Richard G. Parker, MD

Physician, writer, and trader: "The unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates) — and the unearned, unchosen, or sacrificial life isn't worth choosing.

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Donald Trump destroyed his presidency tonight.

This craven surrender to Iran will stand as history’s most pathetic capitulation.

Well done, Mr President. You’ve sealed your legacy as a spineless loser.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ (@realDonaldTrump)

[Adam Mossoff @AdamMossoff]

According to my rough tally, here's who loves the Trump/Vance deal with the Islamic regime of Iran:

Tucker Carlson
Megyn Kelly
PM Keir Starmer
President Emmanuel Macron
PM Mark Carney
Putin propagandist Alexander Dugin
Qatar
Islamic regime of Iran

Any others that I missed?

[Ayn Rand Institute @AynRandInst]

We are losing our freedom—our autonomy to act on bold new ideas, take risks, and innovate—because the political-economic system that protects liberty is under assault. Capitalism, the only social system based on the principle of individual rights, is attacked for the failures of a mixed economy. And driving these attacks is a bug in society’s operating system: a false moral code.

If we want to take back our freedom and reclaim our moral right to the pursuit of happiness, then as Ayn Rand identified, we must understand and champion capitalism and the fact-based morality of rational self-interest at its foundation. In this talk, Ben Bayer will provide a primer on how to do just that.

Register today » https://t.co/P2eukjrECY

[Richard G. Parker, MD @rich56635]

"Germany was ideologically ripe for Hitler. The intellectual groundwork had been prepared...There is a science whose subject matter is...[the] category of ideas.

No one—among the intellectuals or the general public—would suspect any longer that this science could be relevant to human life or action. Yet this science determines the destiny of nations and the course of history...

It is the science which made the difference between the East and the West, between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between the Founding Fathers of the new continent and the Adolf Hitlers of the old. It is the science which had to be destroyed, if the catastrophes of our time were to become possible.

The science is philosophy.

Philosophy is the study of the nature of existence, of knowledge, and of values."

Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America (New York: Stein and Day, 1982), 22

[Ayn Rand Institute @AynRandInst]

Who changes the world? Is it innovators, the producers of wealth, and giants of industry? And what does that have to do with you and your happiness? In this presentation, Tal Tsfany will review the forces that shape the world at large and our own individual lives.

Register today » https://t.co/A3lIXZOGSU

[Ayn Rand Institute @AynRandInst]

Champions of science and reason need to recognize free will. The power to control our own minds is an indispensable requirement of scientific objectivity.
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[Jeremy Smithson @VindiceLiber]

Indicting Socialism Part 3 of 3: Soviet-Nazi Collaboration, Soviet Disinformation, Global Terrorism, and Antisemitic Campaigns

The Socialist's—and the KGB's—doctrine of disinformation (https://t.co/Nnm4w1pCy2) was not merely a defensive tactic but a proactive weapon in the arsenal of Soviet socialist psychological warfare, designed to manipulate global perceptions, shield the USSR from accountability, and advance the cause of Socialism through mass-murder and pandemonium. Drawing from defector testimonies like those of Ion Mihai Pacepa and the vast revelations in the Mitrokhin Archive—smuggled out by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin in 1992—this machinery of deception involved forging documents, planting false stories in sympathetic media outlets, and cultivating networks of influencers in the West to propagate narratives that blamed the CIA, Western imperialism, or internal "deep state" elements for atrocities orchestrated by Moscow. Pacepa, as Romania's top intelligence official before his 1978 defection, detailed how the KGB orchestrated long-running programs to attribute the JFK assassination to American actors, creating a web of alternative histories amplified by communist publications and fringe authors that persist to this day. The Mitrokhin Archive corroborates this, exposing how Soviet agents infiltrated leftist media in Europe and the U.S. to disseminate these falsehoods, ensuring that any exposure of Soviet involvement was drowned out by layers of misdirection (https://t.co/Nnm4w1pCy2).

This disinformation extended far beyond isolated incidents like JFK, forming the backbone of a global strategy to support terrorism and subversion. The KGB's establishment and backing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) exemplifies this, where Soviet operatives drafted the PLO's charter in 1964 and provided extensive training to leaders such as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas in antisemitic propaganda, guerrilla warfare, and terrorist tactics. Operation SIG, launched by the KGB in the late 1950s, was a comprehensive anti-Israel campaign that sowed seeds of disapproval toward the United States and Israel through systematic distortion, lies, and emotional manipulation. By leveraging existing Arab antisemitism, the KGB fabricated a "Palestinian" national identity not as a genuine historical entity but as a tactical tool to undermine Zionism and Western influence in the Middle East. As admitted by PLO executive committee member Zuheir Mohsen in a 1977 interview, "The Palestinian people do not exist... the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons." This manufactured narrative fueled decades of terrorism, with the KGB funding PLO assassinations, hijackings, and bombings aimed at destabilizing Western-aligned states like Israel. The Soviet Union's shift from initial support for Israel's creation in 1948—viewing it as a blow to British imperialism—to outright opposition after the 1956 Suez Crisis further illustrates this opportunistic antisemitism, as Moscow armed Arab dictatorships and terrorist groups to advance its geopolitical aims (https://t.co/jpxuruPqiW).

The KGB's orchestration of the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Ağca, facilitated through Bulgarian intelligence proxies, was another stark example of this terrorist network in action. Motivated by the Pope's anti-communist stance and his support for Poland's Solidarity movement, which threatened Soviet control in Eastern Europe, the operation aimed to eliminate a key figure inspiring resistance against socialism. Defectors like Pacepa confirmed the KGB's direct involvement, revealing how Moscow used cutouts to maintain plausible deniability while advancing its agenda. Similarly, Operation SEAT 12, a disinformation campaign targeting Pope Pius XII, falsely portrayed him as a Nazi sympathizer to discredit the Catholic Church and weaken its moral authority against communism. These efforts were part of a broader pattern where Stalin's Cheka evolved into the NKVD and then the KGB, institutions responsible for mass executions, atomic espionage via spies like the Rosenbergs, and pervasive influence operations in the Middle East. The KGB's Novosti press agency distributed antisemitic materials worldwide, while ambassadors like Anatoly Dobrynin in the U.S. actively combated "Zionist influence," creating echo chambers with Western leftists through funding, publications, and ideological sympathy (https://t.co/jpxuruPqiW).

Soviet antisemitism was deeply systemic, embedded in Marxist ideology that vilified Jews as the embodiment of bourgeois capitalism and imperialism. Joseph Stalin's infamous Doctor's Plot in 1953 epitomized this paranoia, falsely accusing a group of predominantly Jewish physicians of plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders, which triggered widespread arrests, executions, and an atmosphere of terror that nearly led to mass deportations of Jews to Siberia. This plot, halted only by Stalin's death, was rooted in long-standing Marxist motifs that identified Jews as class enemies, a theme exploited in Soviet propaganda and operations throughout the Cold War. Beyond domestic purges, this hostility manifested in foreign policy, with the USSR consistently opposing Israel's legitimacy and providing military and financial support to anti-Israel terrorist groups, thereby prolonging conflicts and undermining global stability (https://t.co/jpxuruPqiW).

The alliance between Stalin's Soviet socialism and Hitler's national socialism further reveals the shared ideological roots and mutual complicity in antisemitic atrocities. Grounded in Marxist principles, both regimes viewed Jews as parasitic elements of capitalist society, leading to the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 that partitioned Poland and facilitated the exchange of resources, including Ukrainian grain amid the Holodomor famine that starved millions. The NKVD trained the Gestapo in concentration camp management and handed over Jewish prisoners at Brest-Litovsk, while Hitler's Sturmabteilung (SA) comprised many registered communists who seamlessly transitioned to Nazi ranks. Economic policies under Hitler, such as farm collectivization, mirrored Soviet models, resulting in shortages that Stalin alleviated through shipments, enabling the Nazi war machine. This collaboration directly facilitated the Holocaust, with Soviet forces later censoring its specifically Jewish targeting to mask their complicity and portray themselves as liberators while exporting socialism to Eastern Europe. Fascism itself originated as Italian socialism under Benito Mussolini, whom Lenin admired for his Marxist-influenced approach, uniting these totalitarian systems against individual liberty through shared Idealist philosophy. Post-war, Western societies absorbed socialist elements, eroding capitalism and absolving perpetrators while undermining prosperity (https://t.co/Nnm4w1pCy2, https://t.co/ZnyeyO65OV).

To fully grasp the breadth of socialist misdeeds, one must examine the litany of historical events that underscore the inherent violence and failure of these regimes, as chronicled in accounts of daily atrocities under Marxism-Leninism. On August 4th, 1983, socialist Thomas Sankara led a coup d'état in the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), ushering in a regime that employed show trials, summary executions, and pervasive state surveillance to eliminate dissent, mirroring the repressive tactics of Soviet socialism. This event exemplifies how socialist leaders, under the guise of liberation, impose authoritarian control, resulting in widespread human rights abuses. Similarly, on August 7th, 1932, the USSR enacted the "Law of Spikelets" to protect collective farm property, leading to the execution of thousands and long sentences for up to 200,000 others—many starving peasants who merely gleaned leftover grain from fields amid the Holodomor famine engineered by Stalin's collectivization policies. This draconian law highlights the brutality of socialist economic planning, where state ownership trumps human survival, causing millions of deaths through artificial scarcity (https://t.co/O6tsQzHgoL, https://t.co/crHEKgoR2G).

In Burma (now Myanmar), on August 8th, 1988, massive peaceful rallies erupted against Ne Win's "Burmese Way to Socialism," a regime that blended Marxist ideology with military dictatorship. The army's violent suppression resulted in over 2,000 deaths and thousands injured, demonstrating how socialist governments respond to popular unrest with lethal force to maintain power. Another grim chapter unfolded on August 8th, 1979, when Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist socialist party in Iraq executed 21 political opponents by firing squad, just weeks after a purge framed them as traitors—a tactic straight from Stalin's playbook of eliminating rivals through fabricated accusations. The Ba'ath Party's Arab socialist ideology, influenced by Soviet models, perpetuated cycles of terror and instability in the Middle East (https://t.co/EV5iaqejNr, https://t.co/G0Ms4X4nMj).

Terrorism under socialist banners extended to Europe, where on August 9th, 1994, the socialist Basque separatist group ETA shot and killed bricklayer José Antonio Díaz Losada in Bilbao, Spain, in front of his home, as part of their campaign for independence through violence. ETA's Marxist-Leninist roots fueled decades of bombings and assassinations, claiming over 800 lives. In China, during the Cultural Revolution, on August 5th, 1966, Red Guards—including daughters of prominent communists like Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi—beat deputy vice principal Bian Zhongyun to death with sticks after accusing her of "counter-revolutionary revisionism," illustrating the fanatical youth mobilization under Mao Zedong that led to millions of deaths. Mao's excesses are further evidenced by his lavish partying with foreign dignitaries in Shanghai amid the Great Chinese Famine, which killed tens of millions due to disastrous socialist policies (https://t.co/A0sddqNR5j, https://t.co/IUULAAhZan, https://t.co/Wz2sHR8y6O).

Environmental devastation under socialism is another recurring theme, with regimes like the USSR and China causing catastrophic pollution and resource depletion through centralized planning that prioritized production quotas over sustainability. The Aral Sea's near-disappearance due to Soviet irrigation schemes and Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown in 1986 underscore this neglect, where state control led to unaccountable disasters affecting millions. In Syria, under the Ba'athist socialist regime, ongoing attacks in 2012 resulted in dozens of civilian casualties in Damascus and Aleppo, part of a civil war rooted in authoritarian socialism that displaced millions (https://t.co/dxQRGMMCd3, https://t.co/CfQXtXfNOm).

Even cultural and intellectual spheres were weaponized, as seen in the Burmese rallies and ETA's targeted killings, where socialism suppressed free expression and enforced conformity through terror. On August 11th, 1989, Conrada Muñoz Herrera was killed in Spain when a bomb planted by ETA exploded in a package meant for her son, a prison officer, highlighting the indiscriminate nature of socialist terrorism that tears apart families. These events, from purges in Iraq to massacres in China, reveal a pattern: socialism's promise of equality devolves into tyranny, famine, and genocide, with disinformation campaigns like those around the moon landing—where even Soviets acknowledged the truth but modern deniers echo communist tactics—serving to obscure these horrors (https://t.co/m8aaPzbCDR, https://t.co/ZQdGmmTmcP).

Post-war disinformation persisted, as in Operation INFEKTION, the KGB's 1980s campaign falsely claiming AIDS was a U.S. bioweapon engineered at Fort Detrick, which spread through allied media and caused riots, attacks on health workers, and delayed interventions leading to millions of deaths, particularly in South Africa under AIDS denialism. This legacy continues in modern Russian narratives blaming the U.S. or Israel for 9/11 attacks, sowing division and eroding alliances, and Chinese propaganda deflecting COVID-19 origins from the Communist Party to foreign sources, polarizing societies and hindering global cooperation. These operations exploit societal fissures—racial grievances, institutional mistrust, partisan divides—planting emotionally resonant falsehoods that amplify through proxies until they incite real-world violence and policy failures (https://t.co/Nnm4w1pCy2).

In sum, the Soviet Union's disinformation, terrorism, and antisemitism formed an interconnected web of subversion that not only facilitated events like the JFK assassination but also perpetuated global instability through fabricated narratives and sponsored violence. Historical records of socialist atrocities—from Hitler's expropriation and extermination program in partnership with Stalin, the assassination of JFK and regional instabilities, exacted by their policies, forming terror networks that culminated into 9/11 and flooding Western countries with migrants, Sankara's repressive coup and repeat famine-inducing laws (faminogenesis) to the ETA's murders and Mao's Cultural Revolution purges—all underscore the human cost, where hundreds of millions have and continue to perish under the banner of altruism. Recognizing this pattern is essential to countering the enduring threat of socialist psychological warfare.

It's time to uproot the cancer of this slave-state doctrine, eradicate all of its historical revision and free a struggling humanity from the shackles of its adherents around the globe, restoring Capitalism where they've perverted the ethical conduct of government, including at home.

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

The State will not give you the tools to remove it's influence.

[Lewis Miles @Maga4liberty]

Why does the media give nonstop coverage to a 16-year-old reading from a script, but completely ignore a real climatologist with over 140 scientific papers who calls climate change a hoax? This is media manipulation. 😡🤡
#MediaBias

[Richard G. Parker, MD @rich56635]

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[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It’s a misconception that rich people give to society through philanthropy.

They give by creating products and services that millions voluntarily choose to buy, making their lives better.

The better the value they deliver, the more wealth they earn as a direct consequence.

[Yaron Brook Highlights @YaronBrookClips]

These are the values young people should learn

[Yaron Brook Highlights @YaronBrookClips]

The least regulated industries are more productive. #Capitalism #freemarkets

[Yaron Brook Highlights @YaronBrookClips]

This is why capitalism is moral #capitalism

[Adam Mossoff @AdamMossoff]

The real-world lessons of the Trump/Vance MOU with the Islamic regime of Iran:

Mullahs in Iran: we'll continue to build a nuke in semi-secret and Trump won't stop us, because we'll just threaten to shut down Hormuz

Hezbollah and Hamas: We can continue to kill Israelis and Americans with impunity, because Trump will stop Israel from responding and Trump won't do anything about it

China: We can invade Taiwan and Trump won't stop us - he'll beg for a ceasefire and then enter into a deal with us that will give us everything we want

This is an unmitigated disaster for America and its allies.