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Let’s Play “Who’s the Fascist!”

The problem of the Left Pole is, who’s not a Nazi who’s not leftist? This is a consequence of the game leftists play, calling everyone not leftist the very worst names they can think of.

The latest casualty is Javier Milei, libertarian president of Argentina. He’s been called a fascist.

Benjamin Williams clears this up in “No, Milei Is Not a Fascist,” over at Mises Wire.

The dictator Benito Mussolini and his close comrade Giovanni Gentile were indisputably fascists. They invented fascism, wrote fascist literature, and called themselves fascists. So it stands to reason that if you want to see if Javier Milei is a fascist, you’d compare him to these fascists. The critics never make these sorts of comparisons because they’re aware it would expose their ridiculous accusations for what they are: ahistorical and ignorant.

Mussolini viewed the state as almost something to be worshipped, with his works riddled with references to its greatness and importance. He summarized his view with the mantra, “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” In stark contrast, Milei’s speeches, debates, and rants are filled with insults and criticisms directed at the state. One of his most famous quotes, “wipe my ass with the state,” encapsulates this disdain. Milei does not hold the state on a pedestal like Mussolini did.

Mussolini believed that capitalism was deeply flawed and needed to be abolished. In “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism,” he states that the state was “the force which alone can provide a solution to the dramatic contradictions of capitalism” and that fascism would replace capitalism with “a system of syndicalism.” On the other hand, Milei holds a contrasting view. He frequently praises capitalism as morally and economically superior. In his World Economic Forum speech — dubbed a ‘fascist rant’ by socialists — he declared that people should resist the state, asserting, “The state is not the solution. The state is the problem itself.”

Milei’s policies are certainly not fascist either. Mussolini’s dictatorship supported the socialization of industry, not privatization. His dictatorship mandated union membership, harshly regulated industries, and socialized over eighty firms.

Leftists need to see the world as it is, not as they think it should be — sequestered, as their minds are, at the Left Pole, from which all roads out are “far right.” Ideological geography is more complex than that.

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The Covidocene in Its Latter Days?

Covid, fascism, vaccination

As Covid becomes normalized as a disease …

  1. “Moderna posted a $1.2 billion loss in the first quarter of 2024, with the drugmaker blaming crashing sales of its COVID-​19 vaccine,” explains an Epoch Times article. “This decline aligns with the anticipated transition to a seasonal COVID-​19 vaccine market,” Moderna said.
  2. We reminisce how we navigated the worst period: “In December 2021, visitors weren’t allowed in the hospital, so Amy Williams had to find another way to get the medicine to her father,” another Epoch Times piece tells us.
  3. “I believe that the truth about the COVID vaccines is starting to come out,” says Dr. John Campbell:
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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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COVID Response Under Continuing Fire

Covid, panic, hysteria, crazy

What did they know and when did they know it?

This classic question, derived from Senator Howard Baker and the Watergate brouhaha of the 1970s, continues to echo as we uncover each new scandal. But no one is calling the pandemic debacle as “COVIDgate” or “WuhanGate” or even “FauciGate,” for the scandal is broad. 

How broad? In Britain, a very small minority is getting a handle on it:

In America, keeping track of all the pieces has been an ongoing issue for a number of podcasters, not least of whom is Tom Woods, whose book Diary of a Psychosis (2023) is itself a good indicator of where we are at. A recent podcast of his (“Ep. 2481 Yale’s Harvey Risch: The Corruption of American Medicine”) shows just how daunting a task this endeavor can be.

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So, How Many U.S. Agencies Knew of the China-​built Coronavirus in Advance? Fifteen?!?!

Coronavirus, Covid, panic, risk

“At least 15 federal agencies knew from the beginning of the pandemic that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were seeking federal funding in 2018 to create a virus genetically very similar if not identical to COVID-​19,” informs Senator Rand Paul (R‑Ky.) “Disturbingly, not one of these 15 agencies spoke up to warn us that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been pitching this research.”

According to information on the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security page, foreknowledge of the gain-​of-​function research program that led to the development of SARS-​Cov‑2 may have been rather widespread:

“Despite at least fifteen federal agencies having knowledge of the DEFUSE project in 2018,” the page continues, “its existence was not revealed to the public until 2021 and the involvement of NIH Rocky Mountain Lab in the initial proposal has never been previously disclosed. Dr. Paul expressed that the failure of these agencies to disclose their awareness of the risky research proposed in the DEFUSE project raises serious concerns.”

This reminds Common Sense of a catchphrase of the Watergate era: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” But in 2020, the U.S. President was kept in the dark about the origin of the novel coronavirus — as was the American public. But a whole lot of members of the Administrative State knew a whole lot that they did not let on. 

Who knew about the U.S.-subsidized origin of the Wuhan Institute-​created virus, and when did they know it?

Rand Paul
Rand Paul wants to know.

Past coverage of the origin of the “novel coronavirus” here at Common Sense is extensive, but these four articles might be a place to start:

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Dare to be a Daniel?

What’s the latest on the prosecution of the January 6th “rioters” at the Capitol?

Well, take the case of Mr. Daniel Goodwyn, 35, of Corinth, Texas. He pled guilty on January 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. 

“A sentencing requirement that Jan. 6 defendant Daniel Goodwyn have his computer monitored by the government for “disinformation” has been vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,” explains The Epoch Times:

The court on March 26 published a mandate sending the case back to U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton to remove the computer monitoring requirement he issued as part of the sentencing judgment in the case on June 15, 2023.

“Judge Walton had no legal basis to issue the special condition,” Carolyn Stewart, Mr. Goodwyn’s attorney, told The Epoch Times in an April 3 email.

The judge had also censured the defendant for his interview with Tucker Carlson, who, said the judge, had minimized Goodwyn’s involvement on the fateful day. 

As The Epoch Times story relates, it’s been a colorful case, with the judge showing he was misinformed about some of the facts of the case, and adamantine in his error. He also disagreed with the defendant’s contention that Ashli Babbitt had been murdered by the police.