by Edgar J. Steele

Life is funny.  Death isn’t.  Trust me on this one.  I died on November 21, 2009.

Ironically, just two weeks prior to my death I sent a message out to this list that said, in discussing my sabbatical from any sort of public speaking or appearance during the latter part of the year:  “It actually has grown kind of fun to watch the speculation over whether or not I died this summer.” It seemed amusing at the time.  Little did I know.

On November 21 I was sitting in my study, reading, when I felt a little “pop” in my chest.  I sat there for 15 minutes, fearing that I would pass out if I dared try to stand.  Finally, I staggered to my feet, got help and rushed to the local hospital emergency room, where I was quickly diagnosed with a condition serious enough to justify being “choppered” to the nearest cardiac specialty hospital unit.  In fact, they told me that I very likely would not live long enough to get there.  Fortunately, there just happened to be a helicopter parked on the roof at that very time.

The surgeon’s team met me in the elevator at the receiving facility and began work then and there, so far gone was I.  My blood pressure had gone to zero – technically, I was dead.  Nip and tuck, as they say, but somehow they managed to snatch me back.  “Seconds,” the surgeon later told me, was all that then separated me from eternity.  I spent several hours on a heart-lung machine that day, then 9 days unconscious and on a respirator, then another two weeks in the ICU, barely able to move.  It has been a long, slow, painful journey back.

Turns out that the 15 minutes I spent sitting at my desk when this first occurred likely saved my life.  My surgeon remarked upon the extensive clotting at the point of rupture that served to direct the blood for a time, clotting that would not have occurred had I been moving around immediately.

I didn’t have a heart attack, but what is called an “ascending aortic aneurism.”  The main artery, the aorta, blew out just where it exited my heart, kind of like a garden hose suddenly failing right at the faucet.  The surgeon replaced a large section, together with the main heart valve, and has pronounced me “good as new.”  The odds of my survival were very, very slim – on the order of 3 or 4 per cent.  No explanation as to why this happened.  Some things just happen.

It wasn’t my time, apparently.  All my life, I have known that something important is coming – something I just have to live to see.  It hasn’t happened yet.  I had a very significant dream about this when I was 4 years old.  Big things are coming.  I’ve told you this repeatedly.

So I have a good excuse for having been silent all this time, folks.  Thank you for the inquiries and the kind words expressing support.  Will I be back?  Yes, eventually.  Will I be just as acerbic?  Probably worse.  Familiarity breeds contempt.  After I beat prostate cancer 12 years ago, I became very unimpressed with the disease when others contracted it.

Now that I have visited the land of the dead (sorry – no touchy-feely “near-death” experiences for me, not a one), I find that I am unimpressed with a good deal of the suffering that takes place in the world.  Let me illustrate my lack of sensitivity for you:  Have you noticed the similarity between the aftermaths of the Katrina hurricane and the Haiti earthquake?  TV films show hordes of Blacks just standing around or looting and hurting each other, doing nothing except complaining about the lack of aid forthcoming from the rest of us.  They could be cleaning up, digging out bodies, burying their dead, helping each other, just as seen in similar disasters at other times and in other places.  But, no.  Ask yourself why.  Read my book for a detailed explanation.

Yes, I will be back eventually.

New America – an idea whose time has come.

by Edgar J. Steele

It appears that the massive biological pandemic that I have forecast for many years, most recently specifying this Fall (that’s right now, folks), has arrived in the break-away Soviet republic of Ukraine over the past week. You say you haven’t yet heard about it yet? You will. There has been no news coverage in the West so far, so near as I can tell, but this story is too big and moving too fast to cover up much longer.

I have seen a number of Internet postings on the Ukrainian epidemic and, even, a few UTube videos already. I have heard the story developing since last week from correspondents of mine in Ukraine who have been witnessing things first hand. School and public offices have all been closed. President Yuschenko has declared a state of emergency and issued a plea for international help. [DO NOT BELIEVE FOR A MOMENT THAT YUSCHENKO -- PLAYING 'VACUOUS AND STUPID' AS THEY ALL DO -- IS AN INNOCENT PARTY -- Leslie] Reports of up to 3,000 deaths (unconfirmed) already are leaking out.

So far, the worst of this outbreak is in Western Ukraine, in and around the city of Lviv, but a few hundred kilometers to the East, in the capital city of Kiev, nearly half the people now stalk the streets wearing surgical masks. It would be an understatement to say that the people of Ukraine are moving into full panic mode. I can see why. So should you. I will explain why in a moment.

Ukrainian authorities are unclear that this outbreak is the same as or, even, a close variant of the Swine Flu now sweeping over the planet. Maybe it is just a lethal mutation. Likely not, however. They are calling it both a viral pneumonia and bacteriological hemorrhagic fever. The symptoms mimic those of Swine Flu, though on steroids. People die with their lungs dissolving almost overnight, filled with fluids and blood. This is the exact, same pattern as followed by the 1917 Spanish Flu, which struck down the healthiest among the population, those with the strongest immune systems. The rampup over the summer has been identical to 1917, too.

Here’s why you are at special risk if you are young and healthy: Your vital and responsive immune system is the very thing that kills you, by overreacting to the infection via what is called a Cytokeine Storm. I wrote about this process earlier this year, in Flu Happens. A great many of the people now dying have underlying conditions as well, particularly those of a respiratory nature such as asthma, when they take ill.

Now for the particularly interesting and sinister conspiracy twist (you just knew this was coming, didn’t you?):

Inckdentally, I have forecast in my Internet columns and my book, Defensive Racism, this very scenario, though I have not known where it would begin.

Three months ago, Israeli Mossad agent Joseph Moshe, who specializes in biological warfare, was taken down by Los Angeles police, allegedly for “threatening the White House.” What wasn’t reported by the media at the time was that Moshe just had “called into a radio show to warn people about a biological weapon that was being made by Baxter international that would be spread through vaccine and would cause a plague upon its release.” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/man-suspected-of-making-t_n_259330.html) Moshe also claimed that Ukraine would be the country in which it first would be released. This was in early August. How did he know?

Three months ago, Moshe stated that this pandemic would begin in Ukraine, a country free of the flu until last week. That is too much for coincidence. Maybe it simply is coincidence, but I do not believe in coincidence. And, suddenly, lots of people are dying in Ukraine from this flu outbreak – a much more deadly form of the flu than has been seen anywhere else.

Baxter Pharmaceuticals has a vaccine development and production lab in Ukraine and in the past has been proven to have shipped dangerous live agents to other countries, notably AIDS in blood products that killed thousands of people a few years ago. This past spring, Czechoslovakia happened to test some Baxter vaccine and found live virus, something about which you may have heard.

Baxter, the source of the flu vaccine now being distributed over there, cannot be trusted! The Ukrainian people are not being told any of this or about what this Moshe character said just prior to being arrested in August over here. I am forwarding this column to all my friends in Ukraine tonight.

There is extreme danger from this flu pandemic in Ukraine right now and you should take especial precautions, wherever you live. This flu operates very fast, often within just 3 – 6 hours, and is very deadly. I predict that we will see this all over the globe by the end of the month. This could kill a lot of people. A lot, as in millions. Already, you can bank upon this infection being in many other countries, now going through its gestation period. It is infectious before symptoms really manifest. We will know by this time next week.

Hang on, folks. I think this is just the crest. Now comes the plunge downward. Keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times.

Edgar J. Steele will be my guest for the full two hours today from 12 noon to 2:00pm MST.  His popular radio show and website (conspiracypenpal.com) are ubiquitous to the freedom movement.

To understand the show’s (loose) subject matter today, where Mr. Steele and I will be discussing all things liberty, I suggest you read his Nickel Rant titled “Anarchy With Honor,” which we published here not too long ago.

His 2002 piece titled The Circle of Strife will also give you an idea of the never-ending karmic circle the elites have created to keep us running and not allow us to stop and consider what’s being done to us as we’re herded ever further into the tyranny pen.

That pen, of course, is just outside the slaughterhouse and don’t say I didn’t warn you when you find yourself in line to get the bolt to the head.

Hear you this noon hour.

This is an excerpt from Edgar J. Steele’s Nickel Rant of April 15, 2009.  You can read it in its entirety by clicking here.

We have two choices:  revolution or secession. We cannot work within the system because the system has frozen us out and refuses to allow us back in.  Our “elected” representatives view us with disdain and more than a little fear.  Why else do you think they are strengthening the enabling legislation for the woefully-named Patriot Acts and, now, openly discussing gun registration and confiscation?

The Federal government is lost to us and running full force into the arms of the New World Order, per the orders of the real masters of America:  the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), composed of some of the most evil men and women ever to inhabit Washington, DC.
Why else do you think that CFR-member bankers are being bailed out right and left while we are left to flail hopelessly in an ever-rising tide of debt and regulation?  Why else do you think that AIG, which still pays its executives million-dollar bonuses for failing, is given billions upon billions of our tax dollars, which it then dutifully funnels to the banks and congressional pension funds that it insures?  Why else do you think that major corporations that should have gone under long ago are being shored up with your tax dollars?  Not to save the workers’ jobs, because our “leaders” certainly care nothing for them, but to save the banks and insurance companies who have propped up those failing corporations.

Just as Russia was looted late last century and left for dead, so is America now being looted – and by the same tribe of people.  America will be left just as hollowed out as was Russia, unless we do something about it and do it quickly.

I sometimes come in for criticism for not advocating revolution in America, which is something that our founding fathers, if alive today, certainly would foment.  I like to visualize George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine magically transported to this time, then setting off for Washington, DC in a red Cadillac convertible with a road map in one hand and a bazooka in the other.  However, I cannot espouse violent revolution, folks.  First, it goes against my basic, non-violent nature.  Second, it is illegal and would get me arrested in a heartbeat.  Just how much good would I be able to accomplish from a jail cell?

Used to be, I advocated change within the system.   Then, when it became apparent, during the Bush administration, that such change was impossible, I began to advocate preparing for the inevitable collapse, both financial and, possibly, militarily at the hands of those that we have offended internationally (which includes everybody else in the world by now).  Picking up the pieces was my new strategy for New America, which I envisioned rising, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of a fallen America.

While I still believe in preparing for the worst, I have become hopeful of a new avenue:  secession on a state-by-state basis.  Call it wishful thinking, if you like, but secession still strikes me as a viable alternative to simply waiting for the coming apocalypse.

Yes, Lincoln seemed to foreclose the possibility of secession with his War of Northern Aggression (you may know it as the Civil War), wherein he oversaw the wholesale slaughter of brothers by brothers in pursuit of his unconstitutional objective of “preserving the Union,” which didn’t then deserve to be preserved, as proven by the manner in which the North manhandled the South during the period we laughingly call “The Reconstruction.”

I submit that today’s Union – today’s America – has lost its legitimacy even moreso than did Lincoln’s and I call for a modern wholesale secession by the various States now making up the United States.  I call for this to be an orderly, lawful and peaceful secession.  A non-violent revolution of a sort, in fact.

The United District of America

Just imagine, for a moment, the result if all 50 states were to secede at once, leaving the Federal government to preside over merely the District of Columbia.  The states then could recall all of their men in uniform from wherever posted, seize all federal property within their boundaries and demand that all federal employees either throw in their lot with the state or move to the District of Columbia.  There literally would be nothing the Federal government could do about its well-deserved predicament, particularly with its major tax revenue sources cut off.

Secession is Our Legal Right

The Constitution certainly has the legal basis for secession still in place:  It resides within the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to the states and the people all “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states.” You see, because secession is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution or its Amendments, such power resides still within the states themselves and the people. This is a crucial fact that we must keep in mind at all times.

Similarly, the legal precedent for secession is laid out in America’s Declaration of Independence:  “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.  That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government … when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.”

It is the utmost in irony that none other than Abraham Lincoln, who did more single-handed damage to the US Constitution than, even, George W. Bush, rose up in Congress in January 1848 before he became President and stated:  “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.  This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.  Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it.  Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.” Mind you, Lincoln meant even down to neighborhoods being able to secede from the Union.

The US Constitution: a Breached Contract

View the Constitution as a contract between us, the States and the Federal government.  The Federal government has breached that contract in more ways than I have hours left in my life in which to recount its transgressions against all of us, both individually and as States.

For example, though its duties are few, the Federal government simply refuses to perform many of them:

Rather than “provide for our common defense,” our Federal government initiates foreign wars without provocation and without congressional declaration – wars that actually heighten the danger of our being attacked from without.  Similarly, it refuses to protect our southern border and declines to protect us from the de facto invasion by countries to our south.

The Federal government has abdicated its responsibility to “coin money (and) regulate the value thereof” by delegating to a private, foreign-owned corporation (the Federal Reserve Bank) that duty, which has managed to steal 98 cents out of every dollar issued since its inception in 1913.  This single failing is responsible for the current financial catastrophe now befalling America.

Rather than “provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the Militia…reserving to the States…the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the Militia,” the Federal government has done its best to destroy anything resembling militias in America, preferring instead to implement an unconstitutional and permanent “standing army.”
“The privilege of Habeas Corpus” repeatedly has been suspended in direct contravention of the US Constitution.

Our system of lobbying, campaign funding and proven election fraud on the part of officials has robbed us of our constitutional guarantee of a “republican form of government,” accountable directly “to the people.”

We have installed as President a person who is not “a natural born citizen” and, quite possibly, not even “a citizen of the United States,” incredible as that may be to contemplate, let alone comprehend.

Previously, I have written at length as to how each and every single element of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights has been abrogated or abridged by unconstitutional legislation, ultra vires judicial decisions and by executive fiat.  Very little remains of the original ten Amendments comprising the Bill of Rights.  In particular, the Tenth Amendment has been stripped of its mandate that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Copyright ©2009, Edgar J. Steele