Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

What A REAL "Existential Threat" Looks Like A picture is worth a thousand words...but only if it's being seen. MANY OF THOSE READING THIS PAGE arrive at the articles directly by way of the links provided in the notification emails, forum posts and GAB posts I send out announcing each fresh newsletter. Those same folks often will not ever make it to the actual top of the page where each edition begins with a graphic I think relevant to current events at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic thus described, and because I see no evidence of any appropriate uptick in efforts by those already CtC-educated to enlighten others to the individual-empowering, state-restraining truth about the income tax, it occurs to me that folks arriving here from the posted notifications have missed the rather important opening graphic that has been featured for a number of months now. This conclusion troubles me considerably. FOR FIVE MONTHS NOW, resources yielded to the nutcases by victims of the "ignorance tax" have facilitated the insanely reckless escalation of provocations of a very robustly nuclear-equipped Russia. More specifically and relevantly, a Russia which possesses a very distinct, and even dramatic-- but also very temporary-- technological advantage in warhead delivery by way of its hypersonic missile systems (and is thus prone to a "use it or lose it" calculation under appropriate circumstances). This escalation of hostile behavior-- on the military front, by way of weapons and intel supplied to the neo-Nazi, coup-installed regime in Kiev; on the propaganda front, by way of the relentless one-sided and almost entirely false information spin from the mockingbird media; on the economic front by way of cringe-worthily-hypocritical (and backfiring) "sanctions"; and on the diplomatic-political? front by encouraging provocations from others-- is relentlessly and substantially raising the temperature of the pot in which the Russian frog sits. When that frog decides it must jump out, it will do so by substantially raising the temperature of the United States (and elsewhere). Allowing these grossly corrupt and hypocritical false-narrative-fueled provocations to continue is madness of the most serious sort, from which Americans are already suffering considerable adverse consequences (both insofar as the Ukraine situation is used to excuse the implementation of the "Green New Deal" and other bad and destructive policies and by way of of real disruptions to world trade, most notably in fertilizer and other agricultural inputs and products). Waiting in the wings is the risk of annihilation. This madness is a true existential threat, and it is facilitated by the ignorant acquiescence of American men and women who are simply unaware that the law allows them to withhold their support and reduce the nutcases to gasping for air. Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/202.htm#1