Julian Assange’s Address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, with Comments by Paul Craig Roberts

October 1, 2014

Chairman, esteemed members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, ladies and gentlemen.
 
The transition from years of confinement in a maximum-security prison to standing here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million people is a profound and surreal shift.
 
The experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to convey; it strips away one’s sense of self, leaving only the raw essence of existence.
 
I am not yet fully equipped to speak about what I have endured – the relentless struggle to stay alive, both physically and mentally, nor can i speak yet about the deaths by hanging, murder, and medical neglect of my fellow prisoners.
 
I apologise in advance if my words falter or if my presentation lacks the polish you might expect in such a distinguished forum.
 
Isolation has taken its toll, which I am trying to unwind, and expressing myself in this setting is a challenge.
 
However, the gravity of this occasion and the weight of the issues at hand compel me to set aside my reservations and speak to you directly. I have traveled a long way, literally and figuratively, to be before you today.
 
Before our discussion or answering any questions you might have, I wish to thank PACE for its 2020 resolution (2317), [https://pace.coe.int/en/files/28508/html], which stated that my imprisonment set a dangerous precedent for journalists and noted that the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture called for my release.
 
I’m also grateful for PACE’s 2021 statement [https://pace.coe.int/en/news/8446/pace-general-rapporteur-expresses-se] expressing concern over credible reports that US officials discussed my assassination, again calling for my prompt release.
 
And I commend the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee for commissioning a renowned rapporteur, Sunna Ævarsdóttir, to investigate the circumstances surrounding my detention and conviction and the consequent implications for human rights.
 
However, like so many of the efforts made in my case – whether they were from parliamentarians, presidents, prime ministers, the Pope, UN officials and diplomats, unions, legal and medical professionals, academics, activists, or citizens – none of them should have been necessary.
 
None of the statements, resolutions, reports, films, articles, events, fundraisers, protests, and letters over the last 14 years should have been necessary. But all of them were necessary because without them I never would have seen the light of day.
 
This unprecedented global effort was needed because of the legal protections that did exist, many existed only on paper or were not effective in any remotely reasonable time frame.
 
I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice for me is now precluded, as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a freedom of information act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request.
 
I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration because I plead guilty to journalism. I plead guilty to seeking information from a source. I plead guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I plead guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else. I hope my testimony today can serve to highlight the weaknesses of the existing safeguards and to help those whose cases are less visible but who are equally vulnerable.
 
As I emerge from the dungeon of Belmarsh, the truth now seems less discernible, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period when expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened, and diminished.
 
I see more impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth and more self censorship. It is hard not to draw a line from the US government’s prosecution of me – its crossing the rubicon by internationally criminalising journalism – to the chilled climate for freedom of expression now.
 
When I founded WikiLeaks, it was driven by a simple dream: to educate people about how the world works so that, through understanding, we might bring about something better.
 
Having a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go.
 
Knowledge empowers us to hold power to account and to demand justice where there is none.
 
We obtained and published truths about tens of thousands of hidden casualties of war and other unseen horrors, about programs of assassination, rendition, torture, and mass surveillance.
 
We revealed not just when and where these things happened but frequently the policies, the agreements, and structures behind them.
 
When we published Collateral Murder, the infamous gun camera footage of a US Apache helicopter crew eagerly blowing to pieces Iraqi journalists and their rescuers, the visual reality of modern warfare shocked the world.
 
But we also used interest in this video to direct people to the classified policies for when the US military could deploy lethal force in Iraq and how many civilians could be killed before gaining higher approval.
 
In fact, 40 years of my potential 175-year sentence was for obtaining and releasing these policies.
 
The practical political vision I was left with after being immersed in the world’s dirty wars and secret operations is simple: Let us stop gagging, torturing, and killing each other for a change. Get these fundamentals right and other political, economic, and scientific processes will have space to take care of the rest.
 
WikiLeaks’ work was deeply rooted in the principles that this Assembly stands for.
 
Journalism that elevated freedom of information and the public’s right to know found its natural operational home in Europe.
 
I lived in Paris and we had formal corporate registrations in France and in Iceland. Our journalistic and technical staff were spread throughout Europe. We published to the world from servers in based in France, Germany, and Norway.
 
But 14 years ago the United States military arrested one of our alleged whistleblowers, PFC Manning, a US intelligence analyst based in Iraq.
 
The US government concurrently launched an investigation against me and my colleagues.
 
The US government illicitly sent planes of agents to Iceland, paid bribes to an informer to steal our legal and journalistic work product, and without formal process pressured banks and financial services to block our subscriptions and freeze our accounts.
 
The UK government took part in some of this retribution. It admitted at the European Court of Human Rights that it had unlawfully spied on my UK lawyers during this time.
 
Ultimately this harassment was legally groundless. President Obama’s Justice Department chose not to indict me, recognizing that no crime had been committed.
 
The United States had never before prosecuted a publisher for publishing or obtaining government information. To do so would require a radical and ominous reinterpretation of the US Constitution.
 
In January 2017, Obama also commuted the sentence of Manning, who had been convicted of being one of my sources.
 
However, in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats: Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA Director, and William Barr, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General.
 
By March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the CIA’s infiltration of French political parties, its spying on French and German leaders, its spying on the European Central Bank, European economics ministries, and its standing orders to spy on French industry as a whole.
 
We revealed the CIA’s vast production of malware and viruses, its subversion of supply chains, its subversion of antivirus software, cars, smart TVs and iPhones.
 
CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution.
 
It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information.
 
My wife and my infant son were also targeted. A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six month old son’s nappy.
 
This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been additionally corroborated by records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents involved.
 
The CIA’s targeting of myself, my family and my associates through aggressive extrajudicial and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organisations engage in transnational repression. Such repressions are not unique. What is unique is that we know so much about this one due to numerous whistleblowers and to judicial investigations in Spain.
 
This Assembly is no stranger to extraterritorial abuses by the CIA.
 
PACE’s groundbreaking report on CIA renditions in Europe exposed how the CIA operated secret detention centres and conducted unlawful renditions on European soil, violating human rights and international law.
 
In February this year, the alleged source of some of our CIA revelations, former CIA officer Joshua Schulte, was sentenced to forty years in prison under conditions of extreme isolation.
 
His windows are blacked out, and a white noise machine plays 24 hours a day over his door so that he cannot even shout through it.
 
These conditions are more severe than those found in Guantanamo Bay.
 
Transnational repression is also conducted by abusing legal processes.
 
The lack of effective safeguards against this means that Europe is vulnerable to having its mutual legal assistance and extradition treaties hijacked by foreign powers to go after dissenting voices in Europe.
 
In Mike Pompeo’s memoirs, which I read in my prison cell, the former CIA Director bragged about how he pressured the US Attorney General to bring an extradition case against me in response to our publications about the CIA.
 
Indeed, acceding to Pompeo’s efforts, the US Attorney General reopened the investigation against me that Obama had closed and re-arrested Manning, this time as a witness.
 
Manning was held in prison for over a year and fined a thousand dollars a day in a formal attempt to coerce her into providing secret testimony against me.
She ended up attempting to take her own life.
We usually think of attempts to force journalists to testify against their sources. But Manning was now a source being forced to testify against their journalist.
 
By December 2017, CIA Director Pompeo had got his way, and the US government issued a warrant to the UK for my extradition.
 
The UK government kept the warrant secret from the public for two more years, while it, the US government, and the new president of Ecuador moved to shape the political, legal, and diplomatic grounds for my arrest.
 
When powerful nations feel entitled to target individuals beyond their borders, those individuals do not stand a chance unless there are strong safeguards in place and a state willing to enforce them. Without them no individual has a hope of defending themselves against the vast resources that a state aggressor can deploy.
 
If the situation were not already bad enough in my case, the US government asserted a dangerous new global legal position. Only US citizens have free speech rights. Europeans and other nationalities do not have free speech rights. But the US claims its Espionage Act still applies to them regardless of where they are. So Europeans in Europe must obey US secrecy law with no defences at all as far as the US government is concerned. An American in Paris can talk about what the US government is up to – perhaps. But for a Frenchman in Paris, to do so is a crime without any defence and he may be extradited just like me.
 
Now that one foreign government has formally asserted that Europeans have no free speech rights, a dangerous precedent has been set. Other powerful states will inevitably follow suit.
 
The war in Ukraine has already seen the criminalisation of journalists in Russia, but based on the precedent set in my extradition, there is nothing to stop Russia, or indeed any other state, from targeting European journalists, publishers, or even social media users, by claiming that their secrecy laws have been violated.
 
The rights of journalists and publishers within the European space are seriously threatened. Transnational repression cannot become the norm here.
 
As one of the world’s two great norm-setting institutions, PACE must act. The criminalisation of newsgathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere.
 
I was formally convicted, by a foreign power, for asking for, receiving, and publishing truthful information about that power while I was in Europe.
 
The fundamental issue is simple: Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs.
 
Journalism is not a crime; it is a pillar of a free and informed society.
 
Mr Chairman, distinguished delegates, if Europe is to have a future where the freedom to speak and the freedom to publish the truth are not privileges enjoyed by a few but rights guaranteed to all then it must act so that what has happened in my case never happens to anyone else.

I wish to express my deepest gratitude to this assembly, to the conservatives, social democrats, liberals, leftists, greens, and independents – who have supported me throughout this ordeal and to the countless individuals who have advocated tirelessly for my release.
 
It is heartening to know that in a world often divided by ideology and interests, there remains a shared commitment to the protection of essential human liberties.
 
Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroads. I fear that unless norm setting institutions like PACE wake up to the gravity of the situation it will be too late.
 
Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few.”

Comments by PCR:

Over the many years of Julian Assange’s ordeal at the hands of the Swedish, British, and US governments, I exposed to the extent of the information I had the falseness of every accusation against Assange. These false concocted accusations and attacks ranged from lies that he raped two Swedish women, to the revocation of his asylum and Ecuadoran citizenship by a corrupt Ecuadoran successor president in exchange for a large US loan, to the denial by British “justice” of habeas corpus protection to Assange and, in my opinion and that of many others, of British “justice” attempting to kill Assange by keeping him for years in solitary confinement despite the absence of charges and conviction, to the CIA’s use of two corrupt Trump appointees–Pompeno and Barr–to indict Assange for the crime of being a journalist.

After reading Assange’s address I realized that all of this was just the tip of the iceberg. What the United States government did to Assange is worse than can be found in any dystopian novel.

Read Assange’s speech, and then ask yourself how you can possibly believe you are a free person living in a free democratic country with accountable government where there is justice, mercy, integrity, morality, and the rule of law.

Also notice that it was the Obama Justice Department that dropped all attempts to indict Assange as there are no legal grounds for his indictment, and that it was the Trump Justice Department that reopened the case under CIA pressure. If memory serves, the whores who comprise Western journalism came out against Assange, that is, the dumbshits came out against their own profession, and conservative pundits accused Assange of being a Russian spy. Get the traitor, get the traitor, screamed the presstitutes and conservative pundits.

It was pressure from the Council of Europe and funding of Assange’s lawyers by donations from individuals that caused the CIA to settle for Assange’s plea that he was “guilty of practicing journalism.” We might laugh, but what the CIA has accomplished is a possible precedent for the criminalization of truthful, objective journalism, and its replacement with enforcement of official narratives. Assange himself says he “pled guilty to being a journalist.” The guilty plea implies that journalism is a crime.

How many people will be bothered to understand Assange’s treatment by the “great free democracy, the light of the world”? Hardly any, just as hardly any understand that Washington has provoked Russia to the point of nuclear war, and a majority of Americans, it seems, support Israel’s relentless slaughter of Palestinians redefined by Israel as “Muslim terrorists.”

Suppose people were able to free themselves from insouciance and gain access to truth and understanding, what can they do without political leaders?

Where are their leaders? I can only think of two who have recognizable names: Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. How have the ruling establishments reacted to these two representatives of the people? Trump has been served by the “freedom and democracy” US government with four criminal indictments for which he is on trial. Le Pen is on trial for representing French ethnicity. The official charge is embezzlement of funds, but her defense of a French ethnic nation makes her a racist under the ruling DEI ideology, and that is the real charge against her.

How good are these two leaders? Le Pen must be pretty good. She has stood the heat for many years, and the party has grown. Possibly it is the largest of the French political parties, but the Establishment has been successful keeping it out of office. It seems Le Pen is on trial on an annual basis.

Trump is a neophyte, He defeated himself in his first term by stupidly surrounding himself with the representatives of the ruling establishment that he thought he was going to overthrow. Instead they overthrew him.

Trump claims he has learned Washington since appointing Gestapo operatives such as Pompano and Barr and refusing to defend General Flynn, his only sensible appointment. But what has he learned? Did he learn that the Establishment is more powerful than the President and that second time around he had best get along with the Establishment?

Leaders are rare. Even if one appears, he cannot count on the people’s support. Cicero, Quaestor, Procounsel, and Counsel of Rome, tried to rally the Roman people from their self-destruction and paid for it with his life.

Trump tried to give power back to the American people and was punished for it with four criminal indictments.

Le Pen tries to represent French ethnicity and is constantly legally harassed.

When the people themselves lose interest in their rights and cannot bring themselves to fight to regain them, they lose their freedom.

In the United States today, and I think throughout the Western world, law has been weaponized against all who openly dissent from the Ruling Establishment’s narratives and agendas. As law is now a weapon in the hands of the state, why would Democrats, whose hand is on this weapon, permit an election to take it away from them?

A sinking ship cannot change its course.

If the Democrats steal a third national election, and the American people again accept it, there will not be another election. Americans will have crossed the Rubicon into tyranny. Older Americans will be slow to realize it, and new generations, having been born into tyranny will not know what has been lost, having never experienced freedom. This is the way liberty dies.

PCR: How Can Trump Win with 30 Million Illegals Voting Against Him?

From Paul Craig Roberts

The Democrats Are Doing Every Possible Thing to Enable Immigrant-invaders to vote.

Democrats are passing laws to make sure that a non-citizen who just walked across the border has a vote equal to a United States native-born citizen. Immigrant-invaders are given federal IDs which entitle them to drivers’ licenses. Many jurisdictions automatically enroll driver license recipients on the voting list.

Two days ago California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill preventing local governments from requiring voters to present identification at the polls. The Democrat California government has made it a felony to prevent election fraud.

The Democrats call it Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. DEI is not for us racist white supremacy citizens, the American majority. It is for the immigrant-invaders who just walked across the border. The Democrats are the party of the immigrant-invaders, and tens of millions of dumbshit white Americans will vote for the party of immigrant-invaders.

It is even worse than that. The Biden/Kamala Regime are using our taxpayers dollars to finance NGOs to recruit from 150 countries immigrant invaders and to provide them with transportation, to Latin America and with food, water, medical care, and sleeping quarters as they march to our border. When Washington’s recruits of immigrant-invaders reach the border, federal and local authorities are required to let them in.

Nothing is being done about it. The Republican House and Senate Democrats have not cut off the funding that is flooding America with crime and people unable to support themselves. How do uneducated people who do not speak the language become a work force? How do tens of millions of people who do not speak the language and do not have a first world education become a work force in a first world country?

Why is this happening? Why is discussion of the dissolution of the United States into a Tower of Babel blocked by the media and authorities with police power to silence.

Why does the Democrat Party describe native-born Americans who are opposed to their country being overrun by immigrant-invaders as white supremacists, while Democrats focus on saving Ukraine’s borders? Why are Ukraine’s borders more important than America’s?

Holy shlit. Democrat delegate to the US House of Representatives accidentally says the quiet part out loud.

She admits the DOJ and FBI are weaponized to go after people with opposing views.

The DOJ and FBI "serve as a check against white nationalism, great replacement… pic.twitter.com/KRIVtAwCkM

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 25, 2024

Is there a Democrat anywhere who cares about America’s borders? Apparently not.

Is there any politician, other than Donald Trump, who speaks for Americans?

Yesterday the Democrats in Minneopolis made a non-citizen a police officer. So now the Democrats have made it possible for a non-citizen to arrest an American citizen. The Democrats call this “inclusion.” Do you look forward to being arrested by a non-citizen? This is your consequence for being so totally stupid that you voted Democrat. The dumbshit American voters have destroyed themselves and all of their prospects.

The Democrats have established a regime in which American citizens have lost their Constitutional protections and are considered to be evil racists and enemies of democracy who must be replaced by third world immigrant-invaders. This is happening before our eyes. If it hasn’t happened to your community yet, it won’t be long.

It is the same throughout the Western world. The European Council on Foreign Relations published a report a few days ago on September 25 by Pawel Zerka, obviously not a Western European name. The report published by the European Council concluded that Europe is too white and too European. So here we have Europeans turning Europe’s fate over to someone who intends to bring upon them the Camp of the Saints. Perhaps people this stupid deserve their destruction.

To underline the point, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the largest French political party that is kept out of political office by conspiracy of the ruling elite, has been placed on trial. The false charges are that she and her party embezzled EU funds. This is such a nonsensical charge as to be mind blowing. The EU is not going to give any funds to a French NATIONALIST political party. And even if it mysteriously happened, Le Pen is not sufficiently stupid, having target written all over her, to embezzle them.

But in the Western world today truth is of zero consequence. Law is nothing else but a weapon to destroy those in the way of the Woke Agenda.

White people are history. They have placed their fate in the hands of their enemies. Perhaps a few will be kept in zoos.

Matt Taibbi Unleashes his Inner Thomas Paine at 'Rescue the Republic'

 

From Matt Taibbi at Racket News

So what do all of us at “Rescue the Republic” have in common? Nothing!

In a pre-Trump universe chimpanzees would be typing their fourth copy of Hamlet before RFK Jr., Robert Malone, Zuby, Tulsi Gabbard, Russell, Bret Weinstein and I would organically get together for any reason, much less an event like this.

True, everyone speaking has been censored. The issues were all different, but everyone disagreed with “authoritative voices” about something.

Saying no is very American. From “Don’t Tread on Me!” to “Nuts” to “You Cannot Be Serious!” defiance is in our DNA.

Now disagreement is seen as threat, and according to John Kerry, must be “hammered out of existence.” The former Presidential candidate just complained at a World Economic Forum meeting that “it’s really hard to govern” and “our First Amendment stands as a major block” to the important work of hammering out unhealthy choices.

In the open he said this! I was telling Tim Pool about this backstage and he asked, “Was black ooze coming out of his mouth?”

Kerry added that it’s “really hard to build consensus,” and told Forum members they need to “win the right to govern” and “be free to implement change.”

What do they need to be free of? The First Amendment, yes, but more importantly: us. Complainers. That’s our shared experience. We are obstacles to consensus.

My name is Matt Taibbi. I’ve been a reporter for 35 years, covering everything from Pentagon accounting to securities fraud to drone warfare. My son a few years ago asked what I do. I said, “Daddy writes about things that are so horrible they’re interesting.”

Two years ago, I was invited by Elon Musk to look at internal correspondence at Twitter. This led to stories called the Twitter Files whose main revelation was a broad government effort to suppress speech.

I was invited to talk about risks to the First Amendment, but to spare the suspense: that battle is lost. State censorship is a fact in most of the West. In February our European allies began observing the Digital Services Act, which requires Internet platforms to enforce judgments of state-appointed content reviewers called “trusted flaggers.”

Everything we found in the Twitter Files fits in a sentence: an alphabet soup of enforcement agencies informally is already doing pretty much the same thing as Europe’s draconian new law.

Now, is it against the law when a White House official calls Facebook and asks to ban a journalist for writing that the Covid vaccine “doesn’t stop infection or transmission”? I think hell yes. It certainly violates the spirit of the First Amendment, even if judges are found to say it keeps to the letter.

But this is post-9/11 America. Whether about surveillance or torture or habeas corpus or secret prisons or rendition or any of a dozen other things, WE IGNORE LAWS. Institutional impunity is the chief characteristic of our current form of government.

We have concepts like “illegal but necessary”: the government may torture, the public obviously can’t. The state may intercept phone calls, you can’t. The state may search without warrants, assassinate, snatch geolocations from your phones, any of a hundred things officially prohibited, but allowed. This concept requires that officials have special permission to ignore laws.

Ten years ago, we were caught spying on three different French presidents as well as companies like BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Peugeot, Renault, and Total. Barack Obama called the French to apologize, but did we stop? We did indict the person who released the news, Julian Assange.

Congratulations to Julian on getting out, by the way. And shame on every journalist who did not call for his release.

WE IGNORE LAWS. It’s what America does. With this in mind, our government has moved past censorship to the larger project of changing the American personality. They want a more obedient, timorous, fearful citizen. Their tool is the Internet, a vast machine for doling out reward and punishment through likes and views, shaming or deamplification. The mechanics are complicated but the core concept is simple: you’re upranked for accepting authority, downranked for questioning it, with questions of any kind increasingly viewed as a form of disinformation.

Let me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class, from which the “anti-disinformation” complex comes. By the way: there are no working-class censors, poor censors, hungry censors. The dirty secret of “content moderation” everywhere is that it’s a tiny sliver of the educated rich correcting everyone else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it.

America has the most useless aristocrats in history. Even the French dandies marched to the razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to the Michael Haydens, John Brennans, James Clappers, Mike McFauls and Rick Stengels who make up America’s self-appointed behavior police.

In prerevolutionary France even the most drunken, depraved, debauched libertine had to be prepared to back up an insolent act with a sword duel to the death. Our aristocrats pee themselves at the sight of mean tweets. They have no honor, no belief, no poetry, art, or humor, no patriotism, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They’re simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off.

They have one idea, not even an idea but a sensation: fear. Rightly so, because they snitch each other out at the drop of a hat; they’re afraid of each other, but they’re also terrified of everyone outside their social set and live in near-constant fear of being caught having an original opinion. They believe in the manner of herd animals, who also live whole lives without knowing an anxiety-free minute: they believe things with blinding zeal until 51% change their minds, and then like deer the rest bolt in that direction. We saw that with the Biden is sharp as a tack/No, Biden must step aside for the Politics of Joy switch.

I grew up a liberal Democrat and can’t remember having even most of the same beliefs as my friends. Now, millions of alleged intellectuals claim identical beliefs about vast ranges of issues and this ludicrous mass delusion is the precondition for “disinformation studies,” really the highly unscientific science of punishing deviation from the uniform belief set — what another excommunicated liberal, my friend Thomas Frank, calls the “Utopia of Scolding.”

“Freedom of speech” is a beautiful phrase, strong, optimistic. It has a ring to it. But it’s being replaced in the discourse by “disinformation” and “misinformation,” words that aren’t beautiful but full of the small, pettifogging, bureaucratic anxiety of a familiar American villain: the busybody, the prohibitionist, the Nosey Parker, the snoop. 

H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere is happy.” That streak of our early European settlers unfortunately survives in us and keeps surfacing through moral panics. Four hundred years ago it was witches, then it was Catholic immigrants, then “the devil’s music,” comic books, booze, communists, and now, information.

Because “freedom of speech” is now frequently described as a stalking horse for hate and discrimination — the UN High Commissioner Volker Türk scolded Elon Musk that “free speech is not a free pass” — it’s becoming one of those soon-to-be-extinct terms. Speech is mentioned in “reputable” media only as a possible vector for the informational disease known as misinformation. Soon all that will remain of the issue for most people is a flutter of the nerves, reminding them to avoid thinking about it.

The end game is not controlling speech. They’re already doing that. The endgame is getting us to forget we ever had anything to say.

To small thinkers free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. The people who built this country, whatever else you can say about them, weren’t small thinkers. They were big, big thinkers, and I mean that not just in terms of intellect but arrogance, gall, brass, audacity, cheek.

Kurt Vonnegut called the Founding Fathers Sea Pirates. He wasn’t far off. These people stole a continent from the King of England. And got away with it. Eminem said there ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks — there was nothing halfway about the Constitution authors.

James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, foresaw the exact situation of a government that IGNORES LAWS. In fact, he was originally opposed to the Bill of Rights because he didn’t think “paper guarantees” could stop a corrupt government. So he put together a document designed to inspire a personality type that would resist efforts to undo the experiment.

Here an important quality came into play: Madison was a great writer. The 44 words of his First Amendment were composed with extraordinary subtlety:

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.

The First Amendment didn’t confer rights or entrust government with guaranteeing them. Instead, the Founders stood to the side and, like an old country recognizing a new country, simply acknowledged an eternal truth: the freedom of the human mind.

This is what censors never understand. Speech is free. Trying to stop it is like catching butterflies with a hammer, stopping a flood with a teaspoon… Choose your metaphor, but a fool’s errand. You can apply as many rules as you want, threaten punishment, lock people up. The human mind always sets its own course, often in spite of itself. As the poet William Ernest Henley explained:

It matters not how straight the gate,

How charged with punishment the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

Unlike the busybodies of the Internet Age, to whom words are just another overproduced, over-plentiful, unnecessary, and vaguely hazardous commodity like greenhouse gases or plastic soda bottles, people like Madison understood the value of language.

In 1787 you might have to walk a mile or five just to see a printed word. It was likely to be the Bible. I’m not religious, but I’ve read the Bible, and so of course did they. They knew the Gospel of John: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.”

That was a reference to Genesis: In the beginning, God said “Let there be light,” and the world was born. For them, the idea of the word was suffused with the power of creation itself. This wasn’t law. This was metaphysics. It was cosmogony.

A little country run by a bunch of jumped-up tobacconists and corn farmers needed an ally to withstand the wrath of European royalty. They got it by lighting a match under human ingenuity and creativity and passion. It was rash, risky, reckless, and it worked.

What was the American personality? Madison said he hoped to strengthen the “will of the community,” but other revolutionaries weren’t quite so polite. Thomas Paine's central message was that the humblest farmer was a towering moral giant compared to the invertebrate scum who wore crowns and lived in British castles.

Common Sense told us to stand up straight. Never bow, especially not to a politician, because as Paine explained — I want you to think of John Kerry and Hayden and Cheney here — “Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey… are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”

Oscar Wilde noted ours was the only country in the world where being a kook was respectable. Every other country shunned the tinkerer or mad inventor and cheerfully donated them to us, turbocharging our American experiment.

We welcomed crazy and the world has light bulbs, the telephone, movies, airplanes, submarines, the Internet, false teeth, the Colt .45, rock and roll, hip-hop and monster dunks as a result. Wilde lampooned our ignorance and lack of artistic sophistication and tolerance for ugly words — hilariously he refused to speak at a town that named itself “Grigsville” — but his final observation was a supreme compliment:

The Americans are the best politically educated people in the world. It is well worth one’s while to go to a country which can teach us the beauty of the word FREEDOM and the value of the thing LIBERTY.

In my twenties, while traveling through the former Soviet Union, I noticed that people from other cultures often had hang-ups about authority. Men from autocratic countries in the Middle East always seemed to whisper out of the corners of their mouths, as if they were afraid someone might hear, even about meaningless things. They would say: “Listen, my friend, the only good song George Michael ever wrote was ‘Faith…’”

Why are we whispering? I’d ask. I don’t know, they’d say.

People who grew up in places with the Queen on their money were class-conscious and calibrated what they could say according to who else was at the table. Russians were like us, expressive and free-spirited and funny, but infected with terrible fatalism: they froze around badges and insignias and other symbols of authority as if they had magic power.

Over time I realized: I liked being an American. For the first time I was seeing the American experience through the eyes of foreigners. I did an interview once at a restaurant in Moscow called Scandanavia. A group of European diplomats was having a conference and complained about a table of loud American businessmen. A young Swedish waiter was sent to deal with them.

He leaned over to the biggest and loudest of these finance bros and said, “If you could keep your voice down, sir…”

The American turned and said:

“Is that a question?”

The kid froze. The American said: “You mean ‘Be quiet,’ right?”

“Yes.”

The American got up. “Look, you’re over here because a bunch of Belgians are too afraid to come over here themselves. You’re carrying that like the weight of the world. I can see it your shoulders. Let it go, man.”

Now those diplomats grew spines. “Hey,” they said. “We are not Belgians. We’re—”

“You’re Belgians,” the American snapped. Then he gave the floor to the kid who said, “Please be quiet.” The American took out a $100 bill and stuck it in the kid’s vest pocket. He walked around the rest of the night like he owned the place. He might have gone on to do just that.

After that I realized every American has a little bit of asshole in him. William Blake said, “Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.” Some struggle with this concept. Americans are born knowing it.

Incidentally propaganda is the same trick I saw in that restaurant. It’s always someone trying to make you feel bad for their weakness, their mistakes. Don’t be ground down by it. Stand up straight and give it back.

Which is why I say: Kerry, Hayden, Cheney, Adam Schiff, Craig Newmark, Reid Hoffman, Pierre Omidyar, Leon Panetta, and especially that Time editor turned self-appointed censor Rick Stengel should be packed in a rocket and launched into the fucking sun.

Let's be clear about our language. Madison famously eschewed the word toleration or tolerance when it came to religion and insisted on the words freedom or liberty instead. This became the basis for the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which in turn became the basis for the Bill of Rights. That's why we don't have “toleration of religion” or “toleration of speech.” We have freedom of speech. The right word for the right time.

To the people who are suggesting that there are voices who should be ignored because they're encouraging mistrust or skepticism of authority, or obstructing consensus: I'm not encouraging you to be skeptical of authority. I'm encouraging you to DEFY authority. That is the right word for this time.

To all those Snoops and Nosey Parkers sitting in their Homeland Security-funded “Centers of Excellence,” telling us day after day we must think as they say and vote as they say or else we’re traitorous Putin-loving fascists and enablers of “dangerous” disinformation:

Motherfucker, I’m an American. That shit does not work on me. And how can you impugn my patriotism, when you’re sitting in Klaus Schwab’s lap, apologizing for the First Amendment to a crowd of Europeans? Look in the mirror.

I’m not the problem. We’re not the problem.

You’re the problem.

YOU SUCK.

Thank you.

Full-on Stalinism Is HERE: Persecuted Former FBI Specialist Urges Americans to Stock Up on Food and Prepare For Hardship

Marcus Allen was targeted by feds for merely questioning why federal informants were in January 6 crowd.

From Modernity News:

Marcus Allen, a former FBI staff operations specialist, told the Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government that he was deliberately targeted by higher ups for asking why there were so many federal informants in the crowd at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

“The FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States, suspended my security clearance, suspended my pay and refused to allow me to obtain outside employment or even accept charity,” Allen testified.

🚨 FBI Whistleblower Urges Americans to Vote, Arm Yourself, Stock up 3-4 Months Supply of Food and Water, and Pray 🙏

“This is a warning, to the American people I say.. I personally have no confidence the FBI will reign in its own conduct.”

•Marcus Allen, a former FBI staff… pic.twitter.com/FC8gIbIELm

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 25, 2024

The feds came down hard on Allen after he sent an email on September 21st, 2021 which his supervisors claimed contained hyperlinks to “extremist propaganda” from “questionable sources”.

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who testified alongside Allen, is investigating the FBI’s security clearance and adjudication process, including the targeting of “political conservatives who were seen as loyal to Trump or resistant to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.”

“There are no words strong enough to describe the impact the FBI’s lies about me have had on me and my family,” said Allen during an emotional statement. “The stress has taken a toll on our health and our children have suffered, traumatized by the thought of our door getting kicked in or Dad not coming home.”

However, it was Allen’s final comments that raised many eyebrows.

The former FBI staffer urged Americans to use their right to vote despite any doubts they may have about election integrity.

“My other recommendations are in the natural order,” Allen continued, “Arm yourself and know how to defend yourself, make three to four friends in your neighborhood and promise to come to each other’s mutual aid in times of hardship.”

“And during the great depression, people stocked up their pantry, so I think that’s a good practice especially in our economic times, and make sure you have three to four months of food,” he added.

Allen also urged Americans to pray and read the bible regularly.

Javier Milei Torches U.N. at General Assembly: Covid Lockdowns a ‘Crime Against Humanity,’ ‘Ridiculous’ WEF Leading World to ‘Bleak Future’

From Breitbart.com

 

Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the U.N. flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom.

Milei introduced himself as a “libertarian economist … honored with the mandate of the presidency of the Argentine Republic” thanks to the “precipitous failure of over a century of collectivist policies,” marking a notable rift from many General Assembly speeches that amplify U.N. leadership messages on climate change, wealth redistribution, and silencing “misinformation.” Milei became president in December 2023, so Tuesday’s event was his first opportunity to address the forum.

Before delivered a list of damning facts about the current state of the United Nations, Milei applauded the institution for successfully preventing a third world war, the original purpose of its existence.

“We went from having two world wars in less than 40 years, which together took over 120 million lives, to having 70 consecutive years of relative peace and global stability,” he noted, “under an order that allowed the whole world integrate itself commercially, compete, and prosper.”

This “outstanding success in the history of nations,” Milei stated, brought about a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah, which the president, an avid student of Judaism, read to the forum:

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

But the U.N. “started to mutate,” he continued, and became “a leviathan of multiple tentacles that wants to decide not just what every state or nation should do, but how all the citizens of the world should live.” The current U.N. is “a supranational government model of international bureaucrats who want to impose on the citizens of the world a determined way of life,” he warned.

Milei then launched into a searing condemnation of the recent United Nations record, condemning its support of Wuhan coronavirus lockdowns and its support of totalitarian regimes:

This is how we have seen how an organization that was born to defend the rights of man has become one of the principal advocates for the systematic violation of liberty – for example, with the worldwide quarantines during 2020 which should be considered a crime against humanity.

In this very house, which claims to defend human rights, bloody dictatorships such as those of Cuba and Venezuela have been allowed onto the Human Rights Council with not even the least reproach. In this very house, which claims to defend the rights of women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women allows entry to countries that punish women for showing skin. In this very house, systematically, they have voted against the state of Israel – which is the only country in the Middle East that defends liberal democracy, while showing simultaneously a total incapacity to respond to the scourge of terrorism.

“Crimes against humanity” is a catch-all term in international law for actions that, on a global scale, are prosecutable by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Milei did not single out anyone to charge with the crime, but the context of accusing the United Nations of playing a role in supporting repressive quarantines points to the head of the U.N.’s World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was reelected to lead the agency uncontested despite his egregious failure in contain the novel coronavirus or holding China accountable for its destruction of relevant biological evidence and silence as the virus began spreading in Wuhan in December 2019. Tedros’ current main project is the development of a “pandemic treaty” that would greatly empower the W.H.O. to act above sovereign states in the face of public health emergencies.

Milei also used his speech to condemn the World Economic Forum (WEF), a venue he has visited to share similar condemnations of globalism.

“What also hasn’t helped is the tutelage of the World Economic Forum, where they promote ridiculous policies with Malthusian veneers, like the policies of Mission Zero, which harm above all poor countries,” Milei told the United Nations, “to policies tied to sexual and reproductive rights — when the birth rates of Western countries are collapsing, announcing a bleak future for all.”

Milei predicted that the world is “at the end of a cycle.”

“Globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda have crashed into reality and no longer have credible solutions to offer to real-world problems — in fact, they never had them,” he declared. “If Agenda 2030 failed, as its own promoters recognize, the response should be to ask ourselves if it was not a poorly conceived plan from the beginning, accept that reality, and change course.”

The Argentine president concluded by summarizing the creed of his anti-collectivist, libertarian movement in Argentina.

“We believe in the defense of life — for all. We believe in the defense of the right to property — for all,” he listed. “We believe in the freedom of expression — for all. “We believe in freedom of religion — for all. We believe in freedom of commerce — for all. And we believe in limiting governments — all of them.”

What a fantastic man for our times!

 

An Apparent Coup in the White House; Biden and Blinken Likely Sidelined

Could it be that the threat of Nuclear War with Russia has been significantly reduced? It could be. Perhaps more sober people in the Pentagon have had enough of the Biden Admin's insanity?

From Martin Armstrong’s Private Blog

Because Biden is basically braindead (and has been for some time), Neocon warmonger Blinken is rumored to have put himself in charge of our government and running the entire Ukraine Warmongering insanity ( and add Russia, Iran, China, etc to their truly insane targets!) in cahoots with the UK These people in the entirely demented Biden WH are beyond insane and delusional. Blinken really should be put down like a rabid dog and many others transported to Guantanamo.

The word is that there has been a Coup d’etat in the White House with the Pentagon pushing Blinken and Sulivan to the side and overruling them on war with both Russia and the Middle East.

Armstrong believes that the Pentagon and even the CIA follow Socrates and my constant warning that Blinken is out of his Neocon Mind and he is engaging in four fronts and the United States will lose this battle if he is not restrained.

I have been screaming that Blinken is in control of the White House. Maybe that was the final straw. But I believe we are looking at a coup (soft) against Blinken, and the Pentagon is not going to allow long-range missiles to be used to attack inside Russia, for Zelensky is UNTRUSTWORTHY, as he will use them to attack Moscow itself.  One of his contacts in Moscow this morning has relayed to me that everything is quiet. Let us hope this plays out and the Neocons are neutered.

Was There a Palace Coup at the White House?

Entirely by Alex Krainer on Substack

It appears that the U.S. military leadership took Vladimir Putin's warning about this escalation seriously. His words are worth pondering carefully:

“There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about authorizing or banning the Kiev regime from striking across the entire territory. They are already striking with the help of drones and other means. ... The Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern long-range precision systems of Western manufacture. It cannot do this. It can only do so using intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have. This is data only from EU satellites or from the United States in general, from NATO satellites. … And so this is not about allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike. It is about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved or not. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct participation. And this already, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the nature of the conflict. This would mean that NATO, US and the European countries, the United States are at war with Russia. If that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”

According to some sources, Putin’s warning was reinforced through back-channel communications between the Russian military leadership and their American counterparts who understand that they were being pushed over the edge of total war. In response, it seems that the American military leadership took over the conduct of the US foreign policy, both in terms of military and diplomatic affairs. State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined. This is why the US-UK agreement to escalate against Russia didn’t get the Blaster’s signature.

The change in leadership could also be felt in the Middle East. General Michael E. Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command visited Israel last week (the second time in a week's interval), apparently also to announce a new policy. Allegedly, he informed the Israelis that if they provoke a war against Hezbollah or against Iran, the U.S. will not come to their aid: they're on their own. 

The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won't be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments.

A Coup in the Executive Branch?? Apparently So.

Entirely From James H. Kunstler at Substack

“The threat of World War Three may have abated for the moment, but in a peculiar and disconcerting way, viz. a coup in the executive branch. The gadfly Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, long ago chief-of-staff to Sec’y of State Colin Powell, reports that the Pentagon has cancelled “Joe Biden,” that is, taken him out of the decision-loop for anything. Well, you ask yourself, how is it possible he had even remained remotely close to any decision-loop this long, in any case, given the problem of his obviously broken brain? But now, it is unofficially official: just eat your mint-chocolate ice-cream and shut up, and let Dr. Jill run those “cabinet meeting” photo ops.

According to Col. Wilkerson, Sec’y of Defense Lloyd Austin told the “president” to his face that there will be no flinging of US-supplied long-range missiles from Ukraine “deep into Russia,” as the neocon-infested White House been chattering about endlessly. Wiser heads deep in the DOD HQ have decided the matter. Lump it, if you must, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan. The Russians’ “red-line” on such a caper is so wide you can see it from the International Space Station — that is, if you’re an astronaut marooned up there due to combined NASA/Boeing incompetence. . . but that’s another story.

Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was all revved up for the missile operation and flew to Washington for a one-to-one meet-up with “JB” to get the go-ahead. The Brits are avid for another World War. The last two went so well for them that they kissed their vast empire goodbye. Now they want to kiss goodbye their sceptered isle itself, which has almost no economy left and is overrun by cultural hostiles who are not into Shakespeare. The Brits’ floundering government is a posse of monomaniacs fixated on defeating Russia which, at this point in history, is like a dormouse (Glis glis) facing down a brown bear (Ursus arctos).

“Joe Biden,” reportedly “furious” at losing his executive power, was constrained to tell Mr. Starmer that the missile strike op was off, which left the UK PM miffed that he had crossed the ocean for no reason. Who knows, the Brits are so nuts these days that perhaps they’ll try to pull it off on their own. Mr. Zelensky, the no-longer-elected leader of Ukraine was begging them to try it because Ukraine has nothing left. NATO as a whole really has nothing left, either. Not much of a combined military, scant munitions left in the cupboard, and no will to wage war among the depressed citizens of its member nations.

There is nothing left except to come to terms on a settlement that will leave Ukraine NOT a member of NATO. The entire affair has been a humiliation for NATO and America, especially for the “Joe Biden” management team (whatever it actually consists of these days). The longer they refuse to engage in talks, the less of Ukraine will be left as a sovereign entity — having proven to the world that its sovereignty rests solely on its capacity to be used as a catspaw by the American neocon / intel blob.

You’re reminded that for seventy years prior to 2014, Ukraine was not a problem for anyone until we made it a problem on-purpose — our purpose being idiotic and malicious — and Ukraine could, in theory, revert to not being a problem for anyone again. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

Armstrong: Slavery is Alive and Well in 'Prison Nation' Amerika

From Martin Armstrong at Armstrong Economics:

[Doug here: Also see Prosecutorial Abuse: DA's Can Even Indict a Ham Sandwich, also from Martin Armstrong, which describes our totally broken legal system]

Slavery is alive and well in the United States. Two-thirds of US prisoners, 800,000 men and women, have jobs in federal and state prisons. While 80% of prisoners work to maintain the prison in terms of maintenance, a growing portion of prisoners hold jobs for private companies. Estimates that that these prisoners are producing at least $11 billion annually for the US government and receiving little to nothing in return.

Non-industry workers can earn between 13 cents to 52 cents per hour. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas are not required to pay these workers. “There’s no way we can take care of our facilities, our roads, our ditches, if we didn’t have inmate labor,” Warren Yeager, a former Gulf county, Florida, commissioner said to the Florida Times-Union. In other words, states have become reliant on free labor from prisoners and actively put this into their budgets.

What some do not understand is that private companies are also employing prisoners. McDonald’s, Burger King, Golden Corral, Walmart, Wendy’s, IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Texas Instruments, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, and Target are among hundreds of private companies that have active agreements with state governments to farm out their prisoners. The private companies pay the prisons directly, bypassing the people who are forced to work long hours with no protections.

These workers have a far lower rate at being released on parole. The state believes they are safe enough to work among the public, but refuse to offer them an opportunity to leave. Only non-violent offenders are offered these jobs and most are swindled into accepting the positions to obtain favorable housing.

Alabama, for example, allows non-violent prisoners to work in the private sector for pennies. Yet, the state takes away 40% of their pay before taxes, charges them fees for transportation, laundry, and any extras they find. Alabama now earns more than $450 million annually on the backs of these workers.  It comes at no surprise that the parole rate in Alabama plummeted to 8% in 2023.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) found that over 75% of workers are unable to take off work, and if they do, they risk being sentenced to solitary confinement and prevented from visitations with their families. About 70% of these workers said they cannot even afford to call home or purchase soap. They are denied all rights and treated as sub-humans. “The United States has a long, problematic history of using incarcerated workers as a source of cheap labor and to subsidize the costs of our bloated prison system,” said Turner, a principal human rights researcher with the ACLU’s Human Rights Program.

“The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners’ work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself,” notes a study study by the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the US prison complex of being “an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and concentration camps.”

Private prisons, in general, operate as businesses as they are guaranteed a fee per inmate, which US taxpayers pay. The majority of people are African American and Hispanic, but we hear silence from communities demanding reparations and failing to acknowledge that modern-day slavery is alive and well in the US. The private sector is creating jobs for the prison industry on behalf of the US government and this is one of the reasons that we see a decline in available jobs. The business is extremely lucrative because they profit on holding the inmates as well as forcing them to work.

So, these human beings were deemed stable enough to work unsupervised with the public. Yet, those same decision-makers turn around at sentencing and tell these workers that they are simply too dangerous to return home. This is why the United States, home of the free, hosts the largest prison population in the world. It always comes down to greed and money.

Pepe Escobar: Robert Kennedy Junior’s Greatest Red Pill Moments

From Pepe Escobar’s Fren Zone:

See the full video collection of the Best of RFK Jr.’s Red Pill moments on Rumble Here:

Click THIS LINK FOR THE DOCUMENTARY AT RUMBLE

[First let me show you some search results from Google when I searched “RFK Jr.’s Red Pills” Take a look at the slime-ball media puppets, the ass-lickers of the regime (click any image for a photo viewer):

Efforts by MSM to Discredit RFK Jr: It's Bad. But Not the Worst I've Seen

Now, on to the best collection of Red Pill moment’s (which are rough transcripts of the above Rumble Video) from Truth-teller RFK Jr., once again via Pepe Escobar:]

Nobody in the history of the planet has ever complied their way out of totalitarian control

“There are three rules you need to know and should memorize:

Number One: Every power that the government takes from us, it will never relinquish voluntarily. They told us they wanted lockdowns for two weeks, just to flatten the curve, just to help the hospitals. But then 20 months later they still have us locked down. And even when they give up, when they stop the lockdowns and let us go back to normal, they are not relinquishing power. This is so they can do it to you again and again and again. They now have that power and they will never let it go until we make them let it go.

Number Two: Every power they take from us they will ultimately abuse to the maximum extent possible.

Number Three: Nobody in the history of the planet has ever complied their way out of totalitarian control.”

Robert Kennedy on the Military Industrial Complex

Robert Kennedy JR says that the military-industrial complex and the CIA killed JFK and Robert Kennedy because they wanted to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces. He says that the Vietnam War, assassinations of political figures, 9/11, and Covid have pushed us further into a security state.

"Eisenhower made the most important speech probably in American history. He warned America that if we were not careful that the military-industrial complex, this permanent warfare economy and machine that we created, would destroy our democracy, would subvert all the institutions that we created and impoverish our country and turn us into a surveillance and security state. My uncle tried to make peace with the Soviet Union but the CIA thwarted it. My uncle said I want to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. The CIA wanted him to go to Laos, but he refused. They wanted him to go Vietnam, he refused. They wanted him to go war with Russia, instead he made friends. My uncle was killed, almost certainly by the CIA and the military-industrial complex. My father then runs against them, he also gets killed. Again, almost certainly by the CIA. The man who actually fired the shot that killed him was a CIA asset. A guy named Eugene Thane Cesar. Lee Harvey Oswald we now know was a CIA asset. We went through all these traumas. My father's death, Dr. King's death, Malcolm X's death, the Vietnam War, 9/11, and Covid. Each one pushed us further down the road into a security state."

“Vaccine” Makers Have Zero Liabilities

These Vaccine companies have immunities so that no matter how negligent they are no matter, how reckless they are, no matter how grievous is your injury, and no matter how toxic their ingredients are: You can't sue them.

“Four companies that make all the vaccines the childhood vaccines in the United States are all serial convicted criminals. Those four companies are paid over thirty-five billion dollars in criminal penalties and damages in the civil penalties for falsifying science, for defrauding regulators, for lying to the public for killing hundreds of thousands of people. They killed over a hundred thousand some people some estimates are as high as five hundred thousand Americans with a drug that they were selling as a headache pill that they knew the company knew it caused heart attacks but they did not tell the public. For many of the people who took that drug during that period, if they hadn't known that it could kill them, they might have said you know I'll take an aspirin instead…They weren't given that choice because they weren't given the knowledge. And today we have the same thing but we have a conspiracy of government….They ended up paying seven billion dollars, the entire board of directors should have gone to prison. They didn't but they paid seven billion dollars in penalties and damages for that case. Today, we have something much worse. We have the government conspiring with those same companies to hide facts about these mandatory vaccines from the public. And remember, these are vaccines that have zero liability. They've passed acts, a prep act in the United States and also the cares act that gives these companies have immunities so that no matter how negligent they are no matter, how reckless they are, no matter how grievous is your injury, no matter how toxic their ingredients: You can't sue them.

Not only that. The only way that you can sue these companies is if you can show that they knew that their product caused the particular harm that you suffered and that they didn't tell people about it. So the incentive for these companies is to know as little bit about the product as possible because the less they know, the less liability they have. So they create these preclinical trials that are fraudulent trials that are designed to hide not just from the public and from regulators but also from the company about whether or not there's any problem. And because of that we're seeing…products that are very very poorly tested and that they're being mandated to the public or being you know we're being ordered to take a product and required to take a product in order to be able to exercise our other rights to education to leaving our homes in some cases. And you know that really is the essence of tyranny.”

How Bill Gates Makes Money Off Philanthropic Projects and Globalization and How the WHO Starved Africa

All the promises of globalization that we made to the African people back in nineteen ninety-six. when Glenn [???] was president and Gates was driving the foreign policy those problems all got broken because now that corn was left in heaps on the docks and it wasn't being shipped. And there were ten thousand African children dying a month of starvation. The lockdowns really destroyed that whole illusion of globalization but you know it's it was a money-making enterprise for Gates and the vaccines did the same thing. He gives the money against tax deductions for giving the money to the WHO. He gains control of the WHO. The WHO pays to finance the health ministries in virtually every country. So he can then say as a condition of getting that money this is what WHO does. As a condition to get that money, you have to show that you vaccinated a certain percentage of your population. And the vaccines that they're buying are owned by companies that Gates owns. You know at the end the punchline on almost all of his philanthropic projects is that he ends up making money.”

Kennedy on the killing of his father by CIA operatives

Robert Kennedy JR says that a CIA operative killed his father, explains how the autopsy report brings damning evidence that Sirhan couldn't have possibly killed his father, and the attorney for Sirhan coincidently was the same exact attorney for a mob boss implicated in the JFK assassination and ended up disappearing and cut into pieces before a committee could question him.

"When I sat down and read the autopsy report it became clear to me as it would to anyone who read that report that Sirhan did not kill my father.

-Sirhan fired two shots at my father. He was five feet away. It was absolute mayhem.

- Waiting in the kitchen was Sirhan Sirhan. As my father approached the table Sirhan fired at him, two shots. One of those hit Paul Schrade. The other one went past my father's ear and hit a wooden door jam.

-Sirhan was then grabbed in a dog pile and pointing the gun away from my father shot six shots. There were eight shots in the barrel. All of those shots hit people. We know who they hit. We know what happened to all of those bullets.

-Sirhan was the distractor. The real shooter was behind my father he was called Eugene Cesar who was a security guard who worked for Lockheed. He was a CIA operative. He was a vocal racist who hated the Kennedys.

-My father was shot four times from behind. All of the shots had an uphill trajectory. All of them, this is what the autopsy found, were contact shots. So the barrel of the gun was touching my father’s body or clothing. Less than an inch of his skin. They left carbon tattoos on his flesh.

-There were 77 eyewitnesses who saw that Sirhan was never behind my father.

-The police did not confiscate Cesar's gun that night

How Big Pharma/SSRI’s need to be investigated for their role in shootings

“It's very important to look at the role of psychiatric drugs in these shootings. And you know particularly the SSRIs because we are using those like nobody else in the world. And if you look at the manufacturer's inserts for those pharmaceuticals. Most of them say suicidal and homicidal ideation on them as side effects and there are other countries in the world like Switzerland that have as many guns as we do per capita and they don't have school shootings. The last school shooting they had was twenty-one years ago. We have one every twenty-one hours. We need to look at that.”

The CIA’s Involvement in the Media

Robert Kennedy tells James O Keefe that the CIA is the biggest funder of journalism in the world. He elaborates on how Obama signed an executive order that made it legal for the CIA to propagandize the American people with deception and names multiple news organizations with deep ties to intelligence agencies.

"(The CIA) is more insidious today because of the technologies of control... They had like 400 journalists in Operation Mockingbird that we know of from all the largest publications. The New York Times was compromised. The high-level people at those journals were actually working for the agency or signed secrecy agreements with the CIA. CBS, ABC, NBC...After 75 when it all came out it during the Church Committee hearings..they continued to compromise journalists all over the world. Today, the CIA is the biggest funder of journalism in the world. In 2016, Obama adopted an executive order that essentially reopened the door for Operation Mockingbird so that the CIA began once to propagandize the American people.

Daily Beast was run by John Avalon who has deep ties to the intelligence agencies. Even journals like Smithsonian and National Geographic, Nature, The Washington Post, The New York Times appear to be compromised by the CIA."

Robert Kennedy Junior on Ukraine

Robert Kennedy Junior says that the powers that be are jangling the keys of division to distract the American people from the fact that they are buying up Ukraine's farmland and that when he gets into office the payday for BlackRock and Vanguard will be over:

"When we give the money to Ukraine we call it a loan. Nobody is going to pay that back. What it does it allows us to put the screws on Ukraine. We sign a contract with them that compels Ukraine to do certain things and one of those things is to sell most of its assets for cash, including its farmland. Who do you think the biggest buyer is of that land?

Why are we in this war? We know who is making the money from this war. They are doing it right in front of us. The strategy that allows them to get away with it is they keep us all at each other’s throats. Blacks against whites, Republicans against Democrats, Rural people against urban people. When the rulers of the castle, the king and queen look over the castle wall at the top and see all of their subjects fighting they go back to the dining room and they open champagne and they toast to each other. Because as long as we are all fighting each other we can't see what they are doing. It's like someone who is jangling keys. Look at these keys. And over here they are robbing the bank and nobody is watching them. I have my eye on them. When I get into that office the payday is going to be over for Blackrock and Vanguard."

Robert Kennedy Junior says that the function of the CIA is to provide the military-industrial complex with a pipeline of continual new wars and the money being sent to Ukraine is going to military contractors and not staying in the country. He says Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland, and Anthony Blinken are beholden to the military-industrial complex profiting off the pain and suffering of war.

"That money is not staying in Ukraine, it's going to military contractors. It's the perfect war for the military. They get to re-up their contracts. Those are the people who drive policy in Washington DC. Mitch McConnell is part of them.

Joe Biden is they. "

Interviewer:

"When you say the military-industrial complex I'm looking for names.."

RFK:

"Victoria Nuland, Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken. Those are the people who are driving it (the military-industrial complex).

We have 800 bases abroad. Each one is just a platform for a new war. The function of the CIA is to provide the military-industrial complex, my Uncle discovered this, with this pipeline of continual new wars. That money is being paid by the American middle class. That's why we don't have a middle class in this country."

Robert Kennedy JR Speaking Truth on MK Ultra, JFK's Assassination, and Manchurian Candidates:

Release the truth to the world. The people need to understand the evil that our CIA has participated in.

"The CIA is allowed to propagandize around the world and it's the biggest funder of journalism today. It owns some of the biggest newspapers and magazines. In 1973 there were congressional hearings that came out of the House Select Assassinations Committee when all the CIA's secrets were revealed. They were called the family jewels... Americans learned for the first time about Operation Mockingbird, MK Ultra....It stands for mind control. The CIA had these programs in 220 universities around our country, Latin America, and Canada experimenting with ways to control he human mind. LSD came out of that program. They were using psychoactive drugs, they were using torture, they were using sensory deprivation... They were figuring out how to develop Manchurian candidates on willing assassins through hypnosis and these other techniques... How do you control whole societies through the destruction of institutions, the provocation of lies...We had a very sophisticated program that violated a lot of American values. There's a lot of things that came out of it. It's hard to tell because a lot of it was top secret. It's a really surprisingly well-documented history... The term conspiracy theorist, there was a memo that went out to all of those journalists who were associated with the CIA in 1964 where they said that anyone who questions the Kennedy assassination, the Warren Report, the commission was essentially told you've got to say this was a single gunman. Do not let people talk about a conspiracy theory. The real head of the commission was Allen Dulles who had been the head of the CIA who my Uncle had fired. When my uncle died, he told a journalist he thought 'he was a god I'm glad the little shit is dead.' We now know that the CIA was directly involved in my Uncle's assassination in a 60-year cover-up. They are still not releasing the last assassination documents."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says COVID Has the Hallmarks of a CIA Coup d’État and the CIA does not do public health, it overthrows democracy

“How do we use this pandemic? To suppress free speech. To censor social media in the media, to close churches, to lockdown society, to force people to wear masks, and then funnel them into the shoot of mass vaccination with a quickly, created and untested zero liability vaccine. Every one of them does the same thing. None of them is about public health. It's a militarized and monetized response. And they're they're play acting all of these strategies for how do we get Americans to go along with us? Well the CIA and you know has for many many years has, studied ways of doing not only individual manipulation…doing mass manipulation society. How do you go into a developing country or an indigenous country?

Cause economic chaos, shut down the economy, polarize people against each other, and create violence and chaos to the point where that country will be happy to have (an outside force) come in and control of the whole thing. And how do you sow fear and use propaganda? One of the ways the CIA figured out all of these methodologies was put in a handbook after Hamburg. The CIA does not do public health, by the way, It does coup d’etats against democracy. The CIA was involved in eighty-seven coup d'etats against a third of the nations on earth. Most of them democracies. So that's what they do. The way that they studied this is they farmed out studies to sociologists at about three hundred universities. These were programs called MK Ultra. MK surge. Operation Artichoke. But it was all done by the universities billions and billions of dollars.”

The United States bioweapons program originated from Operation Paperclip

“The first, mission of the CIA when it was started in nineteen, forty-seven was called Operation PaperClip, and Operation Paperclip was an effort to get the German the Nazi scientists, many of whom were sentenced to death or who were facing prosecution at Nuremberg to smuggle them out on rat lines and put them to work developing bioweapons and chemical weapons and nuclear weapons and missile systems in the United States. So a lot of them ended up in Fort Dietrich. They ended up down in Galveston or one of the Navy labs and that was the beginning of the United States bioweapons program and everything in the US bioweapons program inherited the culture from Germany and from Japan. And I talk a lot about this Japan was the one nation that really had used bioweaponists at an industrial scale. They killed a half a million Chinese during their war with the which was coterminous World War two So that war started. They were fighting the Chinese since the mid-thirties…and they were using bioweapons They were not being on chemical weapons because they didn't have the oil stocks They didn't have the oil resources so they really leaned on bioweapons programs and they had done more than anybody to develop bioweapons They had huge laboratories. They did live vivid sections on three thousand human beings. Mainly Chinese but people of every race including US soldiers that they captured. And they would give them a disease and then they would dissect them alive without anesthesia, and extract their organs. They wanted to look at the living organ So they had all of these cultures and they had all of this knowledge this technical know-how. And he the intelligence agencies in the military wanted to start them to figure it out and start our own bioweapons program So they brought those They gave them exonerated…those groups and they brought them over to the United States And…what I show is that the US bio-weapons program…from the beginning inherited not just the cultures and the techniques but also the…a kind of moral bankruptcy of the Nazi and Japanese scientist that would always and that was incredibly persistent within that program up until the modern time. And so the more I found out about it the more important I felt it was for people to understand.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks to Russell Brand about the U.S. foreign policy establishment's role in starting the Ukraine War and John F. Kennedy's 1963 speech on Russia:

"President Bush famously told them, we will not move NATO one inch to the east. Well, since then, we've moved 1000 miles to the east. And we've incorporated 14 of the Russian former satellites...

They repeatedly said to us, you cannot incorporate Ukraine into NATO. We then unilaterally walked away from our two Intermediate Nuclear Weapons treaties with Russians. We had a treaty saying you can't use Intermediate Nuclear weapons. These were huge steps in progress. And we canceled both of them unilaterally. We told the Russians, we're not doing that anymore. Then we started surrounding them with these missile systems, we started practicing, you know, incorporating Ukraine into interoperability with NATO forces...

We then helped to overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 and install a very ultra-nationalist, and that is a polite way of describing them as ultra-nationalists, you know, a government that is extremely anti-Russian. That prompts the Russians to go in and invade Crimea because they're terrified that now that we have our own government in place there, we're going to put the naval, our US Navy fleet, at a warm water port that they've had for I think, 370 years, it's their only warm water port, it's their way of having a military presence in the Black Sea."

Robert Kennedy JR says that the evidence that the CIA killed JFK is so insurmountable and overwhelming that it is beyond any reasonable doubt and that the mainstream media refuses to accept anything but the Warren Report. The American media finally had to admit that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA asset and faked his Russian defection in order to deceive. This was a conspiracy to eliminate JFK because he refused to comply with the military-industrial complex. Is it time for the world to admit that the upper echelon of the CIA is corrupt beyond imagination?

He also says that Mike Pompeo talked to him the other day about the CIA and told him the upper echelon of the CIA does not believe in the institutions of democracy.

The Climate Change Agenda is being used by the Davos group to implement totalitarian controls

“Climate has become a crisis like COVID that the Davos group and other, totalitarian elements in our society have utilized have used as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls. But isn't that even more of a justification? If you if you think that isn't that even more of a justification for you to argue in favor of an approach that doesn't result in the Yeah. Totalitarianism that you're fearful of Exactly. So And I've always had I've always been cautious about leaning on scientific evidence for climate because and the reason is it's not persuasive to people who don't wanna believe it.

I worked for commercial fishermen on the Hudson River for most of my career And all across the country. They love the environment. Republicans most Republicans love the environment. If you tell them you're you know you're gonna protect this place this sacred place your …. the water for your children you're gonna protect and toxicity. They're all in. This should not be a divisive issue. The environment should not be a divisive issue.”

Robert Kennedy elaborates on why it's difficult for some to question the vaccines:

It threatens their entire worldview. If the authorities in our world were lying about something so insidious, then what else are they deceiving us about?

"Mark Twain said, It's easier to fool a man than to persuade him that he's been fooled. Ego, it threatens their worldview. There is so many things that are threatening about believing the counter-narrative because then can I trust my doctor? Can I trust the authorities? Can I trust my country? It's really just the entire cosmology around which we've weaved and constructed our lives. You have to start questioning everything. And I understand why people don't want to do that."

Robert Kennedy elaborates on why it's difficult for some to question the vaccines: It threatens their entire worldview. If the authorities in our world were lying about something so insidious, then what else are they deceiving us about?

"Mark Twain said, It's easier to fool a man than to persuade him that he's been fooled. Ego, it threatens their worldview. There is so many things that are threatening about believing the counter-narrative because then can I trust my doctor? Can I trust the authorities? Can I trust my country? It's really just the entire cosmology around which we've weaved and constructed our lives. You have to start questioning everything. And I understand why people don't want to do that."

How BlackRock is attempting to take control of American homes

“Two years ago the average resident American home was two hundred fifteen thousand dollars. Today two years later it's four hundred thousand. And the interest rates during that same period have gone from one percent to seven percent. So that at home is gonna cost him ten times what would have caused somebody two years ago. And most people don't have a prayer. We all know kids at age who are living with their parents. We all know people or most of us know people who are about to buy a home. They were ready to do it. And at the last moment, somebody comes in with a cash offer and swoops it out from one of them. We've all heard those stories. Why is that happening? BlackRock. There's three companies, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. And they have those three companies which all own each other. So it's really one huge business. Also, own eighty-eight percent of the S and P five hundred. And now they have a new target which is to gain ownership of all the single-family residences in this country. And they are on the trajectory to do that if they continue on this trajectory by twenty-twenty, they will own sixty percent of the homes in American corporations and so when you see those people that…entity sweep in and take that home away because they need a cash offer. It's usually an LLC with some kind of ambiguous name. But the open owner of you if you trace them back it usually goes back to one of those three companies.”

Robert Kennedy Junior on how the government was covering up the truth about Covid with Facebook

“If you read the Twitter files and the email correspondence between Facebook and the White House there was an acknowledgment that they were being asked and they were complying with censoring information that everybody knew to be true or highly likely to be true. The term misinformation did not denote falsehood or veracity. Rather, it was a euphemism for any information that departed from government or orthodoxies. Our country had one of the highest vaccination rates in the world and the worst health outcomes. We have four point two percent of the global population. We had sixteen percent of the COVID deaths. Blacks in Haiti with a one percent vaccination rate. We needed information. We should have all been sharing information openly and talking to the fifteen million doctors through the internet who were treating patients on the frontline all over the world and channeling the best therapies and the most successful treatments so that we could all figure it out. We this is not a time in a pandemic…to, you know I'll just say this one thing. Trusting the experts. Is not a function of science It's not a function of democracy. It's a function of religion and totalitarianism and it does not make for healthier.

Woody Harrelson’s Dad was a CIA agent involved in the murder of JFK

“You know Woody Harrelson's dad was involved in the in the assassination and he confessed. Woody Harrelson's dad was involved in the assassination of John F Kennedy. He was not a shooter. His role was bringing when the shooting started on the grassy from the grassy knoll. a big crowd of people saw the smoke coming up and they ran up to look at it. To see what you know what was the source of it. And secret service men suddenly appeared on the hill and pushed them all down and said you can't come up here. The Secret Service leader said they there were no Secret Service people on that hill. Charles Harrison's function was to deliver the Secret Service badges to a group of people on the off. What he says and what a lot of people say who were there that day is that they knew they did not know it was gonna be an assassination. That they knew there was gonna be an incident but they never imagined it would be a murder. And a lot of those people then realized that they were part of this you know conspiracy in the death of the president and they kind of scattered. A lot of them were subsequently murdered themselves including the key members Johnny Raselli. The day that he was subpoenaed by the house assassination committee he disappeared, was found a week later or jumped into small pieces in an oil drum in Bus King Bay in Miami, and Samji Encano when he was subpoenaed by the mob boss of the Chicago outfit boss, He was subpoenaed to testify to that committee and he was murdered in his basement by an assassin.

He actually confessed for the first time while he was in a police shootout. So that he was around he was a well he was a professional hitman. He had worked for the CIA. He had been recruited out of the military. He worked for the CIA and worked for the College of Arsenal and he died in maximum security prison for the murder of a federal judge.”

Fauci funded the Covid virus and taught the CCP how to build weapons of mass destruction

“He (Fauci) taught them cutting-edge technology for building weapons of mass destruction. Not only did he teach them that but in other words the the study for how to create the clones, and then how to take and how to create a spike protein that could attach to the human lung and be transplanted onto a coronavirus…He also funded through Ralph Barrick at the University of North Carolina, a technique called the seamless ligation technique which is a technique for hiding human tampering on that virus after you've done it because normally…that virus anybody can look at that virus and say that was made in a lab. Barrick Fauci funded Barrick in two hundred and twelve million dollars. And Barrick developed a technique for hiding the human tampering. He calls it the no-seam technique. It is also known as a seamless location. Fauci said well we were doing this for vaccine development and countermeasure. There is no justification in the world for funding somebody to create seamless litigation. It has no medical benefit whatsoever in fact it's the opposite it's the inverse of what you would do if your interest was public health. If your interest was bioweapons creation and he was the czar of bioweapons since two thousand two, that's what you would do. But why did he teach it to the Chinese and more importantly? Why was US AID US AID gave ten times what Fauci gave? The Department of Defense was there. Why were they in that Wuhan lab teaching those Chinese scientists how to build weapons of mass destruction?”

Big Pharma Profits Not From Vaccines, But From Selling Remedies for Vaccine Injuries

"They're making $60 billion a year selling us vaccines, but they're making $500 billion a year selling the remedies for the injuries caused by vaccines. If you can give somebody that vaccine and make them diabetic for life, then you've got a permanent customer."

Robert Kennedy Junior dropping the truth:

"The Democrat party has become the party of war censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money. It abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president."