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Chris Martenson is a futurist, economic researcher and holds a PhD in toxicology from Duke University.  He is telling people to “brace for impact” because we are well beyond the point of no return economically and financially speaking.  Martenson explains, “We are not doing anything except steering towards a cliff edge at this point in time.  We had the 2008 financial crisis, and we should have learned a couple of lessons.  We didn’t learn any lessons, and I think we have just enshrined these lessons into something that is really going to bite us.  The Federal Reserve, Plunge Protection Team and all the organs of state are all geared towards one thing and one thing only, and that is giving more money to rich people.  I believe we are in the Fourth Turning . . . and one of the hallmarks of this is loss of faith in institutions.  The Federal Reserve is still held up as a benevolent organization.  They care about inflation and unemployment, and none of that is true.  What they care about is shoveling and funneling big profits to big banks.  So, the Federal Reserve deserves to lose every bit of respect anybody has ever held for it.”

Martenson goes on to say, “I think this is ruining our society.  This is the kind of thing that I believe led Plutarch way back a couple of thousand years ago to say, ‘The oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics is a gap between the rich and the poor.’  The Federal Reserve is busy enshrining and ensuring that we have the largest and steepest wealth pyramid we have ever seen. . . . The Federal Reserve is creating the conditions that lead to a future that I don’t want to go toward.  I don’t want to live in a place where mobs rule, people are unhappy and riots are happening. . . . The Federal Reserve is the entity that is most responsible for most of the pain we see going on around us.  I wrote an article called ‘Brace for Impact’ recently because this is a trend I am seeing, and it is accelerating and not slowing down.  There are no signs that team elite is going to say we have taken enough . . . let’s start reversing some of that.  No, they are going to keep doing what they do, and they won’t stop until something breaks.”

Nowhere are the problems more in focus than in the large Democrat controlled cities.  Martenson says this is why you are seeing a “back to land movement . . . a flight from the cities . . . and this trend is just starting.”

Martenson also weights in on the Covid 19 crisis and says, “The mainstream media (MSM) press has blood on their hands for failing to take a neutral position on this stuff,” such as the very positive results for treatments like Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).  Instead, the MSM ignored HCQ or said it was dangerous to use, which was a total lie.   Martenson contends the MSM misinformed people, and ‘people died.’”

Martenson also says, “People should tune your body up so your body can fight off Covid 19. . . . You want your body to be as healthy as it can be from an immunological standpoint.”

Martenson says the good news is Covid 19 is definitely going to “trend down by the end of the year.”

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Chaos creates order when the competition within that chaos leads to one entity establishing a monopoly of violence over everything else.  Law enforcement officers ensure that federal, state, and local governments in America maintain a monopoly of violence in their respective jurisdictions.  Without that monopoly, our laws are unenforceable and our entire system of justice loses legitimacy. 

The calls to defund and abolish the police in America are thoroughly understandable by anyone who drives a vehicle on public roads or waterways, anyone who enjoys hunting or fishing, anyone who prefers their own understanding of medication to the assertions of big pharma, or anyone generally on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum.  We are overburdened by arbitrarily and paternalistically justified legislative schemes to hide what is, in practice, selectively enforced taxation masquerading as public safety.  Driving 15 mph over the king’s posted limit?  That’ll be about $300.  Catch a few brook trout at a time or place that you weren’t supposed to?  Open your wallet and lose your permission to use that rod and reel for a time.  Get caught with drugs sans a permission slip?  Fines, Taxes, Jail, and years-long supervised probation that erases your 4^th Amendment rights.  Are you driving an older, dirtier vehicle or otherwise appearing to be uneducated and of lesser financial means?  The police are always more willing to give you a hard time because they assume that you do not possess the resources or knowledge to effectively defend yourself.  Statutory law at the state and federal level is full of language creating victimless crimes, and the existence of so many victimless crimes have led to hatred of the police, widespread use of judicial resources for the administration of “money court,” and a large and growing perception that the entire system is parasitic, illegitimate, and irredeemable.

I don’t disagree.  The system is largely parasitic, and America is over-policed.  The idea of a victimless crime should be anathema to a freedom loving people.  Abolishing police is not the solution here – abolishing victimless crimes is.  The over-policing of this country is a product of the legislatures, not of police themselves.  If you change the laws that police enforce, you change the entire culture of policing.  It really is that simple.

Every interaction a citizen has with a police officer has the potential to end violently.  Regardless of whether there is submission or resistance on the part of the person being arrested, police officers are using force and violence when they detain or arrest by the mere act of coercively restraining a person.  This is precisely why you should never support a law that you are not willing to kill to enforce.  When police decide to place a person under arrest and that person resists, the police elevate their use of force to gain submission and compliance and lethal force becomes more likely depending on the nature of the resistance. 

The root catalyst for all interactions between law enforcement officers and citizens is the law itself.  American legislatures should not be tasking law enforcement officers with using force on citizens of this country in order to initiate the prosecution of citizens for the commission of victimless crimes.  If the people behind Black Lives Matter and Antifa wanted to end police brutality in America, they would be talking about the law and aiming their rage at members of Congress and their respective states’ legislative bodies.  They would be demanding a constitutional amendment prohibiting federal and state governments from enacting statutes that create criminal penalties for crimes that do not have a specifically demonstrable victim.  Instead, the rage is aimed directly at police – for now.

There is no genocide of black men being carried out by law enforcement officers in America.  There is, and has been, generally disparate treatment of blacks vs. whites along the use of force continuum outside of lethal, however.  A dive into some of the relevant statistics (https://quillette.com/2020/06/11/racist-police-violence-reconsidered/) makes that clear while simultaneously lending further support to the explanation that socioeconomic status is the primary driver behind disparate postures from law enforcement when interacting with the public.

Abolishing police accomplishes the real goal: ending the monopoly of violence that each state in our union wields over its own territory.  Once the states lose that monopoly, the states cease to be.  Every day that passes with an “autonomous zone” in the middle of an American city without action by elected officials emboldens more Antifa and BLM hell bent on cultural revolution to do the same in other cities.  As more and more of the folks fantasizing about their own abandoned police precinct and protest HQ in America’s urban centers realize that the democrat mayors of their cities will allow autonomous zones to manifest and grow without impediment, we will see them popping up with increasing frequency.  As this continues, the demands from the cultural revolutionaries will evolve.

The woke Taliban has big money, big training, and big ideas.  The mob may appear to be organic and chaotic, but in reality it is a tool being handled with improving precision.  The following link is an excellent window into the minds of the people organizing the mob: https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/10/the-siege-of-the-third-precinct-in-minneapolis-an-account-and-analysis

The approach used will vary and evolve through trial and error of targeted agitation.  The McCloskey confrontation was all about a photo op and a golden opportunity for a Soros backed District Attorney to flex on and intimidate citizens defending themselves by persecuting them as an example to the rest of us, and it won’t be the last.

Why would anyone want to be a law enforcement officer in this environment?  Recently in Atlanta, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard filed murder charges against Garrett Rolfe, the officer who shot Rayshard Brooks after a fight during which Brooks took the officer’s taser and fired it at him while attempting to escape.  I do not know a single man or woman who has formal training in the use of force continuum for law enforcement who would not have felt justified in pulling the trigger in Rolfe’s situation.  Making the whole situation even more absurd is that DA Paul Howard stated during a press conference a few weeks prior that a taser is a deadly weapon under Georgia law when explaining assault charges that he brought against several officers who deployed their tasers during a “peaceful protest.”

We have seen many similar miscarriages of justice in recent months and I expect that we will see many more in the months ahead.  The environment that the media, democrat politicians, and Soros-elected District Attorneys have created maintains no incentives for citizens to become, or remain, 911.  The Blue Flu that has hit Atlanta in the aftermath of Rolfe’s persecution is only a preview of what’s to come across America.

The next step in this process is the abolishment of the courts as constituted.  Dick the Butcher said “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, when strategizing the coming revolution.  Many readers have theorized that this was Shakespeare referring to the way that lawyers at their best are standing up to the mob, or that it was a reference to lawyers at their worst as parasites on society, but I believe something else was being conveyed.  Systems of justice are a means of maintaining civility and some semblance of fairness while avoiding violent feuds.  Just like voting, our courts are a stand-in for actual violence.  Without a system to administer redress of grievances among the population, we revert to eye for an eye style do-it-yourself justice.  Lawyers are the foundation of any system of justice, because consciousness of the law and the principles and concepts that underpin it reside primarily in their minds.  Kill the cops, kill the lawyers, and you have killed the law itself because you have stopped the law’s application.  We have to fill the vacuum with something when the existing order falls apart.  Of course, the people who caused the destruction will be in our ears, right on time, selling solutions and blueprints for us to fix it.  Inevitably, the tyranny they expect us to beg for in the near future will be worse than the chaos that they are using to scare us into accepting it.

With all that said, though, our criminal and civil justice system are not the last line of defense for the American Republic.  Neither are cops.  The foundation of American freedom isn’t in a patrol car.  It isn’t in a courtroom.  It’s not on Wall St.  It’s not on a flag pole and it’s not in the bank vault.  It’s not your pen or your keyboard.  It’s not any newspaper.  It’s not your rifle and it’s not in your gun safe.  The backbone of American freedom is our Register of Deeds system.  Private property rights begin and end with real estate.  Your land is the beginning of your self-reliance.  Our system of recordation for land ownership is the envy of many intellectuals the world over who live in places ravaged by centralized authority and a lack of individual rights.  For a deeper dive into why, “The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else” by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is a great read.  The Republic can survive abolishing the police (it might even be the perfect antibiotic for this infection) and we can probably survive the abolishing of lawyers.  What American freedom cannot do, however, is survive the destruction of records contained in our respective counties’ Register of Deeds databases.  This would throw land ownership into utter chaos and pit even more neighbors against each other, with no ability for anyone looking to buy or sell land to gauge the certainty of good title in potential sellers, and would inevitably create an excuse for the government to redistribute real estate in pursuit of equality.  There are indications, from talking points and assertions by organizers, that the woke Taliban will soon lean more heavily into an “eat the rich” philosophy to mobilize the occupy crowd.  Eating the rich will rapidly become eating the less rich when there are no more rich on the menu.  The ultimate redistribution of wealth is the redistribution of land.  When you start hearing more about this from the left you can bet that they mean it.  If we allow it to happen, we will never recover our status as citizens.  We will be subjects.

The longer that we allow what is happening to continue, the more we will have to endure violence and suffering in order to fix it.  At some point, if we all continue to sit on our hands, we will cross a line that we cannot come back from.  The big question on all of our minds needs to be answered.  We need a consensus among those of us that are not willing to watch America be systematically destroyed from within.  When do we become unreasonable?  When do we go on offense?  When do we stop waiting for someone else to fix it?  When do we show the domestic enemies of the constitution that we mean it more than they do?  When do we show them that we are willing to go farther than they are?  When do we acknowledge that moral flexibility is necessary and embrace the suffering and glory that lies along the only path that leads us to freedom?  To see the future and find the answer, we have to know how omnipresent this monster is.

In a press conference 17 July, 2020, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler blamed Donald Trump and DHS for the antifa riots in Portland. A reporter then points out the riots were already happening for 5 straight weeks before DHS came.

Andy Ngo

How do we know when it is time to shoot the bastards as stated above? Soon? Tomorrow? Today? I suppose we should first define who “they” are. I recently saw someone post the old Pogo cartoon where he met the enemy and it is us. There are too many delineations concerning the two adversaries in this current civil war and that is done purposefully. However, the delineations are mainly made on our side to weaken us.

So the enemy is us since this is a civil war. The best way to draw the lines between the two sides is to see who is fighting because only one side is fighting. Unfortunately for our side, the other side’s fighters are true believers today. Tomorrow they will be useful idiots who will become the remnants of the garbage heap as all useful idiots in history finally reside. The other side is simply the government and media controlled by the Deep State. This is the most formidable force in history: they have control of the money supply, taxation, propaganda, military, education and supply lines. Let’s face it: they control everything and record everything.

They do have several vulnarabilities:

1. The United States has a large geographic area which would require extensive resources to keep under control.
2. Their successful plan to control education over the past generation has resulted in a work force and younger population of idiots. They may be useful idiots today but tomorrow, they will be discarded in the normal fashion as stated above.
3. They rely on high tech to gather and maintain information. Data hacks or dumps can result in massive intelligence coups.
4. Low tech measures with security will defeat high tech.
5. They have eliminated national pride and marginalized religion as they seized power. Never underestimate the power of freedom and faith under tyranny.
6. They have no morals. This allows everyone in power to be suspicious of everyone else. Doubt can easily be used to our advantage.
7. Power means everything to them. They will do anything to maintain it which erodes their base and internal trust.
8. Their have no credibility. We already see this today: no one or no government organization has credibility. While propaganda is successfully used to divide us, it takes continual effort to keep us distracted.
9. As they centralize power and supplies, the progs will suffer shortages and deprivations. A hungry belly can be a good motivator when supplies depots are raided and redistributed.
10. They always overplay their hand. Pride and greed result in corruption in all branches of government. As we just saw in Western North Carolina, the Republican Party, Asheville TEA Party, GRNC and various pundits sold out the people by anointing a swamp creature to replace Mark Meadows. The collusion was self-evident and the people defeated it. This may have been a small victory overall but it is still a success and model for a moral people.

The question comes back to when. Pray for guidance and site in your rifles.

David DeGerolamo

I was asked about the number of slaves in the New World who were not from Africa. While I had previously done research on this topic, I decided to refresh my memory. What I found was a rewrite of this history that rivals the work of Winston Smith in 1984. The new “history” is that the Irish slaves were actually indentured servants. Here is a portion of this history prior to the 1619 project from the NYT’s cancel culture campaign.

David DeGerolamo

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England’s Irish Slaves

In 1641, Ireland’s population was 1,466,000 and in 1652, 616,000. According to Sir William Petty, 850,000 were wasted by the sword, plague, famine, hardship and banishment during the Confederation War 1641-1652. At the end of the war, vast numbers of Irish men, women and children were forcibly transported to the American colonies by the English government.(7) These people were rounded up like cattle, and, as Prendergast reports on Thurloe’s State Papers(8) (Pub. London, 1742), “In clearing the ground for the adventurers and soldiers (the English capitalists of that day)… To be transported to Barbados and the English plantations in America. It was a measure beneficial to Ireland, which was thus relieved of a population that might trouble the planters; it was a benefit to the people removed, which might thus be made English and Christians … a great benefit to the West India sugar planters, who desired men and boys for their bondsmen, and the women and Irish girls… To solace them.”(9)

J. Williams provides additional evidence of the attitude of the English government towards the Irish in an English law of June 26, 1657: “Those who fail to transplant themselves into Connaught (Ireland’s Western Province) or (County) Clare within six months… Shall be attained of high treason… Are to be sent into America or some other parts beyond the seas…”(10) Those thus banished who return are to “suffer the pains of death as felons by virtue of this act, without benefit of Clergy.”(11)

The following are but a few of the numerous references to those Irish transported against their will between 1651 and 1660.

Emmet asserts that during this time, more that “100,000 young children who were orphans or had been taken from their Catholic parents, were sent abroad into slavery in the West Indies, Virginia and New England, that they might lose their faith and all knowledge of their nationality, for in most instances even their names were changed… Moreover, the contemporary writers assert between 20,000 and 30,000 men and women who were taken prisoner were sold in the American colonies as slaves, with no respect to their former station in life.”(12) Dunn claims in Barbados the Irish Catholics constituted the largest block of servants on the island.(13) Higham estimated that in 1652 Barbados had absorbed no less than 12,000 of these political prisoners.(14) E. Williams reports: “In 1656 Cromwell’s Council of State voted that 1,000 Irish girls and 1,000 Irish young men be sent to Jamaica.”(15) Smith declares: “it is impossible to say how many shiploads of unhappy Irish were dispatched to America by the English government,” and “no mention of such shipments would be very likely to appear in the State Papers… They must have been very considerable in number.”(16)

Estimates vary between 80,000 and 130,000 regarding the amount of Irish sent into slavery in America and the West Indies during the years of 1651 – 1660: Prendergast says 80,000(17); Boudin 100,000(18); Emmet 120,000 to 130,000(19); Lingard 60,000 up until 1656(20); and Condon estimates “the number of Irish transported to the British colonies in America from 1651 – 1660 exceeded the total number of their inhabitants at that period, a fact which ought not to be lost sight of by those who undertake to estimate the strength of the Celtic element in this nation…”(21)

It is impossible to ascertain the exact number of those unfortunate victims of English injustice during this period, but we do know the amount was massive. Even though the figures given above are but estimates, they are estimates from eminent historians.

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ICHABODJULY 15, 2020 AT 09:37

The right is a long way from “fighting back” as a whole. Many still have far too much to lose. The leftist soldiers don’t have this “baggage”. They are either poor or young, both of which are groups easily controlled and spun up. My fear is that those of us who should be making a stand now won’t feel the pinch until its too late. We are still far too comfortable to make a stand, far too worried about losing what we currently have or our way of life. We are too worried about repercussions from action, about putting our families through hardship, about putting targets on our foreheads.

But the targets are already there. We’re still too infatuated with our possessions to take the time to look in the mirror and acknowledge the bullseye.

The right won’t wake up until the fight is well underway. Let me rephrase, they won’t take action until it’s too late. We all know the fight is well underway.

Think I’m wrong? Are “you” out there? Are “you” making a stand? I’m not. I’m a good example of the above. Complacent and fearful.

I fear the burden of shame that will come when we have to tell our kids that we could have acted, should have acted, and instead did not. That we threw away their future for the comfort of our own.

Yet that fear is not heavy enough to induce action. The pitcher is tipping, but it is not yet pouring.

Better have your food and arms well hidden when they come for them. It’ll be too late to make a stand then, you’ll be overwhelmed easily. They won’t come in 1s and 2s. Look at that couple who made a stand and how many on the right just poked fun at them from their keyboards. “I would have done X and Y”. No you wouldn’t. That will be you soon enough, all of you talking tough from your keyboards.

That will be me as well.