The State’s Best-Kept Secret.

 The switch from weights of gold to patriotic names drew monetary power away from owners of money. But since it was patriotic, few complained, and fewer still understood the implications.

Once such a label replaces the recognized world units of weight, it becomes much easier for governments to manipulate the money unit and give it an apparent life of its own. . .

With the name of the country’s currency now prominent in accounting instead of its actual weight, contracts began to pledge payment in certain amounts of “money.” Legal tender laws dictated what that “money” could be [e.g., dollars, francs] . . . .

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/06/george-f-smith/the-states-best-kept-secret/

Deadly Delusions: When the Plans Work All Too Well.

Both Neocons and Neolibs agree generally on two things: (1) Israel is to be protected at all costs, and (2) the proper role of the U.S. in world affairs is to support Israeli interests and to block hostile actions against it by other countries.

https://www.unz.com/article/deadly-delusions-when-the-plans-work-all-too-well/

The First French Communists: The Conspiracy of the Equals.

 Babeuf (1764–1797), a journalist and commissioner of land deeds in Picardy, came to Paris in 1790, and imbibed the heady revolutionary atmosphere. By 1793, Babeuf was committed to economic equality and communism. Two years later, he founded the secret Conspiracy of the Equals, organizing around his new journal, The Tribune of the People. The Tribune, like Lenin’s Iskra a century later, was used to set a coherent line for his cadre as well as for his public followers. As James Billington writes, Babeuf’s Tribune “was the first journal in history to be the legal arm of an extralegal revolutionary conspiracy.”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/06/murray-n-rothbard/the-first-french-communists-the-conspiracy-of-the-equals/

Rome’s Own Version of an ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Cult: Bacchanalia Runs Amok.

 Modern scholarship, under the control of the usual suspects, takes a skeptical approach to what is pejoratively called “moral panic.” Despite historical evidence that mysterious “Eyes Wide Shut”-type cults, Sabbatean Frankist and Hellfire Club-like activities have gone on in various forms for millennia, pajama people are fed a B.S. line that threats such as Pedogate and human sacrifices are largely a product of religious fanatics, conspiracy theorists and overly paranoid conservatives.

https://www.winterwatch.net/2024/06/romes-own-version-of-an-eyes-wide-shut-cult-bacchanalia-runs-amok/

Jews Are Rewarding Black Criminality.

These are certain outcomes, along with the death of justice and the bankrupting of the public purse at the behest of stunning and brave “racial allies” like Levine, Friedman, Weiner, Goldstein, Chemerinsky, Rose and so many others working behind the scenes on initiatives like the RJA in California and beyond.

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2024/06/18/jews-are-rewarding-black-criminality/