Sunday, July 23, 2023

The People are the Enemy

Hear the Silence, 2003

Saturday, July 22, 2023

A December 2018 report by the House of Lords essentially said that Trump must not be reelected in 2020. Huh

Another article in the Economist expresses another fear.  What if Trump gets re-elected in 2024?  What would that mean?  What would it mean?  Would the U.S. become pro-Russia?  Would the United States and its commitment to Green Policy and several other aspects?  What about an industrial policy for the United States?  Now, keep in mind that the city of London produced in December 2018 a report by the House of Lords which essentially said that Trump must not be reelected in 2020.   So we see again the fear that a resurgent United States breaking out from the special relationship and breaking away from the unipolar order policy which has been the policy since 1991, that this is the greatest fear of the British.  Well that's a good thing for them to be afraid of, and we have to make sure that the changes do take place.

Now to your questions.  One, a couple wrote about Biden mumbling during his meeting with the Israeli president, seeming to fall asleep.  Why are the Democrats sticking with Biden?  Is there a Plan B for them?  Well, let's avoid getting into scenarios and speculation.  You know it's clear that Biden is not mentally competent for the job as president, but who is on the Democratic side?  The problem is that the Democrats and the Republicans are so committed to this idea of protecting the unipolar order that the only alternatives they have to Biden are more of the same.  If you look at the Republican side, DeSantis, Holly, Nikki Haley, they're pro-war.  You look at the Democratic side,  what do you have, Harris? So they have no good options.  In fact, what they fear is what would happen if there is an insurgent campaign of Bobby Kennedy, Jr.  And Trump, of course, with Trump what you see is one legal case after another to knock him out.  Point is, instead of being spectators, we have to be engaged in the process of educating the American people so they will not accept a lesser of [two] evils; they will not accept the same game.  Now, that's not wedded to any particular candidate.  It has to be based on policy, and I'll come back to that in a moment when I talk about the plans for the August 6th demonstrations.  But instead of getting caught up in these scenarios, which is what they want you to do and get involved in all the identity politics that's connected to the scenarios, let's build a movement that's committed to the idea of the United States as a force in the world for one Humanity.  

Now, the second question is, what's the latest in Germany?  We keep hearing horror stories about German industrial collapse, the German government is obviously incompetent; the German government is not defending its people.  Someone wrote "How come there's no discussion of the Nordstream pipeline bombing in Germany?"  Well, the polls are saying it all in Germany.  The three coalition partners: the Social Democrats,  the Greens, and the Free Democrats are in a falling state of collapse.  They are less than, or they average around, 40% support, which is not a majority by any means.  The one party that's surging is the alternative for Deutschland, which has been written off by most people as too far right-wing and anti-immigrant party, but just as we see with the Kennedy insurgency in the United States and Trump that whatever the media says about it is different.  What it expresses is a dissatisfaction with the existing choices.  And what we'll see in Germany there are warnings about a brutal winter coming up, a lack of energy, a lack of electricity, a new round of inflation in the Euro Zone, poverty, hunger, fear of rampant immigration, essentially they're trying to use the fears to convince people that you have to stick with the devil you know, whether it's Macron, whether it's Maloney, and whether it's Schultz.  But we're seeing cracks in that.  The question is will NATO disintegrate?  Can the EU be broken up, and is there a possibility for sovereign nations working together in Europe outside of the framework of the European Union?  And so far in Germany that's not emerged.  There's a lot of dissatisfaction a lot of angst and nervousness and so far there's been no major shift except as we see in the polls a gradual decline of the ruling coalition in the absence of any alternative. 

Now, the next question came from again a number of people asking for an update on the plans for the demonstrations on August 6th.  August 6th is the commemoration date of the bombing by the United States  of the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.  The decision was made to have a coalition of groups hold a demonstration at the United Nations from 1 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.  On that day, more than 20 groups are involved, and the Schiller Institute is one of them.  We'll have several speakers there, and the demands for this demonstration are what I think are important and should become a rallying point for people who want to end this war and move toward a new strategic architecture.  

So, the demands are: 

DEMAND #1: Immediate end of funding and weapons to Ukraine it's obvious as long as NATO countries continue to supply arms to Ukraine the lunatics in Kyiv will continue to send their citizens to their death.  This must stop, and it stops when governments pull the plug on the supply line.

DEMAND #2:  Immediate unconditional peace talks.  This is what has been proposed by the Vatican, by Lula, by Erdogan of Turkey, by the Chinese with no preconditions that the two sides sit down to meet and discuss without pressure from the outside and what this means is going back to the original agreement that came up in March of 2022 which was sabotage by NATO but again unconditional talk to end the fighting.

DEMAND #3:  Dissolution of NATO.  NATO has no purpose other than to enforce the unipolar order.  NATO policy goes against the interests of The sovereign nations of Europe. Were they Sovereign or The Sovereign goes against the interest of the people

". . . ultimately the way Detroit collapsed was the tax base abandoned it."

Birth rates are falling below replacement levels all over the world.  --Kevin Dolan of Natalism.

Find Tom Woods' show notes here.

So we are really talking about a no babies crisis, a lack of babies in huge portions of the world, and I think we've all kind of had a sense that this was a problem because, of course, we've heard things about social security becoming a problem, Medicare  becoming a problem, that there are going to be huge expenses and bills coming due. But the reason these programs are not sustainable is not just that they're going to be big bills, it's that they're going to be fewer people to pay the bills.  That's the real issue.  I realize that the numbers are different in different parts of the world, but try to give us a sense of the scope of the problem, because I think qualitatively people understand maybe there's been some kind of demographic shift in terms of births but they may not know exactly the full scope of what we're looking at here.

DOLAN.  Yeah, I just . . . in terms of the raw numbers and the consequences, it's going to have on demographics, Korea right now has a 0.78 total fertility rate, meaning that under current conditions, if those conditions were to hold throughout a woman's lifetime, the number of kids that she would end up having is 0.78, so less than one child per woman.  And the way that cashes out from a generational perspective is that for every 100 living Koreans, there will be 6 great-grandchildren, which is . . . I mean, that's not comparable to the smallpox epidemics in the New World; it's not comparable to the black death; it's the most dramatic and drastic population collapse maybe in human history, and it's going to happen over three generations.  That's Korea.

Japan is a little bit ahead of them I think their fertility rate is like 1 point something it's very very low and so that means maybe 9 or 10 great-grandchildren per 100 Japanese. Europe and the U.S. are very similar in terms of their native-born population they are helped economically and in terms of the statistics by migration, so we are all in this situation.  It's worldwide, and in the west it's the most mature, the most intense at this moment, but if you look at the drift of fertility rates across the world, including Africa, including Latin America, including India, and Pakistan, all these places that we think of as like very, very populous very fertile, all of their TFRs, their fertility rates, are dropping like a rock to the point that by 2030 the only region of the world that will have positive population growth on earth is sub-Saharan Africa.  And by the end of this century they will have fallen below replacement for fertility rate as well.

So you can look at it from the cultural and personal perspective it's just millions and millions of people who will be deprived of this very fundamental human experience.  But from an economic perspective, the consequences are going to be absolutely devastating.  I mean you look at Detroit and what essentially happened to Detroit, you can talk about the reasons why everybody abandoned Detroit, that's a broader sort of policy conversation, but like ultimately the way Detroit collapsed was the tax base abandoned it.  The tax base left and so you have just, tens of thousands of vacant homes that had been abandoned.  You had people scattered across this sort of wasteland.  And like abandoned homes don't keep; they fall apart, they get mold, and they get stripped for the copper and the aluminum.  And so even the people who chose to stay the value of their homes collapsed partly because they were surrounded by urban and suburban blight but also because all of our homes and our 401ks and social security, and Medicare, all of the models that give us a sense of like what your home is worth, what your 401k is worth, those are all predicated on reliable economic growth, including population growth.  There's only two ways an economy can grow right you can get more efficient more productive for worker or you can get more workers and currently we're in a situation where productivity per worker is growing it's sort of leveling off tapering stagnating but the number of workers about to drop like a rock and so if these circumstances continue if this demographic collapse transpires away it looks like it's going to you will not be able to count on reliable economic growth anywhere in the western world which means that the way people invest their money sort of what the currency does from an inflationary deflationary perspective all of these assumptions will be up ended and as far as I can tell and from the people that I've talked to who look at these things none of that is priced in none of that is being accounted for by policy leaders by investment leaders Mike is just not no one has taken a serious look at this and it's incredibly and I would say it's the biggest problem of our time of the next century.  

If they admitted [that vaccines cause autism] they would lose their funding, their job, their license to practice medicine, their hospital privileges, their board certifications, etc

THE ADMISSION OF A TOP AUTISM EXPERT

Finally, one of the most damaging pieces of evidence comes from James Lyons-Weiler who got a call from one of the top autism experts in the world (whose name I know but will not reveal to protect him). He told James that “We all know vaccines cause autism. We just aren’t allowed to talk about it.” He was referring to his fellow autism experts.


If they admitted this, they would lose their funding, their job, their license to practice medicine, their hospital privileges, their board certifications, etc.


That’s why I can’t get a debate and when I try to reach out to these experts they ghost me.


And that’s why there are never the before:after studies and why all there are so many studies are designed to not find a signal.

ARE VACCINES SAFE?

None are tested against a placebo.  Gardasil had a very small saline placebo arm, but for all the critical measures (Tables 5 and later), they either lumped in the placebo with the adjuvant control or they omitted the control group entirely in the table. See this tweet which got over 200K views