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Call for a vote of no confidence in Keir Starmer
I am deeply concerned about the integrity of our political leadership, and it's for this reason that I am calling on Parliament to initiate a vote of no confidence in Keir Starmer. Recently, revelations have surfaced about Starmer's knowledge of Peter Mandelson's association with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted paedophile. Starmer's failure to disclose what he knew about this troubling friendship raises significant questions about his honesty and capacity to lead.
‘United as Free and Equal’: The New Commonwealth, Prime Ministers’ Meetings, and the Korean War
Abstract The New Commonwealth emerged from the first wave of decolonisation in South Asia in the late 1940s. The seminal moment occurred with the signing of the 1949 London Declaration that allowed republican India to remain a Commonwealth member. However, India, Pakistan and Ceylon were divided at the first two Prime Ministers’ Meeting after independence and made no attempt to unite in opposition to the Old ‘white’ Commonwealth members.
Putin-Kim summit has roots in an alliance of isolated nations built over decades
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has spent two days in Pyongyang, meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and signing a “comprehensive strategic partnership”. Few details are being released about this deal and its expected ramifications for rearming Russian forces stretched by the Ukraine war. But the Kremlin said the agreement would mean each country would come to the aid of the other if attacked.
'Isolated nations': the roots of the Russia-North Korea alliance
Analysis: Moscow and Pyongyang's new partnership has its roots in Stalin and Kim Il Sung's post-World War II relationship By Robert Barnes, York St John University The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has spent two days in Pyongyang, meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and signing a "comprehensive strategic partnership". Few details are being released about this deal and its expected ramifications for rearming Russian forces stretched by the Ukraine war.
Putin-Kim summit has roots in an alliance of ‘isolated’ nations built over decades
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has spent two days in Pyongyang, meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and signing a “comprehensive strategic partnership”. Few details are being released about this deal and its expected ramifications for rearming Russian forces stretched by the Ukraine war. But the Kremlin said the agreement would mean each country would come to the aid of the other if attacked.
Funniest News Article of the Year?
post-single Funniest News Article of the Year? https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/funniest-news-article-of-the-year/ So last week we read that Hunter Biden has spent so much time in the White House that he’s essentially living there. Then yesterday we read that cocaine has been found inside the White House. As reported by the Lying Media Scum (LMS), no one — including the Secret Service — has the faintest idea of where the cocaine could possibly have come from.
Independence Is Still a Revolutionary Act
Independence is about a whole lot more than firing up the barbecue, drinking some beer with friends, and shooting off fireworks. It’s about more than blindly waving a flag. It’s about the way we live our lives every single day. And 241 years later, independence is still the most revolutionary act you can commit. Now, regardless of how you feel about this administration or the previous one, I think we can all agree that many of the liberties our parents took for granted are now in trouble.
Covid-19 Fraud: Researcher Jim West Rides Again
April 23, 2020 [America in ‘lockdown’: Day 41.] I became aware of Jim West’s work back in the day of the West Nile fake epidemic. Jim was documenting the destructive effects of air pollution in the areas where the virus was said to be causing harm. He’s doing it again, now, in the case of COVID. His latest blog post is titled “COVID Pandemic 2020: Environment Omitted”. Here are two key Jim West quotes: “Air pollution correlates with COVID-19 epicenters.
Presidents Keep Hiring Elliott Abrams Because the US Empire Is Just That Evil
CNN reports that President Biden has nominated criminal neocon Elliott Abrams for a position on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which according to the US State Department is responsible for “appraising activities intended to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics” and pays “acute attention” to the US government’s official foreign propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media.
Punishing Sanctions
Xi to Biden: Do you really want to hamper our chip producing companies? Really? China curbs critical metal exports in retaliation for Western restrictions on chip industry China on Monday ordered export restrictions on two technology-critical elements in retaliation for new Western sanctions on its semiconductor industry.
The Hubris of Bending Modernity to Fauci's Will
In the aftermath of the pandemic, the quest for transparency and accountability in public health policy-making has become paramount. A troubling incident recently come to light involving David Morens, a senior scientific advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a long-time associate of Dr. Anthony Fauci. It was uncovered that Morens had been using a personal email account to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and avoid media scrutiny.
Burning Books in a Brave New 1984 World
“Those who don’t build must burn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad.
Who Wins and Who Loses in a Deep Global Recession?
Globalization and financialization have fueled the global economy for 40 years. Now they’re in the decline phase of the S-Curve. Does anyone benefit from a deep, prolonged global recession? Perhaps not in absolute terms, but in relative terms we can say some will suffer less than others.
Why Can't We Talk About the Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism?
It’s baffling to me that most scientists, when put to the task of looking at the evidence on both sides of the autism debate, cannot figure out which side is telling the truth. This is not rocket science. You simply take the strongest data from both sides and you examine it carefully in order to determine whether it is all consistent with hypothesis A or B (B in our case is “not A”). You then declare which is more likely.
US House Bill To Cut Funding for WHO Entirely?
US House Bill To Cut Funding for WHO Entirely? Terminate Involvement in WEF, Considers Exiting WHO. Threatens Implementation of WHO “Pandemic Treaty”? By Peter Koenig Global Research The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations (CoA), a highly influential US Congressional body on US budget proposals, has advised cutting government funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) entirely, as part of its budget proposal for fiscal year 2024.
Klaus Schwab: 'Prepare for an Angrier World'
Klaus Schwab, “We must prepare for an angrier World.” “Young people have a right to be angry.” Klaus Schwab lives in Cologny Switzerland where the black immigrant population is – zero. In fact the black population in Switzerland is under 1%. The country in Europe with the largest immigrant black population is the UK followed by France. Rioters tend to be emboldened when they see no true consequence. The UK is next. An Imam has provided contextual analysis that provides perspective.
Not Dead Yet - LewRockwell
Dearest Readers (I feel by now as if I am addressing beloved friends out there, like a letter-writer in an Austen novel) — I am home at last from the second hospital — the “vortex hospital,” the hospital of near-no-return — and, per the title of this update, I am: Not Dead Yet.
RFK Jr vs the Democrat Elites
RFK Jr vs the Democrat Elites The more the Democrats try to censor him, the more voters want to hear from him. He still bears the name of the US Democratic Party’s most famous and revered family.
Why We Must Come Together
One of the greatest influences on both my personal philosophy and the strategy of how to promote it was Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Read founded FEE in 1946, just as WWII was ending and the US government was about to embark upon a cold war with the Soviet Union. Read must have foreseen the expansion of government that was coming – both at home and overseas – and he started FEE to spread the message of non-interventionism and freedom.
They Don't Dare Tell You What the 4th Is About
From the Tom Woods Letter: Independence Day is tomorrow, and I wonder how many people really get why it matters. In school, we were told this: “No taxation without representation.” Zzzzzzzz. The real principles were more like the following. (1) No legislation without representation. The colonists insisted that they could be governed only by the colonial legislatures. This is the principle of self-government. This is what the War for Independence was all about: local self-government.
Bill Gates-Backed Companies Approved To Sell ‘Lab-Grown’ Chicken in the US
article-single Bill Gates-Backed Companies Approved To Sell ‘Lab-Grown’ Chicken in the US The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light for the controversial product, which is backed by Bill Gates, earlier this week. By Stephen Kokx Lifesite News The United States has become the second country in the world to approve “cell-based” chicken for public consumption, joining Singapore, who legalized the experimental food in 2020.
Ask Who Benefits
It is the Republican Party’s job to expand the US military, rob and oppress the working class, serve US plutocrats, facilitate ecocidal capitalism, and foment division among the electorate. It is the Democratic Party’s job to do these same things while blaming it on Republicans.
The Belloc Universe
The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good. By Alexander William Salter. Catholic University of America Press, 2023: Xiii + 238 pp. Distributism attracted considerable attention during the 1920s and 30s among people who wished to apply the principles of Catholic social teaching to the modern capitalist economy, and it has recently had a revival.
The Over-Hyped 'Spy' Balloon That Didn't
The Over-Hyped 'Spy' Balloon That Didn't With regards to China President Joe Biden said on June 20 2023: And the reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there. No, I’m serious. That’s what’s a great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened. That wasn’t supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course up through Alaska and then down through the United States.
Marine Le Pen: There Is No Other Solution Than the Return to National Order
The Minister of the Interior of France announced on Sunday that the government will restrict internet access in “certain” neighborhoods, as the violence continues across the country, claiming that the restrictions are meant to prevent the use of social media and other platforms to organize violent activities. Some believe that the real reason France is shutting down the nation’s internet is to prevent the world from seeing what Third World migrants are doing to the country.
Pandemic Leaders Were Biodefense Puppets and Profiteers
Scandalous incompetence. Profound stupidity. Astounding errors. This is how many analysts – including Dr. Vinay Prasad, Dr. Scott Atlas, and popular Substack commentator eugyppius – explain how leading public health experts could prescribe so many terrible pandemic response policies.
9/11 and the Covid-19 Hoax
9/11 and the Covid-19 Hoax I picked up the idea for this, my first original narrative kicking off this substack project, from a recent substack post in Bailiwick News. This site is compiled and authored by Katherine Watt. I was introduced to the work of Katherine Watt through the many rich substack contributions of her close colleague, Sasha Latypova. Ms. Latypova is the creator of Due Diligence and Art.
Prigozhin and the Diminishment of Europe
The neocon trend represents but one facet to the U.S. that nonetheless has captured and held the commanding heights of U.S. policy-making for decades. Sometimes politics, like human beings, has a ‘destiny’ – somehow etched from within its nature; often one that is unpredictable, and different from that which is desired or expected. It seems that Yevgeni Prigozhin was such a figure.
Like So Much Mulberry Bark
In 1260, Kublai Khan created the first unified fiat currency. The jiaochao was made from the inner layer of bark of the mulberry tree. It’s of interest that the mulberry tree was quite common in Mongolia. What allowed Kublai Khan to get away with treating tree bark as currency was that each bill was cut to size and signed by a variety of officials. They affixed their seals to each bill. To further ensure authenticity, forgery of the chao was made punishable by death.
Blobocracy - LewRockwell
Neocon war is unpopular, ugly, venal. Worst of all, it is unsuccessful – meaning instead of ending in triumph and celebration, it persists as a confusing, contradictory and costly problem multiplier. …Neocons are the Dylan Mulvaneys of American politics, albeit with less sincerity and self-awareness. — Karen Kwiatkowski The American Revolution was a long emergency, too.
The American Revolution
The American Revolution https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-american-revolution/ A&E had an excellent six part series on The American Revolution (videos below) “Modern Historians Confront The American Revolution,” by economist/historian Murray N. Rothbard Our Libertarian American Revolution (Amazon book list) The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism, by Murray N. Rothbard America’s Libertarian Revolution, by Murray N. Rothbard America’s Radical Revolution, by Murray N.
Breast Cancer for
article-single Breast Cancer for <50 up 2X in 2022? Donate Click Here: Justin Hart Tags: Political Theatre LRC Blog LRC Podcasts
Dangerous Liaisons: Hunter Biden, Burisma, Metabiota… Jeffrey Epstein?
Writes Gail Appel: A simple web search key words “ Hunter Biden/Ukraine/Burisma/Biolabs/DOD/In any order. Even with fewer words is a windfall. The YouTube video below has been posted for a year and nary a vaunted investigative committee member has uttered a peep. Nary a seated “ elected representative” nor corporate media talking head. Not Fox, not NewsMax-supposedly a free agent. Bioweapon Labs funded by the taxpayer, enriching the Swamp.
The Shocking Odds of War and Economic Chaos in the Next 18 Months! ft. Peter St Onge
Thanks Gail Appel
EU secures vaccine deals with Pfizer
article-single EU secures vaccine deals with Pfizer Donate Click Here: Dr. Paul Elias Alexander’s Newsletter Tags: Political Theatre LRC Blog LRC Podcasts
So Thaaaat's Why the Demo-Bolsheviks Want Open Borders
So Thaaaat’s Why the Demo-Bolsheviks Want Open Borders https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/so-thaaaats-why-the-demo-bolsheviks-want-open-borders/ Illinois shows the way, giving drivers’ licenses to some 300,000 illegal aliens. (Illinois law requires first-time voters to show ID). 300,000 is a lot of undocumented Demo-Bolsheviks. This new law goes into effect on January 1, 2024, just in time for Brandon’s reelection campaign. 1:06 pm on July 3, 2023 The Best of Thomas DiLorenzo Tags:
Bringing the Military-Industrial Complex to Heel
article-single Bringing the Military-Industrial Complex to Heel Donate Click Here: John Leake Tags: Political Theatre LRC Blog LRC Podcasts
The Make-or-Break Fork in the Road Ahead
We either make the future or break the future, so choose wisely. There is a make-or-break financial fork in the road ahead for the United States: there are only three options: 1. Slash trillions of dollars in annual federal spending to align with current tax revenues. 2. Raise trillions in additional tax revenue from the only entities able to pay more, corporations and the top 5% 3.
Meanwhile in Other News… Ukraine Proxy War Is an Unmitigated Disaster for U.S./NATO
There will be hell to pay for the U.S. and European rulers who have staked everything on their nefarious ambition for “strategic defeat of Russia.” The Ukraine proxy war against Russia can be increasingly seen as a disastrous defeat for the United States and NATO. That stunning outcome should be making world headlines.
Has the Criminal Biden Regime Utterly and Totally Corrupted Medicare?
We are constantly told we cannot afford Social Security and Medicare.Fighting Russia in Ukraine is more important than the survivability of the American population. I doubt anything can wake up the ignorant insouciant American population, but perhaps the Biden regime’s rip-off of Medicare in the interest of Big Pharma profits can introduce some reality into American consciousness.
Government Agents Routinely Entering Private Land Without Warrants
For many people, a central attraction of owning and living on a multi-acre expanse of land is the opportunity for complete privacy — to include freedom from the prying eyes of government. While most Americans might understandably believe the Fourth Amendment’s protection against warrantless searches covers all their property, a little-known 1924 Supreme Court decision — Hester v United States — says otherwise.
Fifteen Useful Facts
article-single Fifteen Useful Facts By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com 1. It’s easier to understand what’s going on in the world when you mentally “mute” people’s narratives about what’s going on and just look at the material movements of wealth, resources, weapons, and people. That’s how you separate what’s real from the manipulations and empty narrative fluff, how you see who’s doing the taking and hoarding, and how you figure out who the real aggressors are in international conflicts. 2.
How To Help Prevent and Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
How To Help Prevent and Treat Alzheimer’s Disease In this video, I interview repeat guest Dr. Dale Bredesen, a neurologist specializing in the treatment of Alzheimer’s. In 2014, he published a paper1 demonstrating the power of lifestyle choices for the prevention and treatment of this tragic condition. By leveraging 36 healthy lifestyle parameters, he was able to reverse Alzheimer’s in 9 out of 10 patients.
The Cancer of the National-Security State
Suppose that after you visit your doctor for a physical examination, he informs you that you are suffering from the following ailments: A stiff knee, which requires six months of physical therapy. Being overweight, which requires a big change in diet. Kidney problems, which require you to give up drinking. A growing malignant tumor on your stomach that can be removed by surgery.
The Messianic Syndrome
Some of you no doubt have been waiting anxiously for my diatribe focusing upon Tom Friedman’s latest column in the NY Times. Tom is the self-important, know-it-all NYT opinion writer who irritates me the most. Well here it is… I’m on another “research” trip in Europe, to soak up as much western civilization as I can before it further self-destructs into quasi-oblivion under the baleful influence of America—or more precisely, in thrall to the crusading crackpots who have hijacked America.
The Breaking Point
This is the “angrier world” that Klaus Schwab warned us about. France has been thrown into chaos as riots rage across the country following the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old boy named Nahel M, a French citizen of North African descent, by a police officer during a traffic stop. As Revolver.News reports, France is having their own George Floyd moment.
Education via AI: To Rule as Giants
Three years ago in 2019, a means for replacing colleges was introduced by a company, EvoLLLution, based out of Canada and California. The concept is directed toward tossing typical testing methods to determine College admissions and instead rely on other means to make entrance more ‘progressive’ and equitable. As though they anticipated the removal of Affirmative Action, better known as ‘race discrimination’. The pro argument for affirmative action was ‘cultural assimilation’.
More Truth About World War II
Last week I noted some facts that puncture the myth of the neocons who control the government that World War II was the “good war,” a battle of good against evil, that shows the need for perpetual war. We must fight Russia and China, they say: we don’t want another “Munich,” do we? The facts tell a different story. The war in Europe began after Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939.
Elegy From Rome - LewRockwell
Elegy From Rome To the Eternal City for the saddest of occasions, the funeral of the mother of Taki, 17, and Maria, 15, two of my four grandchildren. Assia was of noble birth and met my son John Taki at the Rosey school in Switzerland, where they both studied skiing and other such useful pursuits. They had a grand wedding at her ancestral home near Rome and went off on their honeymoon on my boat with twelve of their friends.
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