Tragedy and Hope 101 The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy Joseph Plummer: CHAPTER 4 Money: The Ultimate Instrument

 

Tragedy and Hope 101 The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy Joseph Plummer: CHAPTER 4 Money: The Ultimate Instrument

 

CHAPTER 4
Money: The Ultimate Instrument

“Antiquity presents everywhere...the spectacle of a few men molding mankind according to their whims, thanks to the prestige

of force and fraud.”

—Frederic Bastiat1

Hopefully by now we’ve established the fact that a small, powerful, and secretive group can alter the course of world history. Additionally, we’ve established that this form of coercive power (hidden, dishonest, and dangerous) is nothing new. It existed thousands of years ago, it existed hundreds of years ago, and it exists today. Only the names, sophistication, and reach of the “instruments” have changed. Since this form of power is inherently illegitimate, we need no further justification to free ourselves from it.

As noted, a handful of individuals have played such an important role in the creation of our current system that their names must be mentioned. However, targeting individuals within the system isn’t going to solve our problems. Even if only one out of one thousand people are genius-level sociopaths (the percentage is probably much higher), that equals seven million potential recruits for the Network to draw from. In other words, there will always be an inexhaustible pool of replacements available to fill the tiny number of key policy-making posts within the system. For this reason, the predatory system itself must be destroyed.

Fortunately for us, there is a vital target for us to strike; one foundational element that the entire system is built on and cannot

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stand without: the Network’s control of money. This is their primary weapon, and it is well within our power to take it from them.

The vast majority of people—people like you and me—don’t think of money as a weapon. For us, it’s simply something that we earn and then use to purchase products and services. The Network, on the other hand, has a much, much deeper understanding of what money is and how to wield its power. For them, money isn’t about acquiring more material goods or services; it’s about acquiring more control over the resources and instruments that govern human behavior. When viewed in this light, their seemingly insatiable desire to accumulate and control money makes more sense.

Our Republican Form of Government: Section 52 — “Committees of Safety” from Anna Von Reitz

 

Our Republican Form of Government: Section 52 — “Committees of Safety” from Anna Von Reitz

 

Section 52 — “Committees of Safety”
Prior to the start of the Revolutionary War, colonists formed local “committees of safety” to prepare themselves “if trouble comes”, which at that point was brewing. So they set up networks of Minutemen and pass words and secret storage facilities.
It was in fact the object of the British troops marching on Concord and Lexington to find and secure such a storage of arms and gunpowder and to arrest those presumed responsible for its existence.
There are some people who haven’t noticed the passage of over 200 years and they still think that forming such committees and making such preparations is a sensible and viable response today as it
was then.
Let’s be very clear — pitting the might of the US Armed Forces against farmers armed with deer rifles is not a desirable or reasonable option.
Ironically, what sparked the onset of the Revolutionary War was a committee supposedly promoting “safety”. What landed Schaeffer Cox in jail for 26 years was a “contingency plan” based on a “what if” scenario that never happened.
People who get involved in your Assemblies and who start preaching violence need to be treated to a Bevins Declaration on the spot, and if they persist, you must throw them out on their ears, draw a line, and disassociate yourselves from them. It’s hard, but it’s necessary.
Such people are far more dangerous than the dangers they fear. Why? Because they can knowingly or unknowingly provide the open door — the means and excuse — for exactly what they are afraid of.
Those who are so angry and fearful that they sneak around looking over their shoulders and stockpiling weapons need help, but not the kind of help a State Assembly can give them.

Can Affirmation Be Restored to American Mores?/The Deep State Has Used the NY Times to Announce Its Withdrawal from Washington’s Conflict with Russia

 

Can Affirmation Be Restored to American Mores?

March 31, 2025 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: |  Print This Article

Can Affirmation Be Restored to American Mores?

Paul Craig Roberts

Which is the most irresponsible organization on earth?  The American media or the Democrat judges?

It is a difficult call, but I think the designation of most irresponsible goes to the presstitutes.  The presstitutes are no longer confined to the print and TV media and NPR, but include many internet sites.  There are plenty that are irresponsible independently of ideology and agendas, and there are many websites set up by liberal and leftwing foundations, as well as by USAID and National Endowment for the Humanities to support the narratives that further liberal-left agendas.   

The temporary restraining orders issuing from Democrat judges are almost mandatory if a person or group files a request.  A restraining order is only good for a few days until a hearing is held to determine if the complaint has any merit or standing.  Seldom is such found, and therefore few restraining orders become preliminary injunctions.  A preliminary injunction can actually prevent a policy from being implemented until the challenge to the policy is decided by the appeals court, and if that decision is challenged, by the Supreme Court. The process can take longer than a presidential term.  Thus, invalid injunctions can be used to derail a president’s agenda.

It is the case that the Democrat judges should know by now that the many complaints filed to stop the effort of the Trump administration from converting the US budget from a grift operation into an efficient mechanism for serving the American people are nothing but expressions of political and ideological opposition to the Trump administration.  But it is always a chance that one could be legitimate, so the judges have to follow the procedure and issue temporary restraining orders. The solution is for the Department of Justice to bring charges against those entities that bring illegitimate lawsuits, the only purpose of which is to freeze executive branch decisions.

The US and foreign media describe the temporary restraining orders as “judges block Trump’s presidential orders.”  Only a preliminary injunction that is upheld on appeal can block Trump’s ability to manage his domain–the executive branch.  Judges have zero authority to manage the executive branch, but an irresponsible media is creating the impression that executive decisions reside in the judiciary and not in the executive. 

 

My Palestinian Friends Taught Me How to Combat Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism is a demonic hatred, and so is anti-Palestinianism. But here is the difference: the latter is socially accepted, while the former, in most polite circles, is rightly reviled.

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I didn’t set out to learn about anti-Semitism from Palestinians. But I did.

My organization the Vulnerable People Project has worked for years to serve vulnerable communities everywhere, from Afghanistan to Chinese-occupied East Turkestan to Nigeria to Gaza. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the first step to defending the vulnerable is to see them clearly. 

A characteristic event that makes a group of people vulnerable occurs when the powerful elites of the world turn their backs on them and even make it socially costly to stand with them. It’s then that you find you can’t defend them at all unless you really love them, because love is the only thing that makes those social costs worth it to you—win or lose. 

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But if you can’t defend someone you don’t love, you also can’t love what you don’t see—or a people you don’t know.

Until I listened to the voices of my Palestinian friends, I did not see or know the Semitic people.

I thought I did. I was an American Catholic, steeped in the language of Catholic social teaching and the American founding—the language of human dignity. I knew the slogans. I’d been to Bethlehem, walked the Via Dolorosa, touched the stone where Christ’s body was prepared for burial. I imagined myself to be an advocate for peace. 

But something ugly lived in my blind spots: a comfortable, unexamined anti-Palestinian bias wrapped in piety and slogans about “standing with Israel.” It took a war to reveal it.

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Then came the voices of my friends. Rev. Munther Isaac, the courageous Lutheran pastor in Bethlehem, was one of the first to break through to me. He didn’t speak in slogans. He spoke with pain, patience, and prophetic clarity. “We are not collateral damage,” he said, pleading with Western Christians to remember that Palestinians are not abstractions in someone else’s theology. 

The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education

 

The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education

By Ron Unz

The Unz Review

April 1, 2025

 

 

 

We may be witnessing the ongoing destruction of one of the greatest pillars of postwar American global influence and hegemony.

Late last week an astonishing event occurred in American society, and video clips of that incident quickly went viral across the Internet.

A 30-year-old Tufts doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar from Turkey was walking across her Boston-area neighborhood on the way to a holiday dinner at a friend’s house when she was suddenly seized and abducted in the early evening by six masked federal agents of the Department of Homeland Security. The terrified young woman was handcuffed and taken to a waiting car, secretly detained for the next 24 hours without access to friends, family, or lawyers, then shipped off to a holding cell in Louisiana and scheduled for immediate deportation, although a federal judge has now temporarily stayed the proceedings.

Just one of the Tweets showing a short clip of that incident has been viewed more than 4.5 million times, with a much longer YouTube video accumulating another couple of hundred thousand views.

That very disturbing scene seemed like something out of a Hollywood film chronicling the actions of a dystopian American police state, and that initial impression was only solidified once media reports explained why Rumeysa Ozturk was snatched off the streets of her home town. Her only reported transgression had been her co-authorship of an op-ed piece in the Tufts student newspaper a year earlier sharply criticizing Israel and its ongoing attacks on the civilian population of Gaza.

Apparently, one of the many powerful pro-Israel censorship organizations funded by Zionist billionaires became outraged over her sentiments and decided to make a public example of her, so its minions in the subservient Trump Administration immediately ordered her arrest.

 

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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?

Edward Curtin

We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.

This propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form, comes with a large dose of truth offered rapid-fire by celebrated, authoritative voices via prominent media. The truth is sprinkled with subtle messages that render it sterile.

This has long been the case, but it is even more so in the age of images on screens and digital media where words and images flow away like water in a rapidly moving stream. The late sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, updating Marx’s famous quote “all that is solid melts into thin air,” called this “liquid modernity.”

Welcome to Operation Pandemonium

See, these experts purport to say: What we tell you is true, but it is impossible to draw definitive conclusions. You must drink the waters of uncertainty forever lest you become a conspiracy nut. But if you don’t want to be so labelled, accept the simplest explanation for matters that disturb you – Occam’s razor, that the truest answer is the simplest – which is always the official explanation.  If this sounds contradictory, that is because it is. It is meant to be. We induce schizophrenia.

And it is, these experts suggest, because we live in a world where all knowledge is relative, and you, the individual, like Kafka’s country bumpkin, who in his parable “Before the Law,” tries to get past the doorkeeper to enter the inner sanctum of the Law but is never allowed to pass; you, the individual, must accept the futility of your efforts and accede to this dictum that declares that all knowledge is relative, which is ironically an absolute dictum. It is the Law. The Law of contradictions declared from on high.

 

2025: THE FOURTH TURNING RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES ‘TOWARDS A BLOODY CLIMAX’

Posted on April 1, 2025 by State of the Nation

PROPHETS, NOMADS AND A FOURTH TURNING ACCELERATING TOWARDS A BLOODY CLIMAX

The Burning Platform

“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies. The core elements of these scenarios (debt, civic decay, global disorder) will matter more than the details, which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unknowable way. If foreign societies are also entering a Fourth Turning, this could accelerate the chain reaction. At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action.” – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe

“Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning the way you might today distance yourself from news, national politics, or even taxes you don’t feel like paying. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted. The Fourth Turning necessitates the death and rebirth of the social order. It is the ultimate rite of passage for an entire people, requiring a luminal state of sheer chaos whose nature and duration no one can predict in advance.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning

In my last Fourth Turning article, a few days before the presidential election, I stated Trump would win in a landslide, unless the Deep State pulled some outrageous stunt to steal it, like they did in 2020. Their cheating machines were unable to overcome the dementia dummy effect and running a vacuous cackling moron DEI candidate as Trump’s opponent. I also thought the ingrained opposition would use all their vast ill-gotten financial resources to pay for violent protests, if Trump won. The gutting of USAID has defunded the domestic terrorists and made their protests pathetic.