The Destruction of Leviathan by Gustav Doré (1865)
Leviathan is a creature with the form of a sea monster mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Job, Psalms, the Book of Isaiah, and the Book of Amos. Leviathan is also the title of a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651. For good or ill, it exerted wide influence both here and in the New World. The book concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is thought to be one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.
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Contra Tyrannos
The name of this website has been taken from the title of the book Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos, (A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants). Written in Latin and French, is was supposedly written by Junius Brutus, a French Huguenot.
It presents an argument against the politics of Machiavelli (1469-1527). It speaks of there being a “firm bond of human society” and of “an alliance or covenant between the King and the People” with mutual obligations. Should the king or rulers break their promises, the people are released from their promises of obligation to them.
“I am not a pacifist, because pacifism in this poor world in which we live, this lost world, means we desert the people who need our greatest help. As an illustration: I see a great big burly man that is beating a tiny tot to death….If he won’t stop, what does love mean? Love means to stop him in any way I can….” Francis A. Schaeffer, Conflicting World Views: Humanism versus Christianity.
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For in-depth comment on current affairs ... looking for a new way forward
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BRITAIN AND THE MESS WE ARE IN
The very first cast iron bridge ever constructed anywhere in the world. (Ironbridge, Shropshire) Once we could justifiably be called GREAT BRITAIN.
Despite the fact that arguably our lives are far better today for us in Britain than they have been for a very long time, something has gone terribly wrong. Despair, disillusionment and fear of what the future holds for our children and grandchildren grip the hearts of many of our citizens, neighbours and friends.
The Telegraph a while ago told us that “Britain is broken – and nobody can be bothered to do anything about it” and “Broken Britain exudes dysfunctionality”. Recent polls show that seven out of ten people agree with this. How come we have gotten ourselves into this frightful mess? While politicians and the great and the good scratch their heads in bewilderment as to how we have come to this, at the same time they and rant incessantly and peddle hairbrained and nonsensical solutions. Continually, we are being told how bad things are and that problems are deepening and accelerating with breathtaking speed. This is not a matter of ‘doing the country down’, but facing the undeniable fact of national decline that has grown rapidly over the last decade.
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Totalitarianism and the Rise of Tyranny
An excellent definition of tyrants is found in Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: a Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579).
“We have shewed that he is a king who lawfully governs a kingdom, either derived to him by succession, or committed to him by election. It follows, therefore, that he is a reputed tyrant, which either gains a kingdom by violence the second a tyrant of indirect means, or, being invested therewith by lawful election or succession, governs it not according to law and equity, or neglects those contracts and agreements, to the observation of which he was strictly obliged at his reception. All of which may well occur in one and the same person. The first is called a tyrant without title: the second a tyrant by practice.”
The writer makes this memorable remark, “a tyrant the more he is tolerated, the more he becomes intolerable.”
read the complete article HERE
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Reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview
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Bye, bye Kiev, hello Cote D'Azur: As Westerners send aid, here's how Ukraine's corrupt elites are profiting from the conflict
Since the beginning of Russia's military offensive in Ukraine, the United States, the European Union – and their allies – have provided Kiev with $126 billion worth of aid, a number almost equal to the country's entire GDP. Moreover, millions of Ukrainians have found refuge in the EU where they were given housing, food, work permits, and emotional support. The scope is huge, even by western standards. Considering that the bloc has been funding Kiev while coping with an economic and energy crisis of its own, the assistance is perhaps especially notable.
Kiev bases its endless funding requests on the collapse of its economy, due to the war, and its need to “resist Russian aggression.” But is the aid reaching its intended destination?
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Nanoparticle Contamination Cover-Up: Answers From A Scientist
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Pandemics, Famine and War - Globalists are AT WAR with humanity - Feat. Michael Yon
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For much more on Covid, Lockdowns and the Pandemic
CORONA HOAX OR HORROR?
OR THE PANDEMIC THAT NEVER WAS?
Governments had for months sounded in shrillest tones that we were in the grip of a pandemic that in the real world does not and never did exist. Millions of citizens across the world have been thoroughly deceived and deprived of their rights. Decisions were made on the basis of guesswork by mathematicians and statisticians with little or no medical knowledge of any kind and all of whom have made predictions that have proved to have been baseless. Arbitrary decisions rather than evidence-based data have determined policy.
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The Planned Fall 2022 “Epidemics Tyranny”
The German Government is preparing for a Military Regime for all eventualities. German leaders fear uprisings and they are arming the Bundeswehr for domestic operations. Germany has Europe’s largest Urban Warfare Training Center in „Schnöggersburg“ in Saxony-Anhalt, near Hamburg. It has been under construction since 2012 and was finished – training-ready – by 2020.
Today, the German armed forces (Bundeswehr) along with NATO forces are training for upheavals this fall – in Germany and likely in other major European cities.
More HERE
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Do you know how many people have been killed worldwide by their governments from the Covid shots
It's around 12M. That is 40X the number of Americans who were killed in World War II. It's more than double the number killed by COVID.
More HERE
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Newsweek: The Third World War has begun — the US is already killing Russian children
The third World War has already begun, the analyst said Jason Fields. In his opinion, the sharp rise in prices, the food crisis and security threats in the leading countries of the world signal that the phase of active confrontation is already underway.
Read more HERE
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In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures—including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking—have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information, including:
- How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus
- What infection numbers and the death rate really tell us
- The challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified?
- Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it?
- Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it?
Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts—and encourages you to form your own opinion on the corona crisis.
Copies are available from Amazon and other online Booksellers. A runaway bestseller in the original German
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Why You Shouldn’t Need a Doctor’s Permission to Get Prescription Drugs
he present system for pharmaceutical drugs requires a doctor’s prescription as a precondition for their sale to members of the public.
At first glance this seems like a reasonable plan. After all, most people simply lack the necessary information to determine whether they need or can benefit from drugs such as Penicillin, Vicodin, Albuterol, Lisinopril, Levothyroxine, Gabapentin, Metformin, Lipitor, Amlodipine, Tamsulosin, Finasteride, Digoxin, Metoprolol, Celecoxib to name but a tiny sample of those drugs covered by this rule. Moreover, even if people had that knowledge, which the average person most certainly does not, they would be totally lost as far as proper dosage is concerned.
read article HERE
PfizerGate: Official Government Reports prove Hundreds of Thousands of People Are Dying Every Single Week Due to COVID-19 Vaccination
Waiting times for ambulances are at an all-time high. The number of emergency calls due to people suffering cardiac arrest is at an all-time high. The number of people dying is at an all-time high, with hundreds of thousands of excess deaths occurring around the world every single week.
And official Government reports prove without a shadow of a doubt that it is all thanks to the Covid-19 vaccines.
Exhibit A: The Healthcare System is overwhelmed
Ambulances in England are taking almost an hour to reach patients who have had a suspected stroke or heart attack, more than three times the 18-minute maximum wait, the latest NHS data shows. When people call 999 they can no longer be confident that they will get the emergency care they need.
Why?
The following chart is taken from the UK Health Security Agency’s ‘Ambulance Syndromic Surveillance System – Week 30′ bulletin, and it shows the daily number of 999 calls requesting an ambulance due to suffering cardiac arrest in England vs the expected rate (black dotted line).
Read the whole article HERE
Spain Admits Spraying Deadly Chemtrails as Part of Secret UN Program: One Month after March 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown
The Spanish government ordered [April 16, 2020, a month after March 2020 lockdown] the military to quietly spray lethal chemtrails on its citizens with UN authorization under the cover of the “state of emergency for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.“
The chemtrail program, which involves the spraying of biocides on the population, was authorized by Royal Decree, was quietly acknowledged by the government on April 16 2020, just one month after the World Health Organization announced that Covid-19 was a pandemic.
Order SND/351/2020 published by the Spanish government in the Official State Gazette read as follows:
Order SND/351/2020, of April 16th, which authorizes the Armed Forces and Units and Military Emergency Units to use biocide chemicals authorized by the Ministry of Health for disinfection in order to deal with the Covid 19 Health Crisis.
Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14th, hereby declares a state of emergency for the management of the health crisis situation caused by COVID-19, which includes a series of measures aimed at protecting the welfare, health and safety of citizens and the containment of the progression of the disease and strengthen the public health system.
Read the whole article HERE
Spain: Law Allows Geoengineering Experiments
Over 50 countries are currently carrying out "activities to artificially change the weather", explained the Spanish weather agency AEMET and speaks of "chemical contrails" or "chemtrails".
Why is the CIA interested in climate change experiments?
Drought can be engineered
Why does geoengineering exist?
Experiments that do not work
Harmful substances
Read more HERE
Margaret Thatcher and the Rise of the Climate Ruse
Why the European Union Is Passive in the Extradition Case Against Julian Assange
The All-American Lie Factory. Philip Giraldi
Government and the media work together to promote war on Russia
Ugly Covid Lies
by Ron Paul
After two years of unprecedented government tyranny in the name of fighting a virus, the prime instigators of this infamy are walking free, writing books, and openly pretending they never said the things they clearly said over and over.
The Dimming
MUST VIEW, the most comprehensive climate engineering documentary:
Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, and the Global Culture War
Boyd D. Cathey
The war in Ukraine is not really about Ukraine—it is not about Ukraine’s sacrosanct borders which have been supposedly violated by Russia. And it is most certainly not about the vaunted “defense of democracy,” as we constantly hear screamed in our ears by the media and by a broad panoply of American (and European) political and cultural leaders, from Nancy Pelosi to Lindsey Graham to Boris Johnson.
Read the complete article HERE
Smoking Gun: US Government, CDC Colluded with Google, Twitter, Facebook to Censor Important Information About Experimental COVID Vaccines
In July 2021, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki revealed that the Biden administration was “regularly making sure” to identify public health “disinformation” while working with social media networks to have it removed. “And we work to engage with them [Big Tech] to better understand the enforcement of social media platform policies,” Psaki proclaimed in July of last year. The Biden regime went public with their censorship goals, targeting twelve sources of information that they claimed were “the dirty disinformation dozen.” The Biden regime subsequently called on Big Tech to completely remove these individuals from all social media platforms.
More HERE
New study shows ivermectin can reduce chance of death by 92%
But the WHO, NIH, and FDA all recommend that you avoid using it.
by Steve Kirsch
A new large prospective observational study of 88,000 people shows ivermectin works; the greater the dose, the better it works.
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Ukrainians? - Are You Aware Of Whom You Support? (Wołyń, Volhynia Genocide)
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or the UPA, with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in Volhynia from 1943 to 1945.
The neighbors attacked the neighbors despite the fact they were all living peacefully together through the whole decades.
The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children. Many of the Polish victims regardless of age or gender were tortured before being killed. They included rape, dismemberment or immolation, among others. The UPA's actions resulted in around 100,000 deaths.
The ethnic cleansing was a Ukrainian attempt to prevent the post-war Polish state from asserting its sovereignty over Ukrainian-majority areas that had been part of the prewar Polish state. The killings were directly linked to the policies of Stepan Bandera's fraction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose goal as specified at the Second Conference of the OUN-B on February/March 1943 was to purge all non-Ukrainians from the future Ukrainian state. The massacres led to a wider conflict between Polish and Ukrainian forces in the German-occupied territories, with the Polish Home Army in Volhynia responding to the Ukrainian attacks in kind, on a much smaller scale.
Seek for Wołyń or Volhynia for more information.
It was Poles then, next time it may be you and your family. Think about it.
See also
NATO: A criminal and a liar
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Truth on Ukraine. When Nazism Becomes the Norm.
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Ukraine is Losing the War and so is Europe
writtem by Oscar Silva-Valladares
Beyond the damage in Ukraine, the war also has significant casualties in the rest of Europe as the continent is losing its most competitive energy supplies, compromising the region’s manufacturing edge and accelerating an inflation wave that through higher energy costs will severely affect the wellbeing of its population this coming winter.
Europe has been trying for years to diversify its energy sources but it did not have a comprehensive contingency plan to counteract the impact of abruptly severing access to Russia’s oil and gas since the beginning of the Ukraine war. European politicians have grossly exaggerated the substitution potential of other energy sources (like LNG) and are facing the need to accept alternatives that not too long ago were considered politically unpalatable, like the reopening of coal production in Germany.
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A video everyone interested in the truth about Russia and the world must watch.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with India today, Moscow, April 19, 2022
'Ukraine on Fire' (2016) Documentary by Oliver Stone
Watch it here >
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Background to the current conflict In Ukraine
To counteract the lying propaganda put out by western governments and media, I have put together this brief account of how the present tragic situation in Ukraine has arisen.
The driving force within Ukraine behind this current conflict is that of the neo-Nazis from the western part of the country centred largely around Lviv assisted by their friends in the West. They are followers of the notorious nationalist Stepan Bandera, assassinated in October 1959 by the KGB in Munich where he had been given refuge. Then as now the nationalists were used by the West to harass Russia, hence the killing of their erstwhile leader.
They remain ruthless and brutal. The Germans looked on in the early 1940s as the nationalists killed Jews, Poles and in fact anyone who opposed them. They have not changed. In 2014 Odessa's large trade union building was set alight as these monsters mounted an assault as dusk fell not before locking everyone inside making escape impossible. At least 31 people choked to death on smoke or were killed when jumping out of windows.
Many fathers and grandfathers of these neo-Nazis fought with the Germans in World War 2, thinking mistakenly that they would thus throw off the Russian yoke under which they were living at the time. They even had their own Galicia regiment in the SS. The war over many of these men donned regular German army uniforms and found false papers then mingled with the regular POWs. Caught in the wrong uniform and carrying the wrong papers, especially by the Red Army, meant almost certain death. From Italy they were moved to Austria then to Britain and Canada especially where some had relatives. They were protected by the British government who knew that they would be executed should they return home to what was now part of the Soviet Union.
The Ukrainian neo-Nazis were behind the Maidan coup in 2014, aided and abetted by the Americans, when the legitimate government of the country was overthrown and the president was forced to flee. Biden and Nuland put in an appearance to show their support, the latter handing out biscuits. It was definitely not as claimed a ‘Revolution of Dignity’ as competing sides and a number of unknown snipers went for each other with guns and rifles. Many protesters were killed and lay dead in the street. The unrest was triggered when the then president, Viktor Yanukovych, turned his face towards Russia’s firm offers of economic help rather than the uncertain promises of the EU. Ukraine would be a dead weight should the country ever become part of the EU.
The government of the country has been shaky since then, to say the least, and has brought nothing positive to benefit the people of the country. In desperation many of those living in the countryside have been forced to sell to foreign investors the strips of land they used to cultivate to keep themselves alive. One former British MP was deeply involved in this. Ukraine is riddled with corruption and little can be done without paying mafia-style bribes to self-appointed oligarchs who hide away in their fine houses in the suburbs of most towns and rule with an iron fist. This has suited very well their backers in the West. Although they are sprinkled throughout Ukraine, Russian speakers live largely in the eastern provinces of Lugansk and Donbass and have been there for generations. They have suffered constant harassment from the authorities who even prevent them from speaking Russian in public.
The government and people fear the neo-Nazis. Zelensky, the president, dare not acquiesce to Russian demands for fear of losing his life. One past president was already poisoned by persons unknown and was left injured and disfigured. These people are capable of anything.
Beginning in 2014-15 a series of international agreements were made in Minsk. These agreements sought to end the conflict in the Donbass and Lugansk regions of Ukraine. Britain and others, whilst not promising troops of the ground, have for many years had personnel in Ukraine training and advising the Ukrainian army and the neo-Nazi factions. They are in this conflict up to their necks.
In 2014 the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence from Ukraine No country had recognised the republics as sovereign states until now. Since then, the Ukrainian military and neo-Nazi units, who are a law unto themselves, have been targeting not military, but civilian targets in an attempt to drive all Russian-speakers from their homes. It is in effect a form of ethnic cleansing in which western powers have facilitated and encouraged them in their efforts to discomfort Russia. Kiev has steadfastly refused to abide by the Minsk or any other agreement and it is estimated that 14,000 largely civilians have died in the last eight or so years. After waiting patiently for a change of heart in Kiev, Vladimir Putin recognised the two break-away republics and agreed to the request of the Donbass leadership to provide protection against the increasing bombardments from the Ukrainian side. There was much rejoicing on the streets of Donetsk that night including a barrage of fireworks. On 21 February 2022, the State Duma of Russia passed a bill to officially recognize the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in Eastern Ukraine as independent states. The bill was approved by President Vladimir Putin. The hysterical response worldwide from Ukrainian’s backers was inevitable. Misinformation and lying propaganda have since spewed forth as it always does in times of war. How will it all end? One hopes for better things, but as is said, in war everyone is a loser.
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CORONA HOAX OR HORROR?
OR THE PANDEMIC THAT NEVER WAS?
Governments have for months been sounding in shrillest tones that we are in the grip of a pandemic that in the real world does not and never did exist. Millions of citizens across the world have been thoroughly deceived and deprived of their rights. Decisions were made on the basis of guesswork by mathematicians and statisticians with little or no medical knowledge of any kind and all of whom have made predictions that have proved to have been baseless. Arbitrary decisions rather than evidence-based data have determined policy.
Politicians have quite deliberately instilled fear in the population to enable absolute control. Senseless lockdowns and useless if not harmful mask-wearing has been enforced. The result has been a devastation of an already shaky economy and the livelihoods of many hard-working people has been ruthlessly destroyed. The health service in Britain far from being 'saved' has been disrupted, all but closed down and the lives of many suffering from stokes, cancer and other serious conditions have been unnecessarily lost. Care homes were heartlessly used to warehouse the elderly and vulnerable, many dying as a direct consequence. In all immense suffering is still being inflicted on us. This is an overall an appalling state of affairs for which our governments are fully responsible. It is this horrendous and very serious indictment against government with which we shall now concern ourselves.
[LONG READ]
I have culled most of the facts for this article about the Covid Crisis from the book
Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures
by husband and wife reseach team. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss
See side column
Please watch another important interview with Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi on the Science page
His explanations are readily understood and accessible.
Why is this man NOT being listened to?
Clear and understandable
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For more links and comments on the Corona crisis see Science page
I shall be trying to update the articles from time to time, so keep looking!
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SS troops recognized as criminal organizations
The Nuremberg Tribunal found the SS paramilitary troops criminal. The SS Galicia Division was founded on April 28, 1943 in Lvov. It was the largest of all foreign SS volunteer formations that performed punitive functions, slaughtering and burning entire villages. The division was defeated in the very first battle with the regular units of the Red Army in the summer of 1944, near the town of Brody.
Read the complete article here:
Читайте больше на https://english.pravda.ru/world/39049-germany_ukraine/
My immediate thoughts about this article
The German ambassador perpetuates the myth that the Galicia SS was simply an army of volunteers fighting communism and the USSR. The truth is very different. They were SS, some were volunteers, some conscripted or coerced. All swore an oath to Adolf Hitler. There is a mountain of documentary evidence to show that Ukrainian fascists from all the nationalist groups cruelly slaughtered Jews, Poles, even fellow-Ukrainian dissidents by the thousand. Many testified that they were often more brutal than the German Nazis who sometimes stood back and let them do the dirty work. These evil deeds must no be covered over for political ends but remembered alongside all that the German Nazis did. It stands to reason that to eliminate Ukrainian complicity eases the burden for Germans still trying to come to terms with their past.
"Waffen SS units took part in serious war crimes and the Holocaust during World War II. No volunteer organizations that are fighting and working in Ukraine today should be associated with them,” the ambassador wrote on Twitter. This is completely untrue, a barefaced lie in fact. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
The Ukrainian nationalists at the time of the German advance in 1941 expected the invaders would endorse their aspirations for a nation State. They immediately issued the 'Act of Renewal Ukrainian Statehood'. This was followed by violent progroms, the government being more than willing to annihilate the Jews of Ukraine in 'national self-defence'. Sad to say, the fascist propensity to cure political problems by violence and warfare survives to this day and is used by the West to unsettle Russia. Hitler saw the declaration of Statehood as a threat to his colonial plans of exploitation. Immediately leaders were rounded up. Stepan Bandera, feted today in Ukraine as a national hero, was arrested on July 5th and incarcerated in Berlin where he remained for most of the war. This did not end the nationalist atrocities. Beware Ukraine! The USA, Canada, Britain and their puppets will cast you off and spit you out when you have served their purpose. They want a supine nation that does their bidding.
The Ukrainian diaspora, rescued from the Russians and given refuge in Britian and Canada after the war, has done much to attempt to rehabilitate these butchers, shut down contrary evidence and ascribe it to Russian propaganda. Scholarly research shows otherwise and I am in the process of gathering material to counter the 'false memories' and historical myths that countries like Germany, Britain and Canada find convenient to endorse.
Some of my researches on Ukraine, especially the present situation and its real links to the past, will follow shortly on this website
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The great nonsense of the "Great Reset"
by Thomas DiLorenzo
“The Great Reset” is the latest deceptive euphemism for totalitarian socialism that is being promoted by yet another group of wealthy corporate elitists who think they can centrally plan the entire world economy. They are essentially the ideological heirs of Frederick Engels and his intellectual puppet Karl Marx. “The Great Reset” follows in the rhetorical footsteps of such euphemisms for socialism as “economic democracy,” “social justice,” “liberation theology,” “progressivism,” “market socialism” (an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp” or “military intelligence”), “environmentalism,” “fighting climate change,” “sustainable development,” and “green new deal,” to mention just a few.
The main figure of this movement is wealthy German engineer Klaus Schwab, founder of the “World Economic Forum,” who champions what he calls “transhumanism,” the integration of nanotechnology into the human body so that humans can be controlled remotely by the state. As Ron Paul has noted, “Included in Schwab’s proposal for surveillance [of every citizen] is his idea to use brain scans and nanotechnology to predict, and if necessary, prevent, individuals’ future behavior . This means that anyone whose brain is ‘scanned’ could have his . . . [constitutional] rights violated because a government bureaucrat determines the individual is going to commit a crime.”
Placed in the hands of politicians, this would create a level of totalitarianism the Soviets could only have dreamed of. In other words, Schwab is reminiscent of that famous twentieth-century German who also fantasized about creating a master race and ruling the world.
Read the rest of the article here at Lew Rockwell
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Peace, peace, when there is none
It was observed by the eminent historian, Arnold J. Toynbee, that the history of the world has been one of perpetual judgement. Kingdoms arise and strut the world stage, sweeping all before them, only to be brought down to nothing with the only memory of them a pile of stone ruins. One distinct difference between previous Empires and the present rush to global dominance by USA and her hangers-on is the legacy left behind. Despite the butchery of all Empires, from the Greeks and the Romans we have a heritage of art, philosophy, law and much more. Even the British Empire left behind schools, hospitals, railways, something conveniently forgotten today. The constant striving of the USA and the West to rule the world has brought only death and destruction, worldwide poverty and hunger, rapacious multinational companies and banks, all the chaos and calamity of a 'wild West' mentality.
The modern historian, Eric Hobsbawm, noted with sad accuracy:
“The 20th century was the most murderous in recorded history. The total number of deaths caused by or associated with its wars has been estimated at 187m, the equivalent of 10% of the world’s population in 1913. Taken as having begun in 1914, it was a century of almost unbroken war, with few and brief periods without organised armed conflict somewhere. It was dominated by world wars: that is to say, by wars between territorial states or alliances of states. … The world as a whole has not been at peace since 1914, and is not at peace now”
Whilst the nature of war may have changed, worldwide conflict shows no signs of abating. On the contrary, some seem intent on pushing their agenda by means of intimidation and war. Armed operations of the past were generally between sovereign states and began with a declaration of war at the one end and a peace treaty at the other. World War 2 did not really begin or end in this way and the expression ‘cold war’ was introduced to describe what followed. What constituted war and what peace became obscure.
As has been amply exemplified by the conflicts in the Balkans and the Ukraine and to an even greater extent in the Middle East, there has been a blurring of the distinction between combatants and non-combatants. This began with the two World Wars where the burden of the war was increasingly felt by the whole populations of the belligerent countries. In World War I, 5% of those who died were civilians, World War II this rose significantly to 66%. Today estimates for civilians killed in recent conflicts put civilian casualties at 80 to 90% of those losing their lives. This is partly due to the fact that wars have been conducted not by conscript armies but regular or irregular troops using high-tech weapons. In the current situation in Iraq, although the ‘war’ may have ended, the population is still being bombed by largely foreign forces who entered the country as invaders. All this is brought before us by the powerful machinery of untrustworthy mass media propaganda.
The meaning of war and peace is blurred too by the use of the word ‘war’ when using organised force against what are regarded as anti-social activities. There is the ‘war against the Mafia’ and the ‘war against drugs’. The operations of the IRA in Northern Ireland or the ‘war against Islamic terrorism’ further complicate our definitions. The terrorist will view himself as a belligerent, even although UK law will see him as a murderer. By contrast, a soldier killing on the battlefield will not generally be seen to be acting in breach of any law. Armed conflicts within states have become much more of a problem, often encouraged by external interference. Mechanisms for dealing with these or even controlling them do not appear to exist. Not a single government anywhere is in any position to disregard still less eliminate armed minorities within their borders. There is a constant threat to us all exacerbated by official helplessness and complacency.
D. William Norris
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WAKE UP BRITAIN!
Like some great edifice with rotten foundations, the structure gnawed at from the inside for years by bloated rats, nothing is maintained, nothing repaired. This makes the collapse of the building inevitable and it looks as though someone desperately wants this to happen. Yet the residents of the place are partying, stoned out of their minds or distracted by trivialities; they are totally unaware of any imminent danger. A valiant few shout from the rooftop, but the laughter and frivolity, the deafening music coming from beneath them, drowns out their voices. Those with most to benefit from the building’s ruin dismiss any thought of looming disaster with scorn and derision as they chisel away yet more bricks from the rickety basement. Yet these despicable villains are lauded from within the house, the deliberate falsehoods, the malicious fabrications and crazy schemes are believed, given support time and again. Continue the good work you are doing, is the cry, and we shall all be safe. The house was once an elegant building, the seat of global influence, a powerhouse of industry and invention, but now it is reduced to beggary by malice and foolishness, collapsing from within, living with hidden bankruptcy, waiting for the bailiffs at anytime now.
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WHAT GOVERNMENTS WOULD RATHER WE DID NOT KNOW: about the nation's finances
Ignorance about the nation’s finances is but one tool in the government's armoury with which they can pursue their ends without the rest of us noticing what is happening. Important is that we do not see what is going on. This has happened on every level, immigration, education, ‛political correctness ’and everything else. They show utter contempt towards the people they rule. And we, miserable souls, only notice the mess when it is too late. ...
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THE STATE OF TYRANNY
The modern State is a vicious tyrant, a bully, a Leviathan, a Behemoth beyond the wit or strength of any man to tame. It has grown fat on the flesh of its citizens, is drunk with their blood. Since it cannot be tamed, who then will find a George to slay it? Since it cannot be reformed, it must be slain and replaced.
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The Anatomy of Tyranny
How to recognise tyranny and what to do about it
A corrupt an oppressive State extorts unjustly what it can from all it can. Gives only aid where it can buy influence and favours. The tyrannical ruler takes what he can from all, in order pay for his own superfluities, line his own pockets, indulge favoured projects and riotous expenses. It is an empire built on the ruins of the public good. It draws blood from the veins of citizens’ means and feeds it to government leeches upon which to gorge themselves. The tyrannical government is lifted to the level of a religion before which all must bow the knee, but it is an artificial, counterfeit, apostate religion and devotion. Its countenance is composed to show appropriate piety in order to terrify the people and deter them from conspiratorial actions. No, it is the golden-headed statue of Babylon with a head of gold and feet of clay, precarious in its stance and ready to fall at a blow.
When governments persist in violent solutions, they identify themselves with tyranny and whatever the law or lawful authority permits against a tyrant must be invoked. A tyrannical government subverts the state, pillages the people, lays stratagems to entrap the lives of citizens and scoffs at the sacred obligations of an oath. If thieves and murderers commit crimes they are declared infamous outlaws and they justly suffer punishment. Can we find any less an end for infamous tyrants?
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SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER: conscripts dodge being drafted in Syria and Ukraine
Surely, it cannot have escaped anyone’s notice that thousands of those who ran away from Syria are young men. What are they running from? The same as so many now leaving the Ukraine, conscription to the Army. In the case of Ukraine it is understandable that these youngsters do not want to give their lives for a cause in which they do not believe, they do not want to give credence to the corrupt foreign-backed regime now running the country, nor do they want to fire on their own countrymen, some of whom could be their own kith and kin, cousins, even brothers.
In Syria, however, things are very different. These young men now feeling their homeland are desperately needed at home to reinforce a depleted army that is attempting to stem the tide of evil butchers threatening to overrun the country.Yet, when the Polish Foreign Minister dared to suggest that the 'thousands of young Syrian men now sipping coffee in our cafes and texting on their mobile phones should be formed into an army and shipped back to retake their country', he was ridiculed by the EU.
Disaster will follow defeat in Syria: crucifixions and beheadings, of Christians especially - not that this seems to concern western governments - but also of fellow Muslims. There are no ‛legitimate’ opposition forces in Syria. 'Moderate' opponents of Bashar al-Assad equipped and trained by the west are deserting to the Jihadists or Isil in droves, all are terrorists. Russia alone seems to have fully grasped what is underway in Syria and is prepared to undertake serious military action. Well-publicised comments of the former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, substantiate this point of view - no knighthood then for this man! Western democracies are filled with an irrational hatred of Vladimir Putin.The persecution suffered by Christians in Muslim countries is, we are informed, not necessarily sufficient grounds in the opinion of western democracies for giving anyone asylum status.
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THE TRAGEDY OF TWO WORLD WARS: how we beat our enemy, but got stabbed in the back by our 'friends'
The United States emerged from World War I as the wealthiest nation on earth, more by taking advantage of her allies than by her own exertions. The mighty dollar before 1914 had been but one currency among others. The war debts owed to the United States seemed beyond the wit of man to repay. The response of President Coolidge to his erstwhile allies financial troubles was as hardnosed as it was dismissive, “Well they hired the money, didn’t they?” Britain struggled to her debts to the United States. However, those who owed Britain money were either teetering on bankruptcy or in the case of the Soviet Union had no intention of repaying anything to capitalists. International finance after the war struggled. The exchange system, built on gold and confidence in the markets, was destroyed. There was little gold about and most of it was in America.
Twenty years later America repeated what it had done in World War I, but on a much grander scale and with a like devastating effect on Britain. Once more hanging back from entering the war for two years whilst Britain bled, the USA emerged as the undisputed leader, proprietor, protector, and policeman of the non-Communist world. The huge expansion of military bases and power was accompanied by an equally sensational expansion in trade and capital overseas. By stopping the Germans in two wars, by cutting its allies meanly down to size, American economic and political expansion was unparalleled. France and Britain especially had been reduced to second-rate powers by the treachery and self-interest of their American ‛ally’. America had developed, in the words of Senator J. William Fulbright, “an arrogance of power” and attitude of “do it our way or else”.
PLEASE NOTE: This article does not diminish our respect for the many US soldiers who fought so courageously in two World Wars. Nor is this intended as a slight against the hardworking, honest and God-fearing American people.The American nation as much as America's friends have been betrayed by their arrogant governments. (the author)
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UK: MULTICULTURAL MADNESS
Where has England gone? Way back in 1984 in a television interview, a Bradford Conservative councillor, Peter Gilmore, made this remark: “There is no such thing as an Englishman”. The Equality and Human Rights Commission, formerly the Commission for Racial Equality, now works under a broader mandate than previously. With respect to immigration and multiculturalism it is committed to unravelling our distinctive and traditional English culture and to putting in its place a vapid, bland cultural pluralism. Bradford, of course, has long suffered under a powerful multiculturalist bureaucracy. Schools in the city are not interested in integrating newcomers within the British way of life, instead they promote a vague ‛multicultural identity’. In this context there can be no commitment to a common history, tradition, development or religion. They seek to impose a new culture by dictat from above, wiping clean the past. Most of us will find this as offensive as it is totalitarian. This will never work and remains a recipe for growing resentment and disharmony on all sides. Conflict has now become inevitable and unpreventable. There is a clear denial that anyone in Britain can be autochthonous, indigenous, rather than descended from migrants or colonists. We were all immigrants once and on the same footing as everyone else. A myth is perpetuated of vast movements of people in the past, exaggerated to support a multicultural agenda.
Britain’s place in world history is taught in State schools as being something approaching ‛shameful’. Multiculturalism has been empowered by dishonesty on a grand scale. It is a pot-pourri of distorted facts enhanced by noxious and wayward lies. Excellence is hated, totalitarian movements and vile régimes are praised. Any notion of Britishness or Englishness is deliberately debunked as racist. Students are left in ignorance of their own cultural background. Traditional Christianity is scorned, Islamic culture celebrated, carefully ignoring its savage origins. The British people are generally tolerant and open-minded, too much so in many respects. Yet, why on earth should they have to tolerate having their own financial recourses used to insult them?
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LEGITIMATE TAXATION OR CRIMINAL RIP-OFF?
Governments assume powers of taxation and reserve them for themselves.
Through various forms of taxation, but also in other ways, modern governments believe they can seize the property of their citizens with impunity. Like robber barons they function as institutionalised monopolies. No one else is allowed to demand taxes. Were any other organisation to operate in the same way as governments do, it would be considered extortion, robbery, fraud, or some kind of protection racket such as that run by Mafia families. When a dubious character breathing out threats approaches a business demanding a percentage of the profits to stay in business, we think of Sicily or the Ukraine and call it a protection racket. Yet, when the Inland Revenue does the same to our pay packets and businesses at rates determined by government, we call it taxation. But then, at least the Mafiosi do not pretend to be depriving us of our money for our own good. In essence there is only one definitive dividing line between these two, namely the laws drawn up by the governments themselves permitting them to demand payments from the rest of us at will. Criminals who seize our goods can be pursued or resisted; against governments there is no redress. We are taxed throughout our lives and even when we are dead they try.
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"I dread government in the name of science. This is how tyrannies come in." C.S. Lewis
Welcome to Contra Tyrannos
D. William Norris. Writer & translator, former lecturer. Special interests: Central and Eastern Europe. Wife Valerie German born in Volhynia now part of Ukraine.
Some of you will know that my dear wife, VALERIE, suffered for many years with Parkinson's disease. It was my priviledge to be her sole carer for over ten years. It was devastating for me to see her pass away in her armchair here at home on the 9th June this year. I loved her deeply and miss her terribly every day.
In her final months on this earth, caring for her was indeed a very precious time for us both. In the final two years, her care took most of my time, but I regret nothing. Had the roles been reversed, she would have tended to my needs even better than I did to hers.
She had a very eventful life and perhaps I shall at some future date be able to share some of this with you on this website.
Over the last couple of years my time was taking up caring for my dear wife so that this website has lain dormant. I expect in the coming months to update everything and include new material. Valerie always gave me her full support and I know she would want me to continue.
Seeing that my late wife Valerie was born in Volhynia, Ukraine we have always had a very personal reason for interest in Russia & Ukraine. For more
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Whither Ukraine?
Donetsk and Luhansk are under seige, but what of the rest of Ukraine?
A personal testimony
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"No man deserves his freedom or his life who does not daily win them anew"
Goethe
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“Silence, according to law, is consent”
Sir Thomas More in his defence against Henry VIII
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SUNDRY JOTTINGS FROM MY NOTEBOOK
Miscellaneous notes taken from my recent reading
TOTALITARIANISM
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.
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“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
~ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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"It is dangerous to be right on matters which the established authorities are wrong"
Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
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