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Corruption

We elect traitors to our government’s offices to represent us, and they feather their own nest, take office, and become unimaginably wealthy in two or three terms. They stifle free speech and in some cases such as Waco, Texas, burn us alive. Or they try us in their kangaroo courts such as the ranchers recently were.

Fellow Americans I’m sure by now those who read my articles and postings understand full well I am a Patriot, I love my country and I say things that I feel that needs to be addressed. I’ve watched the events happen in the last thirty years come and then go. I’ve watched as lawbreakers continue committing acts of anarchy, the destruction of private property, and worst of all, I’ve watched our elected officials turn from those who elected them to a path of greed, corruption on a scale that is incomprehensible, and nothing happens to them. Many of them are encouraging and aiding those who would destroy our infrastructure.

I keep saying over and over, why isn’t something being done to these lawbreakers? How, in a Republic such as ours can the double standard that is so bluntly obvious, and to so many of us not addressed by those who can do something about it? Our corruption level is beginning to exceed that of so many third world countries. It doesn’t end, it continues, and it has become so transparent it is becoming laughable, as in a sick joke. A pair of rubber crutches isn’t funny. We are being used and abused by our so-called elected “Public Servants.” There appears to be no end to it.

Several of our former Presidents have been dipping their ham fists into the cookie jar and nobody lifts a finger to stop them or to bring them to justice. They have tried to make law with the stroke of a pen and us, the citizens who pay all the bills with our compulsory tax dollars and get little in return. What we do get is nonsensical laws that penalize us without end such as Obama Care. We are lied to, we are stolen from, we are shown a double standard of the rule of law, and what does anyone do about it? We elect traitors to our government’s offices to represent us, and they feather their own nest, take office, and become unimaginably wealthy in two or three terms. They stifle free speech and in some cases such as Waco, Texas, burn us alive. Or they try us in their kangaroo courts such as the ranchers recently were.

Then one day we elected a non-citizen to our highest office. He stole from us, gave trains full of our cash to our sworn enemies, committed so many crimes against the US it is almost impossible to count them all, and now he runs all over the world on our dime bad-mouthing the US. He loaded up our federal offices with traitors who spent eight years sabotaging our country using our money to do it with. He flooded our country with low life, incredibly backward people, who in their own words are committed to destroying us from within or from outside. Whatever it takes to destroy America. What do we do about it? NOTHING! Some refuse to swear loyalty to the US but they take our benefits with both hands and come with eight wives and thirty children.

In fact, there are people supporting and encouraging these vile acts of treason against you and me and they are doing it with impunity. It’s time we either take back our country or wait for the Marxist chains to be fitted to our necks. We have a president finally who wants to drain the swamp and wants to rid our country of those traitors. I will support him; I will continue to write articles supporting him and disparaging our home-grown enemies.

Wake up and support a president who by his acts and deeds is doing something. He is only one man, with a couple of hundred million behind him he can clean up the swamp with his help and we can take back our country. We are hanging on a rope overlooking a large valley which is our destiny.

Death is inevitable but slavery to us and future generations can be avoided and must be. If we look up and see the rope holding us up from plunging to our death and it is beginning to unravel, do we sit back and enjoy the view, or do we scramble up that rope while we can to save ourselves? Life is about choices. We are at a crossroads where the choice to remain free or to becomes slaves to an evil New World Order is up to us. Give me Liberty or give me death. I would rather be a free man than to die on my knees begging for a crust of bread by those who are supposed to be working for us but are working toward enslaving us.

There are too many who are also aiding and abetting the lawlessness we are experiencing. Why anyone would support lawlessness, arson, looting, the destruction of our infrastructure and elect those who also condone this treasonous activity to our offices is beyond my ability to understand. In nature, birds that share the same nest don’t foul it.

Traitors can never experience peace. They dwell on what they are to others and suffer internal strife.

The Spanish Civil War

America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare in the United States. Another example of how things might play out in the United States is the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish Civil War is known to historians, amateur and professional alike, as the “dress rehearsal for the Second World War.” It is so termed because it pitted one side – which was equipped, armed and funded by Europe’s fascist regimes (Germany and Italy) – against a government largely funded and propped up by the Soviet Union. However, it is worth noting that General Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces were not themselves fascist (though there were fascists within their ranks) and that Spain remained neutral during the Second World War, later becoming a close ally of the United States in the fight against Communism internationally.

While there are few perfect analogs to be found anywhere in world history, there are parallels between the contemporary domestic political situation in the United States and the period immediately before and during the Spanish Civil War. And while the situation in the United States might play out in a much similar way to the Spanish Civil War, it is worth noting that our previous Civil War was the bloodiest in human history. There is little doubt that a Second American Civil War would not be significantly more destructive.

Prologue: The Situation in Spain Prior to the Civil War

The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today’s America

As we talk about the lead up to the Spanish Civil War, the situation will begin very much unlike modern-day America, however, it will become more like the contemporary domestic situation as time goes on.

The main difference, of course, is that Spain was a monarchy for almost all of its existence until 1931. A republic was briefly declared during the years 1873 and 1874, but it didn’t have much staying power and ultimately was not a transformative government in Spain. Following the First World War, the corrupt central government of Spain became increasingly unpopular and a military dictatorship, that of Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquess of Estella, 22nd Count of Sobremonte, arose. This fell in 1930, along with the abdication of the deeply unpopular King Alfonso XIII.

This led to the creation of the Second Spanish Republic and a new constitution in 1931. It was a radically leftist constitution in a largely conservative and Catholic country. Women’s suffrage, civil marriage, compulsory universal education, the nationalization of Catholic Church properties, the prohibition of Catholic religious orders from teaching in schools (and the Jesuit order entirely), as well as a provision allowing for the nationalization of any property that was for the “public good” were all components of the new Spanish constitution. In many ways it resembled the constitution of Weimar Germany, in that it was an attempt by the left to radically remake a country through constitutional means.

The Spanish Red Terror

The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today’s America

The Spanish Civil War continues to have a sort of romantic quality among the left, many of whom see the Civil War-era republican government as an example of “real” socialism in action or, at the very least, something close to it. However, the Spanish republican left were less bloody than their more famous Communist counterparts in Russia, China and the Eastern Bloc only due to a lack of scale and a limited time frame on which they operated.

The Red Terror in Spain predates the nationalist rebellion and was, indeed, one of the primary motivations for the uprising. It is generally agreed that the Spanish Red Terror began during an Asturian miners’ strike in 1934. Priests and the religious were targeted in what was not simply a strike, but a rebellion against the government. Supporters of the rebellion targeted clergy and religious figures, resulting in the destruction of 58 churches and convents during a period of a little more than two weeks. Ironically, the rebellion was put down by Goded and Franco at the behest of the republican government.

Once the rebellion began, the Catholic Church – its clergy, its religious orders and its lay faithful – were largely seen as fair game by supporters of the republic. The comparison between the Church in Spain 1936 and white Americans in 2020 isn’t much of a stretch. Much of the violence directed against the Church was predicated on the basis that they “deserved” this as payback for historical crimes. All told, 3,400 priests, monks and nuns were murdered during the first two months of the Spanish Civil War. Indeed, most of the deaths during the early months of the Civil War were not because of deaths on the battlefield, but rather because of targeted executions against enemies of the Spanish Republic.

In addition to the atrocity against nuns, there were a number of horrific incidents mostly involving clergy. The parish priest of Navalmoral was forced to undergo a parody of the Passion of Christ, ending with a vigorous debate about whether or not to actually crucify the priest at the end. They “mercifully” decided to just shoot the man. The priest of Ciempozuelos was thrown to fighting bulls and had his ear cut off at the end of the spectacle. In Ciudad Real, a priest was castrated and had his penis and testicles put in his mouth. People were forced at gunpoint to swallow their own rosaries. Others were thrown down mine shafts or forced to dig their own graves prior to summary execution. A Madrid nun was executed for the crime of refusing a marriage proposal from a militiaman who had participated in the sacking of her convent.

All told, the republicans destroyed over 20,000 churches and other religious sites during the war. Unsurprisingly, Spanish Catholics overwhelmingly supported the nationalist effort during the Civil War. Even among conservative allies of the republic (for example, conservative Catalan nationalists), support for the republican cause was lukewarm at best, thanks to the Spanish Red Terror.

The Red Terror’s victims are not limited to Catholics or nationalists. As the war progressed and the Communists came to have greater power in the republic (for example, when they were given the Interior Ministry and when the militias were put under centralized control), they also turned their fire on anarchists, socialists and Trotskyists. This move against the non-Communist elements of the Spanish left is detailed in later chapters of George Orwell’s memoir, An Homage to Catalonia.

The first election saw leftist elements firmly in the saddle, but the second, in 1933, was a major victory for forces of the right. However, because the conservative party had won a plurality in the parliament, and not a majority, the left-wing president of Spain invited the centrist party to form a government. Meanwhile the socialist government alleged electoral fraud, which caused them to become further radicalized. On the ground, a radical working-class movement became hostile toward the ostensibly left-wing government after the movement was suppressed violently by the military.

Monarchist forces, with the explicit backing of Benito Mussolini and the implicit backing of King Alfonso XIII, as well as ideologically fascist forces led by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, began military drills, preparing for war. The streets of Spain became battlegrounds, with 330 assassinations, 213 failed assassination attempts and 160 religious buildings destroyed, with arson being the primary means of their destruction. The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, formerly a fairly standard European social democratic party, began to cleave between forces who favored moderation and those who sought a more explicitly Bolshevik party.

The Coup d’Etat of July 1936

Much as the War Between the States began with the attack on Fort Sumter, so did the Spanish Civil War begin with the Coup d’Etat of July 1936. This was effectively an uprising by all forces of the Spanish right, which included two different factions of monarchists, nationalists, fascists (known in Spain as Falangists) and conservatives.

The igniting event was the election of 1936. This saw a very, very slim (less than 1 percent of the vote) victory of the Spanish left (socialists, Communists and anarchists) over the Spanish right. The right wing in Spain stopped planning to take over the Spanish Republic and instead decided that they were going to overthrow it.

The central republican government of Spain was very weak and had been making attempts to purge suspect right-wing generals from its ranks. To that end, General Francisco Franco, who ended up becoming dictator of Spain until 1976, was removed from his office as chief of staff and put out to pasture in the Canary Islands. When the uprising began, the nationalist rebels had the unanimous support of the Army of Africa, a 30,000-strong force that boasted some of the hardest core soldiers Spain had to offer. Many of these troops were Muslims from Morocco, who had been told that the republic planned to outlaw worship of Allah.

Indeed, Spanish Morocco was the base of operations for the rebels, with Generals Franco and Goded taking control of the Canary and the Balearic Islands, respectively. Any opposition in the Spanish colonial empire was quickly crushed with leading trade unionists and leftists simply executed by the rebel forces. The two trade union federations in Spain offered to help crush the uprising, but were told that there was nothing to worry about as the uprising was confined to Morocco and other overseas possessions.

The coup was less than a rousing success for the nationalist rebels, who invaded from their overseas bases. They failed to capture any major cities, which remained significant bases of support for the republican government. The republican government remained in possession of the lion’s share of Spanish territory. However, the republican government was at a disadvantage for two reasons: First, the nationalists had split the territory of peninsular Spain in half, dividing the country between republicans in the north and south while they controlled the middle.

Second, the republican government responded to the crisis by effectively mobilizing the far left in Spain as shock troops to terrorize the population into submission. Communists in particular were unleashed to execute and torture anyone even suspected of being a nationalist sympathizer. It didn’t help that the clergy bore the brunt of this, with nuns gang raped before being summarily executed. The republicans went so far as to exhume the bodies of dead religious figures and desecrate their corpses.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

SOURCE: ammo.com

The years of lead-Part 3

In short, the strategy of the left was more akin to a Third World guerilla insurrection, while the right hoped to provoke the state into clamping down on the left through false flags and other large-scale acts of terrorism.

Italy Turns a Corner: Kidnapping of Aldo Moro

The Italian Years of Lead: How the Strategy of Tension Could Foreshadow America’s Future

Italy finally turned a corner when the Red Brigades went a step too far: They kidnapped Italian former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who at the time was the president of the mainstream center-right party in Italy, the Christian Democrats.

The former Prime Minister’s car was ambushed by members of the Red Brigades on March 16, 1978. The assailants fired 91 shots at his five bodyguards, all of whom were killed in the attack. Prima Linea militant Mario Ferrandi said that at the time, he knew that everything was going to change – the Red Brigades had finally bitten off more than they could chew.

The actual motive of the attack is not entirely clear, but it was probably to disrupt negotiations between Christian Democracy and the Communist Party of Italy. The latter was finally being brought into government, albeit in indirect roles, for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Moro wrote 86 letters during the 55 days he was held in captivity, including to figures such as Pope Paul VI, but also to his family. Some were sent and delivered, others were discovered later.

Conclusive evidence demonstrates that Moro was not tortured. He was, however, put on a “trial” by a “people’s court” of Red Brigades, with predictable results. The Red Brigades wanted to trade him for terrorists imprisoned, and eventually requested only one.

Moro’s body was found on the day of his murder, May 9, 1978. The P2 Lodge has been implicated in Moro’s kidnapping.

The response of the Italian government – and indeed, the Italian public – to the kidnapping and murder of a former Prime Minister was sweeping and had consequences far beyond a simple winding down of the Italian Years of Lead.

First and foremost, the Historic Compromise brokered between the Christian Democracy and the Italian Communist Party was over. It had been unpopular with Italy’s European allies. But the kidnapping of a man considered the natural next president of the republic killed it stone dead. The intention was for Italy’s two major parties to rule in a grand coalition. The Historic Compromise officially ended in November 1980.

The president, Giovanni Leone, resigned less than a month after the kidnapping. The government’s response was largely seen as a failure. The Communist Party declined in influence, while the Christian Democracy remained steady until the early 90s, when it began to be supplanted by the more popular Lega Nord, now known simply as the Lega.

It is worth noting that, much as the MSI was at odds with the far-right terrorist groups, so too were the far-left terrorist groups largely opposed by the Communist Party and outright despised by trade unionists.

Oddly, despite a massive government clampdown, 1979 was the bloodiest year of the Years of Lead, with 659 attacks, including 11 assassinations. Among the victims that year were four policemen, a Lieutenant Colonel of the carabinieri, a trade unionist, a bartender and investigative journalist, a judge, and a university student. All of these were committed by leftist terrorist groups. Additionally, the Red Brigades shot five teachers and five students in the legs that year.

1980 topped 1979 in terms of assassinations with a total of 17. The victims that year included five policemen, a carabinieri general, a petrochemical manager, a cook, four judges, a security guard, and a journalist. Prima Linea even turned on one of its own that year, killing William Vaccher on suspicion of treason to the group. All but one of these were committed by left-wing groups.

The Biggest Attack: The Bologna Massacre

The Italian Years of Lead: How the Strategy of Tension Could Foreshadow America’s Future

While the Italian left had been pushing big numbers with assassination, a new group on the far-right, the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari, formed by dissident members of the Italian Social Movement explicitly with the purpose of committing counter-attacks against the left, was planning something big – the Bologna Massacre. This bombing of the Bologna Centrale train station killed 85 and wounded more than 200. While the group denied involvement, several of its members were sentenced for the bombing.

Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga’s statement on the attack cuts to the heart of the difference between the left- and right-wing actions during the Years of Lead:

“Unlike leftist terrorism, which strikes at the heart of the state through its representatives, right-wing terrorism prefers acts such as massacres because acts of extreme violence promote panic and impulsive reactions.”

In short, the strategy of the left was more akin to a Third World guerilla insurrection, while the right hoped to provoke the state into clamping down on the left through false flags and other large-scale acts of terrorism.

Two members of the NAR were convicted, Francesca Mambro and Giuseppe Valerio “Giusva” Fioravanti, the latter a former Italian child actor. The pair later married and had a daughter. Both admit to having committed terrorist acts, but maintain their innocence with regard to the Bologna Massacre.

The Years of Lead Wind Down

Left-wing violence in Italy related to the Years of Lead continued as far as 1988. However, after the Bologna Massacre, things had died down considerably. 1981 saw three kidnappings resulting in two murders. The third, the kidnapping of American General James L. Dozier, then deputy-chief of NATO’s Southern European forces, was freed by an anti-terrorist squad.

In 1982, the Red Brigades attacked a military convoy, killing a corporal and two police officers. The assailants were never apprehended. Later that year, two guards were killed by Red Brigades during a bank robbery.

1983 was completely quiet, and thus might be a good place to mark the end of the Years of Lead proper. However, in 1984, American diplomat and Director General of international peacekeeping force, Multinational Force and Observers, Leamon Hunt, was killed by the Red Brigades. In 1985, the Red Brigades killed an economist and a policeman. In 1986, they assassinated the Mayor of Florence. Italian Air Force General Licio Giorgieri was assassinated by the Brigades in 1987. In 1988, the Red Brigades committed their final assassination, that of Senator Roberto Ruffilli.

On October 23rd of that year, the Red Brigades declared that their war against the state was over.

In 1985, French President Francois Mitterand declared that he would not extradite convicted terrorists back to Italy. Instead, he aimed to integrate them into French society. Brazil and Nicaragua have likewise provided safe haven for left-wing terrorists of the Italian Years of Lead, most notably Alessio Casimirri, one of Moro’s kidnappers who owns a restaurant in Nicaragua.

Source: ammo.com

The current absurdity

At the height of this flu season, or before, vaccinating the world with a poisonous vaccine, an RNA vaccine possibly (probably) filled with many unknown ingredients, will be the top agenda of the monsters controlling this virus insanity.

I received this in a message from a friend today. He is so much more intelligent than I that it’s scary. It deserves to be shared.

When absurdity becomes the accepted basis of thought of the masses, when the indoctrination of the herd is universal in nature, and when the state narrative of the ruling class is taken as fact, then the circle of power is completed. The power created in this circumstance is so consuming that it can easily overtake any resistance by the thinking few in the minority. This is a difficult situation, and it is a deadly menace to society.

In the case today, this macabre scenario has not only consumed this country, but the entire world. Only if very sinister forces were at work could something of this magnitude and scope have been achieved. This is the reason that this manufactured ‘pandemic’ is so dangerous to mankind. Only overwhelming fear due to ignorance, and forced societal peer pressure could have allowed for this attitude by the herd to become so prevalent.

Now we are faced with the prospect of a total technocratic takeover by the very sinister forces that staged this coup from the beginning. While this plot had been earlier designed, and had been incrementally introduced to the public over a long period of time, it has been aggressively implemented this year. Something this large and ominous would never have been possible in the past, but today it seems to have been an easy task to fool the majority of people into accepting submission, and in turn, they followed orders to an extent so grand that the entirety of this country’s core, as well as most others, has been horribly altered, and all for a lie.

The fraudulent nature of this conspiracy is so obvious as to be in stark contrast to reality, but so many cannot see, or more accurately, do not want to accept this truth. The frustration this brings to thinking individuals is brutal, because even though the state narrative has been proven over and over again to be full of holes and lies, it is as if total blindness has overtaken society at large. This apathetic response is being embraced due to a fear of the truth, but the consequences of this attitude will be fatal to many, and perilous to all but the upper class.

This so-called coronavirus, if it exists at all, has never been a real problem or threat to the world’s populations, not more than any other normal flu, but the state’s response is so deadly that it could bring about widespread horror that would affect everybody on the planet. It would not be isolated to any specific country or region, although it could be worse in some places more than others, but devastating to all nonetheless. This response is so extreme that it could eliminate all freedom for people around the world. All people seek freedom because it is a necessity for a happy and fulfilled life, but this takeover by the claimed elite ruling class if not stopped will destroy us all, leaving only a controlled wasteland devoid of love, caring, community, and joy. It would destroy the human spirit, and therefore would destroy humanity. This is the future as it stands today, unless an awakening of enormous proportion is forthcoming. Will the people of this country accept this terrible fate, or will they find the courage to resist?

Look at the steps being taken around the world, and understand that all the tyranny and oppression seen in individual countries will soon consume all countries. Every measure taken in China, in Europe, in Australia, in Asia, and elsewhere, including the United States, will not long be isolated to one country or another, but will be the norm everywhere. This is the plan, and it is not accidental, as many of the totalitarian measures being forced on the people around the world are tests to judge compliance, and if successfully implemented in one country, will be transferred to all in time. Just consider the beginning of this fiasco, and the acceptance by western societies of the Chinese methods that were falsely claimed successful, and therefore were said to be important to use everywhere.

This included mass lockdowns, quarantine, surveillance, tracking, tracing, deadly mask-wearing, economic destruction at all but the highest levels, and much more. All those things were put into place around the world, including in the U.S. At the time, people in this country scoffed at such tyranny, but very quickly were fooled into accepting it without question. All it took was fear of the flu in order to bring China policy to the U.S. It should be apparent by now that all world powers are working hand in hand to fool their populations into accepting their own slavery, and relinquishing their freedoms due to false fear.

The Prime Minister of Australia yesterday, Scott Morrison, stated that

“Australia should make any coronavirus vaccine compulsory for its 25 million citizens bar medical exemptions.” This comes with the knowledge that the overstated total deaths in Australia have reached only 400 out of 25 million citizens. That is a death rate of .000016%. Does anyone not see the unbelievable and ludicrous nature of such a nonsensical statement? It was obviously a tactic meant to instill great fear in the minds of the people so that total control can be achieved. This was a political mandate that could test the waters of dissent, and once that dissent is squelched, the mandate could become effective. Any vaccine at this stage would be untested and very dangerous, and in addition, would infect an entire population based on nothing other than gaining control over a nation. As I mentioned above, if it happens in Australia, it will be attempted here as well.

As fall approaches, this pandemic plot will be ramped up even more than we have seen this year. With weakened populations here and around the world, flu deaths will be more evident than normal, but these deaths will never be attributed to the fact that the state’s response to this hoax has caused the destruction of immune systems just in time for the season of normal sickness. This will allow for the biggest propaganda blitz ever seen on earth. At the height of this flu season, or before, vaccinating the world with a poisonous vaccine, an RNA vaccine possibly (probably) filled with many unknown ingredients, will be the top agenda of the monsters controlling this virus insanity. Nothing will be left off the table, as massive draconian orders will be handed down from on high. With a much more frightened public that has been inundated with second wave pandemic doom, all stops will be removed, as the state attempts to take over all of humanity, killing what is left of the human spirit in the process.

Thankfully, there has been a little more pushback as of late, but this plot is so much bigger than can be conceived by a now fearful and weak population. More dissent is desperately needed, and massive non-compliance to government orders is all that can prevent an economic apocalypse of epoch proportions, and destruction of all aspects of liberty that have ever been attained.

The Italian Years of Lead-Part 1

The CIA was also a key player in Italy through Gladio, the stay-behind organization it backed in Italy to fight a guerilla insurgency against a potential Communist takeover of the country.

Background of the Italian Years of Lead

The Italian Years of Lead: How the Strategy of Tension Could Foreshadow America’s Future Before diving into the Italian Years of Lead, it’s important to understand the political climate of Italy after the Second World War. The Communist Party was always a strong force in post-war Italian politics. In the first election after the war’s end, in 1946, the Communist Party received 18.9 percent of the vote. Going into the second election at the end of the war, the Communist Party was poised for even greater success, buoyed by their alliance with the Socialist Party – an almost exact replay of what happened in Czechoslovakia. In both cases, the Communist Party had entered into an alliance with naive Socialists, whom they quickly outfoxed, dominating the electoral combination of nominal equals.

Meanwhile, in Czechoslovakia, a Communist coup d’etat was engineered by a section of the government dominated by Communist elected officials. The CIA stepped in, putting their thumb on the scale in an attempt to prevent the Communists from succeeding in Italy as well. This was one of the first battles in the burgeoning Cold War. All told, the CIA funneled somewhere between $10 and $20 million to defeat the Communists (between $106 and $212 million in 2019 dollars). In contrast, the Soviets spent between $8 and $10 million every month to ensure a Communist victory in the elections.

In an incredibly tense and vitriolic campaign, the Christian Democrats eventually bested the Communists, getting 48 percent of the vote to the Communist Party’s 31. The anti-Communist Socialist grouping netted the balance of the remainder, with small parties picking up the rest, as is common in Italy. The Christian Democrats formed a broad tent coalition, despite having an electoral mandate that did not require it, bringing in Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats.

However, this did not end the involvement of the CIA in Italy, nor the strength of the Communist Party. The CIA spent an average of $5 million annually in Italy, both to prop up center-right governments and to weaken the influence of the trade unions, who traditionally supported the Communist Party. From 1948 until the first Italian election after the fall of Communism in 1992, the Communist Party polled between 22 and 33 percent in Italian elections, a fact that always filled the CIA with dread.

It is worth briefly mentioning that the successor to the National / Republican Fascist Party, the Italian Social Movement, never polled higher than 9 percent.

The CIA was also a key player in Italy through Gladio, the stay-behind organization it backed in Italy to fight a guerilla insurgency against a potential Communist takeover of the country. The extent of Gladio’s direct involvement in the Years of Lead is a hotly debated topic among historians.

The Hot Autumn of 1969 and 1970

Throughout the 1960s, Italy became increasingly industrialized and modernized, which led to discontent among both the left and the right. These forces were very briefly united in a series of protests in Italy in 1968. However, the similarities between the far-left and far-right were too tenuous, and the establishment parties were largely skeptical of the counter-cultural orientation of the young radicals.

These protests set the stage for what is known in Italy as the “Hot Autumn.” This was a series of wildcat strikes throughout Italy in its industrial sectors, largely in response to layoffs due to increased efficiencies in industrial production. It was the basis of a growing Communist Party, and one that was shifting even further to the left in response to networks of activists known as “autonomists.”

The Italian Years of Lead were in some part a reaction of the far-right to this ascendant Communist movement. However, as stated above, international intelligence agencies were deeply involved and the truth of how the whole thing started moving is incredibly complex.

The Years of Lead Claim Their First Victim: The Death of Antonio Annarumma

The Italian Years of Lead: How the Strategy of Tension Could Foreshadow America’s FutureThe initial movement in the Years of Lead was simply a continuation of the Hot Autumn. A group of autonomist students and workers occupied a FIAT factory in Milan. During a related protest in November 1969, Milan police officer Antonio Annarumma was killed by an iron tube. The leftists protesters claimed that this was an accident, however, the courts found differently.

This was followed by the first, but certainly not the last, bombing in the Italian Years of Lead. On December 12, 1969, a bomb went off in the National Agrarian Bank’s headquarters in Piazza Fontana, some 200 meters from the Duomo. The bomb claimed the lives of 17 people, with another 88 wounded.

At first, the press and the police blamed the attack on anarchists. Police arrested prominent anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died under suspicious circumstances when he fell from the fourth-story window of the police building while in custody. The three police in charge were later investigated, but cleared of any wrongdoing. Police commissioner Luigi Calabresi was later assassinated by autonomist paramilitary group Lotta Continua as revenge for the death of Pinelli.

Another anarchist, Pietro Valpreda, was arrested and held without charge for three years after a cab driver identified him as his “suspicious passenger.” He was later exonerated.

Approximately three years after the bombing, the police finally switched their focus from investigating anarchist operatives to looking into the far-right, neo-fascist grouping Ordine Nuovo (New Order). On March 3, 1972, Italian police arrested Franco Freda, Giovanni Ventura and Ordine Nuovo founder Pino Rauti, who consistently described himself as a non-fascist and a leftist throughout his lengthy political career on the far-right in Italy. The first two were eventually convicted for two separate bombings in 1987, and sentenced to 16 years.

The irregular, (not officially recognized), Masonic P2 Lodge – which we will go into in greater detail later – played a key role in running interference for the accused through their member General Gianandelio Maletti, the head of the Servizio Informazioni Difesa, the Italian state security services.

Curiously, the initial reaction of the police was not far off from what Ordine Nuovo had intended. The bombings were meant not just to create a sense of overall terror, but to implicate the Communist movement in Italy.

SOURCE: Ammo.com

“…and I don’t give a damn about a greenback dollar…”

The Federal Reserve has been researching issues raised by central bank digital currency for some time.

The Cleveland Fed president writes that “the experience with pandemic emergency payments has brought forward an idea that was already gaining increased attention at central banks around the world, that is, central bank digital currency (CBDC).”

And in the shocking punchline, then goes on to reveal that “legislation has proposed that each American have an account at the Fed in which digital dollars could be deposited, as liabilities of the Federal Reserve Banks, which could be used for emergency payments.“

But wait it gets better, because in launching digital cash, the Fed would then be able to scrap “anonymous” physical currency entirely, and track every single banknote from its “creation” all though the various transactions that take place during its lifetime. And, eventually, the Fed could remotely “destroy” said digital currency when it so decides. Oh, and in the process the Fed would effectively disintermediate commercial banks, as it would both provide loans to US consumers and directly deposit funds into their accounts, effectively making the entire traditional banking system obsolete. Here are the details:
Other proposals would create a new payments instrument, digital cash, which would be just like the physical currency issued by central banks today, but in a digital form and, potentially, without the anonymity of physical currency. Depending on how these currencies are designed, central banks could support them without the need for commercial bank involvement via direct issuance into the end-users’ digital wallets combined with central-bank-facilitated transfer and redemption services. The demand for and use of such instruments need further consideration in order to evaluate whether such a central bank digital currency would allow for quicker and more ubiquitous payments in times of emergency and more generally. In addition, a range of potential risks and policy issues surrounding central bank digital currency need to be better understood, and the costs and benefits evaluated.

The Federal Reserve has been researching issues raised by central bank digital currency for some time. The Board of Governors has a technology lab that has been building and testing a range of distributed ledger platforms to understand their potential benefits and tradeoffs. Staff members from several Reserve Banks, including Cleveland Fed software developers, are contributing to this effort. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is also engaged in a multiyear effort, working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to experiment with technologies that could be used for a central bank digital currency. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has established an innovation center, in partnership with the Bank for International Settlements, to identify and develop in-depth insights into critical trends and financial technology of relevance to central banks. Experimentation like this is an important ingredient in assessing the benefits and costs of a central bank digital currency, but does not signal any decision by the Federal Reserve to adopt such a currency. Issues raised by central bank digital currency related to financial stability, market structure, security, privacy, and monetary policy all need to be better understood. To summarize, the wheels are already turning on a plan that sees the Fed depositing “digital dollars” to “each American”, a stunning development that essentially sees the Fed bypass Congress, endowing the Central Bank with targeted “fiscal stimulus” capabilities, and which could lead to a dramatic reflationary spike as it is the lower income quartile segments of US society that are the marginal price setters for economic goods and services. And having already implemented Average Inflation Targeting, the resulting burst of inflation would be viewed by the Fed as insufficient on its own (as it would have to persist for a long time over the “average” period whatever it may end up being), to tighten monetary policy. In fact, even as inflation rages – which some alternative inflationary measures to CPI suggest it already is – the Fed will have a semantic loophole in explaining just why it needs to keep inflation scorching hot even as the standard of living in America collapses to the benefit of a handful of asset holders.

Why?

Absent a massive burst of inflation in the coming years which inflates away the hundreds of trillions in federal debt, the unprecedented debt tsunami that is coming would mean the end to the American way of life as we know it. And to do that, the Fed is now finalizing the last steps of a process that revolutionizes the entire fiat monetary system, launching digital dollars which effectively remove commercial banks as financial intermediaries, as they will allow the Fed itself to make direct deposits into Americans’ “digital wallets”, in the process also making Congress and the entire Legislative branch redundant, as a handful of technocrats quietly take over the United States.

The reality of muscle flexing

The Supreme Court no longer is a meaningful judicial institution requiring special expertise. The court doesn’t interpret law, it makes it.

Congresscritter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has posited that our politicians need to be radicalized. I have run across a radical idea for the Republicans.

The Supreme Court is the most powerful legislative body in America. It is an entirely partisan institution.

Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

With that in mind, President Trump and the Senate Republicans immediately should nominate and appoint the youngest, most conservative public figure they can find. I recommend Madison Cawthorn, the 25-year-old House candidate running for North Carolina’s 11th District.

Unlike the currently sitting eight justices, Cawthorn is not a graduate either of Yale or Harvard Law. In fact, he doesn’t have any law degree at all.

Even better!

The Supreme Court no longer is a meaningful judicial institution requiring special expertise. The court doesn’t interpret law, it makes it. The people’s representatives in Congress never voted to make gay marriage legal nationwide or to allow abortion on demand. That was left to the nine aged oligarchs on the court. America, in a number of crucial ways, is a kritarchy—a regime governed by judges.

The Republicans have 53 votes in the Senate. The principle of majority rule means they have the right, from the American people themselves, to implement their will. They should use that power to ram through their preferred nominee.

They shouldn’t hold hearings, ask for Democrats’ input, or muse about “qualifications.” First thing Monday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should hold an up or down vote. They should swear Cawthorn in by the afternoon.

Do not stop, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Like the Roman emperor Caligula appointing his horse as senator, the whole point of this exercise is to delegitimize our decrepit institutions. Conservatives still wringing their hands about “decency,” “norms,” and “the rule of law” simply do not understand the world in front of their eyes.

You want to talk about rule of law? Virtually every state in America has been under medical martial law for six months.

Norms? Neil Gorsuch didn’t bat at an eye at finding transgender rights in the Constitution.

Decency? Democrats used an evidence-free rape accusation to try to sink Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination.

This is about power. This is about winning. America has been in a constitutional crisis for years, if not decades. Maybe it’s time for Republicans to make it explicit.

Of course, if Republicans had spines none of this would be necessary. Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution states that the Supreme Court only has “appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact,” under “such Exceptions” and “Regulations as the Congress shall make.” In other words, the Supreme Court is not the final arbiter on the Constitution. The three branches of government are coequal in their charge to interpret the Constitution in their respective spheres.

But Congress alone has the special power to remove certain topics from the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction entirely. If Congress doesn’t want the Supreme Court to rule on abortion or gun rights, it could make it happen tomorrow.

The current Republican establishment ignores the powers they have, and simply shrugs their shoulders at the court’s rulings. This is a sign of weakness. It is so much easier for elected representatives to sit back in D.C., collect a sweet paycheck from K Street after leaving office, and look the other way.

Their abdication has consequences. Over the past 50 years, the American Left has used the judiciary and administrative state to impose their will without ever pretending to consult the people. And that street doesn’t run both ways, either. The Supreme Court is only allowed to act as a super-legislature so long as it embraces liberal policies.

If a 5-4 decision came down not simply undoing Roe v. Wade, but banning abortion nationwide using the 14th Amendment, there is a snowball’s chance in Hell the Left would accept the results. Leftists would cry “state’s rights,” refuse to allow executive agents to enforce the ruling, and then use their corporate muscle to undo the decision.

The Left would let this country burn before it would allow conservatives to do to them what they’ve spent the last five decades doing to us.

Enough is enough. Americans need a say in their own government. That starts with this nomination. The Republican Party has a chance to show some fight and to impose its will. Do it. Speculating about precedent for the opposing party in the future is the talk of losers. Conservatives should act as if they will always remain in power. They should act like liberals.

Therefore, the Republican Party should immediately flex its political muscle and ensure the appointment of its president’s nominee. It’s time Republicans started acting like winners.

Rocky Rhodes

It is remarkable how many ‘Rhodes Scholars’, as they are called, go on to become leaders of counties or heads of intelligence agencies, education, and other subject areas important to the Elite, or ‘advisors’ to those leaders.)

Being a Rhodes Scholar is quite an accomplishment and comes with extraordinary benefits.

Not only is full tuition paid, but students also receive a generous stipend to live on, and may receive additional scholarships through Oxford.

This scholarship is quite prestigious and can give a Rhodes Scholar an advantage when looking for employment after completing a degree.

Study at Oxford also presents numerous opportunities for a Rhodes Scholar to network and establish long-term relationships with professors and future world leaders.

It is remarkable how many ‘Rhodes Scholars’, as they are called, go on to become leaders of counties or heads of intelligence agencies, education, and other subject areas important to the Elite, or ‘advisors’ to those leaders.)

A partial list of US “movers and shakers” who are Rhodes scholars include:

R. James Woolsey 1963 Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1993–1995), core member of the Project for the New American Century (1997–), senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (2002–)

Robert Reich 1968 American commentator and author, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993–1997), Chancellor’s Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (2006–)

Bill Clinton 1968 American politician, 42nd president of the United States, 1993–2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979–1981 & 1983–1993

Russ Feingold 1975 U.S. Senator (D-Wis.) 1993–2011

Mel Reynolds 1975 U.S. Congressman (Illinois), 1993–1995; convicted felon pedophile

Ashton Carter 1976 Former Harvard professor and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (October 2011 – December 2013), former United States Secretary of Defense

Eric Lander 1978 Chair of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, founder of the Human Genome Project, biology professor at MIT

George Stephanopoulos 1984 Moderator of ABC’s This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign

Susan Rice 1986 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997–2001), United States Ambassador to the United Nations, (2009–2013), National Security Advisor (2013–2017)

Jacob Weisberg 1987 Journalist and editor of Slate magazine

Cory Booker 1992 Former mayor of Newark, New Jersey; 2013 elected Democratic US Senator from New Jersey

Pete Buttigieg 2005 Mayor of South Bend, Indiana

Ronan Farrow 2012 American human rights activist , senior foreign policy official in the Obama administration, U.S. State Department special adviser on global youth issues and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Bruce Reed 1982 Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden

Few people know the origins of the scholarship. Well here it is:
Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.

An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa’s Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.

One of Rhodes’s primary motivations in politics and business was his professed belief that the Anglo-Saxon race was, to quote a letter of 1877, “the first race in the world”. Under the reasoning that “the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race”

So, it could be said that the seed money for the Rhodes scholarships was filthy lucre accumulated off the backs of black people slaving in Rhodes’ mines in Rhodesia and South Africa.

Again, who were some prominent recipients?
Bill Clinton
Susan Rice
Corey Booker
Rachel Maddow
Pete Buttigieg

I wonder if they will be giving the money back since their benefactor was such a loathsome racist.

Not likely.

A new epoch

Today, we have allowed “The Powers That Be” to turn the entire economy into a Wasting Asset.
In my opinion this was as intended.
You can not mismanage things this bad, unless you intend to do so.

As defined by wiki, An epoch, for the purposes of chronology and periodization, is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era.The “epoch” serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The moment of epoch is usually decided by congruity, or by following conventions understood from the epoch in question.

This year has been the year of “unprecedented”. Everything is unprecedented.

The Fed borrowed 4 trillion this year – that number simply takes the breath away. 4 trillion, poof, out of thin air. And to top that, they spent all of it and want to borrow more.

The government gave over half the population $1200 each.

They told 30 to 40 percent of the population not to go to work . . . and they did!/

They gave people who were not working more in unemployment than they ever made working.

The government decided which jobs were essential and which were not . . . and you believed them . . . even after you found out that pizza delivery was essential.

Gas dropped to $1.50 a gallon

People were told to work from home and both companies and employees loved it and do not intend to go back to the old ways.

And all those companies that supported the cube farm office high rise will never come back – restaurants, dry cleaners, auto sales, convenience stores, Starbucks.

Most students will never return to a campus education system.

The era of professional sports my be over because they cannot have fans in the stands.

Yes, it may be too early to tell, but the changes invoked appear to be taking root and create a systemic change in our behavior on many levels.

Systemic change – good phrase.

You don’t hear too much about how to manage Wasting Assets.

Think the big business of buggy whips.

Today, we have allowed “The Powers That Be” to turn the entire economy into a Wasting Asset.

The pass/fail test of management at all levels, is in progress.

In my opinion this was as intended.

You can not mismanage things this bad, unless you intend to do so.