Special Thanksgiving Offer & A Reminder From JFK

With your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody who celebrates the holiday today! Let us know what we (in countries that don’t celebrate Thanksgiving) are missing out on in the comments below.

There’s some good news and some bad news. First of all the good. You are probably going to be having a turkey dinner today and I have a special 20% discount on subscriptions for one Thanksgiving day only! The bad news is, with inflation ravaging western economies, at some point soon I will have to increase subscription prices. So, get your subscription today and not only get a great discount but beat the inflationary increases for a year!

You may think you don’t have the time or money to keep reading this newsletter every day but a little reminder from JFK.

You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.

We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating."

But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war.

If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man.

Don’t worry, I won’t be the next Karl Marx if you don’t subscribe - even with such a great offer!

The quote above is from JFK’s address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association in 1961. As well as the wise words above, JFK had some other interesting things to say in that speech.

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.

From the origins of Covid to the misinformation about Covid vaccines, pertinent facts are almost always concealed from the public these days. We are left guessing, trying to piece together the truth, leaving an increasingly dangerous environment.

And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.

Too late, JFK. Under the pretext of increased security and safety, official censorship and concealment is rife. MSM censors the news, the police stifle dissent and governments cover up their mistakes.

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

The new Cold War means that conspiracy is still here. The system it has created is as JFK detailed, combining military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. However, today, it is far more powerful than he could have ever imagined.

And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people--to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well--the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.

That is what this newsletter tries to do - inform, alert and give all the facts. But not just to the American people, to everybody on Earth.

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.

This means greater coverage and analysis of international news--for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission.

A growing community of individuals subscribe to this newsletter for coverage of international news. You can debate and criticise to your heart’s content in the comments section, exactly how Solon would have wanted.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

I am confident that with your help we can stay free and independent!