Votes per Dollar 2020

Republicans had to pay nine times as much per vote as Libertarian candidates.

Democrats had to pay 13 times as much per vote as Libertarian candidates. This shows that individuals are disproportionately more willing to vote for Libertarian (not anarchist) policies than be gulled by either faction of the entrenched Kleptocracy. These disparities contribute hugely to our leveraged, law-changing clout.(link)

Biden won by the largest popular margin since 1932, when the Democratic Party copied the Liberal Party plank calling for the repeal of prohibition laws and Amendment, and candidate FDR promised to legalize beer in a Pittsburgh speech October 19, 1932 shown at movie theaters nationwide.(link) No Republican calls attention to that. Instead they whine that a MERE 44000 votes sprinkled over Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin in 2020 COULD HAVE thrown the election to the House. This is the same election in which Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen–burdened with anarco-communist running mate Boothead Junior and a woman-hating Austrian Anschluss platform–earned 42 TIMES the 44000 the votes the looters now moan and gnash teeth over. Results of anarchist girl-bulliers here: (link)

Before Gary Johnson shuffled the electoral outcomes in 13 states, Democrats repealed no prohibition laws to speak of. (link) With empty assurances they left protection of individual rights for women–gained by the Libertarian party in 1972–in the hands of a lady judge born the month FDR beat Herbert Hoover.(link) Suddenly, after being whopped upside the haid by the court-packing, girl-bullying mystical Orango-Thing, the fanatically prohibitionist Democrat NOW says maybe someday he’ll kinda sorta look at getting the feds to shoot fewer hippies over pot. State governments meanwhile chainsaw plant prohibition laws like loggers in a rainforest. States are also chainsawing Comstock laws passed when nekkid photographs were a new invention and Prohibitionism was Settled Science. Biden talks about restoring the LP’s Roe régime and RFK Jr says he’d sign a bill legalizing psychedelics. Getting beaten by Libertarian Spoiler votes was what trained the Jackass party to repeal bad laws.(link)

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The states that once gave Wallace dozens of electoral votes now vote solidly Republican.

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Sharknado Warmunist Whackos

This clip aired on a Reason interview I liked. It shattered all hope that the Dems had a Plan B for the eventuality Biden might go the way of Justice Ginsburg and invite yet another National Socialist Anschluss.

RFK JR 2014: I think they should be enjoying three hots and a cot at the Hague, with all the other war criminals.
Q: What about politicians people who deny, who express skepticism…
RFK JR: They’re selling out the public trust. And, you know, I think those guys who are doing the Koch brothers’ bidding, and who–against all the evidence of the rational mind–are saying that Global Warming doesn’t exist, that they are contemptible human beings and that, you know, I wish that there were a law they you could punish under. I don’t think there’s a law you could punish those politicians under but, do I think the Koch Brothers should be punished for reckless endangerment.

Of course the guy tried to backpedal, pretend he didn’t mean what you saw him say, wave red herrings and embark on evasive divagations. But this Dem politician is clearly as blindly brainwashed about atmospheric physics, electrical energy, thermometers and chemistry as the Republican party at large is stolidly brainwashed about altered states and whether individual women can be pregnant, be individuals, and have their rights Constitutionally protected from coercive mystical aggression–all at the same time. (link) Here’s a sight Dems struggle to evade:

Both of these NASA graphs can’t be right, but Republicans will confess there were three gunmen shooting JFK and Connally before Dems even concede these charts ever existed–or that they are inconsistent. Yet Misanthropic Sharknado Climate Warmunism was already a thing when Kennedy was sworn in as President. Here’s a pic from a Soviet prophecy storyboard for a video on how a communist utopia would by the year 2017 put an end to greedy capitalism with its ghastly Second Amendment weapons.(link) Every time I link to the propaganda, the file is taken down, reposted without the English subtitles or disappears altogether. So you need to hunt for 2016 predictions in Soviet propaganda that shaped the thinking of RFK Junior’s generation. Here the latest (hurry up and look) link to collectivist utopia v. capitalist weapons menacing all existence (link)

Good reading: U.S.S. Seawolf, Submarine Raider of the Pacific by Frank, Horan and Eckberg (link) In 1916 submarines brought drugs all the way across the Atlantic for sale in neutral America. Prohibitionist America did not join the League of Nations or Treaty of Versailles, but manipulated Europeans into using treaty prohibitionism to weaken German and Japanese drug market hegemony in July 1931. Ten years and five months later, bombs and torpedoes fell on Pearl Harbor as Japanese midget submarines surveyed the attack. America had submarines of its own in the Pacific. This is the engaging and idiomatic story of just such a sub. One of its first missions was to transport tonnes of ammunition to beleaguered islands in the Philippines where no Allied planes could land.

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Boston Buys Chase Oliver

Source: https://www.boston.gov/departments/elections/unofficial-election-results

This is good news. I’m convinced Chase Oliver is far and away the best candidate based on past performance and current ability.(link)

Good reading: The Banana Wars, by Captivating History. Who was Sandino? What was the Platt Amendment? Why does Cuba hate our government? Why does Venezuela hate our government? For that matter, why do LOTS of Central and South American countries hate the same looter government many Americans hate? The question is both practical and rhetorical. Back in 1986, before America went from Force Everyone to Just Say No to a market Crash and Depression, I debated a college professor before an audience of Crockett High School kids in Austin on the subject of national defense against nuclear attack. My adversary, a government-employed UTexas professor had no clue or notion of libertarian anything except as imaginary fascist, right-wing allies of girl-bullying religious Republicans. He harped on Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority, South American religious fascism, and destabilization, infiltration and bombardment of the entire planet by greedy Americans. As a Libertarian Defense Caucus regular, I handed out free Ayn Rand books, explained the Non-Aggression Principle and defended legalization and free (but armed) trade. My mistake was pointing at Soviet aggression with no clue of how much the American looter Kleptocracy had bullied and invaded Latin America. It almost lost me the debate. The guy rattled off every boatload of Marines from the shores of Tripoli through the Halls of Montezuma to the Pacific isles and on to China. Don’t let it happen to you.

Good music: Marcos Kaiser takes classical, folk and traditional Brazilian guitar to a whole ‘nother level. See for yourself.

If only Carmen Miranda could hear this…

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News of Nixon

Oops, wrong Nixon. This same issue contained other gems, including an ad for agents to hawk an 800-page illustrated book on the practice of medicine as she is right after the second Comstock law took effect. The book, “The Funny Side of Physic” has been converted and posted for download by our friends at Gutenberg.org (link) Gutenberg accepts donations.

The Comstock law–which provided 10 years on a chain gang for mailing a birth control pamphlet–was overturned by the Roe v. Wade decision formulated by the 1972 Libertarian Party Platform. This was shortly after the electoral vote count elected Nixon over the obstreperously antichoice George Wallace of Alabama.(link) The complete text of THAT Libertarian Party Platform is here.(link)

It was legal for the government to compel men to young to vote to burn peasant villages in the former French opium regie of South Vietnam. Women too, as corollary to Comstockism, were legally forced to the involuntary servitude of carrying pregnancies to term under laws dating back to when bleeding, leeches, laudanum, creosote, henbane, phosphoric acid, henbane and worse–were ordinary, common and as unsurprising as death in childbirth. It is the death rate among soldiers and childbearing women that prompts male politicians in leather chairs to threaten them by deadly force to face danger voluntary choice declines. The doctor’s Comstock-era book makes no mention of birth control–sparing him from prison and fines.

Getting back to Nixon. After Nixon lost to Kennedy he tried to sue Texas for robbing the election. Nixon was in Dallas the day JFK was assassinated, and left minutes after the job was done. After Warren Commission investigator Gerald Ford agreed with the magic bullet theory, Nixon was declared President. Nixon, as President, instructed immigration authorities to deny former Beatles musician John Lennon a visa. Lennon hired an able attorney able to overcome the work of “plumbers”, phone-tappers, servile bureaucrats, snoops, spooks and pettifogging obstructionists to prevail in court while Nixon spun down the toilet of the Watergate scandal and resigned in disgrace.

Timothy Leary at a John and Yoko peace event

Like Trump, Nixon considered any election he lost was rigged. He blamed Texas in 1960, and was in Dallas the day Kennedy was assassinated. But who could he blame in 1973? George Wallace, who had nearly cost Tricky the 1968 election, was riddled with non-magical bullets by a lone Manchurian Mystery gunman–we are assured–and dropped out. John Lennon was to Nixon as evil a threat as fellow peace activist and college professor Timothy Leary. Leary shared the title of “most dangerous man in America” with reporter Ellsberg. But John Lennon had beaten Nixon, and beaten him at his own game!

Quaker Nixon moved to New York in 1980 and lived a 20-minute walk across Central Park from John and Yoko when John was shot and killed by another lone Manchurian Mystery gunman. Killer Mark David Chapman had married an Asian lady the year before and convinced her to convert to Christianity. Another Manchurian Mystery gunman, likewise packing a copy of Catcher in The Rye, soon shot Ronald Reagan and several others. Hinkley was tried, Chapman wasn’t; both were declared innocent because “insanity.” Cool coincidences, huh?

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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

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Slavery then and Now

Votes are what repeal bad laws. Idiots are what reelect looter politicians.

When China deported East India Company’s Opium Detail Men in December 1836, Britain sold off American municipal improvement bonds to rearm for the Opium Wars. Whigs blanked this out entirely and invented a fabulous fiction that the Panic of 1837 resulted from Andrew Jackson’s opposition to an opposition party central bank and his demand for specie payments for sale of land robbed at gunpoint from Native Americans. Jackson left office in March 1837 and Martin Van Buren inherited the financial effects of British opium war selloffs for reinvestment in cannon and warships.

Before that, Jackson, under his oath as President, had to enforce a Whig high tariff. These were the delight of northern industrialists every bit as happy to exploit the slaveholding colonial plantation States as the British had before them. The mechanism then was blocking competing farm implement manufactures by the Navigation Acts and solid shot. During the Nullification crisis it was by protective tariffs and solid shot. Northern industrialists replaced the British Monarch in the food chain, but the resentment was as unaffected as the mechanism. The response to the first was the Declaration of Independence, to the second, the Ordinances of Nullification declaring the tariff unenforceable. The first of these similar situations led to war. The second led to Jackson promising to lead an army to hang his fellow elected Democrats if they persist. Civil war failed to materialize but the causes–exploitation of slavery under a mercantilist Metropole-Colony economy–persisted. Tariffs actually fell until after Lincoln was elected.

The War Between the States was a revolt against import tariffs imposed by the Customs Union. Lincoln had no more choice than Jackson, and had been crowded more irrevocably into enforcement action by Texas takeovers of federal forts, armories and a customs vessel. The later Ft Sumpter standoff got more publicity. Since then a new fantasy to the effect that the war began out of pity for African slaves has spread like a holy-roller religion complete with glossolalia. The mechanism was deleting the “Customs” from “Customs Union”–the same as deleting the only source of federal revenue other than murdering Indians and selling their land to Railroad corporations.

What actually happened once the War to Save the Customs Union was under weigh was that Europeans seen the crack in the Monroe Doctrine and took their chances colonizing Mexico (China’s trade partner). Confederates sought recognition from the cowardly Europeans, thrice-stung by the unequal yet apposite reaction to coercing These States. But the glue binding the Confederacy was impunity for white rapists of female slaves plus semiliterate laziness veneered with racial collectivist hauteur–poor matches for cannon, Du Pont, Colt, Remington, Springfield, multiple shipyards and a working democratic government tempered in war–at least in the eyes of betting gentlemen. Northern mercantilist steel-puddlers wanted slavery to continue to generate tariff revenue and cash on the barrelhead for their protected farm implements. Lincoln’s surprising appeal to Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation ended northern industrial enthusiasm for the war, and Eastern Yankee gains slowed to a trickle.

But the big beneficiaries of the tariff were Westerners who wanted canals, railroads, subsidies, rifles to kill Indians and take their land! Lincoln’s Illinois and neighboring Indiana and Ohio imprisoned captured Rebs and sent armies down the Mississipi to prosecute the war westward to the Atlantic. Sherman’s scorched-earth marchers wrecked everything in sight as Yankee diplomats convinced Europeans America was NOW suddenly in a war against slavery, and that Billy Sherman would just as gladly start scorching the earth of troublesome Europeans next, if need be. Emancipation became a political weapon to impress European communists with American niceness. It also scared the bejeezes out of Southern rapists and whippers.

The parallels today concern the enslavement of women and sumptuary laws making trade a crime. Reconstruction was still being resisted when the Comstock law operated to force Northern women into the dangerous involuntary labor of reproduction. Simultaneously, Confederate white supremacists murdered black electors and elected officers. Both movements feared Race Suicide because Blacks were more fertile, and both were imbued with violent zeal for prohibition laws. The 15th Amendment gave women hopes for suffrage. But to protect Ku-Klux night riders from prosecution for mass murder the Supreme Court dismissed the very idea of letting ANY women vote. So women North and South lacked individual rights and were prohibited from voting everywhere except Wyoming until 1880.

After the Emancipation proclamation transferred vigorous prosecution to the Western States, confederates tried to water down the terms of surrender. They tried for freeing men and preserving continued rape and enslavement of “colored” women and kids. They tried to repeat Dunmore’s gambit offering male slaves manumission for helping the army kill Yankees. But rich slaveowners understood how Haiti freed itself from slavery by genocidal reprisals most unequal but quite apposite. Northern firepower and deadly force turned Confederate troops into casualties, cadavers and deserters from conscription. Surrender was unconditional until White supremacists conjured their theory they’d Been Robbed, had actually won, and would Rise Again as assassins and Night Riders. Northern industrialists and bankers, content that their protective tariff–the only thing that counted–had grown, cared not a whit for the perils of enslavement by Christian Comstockism or summary lynching at the hands of redneck mobs.

Northerners threw female black citizenship under the same bus as women’s suffrage. That changed mostly in the psychedelic sixties and with the Libertarian Party soon afterward getting a woman the first female electoral vote.(link) Since then the same ideology that considered slavery a “Christianizing” influence,(link) jailed women for birth control, voting or running for office(link) and freed mass-murderers via specious technicalities(link) was wormed its way back into control of the Supreme Court and several of These States.(link) Big Tobacco and Alcohol, educated in the purchase and ownership of venal politicians by the hard lessons of Great Depression Prohibitionism, will stop at nothing. They keep gin and cigarette markets protected by throttling harmless new drugs in the crib via selective purchases of legal deadly force–if not actual murder-for-pay.

Good reading: The Fall of the House of Dixie, by Bruce Levine.(link) Lincoln’s copying of Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation killed off northern banker and industrialist support for the Civil war. Without slavery, there was no mercantilist metropole-colony relationship to exploit. So why did the War to Save the Customs Union suddenly become successful up and down the Mississippi River? How did Lincoln’s deadline impart added political power–the time derivative of the capacity to kill–to Union forces struggling to salvage the protective tariff?
The book gets into the details of how slavers sought to keep women and children as rightsless chattel even if the males were to break free. Appeals to European mercantilists suddenly added to cheap cotton the lure of minstrel-show manumission and ersatz emancipation.
It is a good companion to the 2-volume Casa Grande & Senzala published by Gilberto Freyre in 1933 and translated (even if Bowdlerized in its references to sexual expoitation) as The Masters and The Slaves. Brazilians chafed under fake freedom and extended Portuguese colonialism long after America’s Civil War. There, mercantilist monopoly segued into extortionate tariff protectionism much more gradually, and with less in the way of successful replacement of colonial plantation culture with industrial society. Superstitious American sumptuary laws dictate South American poverty by excluding competing products and new entrants liable to weaken the gin and tobacco hegemony. Just now this caudillo coercion is painted over with a gloss of “free market” makeup in the shape of another caudillo de Dios eager to ban birth control and reenslave women rather than legalize trade and production.(link)

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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

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Wife-beaters and T Roosevelt

TR evidently wanted women enslaved and forced to reproduce–so long as they are not beaten by hubby! For THAT we have proper officers of THE law. 

Roosevelt’s usual style was to express support for two opposite things in a single breath. This enabled wags favoring either of the two contrary positions to brag that Teedy was in favor of their demands. Mr Dooley’s example is the clearest: “The Trusts? I’d crush ’em underfoot. Then again, not so fast!”

With regard to a woman’s Duty to the Party, however, TR twice put in writing the need for compulsion to overcome female dereliction the duty to pop out conscripts for the massacre of primitives in the Phillippine Islands, or imperfect Monroe doctrinaires in Latin America. In 1902 the message was that women who do not put out and put forth are criminal deserters from the war against race suicide. Viz:

My Dear Mrs. Van Vorst:
I must write you a line to say how much I have appreciated your article, “The Woman Who Toils.” But to me there is a most melancholy side to it, when you touch upon what is fundamentally infinitely more important than any other question in this country—that is, the question of race suicide, complete or partial. … But the man or woman who deliberately avoids marriage, and has a heart so cold as to know no passion and a brain so shallow and selfish as to dislike having children, is in effect a criminal against the race, and should be an object of contemptuous abhorrence by all healthy people.

“Teedy” followed these thoughts with a second letter 5 years later, angrily scolding a magazine editor for allowing a statement contradicting Rooseveltian eugenic theory to see light. T.R. harrumphed:

These teachings furnish excuses for every unnatural prevention of child-bearing, for every form of gross and shallow selfishness of the kind that is really the deepest reflection on, the deepest discredit to, American social life. …
… all schemes about having “doctors in public schools,” about kindergartens, civic associations, women’s clubs, and training families up in this way or that are preposterous nonsense if there are to be no families to train; and that it is a simple mathematical proposition that, where the average family that has children at all has only three, the race at once diminishes in numbers, and if the tendency is not checked will vanish completely, – in other words, there will be race suicide. (link)

Clearly, therefore, the deadly force used without discrimination to enforce “the” law on man and woman alike needed, according to Teedy, to be felt by female hide if respect for “the” law is to survive with “the” race. Then again, laws only blacks could violate in the south were given “teeth” by hiring professional whippers to flog them back into their proper place. So perhaps this was what Teedy had in mind here. You wouldn’t want just anybody to beat some female deserter back into the serried ranks of racial collectivism. Here’s what the president said to Congress:

There are certain offenders, whose criminality takes the shape of brutality and cruelty towards the weak, who need a special type of punishment. The wife-beater, for example, is inadequately punished by imprisonment; for imprisonment may often mean nothing to him, while it may cause hunger and want to the wife and children who have been the victims of his brutality. Probably some form of corporal punishment would be the most adequate way of meeting this kind of crime.

The ROE decision copied from the 1972 Libertarian Platform has been vacated by a court packed with racial collectivists committed to the same sort of mystical brailwashing that elevated Adolf Hitler to the Chancellorship while Herbert Hoover’s prohibitionists were busy dismembering the U.S. economy. Like caudillo dictators, these political appointees are empowered-for-life and cannot be removed by any remedy short of that suggested by H.L. Mencken or that applied to Ceausescu. Far better to have women voters correct the matter the way they did in papist Ireland (link) and Argentina.(link)

Good reading: The Fall of the House of Dixie, by Bruce Levine.(link) Lincoln’s copying of Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation killed off northern banker and industrialist support for the Civil war. Without slavery, there was no mercantilist metropole-colony relationship to exploit. So why did the War to Save the Customs Union suddenly become successful up and down the Mississippi River? How did Lincoln’s deadline impart added political power–the time derivative of the capacity to kill–to Union forces struggling to salvage the protective tariff?

Get the big picture in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.

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Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle

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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Three dollars on Amazon Kindle

I also produce books and articles in Portuguese, using Brazilian historical sources at http://www.expatriotas.blogspot.com or www.amigra.us

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1971 Nixon Psychotropic Convention

Prohibitionism of the Demon Rum was joined by Chinese reaction against British opium smugglers, then metastasized into a War on Everything, which is the same as a War on Trade.

The Panic of 1837 resulted in part from British liquidation of investment in America. The resulting increase in naval armaments and levies on nore docile mercantilist colonies made it possible to completely destroy the Qing empire with French and American help. By 1912 the British resorted to argument from intimidation to encourage prohibitionist absolutism in China–the thing that had worsened the Christian addicts revolt, which in turn acted as an additional military pincer to wreck the Celestials. “If opium is the supreme Evil” Palmerston’s argument in effect went, “then surely you must use deadly force to prohibit even backyard poppy gardens for personal use, just as you banned OUR smuggling of thousands of tonned of prepared Indian dope!” With that, there was no way the problem could end well for China.

Chinese trade boycotts increased from 1903 to 1905, despite America making examples of disloyal Filipinos. To keep U.S. exports shipping, the Pure Drug law of 1906 brought the Panic of 1907 when enforcement began. Hague Antiopium Convention agitation caused a glut in the poppy-producing Balkans that–with a lot of help from America’s Harrison Act–blossomed into WW1–another opium war for which no country is eager to claim credit.(link)

But before 1905, hawkers of patent medicines offered newspapers profitable advertising contracts for so long as no laws prohibited their trade. This enlisted newspapers’ self-interest so as to get them to resist publishing shrill demands for prohibition laws. President Herbert Hoover’s pal Mark Sullivan wrote magazine articles on these “evil” agreements before small amounts of beer were made a felony in 1929.(link) In September of 1929 the League of Nations–which by then had inherited Hague Convention enforcement of all manner of drugs–endorsed plans to definine everything a “narcotic” and make League members vigilantes in a global prohibitionist posse.(link)

That posse, largely commandeered by drug cartels, circled drug-producing Germany to reduce its market share with a Limitation Convention in June-July of 1931. Alarmed, German industrialists promptly financed the National Socialist party and in less than two years, Hitler’s popularity competed with that of Jesus in a busily Christian nation. Even before WW2, French industrialists questioned labeling everything Americans wanted to ban a “narcotic,” which to them meant estupefiant–something stimulants and psychedelics clearly weren’t.

Fast-forward to 1971, when Richard Nixon had barely squeaked into office and now faced defeat as another Quaker fanatic wrecking the economy and sucking us into war. France’s opium monopoly in Vietnam had led to civil war. Laws against marijuana–urged by opium producers to get rid of cheap, non-addictive competition–were failing as experts testified nobody eger became addicted to grass, nor had there been a lethal overdose from it in human history. The Beatles and Timothy Leary popularized a non-toxic, empathogenic substance that did nothing to help nationalsocialist militarists brainwash voters into backing the bombing of Asian peasants for revolting against a French narcotics cartel!

Psychedelic concerts beginning with the Buffalo Party convention and festival had mushroomed into huge Woodstock Nation parties.(link) Nixon and Reagan feared a menace to Republican Comstock Prohibitionism and the Military-Industrial Complex. Courts declared joints were NOT narcotics, the Libertarian Party had gotten the Supreme Court to roll back Comstock laws and John Lennon of Lucy-In-The-Sky-With-Diamonds fame was popularizing liberal freedom the way the Liberal Party had undermined fellow Quaker Republican Herbert Hoover back in 1930-33, after he unwittingly lined up backers for Hitler’s party.

The solution was to very quietly arrange another Prohibition Convention, this time in Hitler’s home town of Vienna.(link) The idea was to rename EVERYTHING that couldn’t be tarbrushed as nacotic a PSYCHOTROPIC, and thereby deport John Lennon, jail black, brown and long-haired freethinkers, re-elect Tricky Dick Nixon and Make America Grate Again. Nixon is gone but Convention-inspired laws, like the calling card of a stray dog left on the stoop of the United Nations, now helps the Republican party to jail, deport or get fanatics to kill anyone who dares question its totalitarian initiation of force. In 1971 and 1972 the Psychotropics witchhunt deprived tens of thousands of the right to vote or emigrate. Now, more than a half-century later, foreign scientists, physicians, artists and engineers are declared inadmissible on account of a seed or a leaf thanks to the Psychotropic Index Expurgatorius. The Psychotropics convention is–like the Hague Convention, Versailles treaty, Volstead Act and Limitation convention of 1931–another conspiracy in restraint of trade worthier of Torquemada’s Spanish Inquisition than the United Nations or a government organized under the U.S. Constitution.(link)
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Good Reading: John Lennon v. U.S.A. is the first-person story of immigration lawyer Leon Wildes hired by John and Yoko to stop Nixon’s smarmies from running them out of the States on a rail.(link) The author, with impeccable legal credentials, explains with thoughtful insights how the War, Comstock and Prohibition party faction that imported Nazi war criminals wholesale as a hedge against “Bolshevism” used every dirty trick in the book to deport English musician John Lennon.

Unavailable viewing: Chapter 27 is a movie about a Christian fanatic from Texas who shot John Lennon in the back.(link) Amazon Prime does not offer it in certain Monroe Doctrine colonies that enforce the Psychotropics convention. Amazon is evidently reinstating by proxy the country code censorship that allowed DVD movies to be watched in upper but not lower-class countries, but I doubt it’s their idea. Same unavailability goes for 27 Gone too Soon. Jimi dies, Janis dies, Jim dies, John is murdered–musicians usually died less publicly and dramatically than MLK, JFK, RFK and John Lennon, but still…

Get the big picture in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.

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Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle

Check out LIBtranslator, my political economy blog at https://libertrans.blogspot.com/

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Three dollars on Amazon Kindle

I also produce books and articles in Portuguese, using Brazilian historical sources at http://www.expatriotas.blogspot.com or www.amigra.us

My financial history blog, http://www.Libertrans.us, is at libertrans.blogspot.com

To my Colleagues at ATA

The Association of Translation Agencies is pretending to ask for nominations before choosing its prearranged slate. Since freelancers have no representation, and never will, nominating me may be a better policy-changer than other alternatives. Here is something I published years ago. 

Letter to ATA director Maier

Since then, agency cohorts reworked the website so it is alluva sudden a lot easier to find individual linguists than it was then. This would never have come about without pitiless goading. Also, 

A Beginner’s Guide to Handling WIYRdos

which is the follow up to the Caveat Emptor article that nearly got me lynched back in the 90s, may be getting traction. I estimate this judging by a spate of fake articles on how freelancers can “negotiate” by carrying lapel brushes to brush off the lapels of agency owners at conventions and so forth. The freelancer website,

https://www.freelanceparty.org

is still up, albeit not updated. Like Pat Poulsen, if nominated I of course will not run and if elected not serve unless paid a salary commensurate with the aporrinhação such a sentence would entail. But though there is no danger of that, spoiler vote leverage is still a powerful game-changer. 

Libertarian Candidate Speech

Wishing y’all the best, I remain,

A surly, unreconstructed curmudgeon eager to derail all cartels and dishonest combinations in restraint of trade.

Hank Phillips, the surviving libertariantranslator.com 

Interesting watching: The Menten Files, on Amazon (link). Serendipity led me to this awesome Dutch (De Zaak Menten) teevee series in Dutch, Polish, English, Russian and German/Yiddish with Portuguese subtitles (Os Arquivos Menten). It’s a story about a 1970s Jewish journalist in the Netherlands who follows an art exhibit lead to discover a Nazi millionaire living the looter life with homes in the Low Countries, Ireland and who-knows-were else. Memorable line is the idealistic reporter exclaiming that The Netherlands “is not the sort of place that shelters a mass-murderer…” The inside joke is that Kaiser Wilhelm–Teddy Roosevelt’s girl-bullying religious buddy–finagled political asylum there after Germany’s reaction to the China-inspired U.S.-organized Hague antiopium Convention led to war killing some 20 million in 1914-1919.
Interestingly, this came out in 2016, the year Gary Johnson’s 4 million Libertarian spoiler votes accidentally helped Trump win–and aroused the covetous interest of billionaire Nazi heirs funding the Christian racial collectivist Alternative für Deutschland party. That’s the crowd that funds the Ludwig von Mises outfit in Alabama, which in turn spawned the Mises Caucasian Anschluss to republicanize the LP during the pandemic. Its leadership also infiltrated the Texas State LP, to the joy of prohibitionist pronatalist Gov Greg Abbott. Curiouser and curiouser… *-*-*

Get the complete story in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.

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Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle

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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Three dollars on Amazon Kindle

I also produce books and articles in Portuguese, using Brazilian historical sources at http://www.expatriotas.blogspot.com or www.amigra.us

My financial history blog, http://www.Libertrans.us, is at libertrans.blogspot.com

Debating Jerry Pournelle

AN OPEN LETTER TO JERRY POURNELLE

Dear Mr. Pournelle,

Forgive me for criticizing you. You were right and I was wrong. I take my hat off to you, but I’m not the least bit sorry.

Three years ago I wrote you a letter attacking an article you had written for your column “A Step Farther Out”. The subject was radiation hazards from nuclear power plants, etc.

Your invigorating and sarcastic reply prompted me to investigate the subject thoroughly in the spirit of I’ll show him! Formal reasoning doesn’t take sides … all I managed to do was prove to myself that you were right.

The obvious next step was to show the local anti-nuclear activists the results of my investigation so that we could all go home satisfied and content that it wasn’t really as dangerous or expensive as we’d feared. They wouldn’t even look! When I confronted them with questions, I got evasions. When I confronted them with facts, these were either ignored or denied (not rebutted; denied!). When I confronted them with mathematics and propositional logic they responded with a fear that bordered on panic.

That fear fascinated me. A deep-seated horror of rationality had to come from somewhere, and I had to delve into philosophy to find out where . . . but it didn’t take long —who was John Galt?

Who stands to lose if the free democracies of the western world… —equip them­selves with the means to produce electricity, i.e., productivity, i.e., wealth?

Who stands to lose if these free nations build power plants… —that are relatively immune to miner’s strikes, oil strikes, rail strikes, operator strikes and other forms of worker manipulation?

Who stands to lose if we build… — power plants so hardened that they have a good chance of continuing to supply electricity to radar tracking systems, missile silos and communications systems even after a nearby nuclear detonation?

—Plants which can continue to produce electricity for years even if blockaded or besieged?

—Power plants which enable us to improve our knowledge about, and supply of fissionable materials suitable for deployment in weapons systems?

—Plants which cannot easily be infiltrated by saboteurs or “liberated” by gangs of terrorists?

Who stands to gain if we back away from this opportunity?

Rationality is our tool for individual survival. To reject it is to embrace death, perhaps not immediately, but somewhere down the line the dues will be paid. In the meantime, we have altruism—the doctrine of human sacrifice embodied in the form of collectivism. Jane Fonda once said, “The church that I relate to most is called ‘The People’s Temple’… It provides a sense of what life should be about.” Now you know why and I know why.

No, I’m not sorry I hassled you, you ornery old grouch! I’m glad! Thank you for being a vile enough old reprobate to actually stand up and shout me down when you knew you were right! Nuff said . . . now stop gloating and get back to work.

Sincerely, Hank Phillips
Austin, Texas

This same edition of Amazing Stories also contained a tale I’d been searching for since 1980. The title is PLANET 7, by John E. Stith, a Colorado programmer. The story starts on the back cover of the magazine and is one of the finest–and shortest–ever written. These past 40 years science has been attacked by mystical bigots angered at how nuclear assays demolished their blind faith in such fables as the Shroud of Turin as a Jesus-wrapper. Thermometer readings published in newspapers prove the Climate Sharknado data are fake and internally inconsistent.

Even High School plane trigonometry is a menace to anyone who wants you to believe JFK was shot from six stories up as the limo rounded the curve from Houston Street onto Elm in Dallas. The Parkland Hospital drawings show the first bullet came from ahead, entered his throat at the tie knot and exited, lower, from his back. That bullet HAD to travel in the same horizontal plane that contained the railroad tracks. It did not travel down at a nearly 45º angle from the sixth floor of a building sixty feet away.

Nothing Gerald Ford, Allen Dulles, Hale Boggs, Nixon, Arlen Specter, Commander Boswell or their minions say will make this verifiable High School math and autopsy drawing go away. Even the bullet path is at right angles to the Book Depository, which was to Kennedy’s right (North) as the limo turned from Houston to Elm. The hypothesis that a shooter fired from inside the tarp-covered truck pointed East in stalled traffic on Commerce (shown in the Cancellare photo with the parents protecting kids on the grass) is not too farfetched to merit examination. The bullet that hit Ike-Nixon appointee Connally (disliked by Oswald) came from up high.

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Get the complete story in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.

ProhicrashAmazon

Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle

Check out LIBtranslator, my political economy blog at https://libertrans.blogspot.com/

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Three dollars on Amazon Kindle

I also produce books and articles in Portuguese, using Brazilian historical sources at http://www.expatriotas.blogspot.com or www.amigra.us

My financial history blog, http://www.Libertrans.us, is at libertrans.blogspot.com

Republican cigarettes or Dem?

One brand or the other
Either-or, pick a pack, smoke and be impotent–just like the Looter Kleptocracy

Both entrenched kleptocracy parties are selling to the same crowd, and the crowd pays with its votes. Neither party wants voters to read its platform. Excerpts are of course unrolled in front of particular pressure groups in much the spirit of a Klan rally or Socialist pogrom schedule. “Help us harm these hated scum” is the message. Cigarette ads also referred to their competitors obliquely, hinting, suggesting and insinuating but never stating forthrightly that “our” smokes–unlike that other trash–soothes your throat almost like a medicinal balm, only enjoyably.

Chesterfield uses Turkish tobacco – from Sansoun, Smyrna, Cavalla and Xanthi, the ads proclaimed. Then it blends and cross-blends those leaves with various kinds of choice home-grown tobaccos in the right balance to give you a cigarette that’s milder, a cigarette that tastes better. Better than not smoking? (link)

That same paper printed another ad on the same page as the ORIOLE FLASH – Official Publication of the 600 Pupils of Ludington High School. (link)

TURKISH TOBACCOS… One reason why Luckies taste better, smoother. These tender, delicate Turkish leaves are blended with choice tobaccos from our own Southland – to make your Lucky Strike a cigarette that is fully packed – so round, so firm – free from loose ends. That’s why Luckies taste better, smoother. “It’s toasted” – throat protection – for finer taste. It’s the Giant Douche versus Turd Sandwich false alternative back in 1934, two months after the Prohibition Amendment and Volstead Act which wrecked the economy after eroding it for 15 years was finally repealed. 

The 2016 Libertarian Party ticket allowed Democrats–tired of being busted, robbed and shot over plant leaves–to let Hillary’s party know they were fed up by handing Gary and Willie a 2×4 of 4 million spoiler votes. (link) Once the votes were counted, Dems proceeded to immediately repeal a bunch of marijuana laws and pretend to act on behalf of the individual rights of women they’d frittered away through dereliction.(link) That’s how spoiler votes work–by making the stupidest looters lose first.

God’s Own Prohibitionists could hardly believe their luck and doubled down on looting, shooting, raping and enslaving for Christ. Anarco-fascist infiltrators multiplied like loaves and fishes to wreck LP planks and organize a hostile takeover or Anschluss of the Libertarian Party during the pandemic. People who value their lives and wanted to go to Austin, stayed away from Reno. The result: a smaller, harder, angrier bunch of girl-bullying superstitious republicans gained control of the Libertarian Party we worked for 50 years to build. Once the violent MAGAts that mobbed and vandalized the Capitol are themselves being violated in prison we might be able to retake the party. If so, the best approach is to reset to the original 1972 platform and install mechanisms to guard against Christian National Socialist putsches and infiltration.

As in the case of cigarettes, where thinking people give up tobacco entirely and either quit, vape, chew gummies or take an occasional bong hit–there is always the option of sending the mystical insurgency no money and giving their girl-bullying candidates no votes. Only the first two lp platforms gave us scary increases in vote share. Looters with vandal planks ruined that and will keep on trying as long as we let it happen.(link)

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Good Reading: Remember Obama? The guy who won by NOT being G Waffen Bush or stirring up asset-forfeiture night-riders to burn down the economy? After whupping Hockey Mom and Flaming Torch, Obama was next threatened by Mormon Mitt and Fake Objectivist Boy. Sally Denton saw the Obow signal and fired off The Plots Against The President to save These States from ANOTHER economy-wrecking christiano-fascist demagogue.(link) No way can anyone read this book and fail to grok the ominous paralells between 1934-6 and now. Ku-kluxers marched 20 abreast in tens of thousands when Bert Hoover was building a dry new race. Laws making trade and production a felony were then, as now, the hypnotic swastika for which the Republicans had sacrificed the 1932 election. Then, as now and in 1924 Germany, mesmerized myrmidons rose up to proclaim “we wuz backstabbed!” The current crop even paid Sally the compliment of having a MAGAt novel-writing machine crank out a Newspeak Testament bemoaning the Crucifiction of Donald Trump at the hands of the women voters his minions struggle to re-enslave.(link)

Unlike Denton I agree with FDR that the anarco-assassin midget deliberately hunted and killed Chicago Mayor Cermak. Murderers DO lie on occasion, but this–like the scattered OCR typos–is quibbling. The book is an enjoyable and timely read by a historian who writes about the subjects others ignore.

Get the complete story in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.

ProhicrashAmazon

Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle

Check out LIBtranslator, my political economy blog at https://libertrans.blogspot.com/

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Three dollars on Amazon Kindle

I also produce books and articles in Portuguese, using Brazilian historical sources at http://www.expatriotas.blogspot.com or www.amigra.us

My financial history blog, http://www.Libertrans.us, is at libertrans.blogspot.com