I joined Keith Knight on his podcast Don’t Tread on Anyone to discuss how the Federal Reserve system robs Americans, how the government serves the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of public health, and how Israel is perpetrating a US-backed genocide in Gaza.
Keith is the Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, where I have since March had the honor of being a Research Fellow. We started out on the economic discussion, then switched topics to the government-enforced medical cartel at 27:49, and finally we discussed the Israel-Palestine conflict at 1:20:50.
Specific topics we discussed include:
- What the Federal Reserve is and how it serves to effect an upwards transfer of wealth from the masses to the politically connected financial elites.
- How the Fed caused the 2000s housing bubble that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.
- How the Fed engages in legalized counterfeiting and price fixing of interest rates by monetizing government debt and creating new dollars out of thin air.
- How the government policy of encouraging homeownership contributed to the housing bubble and caused the financial crisis, including through the “government-sponsored enterprises” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchasing, bundling, and selling of subprime mortgages.
- How the free market is always blamed for the problems caused by government intervention into the market, as epitomized by Kamala Harris blaming price inflation on “price gouging” when in fact it is the result of the very policies she has supported as Vice President under the Biden administration.
- How the government views a recession as the disease and tries to cure it by doing even more of what caused it in the first place, when in fact the recession is the market correction required to fix the unsustainable bubbles caused by government interventionism.
- Why market prices are essential for determining efficient allocation of scarce resources.
- How there exists in the US a government-enforced medical cartel perversely masquerading as a “health care” system, which is a major contributor to the frighteningly poor health of the US population.
- Why the mainstream economic view that economic growth comes from spending is wrong, and why it instead comes from saving.
- What the “broken window fallacy” is and how mainstream economists and the government perpetually utilize it in furtherance of harmful policies.
- How the medical establishment itself is a leading cause of death in the US.
- Why vaccine ingredients can include mercury and aluminum despite these substances being known neurotoxins.
- How the mRNA COVID‑19 vaccines were developed from gene therapy technology, resulting in the CDC changing its definition of “vaccine”.
- How the false claim that natural immunity to SARS‑CoV‑2 was propagated throughout 2020 to manufacture consent for mass vaccination with experimental COVID‑19 vaccines.
- Why the popular belief that immunity is dependent on antibody levels is false.
- How the stated aim of the authoritarian lockdowns was coerced mass vaccination.
- How we have no data on the long-term effects of COVID‑19 vaccines because once the FDA granted the manufacturers Emergency Use Authorization, they vaccinated away the placebo control groups.
- Why studies aiming to determine the effect of vaccines on human health need to look at long-term health outcomes including all-cause mortality.
- What “non-specific effects” of vaccines are and how “public health” officials perpetually fail to take them into consideration in determining public vaccine policy.
- Why the claim that “vaccines don’t cause autism” is disinformation.
- How the government in 1986 granted broad legal immunity to the pharmaceutical industry against vaccine injury lawsuits and shifted the financial burden for vaccine injuries from the manufacturers to the taxpaying consumers.
- How the US government has officially acknowledged that vaccines can cause autism.
- How none of the studies cited by the CDC to support its claim that “vaccines do not cause autism” were actually designed to test the hypothesis that vaccines administered according to the CDC’s routine childhood schedule can contribute to the development of autism in genetically susceptible children.
- How studies are designed to find no association between vaccines and autism.
- The true reason why most mercury-containing childhood vaccines were withdrawn from the market around the turn of the century (as opposed to the CDC’s stated reason for this decision).
- How the CDC deceives the public by claiming that the form of mercury used in vaccines is non-toxic because it is readily eliminated from the body.
- How scientific research has shown that completely unvaccinated children are far healthier than their vaccinated counterparts.
- How the government has been waging a war on parents’ right to make their own informed choice about childhood vaccinations.
- How what the government and media say science says about vaccines and what science actually tells us are two completely different and irreconcilable things.
- How, contrary to popular myth that it was mainly due to vaccines, in fact 90% of the decline in infectious disease mortality observed during the 20th century was instead due to factors related to an increasing standard of living.
- Why Hamas broke out of the Gaza “concentration camp” during “Operation Al Aqsa Flood” on October 7, 2023.
- How Israel implemented an illegal siege of Gaza in 2006 to collectively punish the civilian population.
- Why the claim that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 is a preposterous falsehood.
- How Israel has repeatedly violated ceasefires with Hamas, including prior to its “Operation Cast Lead” from December 27, 2008 to January 18, 2009.
- How the claim that Palestinian civilians only die in Israel’s military operations in Gaza because Hamas uses them as “human shields” depends on a use of that term bearing no relationship to its definition under international law and instead is a euphemism meaning any Palestinians killed by virtue of their being in Gaza.
- How the Israeli government under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained a policy of treating Hamas as a strategic ally to block any movement toward peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
- How the higher-ups in the Israeli military intelligence establishment dismissed foreknowledge of Hamas’s planned operation on 10/7 because of the institutional myopia resulting from the policy of treating Hamas as a strategic ally.
- How the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established under the Oslo Accords essentially to serve as Israel’s collaborator in enforcing its occupation regime.
- How Israel was established in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of most of the Arab population from their homes in Palestine.
- Why the claim that Arab states invaded Israel in 1948 to wipe it off the map is a myth.
- How the US-led so-called “peace process” was always the means by which Israel and its superpower benefactor blocked implementation of the two-state solution.
- Why Israel’s persistent occupation of Palestinian territory violates international law, as recently affirmed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
- My response to Keith Knight’s steel manning of Zionist arguments for why people should support the policies of the Israeli government, including why the claim that Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights is an absurd falsehood.
- Why Israel’s ongoing military operation in Gaza meets the definition of “genocide” under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Here are the three books of mine that came up during our discussion:
- Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian Economics in the Financial Crisis
- The War on Informed Consent: The Persecution of Dr. Paul Thomas by the Oregon Medical Board
- Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Cross-posted from JeremyRHammond.com.
