by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
Evidence is coming out in the courtroom, although not in the US media, that Officer Chauvin’s arrest was based entirely on “camera perspective bias,” as I previously reported. As the police videos demonstrate, Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s shoulder blade and not on his neck.
My opinion is that evidence will play no role in the trial. If evidence mattered, Chauvin would not be on trial. I hope I am wrong. But if Chauvin is acquitted, “All Hell Will Break Loose,” and this fear will produce a guilty verdict. The utterly corrupt Minnesota Democrats will sacrifice an innocent person in order to appease the ignorant mob. Consider, if you were a juror, would you acquit Chauvin when you know that your name will be leaked and Antifa and Black Lives Matter will burn down your home in your police-defunded city? Americans so easily scared silly by the Covid propaganda haven’t the stamina to stand up to an angry mob.
From coast to coast, major U.S. cities are being transformed into war zones, and our politicians seem powerless to stop the carnage. If we can’t even feel safe walking down the street anymore, what does that say about our society as a whole? Over the past couple of months, I have published article after article documenting the shocking deterioration of our society as a whole, but most people that I interact with still seem to think that conditions will return to “normal” eventually. Unfortunately, I do not believe that is going to be the case. The riots and violence that erupted in 2020 have sparked a wave of civil unrest that has spilled over into 2021, and we continue to see incidents of civil unrest on an almost nightly basis. For example, over the weekend rioters in Portland set the ICE building on fire while agents were still working inside. Hearts have grown so cold in this country, and it is only going to get worse.
Inspiring video out of Canada shows a store full of patrons refusing to back down to COVID-19 lockdown enforcers trying to shut the business down.
The lesson of China’s Cultural Revolution in my view is that once the lid blows off, everything that was linear (predictable) goes non-linear (unpredictable).
Gold and silver rallied this week, with gold gaining $11 from last Friday’s close to trade at $1746 in European trade this morning, and silver was up 26 cents at $25.20. These modest gains consolidated last week’s gains, amounting to $60 for gold since 30 March and $1.12 for silver. Comex volumes were moderate due to Easter last weekend but picked up somewhat yesterday.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has chosen to live in one of the whitest areas of California after purchasing a $1.4 million dollar home in an area that has a black population of just 1.6 per cent.
Yesterday, Senator Sherrod Brown, the Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, released the content of letters he had sent to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Nomura regarding their interactions with Archegos Capital Management. Archegos is the hedge fund styled as a “family office,” that is making headlines around the world for blowing itself up within a week’s time while inflicting billions of dollars of losses on what are supposed to be heavily supervised global banks.
And companies have been reporting that they’re able to pass on those surging costs. So here we go with inflation.
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Despite the record amounts of money the federal government has spent over the last year responding to the pandemic—and the record deficits it’s racked up in the process—the Biden administration continues to ask for trillions more.
In light of the government’s response to the January 6 storming of the Capitol, anyone with a sense of political sanity can no longer argue that the war on terror is separate from American domestic affairs.
I am sorry. There is a kind of free market conservative – John Tamny comes to mind – that somehow thinks the massive fiscal and monetary insanity emanating from Washington happens in a vacuum; and that as lamentable as it may be, it doesn’t gainsay the brilliant works of today’s corporate titans in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
A small business in Bastrop, Texas is informing its customers about the dangers of COVID vaccines and the lack of protection provided by masks.