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The CIA Does ‘Soulful Work’

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States.  Soul became the chic word.  It popped up everywhere.  Everything seemed to acquire soul – cars, toasters, underwear, cats’ pajamas, assorted crap, kitsch, etc.  Soul sold styles from boots to bras to bibelots from The New York Times to O Magazine.

The vogue in soul talk spread to every domain as everyone was commodified and capital was financialized.  While polit...

The Heinous Constitution: An Abominable Curse on the Liberty of All

“Still another of the frauds of these men is, that they are now establishing, and that the war was designed to establish, “a government of consent.” The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this—that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. This idea was the dominant one on which the war was carried on; and it is the dominant one, now that we have got what is called “peace.”

~  Lysander Spooner,  No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

To...

From Tupac to Trump – Everything Is Scripted

The other night, I was watching Jason Whitlock’s excellent “Fearless” podcast, as I regularly do. He was covering the history of rap, or hip-hop (as a mere White male, I cannot determined the difference between them), with a focus on the most popular players in the industry, people like P-Diddy (formerly Puff Daddy) and Tupac Shakur.

I knew about Diddy’s dubious background. His father was a street criminal who was murdered when Puffy/Diddy was little. Little Diddy, like a song. At any rate, from...

The Why Behind XX-XY Athletics

I moved away from home when I was fourteen to train at one of the most demanding gymnastics clubs in the country. In 1986 I became the U.S. National Champion.

But this title came with a heavy price. I trained forty hours a week and subsisted on a forced starvation diet. I was publicly berated by my coaches for gaining a quarter pound. I practiced on a broken ankle for two years. But I kept going.

Finally, beaten down to the point of suicidal ideation, I moved on from the sport and built a life o...

Mother Cabrini and Deaconesses

I could not help thinking about the current state of the Church in America while watching the emotionally powerful movie Cabrini, just released by Angel Studios. The archbishop she dealt with in New York seemed to me to be a caricature of the prelates who are lions within the flock and lambs outside of it. I am sure the lions appreciate the variation of style. You can browbeat the more conservative sections of the Church ad intra but can be meek and mild ad extra to the powers that be.

It is a c...

In Blob We Trust

“In terms of the Moscow terror attack, the fact that those who carried out the attack were captured is now causing a huge headache for those who were ultimately responsible.” — The Sirius Report on “X”

You’ve got to ask yourself: really, who seems to hanker more for a red-hot World War Three, “Joe Biden” or Vlad Putin? Since “Joe Biden” is only a figment of American politics, first you’d have to ask: a figment of what? Answer: A figment of our greater intel blob, led, of course, by the Central I...

Inflation Bloodbath on the Way

This time Peter tackles Jerome Powell’s speech from Wednesday, in which he announced that the Fed is holding the federal funds rate between 5.25 and 5.5%. He also briefly discusses Bitcoin’s pullback and the media’s lies about Donald Trump. 

On Powell’s announcement, several commodities surged in price, with silver, gold, and copper performing especially well. Peter sees this as a repudiation of Powell’s messaging:

“I think we’re on the verge of the biggest bull market in commodities since the 1...

The FDA Stops Its War on Ivermectin

Starting in 2021, the FDA mounted a misinformation campaign about ivermectin, an inexpensive, Nobel Prize-winning medication that showed promising signs in the early treatment of COVID-19. 

While the death toll from this campaign is difficult to calculate, the impact was far-reaching. The campaign was used as fuel to terminate the employment of doctors who understood the science behind ivermectin, as well as justification for pharmacies to cease filling ivermectin prescriptions when people neede...

CIA Secrecy on JFK Points to Criminal Culpability

More than 30 years ago, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Enacted in the wake of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which posited that the Kennedy assassination was a regime-change operation on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, the law mandated that all the assassination-related records of the Pentagon, the CIA, the Secret Service, the FBI, and other federal agencies be released to the public. Having succeeded in keeping their...

RFK to Jay Powell on Day #1: You’re Fired!

RFK has pointedly announced that he will pardon Deep State prisoner Julian Assange on day #1. That sent a powerful message that the destructive rule of Washington’s bipartisan War Party will be brought to an abrupt end if he is elected President.

Likewise, RFK should announce an intent to stop dead in its tracks the Fed’s egregious servitude to Wall Street and the one percenters who luxuriate in the massive inflation of financial assets it enables. Pledging to hand ex-private equity impresario, ...