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FYI

Extreme Protest in What Cause?

He set himself on fire as a protest. 

Self-immolation may be on the rise, but we of the older generation remember the classic case, of Thích Quảng Đức, the Mahyana Buddhist monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam.

The most recent self-immolator was outside the “Trump trial in Manhattan,” and he has been accused of being “crazy” and “right-wing.” To make up your mind about those accusations, you should read his own testimony:

My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.

This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: 

We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.

Let us hope he is incorrect. Still, a lot of people are saying things like this. And the Great Reset is promoted and worked towards right out in the open.

But it is mostly anti-leftists who make such claims. And, as we all know, according to Left Pole Theory, anything “not leftist” is “right wing”! But was Max Azzarello really a right-wing extremist? (We can safely call anyone who burns themselves to death in protest an extremist, surely.)

The now-deceased and burnt-to-a-crisp protester believed the proof lies in the nature of our financial order: “If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie.”

Like many other critics of the current American order, he notices that the current political order is bipartisan: “That Bill Clinton was secretly on (former CIA Director) George H. W. Bush’s side, and that the Democrat vs. Republican division has been entirely manufactured ever since: Clinton is with Bush; Gore is with Bush; Trump is with Hillary, and so on.”

Max Azzarello called the current order a “totalitarian doomsday cult,” and asked why the elites are pushing us to disaster. “There are many reasons,” Max answered, “but the simplest is because capitalism is unsustainable, and they knew it: Climate change and resource extraction would catch up eventually. So, they never intended to sustain it. They knew all along that they would gobble up all the wealth they could, and then yank the rug out from under us so they could pivot to a hellish fascist dystopia.”

This does not sound very right-wing, does it?

More important, though, is the truth. Surely not all of Max Azzarello’ claims are true. But how much?

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Thought

Mary Wollstonecraft

Society . . . as it becomes more enlightened, should be very careful not to establish bodies of men who must necessarily be made foolish or vicious by the very constitution of their profession.

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), chapter one.
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Today

Maryland Makes Seven

On April 28, 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.

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Update

High-Placed Rumors About Government Programs to Retrieve and Study Crashed UFOs

A lot of people still express incredulity over the UFO subject, are exasperated that Congress is spending any time on it, and simply deny that the Pentagon is honestly worried about the issue. This is all more than understandable, but it is the case that incredulity over why we are talking about this is completely misplaced. For a lot of highly connected professionals are talking UFOs these days. People with deep connections to Pentagon research.

Take Chris Mellon.

Here is Richard M. Dolan, author of UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973, talking about Mellon’s recent Substack article:

This is a snippet from a longer Dolan video from just a few days, where he appraises the issue of crashed UFO retrievals. Mellon disclosed some information about an alleged UFO crash in Kingman, Arizona, back in the 1950s.

So who is Christopher Mellon? Here is the beginning of his Wikipedia biography:

Christopher Karl Mellon (born October 2, 1957), is a private equity investor, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and later for Security and Information Operations. He formerly served as the Staff Director of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is a member of the influential Mellon family out of the Greater Pittsburgh area.

And Mellon is not alone. The number of government officials, military personnel, armament contractors, airline pilots, and many others say really odd things about phenomena we would normally associate with science fiction. They could all be lying, but they are talking this way. So one can no longer honestly express shock at the issue coming up.

And if they are all lying — if there is nothing to UFOs — then that is quite the conspiracy, too. There is a conspiracy here no matter how you look at it.

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Thought

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790).
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Today

Wollstonecraft & Spencer

On April 27, 1759, English philosopher and author Mary Wollstonecraft was born. Wollstonecraft married anarchist philosopher William Godwin and the couple begat one daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Wollstonecraft herself wrote several important political treatises, including her response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), and her valiant effort in the emancipation of women, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).

English philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, and political theorist Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England, on April 27, 1820. Among Spencer’s most famous books are First Principles, Principles of Ethics (chiefly its first part, The Data of Ethics), The Study of Sociology, The Man versus the State, and two editions of Social Statics. Spencer was an evolutionary theorist as well as a religious and political philosopher, and coiner of the phrase “survival of the fittest.” He called the basic principle of a free political order “The Law of Equal Freedom.”