Beer flu saga continues

Posted on 2025-07-07 by TPOL Nathan

We here at TPOL recently looked back at some news stories and reports that interested us months and months ago. Particularly dealing with health care and health issues.

Let us share a few. They are old news, but still of interest. We will start with California

California Governor Orders Investigation Into Ultra-Processed Foods | The Epoch Times – This was reported back in January. Too bad we know that Newsom and the entire California Assembly (and government agencies) are corrupt and tyrannical – and even more than most governments. As we commented on in detail in another commentary, a recent poll (if we can trust Newsweek) claims that more Californians than ever (44%) want to secede from California. (They do not seem to realize that California would rapidly slide into a Third-World state (even more than it is already)).  And the rest of the States might benefit – provided the millions fleeing from California did not pollute the other States’ electorate.

What is interesting, looking back 6 months? The report was due in April but NOTHING has been reported: the only thing I’ve been able to find is this article about a bill in the California Assembly: Harmful ultraprocessed foods may be removed from billions of California school lunches | CNN The main gist of the article is how wonderful California is in upstaging RFKJr in this – though the bill isn’t expected to become law until August. Are we right to consider Newsom’s directive to be nothing but eyewash and a Potemkin village propaganda action at best, eh?

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We is “all gonna starve” if RFK Jr. isn’t banned

Posted on 2025-07-06 by TPOL Nathan

At least that is what the mainstream media is trying to sell us,

The latest – published in the Daily Mirror (US edition) and broadcast by MSN, has a nice scaremongering headline: 8 fast food items to disappear after RFK Jr.’s food dye ban.

The list of foods that will “disappear” is horrific! Look at this:

  • French fries
  • Chicken sandwiches (at least the “fast food” variety)
  • Burger and hot dog and sandwich buns
  • “Sugary” coffee drinks and milkshakes
  • Roast beef sandwiches (even without the buns!)
  • Tacos (but apparently not burritos or chimichangas?)
  • Macaroni and cheese and Chili cheese dogs
  • Glazed donuts and biscuits

Yes, we know that there is not a whole lot in common between, say, mac and cheese and chili cheese dogs. But that is how the highly-intelligent, public-minded, and professionally-trained writers and editors at the Daily Mirror grouped them together.

But there is more! The second paragraph of that incredibly-important and well-balanced news story has a link to what breakfast foods will also disappear. Obviously, since breakfast is “the most important meal of the day” (TM) this is even worse, though there are only seven and not eight:

  • Breakfast cereals – especially those with bright colors
  • Yogurt! Especially flavored versions
  • Pop Tarts (TM) and other toaster pastries
  • Oranges! (And here you thought that oranges were good for you!)
  • Stawberry-flavored milk
  • Baked goods (Hostess products are highlighted and have pictures to let you see what you are gonna miss!)

Although it is not one of the seven soon-to-be mourned foods for breakfast, the article ends with a warming that “some meats” apparently will go away.

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Things to ponder: the coming transition: Collapse and catastrophe? Or rebirth?

Posted on 2025-07-05 by TPOL Nathan

Cleaning up messages and files is never fun, but sometimes it triggers a fresh look at things worth sharing. Think about these things we at TPOL discussed back in early 2023.

Is the cup half-empty? Or half-full? We face such a situation, at least the way we interpret Martin Armstrong’s discussion on Addison Wiggins’ Wiggins Session for 14 December 2022:

There is simply no possible way to prevent the collapse of our Republican forms of government. But since the media always promotes one-sided leftist fake news, they will be leading us down the path of authoritarianism for the cancel culture is all about silencing any opposition.

As Sagan points out, without skepticism we are doomed. What we must start planning for is the reconstruction of a new form of government post-2032 when this one collapses like Communism from its own corruption and weight.

No revolution will be even needed.

Of course, while Armstrong (looking forward a decade) wrote of “our Republican forms of government,” we take his language in an ironic sense. We here at TPOL have never shied from stating our strong belief that the American Republic ended more than a century ago in the cataclysmic year of 1913. And that what we live under today in these States is an ever more corrupt, debased, and debauched democracy. And one which is rapidly sliding into more and more evil forms and actions of populist, regressive tyranny. (The last two+ years demonstrate this, do they not?)

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Independence Day celebrated

Posted on 2025-07-04 by TPOL Nathan

A photo and meme selection.

May we find ways to live up to the gift they gave us! (Next: Fireworks at Mt. Rushmore) (And see the thoughts of guests Doug and Tom, at the end.)

None of the four men remembered on Mount Rushmore were perfect. They were human. Some (many) of the things that they did were damaging to liberty, to freedom, and to the nations (States) they were supposed to serve. But we should look at the ideals, the vision, and the potential for liberty and freedom we have today because of how they are perceived today. And we must remember that simply trashing the memory of such men and their times is not going to give us much opportunity to teach people today about freedom and liberty. (Next picture: the 106th Black Hills Roundup Parade in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.)

Yes, those are cattle – longhorns – being herded along a downtown business district street. They are not “running the bulls” and they are not “mistreating” the livestock. The people of the Black Hills, for all our faults, are celebrating the ideals of freedom, of independence, and of personal responsibility in the context of voluntary cooperative efforts.

Let us quote another lover of liberty:

As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, how would you compare the personal and economic freedoms Americans have today with those envisioned by the Founding Fathers in 1776?

Doug Casey: The US has had a good, long run as a beacon of freedom for the entire world, but nothing lasts forever. Things started changing radically with the War Between the States, and the ascendancy of progressives like Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Then came FDR with his New Deal, and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. And it’s accelerated downhill from there.

The trend in the US is critically important. However, Western civilization is in decline throughout the world. And it’s more than just a civilizational issue. There’s a rot in ethics, philosophy, and even the makeup of the population. People of European descent are declining all over the world, especially in Europe itself, where the native population is dropping rapidly. Even in the United States, figures show that the white population dropped by 250,000 in the last year, while the populations of all other ethnic groups rose substantially.

So, to answer the question: Apart from the huge and obvious changes in technology, I think the US founders would find the country culturally unrecognizable. This trend is underscored by the presumptive election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York. He’s young, affable, charismatic. His appeal is understandable relative to the corrupt and constipated alternatives. But he’s also a Muslim communist who openly wants to overthrow what’s left of American traditions in the largest and most important city in the country.

And a digest of what another lover of liberty (Tom Woods) has to say:

Independence Day is coming up, and I wonder how many people really get why it matters.
In school, we were told this: “No taxation without representation.” Zzzzzzzz.

The real principles were more like the following.

(1) No legislation without representation. The colonists insisted that they could be governed only by the colonial legislatures. This is the principle of self-government.

(2) Contrary to the modern view that the state [or State] must be considered one and indivisible, the colonists believed that a smaller unit may withdraw from a larger one. [The principle of secession.]

(3) The colonists’ view of the (unwritten) British constitution was that Parliament [was limited in power]. Customary practice was the test of constitutionality. Parliament … [claimed] … that the will and act of Parliament sufficed to make its measures constitutional. This is the principle of strict construction. [And therefore of limited government.] … [not] … a “living, breathing” view of the Constitution.

[The above concepts were a good start: the Founding Fathers still believed that human government could indeed be a faithful servant and protect liberty, not steal it. In 250 years, we have learned better, and their understanding is shown to be lacking. But they were headed in the right direction.

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Happy “4th-of-July” Eve – enjoy sleeping in tomorrow!

Posted on 2025-07-03 by TPOL Nathan

As we write and publish this today, it is just 8 or so hours before the local clock (Mountain Time) ticks off midnight.

Tomorrow morning, NPR (National Public Radio – one of the propaganda arms of the Woke left and the FedGov) will no doubt have its traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence, published in 1776. The reading will no doubt include the voices of dozens or hundreds of NPR “personalities” and a few celebrities and famous people.

It is a ritual. And as the news and opinion stories which will both precede and follow the reading will show, it is an empty ritual. At least for the staff and bosses of NPR. And without doubt, many of the advertisers (excuse me, “sponsors”) and other funders of the network.

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An appeal to lovers of liberty on this 2nd of July, AD 2025, AL 249

Posted on 2025-07-02 by TPOL Nathan

A country run by banks will always be in debt.

Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease.

A state run by war will never know peace.

A nation run by media will never know the truth.

Christians who only proclaim the Gospel to themselves and their children will NEVER carry out the Great Commission.

Lovers of liberty who proclaim it only to each other and their families will never make their society free.

And worse, they will lose their own liberty and that of their posterity.

You shall proclaim liberty throughout the land for all its inhabitants. (Leviticus 25:10 (HCSB))

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Are we free?

Posted on 2025-07-01 by TPOL Nathan

Not long ago, the Iowa Libertarian Party shared this great cartoon:

This is, of course, a lot more taxes and regulations and government stupidity and meddling (the Fed!) that could be shown. But as we near the celebration of Independence Day (and the day before the Continental Congress actually DID approve the Declaration and thus Independece), it is worth looking back 249 years to ask, are we free? Did the Founding Fathers achieve their goals? Do those goals remain accomplished in 2025?

Readers will not be surprised at our answers.

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Projection – a favorite tactic of enemies of liberty

Posted on 2025-06-30 by TPOL Nathan

Projection is a all-too-common psychological “defense mechanism.” It involves attributing one’s (supposedly undesirable) desirable actions, traits, feelings, or impulses to other people. For instance, someone who is dishonest might accuse others of being dishonest, thereby shifting attention away from their own dishonesty.

In American politics, and in business, we see examples of this on a daily basis. Often in the headline. Consider one this week:

The University of Virginia, famously established by libertarian and President Thomas Jefferson, has been pressured by the US DOJ (Pam Bondi’s gang) and their president has resigned to settle the legal action, which challenged the University’s decision to NOT terminate its DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: or as we prefer: DIE: Double-dealing, Instigation, and Exclusion) programs.

So a bunch of the professors have published an open letter, according to Raw Story. The letter in part states: “We are alarmed by the attempted use of government power to impose an ideological agenda on an institution with a proud, 206-year tradition of liberty in thought and expression,” the letter reads in part.

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More distressing news about the wonderful “jab” (COVID-19 vaccines)

Posted on 2025-06-29 by TPOL Nathan

Without going into the highly-technical, mind-blowing details, this news came out this week, courtesy of Dr. William Makis and a correspondent of TPOL. Please share this information with others:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently made the explosive admission that Covid mRNA “vaccines” are tainted with unprecedented levels of DNA.

The federal agency made the admission after an FDA study confirmed that Pfizer’s Covid mRNA “vaccine” contains dangerous levels of excess DNA contamination.

As Slay News previously reported, leading scientists have been warning for some time that surges in deadly cancers among the Covid-vaccinated were caused by DNA fragments in the mRNA injections.

Those warnings have now been confirmed in a bombshell study conducted in the FDA’s own laboratory.

Tests conducted at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Maryland found shocking levels of DNA contamination in the “vaccines.”

The residual DNA levels exceeded regulatory safety limits by up to 470 times.

It no doubt comes as no great surprise to most readers that this seems to be associated with Fauci and an HIV vaccine he helped develop. Once more, more and more is revealed about what happened five years ago and continues to haunt us and kill people prematurely. All courtesy of government and the mysterious powers behind the “throne.”

And a warning that such may be repeated in the future, even very soon.

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Growing tensions, stress ramping up in government circles?

Posted on 2025-06-28 by TPOL Nathan

In a week in which both Trumpistas and Never-Trumpers have labeled as a massive string of wins for The Donald, we point to information which seems to indicate further fracturing and even instability within the highest circles of the FedGov.

Including the Nine Nazgul, the Supreme Court of the United States. The following has been shared by a correspondent and matches what we at TPOL have been hearing online and in broadcasts. We’ve edited and added some thoughts:

The Supreme Court’s ruling to curb universal injunctions, which let individual judges block executive orders and proclamations across all fifty States, is viewed as a win for the Trump administration, giving it significantly more leeway to enforce its policies.

The Woke radical left (and their instigators and minions) are pretty much having a meltdown. The Huffington Post’s headline reads: “SCATHING SCOTUS DISSENTS – ‘LAWLESSNESS WILL FLOURISH’“ Unfortunately, for them, the quote is a fake-out. (Typical for the mainstream media, online content, and the Woke “alternative press.”) It is a phrase cut from a whole paragraph in the dissent written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

What Jackson actually wrote was:

“I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish, and from there, it is not difficult to predict how this all ends,” -Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

That quote is bad enough without Huffington Post embellishing it. We note that more than a few relatively objective commenters have characterized her entire dissent as being unhinged (to be charitable).

Entirely on target, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in an unusually aggressive tone, responded with this statement:

“We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.” -Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett

It is this aggressive (in words only, of course) tone of both KBJ and ACB that is of note to us here at TPOL. These are not words of restraint, respect, and conciliation which we are so used to hearing. One suspects that what is not said in writing is perhaps even more inflammatory. Perhaps the Nazgul are beginning to ignore who pays them and gives them the prestige and power?

The heat of summer – especially this year – is doing more than ramping up the street mobs, it seems. Of course, we recognize that large sums of money, not just brains cooking in sweltering temperatures, also have great effect on what goes on not just on the streets but in the air-conditioned buildings of DC.

And we here at TPOL certainly do not expect the Nazgul to suddenly support the Constitution, much less the cause of liberty. Just as we recognize that many libertarians are bemoaning other decisions published this week, sometimes for reasons we believe to be wrong. We continue to believe and spread the idea that the governments are far, far too powerful, and too stupid to use any power they have wisely.

Are we wrong to pray that Providence is throwing some wrenches into the mechanism?

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