On April 29, 1945, U.S. troops of the Seventh Army liberated the Dachau concentration camp.
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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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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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Maryland Makes Seven
On April 28, 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790).
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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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.”
Talking to Joe Rogan about the JFK assassination,Tucker Carlson argued that Trump’s and Biden’s withholding of information runs counter to American law. “There’s clearly something worth protecting,” he says, and he doesn’t mean the people involved — they’re all dead.
What’s being protected are, presumably, institutions.
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, Trump told him that “if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn’t have released it either.” According to Roger Stone, Trump explained that what he saw was “so horrible you wouldn’t believe it” . . . and thus Trump withheld 20 percent of the documents that had been scheduled to be released.
So horrible? Many of us can imagine quite a lot of horror coming from the dark corridors of the federal Leviathan.
But there’s another generational secret that Trump and Biden share, and Tucker mentioned it too: UFOs.
Indeed, he and Rogan started out the podcast in a freewheeling discussion of what our government now calls “the UAP issue,” for “unidentified anomalous phenomena.” But Tucker focused on a “dark” and “spiritual” element to the story, giving little evidence except for the scientist’s name who had contacted him about the study of UFO injuries of
Tucker also mentioned strangely behaving objects that traverse the oceans as if water were no matter. A few days earlier, a Yahoo News “Futurism” article explained that “Tim Gallaudet, an oceanographer and former Naval rear admiral who served as the author of a March white paper about so-called ‘unidentified submerged objects’ or USOs, told Fox News this week that he considers it both ‘scientifically valid’ and critical to national security to study these phenomena.”
A lot of effort has been made in the recent disclosure talk to frame UAPs as potential threats. But what kind of threat? A “spiritual” one — “so horrible”?
All we really know is that regarding assassinations and mysterious airborne and oceanic objects, the government would prefer to keep us guessing.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Immanuel Kant
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Ethics, trans. J.W. Semple, ed. with Iintroduction by Rev. Henry Calderwood (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886) (3rd edition).
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Sybil’s Ride
On April 26, 1777, Sibyl Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British. Her ride was over twice as long as Paul Revere’s more famous effort.
On the same day in 1805, United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, an important event in the First Barbary War.
In April 26, 1865, Union cavalry troopers cornered John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia, shooting him to death. There was no interrogation.