Resolution Against Assisted Suicide Introduced in Congress

resolution against assisted suicide, coming from the most unlikely of places, has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The sponsor is a Democrat from California. I know it’s hard to believe, since California Democrats have done as much as anybody to drag the country Left, and it’s the Left that’s been actively pushing assisted suicide.

You could be forgiven for thinking assisted suicide is needed to deal with infrequent cases of intractable physical pain.  That was the original rationale that got some states sold on the idea, way back when.  However, advances in modern pain medicine have wiped that rationale out completely.  The resolution points out that fear of pain is almost at the bottom of the reasons people now give when requesting assisted suicide.  Losing autonomy and enjoyment in life now rank at the top.  So the rationale has loosened and people can now seek government help to kill themselves just because they’re tired of living.  Assisted suicide numbers keep increasing in jurisdictions where it is allowed, proving that critics were right to warn we were heading down a slippery slope.

The resolution lays out many reasons to reverse course.  First and foremost, the elderly, the disabled, and the depressed are often pressured by family members, financial heirs, and even medical professionals into killing themselves.  There are no controls on this in assisted suicide laws.  Society has an interest in protecting the vulnerable from coercion and the disabled from negative stereotyping.

Second, assisted suicide is permanent while the desire to end one’s life is often temporary or can be resolved in a different way.  There are ways to deal with depression or fears of being a burden on others.  Depression is treatable.  Also, there have been stories about adult children wanting to care for their elderly parents and feeling their lives would not be complete without that experience.

Third, assisted suicide laws are full of holes, like Swiss cheese.  There is no requirement a medical attendant be present in the event of complications, for example.  The dirty little secret is that assisted suicide is often a protracted and painful death, sometimes lasting four days.  Assisted suicide laws provide very little in the way of mandatory reporting, leaving major questions unanswered about whether it is staying within the bounds of the law.  Not only is there lack of transparency about what’s really going on, there is also deliberate subterfuge.  Some states require physicians to report the cause of death as the underlying condition, covering up just how many assisted suicides there really are.  This is by design.  The Left always has to hide what it’s doing and its true agenda, and they’re hiding the ball here.

Finally, medical prognoses are often mistaken.  There are countless stories of people living for years who were told by doctors they only had weeks or months to live.  How would you like to be cheated out of years of your life because your doctor was wrong and you believed a mistaken prognosis?

The use of federal funds for assisted suicide or advocacy for assisted suicide was prohibited during Bill Clinton’s presidency.  The current resolution aims to keep it that way and prevent the federal government from supporting assisted suicide in any way.  Also, the resolution points out that assisted suicide, while adopted in a handful of states, has been rejected over 200 times in 30 states since the Left started agitating for it in earnest in 1994.

The resolution does not touch on my main concern about this subject.  It’s a very short jump from government-assisted suicide to government-directed death.  There is no doubt in my mind the Left wants the power to tell you when to die and assisted suicide laws are just the first step, no matter how warm and fuzzy, or ‘compassionate’, the Left makes them sound.  Government-directed death is the true hidden agenda – that’s what’s really going on here.  You’ve been had.

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INFLATION EXPLODES: Consumer Prices Skyrockets 7.5% Higher, Worst Inflation in 40 Years

After they stole the election, the Democrats declared asymmetric war on the American people. They are killing us. literally and figuratively.

So 39 percent of Americans approve of this? As well as skyrocketing crime, and a chaotic Southern boarder, and mask mandates, and the stability of the world in a freefall. Bull S***! Millions of Americans voted against President Trump, because the corrupt media elites told them to do so. Today, millions of Americans are paying the price. Literally.

Consumer Prices Explode 7.5% Higher, Worst Inflation in 40 Years

By Breitbart, February 10, 2022

U.S. consumer prices jumped by the most in nearly four decades as the new year started, sapping the savings of American families, diminishing the purchasing power of worker paychecks, and putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates beginning in March.

The consumer price index climbed 0.6 percent from a month before, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Compared with January of last year, consumer prices are up 7.5 percent.

Economists had expected prices to rise 0.4 percent on a monthly basis and 7.2 percent above a year ago’s prices.

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In December, consumer prices rose 0.6 percent compared with November. For the full year, prices were up seven percent in 2021, the worst annual inflation since 1982.

Excluding the volatile food and energy components, so-called core prices rose by 0.6 percent. The measure soared six percent from a year earlier. Both exceeded economist estimates.

Although many economists and anti-Trump journalists claimed President Donald Trump’s tariffs would raise prices, consumer prices remained low throughout his administration. Trump’s tariffs turned out not to be taxes on consumers. Instead, they were absorbed by Chinese producers and exporters and the profit margins of most large U.S. companies.

Inflation only began to accelerate last March after years of coming in below the Fed’s two percent target. The Fed had decided to keep interest rates low although the economy was recovering at a faster than expected rate. What’s more, the Biden administration pushed through billions of dollars of deficit spending in the American Rescue Plan. These combined to fuel demand for goods and services faster than supplies could expand, pushing up prices.

Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell, following the advice of many of the economists on the central bank’s staff, initially claimed that inflation was due to transitory factors. Fed officials forecast that inflation would fall in the latter half of 2021, predicting that supply chains would swiftly unsnarl and a rebalancing of consumer demand from goods to services would relieve pricing pressure. The Biden administration, under the tutelage of former Fed chair and now Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, largely followed suit and continued to press for even more spending.

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Israel puts Iran Nuclear Breakout Time at 4–6 Months with Deal

Watch below. The Biden Administration is about to re-enter a more flawed version of Obama’s disastrous JCPOA. War in the Middle East is looking more likely by the day.

Israel puts Iran nuclear breakout time at 4–6 months with deal

By Axios, February 9, 2022

Israeli government experts believe that a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran will set the amount of time Tehran needs to produce the amount of highly enriched uranium needed for a nuclear bomb to four to six months, a senior Israeli official told me.

Why it matters: This assessment is shorter than the six to nine month breakout time the Biden administration experts calculated, per two Israeli officials familiar with strategic consultations between the U.S. and Israel.

The big picture: The standard set by the 2015 nuclear deal was one year breakout time.

But Iran’s nuclear advances since the Trump administration withdrew from the deal made this standard irrelevant.

U.S. and Israeli officials say that Iran’s current breakout time — without a deal in place — is only about five weeks.

Behind the scenes: The six to nine month breakout time assessment by the Biden administration was relayed to Israeli officials during video strategic consultations two weeks ago, Israeli officials told me.

During the consultations with the U.S., Israeli officials learned that a renewed nuclear deal will not include destroying Iranian advanced centrifuges, which they were not allowed to use according to the 2015 agreement.

A senior Israeli official said a renewed deal will only include the storage of these advanced centrifuges in Iran under an International Atomic Energy Agency seal. Israeli officials fear this will allow Iran to resume using those centrifuges on a very short order.

A White House National Security Council spokesperson declined to detail the strategic consultations between the U.S. and Israel, which he said were meant to exchange views and trade ideas confidentially.

“We will not negotiate in the press or comment on specific claims about the negotiations,” a State Department spokesperson said.

What to watch: The Vienna nuclear talks, which resumed yesterday, have reached a critical point, with U.S. officials saying Iran must make “tough” decisions now or face an escalating crisis.

Rob Malley, the U.S. envoy for Iran, is in Vienna but continues to engage in indirect talks with the Iranians through European mediators.

The talks are expected to continue through at least next week. It’s unclear whether a breakthrough can be achieved.

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Biden Admin’s Totalitarian State Designates Free Speech A “Terrorism Threat”, Criticism of Government Is Terror

It is now official: you will be deemed a “terrorism threat” for misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in US government institutions.” Stalin, Mao, Hitler, CCP and now the Democrats.

Perhaps now, people can understand my decades long fight in defense of free speech. I saw this coming when the media, academia and Western elites refused to run the Danish cartoons in 2005. It was just a matter of time. We were defamed, smeared and libeled as ‘extremists’ driven from the public square. Now everyone with a shred of decency and a love of freedom is a terrorist.

Biden’s DHS Brands Free Speech ‘Terrorism Threat’ to U.S. — ‘Welcome to Your Communist Future’

By: Joshua Klein, Breitbart, February 10, 2022:

Any proliferating “narratives” the Biden administration deems “false or misleading” qualifies as a “terrorism threat” according to a recent National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin released by the Biden administration’s DHS, and has received sharp backlash online after warning that Americans are expressing unwelcome beliefs on issues such as the Chinese coronavirus and election fraud pose “an ongoing threat to the nation.”

The bulletin, issued on Monday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), addressed the “Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland.”

In it, the country is described as being in a “heightened threat environment” due to factors such as online content featuring “false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.”

The “threat actors” are accused of seeking to “exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest,” which could potentially lead to acts of violence.

Citizens are also warned of “[m]ass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence” by those “acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances.”

The bulletin also designates individuals and small cells “motivated by a range of foreign and/or domestic grievances often cultivated through the consumption of certain online content” as the “primary terrorism-related threat” to the country.

“The convergence of violent extremist ideologies, false or misleading narratives, and conspiracy theories have and will continue to contribute to a heightened threat of violence in the United States,” it states.

Both “unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” and the coronavirus are listed as examples of subjects in which “false or misleading narratives” are being proliferated online.

“Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021,” it claims.

COVID measures such as vaccine and mask mandates are stated to “have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020” and can potentially continue to inspire them “to target government, healthcare, and academic institutions that they associate with those measures.”

The introduction of 5G cellular technology, too, has been subject to “false or misleading narratives,” according to the bulletin.

In addition, it claims the recent resettlement of tens of thousands of Afghan refugees following the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August may be used to “exacerbate long-standing grievances and justify attacks against immigrants.”

As a result, DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are “sharing information and intelligence with our partners across every level of government and in the private sector” to combat the aforementioned threats.

The bulletin recommends that citizens report any “potential threats” and keep safe online by maintaining the “digital and media literacy” needed to “recognize and build resilience to false or misleading narratives.”

In response, the DHS publication drew sharp backlash online.

“The sociopaths who run our government have decided free speech = terrorism,” wrote Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center.

“So, a few of us are wondering, @DHSgov … ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS?” wrote  First Amendment lawyer Ron Coleman.

Calling it “the most shocking thing I’ve read in a while,” conservative pundit Liz Wheeler warned that “Biden is weaponizing DHS to label… well, you… as a terrorist.”

“Welcome to your communist future,” she wrote in another tweet. “You may not criticize the govt or you will be imprisoned.”

“That is the logical conclusion of this hideous document,” she added.

“This is alarming,” wrote former Evergreen Professor Bret Weinstein.

“It tells us exactly where we are in history,” he added.

“By the Feds logic here the CDC and Dr Fauci are terrorist threats. (They’re not),” wrote libertarian-conservative journalist Brad Polumbo.

“But if spreading false info on COVID or undermining the government credibility is what qualifies you as a terror threat to DHS… I have some bad news,” he added.

“Is @SecMayorkas the Minister of Truth now?” wrote Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC).

“@JoeBiden’s DHS may consider you a ‘threat actor’ & nat’l security risk if you publicly question their Covid-19 narrative!” wrote former Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli.

“They’re weaponizing @DHS against the very American people it exists to protect,” he added. “This is unconscionable & dangerous.”

“According to the Biden gang, distrust of the Biden gang makes you a terror threat. @DHSgov is out of control…,” wrote Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

“Another Biden agency proves itself a civil liberties menace,” he added in another tweet..

“New DHS bulletin says those opposed to COVID Mania are terrorists,” wrote investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel.

“Any speech the government doesn’t approve is terrorism? Is this the official govt response to @joerogan?” asked Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin.

“Frightening day for America,” she added.

“DHS is going after Free Speech. How long before they start arresting people who speak-out about our corrupt election?” wrote Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake.

“Anybody who does not parrot their narrative will be called a domestic terrorist,” she added. “Our Government is full-on authoritarian right now.”

The recent directives come as the Justice Department is establishing its own “domestic terrorism” unit, and the left continues to routinely describe Republicans and their supporters as a domestic threat to democracy.

On Monday, Salon published a piece branding the GOP a “terrorist organization,” while accusing Republicans and Trump supporters of seeking a war against American democracy, encouraging widescale violence against the left and minorities, and using “stochastic terrorism” to achieve their aims.

The Washington Post published a piece the same day declaring that the “antidemocracy” GOP “stands for insurrection and authoritarianism” and poses a “dire danger to U.S. democracy — and to the lives of ordinary Americans.”

Last month, the New York Times published a piece claiming the U.S. may be on the verge of collapse due to right-wing threats on democracy.

Also, last month, feminist author Dr. Naomi Wolf blasted President Biden for pressuring media outlets to censor COVID “misinformation,” as she warned of a “totalitarian reality” and the “Nazification” of public discourse.

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Anti-Domestic Violence Play Canceled for ‘violating’ Islamic Tradition

Sharia empowers women! *to get beaten.

Respect it, Islamophobes!

Will Muslim women ever break out of their bondage and claim their rightful place among emancipated non-Muslim women? It has long been sub-humanized Muslim women who must discard Islam and claim their equal human rights. Muslim men will resort to every means to maintain their privileged position and their cruel dominance over women, citing the Quran as justification. Any document that consigns half of humans to second-class status is null and void.

Islam is consistent in its injustice. It demonizes the kefirs (unbelievers), it formally condones slavery, and institutionalizes oppression of even Muslim women. In fully 71% of the verses of the Quran where women are mentioned, they are ascribed lower status and assigned subservience to men. The Hadith even outdoes the Quran by 89%. In the Quran itself, wife-beating is recommended (Surah 4:34), marriage to prepubescent girls is condoned (Surah 65:4), following the example of Muhammad himself, who married Ayesha when she was only six years of age. Men are to view sexual intercourse as plowing a field (Surah 2:223). Sexual slavery is clearly condoned (Surah 33:50); polygamy is ordained (Surah 4:2); temporary marriages, tantamount to prostitution, are permitted (Surah 4:24).

According to Islam, women are naghes-ul-aghl (intellectually defective) and men are rulers over women Quran (4:34). A woman’s testimony is worth one half of a man’s; they are to be obedient to their husbands. A man can “marry” as many women as he desires and divorce them at will, while a woman can only be married to one man and has no such right to divorce. (more here)

Anti-domestic violence play canceled for ‘violating’ Islamic tradition

Jatt Mayor Khaled Jarrah argued that the show essentially calls for a rebellion against the traditional family roles and violates Islamic law.

By Eliav Breuer, J Post, FEBRUARY 6, 2022:

The mayor of the Arab town of Jatt near Haifa canceled a play about violence against women in the Arab sector on the same day that a 26-year-old mother of three was seriously injured in a shooting in Lod, reportedly in connection to the divorce process she was in.

The show in question, called “Voices” (“Kolot”), documents a collection of stories and situations from the lives of women, girls, and youth in romantic relationships, describing the cycle of violence they experience, which culminates in murder.

The mayor, Khaled Jarrah, argued that the show essentially calls for a rebellion against the traditional family roles and violates Islamic law.

Directed by Hisham Suleiman (Fauda, Baghdad Central, Al Medinah), the artistic director of the Nazareth Fringe Theater, and promoted by women’s rights NGO Na’amat, the play premiered in June and has been performed over 70 times since, including in the November “IsraDrama” festival, held by the Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama in Tel Aviv.

The play became popular very quickly, Suleiman said in a conversation with The Jerusalem Post. It has been performed in dozens of Arab cities and towns that often appear in the news due to gun violence.

For Suleiman, however, the more interesting part of the play is the discussion panel that the cast decided to hold immediately after it.

“For me, the real play begins after the staged show ends,” he said to the Post. “Unfortunately, the media did not notice until the extreme scenario happened – which shows that in Israel the extremes take over the daily discourse.”

The idea that Suleiman is trying to push across is that the violence against women is something that is a part of society – and is part of what boys see and learn from a young age. He wishes to draw a distinction between tradition that safeguards and anchors society, versus tradition that serves part of society and is used a weapon – in this case, quite literally.

“We educate women to be weak from childhood, and men to take control of women,” he said. “My thesis is that the play can prevent a murder or prevent a woman from being drawn into a circle of violence.”

Politicians responded to the cancellation.

“Women are killed because there are those who normalize it and demand that they remain silent when they are threatened,” Joint List (Hadash) MK Aida Touma-Sliman said. She denounced Jarrah’s hypocrisy, saying that the cancellation is an example of this phenomenon. Suleiman agreed.“We need to help women, and not shut them up.”

The play begins with obsessive questioning about the woman’s whereabouts and morphs into violence and murder. Suleiman hopes that the play can also teach women to identify signs of abuse at an early stage, before it turns violent.

“Every word in the play is true, uttered by people who experienced real violent abuse. And if they are speaking, we should listen and give them a stage,” he said.

“Art is meant to rattle you, to make you reexamine the customs you adhere to and make you change the way you see something, not to reaffirm a prior belief,” he concluded. “We count the women who are killed – 21 in 2021 – but need to start treating each one as a person with feelings, dreams, family and a future.”

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Iran Claims It Will Be ‘One of World’s Largest Arms Exporters’

Iran’s Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri has claimed that once the U.S. lifts its sanctions, Iran is poised to become one of the world’s largest arms exporters.

The claim, which is an example of Iran’s whistling in the dark, is reported on here: “Iran chief of staff: We’ll be one of the world’s largest arms exporters,” Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2022:

Iran will be one of the world’s largest arms exporters if US sanctions are lifted, claimed Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri during a ceremony on Monday, according to the Iranian Young Journalists Club.

“In the field of self-reliance, self-confidence and self-sufficiency, we are more than self-sufficient in weapons and equipment, in designing strategies and policies, in operational plans and tactics, and in what we must do in the defense and security of the country,” said Bagheri.

Iran’s military has not exactly proven itself impervious to attacks, both physical and cyber. Israel has repeatedly upended its nuclear program. The Stuxnet malware in 2010 set back that program for one to two years, by introducing a computer worm that caused more than 1,000 centrifuges to speed up so fast that they destroyed themselves. From 2010 to 2012, Israel managed to assassinate four of Iran’s top nuclear scientists. In 2018, the Mossad was able to locate and to seize from a warehouse in the middle of Tehran Iran’s entire nuclear archive, and bring it back to Israel. The archive provided conclusive evidence of Iran’s violation of its commitments under the JCPOA deal, and of how it managed repeatedly to foil the IAEA inspectors. Mossad then managed to attack, and very largely destroy, the nuclear facility at Natanz, and then to destroy a second facility built some fifty meters underground at the same site. In addition Mossad has been responsible for other attacks all over Iran, hitting petrochemical plants, electricity power plants, and other critical components of Iran’s superstructure. Does Bagheri think that Iran’s conventional weapons plants won’t be reached either by Mossad on the ground or in the long arm of the Israeli Air Force?

Bagheri stressed that Iran does need to import equipment from other countries, adding that “if the criminal US sanctions are lifted we will become one of the world’s largest arms exporters.”

In 2020, then Iranian defense minister Amir Hatami stated that Iran continued arms cooperation with some countries even while sanctions were imposed against arms trade with Iran. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has reached good positions in the field of arms exports to some countries during this period and agreements have been concluded in this field,” said Hatami at the time.

Iran has not been selling arms, but giving them to, inter alia: the Houthis in Yemen for use in the civil war; Kata’ib Hezbollah, a Shi’a militia in Iraq; the Syrian army; and to Hezbollah, which has 140,000 rockets and missiles received, gratis, from Iran.

There is no possibility that any of these recipients of Iranian conventional arms will be in a position to buy them from Iran. The Houthis have no money to start paying for Iranian arms that up to now have been given to them. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world. The Houthis are fighting the forces of the national government; these are supported by the deep-pocketed Saudis, who provide weapons unstintingly. It’s hard to imagine how the Houthis could ever begin to pay for Iranian weapons; Tehran will have to keep supplying them for free.

The same is true of Kata’ib Hezbollah, the Shi’a militia in southern Iraq that is closest to Iran. It has been supplied with weapons from Tehran, but is not now, and will not be, in a position to buy them. Like the Houthis, they are dependent on Iran giving, not selling them, weapons.

In Syria, the government may have won its civil war, but much of the country lies in ruin. The cost to reconstruct it, that is to put it back in the condition it was in in 2011, just before the civil war began, will cost at least $400 billion. Though victorious in its war, the Syrian government is in no position to buy weapons from Iran. Nor is Syria likely to continue to be an ally of Iran. Bashar Assad realizes that he needs enormous infusions of reconstruction money; such sums can only come from the Gulf Arab states, who will supply funds to Assad only if he cuts Syria’s ties to Iran.

Finally, there is Hezbollah in Lebanon. But Lebanon – and therefore Hezbollah – is impoverished; its economy lies in ruins; 60% of Lebanese now live below the poverty line; the Lebanese currency has lost 90% of its value in the last two years. Hezbollah is suffering economically just like the rest of Lebanon. The 140,000 rockets and missiles sent to Hezbollah by Iran were a gift. Hezbollah has no funds to start paying for Iranian arms; it has even had to slash the salaries of its fighters.

If Yemen’s Houthis,, Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah, Syria’s army, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah all lack the wherewithal to buy Iranian arms, where else can Iran find buyers for its weapons? Not from any of the Arab states, that are among the world’s largest buyers of arms, but who want nothing to do with Iran. Has Mohammad Bagheri forgotten that? Possibly Qatar, which has maintained good relations with Iran, might become a customer, but on the other hand, Qatar is now trying to get back in the good graces of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. If Qatar were to buy arms from Iran, that would enrage all of its neighbors, and throw a spanner in the works of a potential reconciliation between Qatar and those Gulf states. Why would Qatar want to endanger its relations with its fellow Arabs, now that they seem willing to welcome it back in the fold?

What about Iran exporting arms to Europe? European nations would not buy Iranian arms for three reasons: First, those weapons are no match for the weaponry produced by the Americans, the French, the Germans, the British, or the Israelis. Second, any country that buys weapons from Iran will enrage Washington, which even if it lifts sanctions on Iran still remains an enemy of the Islamic Republic. Washington’s reaction is not something would-be customers for Iranian weapons can ignore.

The UN arms embargo on Iran ended in 2020, although US sanctions on arms sales are still in place. After the embargo ended Hatami claimed that Iran’s export of weapons will exceed its purchases.

Iran is known to smuggle weapons to its proxies in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. It is unclear if these are the exports referred to by Iranian officials.

If Mohammad Bagheri is counting on sales of weapons to the current recipients of Iranian weapons, given for free, he has another think coming. None of these – from the Houthis to Hezbollah — are going to be able to pay for weapons for many years to come.

One possible market for Iranian weapons are the five “stans” of Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. But there are several problems. First, there would be Russian opposition to such sales; Russia has been until now the sole supplier of weapons to the “stans” and would oppose any attempt by Iran to take away customers for Russian arms. Second, of the five stans, only one – Kazakhstan – has, because of its oil, sufficient resources to be a steady buyer of arms. Third, Turkey sees the “stans” as fellow Turkic states, and the pan-Turanian impulse to strengthen ties between Turkey and the “stans” might encourage arms sales to them from Turkey at concessionary prices, in order to strengthen the military and political links between Ankara and the Turkic “stans,” and to shut out Iran as an arms seller to the region.

Sub-Saharan Africa, too, lacks the money to make major weapons purchases. There is only one country in Sub-Saharan Africa that has been buying some arms from Iran. That is Ethiopia, which had been buying American arms, but was cut off from that source by Washington, which disapproved of how Addis Ababa was conducting its war in the Tigray region. But Ethiopia, too, is a poor country; various news outlets have noted that Ethiopia reportedly acquired several Mohajer-6 drones from Iran. “Several drones” is not exactly a significant purchase of the kind General Mohammad Bagheri has in mind.

One country that might buy Iranian weapons is Iraq. Iran had already been selling Baghdad weapons before the 2015 deal . But the amounts have been small: $10 million worth in 2014. And there is another problem: would Iraq, which is trying to be in the good graces of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, want to harm those relations by buying arms from their mortal enemy, Iran?

Far from being a “major arms exporter,” as Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri claims, Iran will find very few customers for its weapons, and those few – like Ethiopia and Iraq – don’t have the money to make major weapons purchases.

Meanwhile, Israeli arms exports represented 3% of global arms exports between 2016 and 2020, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In 2018-2019, Israel was ranked 9th in SIPRI’s list of top arms exporters. In 20-19-2020, it was ranked 8th; in 2020-2021, it was ranked 7th.

In 2021, when Israel was ranked seventh in the list of arms exporters, it was just behind major powers — the U.S., Russia, China, France, Germany, and the UK. The Jewish state, in arms exports as in so much else, punches far above its weight.

In the MENA region, there are many arms purchasers, but only one major exporter of weapons That is not Iran, which is not now and never will be “a major arms exporter,” but little Israel, that convincingly demonstrates to the world – by using them on the battlefield, as in last May’s war with Hamas in Gaza – what its weapons, offensive and defensive, can do. These include its advanced military drones and the Iron Dome anti-missile batteries that intercepted 90% of incoming missiles from Gaza. Also to be operational within months is Israel’s newly-developed laser-based missile defense system, both effective and inexpensive to manufacture. Much of the weaponry that Israel produces is as advanced as that manufactured in the U.S. Meanwhile, let Iran’s Chief of Staff, Mohammad Bagheri give free rein to his vivid oriental imagination, as he contemplates Iran becoming “one of the world’s largest arms exporters.” It’s a fantasy that the ghost of Sheherazade could not have bettered.

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In Canada it’s trucks versus tweets and the trucks are winning

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the truckers out for antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Huh?


Freedom Convoy protesters open up about standing for their beliefs

Two weeks ago, the “Freedom Convoy” began in earnest, with thousands of truckers from every province crossing Canada’s icy highways to take their grievances over vaccine mandates to the nation’s capital.

After many dramatic twists and turns, hundreds of trucks and thousands of protesters still clog up Ottawa’s streets. Two of North America’s most important border crossings also remain blockaded.

Perhaps most surprising of all, the demonstration seems to be working. As of yesterday, four provincial Premiers announced plans to either eliminate or roll back key Covid measures — in Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island.

While decision-makers are eager to distance their decision-making from the protests, there is no doubt that the mood is melting in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has endured days of heckling in parliament —from both the right and the left — over his handling of the protests, with increased calls for him to reopen the country or at least listen to the truckers.

Trudeau has spent much of the last fortnight out of the public gaze. But he has been at the forefront of the Twitter war. In one tweet he characterised protesters as antisemites, Islamophobes, anti-Black racists, homophobes, and transphobes (an impressive list!). In another, he framed them as vandals, thieves and wavers of racist flags. Predictably, his words got the Twitter mobs baying.

Evidence for some of these claims is there, but scant. Footage has circulated of two lone actors, one waving a Confederate flag and one waving a Nazi flag. The former was heckled by crowds until he left the protest. He kept his identity tightly concealed, making it likely he was there to quite literally wave a false flag. The latter is still unidentified, even after a $6,500 reward was offered for leads on his identity.

Ottawa’s police chief and mayor have happily taken part in the war of words, which has helped keep things spicy on social media. Police Chief Peter Sloly warned of a “volatile” and “increasingly dangerous” situation and made repeated forecasts of impending violence that have failed to materialise. Mayor Jim Watson called a state of emergency, warning that the downtown occupiers posed a “serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents”.

Following an injunction, honking has been banned for ten days in Ottawa, and over a thousand tickets have been given out for excessive noise and parking infractions. The city has also seen some 23 arrests over the two-week period, all in relation to “mischief”, resisting arrest, and similar misdemeanours.

The news media has likewise done its best to demonise the protest. An impressive video still circulates on Twitter — a compilation of media reports describing the demonstration as “sedition”, an “insurrection”, “a threat to democracy”, and worse. Nevertheless, even if residents and city officials are at their wits’ end, the drama in Ottawa remains leagues behind the melodrama.

Indeed, a Daily Mail journalist recently published a report after spending a full week on Ottawa’s streets trying to get a read on the situation:

“Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the demonstrations have shown the opposite. Supplies brought in for the protesters also include bouncy castles for children as protests continue into the second week…

“Every trucker DailyMail.com spoke with said they came to protest non-violently and their only reason being there was to free Canada of its covid mandates. Truckers were conscientious of the public streets and kept them free of litter. They also shovelled snow and threw down de-icer making the streets and sidewalks easier to walk on.”

The report’s headline aptly summarises the disconnect between the online and real worlds: “Freedom Convoy truckers say Trudeau and North America’s liberal media are falsely demonising them as ultra-right-wing crazies. And after spending a week in their midst, the Mail’s reporter can only conclude these peaceful, good-natured protestors are 100% correct about that – if nothing else.”

On the pretext that the demonstration had become violent and unlawful, GoFundMe shut down a US$10 million fundraiser and refunded donors. Not to be deterred, organisers set up a new campaign via GiveSendGo that quickly raised US$8 million — but just today, the Ontario government was successful in convincing a court to freeze access to those funds, too.

If the last fortnight is anything to go on, this will only harden the demonstrators’ resolve. When police began seizing fuel from truckers, protesters saw the humorous side. They were soon seen carrying jerry cans en masse through the city — whether full or empty — to confound law enforcement officials, thereby turning the humble jerry into a symbol of Canadian dissent.

The propaganda war on Twitter will no doubt continue, but nothing beats the real world. And in the real world, the truckers are winning.

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Kurt Mahlburg

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The COVID Quacks Were Wrong About Everything

The COVID quacks were wrong about everything.  Let’s take a quick trip through their latest blunders, shall we?

They were wrong about masks.  They finally admitted the cloth masks they’d been telling everybody to wear for two years are worthless and everybody should wear N95 masks.  They’re wrong about that, too.  N95 masks cause higher carbon dioxide levels, cognitive impairment, headaches, cardio-pulmonary stress, and even fatal heart attacks.

They were wrong about the definition of COVID deaths.  Public health authorities have routinely inflated the numbers by including people who die from other causes but happen to test positive for COVID.  The CDC finally admitted maybe that wasn’t a good idea and they really should separate out the number who are hospitalized for other reasons and test positive after being admitted for something else.  We’ve been jumping up and down about this for two years and we were right.

They were wrong about lockdowns. Twenty-four studies now show lockdowns “have had little to no public health effects, [but] have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”

They were wrong about mandates and are now back-pedaling in Illinois, New York, three Canadian provinces, and Sweden.  Just the News  NBC-5 Chicago  Reuters  AP  The Democrats in control of Virginia’s state senate just voted to make masks optional in school.   Why is this happening now?  As Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis put it, the medical science didn’t change, but the political science has.  Government officials now realize they’ve taken this COVID mandate thing just about as far as it will go.  People aren’t putting up with mandates anymore.  The mandates are becoming more unpopular by the day and the Democrats in control of places like Illinois and New York can see the November elections barreling down the tracks at them like a freight train.

The quacks were wrong about natural immunity.  They tried to argue people who caught COVID did not develop natural immunity to the disease.  The CDC now admits there is natural immunity and it actually works better than the vaccines.

They were wrong about COVID vaccines stopping transmission of disease. The director of the CDC later admitted the vaccines do not prevent transmission. You can be vaccinated and still pass the virus to other people.

They were wrong about how susceptible kids are to the disease.  Zeke Emanuel claimed unvaccinated kids are in danger of contracting the virus and getting a “serious condition of Omicron.”  When his argument was demolished, he claimed he “misspoke”.  Sure.

They were wrong to ignore vitamin D.  The information has been out there for a long time, but public health authorities ignored it.  Now, a study validates vitamin D deficiency makes people 14 times more susceptible to serious COVID and to die from the disease.

Fauci was wrong and flip-flopped on masks, on whether the vaccinated should wear masks, on whether kids should be in school, and on how much people should interact with each other during the pandemic.  Ron DeSantis put the flip-flops in a campaign ad and Fauci comes off looking like an idiot, because he is.

So, they were wrong about masks, COVID deaths, lockdowns, mandates, natural immunity and lots of other things.  What else are they wrong about, hmm?  Vaccine safety, maybe?  They keep saying the COVID vaccines are safe, but over 23,000 Americans have died within 14 days of being vaccinated, so far.  Where are the government safety studies that are supposed to be done when a vaccine disaster strikes?  What has the government decided about doing such studies? I’m trying to find out. I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CDC for this information. First, they delayed, saying my request was ‘complex’, but now they’ve put it in the ordinary queue.  What does that really mean?  Does it mean they’ll take 75 years to answer like the FDA tried to do in another COVID vaccine FOIA case recently?  I’m not willing to wait 75 years. I will soon take steps to speed things up and put my request under court supervision.  Stay tuned.

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Joe Biden’s Plan to Erase America Will Fail

Joe Biden’s open borders policies are bringing gruesome crime to the interior of the country.  Thanks to Joe, it’s everywhere now.  A drunk illegal alien crashed his car into another vehicle in Florida, killing a 5-year-old girl.  In Mississippi, an illegal alien pistol-whipped a woman and shot at her cellphone next to her head because she was vaping.  A Florida man was killed by an illegal alien the man took in who the man thought was 16 but who turned out to be much older and a criminal.

So what crimes will soon be committed by the illegal aliens being brought to cities across the country on those midnight flights Joe Biden doesn’t want you to know about?   There’s video proof obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the flights are occurring, but the Biden administration lies about the flights and obstructs journalists trying to bring the story to light.

Those are not the only recent actions this administration has taken to promote illegal immigration.  The administration contracted for legal services for illegal aliens, services which could eventually cost American citizens almost $200 million dollars.  Another illegal alien drunk driver who killed a woman in Houston was spared deportation under a DHS rule change giving leniency to illegal aliens guilty of nominally less serious crimes.  Wife-beaters and other felons now get to stay in the country.   The ‘less serious’ mantra is also leading to fewer prosecutions for human smuggling and drug trafficking on the part of federal prosecutors who now won’t prosecute.

Border agents arrested almost two million illegal aliens at the southern border last year, a record.  About 200,000 of them were released into the country pending asylum hearings to which, experience, shows, many will fail to appear. DHS recently admitted it has no idea where 40,000 illegal aliens who failed to respond to notices to appear might be.  How many crimes will result?  How many are terrorists?  At least one we know of, an illegal alien who was on the terrorist watch list who was released into the country pending an asylum hearing scheduled for March.  This wasn’t supposed to happen, but it did. In all, the Border Patrol stopped 14 illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list at the border last year.  The numbers are up, and observers worry that terrorists are now beginning to systematically exploit Joe Biden’s open borders policies.

Meanwhile, no more than a handful of asylum seekers are being sent back to Mexico while the Biden administration pretends to comply with a court order to reinstate Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy.

The Biden administration is systematically popping the rivets on immigration policy and attempting to cover its tracks.  We can only assume this is the plan and the plan is working, for now, whatever the ulterior motive might be.  Border agents are demoralized and openly criticize DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to his face, telling him Biden administration policies have made it impossible for them to do their jobs.  But criticism of this administration just bounces off.  They won’t listen. OK, you won’t listen, this is war (metaphorically speaking, of course). November can’t come soon enough. The Right is getting organized and many on the Left will stay home and not vote because they know Joe Biden’s open borders policies, subterfuge, and lawlessness are just wrong.

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$200 Million in Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s favorite restaurant claimed to be feeding 6,000 kids a day.

Feeding Our Future, the Minnesota food charity sponsor whose offices have been raided by the FBI over allegations of massive fraud that some estimates have placed in the hundreds of millions of dollars, claimed that it wants to make “the world a better place for all”.

10 members of FOF’s staff boast of speaking Somali, others of Arabic and related languages often spoken by Muslim minorities, but only 3 speak Spanish and only 1 knows Chinese. The organization’s Manager of Operations, Food Program Coordinators Manager, Food Program Support Manager, and multiple administrators, all appear to be Somali.

The contact page is decorated with a photo of a woman in a hijab chowing down on a burger.

The pandemic destroyed lives, hundreds of thousands died, millions lost their businesses and jobs, but a great river of government money flowed to those who knew how to play the game.

As The Counter notes,

“In the early months of the pandemic, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted quickly to loosen rules governing how child nutrition programs had to operate. Gone were the strict nutrition guidelines, the group dining requirements, and the in-person inspections. Instead, the agency focused on cutting red tape as part of a broad effort to keep snacks and meals accessible to hungry families while mitigating the spread of Covid-19.”

In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.

These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.

While there may be some hungry Somali Muslim kids in the Gopher State, $197 million would buy them all meals at five-star steakhouses before jetting them away from the snow to Vegas.

According to a lawyer for Aimee Bock, FOF’s founder, who isn’t Somali, but whose lawyer previously represented a Somali ISIS recruit, “all Ms. Bock did was feed children.”

When over 200 FBI agents converged on the offices of various non-profits, their search warrants claimed that the Somali aid groups received “tens of millions of dollars” but that “almost none of this money was used to feed children.” The FOF’s Minneapolis offices were near the Somali Abu Huraira mosque and not far from a multitude of Somali community organizations.

Some of the money allegedly went to Bock and her boyfriend, Empress Malcolm Watson Jr., apparently a bail bondsman tracking wanted fugitives, who had previously been arrested for domestic violence, and whose construction company received $600,000 from her non-profit.

The only client listed on its site has the first name, “Aimee”.

Bill Glahn, a reporter for American Experiment who has been investigating the case, noted that Empress Malcolm Watson, Jr. “has an impressively long list of encounters with local law enforcement. 4 felony convictions, one for theft by swindle and one for domestic assault” which is even bigger than the rap sheet of his revered father, Empress Malcolm Watson, Sr.

From there it gets quite complicated.

Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, according to the FBI documents, controlled multiple target premises, opened over 20 bank accounts in the name of his various entities, and “solicited and received kickbacks” from the groups receiving child nutrition cash.

According to Feeding Our Future, the organization’s “extensive knowledge of the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program” helped “child and adult care programs maximize their reimbursement”. These were the groups on whose behalf it acted as a sponsor.

Feeding Our Future was getting a 10% administrative fee off the top. But that wasn’t enough.

Safari Restaurant, which boasts “traditional Somali cuisine” like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where Rep. Ilhan Omar had celebrated her victory party, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.

When the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that “minority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically disadvantaged children of color” were being denied the right to serve “culturally relevant foods” to “youth” during a “national emergency”.

Crying racism worked and at its peak Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day. That’s a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”

Safari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.

Glahn in American Experiment found that, “Feeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved for a maximum of 126,000 children.” That’s a lot of hungry Somali kids.

Oliver Twist, eat your heart out.

He also noted that, “Five of the sites are religious centers.”

The Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children. According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasn’t used to feed children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African properties.

According to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S&S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds. The FBI warrants note that,

“Qamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S&S Catering bank accounts… to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes in Haji travel packages.”

Haji is the Islamic obligation for every Muslim to visit their holy city of Mecca.

Amax offers trips to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, that non-Muslims are banned from entering, five-star hotels, and tours led by Imams.

One of the non-profits associated with FOF, Stigma-Free International, was incorporated by Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman. The Somali politician is a political ally of Rep. Ilhan Omar and has been photographed with her. He had previously been featured in a Project Veritas undercover investigation which appeared to show his brother “rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard” and declaring, “just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman.”

The man in question had also allegedly worked on Omar’s political campaign.

The scale and scope of the alleged fraud is as vast as the network that perpetrated it. The FBI warrants list numerous people, the vast majority of them Somali Muslims, a dizzying variety of non-profits that received the money, and a wide variety of destinations for the cash. The fraud was lubricated by false accusations of racism and discrimination by FOF and its recipients.

During the initial controversy, a video in support of Feeding Our Future at the Safari restaurant featured numerous local politicians, including Senator Omar Fateh, the first Somali Muslim in the state senate, who had been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.

A Deputy District Director for Rep. Ilhan Omar gave what was described as an “impassioned speech” declaring, “This community is tired. It’s tired of the bulls—”

But it’s Americans who have every right to be tried.

Open borders migration is not feeding our future. It’s stealing our future away.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

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The Hidden Depths of the Deep State

At the outset of information of the existence and operation of the Deep State, the general mindset was that this was only a part of the FBI that was working to put together false information to implicate President Trump in dealings which would help result in his impeachment.

However, subsequent events, as well as results from the research of many individuals, have revealed that this was only the tip of the iceberg as far as the depth and breadth of the Deep State’s operation goes.

It is now completely evident that the Deep State is involved in practically everything related to changing America into a Socialist/Communist state. We are currently finding that most conservative organizations are heavily saturated.  And if they’re not actually staffed with those connected to it their top leaders are directing the show.  This, of course, results in those organizations either doing nothing, or doing the wrong thing.

How has this come about? A good example would be the selections of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett as President Trump’s three chosen supreme court justices.

Conservatives were led to believe that all of them were/are Constitutional Conservatives.  However, subsequent observations refute this. According to a recent article by Kelleigh Nelson, anyone still believing that these justices are true Constitutional Conservatives hasn’t been paying attention to how they vote.

Nelson states, “Not one of them even follows the U.S. Constitution. What is so discouraging is that they take turns being on the side of those who vote against our Constitution and against American citizens. Watch how they vote, and you’ll notice that one of the three will always side with Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan and Breyer.”

I had noticed this prior to reading her article. Also, I had noticed that Justice Roberts did the same; If an issue came up that was practically insignificant, even though it might lean to the conservative side, he would vote with the conservatives, but if it was a key issue leaning to the left, he would support it.

I highly recommend this article by Kelleigh Nelson. Not only will one be enlightened concerning the things going on now, but also the many traitorous activities extending back to the Reagan years. And please go to the highlighted links which will give you a good beginning for a political science education in addition to a better understanding of how, and why issues which begin with being promoted as, Conservative and pro-American, turn out to be exactly the opposite.

This has come about, largely and in part, by the fact that most conservative organizations Americans are influenced by, like the Heritage Foundation and many others, are saturated, and to some extent staffed by those whose agenda is completely opposite of that claimed by the organization.

The Heritage Foundation has, for many years, been the epitome of influence for what was considered, “conservatives in the know.” This, of course, and as it was intended, resulted in many lesser conservative organizations and their adherents’ becoming satellites of the Heritage Foundation. So, what Heritage promoted, or stood behind was greeted with favor as it was presented to the conservative base.

But let’s look at a few examples of what it supported and promoted. I’ve already touched on the planting of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett in the Supreme Court; this resulted in the Court being, possibly the enemy of America for the remainder of time. In addition, the list of justices which Heritage submitted for President Trump to choose from to be candidates for Justices of the Supreme Court contained close to 20 lower court judges of which only two of them were Pro-Life.  The remainder were all pro-abortionists. So, in view of this alone, we can deduce conclusively that esoterically speaking, the only thing conservative about the Heritage foundation is its purpose to keep things as they are, i.e., to support and promote issues which are diametrically opposed to American principles.

What can we say about those individuals and organizations who support Heritage in the way of donations? Well, I would say most individuals continue to perceive it to represent the epitome of conservative thinking. In view of that, they think they’ve done their patriotic bit by donating a few dollars from time to time. However, it is quite evident that probably at least 90% of them don’t have the foggiest idea of what Heritage’s purpose and goals are.

That is only for individuals; for organizations and corporations…well, that’s a different pot of beans.

There may be a few small conservative organizations that have not succumbed to Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) connections, that continue to think Heritage is what it says it is. But for most of the larger so-called conservative organizations and corporations, and wealthier individuals, I believe that they are aware of the real Heritage agenda. For information on this part, I suggest the article by Kelleigh Nelson, which I referred to earlier.

The Deep State deepens with Vice President Michael Pence!

Trump thought he was the “trustworthy” and devout “Christian” Vice President that was more than willing to tell the politically naïve President that Heritage was a conservative think tank who would guide him to constitutionally conservative judges for the Supreme Court.

This, of course, identifies the former VP as an agent of the Deep State, which to all practically thinking makes him a traitor, in my opinion. But he’s only one; there are many more throughout the Republican Party, who are referred to as Trotskyites, Neo-cons and RINOs. All of these have their part in aiding the Deep State.

I marvel at the amount of intelligence my friend, Kelleigh Nelson, has disclosed in this article. Considering the number of articles of quality, she writes throughout the year, it just seems impossible that she, in such a limited amount of time, would be able to unveil so much that was practically hidden from the public.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, I began to have suspicions about Pence. I had noticed some remarks he had made to the effect that he was for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). This was at the time in which Trump had let it be known that he was against it. Subsequently however, Pence became silent about the issue.

Practically all Kelleigh reveals in this single article plays into what the title of this article is all about. However, this article will be directed at the transitions over the last hundred plus years which set the table making it possible for the enemies of liberty to bring about what we are witnessing today.

We now know that the deep state didn’t just suddenly come into being for the purpose of helping to concoct lies about former President Donald Trump. Its beginnings started before I was born, a little over 94 years ago.  It all goes back at least to 1776 with the advent of the Illuminati. But the pot was beginning to boil even prior to that, with some financial interests starting to get both financial and political things arranged to set the table for future developments toward the goal of world government.

Skipping over the following 150 years with all the events of that time to World War I, the agenda for world government attempted to use the war for an impetus to aid them in instituting the League of Nations. However, the U.S. senators at that time read the Charter which resulted in the rejection of the League of Nations.

The failure to bring forth the League of Nations resulted in the agenda having to begin again. They accomplished this with the founding of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in 1921. To show the position of its agenda and sphere of influence, John Foster Dulles, the former U.S. Secretary of state, was its president. At the very outset, he began recruiting men of an international bent, both in government and high-up financial affairs. By the year 1939, the agents of the CFR descended upon Washington, DC to begin taking over the U.S. State Department on September 12, 1939.

For more information relative to the above events, go to my previous article, “Path to Understanding, Part 3.”

By 1950, the CFR’s membership totaled approximately one thousand, at which time it became the invisible government. Dan Smoot, Assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, wrote a book titled, “The Invisible Government”, wherein he described much about the CFR.

Here then is a partial outline of the development of the main planning and coordinating force behind everything that is happening today.

Probably the most significant thing the CFR was able to achieve towards progress related to its goal of world domination was its success in getting the United Nations accepted and set up, as well as getting it acknowledged as an “institution of peace.” However, we are at last seeing that the strive for world peace is only esoteric, which is to say the peace it is working to achieve is when it is in complete domination of the world where no resistance exists from anyone.

The following are prime examples of how the CFR gets things done through the power of government.

According to James Perloff, Author of “Shadows of Power,” in 1953 the Bricker Amendment was introduced in Congress. It stipulated that no treaty signed by the U.S. could override the Constitution or infringe on the rights guaranteed Americans. It was born out of painful retrospect of Yalta and the U.N. Charter. Foreign Affairs, the official publication of the CFR, ran a 19-page denunciation of the Bricker Amendment as its lead article in October 1953.  President Eisenhower towed the CFR line calling the Amendments’ backers “nuts and crackpots.” Biographer Ambrose writes, “Eisenhower used all his persuasive powers – at stag dinners, at meetings, in private, in correspondence, even on the golf course, to kill the amendment. And killed it was.”

Mr. Perloff also states, “In the fall of 1953, Norman Dodd, Director of Research for the Reece Committee, was invited to the headquarters of the Ford Foundation by its President, H. Rowan Gaither (CFR). According to Dodd, Gaither told him, “Mr. Dodd, all of us here at the policy making-level have had experience, either in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) or the European Economic Administration, with directives from the White House. We operate under those directives here. Would you like to know what those directives are?”  Dodd replied that he would. Gaither said, “The substance of them is that we shall use our grant-making power to alter our life in the United States that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.”

These two events confirm that Eisenhower was a secret agent of the CFR. It has been reported that he was a member of the organization which was possible and likely. This could have played into him being bumped from a Lt. Colonel to a 5 star General. So, we can readily see that all this resulted in a useful hidden depth of the Deep State. For more on this see my article, “The Enemies of Our President, Part 3.”

The membership of the CFR possibly stands now at between six and seven thousand with about five or six hundred in government departments. We can be sure they are continually striving to bring to fruition the entire agenda of the CFR. Each of them, I’m sure, are connected to those who are their personal satellites which aid in spreading the CFR narrative – world government via the Great Reset, but the CFR will not be referenced anywhere.

There are those who might say, “I’ve never seen anything attributed to the CFR as being involved in what is happening now.”  Of course not, it is practically never out front; it works from behind the scenes through others.

©J.W. Bryan. All rights reserved.

The Missing Link in the Whoopi-Holocaust Story

The Holocaust is a 77-year old story. Yet Whoopi Goldberg got in trouble last week for getting a major aspect of it wrong.

On January 31’s edition of “The View,” Goldberg said that the Holocaust was not about race.

The context was a discussion about the book, Maus, being banned by a Tennessee public school board because of nudity and profanity. Goldberg said: “I’m surprised that’s what made you uncomfortable, the fact that there was some nudity. I mean, it’s about the Holocaust, the killing of six million people, but that didn’t bother you? If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it. Because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race.”

She has been suspended from the show for two weeks.

Hours after the program, she tweeted an apology to those offended by her remarks: “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people—who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.” Greenblatt accepted her apology.

I asked Rabbi Daniel Lapin, President of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, for a statement on this story. He told me that he disagrees with her often, but does not agree with the suspension: “Stuffing a gag into people’s mouths and trying to harm their careers doesn’t win the argument. It actually prolongs it by breeding anger and resentment.”

He added, “By the time the left has silenced the right and the other way around, and by the time secular and religious have silenced one another and by the time blacks and whites have silenced one another, we’ll all be living in a dull, silent, monotonous and resentful world.”

Interestingly, the very next day after this broadcast of “The View” came the release of a book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. This is the latest book by Dr. Richard Weikart, author of, From Darwin to Hitler. Weikart is professor emeritus of history at California State University, Stanislaus and a Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute.

I’ve been following Dr. Weikart’s research for years. In 2006, I traveled to his college to interview him for our television production on the impact of Darwin on devaluing human life for D. James Kennedy Ministries, “Darwin’s Deadly Legacy.”

I asked Weikart if there was a link between Darwinism and what Adolph Hitler and the Nazis did. He told our viewers, “Among German historians, there’s really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist; he clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.”

Weikart added that Darwin wasn’t anti-Semitic, but his ideas were used by the anti-Semites to do away with those viewed as sub-human.

Recently, Weikart wrote an op-ed initially called “Whoopi Goldberg, the Holocaust, and Race” to address her “misguided comment…that the Nazi Holocaust was not about race.”

Weikart notes that historically Jews were viewed as a religious group in Germany, but with the widespread acceptance of Darwinism came the acceptance of “biological determinism.” He writes, “Biological determinism taught that human traits, including behavioral traits, were determined by one’s heredity, not by one’s education and upbringing. When applied to Jews, this meant that the common stereotypes of Jews—that they are greedy, deceitful, sexual immoral, etc.—were allegedly biologically ingrained traits.” By the time of Hitler’s Third Reich, this view was widespread and Jews were viewed more in racial terms than in religious terms

So indeed the Holocaust was about race. It was all about achieving the so-called Master Race and eliminating those viewed as subhuman. The Jews were the largest group killed. Said Weikart, “For them, the killing of Jews was all about race.” The Nazis also killed Gypsies and Slavs for racist reasons.

Weikart said that in the Nazis were putting into practice genetic selection in the concentration camps—deciding who would live and who would die: “Natural selection was a guiding idea for Hitler and the Nazis…. and the term was related directly to Darwinian terminology….They were selecting this person to survive and this person to go to the gas chambers.”

On a recent radio segment, Weikart told me, “Hitler saw this life as a struggle for existence among many races opposing his so-called Aryan (or sometimes he’d use the term Nordic) race, and he framed it as a Darwinian struggle for existence.”

So what was the Holocaust all about? Said Weikart, “Adolph Hitler was clearly trying to speed evolution along.” Hitler believed that the evolutionary survival of his “master race” required the extermination of Jews.

Darwinian evolution is the missing link in Whoopi Goldberg’s verbal mistake last week.

©Jerry Newcombe. All rights reserved.

TAKE ACTION: Stop Democrats from turning the United States of America into the Islamic States of America

TAKE ACTION: Send an email to U.S. Senate Leaders and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to oppose the Combatting International Islamophobia Act (S3384)


A reader from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, sent us an email titled “greetings from far away.” In the email the reader wrote:

Dear American friends,

How are you doing? Enjoying your last days of the freedom era?

I sadly noticed that FOX News is boycotting anyone who speaks out against the danger of Islam. Till a few years ago, Frank Gaffney, Robert Spencer, Clare Lopez, Pamela Geller were regular guests on this network.

No longer. And politicians like Cruz and Trump, who do a great deal of good things, refuse to speak out on Shariah, Hudud et cetera.

Tucker Carlson and his friends are too afraid to touch upon the subject.

You need a new news network!!

Is there already a new generation of counter jihadists to be found in the US? Or are we elder people the only ones..

We replied,

“To many are believers of the myth that Islam is a religion of peace.”

After receiving this email we learned that Democrat House Members unanimously voted to empower a Sharia Law edict that prohibits any criticism of Islam.

Democrats want to give, by U.S. law, special protections to Islam over all other religious beliefs.

Amendment 1 to the U.S. Constitution reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

If Combating International Islamophobia Act S3384 is passed by the Senate and signed into law then, in effect, it will establish the Islamic religion in America. America will then  become the Islamic States of America.

Florida Family Association sent out the first email alert on this issue on January 4, 2022 stating:

Thankfully, this Sharia authorization bill has not been heard yet in committee yet.  The last action on S3384 was that it was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.  Please consider sending an email to the senators on the Committee on Foreign Relations if you have not done so already or if you would like to send another email.

Understandingthethreat.com wrote the following regarding legislation that will give Sharia law’s prohibition of criticizing Islam superior authority over the First Amendment protection of legitimate criticism of the harsh, inhumane and violent provisions of Sharia law and fatwas.

On December 14, 2021, 219 democrats voted in favor of House Resolution 5665 which establishes the Office to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia and addresses related issues inside the U.S. Department of State.  This is the culmination of over 20 years of work by the Global Islamic Movement to impose the Islamic Law of Slander on Americans.  In Islam, Slander is a capital crime and is legally defined as to say anything about Islam/Muslims that a Muslim would “dislike.”  The bill was authored by jihadi Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

The entire Islamic world under the banner of the OIC – the largest voting block in the UN made up of every Islamic nation on earth – approved The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in 1990 and served it to the UN 3 years later.  The Cairo Declaration legally defines “Human Rights” as the ‘Imposition of Sharia’ and the OIC’s 2005 10-Year Plan calls for the criminalization of “Islamophobia” which is defined as “Slandering Islam.”   Now, 219 democrats have done the will of the Global Islamic Movement.

The legislation, Combating International Islamophobia Act S3384, is now in the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Tragically, the Combating International Islamophobia Act only protects Islam, the religion most noted for acts of violence worldwide, while ignoring the fact that Jews are the largest target of hate crimes in the United States.

Jews are targeted with hate far more often than Muslims. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2020 hate crime statistics reports that crimes targeting Jews comprised 54.9% of all religious bias crimes last year.

Additionally, 34 of the top 50 countries in which persecution of Christians has been documented to be the worst are Islamic.

Followers of Sharia law and Islamic fatwas commit more violent acts of hate than any other religion.

Thereligionofpeace.com documents that “Islamic Terrorists have carried out more than 40,600 deadly terror attacks since 9/11.”

Hypocritically, the Combating International Islamophobia Act is sponsored by the most notable anti-Semite in congress, Ilhan Omar. More hypocrisy, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the organization sponsoring the Combating International Islamophobia Act, was added to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s ‘Global Anti-Semitism’ List on December 27, 2021.

Furthermore, there are well documented reports regarding the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) terror-links and terrorist apologetics.  CAIR sued the Department of Homeland Security on April 5, 2016 with the demand that the Terror Screening Database be ruled unconstitutional.  The 4th US Circuit Court of appeals unanimously ruled against CAIR’s claim.  CAIR filed another lawsuit that is challenging The No Fly List which is part of the United States Quiet Skies program which aims to protect the millions of Americans that travel by air, rail and bus every day.

So Americans are faced with the most notable anti-Semite in congress and anti-Semitic CAIR wanting legislation to “combat” “Islamophobia” to protect Islamists from criticism.

No definitions give open ended enforcement to combat Islamophobia.  The Combating International Islamophobia Act does not define “Islamophobia” or “combating.”

The lack of a definition for “Islamophobia” means:

  • Christians, Jews and Infidels at large who dare discuss or report about the barbarism, inhumanity and incivility of certain Islamic edicts and fatwas may be subject to the “combating” arm of the Department of State which legislatively includes every branch of government.
  • Education organizations, churches, synagogues, publishers, websites, bloggers, talk show hosts and the media may no longer be able to educate, discuss or report the association between Islamists and Islamic terrorism.
  • Islamist hate for Jews and Christians will be emboldened because Jews and Christian’s legitimate criticism of Islamist hate could be considered Islamophobic and combated against by the State Department and other federal agencies it enlists in their Sharia fight.
  • People who defend and aid Muslim women from Islamist oppression could be combated against by the United States Government.

According to Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, should the USCMO succeed in its goal to see a special envoy to “monitor and combat Islamophobia” in America, the systematic hunting down and cancelling  of organizations, websites, and individuals who criticize or offend Islam would be in order.

Creating a federal task force to enforce the Sharia law edict that prohibits truthful criticism of Islam would violate the First Amendment, Establishment Clause and equal protection of the law. Many people and organizations, including other religions, rightfully educate others and express concern regarding the barbarism, inhumanity, incivility and violence associated with certain edicts and fatwas of Islam. No one religion should be given special treatment by government tasking a special squad to enforce the religious laws of that one religion to censor truthful criticism.

Florida Family Association has prepared an email for you to send to encourage US Senate leaders and members of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to oppose the Combating International Islamophobia Act S3384.


TAKE ACTION: Send an email to U.S. Senate Leaders and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to oppose the Combatting International Islamophobia Act (S3384)


©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

Biden’s Mask Mandate War on We The People

“For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken, American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic.


Government mandates on getting vaxxed and wearing masks has been a contentious issue from the start. It is now coming to a head in Canada with the truckers Freedom Convoy and across America as well.

The Daily Mail’s Ronny Reyes, in anBlue surgical face masks are only 10% effective in preventing COVID infection, new study finds”  wrote:

  • University of Waterloo researchers find most cloth masks are only 10% effective
  • Researchers warn most cloth masks do not cover the face properly  
  • N95 or KN95 masks were found to be the most effective at filtering aerosols
  • Study also found that even ‘moderate ventilation’ matches the best of masks in terms of protection against COVID-19
  • Mask debate remains contentious in the country as delta variant spreads 

Masks and mask mandates

Masks have now become a big issue and Biden administration/CDC guidelines on wearing masks are coming into question.

It seem that governors of blue states are now gradually unmasking their people. It appears that their people have had enough and with the midterm elections on the horizon that Biden, CDC and the Democrats masking of America has fallen out of favor. Why, because it is impacting the economy, culture and health of Americans.

But Biden isn’t backing down, he’s doubling down on mask mandates.

During the February 9th, 2022 White House press conference Jen Psaki was asked about the White House’s COVID-19 policies. Watch the entire February 9th press conference:

Psaki was questioned about the economy, Covid restrictions and about blue states, like New York, lifting their mask mandates and a return to normalcy. The first question ask:

And if I could ask a question about — New York, today, was the latest to work on their mask mandates.  Several states are now, it seems, well ahead of the federal government in explaining the path out of the pandemic.  Is the President now falling behind states in explaining to Americans how are — we all can, sort of, resume our normal lives and get back to normalcy?

When asked if citizens should follow the CDC mask guidelines Psaki said,

“Yes. This is where we would advise any American to follow the CDC guidelines … no parent who wants to send their kid with a mask should be penalized. No teacher who wants to wear a mask should be penalized, or school district who makes that choice should be penalized.”

Question:

Jen, quick follow-up on that.  Does the administration risk looking out of touch with where the country is heading, in terms of lifting these mask mandates, if the CDC doesn’t revise its guidelines?

Answer:

Well, again, we understand where the emotions of the country are, right?  People are tired of masks.  I would say not even — if you look at the polling though, there’s also a huge chunk of people who still want masks.  Right?  So, it’s not even that specific.  It’s just that, as you noted, there are some states that are moving towards rolling back or giving more choice to local communities about how they will implement these requirements.

But, again, from the federal government, what our responsibility to do is to abide by what the President committed to on the campaign, which is to listen to scientists, listen to data.  That doesn’t move at the speed of politics; it moves at the speed of data.  And they — Dr. Walensky committed to — conveyed — or, I should say, confirmed that they were evaluating this at the CDC.

Following the data, not the politics

Psaki’s February 9th, 2022 statement is at best a lie and at worse a myth. To repeat Psaki said, “But, again, from the federal government, what our responsibility to do is to abide by what the President committed to on the campaign, which is to listen to scientists, listen to data.  That doesn’t move at the speed of politics; it moves at the speed of data.”

But the data is already in on the usefulness of masks.

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said on January 31st, 2020,

We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness. And we certainly are not recommending that at this time for this new [Covid] virus.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said,

[T]he average American does not need a N95 mask. These are really more for health care providers. He was echoed by Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that there ‘is no role for these masks in the community’.

A 2011 randomized clinical trial found that medical masks offered no protection at all.

A 2015 study concluded rates of infection were especially high in cloth masks, finding particle penetration in nearly 97 percent of them.

A 2016 paper that analyzed six clinical studies found that N95 respirator masks fared no better than medical masks in preventing respiratory infection.

As recently as April 7, a paper analyzing data from 15 randomized trials concluded that,

“[C]ompared to no masks there was no reduction of influenza-like illness cases for influenza for masks in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.”

Perhaps similar reasoning guided the CDC’s about-face in April when it issued guidance recommending the use of cloth face coverings for healthy individuals (though the World Health Organization still advises against them).

The Bottom Line

Masking America isn’t about science or data. Masking Americans is purely politics and all about control. How do we know? Because 221 House Democrats voted to block the  “Unmask Our Kids Act.”

The Daily Callers’ Nicole Silverio in an article titled, “White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday there is a “distinct difference” between Democratic governors scrapping mask mandates and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handling of COVID-19” reported:

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday there is a “distinct difference” between Democratic governors scrapping mask mandates and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handling of COVID-19.

“We had another state today drop the indoor mask mandate as the CDC is confirming that their guidance is not changing. But these decisions that are being made at the local level… are out of step with the science,” one reporter began. “So, why are we not hearing the same messaging criticizing states that are, you know, making these moves like we heard previously with, for instance, Ron DeSantis?”

“I would say there is a distinct difference between standing in the way, which Ron DeSantis did — or, Governor DeSantis, I’ll give him his full title — of teachers, school administrators and others taking steps to protect the students and their school communities,” Psaki answered. “There’s a difference between standing in the way of it — threatening to pull back funding — and allowing for local school districts to make choices, which is what a number of these states are doing.”

The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) wrote:

In a sense, the mask craze is largely about managing our fears. As my colleague Sean Malone recently observed, when people are afraid they’re much more willing to accept anything they believe might make them a little safer. Even really bad policies and ideas.

The illusion of safety. It’s a powerful thing. For both humans and governments, it would seem.

John F. Kennedy said, “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

Masks don’t make us safer according to the data and science. However, the myth that they do is driving individuals, communities, government at all levels force We The People into believing that masks work.

What we are witnessing is mass formation psychosis.

Biden’s mask mandate war on we the people will continue and we the people will either succumb or fight back.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Over-the-Counter Ivermectin? It Could Be Coming to a State Near You—Despite FDA Concerns

The ivermectin controversy has sparked a wider debate about medical freedom.


A new bill recently introduced in New Hampshire would allow residents to get ivermectin from pharmacies without first getting a prescription or approval from a doctor. The legislation, titled House Bill 1022, is still in committee, but the state House of Representatives is slated to vote on it in the coming weeks.

The purpose of the bill is to provide wider access to ivermectin for those who want to take it as a treatment for COVID-19. Thus far, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the drug for treating COVID-19, but many believe it is an effective treatment and are eager to have it on hand should they be infected with the virus.

Though the FDA has not weighed in on this bill in particular, the agency has made it clear that they have serious concerns about the use of ivermectin for this purpose.

“The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention, including hospitalization, after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for livestock,” they write on their website. “Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19,” they continue. “There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin. It is not okay.”

The caution isn’t only coming from the FDA, however. As Newsweek reports, “a number of medical experts testified in opposition to the bill during a legislative session [in January].”

Part of the opposition is undoubtedly due to concerns about safety and efficacy, but there are also concerns about what the bill specifically allows and requires. To address these, the House committee is considering certain bipartisan amendments, such as “requiring that patients who receive the drug are informed that its use for COVID-19 is ‘off-label’ and setting guidelines for tracking any adverse effects.”

Though ivermectin received very little attention when the pandemic first broke out, its use in treating COVID-19 has become increasingly well known, and, in recent months, polarizing. In particular, the drug garnered significant public attention when comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan disclosed in September that he was using it to treat COVID-19 after getting a prescription from his doctor.

Rogan’s announcement led many CNN commentators to claim he was taking “horse dewormer”, since the drug is often used to treat parasites in horses and other livestock. This was misleading, however, since the drug is also approved for human use to treat certain infections.

The whole spat came to a head when Joe Rogan interviewed Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, in October. “Does it bother you that the network you work for out and out lied, just outright lied about me taking horse dewormer?” Rogan asked Gupta. “They shouldn’t have said that,” Gupta replied. “Why did they do that?” Rogan pressed. “I don’t know,” Gupta responded.

CNN’s rhetoric aside, the question of whether it’s appropriate to prescribe ivermectin to COVID-19 patients remains divisive. A doctor in Virginia, for instance, recently resigned from his position at a medical school after losing a court battle over whether he could prescribe ivermectin for COVID-19. Meanwhile, a doctor in Minnesota who recently served in the Minnesota Senate and is now running for governor is under investigation for prescribing the drug to COVID-19 patients. And in Canada, a doctor has had his medical license restricted because of his views on COVID-19, and one of the restrictions is that he is not allowed to prescribe ivermectin.

Despite the pushback, many doctors in the US continue to prescribe the drug for COVID-19. One such physician is Dr. Joseph Varon, who is the chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. “My love for [ivermectin] is based on my personal use and good outcomes my patients have had,” Dr. Varon told the Houston Chronicle back in August. “Once you see it work, it is difficult to deny its usefulness.”

But while many doctors support the treatment, many others are strongly against it. For instance, Dr. A. Clinton White, a professor of infectious disease at University of Texas Medical Branch, has said many of the trials that seem to show the benefits of ivermectin were “deeply flawed and likely reflected biases.”

This statement about the trials is worth noting, because it gets at one of the core problems with the whole debate. The problem is that the safety and efficacy of this treatment is fundamentally an empirical question, one that most of us simply aren’t qualified to speak to. Typically, the solution to this problem is to rely on experts who can interpret the data for us. But when the experts themselves disagree, there’s not much we can do except hope that the results of future trials will be more conclusive.

But while the jury may be out regarding the empirical data, the ethics of making this drug available are a completely different question, and this is a question lay persons can weigh in on.

The argument for allowing people to access ivermectin, or any drug for that matter, rests on the principle of self-ownership. As Murray Rothbard explains in For a New Liberty, “the right to self-ownership asserts the absolute right of each man, by virtue of his (or her) being a human being, to ‘own’ his or her own body; that is, to control that body free of coercive interference.”

This may sound simple enough, but it has profound implications. If you really own your body, that means you and you alone have the right to decide what goes in it and what doesn’t. If someone coercively prevents you from taking a drug, they are effectively saying they have a higher claim on your life than you do. And that holds true whether that someone is acting by themselves or on behalf of a government.

“When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us,” said Ron Paul, “we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.”

Another phrase that’s often used for the self-ownership position is bodily autonomy. Notably, the word “autonomy” comes from the Greek words auto, which means “self”, and nomos, which means “law.” So in essence, autonomy is about having a “self-law” or being “self-governing”.

Now, many people give lip service to the idea of bodily autonomy with phrases like “my body, my choice.” But holding that principle consistently means removing all restrictions about what people can do with their body. After all, you can’t be “self-governing” if you’re simultaneously being governed by other people.

Of course, some people will use their freedom to make bad choices and will have to suffer the consequences, but this is nothing new. We let people take all sorts of health and safety risks out of respect for their autonomy, such as with diet, alcohol consumption, smoking habits, and extreme sports.

And while some people may use their freedom to make bad choices, many others will use it to make good choices that the government is currently preventing them from making, such as taking drugs that could save their life.

Now, whether ivermectin is one of those lifesaving drugs is currently up for debate. But what shouldn’t be up for debate is each individual’s right to make their own medical decisions.

COLUMN BY

Patrick Carroll

Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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