief entry for Richet, Wiki made space for portraying him as somewhat of a goofball. This is revealing. He discovered and named a thing that we should never do but guess what – we do it all the time and for the past 100+ years … stab people more than once with poisons and germs. They couldn’t ignore the guy, but at least they could paint him as odd.

Sasha:

The original biologics regulation law in 1902 was called the virus-toxin act. Early on, virus, toxin, antitoxin, serum and vaccine were used interchangeably, because the vaccinators knew what they were propagating in the labs and licensed establishments ─ biological poisons.

Thank you, my dear. Poisons. Yes.

Why the compulsion to inject poisons into people (and animals)? What precedent exists in Nature to do this? Well …

Gag me with a bedpan!

One more excerpt, just to review:

You notice that Richet talks about the “second injection”. This refers to the nature of anaphylaxis: the first interaction with an injected toxin may be not even noticed, be well tolerated or may be at worst mildly irritating. After a period of 2-3 weeks, the second exposure, however, may become very dangerous or fatal. The second exposure in most of Richet’s experiments was by injection. However, with high enough sensitization by the first injection, the anaphylaxis could also result from environmental exposure or ingestion, depending on the degree of sensitization to the “allergen”, or “toxigen” as he termed it. Do you understand peanut allergy, gluten allergy, soy allergy, etc. now? The things that didn’t exist before peanut oil, wheat albumins and other common food proteins became widely used in vaccines (and were proclaimed “generally safe” because it’s just food).

Importantly, Richet has demonstrated that anaphylaxis, anaphylactic shock and the variety of allergic reactions are all the same phenomenon, stemming from the same thing - a sensitizing exposure by proteins reaching the blood stream and bypassing normal digestion.

She mentions peanut allergy. Again, with a Zack-level explanation, the crazy rise in peanut allergies is because THEY put peanut oil in vaccines! Why? Because THEY are murderous bastards.

A very bright woman named Barb Feick wrote at length that “food allergies are all man-made.”

Simply put, if you inject a protein into a person, there is a chance they will become allergic to that protein.

Alternatively, here is what Patrick conjectures on the matter:

… since previous vaccinations are known to (and it has been entered into Congressional testimony) cause vascular permeability that also creates a condition called leaky gut; that those same undigested food proteins … were crossing everyone’s GI tract into the bloodstream so that when each vaccine instigated another immune storm; then whatever was in the blood at the time would be tagged as an invader and a possible memory cell response would be mounted to it. Get a vaccine ─ eat a peanut butter sandwich ─ get peanut allergy. You wouldn’t even need the peanut oil adjuvant that they put in vaccines today to insure that you will have lethal anaphylaxis to it.

There are other routes, e.g. modern-day wheat contains much more gluten than historic varieties, and some can’t tolerate it.

The point is, all this shit is well known, and it is therefore being done on purpose TO HARM US ALL.

Prophylactic comes from Greek, meaning “for protection.” Anaphylactic means “against protection.” The online etymology dictionary states that “anaphylaxis” was coined in 1902 (this would be Richet) and that “anaphylactic shock” appeared in use in 1916. Sounds about right – more than a decade for crazy jabbers to observe enough life-threatening disasters to name their new man-made disease. Progress, cabal-style.

REASON TWO

The second recent exposure which prompted me to do this post was the 5-part series by Katherine Watt of Bailiwick News Substack about the pretend US regulation of vaccines, going back to the late 1700’s. Part 5 was the largest installment (17k words), beginning with 1944. This makes sense, since the post-war era saw the birth of the CIA and the Technocratic State (the parallel Administrative State began with FDR before the war).

Simply put, the Federal government has promulgated teeny-tiny, anemic regulations posing as controls over the creation and administering of vaccines, but these measures do not bear up under scrutiny. Indeed, they are comical in their inadequacy. What is impressive, however, is the painstaking and exhaustive research conducted by Katherine.

Here are words condensed from her introduction to Part 5 (a one third reduction):

… the procedures presented to the public as regulation have instead been a simulation of regulation, a suggestion-to-the-mind of observers, without substance or materiality.

Regulatory simulation of biological product manufacturing has been going on continuously since the initial construction of the legal frameworks for biological products in 1902 with Congressional passage of the Virus-Toxin law, through the present.

The basic reason for the simulation is that the simulators have wanted the public to believe — contrary to the truth — that vaccines are a class of products that can be stabilized and standardized and, in stable, standardized, identifiable and identified forms, can be demonstrated to have stable properties or attributes such as purity, therapeutic effectiveness and strength.

… Regulation and standardization in a substantive, material form is practically and theoretically impossible.

… Why have legislators, financial officers, military officers, public health officers, scientists, vaccine manufacturers, doctors and lawyers wanted people to believe the lies that a non-standardizable process is a standardized product and that harmful products are beneficial products?

… They want people to take vaccines voluntarily, repeatedly and without resistance, and to vaccinate their children, so that more people will get sick, be sicker, and die earlier, without the poisoning crimes being traceable to the killers, and within a legal system incapable of stopping, prosecuting and punishing the criminal acts.

… Some of the performers … have believed they are performing good acts …

For some of the performers … the motivation is greed …

For others who know the truth, and who organize the work of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, manufacturers, legislators, judges and civil administrators, it’s about dominance, control, and exploitation.

… It’s about keeping people sick, weak, disordered, indebted, confused, depressed, anxious, dependent, infertile, and incapable of producing and distributing goods and services to support themselves, their families and their neighbors.

The following is from the introduction to Part 2 of the series, making further points which also apply to the entire series and indeed to the entirety of Katharine’s work:

When trying to understand the structure of scientific-medical deceptions and how laws and lawmaking acts relate to scientific-medical deceptions, there are several key questions to keep in mind.

1. What are the problems that government officers (Congress members as lawmakers, US Presidents and cabinet secretaries as law executors and civil administrators) claim to be interested in solving? How does the government define problems and the government’s role in addressing them?

(Katherine poses 11 questions total)

This corresponds to the “ostensible reason” framing described by Lawrence Dunegan in the Day Tapes: Dunegan’s recollection of a lecture given to a group of pediatricians by Dr. Richard Day in March 1969, in Pittsburgh.

(This refers to Dunegan’s RECOLLECTION of a lecture – where taping was not allowed, for secrecy purposes – and is generally known among the conspiracy cognoscenti as THE NEW BARBARIANS lecture. A PDF copy is provided at the end of the post. I urge you to read it.)

… [Day] said: “Everything has two purposes. One is the ostensible purpose which will make it acceptable to people; and second, is the real purpose which would further the goals of establishing the new system and having it.”

The ostensible reason for federal public health, communicable disease surveillance, quarantine, and biological product manufacturing and vaccination programs is communicable disease control.

… The real reason, from the get-go, has been to gradually “establish the new system:” a centralized global government engaged in uninterrupted surveillance, control and weakening of human beings and animals, with both humans and animals construed as livestock, and both construed as without free will and immortal souls.

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Dear reader, whenever you encounter a speaker or a writer who claims there is a secretive cabal of individuals who view general humanity as being animal‑like and not worthy of dignity, you are listening to someone who is earnestly trying to tell the truth. Ironically, the PSYCHOPATHS who view the rest of us as serfscattlegoy are themselves an alien species on our lovely planet – the human‑appearing entities who are devoid of empathy.

You probably know that Katherine began her broader work during the lawlessness of the COVID era, when people here and around the world were being murdered in hospitals and were not allowed to purchase curative substances. Her writings are massive in size.

The 5-part series documents a tangled web of evolving drug regulations, focusing on vaccines, and my further focus here is to do with vaccine definitions. Spoiler alert: They are never defined.

The first organized effort to regulate vaccines was the 1902 Virus-Toxin law. The word VACCINE was not used at the time, but each descriptor is what we today would call a vaccine.

Section 1 (of the law) prohibited international and interstate sale, barter and exchange of “any virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, or analogous product applicable to the prevention and cure of diseases of man” unless the products had been “propagated and prepared at an establishment holding an unsuspended and unrevoked license, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury.”

Section 1 required packages to be “plainly marked with the proper name of the article;” the name, address and license number of the manufacturer; and the “date beyond which the contents cannot be expected beyond reasonable doubt to yield their specific results.”

Katherine mentions the next 7 sections of the law then comments:

The 1902 Virus-Toxin law covered “any virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, or analogous product,” but did not define any of those terms by measurable physical or chemical attributes.

The products were defined only by the clause: “applicable to the prevention and cure of diseases of man.”

Vaccine was not listed as a product class subject to the 1902 Virus-Toxin law.

Congress didn’t add the term vaccine to federal biological product law until 1970 …

To date (2024), Congress and federal regulatory agencies have still not defined vaccine in measurable physical or chemical terms in any statute or regulation.

The 1902 Virus-Toxin law covered licensing of establishments only; it was silent on the licensing of individual products.

The 1902 Virus-Toxin law did not prohibit “manufacture” of viruses, toxins and other biological products without a license; it prohibited “sale, exchange and barter” of such products.

The 1902 Virus-Toxin law did not require labels to contain information about the identity, volume, concentration or purity of any substances or mixtures of substances in product packages.

The 1902 Virus-Toxin law did not set forth physical or chemical compliance standards for product identity, purity, or potency, or direct the Treasury Secretary or the three-member Surgeon-Generals board to establish or enforce compliance with physical or chemical standards.

The forgiving reader might at this point say, “Gee fellas, this was only 1902; surely things got more specific technically as science advanced through the 20th century.”

We shall see …

The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act indicates that Congress members understood the public dangers posed by adulterated and misbranded pharmaceutical products. They were capable of establishing definitions for terms including drug, adulteration and misbranding. They were capable of assigning responsibility for establishing physical and chemical standards, assays and testing methods to a non-governmental organization (US Pharmacopeia-National Formulary). They were able to establish procedures for collecting and testing specimens and able to designate federal government agencies and officers to collect and test specimens, and testify under oath as to their adulterated or misbranded status. They were able to set up procedures for district attorneys to prosecute violators who manufactured adulterated and misbranded products.

And yet …

Domestic and foreign manufacturing and foreign and interstate traffic in “virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, or analogous product” were not governed by the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.

Viruses, serums, toxins, antitoxins and analogous products were governed by the 1902 Virus-Toxin law, and therefore not subject to physical and chemical standards, specimen collection, specimen testing or criminal prosecution for adulteration or misbranding.

Most provisions of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act were incorporated into the 1938 Food Drug and Cosmetics Act (FDCA, PL 75-717), and are currently codified at several sections in Title 21, Chapter 9, Section 301 et seq

The funny part is, for several decades, when new laws appeared which governed the creation and dissemination of DRUGS in the US, there would appear a paragraph in such laws to the effect:

… “Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as in any way affecting, modifying, repealing, or superseding the provisions of the virus, serum, and toxin Act of July 1, 1902”

Continuing through time:

… the “Drug Amendments of 1962“ (PL 87-781), also called the Kefauver-Harris Act, after its sponsors, Senator Estes Kefauver and Representative Oren Harris.

… its provisions were not applicable to vaccines because of the blanket exemptions between PHSA-governed biological products and FDCA-governed non-biological drug products and other exemptions for “investigational drugs” subject to the PHSA.

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In 1970, Congress and President Nixon … adding the word ‘vaccine’ to the list of regulated biological products but not defining the term.

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Then in 1996, FDA removed the “Additional Standards” sections from the biological product regulations entirely …

What reasons did FDA give for the removal of “additional standards?”

(The second of four reasons given by the Feds):

“As currently written, these regulations can be too restrictive for certain products because they specify particular methodologies or standards when alternatives may be available that provide the same level of assurance of safety, purity and potency.”

So, these notreallyhardlyatall regulations were “too restrictive.”

Katherine explains elsewhere in the essay what those last three words really mean:

“Safety” actually means “toxicity” or “specific results” such that the product causes harm by eliciting a rejection response to a purported “nonfatal dose” of foreign organic matter in the recipient organism.

“Purity” means “heterogeneity,” as an indicator of how many different living organisms and organic particles of matter produced by organisms may be found in any given container. It is related to identity, sterility, adulteration, contamination and labeling

“Potency,” means the degree, strength or intensity of toxicity or toxic specific result.

And a final note on definitions:

As of 2024, Congress has still not addressed, defined or set up procedures to identify and prosecute adulteration or misbranding of biological products, nor have any of the federal agencies to which Congress has delegated regulatory authority.

What’s the problem? Why the lack of specifics?

Here’s a hundred page document from the USDA, much of it describing what certain fruits should look like. (link)

We all know there are a skeetybillion other pages of annoying government regulations pertaining to every nook and cranny of our lives, so why are the guidelines about vaccines about as long as the lyrics to Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin?

BECAUSE IT’S IMPOSSIBLE.

Listen to Katherine:

Again, the basic premise is that if a product maker starts with high quality raw materials and uses a sound method for refining and shaping the materials into finished products, then the finished products will also be of good quality, and that if the makers and regulators have developed valid tests to check whether the finished product contains what it’s supposed to contain, doesn’t have flaws or impurities, and does what it was designed to do, and those tests are properly conducted, then the finished products will be of good quality and fit for human use.

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As living organisms or dynamic processes encased in steel or glass, vaccines cannot be fully identified, defined, characterized, stabilized or standardized, and thus cannot be demonstrated to have stable properties or attributes such as purity, effectiveness and strength.

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There exist no valid tests to assess or ensure the quality of finished products, or measure effects through identifiable metabolites, for the same reason there exist no pure, stable starting materials and no sound processing methods: higher biological organisms don’t exist in isolation but in community, and they don’t exist in stable and determinate form but in living, indeterminate, dynamic and teleological form.

(I had to look up “teleological” … exhibiting or relating to design or purpose especially in nature)

When I try to warn someone about vaccine consistency (especially “hot lots”) I draw an analogy to minestrone soup.

Imagine the gigantic vat at the gigantic Campbell Soup factory, cooking minestrone soup. Do you think every can that comes from there has exactly the same ingredients? Here they are, by the way:

Campbell’s Minestrone Soup with Italian Sausage (from their website): Chicken Stock, Water, Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Carrots, Italian Sausage (Pork, Water, Salt, Spice, Bha/Bht And Citric Acid To Preserve Flavor), Potatoes, Italian Sausage (Pork, Seasoning [Spice, Salt, Dried Garlic], Water, Salt), Diced Tomatoes In Tomato Juice, Pasta (Wheat Flour, Egg Whites), Kidney Beans, Celery, Green Beans, Peas, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Potato Starch, Spinach, Onions, Salt, Sugar, Spices, Flavoring, Dried Chicken Broth, Potato Flour, Yeast Extract, Chicken Fat, Dried Carrots. Contains: Egg, Wheat.

My listener might reply, “It doesn’t matter,” to which I would ask, “Well, what if it did?”

Here’s a succinct warning about hot lots from Dr. Yoho of the Surviving Healthcare Substack (hot lots cause unanticipated severe reactions): (link)

Here’s a longer historical piece on hot lots by A Midwest Doctor Substack: (link)

Here’s what Katherine says about the famous “Cutter Incident” – the original hot lot tragedy during the Salk vaccine rollout:

In late April and May 1955, public health officials claimed to detect harmful lots of vaccine produced by Cutter Laboratories in California, attributing polio diagnoses among children and adults to “infectious virus” in the Cutter vaccines. The investigators had available to them the same unvalidated scientific methods for diagnosing disease and classifying cases by cause, to facilitate statistical fraud, pin vaccine harms on one manufacturer, and generate momentum for the construction of a more elaborate, more centrally-controlled false-front federal quality control and product testing system. Cutter recalled doses remaining on shelves, took a financial hit, but quickly recovered the lost income, expanded its facilities and moved on.

The whole event could have been stagecraft, to suggest to the public that meticulous monitors were keeping careful watch over the system. I think a similar stunt was pulled during COVID, with the recall of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

From Patrick Jordan’s ICD-999:

1902 ─ The Biologics Control Act also known as the Virus-Toxin Law. Please make special note of what is to follow regarding the elucidation of Serum Sickness. There are NO coincidences in Law Enforcement. The Control Act is exactly what it says. They knew what the result of their work was due to what you will read below, therefore, they knew what must be done to manage it like any Drug Cartel would. Essentially it was a culling of multiple vaccine producers into a few major companies. A tetanus outbreak in St. Louis and contaminated (how can poison be contaminated?) Small Pox and Diphtheria Anti-Toxin were a ready excuse to push the law through. How convenient.

This rings true. Jo Hindman, in her book “Terrible 1313 Revisited” declares that a core purpose of our building codes is to insist on the use of carefully described materials which are available from large and favored manufacturers (which are undoubtedly owned by … wait for it … the cabal).

I’m not rabid enough to hold that building codes per se are ridiculous, but I will remind the reader that, “If you don’t know at least one hidden agenda in a matter, you don’t understand the issue at hand.”

But I digress …

Sidenote: Patrick’s quote is from his book’s 127-page “Timeline,” which itself is worth the price of admission. It delineates how what most people consider the March of (Medical) Science was actually a Death March to the present moribund condition of our nation, nay, all nations.

Despite any (or no) regulations, the specific ingredients in the specific hypodermic needle reservoir that’s about to go in your arm or your ass or whatever are INDETERMINATE.

And some of the ingredients are classified by the Feds as proprietary … in other words, “Mind your own damn business.”

Here are some vax ingredients listed by Patrick Jordan in ICD-999:

In the book, the list has some further notes that are very interesting. And just so you don’t think Patrick is a crusty old nitpicker (well, actually he is … but) here is an even longer list from an Australian website I just found yesterday (link)

Here is a graphic from the late 1800’s I found in my vaccine images archive whilst researching this post:

The little fruit names are damages wrought by vaccines.

We call them “side-effects.” The online etymology dictionary says that this medical usage did not exist then.

side-effect (n.) “subsidiary consequence of an action, etc.,” 1884 … The specific medical use, with reference to drugs, is recorded by 1939.

We’ve been brainwashed, my friend. The Nineteenth Century vaccine skeptics witnessed illnesses caused by injections and reacted with horror.

I still remember how shocked I was when I read the statement, “There are no side-effects. They are effects.”

If you get Guillain-Barré syndrome from a fucking flu shot, that’s not a side-effect to you. No way, dude, it’s an:

So, what is a Upas Tree?

Upas Tree, Antiaris toxicaria

In China, this plant is known as “arrow poison wood” and the poison is said to be so deadly that it has been described as “Seven Up Eight Down Nine Death” meaning that a victim can take no more than seven steps uphill, eight steps downhill or nine steps on level ground before dying.

Half the maladies appearing here you’ve heard of, and the other half might sound weird. Never fear, they’re quite familiar when explained.

CANCER

SYPHILIS

CARIES

DIARRHOEA

HERPES

ECZEMA

ULCERS

PNEUMONIA

GANGRENE

CONVULSIONS

GLANDULAR SWELLING

BRONCHITIS

PSORIASIS

MENINGITIS

RICKETS

ABCESSES

TUBERCULOSIS

SEPTICAEMIA

PYAEMIA

A form of septicaemia.

BULLAE

Blisters

STRUMA

Goiter

ERYTHEMA

Inflammation of skin and/or mucous membranes

ROSEOLA

Herpes rash

SCROFULA

Tuberculosis of lymph nodes especially in the neck

TABES MESENTERICA

Tuberculosis of the mesenteric lymph nodes

AMGIOLEUCITIS

Couldn’t find this one

MARASMUS

Malnutrition highly associated with HIV

PRURIGO

Skin inflammation

ECTHYMA

Skin infection, form of impetigo

SCARLATINA

Scarlet fever

PHTHISIS

Pulmonary tuberculosis

PHLEGMON

Inflammation of soft tissue under the skin or inside the body

IMPETIGO

Skin infection

URTICARIA

Hives

CELLULITIS

Skin infection, deeper layers

ERYSIPELAS

Bacterial skin infection

LICHEN

Skin infection (name derived from appearance)

PITYRIASIS

Skin rash

Perhaps you remember during COVID when there was a list circulating of about 1,000 “side effects” associated with the newfangled jabs. Some considered it a list of harms done, and others tagged it as a list of harms intended/anticipated.

(example): (link)

I think it was a list of already identified vaccine “side effects” from over the recent years, and the so-called scientists who were in on the con were slavering to observe what harms their new toys would effectuate, with an eye toward future aggressions.

Regardless, a thousand reasons to “Just Say No” to vaccines is compelling. I now share with you my simplified list, citing affliction names only:

The 1000 Side Effects

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REASON THREE

The third event which triggered my writing this post began with watching the vaccine safety hearing convened by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) September 9, 2025 and featuring a panel of interviewees Aaron Siri, Toby Rogers, and Jake Scott.

It was fascinating and led me to read Aaron’s new book “Vaccines Amen,” which meticulously lays out his premise that faith in vaccines is a virtual religion to its adherents ─ and he’s not knocking religions by any means.

You can’t “prove” there is or is not a god, nor can you characterize him/her/it conclusively, but you can prove that vaccines have major, even fatal, flaws … unless your listener is a member of the vaccine sect.

I am going to share five real zingers from the book, but there are gobs more jaw dropping insights and shocking facts, so I urge you to partake. Thank you, Aaron!

ZINGER ONE

We are going to make a product (potentially even using government money); the government is going to market it (using taxpayer dollars); the government is going to guarantee us payment (using taxpayer dollars); the government is going to mandate it for every American (including under threat of expulsion from school); and the government is going to grant us immunity from liability for harms (no matter how bad the injuries).

ZINGER TWO

What could cause the immune system of children to dysregulate en masse? Well maybe start by looking at the products specifically intended to modify the immune system ─ vaccines – which have gone from 3 injections in 1986 to 29 injections in 2025 by just one year of age per the CDC pregnancy and childhood schedule.

The simple logic here bowled me over. If you’re wondering why young Americans’ immune systems are being damaged, you might first consider a medical procedure designed to aggravate said system.

It’s not a big ask … unless you’re asking a Vaccine adherent.

Check out Wikipedia as to this line of inquiry:

… hypothesis that giving many vaccines at once may overwhelm a child’s immune system and lead to autism, even though this hypothesis has no scientific evidence and is biologically implausible.

IMPLAUSIBLE?????????

… that something that measurably affects the immune system, cannot overwhelm it … not ever? Get thee behind me, Satan!

ZINGER THREE

I mean that literally — HHS is literally legally responsible to defend against claims brought by citizens that a vaccine caused them harm.

This is because Congress, when it gave pharma companies immunity for vaccine injuries, created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP or vaccine court) where individuals can file claims against HHS for certain limited compensation for vaccine injuries. And Congress made the Secretary of HHS the respondent (the defendant) in vaccine court. Meaning, the very same agency responsible for vaccine safety, HHS—which is already conflicted in having to also promote vaccines—is literally responsible for defending against vaccine injury claims.

Pause and really think about this incredible conflict.

This is straight-up legal stuff (that even I can understand). In the vaccine court, the Secretary of HHS, ex officio, is accused by someone of messing up and is thence energized to prove that he didn’t – that the complaint has no merit.

Perhaps you remember this whooping cough vaccine ad from not so long ago – I think it was 2014. I know a grandmother who was “forced” to get the jab in order to see her new grandson. Fortunately, it didn’t harm her noticeably. Please read the following carefully:

ZINGER FOUR

From the baboon Pertussis trial:

Natural infection evokes both mucosal and systemic immune responses while aPV’s [acellular pertussis vaccines] induce only a systemic immune response. … Mucosal immunity is essential to prevent colonization and transmission of B. pertussis organisms. Consequently, preventive measures such as aPVs that do not induce a valid mucosal response can prevent disease but cannot avoid infection and transmission. … aPV pertussis vaccines do not prevent colonization. Consequently, they do not reduce the circulation of B. pertussis and do not exert any herd immunity effect.

Thus, vaccination CANNOT induce “herd immunity.”

IT DOESN’T WORK.

Here is a comment about the Pertussis jab from Patrick Jordan:

… when Pertussis toxin from the DPT or other vaccines that are formulated with Pertussis to give them an extra kick like an adjuvant are unleashed into your system the toxin shuts off Neutrophils (a white blood cell) like a light switch.

Isn’t that lovely?

ZINGER FIVE

V-SAFE: “The most intensive vaccine safety monitoring effort in U.S. history.”

V-SAFE was probably mostly composed of vaccine enthusiasts and 1in 13 sought medical care … on average each sought care two to three times and approximately 75% were urgent care emergency room or hospitalization

25% reported missing school or work or being unable to do normal activities.

… but none of this was deemed enough to declare a safety issue.

V-SAFE was instituted during COVID (link).

During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 10 million participants completed more than 151 million check-ins.

** CDC V-SAFE home page

Using Aaron’s math just shown, over a half million mRNA recipients went – minimally – to an urgent care facility, and an indeterminate cohort went to ER’s or ended up in hospital.

But that was not a concerning outcome. That was not a stopping condition (Stopping conditions in medical trials can end a trial due to proven efficacy or futility, or safety concerns. So, in this case, nothing matters – they’re doing it anyway).

I’m certain Katherine Watt would classify it as another pretend safety measure, and Aaron has just verified that perception.

Let’s return to Katherine once more. This is from another of her chilling posts and describes the pretend nature of the entire COVID project/assault.

Use of EUA-covered (Emergency Use Authorization) medical countermeasure products including masks, PCR tests, mRNA and DNA injections, and other drugs, devices and biologics, once designated as such by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (March 10, 2020, retroactive to February 4, 2020) “shall not be considered to constitute a clinical investigation.” 21 USC 360bbb-3(k). EUA law, adopted 1997 and amended 2003, 2004, 2005, 2013, 2017.

This is true no matter how untested, unmonitored, unsafe, or ineffective they are, no matter whether their harmfulness to human health and uselessness for infection-control are known before use, or discovered afterward.

THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS:

There is no stopping condition.

EUA products are exempt from laws regulating researcher use of investigational, experimental drugs, devices and biologics on human beings.

EUA products are exempt from laws regulating physician use of approved drugs, devices and biologics as medical treatments for patients.

There are no manufacturers of experimental products (EUA products are not part of any clinical investigation, and therefore not experimental.)

There are no government or private contracts for purchase of experimental products; there are only contracts for ‘large scale vaccine manufacturing demonstrations.’

There is no act of administration of any experimental products.

There are no nurses or pharmacists administering experimental products.

There are no human subjects (of experiments) or patients (of physicians providing treatment) receiving experimental products: no victims.

There is no party responsible for the wellbeing of recipients after administration of EUA products.

There is no treatment group and no control group.

Human beings administering EUA products have no informed consent obligations to provide information about ingredients, risks, benefits, alternatives, or the option to accept or refuse the products.

Human beings receiving EUA products have no informed consent rights to receive information about ingredients, risks, benefits, alternatives, or the option to accept or refuse the products.

There are no Institutional Review Boards supervising administration of the experimental products.

There are no safety standards for EUA products.

There are no efficacy standards for EUA products.

There are no clinical investigators studying the effects of EUA products on human subjects.

There are no doctors, nurses, or other treatment providers providing experimental treatment to their patients subject to the Hippocratic Oath (“first do no harm”) using EUA products.

There is no coordinated, public, federal government monitoring of recipients after receiving the products for adverse effects and deaths.

There is no coordinated, public, federal government data collection or analysis.

There is no legal requirement for medical supervision during product administration.

There is no legal requirement for recipient monitoring after product administration.

There is no requirement for individual prescriptions to be written prior to dispensing EUA products, and products dispensed without prescriptions “shall not be deemed adulterated or misbranded.”

Manufacturers, as contractors, are considered HHS employees for purposes of legal immunity under Federal Tort Claims Act. See 42 USC 247d-6a(d)(2)(A).

Department of Defense is authorized to contract with pharmaceutical corporations to conduct ‘prototype’ experiments on the general public, and under such contracts, is exempt from legal obligation to comply with Good Clinical Practices or other FDA regulations. See 10 USC 2371b (2015), renumbered 10 USC 4022 (Jan. 1, 2021, effective Jan. 1, 2022)

There are no required standards for quality-control in manufacturing; no inspections of manufacturing procedures; no prohibition on wide variability among lots; no prohibition on adulteration; and no required compliance with Current Good Manufacturing Practices.

There are no labeling requirements regarding the contents or ingredients in EUA products.

There is no limitation of administration of EUA products past their expiration dates.

There cannot be clinical trial fraud, because there are no clinical investigations, no investigational drugs, no investigators and no human subjects.

There are no marketing standards.

There cannot be consumer fraud, because the only legal parties to the financial transactions are the US government (DOD) as buyer; the US government (HHS) as regulator authorizing exemptions from consumer protection laws that otherwise apply to medical products; and the pharmaceutical corporations as sellers, contracted to develop and manufacture the products. There are no commercial pharmaceutical products, no commercial marketplace, and no commercial market consumers.

There is no access to courts for judicial review of the facts or law relating to HHS Secretary declarations of EUA products, which are committed to agency discretion. See 42 USC 247d-6d(b)(7). 2005.

Even if there were access to courts for judicial review, and a fact-finder found evidence of harms caused by administration of products to recipients, and even evidence that those who caused the harms, by developing, manufacturing, distributing and/or administering the EUA products, knew the EUA products were toxic and knew their own actions were harmful, “just following orders” is an authorized, legal defense. See 42 USC 247d-6d(c)(4). 2005.

JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS.

DR. PAUL THOMAS

I first learned about “Dr. Paul” from a riveting interview conducted by Dr. Robert Yoho at his “Surviving Healthcare” Substack in February of 2023. (link)

A pediatrician in Oregon who was never pushy about vaccines, he one year decided to hire a computer statistics expert to examine his patient base to see if they could detect a difference in health outcomes between vaccinated and non-vaccinated child patients. Dr. Paul was agnostic about vaccines prior to the analysis. He was shocked by the results and began to share his findings with others.

The Oregon Medical Board was also shocked by the findings and proceeded to cancel Paul’s licensed to practice medicine. I don’t think I need to explain what that means.

I am neither a doctor nor a statistician, but when I look at the following graphs generated by Dr. Paul, a deep-seated anger swells in my breast.

He is still fighting this crime against Truth, but is doing his best to survive and teach in the meantime: (link)

Please say a prayer for Dr. Paul.

The psychopathic vaccinators repeatedly say that a double-blind trial with vaccinated versus non‑vaccinated would be unethical because it would deprive the placebo group of the touted protections. Well guys, you can shut up now because it’s been done for you and the results are plain as day.

Of course, even this drama is not necessary, because one needs only to look to the Amish and their 100% lack of autism, and their 100% rejection of vaccines, and then cleverly add 1 plus 1 to equal to 2.

IQ TEST

If you can look at the following chart and think there’s no relationship between increased vaccine doses and autism, you’re a dumbass.

If you can convince the dumbasses that there is at least a critical contribution from this practice, then you’re a genius.

PATRICK, ADIEU

Let’s grab one more snippet from Patrick Jordan’s ICD-999.

By the way, ICD-999 is the medical classification/billing code for “Complications of medical care not elsewhere classified.” You can see that, since the vaccine psychopaths are loathe to admit damage in any form, this would be a very handy box to tick.

From the book:

Human babies get their immunity from breast milk for the first 12 months …

(AND)

A more rational question to ask is how a baby who doesn’t have a functioning immune system could possibly benefit from a Tetanus vaccine when the newborn can’t form a humoral or cellular immune response to the assault? That should be enough to finalize the debate. But there’s more ... (Patrick’s ellipse) The freaks wanted to vaccinate newborns with Measles vaccine (the very live virus that Dr. Rebecca Carley found causes the body to attack its own nerve linings) but the circulating antibodies given to the baby from its mother disabled the vaccine. They tried everything but those pesky maternal antibodies kept shutting them down. They ultimately had to wait 12 months before they could give the baby a shot so that there was no outside interference to their poison.

“Immunity from mother’s milk.” Sounds like God had a plan, doesn’t it?

Note that the neonate cannot process/utilize a vaccine AT ALL. Zip, zero, nada. What does this tell you about the famous Hep B jab?

“The mother’s antibodies vanquished the measles concoction.” PROVING IT WASN’T NEEDED.

Like Jon Rappoport taught me one fateful day not so long ago:

In which case, I return to my original question: why bother with the rehearsal called vaccination, since it proves nothing except the body is already prepared for the real thing. And so, the vaccination wasn’t needed.

And lastly, the devils just regrouped and waited 12 months to administer their biological weapon.

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AN ALTERNATE WORLD

What a calamity.

How did this happen?

The same way porcupines make love – very carefully.

Therapies and cures have been quashed, and their creators and proponents savaged.

Whole bodies of wisdom have been scuttled, by the monied interests.

For example:

This is Russell Thacher Trall (1812-1877).

He is a giant of thought in the Nineteenth Century “Natural Hygiene” movement, sometimes known as Drugless Medicine.

You’ve heard of another member of the movement, Sylvester Graham, inventor of the cracker.

Herbert M. Shelton is the premier documenter of their ideas and discoveries. (link)

I am providing a PDF of a talk which Trall gave at the Smithsonian Institute in 1862.

The PDF leads with excerpts from the talk, which will give a clear idea of the principles of the Natural Hygiene philosophy of healing disease. These comments are followed by the full address.

Trall Lecture

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As mentioned earlier, this is a copy of the “The New Barbarians” lecture:

New Barbarians

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Well, here’s your host, Arnie, calling it quits for now. Thanks for stopping by! That was interesting stuff. Feel free to write to me at:

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I had decided to read THE CHANGE AGENT’S GUIDE by Ronald G. Havelock (with Steve Zlotolow). This is an infamous book in the realm of social engineering, for those interested in group manipulation tactics. It is considered a foundational work (original publication 1973) and is promoted still today, at their website (link).

I figured it would be boring because, as we always remind here at LIAR$$WORLD, the most boring stuff is frequently the most important stuff.

I also figured it would be dense and difficult to grasp, but …

On page 12 I had an epiphany. Praise all Saints! Slap my fanny and call me Sue!

I decided that this ponderous discourse about how to motivate small-(ish) groups was not much different from a how‑to book on selling used cars!

Ha! Now I can read something interesting instead ... just kidding ... I read quite a bit of it.

The methodology is pretty basic, really: Build a rapport with the client(s); learn what they are hoping to achieve or acquire; supply pertinent options; facilitate decision making … (I just now typed that off the top of my head. I’m sure you could do the same).

What distinguishes Havelock’s book is that it is ERUDITE.

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Thus, those called to study it and implement its techniques feel themselves members of a select group of knowledge workers needed to engineer important clusters of attitudes and convictions into coherent and purposeful directions ─ not unlike herding cats.

Change agents are used in numerous civic and business contexts, but I am focusing on the realm of Education. Here is a quote from another book I’m reading, and it demonstrates the self-awareness of the influencers as to their surreptitious techniques and their reluctance to disclose true intentions:

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now ... Parents and the general public must be reached also, otherwise, children and youth enrolled in globally oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home. And then the educational institution frequently comes under scrutiny and must pull back.

**John Goodlad, Foreword in Schooling for a Global Age

Here is a quote from Havelock’s book, describing the challenge to change agents as regards their not belonging to the groups to be manipulated:

Anyone who challenges a system to change is to some extent an outsider, something that the system will try to restrain or reject just as if it were a foreign substance entering the body.

To underscore the intimate relationship between social engineering and education, here is a declaration appearing on the copyright page of the book which documents the ties to public education:

The reason I am bothering with any of this mess is that our once excellent education system – and I’m talking one‑room schoolhouse days – is decaying consistently as the years go by. Most of this is caused by social engineering (brainwashing for obedience to the cabal) supplanting classic scholarship. For example:

The trivium and quadrivium are foundational components of classical education.

The trivium consists of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, focusing on the skills of communication and reasoning.

The quadrivium includes arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, which pertain to the quantitative aspects of the liberal arts.

Together, they form the seven liberal arts that were essential in medieval education. The trivium serves as the basis for the quadrivium, emphasizing the importance of mastering language and reasoning before advancing to more complex subjects.

**Copilot

Notice the word “medieval.” That’s an old heritage we’re losing our grip on!

This graph is only expressive. I made it up. But you’ve probably read about the downslope of academic achievement several times a year, for some time now.

In addition to describing his “change technique” Havelock also mentions another important change technique: Kurt Lewin’s famous “Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze” model.

To keep the “front page” of this post a reasonable length (it’s 4,000 words; and 2-3,000 words are considered typical) I have nested three PDF’s which flesh out the book and it’s related issues (these total nearly 9,000 words).

One discusses our book by Havelock, one discusses “Unfreezing”, and one discusses briefly how “Unfreezing” is similar to cult recruitment techniques.

They are titled THE BOOK and UNFREEZING and CULTS.

I hope you will enjoy them:

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Cults

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Keep in mind what started all this: Havelock’s textbook resembling a sales manual. I had to laugh, and it reminded me of the scene in Groundhog Day where Andie MacDowell describes to Bill Murray her ideal man, and he ticks off the uncanny similarities to himself.

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As promised in the subtitle.

We’ve just discussed how basic salesman techniques can be CLOAKED with legitimacy, and presented as noble social reform efforts. That was nothing, folks. Now we will see how pornography is CLOAKED as compassionate child rearing and a rite of passage to properly informed adulthood!

You’ve seen the controversies surrounding books in our public schools’ curricula and libraries which contain sexually explicit passages (formerly known as pornography).

Perhaps you’ve hear of a parent being removed from an education board meeting BY THE POLICE for attempting to read such a passage in conjunction with complaining about it.

This drove me nuts. Such a scenario would involve quite a number of strange and/or stupid people to make it happen; and it has happened many times.

What the (supply expletive) is going on here?

Well, dear reader, there is a reason this can happen.

There are about 37 US States which have obscenity laws which specifically prohibit supplying or exposing obscene materials to minors (which doesn’t mean it’s legal in the remaining jurisdictions).

AK AZ CA CO DE FL GA HI ID IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MN MO MT NH NJ NM NY NC ND OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT WV WI

However, there are about 44 US States which grant EXCEPTIONS to these prohibitions when the transmission/sharing/expsosure involves individuals (e.g. teachers) or organizations (schools and their libraries) acting for “educational” purposes.

AL AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MT NE NV NH NM NY NC ND OH OR PA SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY

Yes, what could possibly go wrong with this arrangement?

I learned this dirty little secret (pun intended) from Judith Reisman and her collaborator Mary McAlister (attorney) in a 2018 paper titled “Materials Deemed Harmful to Minors Are Welcomed into Classrooms and Libraries via Educational “Obscenity Exemptions.”

(link)

Judith Reisman (wiki link) (died 2021, age 86) is the world’s leading authority on Alfred Kinsey, as a critic of him, and has written more than one book about this depraved man, along with many other analyses of excessive sexuality, pornography, and Playboy magazine.

As with many famous people, it’s not that Kinsey was so influential by dint of intellect, but his sick ideas were favored by the cabal and thence disseminated via all their promotional instruments (newspapers, television, cinema, book publishing, university research grants and instruction, lawmaking, and so on). He stood as a proxy for mouthing the social engineering project which was concerned with the destruction of the nuclear family and the coarsening and weakening of society.

The same logic explains these laws legalizing porn peddling to minors. For one, there are useful idiots ready to support the notion. Then there is a growing reluctance to rally behind individuals and groups who can be portrayed as “old-fashioned” in our “rapidly changing world” (changing due to previous and ongoing other projects). At a more technical level, the cabal is always deeply involved in legal matters of all stripes.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

**Jacques Ellul

Ellul teaches that propaganda must be TOTAL. It must be everywhere and involve everything.

THE LAWS

Let’s look at a few excerpts from the Reisman/McAlister paper.

And why is it that materials that cannot be sold to children can be checked out of the public library or school library and/or be presented as part of school assignments?

… the creation of “obscenity exemptions” for schools, libraries, organizations and individuals providing the materials for “educational” purposes. As a result of these exemptions, materials that are otherwise deemed “harmful to minors” are mainstreamed into school curriculum, library books and internet content providers with no risk of criminal prosecution.

** Reisman/McAlister, Pages 1-2

AND

Most state obscenity statutes include provisions specifically prohibiting the dissemination of materials deemed “harmful to minors.” These establish criminal sanctions for exposing children to material that, while perhaps not obscene or indecent for adults under contemporary community standards, is obscene or indecent, and therefore harmful, to children. However, 44 states have enacted exemptions to the prohibition against dissemination of obscene or indecent materials, even those “harmful to minors,” if the materials are labeled as or used by individuals or organizations for “educational, scientific, artistic” or similar purposes. These exemptions are largely based on Section 251.4(3) of the 1962 MPC. The final version of the provision reads:

(3) Justifiable and Non-Commercial Private Dissemination.

It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this Section that dissemination was restricted to:

(a) institutions or persons having scientific, educational, governmental or other similar justification for possessing obscene material; or

(b) non-commercial dissemination to personal associates of the actor.

** Reisman/McAlister, Page 9

“… educational, governmental …” is a huge enough gray area, but then they add “other similar” to the mix. Why not just say “whatever” and be done with it?

So, with the wave of a magic wand, porn is no longer porn!

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PORTION CAREFULLY:

Wisconsin attempts to justify its broad exemption by appealing to free speech and financial stewardship concerns:

“The legislature finds that the libraries and educational institutions under par. (b) carry out the essential purpose of making available to all citizens a current, balanced collection of books, reference materials, periodicals, sound recordings and audiovisual materials that reflect the cultural diversity and pluralistic nature of American society. The legislature further finds that it is in the interest of the state to protect the financial resources of libraries and educational institutions from being expended in litigation and to permit these resources to be used to the greatest extent possible for fulfilling the essential purpose of libraries and educational institutions.”

**Wis. Stat. Sec. 944.21(8)(a)

The legislature uses buzzwords such as “balanced,” “diverse” and “pluralistic” curriculum to clothe the exemption in a robe of legitimacy. Similarly, the American Library Association leans upon First Amendment protections against censorship to justify the obscenity exemption for libraries, often offering derisive remarks about parents’ efforts to use harmful to minors statutes to remove inappropriate books.

Lost in the attempts to legitimize the exemptions is the fact that the statutes are dealing with materials that are by nature obscene and therefore outside of the protection of First Amendment free speech guarantees. Furthermore, the materials which the legislature and librarians are claiming should be part of a balanced and diverse curriculum are by definition “harmful to minors.” The legislatures and librarians purported interests in academic freedom does not change the nature of the materials, i.e., does not make them any less harmful to children. “Pictures, photographs, drawings, sculptures or other visual representations,” and “books, magazines, paperbacks, pamphlets or other written or printed matter” that “depicts nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sado-masochistic abuse which is harmful to minors” do not transform into non-harmful “educational” materials merely by being so labeled, used by an “educator” or located in a library or classroom.

Rather than protecting the noble cause of academic freedom, the educational obscenity exemptions are designed to further a socio-political agenda aimed at fundamentally transforming society.

** Reisman/McAlister, Pages 10-11

Notice in the statute the purported “lawmakers” state that immunity to (inevitable) lawsuits will save money for the libraries and schools. Such wisdom! Such prudent stewardship of the taxpayers’ money!

Reisman and McAlister disagree with my statement that porn becomes not‑porn with the wave of a magic wand. I stand corrected.

Here is a list of those persons or organizations exempt from obscenity statutes in Wisconsin (recognizing that many US States are similar):

944.21 Obscene material or performance

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(b) No person who is an employee, a member of the board of directors or a trustee of any of the following is liable to prosecution for violation of this section for acts or omissions while in his or her capacity as an employee, a member of the board of directors or a trustee:

1. A public elementary or secondary school.

2. A private school, as defined in s. 115.001 (3r), or a tribal school, as defined in s. 115.001 (15m).

3. Any school offering vocational, technical or adult education that:

a. Is a technical college, is a school approved by the department of safety and professional services under s. 440.52, or is a school described in s. 440.52 (1) (e) 6., 7. or 8.; and

b. Is exempt from taxation under section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code.

4. Any institution of higher education that is accredited, as described in s. 39.30 (1) (d), and is exempt from taxation under section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code.

5. A library that receives funding from any unit of government.

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OK, schools and libraries, we knew that. But look at 2.b:

“501 (c) (3)”

Wha…?

There are 29 types of 501 (c) non-profit organizations in the US and type (3) includes:

Religious, Educational, Charitable, Scientific, Literary, Testing for Public Safety, to Foster National or International Amateur Sports Competition, or Prevention of Cruelty to Children or Animals Organizations. (**Wikipedia)

So, if you run a “stop cruelty to children” organization, you are free to supply said children with all the pornography you deem necessary for their edification. (Is it just me or does the rule seem to classify children as similar to animals?)

THIS IS WHY I HAVE TITLED THIS POST “THE CLOAK OF LEGITIMACY.”

Just because you dress up for the annual Renaissance Faire doesn’t mean it’s actually 1472 A.D.

OBSCENITY / PORNOGRAPHY

So, what are we talking about here?

The phrase “I know it when I see it” was used in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio.

Stewart’s “I know it when I see it” standard was praised as “realistic and gallant” and an example of candor. It has also been critiqued as being potentially fallacious, due to individualistic arbitrariness.

I remember this phrase. I was 15 at the time. Back then is was notable because one didn’t talk about such things – it was not polite, not dignified. Nowadays we don’t talk about such things because there’s so much of it that no one gives a hoot.

Stewart’s “I know it when I see it” was electrifying because here was a master bullshitter speaking a simple truth.

In stark contrast, this is from a recent news story (10 November 2025) about the International Olympic Committee banning men from women’s sports:

“… the sporting committee carried out a science-based review of a biologically-born male’s physical advantages … It was a very scientific, factual and unemotional presentation which quite clearly laid out the evidence …”

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Who the (&#@!%) needs a scientific committee (no doubt paid big bucks) to ponderously decide men are physically stronger than women? Our ancestors are spinning in their graves.

Reisman and McAlister devote several pages to defining obscenity, and this is appropriate for their scholarly paper. I’m going to tell you what pornography is by use of a favorite Zen koan.

If You Love, Love Openly

Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.

Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her.

One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.

Eshun did not reply. The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose.

Addressing the one who had written her, she said: ‘If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now.’

** Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, compiled by Paul Reps

Sexual attraction is PRIVATE.

Hinting at attraction is PRIVATE … waiting for that right moment, nervous about what will happen. Remember in the tweenage years “Martha says that Becky likes you.”

Sexual congress is DOUBLE PRIVATE … TRIPLE GODDAM PRIVATE.

That’s all we need to know. Porn is a violation of that all-societies-ever sense of decorum.

Some people like pornography. Some hate it. Some never think about it at all. But none of that matters – we’re talking about kids and public schools.

Now what? Swimwear?

Not per se, but … GRADUALISM.

In 1960 Brian Hyland had a # 1 hit song “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.”I was 11 years old and my sister was 17. I dimly understood the dilemma described:

She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was as nervous as she could be
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was afraid that somebody would see

Tell the people what she wore

It was an itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, yellow, polka dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
So, in the locker, she wanted to stay

She was afraid to come out in the open
And so a blanket around her she wore

(chorus)

Now she’s afraid to come out of the water
And the poor little girl’s turning blue

(chorus)

OK, I know that how women dressed at the beach in the 1880 looks crazy to us now, but where does it end? Now we have thongs. The logical geometrical end point is … nothing … and that’s actually not attractive.

Always remember, the cabal is deeply invested in pornography (old news) and the coarsening of society. Shouldn’t we rather aspire to be sophisticated and tasteful?

Get this, as to the the third “swimmer” above:

The new ‘Bikini’ swimming costume caused a sensation at a beauty contest at the Molitor swimming pool in Paris. Designer Louis Reard was unable to find a ‘respectable’ model for his costume and the job of displaying it went to 19-year-old Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris. She is holding a small box into which the entire costume can be packed. Celebrated as the first bikini, Luard’s (sic) design came a few months after a similar two-piece design was produced by French designer Jacques Heim.

The modern bikini swimsuit was introduced by French clothing designer Louis Réard in July 1946, and was named after the Bikini Atoll, where the first public test of a nuclear bomb had taken place four days before.

**Wikipedia

Yeah, nuclear bomb is right!

Let’s get hardcore:

It took many months of reading about parents not being able to read aloud the books their children were being encouraged to read, before anyone printed what the actual upsetting verbiage was. This is Senator John Kennedy reading passages in the US Senate:

The 71-year-old Republican from Louisiana recited sections from LGBTQ young adult books, including “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Gender Queer,” and grilled witnesses who have pushed state legislation and initiatives to block parents from having a say in what their child can access.

All Boys Aren’t Blue:

I put some lube on and got him on his knees. And I began to slide into him from behind. He asked me to turn over while he slipped a condom on himself.

Gender Queer:

I got a new strap-on harness today. I can’t wait to put it on. It will fit my favorite dildo perfectly. You’re going to look so hot. I can’t wait to have your cock in my mouth. I’m going to give you the blow job of your life, then I want you inside of me.

**New York Post (link)

Well, finally. Yep, I see what all the hubbub is about.

Here’s an even more retarded example, from the graphic novel (fancy term for comic book) that’s in our schools – Flamer by Mike Curato. (link)

What kind of an idiot would ever get involved in such nonsense? Answer: no one, except the little red demons dancing around in Mike Curato’s deformed brain.

What’s worse, it’s anti-literate. It’s toilet wall scribbling. I always remember Truman Capote saying Jack Kerouac’s books were not writing; they were just typing.

My parents (me too) grew up with The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew for teen reading.

As an example of what youngsters should be reading, here are some phrases retrieved from these short novels (novels mind you, not comic books):

Hardy Boys

proved the old axiom

in emulation of their famous father

abandoned his indolent posture

intervening distance

balanced perilously

diminished in volume

immersion in the water

rendered impromptu aid

repeatedly expressed her astonishment

had not obtained

tried to slacken pace

its staccato roar

in spite of his admonitions

a rutty, torturous lane

last human habitation

Nancy Drew

a sigh of resignation

the brusque way

convulsed with rage

without scruples

overabundance of vitality

swung blithely along

inquired solicitously

refrained from disclosing

A careful survey disclosed no human form

The second floor was devoted to bedchambers

formidable atmosphere

adjourned to the drawing room

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And here’s another thing, while we’re at it. We’ve been told for years that women and girls have been stereotyped and oppressed and not allowed to do Amelia Earhart-like stuff. Check this out:

As soon as she was alone in her bedchamber, Nancy Drew locked the door. Then she made a hasty examination of the closet. There was nothing inside. She looked under the bed.

“There’s nothing like caution,” she assured herself. “I don’t believe a ghost will get in here very easily, but just the same I’ll be prepared.”

Unlocking her traveling bag she removed the revolver her father had given her and a flashlight she had thoughtfully included as part of her emergency equipment. Carefully loading the revolver, she placed it under her pillow.

**The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene (1930)

I wouldn’t want to mess with her! Also, you would NEVER find me searching for some hidden staircase in a spooky old house!

I’m not a troglodyte; I know women have made important and long-awaited advances in society. But the cabal always want their cut of the action, and things are not always fully what they seem.

“You’ve come a long way” was a brilliant ad hook … but … where to? You’ve earned the right to get lung cancer like every other nicotine addict? Geez, thanks! (By the way, the subliminal message in the ciggie name is “slim virgin.”) Follow the money: Sell tobacco, then sell cancer treatments.

Getting women into the workplace in large numbers was a master stroke by the international bankers. Uncontrolled inflation (which is actually carefully controlled inflation) caused the growing need for dual income households. This greatly expanded the income tax base, which enriches the World Money Masters. (Did you know the IRS is a private corporation?)

Numerous other tangential harms to society have accompanied this trend.

Who are the people who are so god‑awful passionate about teaching sex to little children? I mean they really get their hackles up if parents try to “interfere” with their Plan A.

Are they sad little dweebs who are all excited because they, in life, finally “cracked the code” and can’t wait to flaunt their belatedly acquired knowledge? Why all the passion?

I think most anyone could show a little kid how to put a condom on a banana. How about explaining something more substantive, like how to clean the carburetor on a lawnmower?

Some will argue that with the current culture and availability of racy material you just have to educate the children to keep ahead of the changes. But isn’t that just throwing up our hands and saying we can’t stop any of this? Isn’t that just quitting?

NEW LAW

The State of Texas is trying to pass a law (S.B. 412) closing the loophole. I’m finding mixed information about its status, but the point is, someone is at least discussing the matter at a meaningful level. One iteration of the bill strikes the permitting words “scientific, educational, governmental, or other similar” which we saw up the page.

Several of the articles I’ve seen about this conjure up images of librarians being hauled off in chains for sharing books only a puritanical prig would prohibit.

You know what? There’s a gazillion books in the world and I don’t think if we err on the side of caution, keeping fifteen or twenty lurid ones out of our school libraries, that civilization is going to come crashing down around our ears. If someone is so keen, go to a bookstore; or here are 20 online sellers where you can buy that special book that hordes of parents consider disgusting:

AbeBooks <> Book Depository <> Alibris <> BookOutlet <> Kidsbooks <> Walmart <> Booktopia <> Thrift Books <> Books A Million <> Amazon Books <> Barnes & Noble <> Better World Books <> Biblio <> BookMooch <> The Book People <> Target <> Costco <> Daedalus Books <> eBay <> Powell’s Books <>

I’ve never read the famously banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover, but I bet it’s mediocre anyway. Big deal. It’s probably like Paris Hilton: famous for being famous. Because the cabal controls what is promoted and what is ignored, and they are twisted psychos, there are undoubtedly a thousand superior works of literature we’ll never see.

This whole topic is at a fever pitch right now because of all the transgender nonsense we’ve been snowed under with recently (and that’s been receding like Bozo the Clown’s hairline).

All that gay stuff is way overblown. Since we are all immortal beings with many physical incarnations, some as male, some as female, there is bound to be some leak-through in sexual mentality.

(See my post about The Universe … May 11, 2024)

As typical, the Amerindians probably had the most perceptive approach to this phenomenon, with their “two-spirit” paradigm. We can all learn from their low-key form of acceptance, allowing what’s really important about individuals to shine through.

Let’s love each other, and let’s especially love our children, and teach them lofty ideals and elegant mannerisms, that they may shine ever so brightly.

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This book was published by The Veritas Foundation in 1964. I know nothing about them.

Since the cabal owns nearly everything, including vast intellectual properties, I just vet things on the fly for veracity, trusting my evolving instincts.

Of course, I’ve developed a few trusted sources over time, but we live in a world with gobs of partial disinformation and where, oftentimes, accolades mean the opposite of what they’re held to be. For example, “Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting” might mean “Liar of the Year” award.

You will see for yourself ─ these excerpts are self-revealing, even out of context.

As always, with my “Passages” series, I will be learning along with you, and I enjoyed what this book had to offer. It’s about 340 pages, and the excerpts come to less than 30 pages, so that’s a good deal for you, saving time.

Here is part of the cover:

The graphic portion depicts a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” in the style of traditional heraldry. The “F.S.’’ stands for Fabian Society. “Fabian” is an allusion to the ancient Roman general who forestalled Hannibal’s encroachments by means of “persistence, harassment, and wearing the enemy down by attrition rather than pitched, climactic battles …”

The drawing is a detail element of this famous stained-glass window (click to enlarge):

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You can easily learn about the Fabians. For our purposes, they were schemers who had strong ties to the cabal and championed incrementalism in the influencing of politics and culture, with the ultimate goal of societal control.

So, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, hammering the world into a desired shape ─ that’s pretty much in your face, yes? I’d say it’s only slightly more subtle than the following:

This is about SOCIAL ENGINEERING which, here at LIAR$$WORLD, is always rated EVIL.

The term “social engineering” appears in the book 22 times.

Social engineering is a term which has been used to refer to efforts in influencing particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale. This is often undertaken by governments, but may be also carried out by mass media, academia or private groups in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.

Origin of concept

The Dutch industrialist J.C. Van Marken used the term sociale ingenieurs (”social engineers”) in an essay in 1894. The idea was that modern employers needed the assistance of specialists in handling the human challenges, just as they needed technical expertise to deal with non-human challenges (materials, machines, processes).

**Wikipedia

Van Marken’s idea evolved into what we commonly know as “Human Resources” departments. Not warm and fuzzy, but generally benign.

The Fabians’ view of social engineering was far more grandiose:

Furthermore, the Fabians already grasped the concept of population-wide influencing at least a decade before Van Marken’s innovation.

More than 100 years prior, Mayer Amschel (later self-re-named Rothschild) held an intimate conclave at his home in Germany – the tectonic 1773 Frankfurt Meeting ─ which launched the modern era of cabal interference with peaceful humanity, setting the stage for groups like the Fabians.

Interpersonal manipulation is prehistorically ancient, but scientific large-scale transmogrification has swelled geometrically since the Fabians.

Once we start talking about “-ISMS” we will probably soon find ourselves in a big hot mess. OK, I’m ready.

(Deep breath) … sincerely, I will only nibble at the edges of these gargantuan topics, because that’s all I’m capable of; but we must at least try to understand. This book has some helpful clues to the overall strategies of the three “-isms” at hand.

“Fabianism” was key in promoting “Socialism,” which was “invented” earlier in the 1800’s. Socialism, at various times and locations, morphed into “Communism.”

The kinship of the three is simply their aim/desire/plan to control the behavior of large populations, to groom the obedience of the masses to follow uniform policies.

During the Cold War Era, a common quip was “Communism is Socialism in a hurry.”

SIDENOTE: In my opinion, due to the cabal contaminating everything in existence for centuries, all “-isms” end up being Fascism, or, to save typing strokes, Shit … but let’s not give up so soon.

This is one way that supporters of “Socialism” view the concept: helping others, being kind, valuing the peaceful and artistic things in life, and so on.

This is one way that supporters of “Socialism” view the concept of “Capitalism”: rapacious, cruel, selfish, Philistine, psychopathic, and so on.

SIDENOTE: Supposedly, the center top-hatter is King George V, who reigned from 1910 to 1936. So, in this case, they ARE psychopaths, since he is a member of the cabal.

This is one way that supporters of “Capitalism” view supporters of “Socialism.” This manifests in the familiar whining about bums on welfare, and idlers who refuse to work, and people who think Life owes them a comfy time of it all.

Let’s try to avoid such kindergarten-level understandings of these complex concepts.

I’m sure you’ve guessed that this book was written by “Conservatives” who were gravely disapproving of Socialism ─ Conservatives who believe strongly in Capitalism.

Thought experiment:

The base characteristics of a sentient being are:

Perceiving and Intending

… or alternatively:

Cognition and Volition

I would like to propose a similar stripped-down description of “Conservatism”:

1. Reverence for the Great Author of Life in the Universe.

2. Ownership of one’s personal existence.

Contrariwise:

Communists are always atheistic.

Socialists just hope the topic doesn’t come up.

Rather than “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” (Psalm 46:1) they would prefer:

“You have reached the Department of Socialist Services. For information on what to do next with your life, press 1.”

As for “ownership”, here is a quote from early in the book:

Actually, it was the enormous energy generated by the release of individual initiative and invention that inspired our capitalistic economy to the miracles of production that made our American way of life the marvel of the whole world. Freedom worked the same miracles for Greece in the realm of ideas.

Freedom cultivates and energizes ownership and self-determination. The top-level promoters of Socialism desire a semi-helpless citizenry which relies on The State for guidance and permission.

Here is a recent statement by Dr. Ben Carson (Sec. HUD 2017-2021):

… there are many people** whose power base resides in poverty, and they don’t want people to get out. They want people to feel like they’re victims and everybody’s against them, except for them,” Carson continued. “They say, ‘I’m your savior.’ And unfortunately, there are a large number of people fall for that.” (**politicians and bureaucrats)

Oddly, I must admit Socialism, as perceived by many, is superior to Capitalism.

Heaven is governed by Socialism – everyone selflessly caring for each other, peaceful, lovely …

… except, we are not in Heaven, we’re on Earth, in the Earth experience ... Life’s a bitch and then you die. Shit happens. I never promised you a rose garden.

Thus, Capitalism is superior to Socialism on/in Earth ─ everyone just trying to do the best they can to get through maze/haze.

Also remember: the Fabians self-identified as wolves in sheep’s clothing!

They admit it! I have nothing to add at this point. It seems quite clear.

Much of the book discusses professors and writers and universities, since it is here that we find the already-existing milieu of IDEAS. It’s not a genius concept and it functions to the present day. The cabal grooms a towering intellect, then this dazzling demi-god indoctrinates a cadre of brilliant eggheads, who then coach large bodies of lesser pedagogues, who, in the final step, indoctrinate anyone willing to listen … et, voila, you’ve got a nifty zeitgeist permeating the brain‑o‑sphere: “Socialism good, Capitalism bad.”

Karl Marx comes into view numerous times, for obvious reasons.

We must note that the writers, at the time, did not have the advantage of Anthony Sutton’s Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (2001) (link), nor the detailed takedown of Marx which Miles Mathis has written (link), with which to fully analyze “Communism.”

Sutton describes how the financial elites facilitated Lenin’s takeover, and Miles describes how Marx was wedded to the bloodline families of the cabal. (I also wrote briefly about this Jan 19, 2023).

We must forgive them for thinking that Communism was “a thing” which was organically desired by ideologues of a certain regimen. Nobody ever wants Communism. All you need to know is the old Soviet Russian wisecrack, “As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.”

The book mentions Marx-Freud-Einstein at a point as being Socialist luminaries. I prefer to cite Darwin-Freud-Marx as the Satanic Triumvirate of 20^th Century Thought. They were not real people. They were cabal-certified agents who replaced God with convoluted gibberish in the realms of Life, Mind, and Society, respectively. Three hucksters who make P. T. Barnum look like a 7-year-old with a lemonade stand.

Here’s Marx with the oh-so-clever hidden hand gesture of the Freemasonic cabal assholes. We can add that to the wolf in sheep’s clothing “hint.”

So that’s a taste of what the book is about, and if it interests you, I’m glad I did the work.

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Speaking of the time the book was written, let’s end with a bit of fun.

Some pretty cool films that year!

The top two featured Julie Andrews (and The Sound of Music was 1965 ─ certainly her career crescendo).

Three Elvis films, although it looks like two of them got in by extending the list to 22.

What else in 1964?

U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry warned that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. (Hopefully, in a couple of decades from now, 2025 will be vaguely remembered as the year “the Secretary of HHS finally established that vaccines cause autism.”)

This was also the year of the spurious Gulf of Tonkin incident which kicked off the insanely unnecessary Viet Nam War, which damaged our nation grievously (not to mention the carnage in Viet Nam).

And, February 9, The Beatles debuted on The Ed Sullivan Show and ended Elvis’s singing and movie career (Frank Sinatra’s too). Both entertainers were helpless against the military psyop now known as “The Sixties.”

Notable people born in 1964:

Jeff Bezos

Michelle Obama

Boris Johnson

Sarah Palin

Nigel Farage

Glenn Beck

Kamala Harris

Nicholas Cage

Sandra Bullock

Courteney Cox

Diana Krall

Teri Hatcher

… AND LASTLY:

At the average pace of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail, if you started in 1964, you could have, by today, walked twice around the Earth and once to the Moon and back!

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The book excerpts are in a PDF because I can offer better highlighting and commenting in that format. (This PDF is 38 pages due to margins and spacing and comments but the excerpted word count equals about 27 pages of the original book).

Also offered in PDF is an excerpt about the Frankfurt Meeting, as presented in William Guy Carr’s fascinating book, “Pawns in the Game.” (link)

The Great Deceit

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I am excited about a sad thing, and I hope that's OK. I’ve been trying to understand this issue for at least 10 years and finally have a handle on it.

My antennae were raised back then after reading Birth Trauma and the Dark Side of Modern Medicine by Jeanice Barcelo.

It is a harrowing account, and I urge you to read it if the topic has special meaning to you.

She has an active website (link) and you can find the book there.

This post centers around the two shots given newborns ─ the vitamin K injection and the Hepatitis B (HepB) injection.

The HepB is easily derided by anyone with two brain cells to rub together because the infection it addresses is primarily a danger to sodomites and intravenous drug users, not individuals who can’t even crawl yet.

But what about the vitamin K shot?

Recently, my friend, Dr. Yoho, (Substack link) suggested I read a post about home birthing which was posted by “Lies Are Unbekoming” (Substack link). I will refer to this writer as “Unbekoming” since he provides no personal name.

(Both of these writers are valuable assets to the Substack universe!)

Whilst window shopping Unbekoming’s offerings, I landed on this post:

(link)

… and this is what triggered my 10-year-in-the-works epiphany.

Today’s post is short, with some additional background material presented at the end.

TECHNICAL NOTE: Danish biochemist Carl Peter Henrik Dam was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of vitamin K, the blood coagulating factor. “Koagulate” is the Danish spelling. This “K” encourages blood clotting ─ so, for example, a person using the blood “thinner” Coumadin/Warfarin is cautioned that excessive amounts of K will impede thinning, thus diminishing the desired effect.

STYLE NOTE: My thesis contains debatable elements which I am not qualified to resolve; however, after 19 years of studying the mayhems perpetrated by the cabal, it all makes sense to me. Please refine or reject the information as you wish. Although just Arnie’s opinion, I promise you, I am sincere.

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Without further ado:

A present-day hospital birth is a terrorist assault and battery upon mother and child motivated by dollar profits. Ouch! Too harsh? Let me explain:

Newborns have low levels of vitamin K in their system, to curtail blood clotting after the squeeze trauma of passing through the birth canal. This squeezing causes tiny hemorrhages throughout the neonate’s body and, most critically, the head (which is semi-collapsible), and widespread clotting would be injurious.

The umbilical cord, which contains at least a third of the prenatal blood volume intended for the baby, is rich in stem cells which are supplied by Mother Nature to heal this trauma via a repair process.

Perversely, the cord is clamped, and the crucial blood supply denied the child. This unique blood supply is oftentimes sold on for profit without the full knowledge of the parents (who are not informed of the significance of this blood volume). They are told they can bank it (preserve it for future use) at considerable expense, or “donate it to science.”

Soon, the baby is injected with industrial vitamin K (amount 100 times RDA) to improperly stimulate coagulation, with one hidden reason being: the day 1 or day 2 circumcision of boys, whose foreskin is sold on to cosmetic companies (and science labs), for various ghoulish uses. (Note: The traditional, historical circumcision occurs 8 days after birth, when K levels have risen naturally, via breastfeeding). (Further note: Either way, it’s an idiotic practice).

This K shot may contain polysorbate 80 which degrades the blood-brain barrier and can cause future female infertility.

Also, the K shot may contain benzyl alcohol, which may stupefy the child and interfere with its learning how to breastfeed; and may also damage its liver, in the near term, or permanently, frequently resulting in jaundice.

Within 24 hours the child nearly always receives the HepB vaccine, which contains a large amount of aluminum, which may more easily pass into the brain because of the degradation of the blood-brain barrier by the K shot. Regardless, the aluminum is highly damaging.

What organ does Hepatitis B damage? The liver! (newly traumatized by benzyl alcohol). And you should know that a second dose is recommended by the CDC by month 2, and a third dose by month 18. It must damage something important because even if it did confer any measure of immunity, it would “wear out” in a few years ─ certainly before the time the child has begun shooting heroin, or whatever.

Add to the above the 1 in 3 caesarean births (which are often done because the OB/GYN can’t be bothered to wait around for natural birth) ─ a procedure which interferes with mother/child bonding, among other deficits.

The K shot is promoted as preventing brain bleeds in newborns (which might occur at a rate of 5 per 100,000) only to cause jaundice in 60% of the recipients.

But the real money shot (pun intended) in all this is the debilitation and chronic diseases which then follow, as the white coats continue to inject at least 16 more poisons into the infants over the next 6 months, now that the precedent of stabbing has been established (never mind the next 17 years’ worth of disease jabs).

Unbekoming writes: “The entire structure of pediatric medicine as it currently exists depends on that elevated baseline of chronic illness.”

That’s it! That’s my epiphany.

I believe in repetition, e.g. you can read about something 30 times, yet it’s that 31st time that reveals the gestalt. I've long known that something sinister was afoot, but I never realized how it all interrelates.

What knocks me out is the entanglement, the intertwining. It all reminds me of the Gordian knot of Greek antiquity:

As Alexander untied the knot by simply slashing through it with his sword, we can undo this devilish series of attacks upon our nation’s health by JUST NOT DOING ANY OF THIS SHIT!

Done and dusted. Easy-peasy.

This scenario also reminds of the clotting cascade itself … this event leads to that event, which depends on that event, which precedes this event … and … whew!

Here is Unbekoming’s elegant description of the drama we have just discussed:

Every medical professional in that room has been trained, not in the science of whether a newborn needs synthetic phytonadione, but in the art of securing compliance. They've learned to frame it as routine, to present it as universal, to make refusal seem like dangerous eccentricity.

The genius of starting with vitamin K is that it establishes the precedent. Once parents have agreed to that first injection, once they've surrendered their newborn's bodily sovereignty in those vulnerable first hours, the pattern is set. The baby has been enrolled in the system. The medical records will forever show "vitamin K administered," marking this child as one who receives injections. The psychological barrier has been broken. If you said yes to the first one, why would you say no to the rest?

The first hours after birth are a carefully orchestrated vulnerability. Parents are exhausted, emotional, overwhelmed. They're in an unfamiliar environment, surrounded by medical authority. They've just been through one of life's most intense experiences. And in that moment of maximum vulnerability, when they should be bonding with their newborn, the system demands its first tribute.

There’s no way I can top that for gut-wrenching pathos.

This is not the time for Hanlon’s Razor, either.

Hanlon's razor is an adage, or rule of thumb, that states: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” **Wikipedia

There’s too much money involved, and this has been going on for too long.

(… speaking of time, if the timeline between the birth of King Tut and the present day was one football field in length, the length of time beginning in 1961 ─ when mankind could no longer survive without a vitamin K shot at birth ─ would begin at the 2-yard line!)

Be assured that hospitals get downright cranky with “uncooperative” parents who don’t want to follow the script on this violence. Why are they so insistent? (I’ve read that the mother needs to prepare in writing BEFOREHAND that she declines one or both early jabs).

Why all the urgency? Our clue is as old as the hills:

Something stinks, and it’s not a fart. Let’s be honest here – most people don’t care about other people … really. When it’s easy to be virtuous, sure, I’m a big lover of my fellow man. But if my survival zone is poked and prodded, I don’t know how I’ll behave. I’m not a saint. These policies are nationwide and set at the highest levels ─ the playing fields of the cabal. Protestors will be flicked aside like an ant on a picnic sandwich.

Well, enough of my blathering. Let’s ask Captain Obvious what he thinks.

“Captain, sir, what’s your take on the whole K-shot-HepB-shot controversy?

Wow, great advice. I’m gonna remember that.

Let’s close with some more Shakespeare. Romeo’s friend Mercutio has just been stabbed in a sword fight, severity unknown:

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door;

but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow,

and you shall find me a grave man.

I am peppered, I warrant, for this world.

These needle pricks are not large to the naked eye, but the poisons delivered are only just beginning to work their black magic.

Jeanice Barcelo wrote the following satire of what the CDC’s informational blurb given to parents about the K shot SHOULD read, rather than the “it’s wonderful” lies we routinely receive:

“You have the option of having your baby injected with an acidic formulation of synthetic Vitamin K. We would like to give this to your baby because the Hepatitis B shot we will pressure you to get next to protect against STD’s might cause a severe bleeding disorder. In addition, the several shots per visit over the next 6 months will increase your baby’s risk of bleeding to death. If you would like us to give it, we also need to let you know that it is possible for your baby to suffer a severe reaction, including death or could cause severe skin conditions, such as eczema, and may increase your baby’s risk of developing leukemia through childhood. Would you like us to inject your baby?”

FURTHER INFORMATION

Here are two other writings on the K shot from Substack:

Is the Vitamin K Shot Necessary?

(link)

Vitamin K Shot and Delayed Cord Clamping

(link)

Please remember you can search the excellent information source SUBSTACK by entering the following search term, followed by a space, followed by your topic of concern:

site:https://substack.com/

Here is a robust article about the commercial use of the foreskins removed from males:

What Cosmetic Companies Use Foreskin

(link)

Here is the circumcision index page at Whale:

Circumcision articles

(link)

(If you are not familiar with Whale, give it a test drive. It’s no longer “live” but its indexing system is still in place).

Here’s an article about cord blood shenanigans from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (hardly a fringe source):

Hospitals profiting from private cord blood bank didn't disclose financial ties to patients

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The following PDF is an essay about the K shot from my archives. The URL link still functions, but it quickly changes to a different URL and presents a completely different essay. This is a good example of why I maintain an archive of information.

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I most frequently encounter UNESCO when studying education themes. I've never been able to remember what all the letters stand for ─ have you?

It’s in the news lately, so let’s dive into the archives* keying in on “UNESCO” and see what we find. I will be learning along with you.

*(Arnie’s archives: nearly 35,000 individual files accumulated since June 2006, relating to the cabal and their manipulations of, and harms to, the good people of the globe).

President Trump just pulled us out of this meddlesome organization, after Biden just put us back in … after Trump pulled us out during his first term! Reagan pulled us out in 1984, and Baby Bush rejoined us in 2003. Biden also offered UNESCO $600 million in “back dues” ─ always generous with Other-People’s-Money!

Trump claims they were antagonistic toward Israel (as if that’s anything difficult to do). Maybe he just didn’t have time to list all the reasons UNESCO sucks.

My beef with UNESCO is that they practice social engineering, and that is one of the absolute No-No’s here at LIAR$$WORLD.

According to UNESCO, they are, importantly, eternally clamoring for world peace, educating the world’s kiddies, protecting the world’s cultural treasures (e.g. the Great Pyramids) plus making sure science stewards us forward into a happy future. The only thing missing is saving the crippled puppies with hot tar on their paws.

This post will be “expandable,” with two nested appendices, since I ended up with more verbiage than some may want to read.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It has 194 member states … as well as partners in the non-governmental, intergovernmental and private sector. Headquartered in Paris, France, UNESCO has 53 regional field offices and 199 national commissions.

UNESCO was founded in 1945 as the successor to the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. UNESCO's founding mission, which was shaped by the events of World War II, is to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights by facilitating collaboration and dialogue among nations.

**Wikipedia

That’s right, folks! The cabal foment wars then blame them on some vague flaws in human nature and thence propose increased control mechanisms to avert violence.

Have you ever in your life met someone who wanted to go to war?

“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.”

**Guttle Schnapper Rothschild, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (late 1700s)

The ultra-wealthy behind-the-scenes bomb-building fat cats who salivate at the notion of war are virtually a thousand miles out of harm’s way when the bullet meets the flesh.

Thus, bizarrely, if they secretly fund Pollyanna entities which blubber at the misfortune that man is hopelessly cruel, it seems like something reformative is being done at the highest levels, and few will guess that most conflicts are Astroturf ─ not Kentucky Bluegrass.

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Julian Huxley, first director of UNESCO, and contributing drafter of its charter, once wrote in conjunction with the project, “Thus, even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy of controlled human breeding will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”

Mind you, such notions do not apply to HIS family, but yours, and serfscattlegoy like you. Of course, he was a smart guy – the cabal don’t hire no dummies! His brother Aldous, and George Orwell, both wrote books about dystopian futures. These two famous books were not warnings, as we are told, but TAUNTS – “This is what we’re going to do, and you can’t do a damn thing about it.”

Here are the formal organizations which are contained within UNESCO:

I tried to extract the themes or areas of interest found here and came up with:

The following is a list of “World Days or International Days observed at UNESCO designated by United Nations General Assembly for marking and commemorating "important aspects of human life and history.” (Wikipedia)

Cowabunga! That’s a lot of stuff.

Either someone is very ambitious or, more likely, is a freaking buttinsky.

I’ll go with the latter. This list points to THE OCTOPUS, which is another moniker for the cabal. I should say AN octopus, because they’ve got hundreds of ‘em!

Notice that the list is weighted toward education and communicative arts – what people THINK. So one might wonder what “police” are doing in this group. Perhaps this is leading to …

Indeed, during the COVIDEXCUSEFORFASCISMCRIME, your friendly UNESCO operatives published a 10-part infographic about what disinformation is and how to resist it – disinformation being the voice of reason in a time of madness. Here they are:

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Ironically, one of the pages warns about “anti-Semitism” – which Trump says they have not been handling properly of late. Touchy subject, that.

What about money? I’m guessing they’re no longer going to get that $600 M Biden promised. Are they down to their last fifty bucks?

So, well over a billion dollars to spy on people and tell them what they should do. Nice work if you can get it!

Here’s a list of the nearly 500 contributors to UNESCO quite recently:

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UNESCO works with approximately 400 international NGO’s (link).

They’ve got a big headquarters campus in Paris and 53 regional field offices, so that’s quite a financial responsibility. The toilet paper alone must be about $250,000 a year (I actually did a back-of-the-napkin on this – see what you think!)

UNESCO is deeply involved in education and that is probably its worst attribute. As we’ve seen education degrade (pun not intended) in the US, we can be sure that this body was complicit. Most of my trawl through the archives yielded quotes concerning this area of influence. These excerpts are contained in the following PDF and I urge you to look at them:

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UNESCO claims by the acronym to be involved in science.

I don’t see it myself, but they do have the International Council for Science which has 76 member organizations (e.g. International Union of Soil Sciences) and many other members from various nations. Their mission is:

Identify…issues of importance to science and society.

Facilitate interaction amongst scientists…

Promote the participation of all scientists – regardless of race, citizenship, language, political stance, or gender…

Provide…advice to stimulate constructive dialogue between the scientific community and governments, civil society, and the private sector.

“The principal source of ICSU's finances was the contributions it receives from its members.”

**Wikipedia

I’m sorry, but this is a big steaming pile of manure. Science doesn’t need organizing. Science will happen regardless of anything. All the big money in science is spent to control it and pervert its natural course.

Perfect example: Tony Fauci, the 5’7” terror from Brooklyn, spent billions on AIDS research, carefully curated to include only narrow parameters of inquiry, thus learning nothing about AIDS for decades.

This UNESCO sub-group is just there to spy on real scientists and inform the cabal of what’s going on, and, as usual, the victim pays.

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The World Heritage Convention is an international treaty signed on 23 November 1972, which created the World Heritage Sites, with the primary goals of nature conservation and the preservation and security of cultural properties.

**Wikipedia

Recent headline from July 16: “These are the 26 new UNESCO World Heritage sites for 2025” … and quote from the article: “Of 32 nominations this year, 21 cultural, four natural and one mixed property were granted World Heritage status.”

This probably seems like the nicest thing they do. But crabby old Arnie puts it to you: “Do we really need a table full of bureaucrats in Paris to inform the people of Peru that Machu Picchu is a precious location? Do the people of Britain need these same pencil pushers to tell them that Stonehenge is unique in all the world?”

Are the 11 “nominees” which didn’t make the cut somehow ho-hum and not worth pushing a pencil for?

One hidden danger in all this is mission creep. Once they delineate a special area, before long the adjacent area becomes “sensitive.” Here’s how Michael Coffman visualized the growth of these exclusion zones:

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I searched “Do UNESCO heritage sites receive any money from UNESCO?” and came to this page (link). Read it yourself, but it sounds like they apportion $3 million a year (out of their $1.8 billion budget) and the money comes from the countries that might need help (i.e. gave them the money to begin with), plus private donations. Some of the aid sounds like bridge loans. I call bullshit. This is just a shell game for virtue signalers.

The next PDF has some writings which are skeptical of this organization, followed by an analogous tale about The Nature Conservancy and hidden agendas, involving David Letterman in part, no less.

Another story found here is about the prevention of a gold mining operation near Yellowstone National Park, which is a World Heritage Site.

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So, we are led to believe that UNESCO is firmly committed to preserving the unique and diverse attributes of the world we live in.

I say they talk out of both sides of their mouths, and, here at LIAR$$WORLD, we are rarely surprised by such behavior.

While researching this post I came across the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance of 1995. This is the usual handwringing, pearl-clutching, virtue signaling that most NGO's engage in.

(link to declaration)

The document is about 1650 words long and contains the following repetition of keywords:

25 tolerance

13 right(s)

12 race

9 intolerance

7 violence

Let's cover this quickly. The radical dislocations of populations we have witnessed in the past decade, ramping up significantly during the Biden administration, and generally referred to as “migration,” are unprecedented in history in their multitude.

Most previous extreme migrations have been caused by large wars. The current dislocations have been portrayed in the destination countries as the humanitarian welcoming of people fleeing political strife. Sounds nice.

What no one ever talks about is that the cabal often creates the intolerable conditions in the refugees’ homelands in order to induce these population shifts. And why would that be?

As always with the cabal, to create discord, fear, violence, poverty, anger, and general unhappiness, thus weakening the target populations ─ those target populations being the entire world.

It's just that simple and there's rarely another motivating force behind it. Most people prefer to stay where they are and be left in peace.

The resistance to these radical changes is then portrayed as cruelty and divides the citizenry into opposing and mutually disapproving camps.

Divide and conquer, perfected by the ancient Romans, and used handily ever since.

Another reason for this population shuffling is to de-culturalize individual nations and blend the world’s residents into an amorphous lump of indistinguishable NPC’s and abject worker bees.

Perhaps you've had a friend return from a road trip intended for sightseeing only to bemoan the fact that those charming little shops and restaurants they used to visit are gone, and everywhere now looks the same ─ home to big boxes and fast food.

Always remember, God’s Natural System is one of colorful variety and joyous distinctiveness and endless surprises; whilst Satan’s vision is one of grey regimentation and iron control.

(link to book)

Ah, sex. Always a stimulating topic, right?

In January 2018, UNESCO, together with UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, and the WHO, completed the substantial technical and political process of updating the International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education … The revised Guidance builds on the original Guidance, with improvements and updates based on new evidence and good practice documented from across the globe.

New evidence? I’m 76, and “it’s been a while,” but it’s still the same mechanics, right? The same general procedure? Gosh, I hope so!

Just kidding, folks; I’ve got the answer, and it’s quite simple.

The first UNESCO “how sex works” book of 2009 was 123 pages and mentioned the word GENDER 102 times and the word TRANSGENDER 1 time.

The “new” book containing “new evidence” and published 9 YEARS later, contains the word GENDER 340 times and the word TRANSGENDER 13 times.

I am confident that nearly everyone reading this recognizes the signature compressed timeframe of a psyop – 220V social engineering.

Sex Ed is a huge minefield of debate, so let’s not get mired. I’m talking about the TRANS crap. Merriam-Webster lists (link) the first citation of the word “heteronormative” as 2017, a year before this new 139-page guide.

That’s a retronym, the most famous being “analog watch” – the adjective previously unneeded until the advent of the “digital watch.”

So, after centuries of “the birds and the bees,” we all of a sudden needed a new word to tag human procreation as drably ordinary.

Within a few months of a new US President declaring there are two sexes, male and female, all those nutso pronouns have evaporated like 20 drops of rain in downtown Phoenix.

Social engineering is nearly always unnatural. That’s why it’s done slowly, so as to seem organic.

Here’s an introduction page from the new book:

The boy has a shit-eatin’ grin on his face, and the girl is playing the coquette. This is a strong indicator of how sex education is similar to drug education in our public schools. Drug education is designed to encourage children to use drugs. Why is that? Because the cabal are heavily involved in drug trafficking, ever since FDR’s Delano ancestors were involved in the Chinese opium trade. When Slick Willie Clinton was governor of Alabama, he monitored the cocaine trafficking at Mena airport for the CIA. Daddy Bush was a big cocaine smuggler at this time. And so on.

Casual sex and abortion are two longstanding tools for the communist reconfiguration of standing cultures ─ these two practices running counter to the loving family unit which is an essential building block of civil society.

(Also, look at the cover of the book. If one were to step to the right about 3 paces, you would be treated to a nice upskirt glance at these underage girls. If you’ve ever studied subliminal advertising, you know I’m not just being silly).

Early in the book:

“The concept of sexuality is not a simple one to define. Numerous experts in the fields of public health and sexology have discussed basic concepts referring to sexuality and have put forward an agreed working definition and conceptual framework …”

Thence comes a 300-word definition of sexuality which includes the following:

“It is a subjective experience and a part of the human need for both intimacy and privacy.”

“Reproduction” is mentioned only once, amid copious other nouns and adjectives. I don’t think of reproduction as a subjective experience, do you? And where is the privacy in all this endless blabbing about sex in schoolrooms filled with boys and girls?

Kids should learn the nuts and bolts, be cautioned to be careful (better yet, wait) and leave it at that. They should concentrate on math and geography and gym class anyway. Sex unmoored from Love is always a waste of time, so why encourage it? Naughty kids will be naughty regardless of what you do (short of locking them up).

Some later sections, trying to be profound, have genius-level statements like the following:

(Ed. A section about Relationships):

There are many different kinds of families around the world

Family members have different needs and roles

Family members are important in teaching values to children

Growing up means taking responsibility for oneself and others

There are different kinds of friendships

Friendship and love help people feel positive about themselves

There are healthy and unhealthy relationships

It is disrespectful and hurtful to harass or bully anyone

There are many responsibilities that come with marriage

This is a checkbox description of LIFE. This is like explaining why a joke is funny ─ lame. Children recognize this immediately as adults with too much time on their hands bloviating.

We should learn about life from life itself, and from the great literature and music of our wonderful centuries-in-the-making civilization, not from some blowhard reading from a dreary communist PowerPoint.

When I was about 7 years old (circa 1956) I leafed through this book in our city library, kids’ section:

Toward the end of the short book, I saw the following picture:

Instantly, I was struck with a powerful feeling of COMPASSION for what I intuited was a less fortunate soul, who could use some TLC. Children tend to be selfish only because they are children (immature). They have to learn certain things, but many of “these things” already reside in our immortal hearts. This eliciting of the concept/emotion of compassion was then etched in my mind to the present day. (I didn’t re-find this book until about 8 years ago, by accident. I treasure it).

This is how we learn about life ─ not from some stranger who is reading a list of bland garbage written at a steel desk in Paris.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be experienced.

**(Variously stated and attributed)

Let me repeat, from the top of the post, that UNESCO showed their hand during Covid, as so many other governmental and communication entities did, promoting the Project. Anyone who offered sage advice was skewered by the legacy fascist media; and anyone who somehow threatened to slow down the killing techniques of the day was dealt with even more severely.

I consider this recent news item electrifying:

OPM orders federal agencies to purge COVID-19 vaccine records

Under new guidance issued by the Office of Personnel Management, agencies must delete any documentation of a federal employee’s vaccination history, refusal to comply with vaccine requirements, or requests for medical or religious exemptions. The directive also prohibits agencies from considering that information in any future employment decisions, including hiring and promotions.

(link)

Think of the poor souls who had their lives and livelihoods turned upside down over being faced with that cruel mandate, that impossible choice. This is a positive step. I pray this never happens again.

Note, however, that UNESCO had no recent regime change. They are still of the lockdown mentality.

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man - of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the best or the many in aristocracy and democracy, to which today we ought to add the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion, bureaucracy, or the rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many, can be held responsible, and which could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all, since there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being done. It is this state of affairs which is among the most potent causes for the current world-wide rebellious unrest.

**Hannah Arendt

And finally: I saved the least important matter till last.

If these alphabet agency Bozo’s are going to stick their spherical red noses into the science and art of education, they might want to practice their spelling first.

I found 3 typos during my research, hardly looking for such. Come on, guys, it’s not that hard!

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OK, you got me, my title verges on clickbait …

But seriously, we will investigate elements of this question, yet leave answering to the Ages, where it will always belong!

(The following excerpts represent about 14 pages worth of a 275-page book).

The author was born in Hungary in 1936 (Wikipedia bio link)

At (age):

(12) made his professional concert debut at the piano.

(20) fled Soviet Communist Hungary on foot, to Austria.

(23) arrived in Florida for a college scholarship position, with $23.

(62) wrote this book (1998) after years in musical performance and professorship.

The man lived under Soviet Communism for 7 years of his young life (1949-1956).

For the last 8 years of his life, he was a noted political philosopher (died 2003).

Wikipedia has an excellent paragraph of combined excerpts which I will lead with, because it summarizes well the principles he bids us believe in, along with the errors in governance he bids us condemn.

We advocate and practice discussion of national issues as they relate to America's founding principles. For continued success, we believe this nation needs to return to the Rule of Law, Individual Rights, the Security of Property, and the same American Identity for all its citizens ...

As time progressed, the creation of commissar positions in America acquired the dimensions of a growth industry. The avalanche began with affirmative action officers … and civil rights divisions. These positions exist for the sole purpose of enforcing a political agenda – an occupation at odds with the very nature of America.

Certain college and university departments … education … communications … journalism … urban planning … became the reliable producers of commissars. Law schools, too, began to churn out graduates trained to serve a specific political agenda, rather than jurisprudence ... Soon, entire government departments were created to function as Commissariats, such as the Department of Education, Health and Human Services, the EPA … Energy … Commerce. Several other federal agencies, such as the National Endowment for the Arts (also “for Humanities”), fall into the same category.

All these agencies offer services people find useful and employ many capable professionals along with commissars. But they are of the same cloth, for they provide a platform for commissars, lack constitutional legitimacy, and are virtually immune to citizen complaints.

Eventually, commissar types found their way into legislatures, the Supreme Court, and the White House. The recent acquisition of the Department of Justice as a commissariat, and the growing multitude of commissar judges on federal benches, complete this massive force whose effectiveness – unlike the armies and submarines of the Third Reich or the ICBMs of the Soviet Union – has proved a match for America's awesome industrial, financial, and spiritual strength.

**Wikipedia, quoting from the book we are discussing

I love his use of the term “commissar” ─ namesakes of the functionaries he met as a young man in Soviet Hungary. It accords with our use of the word czar in our federal executive branch, e.g. “drug czar.” I learned only yesterday that we’ve had many “czar” positions, beginning with FDR (link). Baby Bush and Obama had the most czar positions (33 and 38 respectively).

Such operatives are closely allied with technocrats.

During the COVIDEXCUSEFORFASCISMCRIME our state health directors became “pandemic czars” and told you and me what to do and when to do it.

Technocrats are unelected, and always much smarter than the ordinary Joe, which explains why they are “immune to citizen complaints.”

Remember too the principle of the administrative state, wherein the three branches of government are fused into a “my way or the highway” behemoth. For example (true story from Michigan) the department of natural resources decides landowners with river frontage can’t let their horses drink water from the river because they trample the ground and disturb a fragile ecosystem. They make the rule (legislature), employ the rule (executive) and punish those who ignore the rule (judicial), and make it stick by using the police powers of the state.

The author will be discussing what most people recognize as the tug of war between the right and the left, capitalism and socialism. This debate has pathetically devolved into “socialists want to give my tax money to bums and slackers” and “the right wingers are mean troglodytes who lack nuance in life.”

(Let us here remember that the author is no troglodyte, but a musical artist of the highest caliber).

Let us discuss these issues in an idealistic sense, an aspirational sense. I think both viewpoints have certain merits, and certain blind spots, but our Earth life is massively imperfect. If conditions make a mockery of ideals, you don't abandon ideals, you try harder. Cynicism is a stimulating but unproductive sophistication of the adolescent.

What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job?

**Lao Tzu, in his Tao Te Ching

I agree with the author (why else would I do the work …) and when confused, I can always return to his four guiding principles:

>< Rule of Law

>< Individual Rights

>< Security of Property

>< A universal American Identity

LET US BEGIN (page numbers are for my guidance only).

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But the most telling difference was in attitudes. While people elsewhere operated on the premise, "If I haven't got it, he shouldn't have it either," Americans seemed to say, "If he's got it, I ought to be able to have it too, if I just work hard enough." The ability of generation after generation actually to fulfill such desires helped maintain what appeared to be a union not merely of fifty states but, more importantly, of some 250 million individuals.

This is more important than material yearning.

There is a “genie in the bottle” joke from the Cold War Era that will amplify: A German and a Frenchman and a Russian release a genie in a bottle … three wishes … the first two ask for unsurprising blessings … then the Russian says, “My neighbor has two cows, and I only have one. Will you kill one of my neighbor’s cows?”

This is not funny! This describes a zero-sum mentality. My heart breaks for these victims of totalitarianism.

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Four years later, when I was seventeen, I had the "pleasure" of another disciplinary trial. After the head of the piano department at the famed Liszt Academy gave his "communist word of honor" in public that no harm would come from a frank airing of complaints, I spoke at some length about being denied permission to go abroad either to study, or to participate in international competitions ─ both indispensable for budding musicians with a serious career in mind. This time, my trial involved the entire Communist Party organization of the Music Academy, the faculty, and the students. I was given to understand that the punishment would be expulsion from all institutes of higher learning.

Owing to the heroic effort of some of my professors, I got off with a stern final warning and was forbidden to give concerts for six months. Compared with some who were exiled for two years for the simple act of telling a joke about political leaders, the punishment was mild. But all my experiences confirmed the perception that socialism in all its forms placed unlimited power in the hands of persons who were contemptuous of other humans, and whose basest instincts were unleashed in the process.

This was 1953. The events recounted are reminiscent of the “Hundred Flowers Campaign” of 1956-7 in Maoist Communist China, wherein the public ─ especially the intellectuals ─ were invited to speak freely and list any objections to the civic practices of the regime. After many gullibly spoke their mind, countless thousands were rounded up and sent to camps for labor or execution. It’s simple: communists are LIARS and their deceptive system is built upon LIES.

As to the last sentence, it is true that people who are keenly drawn to power consider themselves superior to most others and enjoy making demands. Communism efficiently harnesses this character flaw in the subjugation of peaceful and kind‑hearted citizens by their former peers, newly empowered.

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"Reactionary," "exploitation," "oppressor and oppressed," and "redistribution" were some of the words taken straight from the Marxist repertoire. The term "politically correct" first came to my attention through the writings of Anton Semionovich Makarenko, Lenin's expert on education. Adolf Hitler preferred the version "socially correct."

Lenin was in power 1917-1924, making “political correctness” at least 100 years old! Lenin murdered several million RUSSIANS, and today we are urged to think that PC is about not hurting someone’s feelings. Yeah, right.

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That document is known as the Constitution of the United States. Nothing like it had ever existed. It was unique in the public deliberation that led to its adoption; unique in the brevity and simplicity for a document of such immeasurable significance; unique in the influence it acquired and has held in the hearts and minds of freedom-loving people around the world.

The framers of the Constitution understood the wisdom of making few laws. The fewer the laws, the broader the agreement. The broader the agreement, the less need for enforcement. The less enforcement, the less friction between government and the governed. And the less friction, the less waste of time and energy. The time and energy thus freed vastly increases people's creative capacity. That, in a nutshell, is the success story of the United States of America.

This is an inspiring passage for me, and I hope I understand it correctly. I once read that (as I recall) English Common Law permits that which isn’t prohibited, whereas Roman Law and, thence, Napoleonic Law prohibits that which isn’t permitted. You can see that the latter would be quite cumbersome in trying to list everything which is deemed OK by the government. Unfortunately, the US has become an administrative state which is drowning in vast seas of regulations and picayune rules for nearly anything imaginable. To repeat, we are focusing here on ideals and stripped-down concepts.

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DECLARATION VS. CONSTITUTION

Along with the debate about the nature of 1776 ─ a war of independence or outright revolution? ─ is another debate that pits the Declaration of Independence against the Constitution as the defining document. Here the metaphor of the path and the road map will be helpful. And the Federalist Papers can be described as a glossary to the road map. Not least because of the orderly manner in which the Constitution may be amended, the three together have withstood every manner of upheaval from both within and without.

A fascinating analogy! Aside from our bloated bureaucracy, we're really not doing too badly overall, especially when the majority of Americans think we are living in a Constitutional Republic. This makes it difficult for the cabal to openly display their subterfuges and deformations; and we must always strive to detect THEIR hidden activities.

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Then, sometime in the 1960s, a serious challenge was issued to the Rule of Law. The concept behind the challenge had been around for a long time. Antecedents of it can be found as far back as the Bible. But in the United States of America it never presumed to replace the supreme law of the land. In the United States of America, it never attempted to alter a way of thinking that had proved impervious to assaults and threats of all kind.

The challenger called itself "social justice."

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CHAPTER SEVEN

"SOCIAL JUSTICE"

A MONUMENTAL DECEPTION

The quotation marks in the title are used advisedly. The words themselves are among the most successful deceptions ever conceived. Ask a variety of people to define what "social justice" means, specifically, and you will get as many answers as people queried. Ask the same person at different times and you will get different responses. All "definitions" of social justice boil down to any of the following:

(1) somebody should have the power to determine what you can have, or

(2) somebody should have the power to determine what you cannot have, or

(3) somebody should have the power to determine what to take away from you in order to give it to others who receive it without any obligation to earn it.

If millions upon millions have been deluded into searching for "social justice," it is because "social justice" displays the irresistible charm of the temptress and the armament of the enraged avenger; because it adorns itself in intoxicating cliches and wears the insignia of the highest institutions of learning. Like a poisonous snake, it radiates brilliant colors. Like the poppies in The Wizard of Oz, it lulls the mind to sleep.

The easiest targets happen to be civilized people, who care about the fate of others. Americans, especially, are famous for their concern for fellow humans and support of worthy causes.

This is a toughie! Words have power IF YOU LET THEM.

Manipulators will wield words for undisclosed purposes. Friends like you and I, dear reader, will hope to perceive meanings honestly, as best we can.

Consider the word “discriminate” (verb form).

I just consulted Merriam-Webster and got these two descriptions: “to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of” AND “to distinguish by discerning or exposing differences: to recognize or identify as separate and distinct”

BUT if you use this verb (and for many years now) it will consistently impart the flavor of racial prejudice and beg to be avoided.

So, who in their right mind would be against “social justice”? Someone like the author, trying to expose subterfuge.

This term is a political invention of revolutionary utility, like the wheel, or the bow and arrow. It’s also a Trojan Horse.

Life is not pleasant for everyone. Even if we cancelled the circumstance that the cabal has stolen at least a third of the wealth of global society, without any reciprocal benefit, i.e. if we restored that wealth fairly, Life would still not favor every person.

George Soros is famous for making a billion dollars by shorting the British pound. He is also famous for funding “social justice” entities. What’s wrong with this picture? Such folk want to dictate what justice is and where it will be applied.

“Social justice” also relates to the motto first used in the French Revolution – “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.”

It’s word trickery. Liberty and Equality are mutually exclusive. If you make everyone equal, no one will be free. If people are free, there will exist inequalities. And though Fraternity sounds cozy and all, it is actually a tacit nod to the high-level Freemasons who organized this historical tragedy. Their fraternity is not open to you.

The allure of “social justice” has, recently, brought us to the condition where illegal aliens are given free housing, free medical, free food, free debit cards, and more, whilst US citizens are homeless in record numbers. Also, we witness this concept in the form of Lia Thomas, a muscular 6’1” man stealing swimming trophies from hard working college women because … well, if you don’t understand, you’re just crabby and mean. Both of these phenomena are now being reversed, not without continued disagreement.

Here’s a recent news story which might help clarify “overdoing” the justice thing:

“Climate justice” provisions in the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) new contract are colliding with financial reality as the city’s low-performing public school system faces a projected $734 million budget shortfall.

CTU’s $1.5 billion collective bargaining contract with the Chicago Board of Education, ratified in April, cemented many of the union’s climate demands, including the formation of a Green Schools and Climate Preparedness Committee, the installation of solar panels, and the construction of new “green” school facilities. Supporters tout the deal as a “strategic use of capital,” but critics say it reflects misplaced priorities in a school district already struggling with a budget deficit, falling enrollment and chronically low academic achievement.

“Instead of finding ways to improve student performance in the classroom, the Chicago Teachers Union spent their bargaining time negotiating for costly, environmental policies in their latest contract,” Mailee Smith, director of labor policy for the Illinois Policy Institute, told the Daily Caller News. “Chicagoans just want somewhere safe to send their kids so that they will learn how to read and become independent. Bargaining over other topics serves as a distraction from CTU’s poor record in the classroom.”

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Yet, how can we apply a word as strong as "communist" to people who merely advocate "flexibility" in the way the Constitution is applied, and do so in "the interest of the poor, the underprivileged, the needy, the forgotten"? Surely, this is a case of "hate speech," and just another display of "mean-spirited conservatism."

But the poor, the needy, the underprivileged, and the forgotten existed before the 1960s. Millions of them came to America from other lands, precisely because they had reason to believe that in America, they would have the opportunity to improve their condition. And they were right. A constantly growing number of old and new Americans gained increasing access to the steadily accumulating wealth of the nation. The promise of liberty was fulfilled for more individuals than in any other society on earth. Until recently, no one questioned the principles on which this nation was founded, for it was understood that adherence to these very principles produced the enviable results.

Here, recall one of the four principles mentioned above, “security in property.”

One of the reasons citizens of many countries around the world are poorer than we are is because land ownership is legally difficult (red tape) or impossible (not legal) to establish. Asset ownership enables a private citizen to leverage the fruits of their work to finance further enterprises.

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DEFINING RIGHTS

The rights listed in the Constitution have certain aspects in common. For our purpose here, we need only examine two of these. Individuals may assert them at will, and governments must guarantee them at all times. Our judiciary, the third branch of government, was established to interpret the scope of those rights – not to invent entirely new types and categories of them. Clearly, if we no longer agree about the nature of rights, we are challenging the very foundation of our legal order.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects job applicants and employees from discrimination by an employer or potential employer based on the employee or applicant's color, race, sex, religion, and national origin.

We could say this was unneeded, but it’s been with us over 60 years, so let’s just say it was a clarification of rights we already possessed.

The extreme extension of the principle of “rights” was non-discrimination toward SEXUAL ORIENTATION – and we narrowly dodged that bullet. Some places have it (like my beloved Michigan), but it’s largely a non-starter now. The reason is simple – it requires ordinary citizens to prioritize strangers’ exotic delusions over their own convictions. The last vestiges of this attempt at codifying chaos are the “I identify as” memes one sees occasionally.

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GROUPS

Groups are as impossible to define as "social justice." The first question must be: Is everyone a member of a group? If not, how can equality be promoted when some people are in a group, and others are not? If all people are in one group or another, is everyone a member of only one group, or is membership open to a person in any number of different groups? Is there a limit on the number of groups in which a person may be a member for official purposes? And who decides all these questions?

This may sound facetious, but it is deadly serious business. People are punished if they fail to take it seriously. If the questions do not demonstrate the nonsensical nature of the proposition, attempts to answer them will.

Take, for example, a black teenage girl who walks with a limp and is being brought up by lesbians. Is she a child? Is she a woman? Is she an African-American? Is she disabled? Is she a lesbian? She must know, because the government wants to know. If she answers yes to all the questions, she will have herself a whole basketful of rights. Over and above her constitutional rights, she possesses children's rights (still), women's rights (already), affirmative action rights, disabled rights, and gay-lesbian rights. People have to be mindful of speaking not only to her, but about her. Anyone near her is but one step away from sensitivity training at best, loss of livelihood at worst.

Once again, the more groups we have, the more "rights" we have. The more groups we have, the farther we drift from the rule of law. The more groups we have, the more restrictions we have on our true rights: individual rights.

Individual rights reflect our similarities; group rights emphasize our differences. Individual rights promote equality; group rights cultivate inequality. Individual rights permit every one of us to be special; group rights create stereotypes. Individual rights are unalienable and are guaranteed by the Constitution; group rights are born at activist rallies, conferred by a party-political executive branch, and confirmed by a temporal judge. Group rights can be taken away by an even louder rally, a different regulator, a new judge.

Individual rights and group rights are mutually exclusive; we cannot have it both ways.

Individual rights provide a sense of security. The greater the sense of security, the more of people's creativity will be converted to productivity. The higher the productivity, the greater the sense of independence.

Group rights instill fear. The greater the fear, the more the limitations on human activity. The greater the limitations, the more total the dependency on the wielders of regulatory power.

Group rights – invented rights, that is – come, of course, with an important financial dimension. The bearer is entitled to unearned benefits – more directly put, to the fruits of other people's labor. Of greater significance, however, is the gradual destruction of society by the fear that attends group rights.

“Individual rights reflect our similarities; group rights emphasize our differences.” Ironically, group activists speak often of “inclusion” – and then their actions set them further apart from the body of quiet, ordinary citizens. To paraphrase Martin Luther King:

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the (INSERT IMMUTABLE DIFFERING CHARACTERISTIC HERE), but by the content of their character.”

As to the “fear” in the last sentence, think of the public-school teachers who were fired for refusing to use some deluded idiot’s weird pronouns.

And, lest you think me insensitive, I think it is wrong to mislead a young person into thinking that the people of the world give a crap about one person's particular fixation. Life is tough and people are just trying to survive in their own little half acre.

To quote Gram Parsons:

Said, that'll be cash on the barrelhead, son
You can take your choice if you're twenty-one
No money down, no credit plan
No time to chase you, 'cause I'm a busy man

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WHEN A GROUP IS NOT A "GROUP"

A discussion of group rights must consider various forms of association for which legal provisions exist. "What about corporations? What about farmers?" are popular retorts to assertions that group rights lack legitimacy.

The act of forming, joining, or leaving corporations is freely available to all. They are based on the right to free association, and the right freely to enter into contract between consenting parties. If the freely elected representatives of the people deem it in the public interest to establish certain rights for corporations, such rights are available to all, since anyone may form or join a corporation – or leave one, as the case may be. Anyone may become a farmer, or decide no longer to be one.

By contrast, "women's rights," "children's rights," and "affirmative action rights" pertain to persons who have no choice in the matter. An individual is neither in a position to become a member by choice, nor – by an act of will – to give up membership in the group … through the accident of birth … persons are locked in for life.

"Locked in for life" – surely nothing stands in greater contradiction to the very foundations of this country. People have been coming here for more than two centuries in an effort to escape the constraints of birth that stood in the way of the pursuit of happiness in their native lands. The very essence of America has been unrestricted mobility – up, down, or sideways – in the societal structure …

Finally, corporate-type rights are quite different from constitutional rights. Congress (or any of the several states) can grant rights to corporations and other forms of associations, but the same body can also alter or remove such rights.

By contrast, the fundamental individual rights guaranteed in the Constitution are not "subject to change" by any legislative body on its own; they require an amendment of the Constitution …

So, when is a right not a right? When it is neither possible for an individual to assert it, nor for government to guarantee it, and – last but not least – when it is not equally available to all citizens.

This is a restatement of covered material, but I value repetition and hearing ideas in slightly different form. This passage made me think of “identity politics.”

Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, political affiliation, caste, age, education, disability, opinion, intelligence, and social class …

The term identity politics dates to the late twentieth century …

Contemporary identity labels—such as people of specific race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, economic class, disability status, education, religion, language, profession, political party, veteran status, recovery status, or geographic location—are not mutually exclusive but are, in many cases, compounded …

**Wikipedia

… wheelchair-bound, non-binary, homeless, Jewish Eskimo, senior citizen?

What a mess! Wouldn’t the one‑and‑done “individual rights” be a welcome relief at this point?

Let’s look at this section from earlier in the book to expand on these “group” themes:

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There was an overdue civil rights movement, and there was an equally "overdue" sexual revolution. All these, the nation was led to believe, were consistent with traditional American aspirations. All these, the reasoning went, were consistent with the traditional debate about the implementation of American principles. The impatience of youth and the delay in the desegregation of black Americans may have produced an explosive mix, commentators mused, but different generations tend to be, well, different.

But if so, why the substitution of a "search for social justice" where once the law ruled? Why the proliferation of group privilege to the detriment of individual rights? Why the abolition of guaranteed property through regulation, redistribution, and entitlements? Why the daily assaults on our common American identity by hyphenation, bilingual ballots, multiculturalism, and phony history books?

(Arnie abridging: The author states here that these measures were tied to the desired evolution of US society toward socialism.)

(1) Americans were reminded frequently of their failures, and of various "wrongs" they and their country had inflicted on an ever-growing multitude

(2) Americans were persuaded that all apparently new ideas were, in fact, old American ideas and that by acting in accordance with those, they would become "better Americans"

(3) a constantly expanding range of people who had been "unfairly treated" and "deserving of special treatment" could be produced to keep the conscience of Americans troubled.

All three have come to pass. As a result, any suggestion that harm to America could be intended was made to sound preposterous. How can a "more perfect" implementation of "American ideals" possibly harm America?

Also remember that this time period saw the demoralization of society by the Viet Nam war – a criminal enterprise with multiple hidden agendas and a pre-planned stalemate.

Notice the author calls the Civil Rights Movement “overdue,” showing he’s not a hard-hearted stick-in-the-mud.

As for the “sexual revolution,” in 2006 Aaron Russo produced the documentary “America: Freedom to Fascism” (available on Rumble and Bitchute) Around this time he did an interview in which he told of meeting Nick Rockefeller, who invited him to join the elites and forget about the “serfs.” Nick told him that one of the main reasons for the Women's Lib movement was that “we” could only tax half the population at the time. I remember how sick I fell hearing this vile man use the royal “we” when speaking of our illegal communist income tax. The single-earner family was to be largely dispelled, and more worker bees activated. This is a measure of the cabal's reach.

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CONSTRAINTS AND LIBERTIES

One need not be a practitioner of any religion to appreciate the enormous significance that the Ten Commandments had in America's founding, regardless of their origin …

In the broadest sense, we might think of man's existence in three phases. The first was characterized by the unbridled freedom of instinctive behavior, much as in the animal world. The second brought constraints which, for some time, were forced upon the many by the few. Third, and closer to our own time, the ability of some to recognize the benefits that result from an acceptance of constraints led to the emergence of liberties within a well-defined structure. As acceptance of the constraints broadened, the guarantee of liberties could be extended. The most notable success of this reciprocal relationship may be observed in two centuries of immigration to America. Until recently, the premise has been a simple one: Newcomers who were willing to accept the constraints, not necessarily extant in their country of origin, were offered a share in the liberties. Chief among these has been the recognition that the only dependable guarantee of one's own rights is the concession and guarantee of those same rights to one's neighbor.

I once saw Common Law described as The Golden Rule negatively expressed – “Don’t do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.” This is powerful stuff – and SIMPLE.

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TWO VIEWS OF THE WORLD

Awareness of the long-term rivalry between the two lines of thought makes sense of much in history, and even more of contemporary developments. The designations "Franco-Germanic" and "Anglo- American" were chosen because they are broadly accurate, and because they make it clear that the conflict is not between different interpretations of American principles …

… schools of political thought emerged only in a very few places. Individual thinkers may be found elsewhere from time to time, but it was only in England, France, Germany, and America that political thinking was practiced and published regularly …

The context is one of irreconcilable differences between two views of the world. One view, the Anglo-American, holds that human ability to comprehend, adjudicate, and arrange the world around us is limited; that the only attainable goal is continuously to improve the conditions which enable individuals to achieve their personal best. The other view, predominantly Franco-Germanic, places human reason at the center of our existence, claiming that certain people are capable of comprehending, adjudicating, and arranging the world around us; and that such people are called upon to guide all others toward an increasingly perfect and just world in which all desires will have been either eliminated or satisfied.

Traditional labels are the last obstacles in the path of understanding. Societies modeled on the Anglo-American line are often referred to as capitalist, or democratic, or classical-liberal. True to its tradition of using arbitrary and contradictory words to camouflage substance, the Franco-Germanic line has been known as statism, collectivism, socialism, fascism, Nazism, communism, bolshevism, Maoism, or modern liberalism. The "-ism" in each label is significant. The need to paint the Anglo-American side also as an "-ism" led to the term "capitalism," which was proposed by those who oppose it.

It is inaccurate to use the label "capitalism" because all other "-isms" prescribe a set of conditions to which society must conform, if necessary through coercion or by force. Freedom of enterprise and guaranteed ownership, on the other hand, are prerequisites of general prosperity – something that needs to be there to begin with, and which leads to what Friedrich Hayek aptly describes as the "extended order of cooperation." Hayek further proposes that this extended order exceeds the ability of any person or group to organize, and that it can only evolve naturally under certain conditions. Such notions, of course, are anathema to proponents of the Franco- Germanic line who hold that effective planning is not only possible but also essential, and that it must be undertaken by those whom the noted thinker Thomas Sowell calls "The Anointed" in his book The Vision of the Anointed.

That is why the attempt is made here to reduce the two lines of thought to bare essentials and to dispense with misleading labels. By focusing upon the underlying concepts, seemingly unconnected events of the past and the present emerge as a logical sequence.

What began as a mildly sarcastic criticism of John Locke by Immanuel Kant grew into an full-blown intellectual confrontation by the mid-to-late nineteenth century. One side (Ed. Kant) was preparing the ground for a closed, regulated, directed-from-the-top society, asserting that such societies would, by definition, be just. The other (Ed. Locke) "muddled along" by trial and error, trusting that instinct and enlightened self-interest would correct aberrations and lead to continuous improvement. In economic terms, the first is a zero-sum proposition, necessitating the most stringent prescriptions with regard to the distribution of national product. The other is a tale of constantly accumulating wealth, providing increased access to a growing number of participants. The legal comparison is more revealing still. As discussed earlier, one is a matrix of codified laws to which all have to conform, and in which guilt or innocence is established by professional jurists; the other is an evolving collection of common law and precedents, in which verdicts are delivered by citizen juries.

Let us remember that we are discussing IDEALS. The sad reality of the present-day US is a bureaucratic administrative state surreptitiously controlled by the titanic corporations – fascism! But the system is fragile, and the more of us who discuss these concepts, the more difficult it is for the cabal to worsen matters, and you know THEY always want more.

The author is saying that “freedom of enterprise and guaranteed ownership” should not be called “capitalism” because the actual system has been corrupted and the word “capitalism” has been forever tainted. This is the tension between Wall Street and Main Street, and Wall Street routinely hits below the belt.

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The second error occurred when German methodology was married to French egalitarianism, as in the writings of Marx. For obscure reasons, even detractors of Marx credit his "great contributions" to economics. My generation received theoretical training in Marxism and experienced the starvation that inevitably follows when it is applied. Marx prescribed taking into "public" ownership all means of production. That doctrine proved a disaster wherever consummated. State bureaucracies are utterly unable to manage economies. But the error should have been obvious to Marx himself. For it was none other than Karl Marx who explained the failure of all previous economic systems as the failure to ensure that all participants in the process of production have a vested interest in its outcome. The same Karl Marx then prescribed a recipe that made certain that no participant in the process of production had a vested interest in the outcome.

I’m sure the author would agree when I say “no participants” means the man on the street, not the financial elite – they who always dine sumptuously.

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LESSONS LEARNED

Both the religious organization of the party and continued use of the "communist" label required that people be kept uninformed – a Russian tradition of long standing. But with the breathtaking development in communications, a label tainted with the blood of millions, and a hierarchy long since declared inefficient, the party could not (and did not) survive. Practically no one is a "communist" today. What happened? Fundamental attitudes don't disappear into thin air. People might die, but ideas rarely do, especially when the idea is one of only two major strains of political thought that excite the people, dominate the minds, and determine the affairs of man for centuries.

The more credible assumption is that the lessons have been understood and learned. Certainly, when it comes to the third "error," there is every appearance of success. The labels – communist, socialist – have gone altogether. If anyone attempts to use them, a chorus of protest is unleashed: "Are you looking for reds under every bed?" And, "The Wall is down; what more do you want?" Then follows the branding "redbaiter" or "redbasher." But most don't even try. The only "old" label retained comes from Stalin's clever deception – calling German national socialists "fascists." Today's communists and their dupes tend to call everyone they don't like a "fascist."

It must count among the most amazing spectacles of history to be inundated with the rhetoric, theory, and practice of communism, and see not one communist around. We read and hear daily about class warfare, redistribution of wealth, the "dispossessed" masses, the disadvantaged, universal health care, speech codes, sensitivity training, restrictions on parents' rights, school-to-work – the list goes on and on. The agenda is with us, the Party is not.

We're nearing the end, and it seems the author feels he has earned the right for a bit of sarcasm, and I agree, and this is especially funny. We're surrounded by communist behaviors, but all the communists are gone! In case this saddens you ─ take heart ─ they live on in the form of the present-day TECHNOCRATS ─ those really smart people who somehow know what you need to do and when you need to do it.

Admittedly, I’ve been cherry-picking from this book, but I’ve been trying to capture the essence of Balint’s message, not distort it. I am honored to have heard his words of wisdom, gleaned from real-life experience.

Let’s end with an anecdote from the book:

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IN THE FALL of 1954, the Central Committee of the Communist Party sent a new secretary to Budapest's famed Liszt Academy of Music to head the Academy's party organization. The new man thought it appropriate to present himself to the nation's senior musician, Zoltan Kodaly. He knocked on the door of the master's studio, went inside, and explained the reasons for his visit. Kodaly, as was his habit, looked out the window for some time.

He then asked, "What happened to your predecessor?"

"He went back to his trade."

"What was his trade?"

"He is a hatmaker."

"And what is your trade?"

It was now the secretary's turn to consider.

"I've always worked in the movement."

Kodaly turned around from the window and regarded his visitor for the first time. Then he looked out the window once more and asked, "To what will you go back?"

The 1960s gave birth to a new type of American: the professional political activist, whose entire working life would be spent in "the movement." The illustrations reveal a remarkable similarity in these lives, the two most obvious being the absence of participation in an enterprise, trade, or profession—in any nonpolitical occupation and the use of tax revenues as the source of income.

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From the frontispiece:

“‘Tis education forms the common mind

Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined”

**Alexander Pope

This book resonates well with my previous post “DEPT OF EDJUCAYSHIN.” That post, citing a book written in 1994, mentions a significant occurrence in 1966. We now go back another decade for this book, wherein the author decries the state of US education, with similar-sounding complaints – the inability of students to read and write and use mathematics.

The hardcover book is about 300 pages, with index, and my excerpts total about 22 pages ─ saving you a lot of reading! Kind of like pulling the naughty bits from Lady Chatterley’s Lover, only more boring.

However, dear friend, you and I know that social engineering stuff is nearly always boring, and obscured by the bread and circuses of big-league sports, media stars, and fake or exaggerated news items.

Somebody from the good-guy side has to read this material, in order to be armed with proper understanding, so I applaud your attention. I hope you will be as richly rewarded as I was.

The excerpts each stand on their own in terms of comprehension and import. You can skip around or leave and revisit as you wish. My comments will usually come after the referenced passage. The numbers refer to the physical book pages, for my own guidance. Most pictures are simply images from 1957. I have used bold italics to emphasize key points, on occasion. Since the author’s name is Rudd, and a prominent player in the book is named Rugg, I will refer to the author as AUTHOR, for clarity.

Let’s get to it!

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The New Educationists frankly proclaim that their aim is not to turn out better citizens to live under the present social order; their sights are set upon the building of a new social order and the schools under their direction are to spearhead the job. For generations the goal was to teach youth fundamental knowledge and how to use it as a valuable tool. In short, how to think and to reason. The New Educators are more concerned with what they should think. In the process, they have perverted the very purpose of a great American institution. They have introduced into our schools a system of indoctrination in which teachers are expected to crusade for social aims as the primary purpose of education.

This is a bit of a mind bender. AUTHOR states that traditional education taught young adults how to think, i.e. how to function in society. This was accomplished by rigorous study and drill. In our current century, edu-cranks have decided that memorizing facts is boring and limiting to creativity, and that teachers should focus on HOTS (higher order thinking skills) which teach youngsters how to think – an opposite philosophy. Nonsense ─ everyone knows how to think – it’s called your brain. What AUTHOR means is like your brain going to the gym to tone, to bulk up. The HOTS crowd are just avoiding rigor in order to create manipulable dumbasses.

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Fortunately, an increasing number of Americans are awakening. For instance, Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, champion of many liberal causes, recently declared that “our educational system is a shambles.” In the St. Paul (Minn.) Wanderer, December 20, 1956, he blamed Progressive Education and “professors of a pseudo-science of education” for this nationwide condition wherein “schooling must be ‘student-based’ rather than ‘subject based.’...In other words, our children are being trained to live in ant hills.” The pitiful fruits of the New Education now are apparent—including elementary school children who cannot read, high school graduates who cannot spell, maturing upper-class pupils who cannot perform simple operations of arithmetic. Parents now recognize that something evil has happened to their schools. They realize that nothing can stop this evil except themselves and their aroused interest. In hundreds of communities, which were once submissive to the New Education, school boards, parents, and sound, dedicated schoolmen are counterattacking.

Holy crap ─ this is 69 years ago and sounds like only yesterday! Crazy, man, crazy.

(Please note: the term “liberal” had a different meaning back then:

The core principles of the Great American Experiment were Reason & Logic, Natural Rights, Consent of the Governed, Republicanism, Religious Toleration, Scientific Progress, Skepticism of Authority, and Individualism – and is properly termed Classical Liberalism.

In the 20th century "liberal" came to mean support for government intervention to promote social justice and economic opportunity, not just individual freedoms ─ as contrasted with its former principles of minimal government and maximum personal liberty.

“Libertarianism,” today, most resembles the core characteristics of Classical Liberalism, if one is to rely upon labels. The AUTHOR-aligned voices heard in this book are committed to Classical Liberalism).

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It is characteristic of these crusading New Educationists that they often fight foul. Brave and patriotic teachers in scores of our communities, who have had the stamina to stand up against them, have suffered loss of job or loss of promotion as the price. They have had no American Civil Liberties Union to leap to their defense with the cry of “academic freedom.” Most of them have been unpublicized and unknown. Parents and laymen who have challenged the New Education also have been smeared and misrepresented. Some of the major magazines and newspapers have been among the smearers. Despite the brickbats, the defenders of the American public school—the Essentialists—maintained their fight.

They have been buoyed up in their determination by the realization that the heart of this great institution still is sound; it is only the head which has been infected. The majority of our teachers and school administrators are patriotic men and women, dedicated to their life work of imparting to our youth a sound basic education. Many of them have been powerless to act under the compulsions of the educational hierarchy. With most of the leaders of teachers’ associations and big names in the teachers’ colleges and the foundations lined up behind the New Educationists, the individual teacher has been virtually immobilized. Thousands have become unwilling conformists.

What must have seemed utterly confusing at the time is clear to us in the present day: THE CABAL AT WORK. We now know that strange societal changes are indicative of the ancient bloodline families’ machinations. Why would anyone want to destroy successful education? To weaken. The cabal always seek to weaken, in order to dominate. The above-mentioned “academic freedom” greets us today as “trans rights.” The cabal utilize the various media and place their lieutenants and minions in key positions of power and influence. We only need to recall the vast ranks of the pro-maskers during Covid to see the dynamic.

Note the term “Essentialist,” which is to be contrasted with “Progressive” in this book.

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“The progressivists began by assuming that the older education had been a general failure” wrote Neil G. McCluskey, in America, December 1, 1956. “They told the world that earlier teachers were a breed of ill-equipped, overly bookish tyrants. Hence, they argued for progressive teachers colleges, life-adjustment programs and the child-centered classroom.” And then they abandoned good, crisp English for a “mess of emotive pedagoguese,” by which they flatteringly described their program as “life-related,” “gripping,” “dynamic,” “forward-looking,” “growth-oriented,” and, of course, “new.” If this warmed the hearts of the pedagogues, it left the parents cold and confused.

To some, Progressive Education means new methods of instruction, including anything from movable desks to the use of audio-visual aids. Such physical aids are to be welcomed. Since the end of World War I, many important advances have been made in the organization and administration of education, taking the form of better financial support and improved tools and facilities. Most innovations have been misleadingly claimed by Progressivists as a product of the New Education.

To others Progressive Education connotes “new” concepts or philosophies, although, as we shall see, most of them are as old as Plato and Democritus. To many, it stands for a revolutionary change in the very purpose of public education—a shift from the educational objective of imparting factual knowledge to the political objective of indoctrinating the child for the remaking of society—to bring about a new social order. It is probable, however, that the average person, absorbed in his own affairs and susceptible to slogans, thinks of Progressive Education as a new method whereby a child “learns by doing” or the “whole child” is educated. These and other Dewey theories are implemented in the Activity Program which is the center of the Progressive system. Later we shall examine some of these philosophies which conflict with time-tested social, political and economic standards.

AUTHOR then points out a simple trick. The moniker “progressive education” is a linguistic trap. If you are opposed to it, you are automatically opposed to PROGRESS and EDUCATION. What manner of brute would be opposed to a “forward looking” concern for the “whole child?” Here is the same tactic, from the Covid era:

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TO IMPLEMENT THE PLAN

In implementing this program, three main policies have been established and generally accepted by the leading Progressivists and their organizations—the Progressive Education Association, the John Dewey Society and the left-wing element in the National Education Association:

1. Opposition to methods of education using sequential curricula. In the place of this time-tested method, the Activity School is advocated as the only sound method of teaching.

2. Opposition to efforts of the traditional school toward inculcating in the child even the moral values long regarded as fundamental to character training; and denial of the value of spiritual or religious influence on youth.

3. Approval of emphasis on feelings or emotions at the expense of knowledge and judgment.

Number 3 is now called “Social-Emotional Learning” (SEL) and is actually designed to turn all children into psychiatric patients!

Number 2 is the decades long war to portray Christianity as merely a quaint form of hate speech.

What is number 3? ─ “Activity School (or Program).” Keep in mind that John Taylor Gatto asserts that one of the purposes of our K-12 school system is to keep young adults out of the labor force for reasons of competition. With proper pedagogy, a child could be prepared for adult life after what we call the 9th grade. So, they have to fill that time up with something. As to the specific moniker, here’s the best info I could find on the Web:

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DEWEY ON RELIGION

Dewey’s materialistic philosophy, and particularly his concept of man as a biological organism, inevitably leads him to a primitive explanation of religion. He notes man’s grim struggle for survival and regards religion as one of the things “cherished as a means of encompassing safety.” Dewey wrote:

“...[man] being unable to cope with the world in which he lived, he sought some way to come to terms with the universe as a whole. Religion was in its origin an expression of this endeavor...As a drowning man is said to grasp at a straw, so men who lacked the instruments and skills developed in later days snatched at whatever, by any stretch of imagination, could be regarded as a source of help in time of trouble ... In such an atmosphere primitive religion was born and fostered.”

In this viewpoint Dewey is, in fact, only a step removed from Karl Marx, who said:

“Religion is the sighing of a creature oppressed by misfortune, it is the “soul” of the world that has no heart, as it is the intelligence of an unintelligent epoch. It is the opium of the people.”

Surely there is nothing “new” in this doctrine of historic materialism. For centuries, agnostics and atheists have sought to eliminate religion as a vital force in the life of man. For the past century it has been damned vociferously by the Marxists of various kinds. But the efforts have not succeeded for very sound reasons. Religion serves an inherent need of man for an explanation of life and its meaning. Philosophy alone cannot satisfy this need. Nothing in science nor in the best thought of the ages can assuage the longing in man to seek the truth of his existence, or what is known as the ultimate reality.

Religion is a crutch … hmmm … where have I hear that before … oh yeah, my whole life, courtesy of an endless chain of assholes. AUTHOR’S words ending this section are elegant indeed.

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“SOFT vs. HARD” PROGRESSIVES

To understand the relationship of the original Progressivism and the current New Education, it is important that we do not lean too heavily on the doctrines of Dewey. It is true that he was the founder of the movement, but he had many pseudo-disciples who saw in Deweyism the chance to ride to glory in their own chariots. Becoming extremely vocal and insistent, their clamor forced a development within the cult of great importance, since it altered the nature of the Progressive movement by introducing new purposes and policies. Dewey, incidentally, was not too happy with some of the extremists who followed his banner.

This is humorous and shows how the cabal use any person or thing to their own ends, without a blush. It reminds me of a favorite quote:

“I’m glad I am Jung, and not a Jungian.”

**Carl Jung

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Prior to 1932, the “new” pedagogy had been largely in the hands of Dewey and his true disciples, whose primary interest lay in the functions and philosophies of the educational process ─ the methodology rather than the ideology in education. “These dreamers...,” said John C. Almack, Professor of Education, Stanford University, “took primitive man for their ideal and pattern as they envisioned him in their steam-heated flats in the cities of the Eastern seaboard. Because of their tendency to visionary idealism, they may be termed ‘soft progressives.’ ... They were shoved out of the seats of control in the years immediately following the depression by comrades who believed in and practiced direct action. These more or less hard-headed adherents to alien methods had received some elementary schooling in the theories of Karl Marx, founder of Communism, and of his successors. Because of their faith in action and struggle, they may be called ‘hard’ progressives ...” In short, the Deweyite efforts to improve the methods of teaching were turned into a political movement in which the content of the curriculum became the goal of pedagogues’ intent on remaking society.

Cooptation by “the Communists.” Uh-oh. And who are the Communists? THE CABAL. Karl Marx had close ties to the bloodline families (link). “Direct action” describes communist operatives’ behavior well, since their ideology is repugnant to normal people.

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But whether they were “hard” or “soft” Progressives was largely a family affair amongst pedagogues. They belonged to the same teachers’ associations and generally maintained a united front against opposition. Of course, there were vigorous protests from able educators, many of whom are mentioned in these pages, who were unable to stem the tide against the leftist-liberal element, aided as it was by the support of national teachers’ organizations and several large foundations.

Again, top-down coercion. And the gigantic foundations have been meddlesome monsters ever since old man Rockefeller pioneered the dynamic.

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The key to this program was the new social science course, replacing the teaching of history, civics and geography as separate subjects and subordinating other fundamental knowledge. This marked the turning point in the destinies of Progressive Education. Up to that time it had offered a few positive values, but when the “hard” Progressives took over, the effort to improve the methods of education were eclipsed by the politically-minded pedagogues. From that day on the movement called Progressive Education became radically different in character.

(and ─ related ─ from the very start of the book):

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When he (AUTHOR) looked further, he discovered that the traditional school courses which had shaped the minds of generations of our citizens had been drastically altered or omitted. For instance, history, geography and civics had disappeared as separate subjects. In their place was a new and confusing omnibus course styled social science, which was to become the “core of the whole program.” The more the author examined the texts and the day-to-day lessons of this course, the more he realized that a whole set of new concepts and doctrines had been bootlegged into the school curriculum. Some of these concepts contradicted and condemned ideas which were held by the overwhelming majority of the American people. Even the main purpose of the public school had been changed.

Replacing history, civics, and geography with “social studies” … this is HUGE, and you need to keep it in mind. I've read about it many times and don't fully understand it. We must acknowledge that history is broadly tampered with, however, “social studies” is pretty much made from whole cloth, and it's basically social engineering ─ instructing the child or young adult as to how things should be at a society-wide level. I remember this class in high school – coma‑level boring – the closest I ever came to a Chinese Communist indoctrination session.

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Dr. Arthur E. Bestor, who has been both a pupil and a teacher of the social studies courses, writes:

“The social studies program ... was an example of regressive education, because it pushed back to the infantile level again students who were already trained in systematic, analytical, critical thinking. This has happened on a tremendous scale in American education in recent years ... because experts in pedagogy have insisted on applying to the secondary school and even the college certain rules of thumb that worked successfully in the primary grades ... In doing so, the regressive educators have turned their backs upon all the great educational thinkers of past times. Not least, they have repudiated the original principles of progressive education itself.”

I don’t technically understand this, but I believe that Dr. Bestor does. One of the signature deformations of the populace after WW2 has been the infantilization of young adults. James Dean in the film East of Eden (1955) helped “invent” the teenager. Would you buy a used car from this person(?):

And by 1963 we had “The Surfin’ Bird” video by The Trashmen:

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The Progressive policy of favoring courses of immediate rather than deferred value has loaded the curriculum with vocational training and so-called “aptitude for life” courses. In the broad scope of public education, certainly these practical programs merit consideration in relation to all other values and objectives. But Kilpatrick, Dewey and other leaders insist that these and other “social aims” should be the main purpose of education, and their will has prevailed. As a consequence, the curriculum has been drastically revised with the disastrous results noted in forthcoming chapters.

This relates to “tracks and strands” which are found in our high schools, along with an embryonic form of Lifelong Learning, both touched upon in my previous post. I’m only guessing, but I think AUTHOR means that the traditional form of education, which he is mourning the loss of, exposed ALL students to the distilled riches of western civilization ─ reading, writing, and mathematics, in addition to noble themes of civility and vigor and reverence and aspiration. Some will grasp all this better than others, but all are exposed. Don’t pigeonhole the late bloomer (that’s a double metaphor … anyone can understand what a metaphor is, not just the “smart” ones).

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Fails to Utilize Human Experience

In an article in the San Francisco Examiner, October 13, 1942, deploring Progressive Education’s neglect of history, control and discipline, Dr. Almack said:

“Even under favorable conditions, it will take us a quarter of a century to restore American education to the level it held before the Progressive onslaught.

It is wrong not to utilize human experience to the fullest extent, not only to teach values and desirable practices but to expose failure, neglect and wrong motives …

The Progressive policy of deprecating our history and of putting it on the scrap heap has materially weakened national unity and broken the continuity of the social process …

The cult is also wrong in its play upon experience and activity as ways to education. All the hordes of ignorant and uneducated who have trod the earth stand forth in mute testimony to the fallacy that experience is enough to develop civilized and ethical men.”

Dear Reader, I have read this section many times and don’t fully understand it, but I know it’s important. This whole book is something like visiting an ancient culture in a time machine! For one, I think he means that learning history teaches the pitfalls of Man as well as the triumphs. It’s like the old joke about the young businessman asking the older successful one how he “got there”. Answer: “Good decisions.” Thence asked how he mastered this technique, the answer came, “Bad decisions.”

The last paragraph seems to imply that we must train the young as to the solid findings of “civilization”, i.e. the hard-won discoveries of how to manage large populations with endlessly diverse goals and styles of coping. The eternal slight of hand of the “left” is to declare such an approach to be anti‑freedom, when in fact it is in the orderly society where freedom can flourish.

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Destroying the Fundamentals

Cautioning us against the dangers of destroying the fundamentals of traditional education evolved through centuries of trial and error, Albert Lynd states:

“Much of the writing and speaking on behalf of the New Education is done by persons who understand what is easy to understand, that Mr. Dewey has given them license to chop down something: the traditional curriculum and discipline. Chopping is an occupation many find agreeable; they are less clear about what they should do to replace what they are destroying.”

This is an eternal truism and tied to the adolescent mind. Radicalism and communism often appeal to the adolescent sensitivities, which many of us can possess throughout our lives.

In 1970, female country singer Lynn Anderson had a crossover international hit song which began with the lyric, “I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden.” Why so successful? Because that’s Life in a nutshell.

Adolescents are famous for nitpicking the way things are and pie in the skying the way things should be. However, they typically fall short when it comes to proffering the mechanisms by which their ideal states will be instituted. That said, questioning the status quo by the young and by all is a root necessity of human existence.

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PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA

Few Americans realize that Progressive Education was given a thorough try-out in Soviet Russia. When the Bolsheviks under Lenin destroyed the Kerensky government in November, 1917, they believed that a similar revolution was imminent in other countries and they sought to expedite it by creating in Russia a Communist model for the world. They proceeded to inaugurate a series of drastic reforms and changes in the traditional life of the Russian people. A veritable orgy of change followed in all segments of their society—from education to marriage. Many of these “reforms” were not only unnecessary but proved to be harmful to the Communist cause.

Anything new or extreme was tried, provided it was a break with the traditional. The Communist leaders had heard of the Progressive Education system in America and in 1918 they imported its program almost intact. Lenin saw in it an opportunity to eliminate from Russian life religious faith, private property, family and parental authority. If they could destroy family life, the Bolsheviks would strike a death blow to in Russia and also set the world an example which they confidently hoped would hasten the day of their world revolution.

The Communists, however, overlooked one vital factor in a civilized society: the family is the most important influence in the training of a child. By using public education to destroy the foundations of the family, they also lost a cohesive unit and stabilizing force in any society. With respect and authority gone, the Soviet family lost the ability to discipline its youth, with the inevitable disastrous consequences.

As early as 1920, the results began to be apparent. Dr. Kapterev, a liberal educator of old Russia, wrote in the Educational Review: “Two great misfortunes have befallen Russian education. One is the establishment of the Common Activity School and the elimination of all serious work that followed in the wake of this reform, and the other is the elimination of discipline from the school.” The Soviet Progressive Educators shouted against the “reactionary Tzarist professor” who had dared to criticize the New Education.

Through the behaviorist influence in Progressive Education and its emphasis on stimuli and response, the faith of the Russian children in the principles of freedom was destroyed, but the sequel was a shock to the Kremlin. Once started, the undermining process could not be controlled and the Communists saw that the product of their new education, no longer potential capitalists, were now unsuited to any community life. Soon there were roving bands of homeless children all over Russia, without belief in God, family, country or any standards of ethics or morals. In their numerous programs designed to destroy the roots of a capitalist society, the revolutionists had sown the wind and reaped a whirlwind.

As the gravity of the condition became more evident, responsible Communist educators began to demand that an end be put to the debasement of the schools. When adolescents whose whole preliminary training had been obtained in the Soviet schools began to arrive before the examining committees of the higher institutions of learning, their appalling ignorance of the fundamentals of the sciences and letters became evident beyond all possibility of doubt or camouflage.

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On August 25, 1932, the Central Executive Committee ordered the reorganization of the entire educational system in Russia. On December 9, 1932, local superintendents of schools received their orders from the Soviet Commissary for Public Instruction as follows:

“The first thing I wish to impress upon you...is to re-establish discipline in our schools...the Soviet school is characterized by weak discipline and even in places by the complete absence of all discipline....I know cases where the organization and maintenance of discipline is shoveled over to the student government...the teacher is assigned a passive role or even none at all.”

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That marked the end of Soviet Russia’s fifteen-year experiment with Progressive Education. They returned this educational failure to America, whence it came, and to our starry-eyed Frontier Thinkers who were determined to foist it on the public schools of America ─ and did so.

This knocked me out of my chair – news to me! What a hoot.

When reading about communism, from the time of Lenin to that of Reagan’s Star Wars, we must see through the consistent blaming of the Russians and the Chinese. We must also dispense with ideology. No people ever wanted to be communist. In this era, substitute the term capitalism with freedom and communism with fascism. Sadly, we in the US have also been living with fascism ever since old man Rockefeller dominated the landscape (albeit a more palatable form of).

The forgivable outcry of communist meddling in the “free world's” affairs can simply be recalibrated as social engineering by the cabal, from our present-day vantage point.

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While the realistic Soviet officials saw the evil consequence of the New Education and discarded it in time, our educational leadership embraced it with a fanatical zeal. So, during the same period that the schools of Russia have improved markedly in imparting the foundation knowledge so essential to the training of engineers, scientists and other skilled leaders in an atomic age, millions of our youths have found themselves seriously handicapped because their schools have failed to educate them properly on these important subjects.

The term “dumbasses” comes to mind …

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… the American Education Fellowship’s policy statement, as reported in the New York Times, November 30, 1947:

1. The reconstruction of the economic system in the direction of greater social justice and stability; a system to be secured by whatever democratic planning and social controls experience shows to be necessary.

2. The establishment of a genuine world order, an order in which the national sovereignty is subordinated to world authority in crucial interests affecting peace and security ... an order which must be geared with the increasing socializations and public controls now developing in England, Sweden, New Zealand and certain other countries; ... an order in which “world citizenship” thus assumes at least equal status with national citizenship.

This was 78 years ago. The concepts are still with us, in the riots of 2020 and the WHO pandemic treaty of the same time.

I call your attention to the name of the above-quoted organization. Now read the following from earlier in the book:

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Ever since the embattled parents began to protest violently against Progressive Education, the name “Progressive” has been a thorn in the sides of the leaders of this cult. They have squirmed and twisted in all directions to avoid use of it, but to little avail. Finally, in 1944 the Progressive Education Association officially changed its name to the American Education Fellowship; “Progressive” was perhaps too closely associated with cartoons of children terrorizing teacher, says Albert Lynd.

A worse fate of the adjective was its adoption by the Communists in one of the devious turns of their propaganda line during the thirties. Perhaps the most disconcerting blow of all is the fact that the Communists recently designated as “Progressives” the American prisoners of war in Korea who became Communists and refused to be repatriated! Now the Progressives prefer the use of the name “new” or “modern” education. But the word “Progressive” still hangs on and like the albatross of the Ancient Mariner, they cannot lose it.

We might quip at this point that a rose by any other name still stinks to high heaven! Name changing is a repeated maneuver of the world’s LIARS. For instance, if you are looking to avoid MSG in food labels, you also need to be wary of Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, Autolyzed Yeast, Yeast Extract, Soy Extracts, Protein Isolate, Textured Protein, Natural Flavors, Glutamic Acid, Sodium Caseinate, Calcium Caseinate, Gelatin, Umami Seasonings, Hydrolyzed Plant Protein, Hydrolyzed Oat Flour, Monopotassium Glutamate.

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”There are huge obstacles in the path of those who would create a new climate of opinion in our communities. These obstacles reside in part in the powerful individuals and groups which control the economic system. But they lie even more deeply in the stereotyped loyalties and opinions of the public mind itself. Indeed, it is to the uprooting of ingrained concepts and motives that we must commit ourselves …”

**Harold Rugg, The Great Technology, (p. 188)

Here is our first mention of Rugg, a titan among edu-weenies.

The economic system he cites is simply the US as it existed at the time (1933).

The undesirable “loyalties and opinions” cited are deranged notions like love of family, love of country, and reverence toward God.

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The Master Plan tells us that the indoctrination of the children is to be accomplished by means of the social science courses which Professor Rugg said would be the “very core of the entire program.” They eliminate time-honored history, geography, and civics as separate studies, but include parts of these subjects and other materials which give the author unlimited opportunity to “interpret” anything of social significance to suit his avowed purpose. In Time Magazine, of November 6, 1940, we learn that Rugg “undid the old packages (i.e. history, geography, etc.), and dumped all his information in one basket ─ social studies.” (p. 61)

We have already covered this. Very important. Mentioned again (81-82) soon below.

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Professor Rugg is clearly a reformer, a new-world maker, before he is an educator. Where his system is used, children have little opportunity to learn the history of any country; certainly not the value of their great American heritage. The method used in the Rugg textbooks is extremely clever. The approach is one of stealth. With gentle language and a pedagogic smile, the child is led through the successive stages of indoctrination. So subtly is the material prepared that the average adult can scan it without being aware of its unfortunate influence on the youthful mind.

While the approach is devious and surreptitious, the method is fairly simple. There are four steps in this indoctrination:

> First, the child is taught the great principle of Change. Everything is in a constant state of change, and we must expect all institutions to be changed in the future, especially forms of government and social organizations.

> Second, the student is shown, by numerous examples of factual and fictitious evidence, that our present situation in this country is very unsatisfactory and that our system has worked badly.

> Third, the child is disillusioned of any preconceived ideas that America has a glorious history or that the Founding Fathers were men of good intent. Rather, it is shown that our form of society was designed to benefit only the minority of well-to-do citizens.

> Fourth, the panacea of social reconstruction and collectivist planning is advanced as the inevitable coming change.

In training the student’s mind to follow these four lines of thinking, Professor Rugg makes expert use of those psychological devices which are the most potent instruments of clever propagandists. It is very unusual to find such devices in public school textbooks. In Rugg’s material they are well camouflaged by the modulated language of the pedagogue and a pose of impartiality and objectivity.

With calm assurance he quotes mythical authoritative spokesmen, sometimes even putting quotation marks around the words, though both the spokesmen and statements are figments of his own imagination.

Point 1: Think of how often you read/hear the phrase “in our fast-changing world” or similar. This haranguing of constant change deprives the child AND adult of a sense of solidity or haven in the wider world. This is fatiguing and leaves one more open to manipulation.

The next three are tied to self-loathing, which constantly drains a person’s vital energies and civic optimism. I did a post on this topic:

As to “mythical spokesmen,” recall during the COVIDEXCUSEFORFASCISMCRIME how often we were hammered with “experts say” and “doctors recommend” and so on, always to be taken on faith, like good little peons.

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Keeping in mind Rugg’s central theme/concept of expected change, plus the described failure of our present system, plus the selfish motives of the Founders in setting up the present system, it is easy to see that the child would receive in refreshing contrast the shining suggestions of a beautiful new social order where everything is perfectly planned and where there is no poverty and no selfishness or injustice. Rugg repeatedly adverts to these suggestions, meanwhile pointing out, as he does on page 595 in An Introduction to Problems of American Culture, that the great obstacle at present is private ownership and individual enterprise. He is distressed that economic activity cannot be planned now because the Government does not own most of the enterprises.

Comparing the real world with a fairy tale. This works especially well with adolescents.

Decrying “individual ownership” – the most powerful motivating force for achievement and excellence known to Man. There is an old wisecrack from Cold War Era Soviet Russia – “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.” Welcome to the planned economy!

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“In this democratic country,” concludes Mr. Falk, “everyone has the right to express his private views about business, advertising, politics, religion, or any other subject, and it is perfectly proper for an individual to write books and disseminate propaganda to influence public thinking and promote his particular point of view. Schools, however, are the property of the people, and the democratic principle of academic freedom does not confer upon individual educators the personal privilege or the moral right to use the school room for the propagation of their pet prejudices or social theories. When parents send their children to school, they have a right to expect unbiased education and truthful teaching.”