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Black Shirt Banter

I am writing this from the birthplace of (selective) democracy 2,500 years ago, the Athenians having the noose to limit voting rights to intelligent men capable of distinguishing between what is true and what is false. They were very wise, those Athenians; they even elected leaders by drawing lots, because they knew all about human nature, and that the politician who accepts power reluctantly and uses it sparingly is only to be found in myths (and much later on in Shakespeare plays).

Athenian de...

How the U.S. Government Creates Violence on a Grand Scale

The following video shows a 20-minute debate between The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal on the one hand, versus the U.S. Government’s coup-producing machine, the “National Endowment for Democracy” (NED), on the other, which latter (NED) was created in the 1980s to replace the CIA as being the organizer of coups (such as in 1953 Iran, 1954 Guatemala, 1973 Chile, and, then, finally, under NED, 2014 Ukraine). This is a debate regarding the NED’s historical record of planning and helping to carry out cou...

Operation Warp Speed Part II

Why is the corrupt FDA giving an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to mRNA bird flu vaccines? No one at all is sick or dying from bird flu? Are we ready for plandemic 2.0? #MAGA @VigilantFox @GenFlynn @realdefender45 @TheClayClark @catsscareme2021 @TuckerCarlson @RealAlexJones… pic.twitter.com/glXJ7kdbh9

— Tom Renz (@RenzTom) July 24, 2024

Operation Warp Speed enacted under former President Donald Trump provided the pharmaceutical community with free reign to create a vaccination for immediate...

The Fed Is Holding Interest Rates Steady. This Won’t Last Much Longer.

The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced today that it will maintain the current target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) of 5.5 percent. The committee has now held the rate at this level since the end of July 2023.

According to the FOMC’s press release:

The Committee does not expect it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent. In addition, the Committee will...

The Right Not To Be Lied To: Making the Case for Truth in Politics

Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?”
A: “When his lips are moving.”

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true… The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the ...

Can We Do Better Than ‘What If?’

It’s fun to sit and wonder what might have happened, and I’m not just thinking about the near-miss assassination attempt on Donald Trump on “J-13.”

Half the country and the entire deep state – a Mandarinate – is monitoring lies and obfuscation from DC.  Was it sheer blatant civil servant incompetence or was it a legit deep state op, complete with plenty of advance work in the digital space?  We have the CIA’s word that they didn’t give the kid the MK Ultra treatment, because, well, that program ...

This Is Still Our Country

It is a crazy time to be alive.  We have economic uncertainty, threats of war, political violence, and social turmoil.  An assassin nearly took President Trump’s life.  Puppet President Biden has been recycled for a younger model.  The Olympic Games openly mocks Christianity and celebrates transvestitism.  The EU, Russia, China, Iran, Israel, and the U.S. are all tiptoeing toward a little nuclear tête-à-tête.  Apprehension saturates the air.

Still, if you were a time-traveler from the future sur...

As Ukrainian Defenses Collapse, What Can US Patriots Learn from the Conflict?

In my article ‘Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine’s Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations’ published in May, I outlined my reasons for predicting a near term collapse of Ukrainian front line defenses and a sweeping territory grab by Russian forces. Since the early months of the war my primary argument has been that Ukraine is trying to hide steep declines in manpower, and that this ruse would eventually be exposed. Bottom line? Wars are won by men, not by DARPA technology and suitcases ...

‘Mocked My Faith’: Mel Gibson Blasts ‘Disgusting’ Olympics Opening Ceremony

Catholic movie star Mel Gibson issued a stinging rebuke of the “disgusting” opening ceremonies at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris, which he said attacked his religious beliefs.

Gibson sent his remarks to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. Viganò shared them on his X account Monday.

In his statement, Gibson said the performance “mocked” his Catholic faith.

“Who do they think they are that they can do this? Giving the gold medal to a biological male...

Israel Sure Looks Like It Wants To Prevent Peace and Start a New War

Israel has been on another assassination spree, killing Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh on Wednesday with an airstrike while he was in Tehran for the swearing in of the new Iranian president. Israel also claims to have killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in an airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday evening.

Iran and Lebanon will now have to decide how to respond to these incendiary aggressions. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised “harsh punishment” for the strike on Iranian...