Lew Rockwell remembers the subtle procedures of the East German STASI in the late 1970s.
"The goal was to destroy dissidents and potential dissidents socially and emotionally without resorting to arrest and imprisonment. The Stasi collected information about the victim’s private life, and proceeded to ‘disintegrate’ their careers and their family and private life.
"Damaging lies (or truths) would be conveyed to employers until the target was rendered unemployable. Relationships with spouses and kids would be poisoned with gossip by operatives, professional failure, and financial stress. Friends would be warned away through the grapevine.
"The goal was to destroy the reputation of the target and make him so preoccupied with his personal difficulties and emotional turmoil that he had no will to question the government of the DDR. It was done covertly, and often victims weren’t believed even if they discovered [the covert campaign].”
-- Lew Rockwell, Jr.
April 7. 0206 PM
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will."
Donald Trump
"What has happened in [Hungary], what has happened in the midst of this election campaign, is one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I've ever seen or ever even read about," Vance said during a press conference alongside Orbán.
"The bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary. They have tried to make Hungary less energy independent. They have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers. And they've done it all because they hate this guy," he added.
It is five days to the election.
April 7. Today is the day Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants, which could lead to the deaths of millions, if the Iranians do not “Open the F---- Strait [of Hormuz].” Israel may join the assault by attacking the country’s train lines this afternoon.
An attack on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power station raises a Chernobyl-like radiation cloud possibility, sending death slowly over the Gulf region, making some countries uninhabitable for decades and poisoning the water in the Persian Gulf. This would shut down many of the desalination plants which produce most of the region’s drinking water.
Projected radiation contamination: