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Is Modern Medicine A Sham?
[Zero] We are living in a point in history where so many, if not all, of the foundational pillars of our society are being questioned. In some cases, those pillars are almost wholly being cast aside. Once the cornerstones of our American backbone, we are finding ourselves doubting it all as we ask ourselves and one another... Can the government truly be that corrupt? Are the courts actually compromised? Are major media outlets really just mouthpieces for propaganda? Is modern medicine a sham?

It is difficult for people to question what they have known all their life to be something that is "good" or "honest" or "reliable". Why would you doubt the things that everyone around you (including your trusted friends and beloved family members) are telling you are true, and pure, and good? Of course the government is there to protect us. Of course the legal system is designed to uphold our righteous laws and defend liberty. Of course the newscaster on the TV is telling us the truth. Of course the drugs our doctors prescribe to us are there to help us get well.

As hard as it is to question societal norms, it is even more difficult to do something about it. Indian author, Arundhati Roy, has said:

"The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable."

In questioning traditional, stalwart institutions, we find ourselves standing on the precipice of a rabbit hole so large and deep, it is better likened to a meteoric crater than simply a hole. There are so many craters all around us now - the government crater, the legal crater, the medical crater, the media crater, and so on. These craters are appearing one after the next, in parallel formation, and like Dominos, if one begins to fall, the chain reaction of full scale collapse is undeniable.

Let us, for a moment here, peer over the ridge of one of these craters as we ask ourselves...

Is modern medicine a sham?

Let’s first look at the learned, societal norm... When most people hear the word "medicine", their mind immediately forms a positive opinion and thinks, "This will help me feel better and get well". Like Pavlov’s dog, we have been trained to correlate medicine with the thing that cures your sickness when you are ailing. You have a malady, you go to the doctor, they give you medicine, and it will fix the malady from which you are suffering and restore your health. Right? Ehhhh, well, ummmm, not exactly. Sadly, in today’s world, "health" has become synonymous with "medicine", and medicine has become an industry - and not just any industry. It is behemoth!

Did you know that the largest lobby we have in the United States is the pharmaceutical industry? It is the largest, by a long shot, as it solidly towers over all of the others. Let me share some numbers with you. Pharma spends approximately $380,000,000 (three hundred eighty million) every year lobbying Congress. To give you some perspective, the second largest lobby industry in our nation is the electronics manufacturing industry, and it spends about $250,000,000 million a year lobbying Congress. The third largest is the insurance industry which spends about $150,000,000 million a year lobbying Congress. All the other industries that lobby simply pale in comparison. These statistics alone reveal so much.
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Plato Solved the Problem of Evil 2,300 Years Ago
[American Thinker] Anyone who is ignorant of intellectual history is doomed to repeat intellectual errors. So with the Problem of Evil, which is: "If God exists and is All-Good, why does He permit evil to exist?" Someone always raises the Problem of Evil whenever a natural disaster kills the innocent, like the girls drowned in the recent Texas Flood. The Problem of Evil is obviously connected to the idea of Providence, the claim that whatever happens is the Will of God. Trump turning his head at the precise instant required to dodge the bullet is cited as an act of Providence. But if God can cause Trump to turn his head, then surely, He could have saved those Texas girls.

What was Plato’s solution?

God, being all Good, must actualize all possibilities, all possible worlds. In one world, ours, Trump turned his head, and the Texas girls died. In another world, Trump died, and the Texas girls lived.

Plato claimed goodness required all possibilities be created because goodness requires maximum diversity. Nine hundred years ago, the Christian theologian Peter Abelard expanded on Plato’s explanation by arguing that existence itself is a good. Therefore, God, being All-Good, wishing to maximize goodness, maximizes the size of reality by actualizing all possible worlds. The Texas girls who died in this world still had eight years of existence, and this is better than not existing at all. Further, the same girls will live their full lives in another world.

Arthur Lovejoy, in his book The Great Chain of Being, based on lectures he gave at Harvard a century ago, after discussing Plato’s and Abelard’s solution, pointed out (p. 74) that St. Thomas Aquinas, who wrote 800 years ago, and is the greatest Roman Catholic theologian ever, agreed with this solution to the Problem of Evil.

This solution to the Problem of Evil was presented by four of the greatest minds in history 2,300, 900, 800, and 100 years ago. Since everyone at some point in their lives wonders about the Problem of Evil, there is no excuse for educated people to be unaware of this solution, whether they accept it or not.
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#1  Something called Human free will.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/20/2025 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Who was Plato?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2025 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  If we cannot choose evil, we are not choosing. The problem does not lie with God. One man, for instance, recently funded the creation of an Old Testament plague that killed millions of people. Satan gave him the same selling script as he gave Christ in the desert. Anthony chose poorly. He still has a limited number of remaining choices he can make to avoid the eternal lava hot tub. It’s the same system for all of us. We get to choose. There our consequences for our choices to us and to those around us. We need to choose wisely.
Posted by: Bertie Chaith1481 || 08/20/2025 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  That was me.
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1920: Cleanse with gases: why the Tambov uprising was suppressed with particular cruelty
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Mikhail Moshkin and Daniil Pelymov

[REGNUM] 105 years ago, on August 19, 1920, the Tambov Provincial Cheka, party and Soviet organs of the province received alarming reports from the Borisoglebsk district. In the villages of Tugolukovo and Kamenka, a clash between peasants and a food detachment was supported by 50 armed deserters from the Red Army.

The commander of the food detachment and two food detachments were killed. On the same day, in Afanasyevka, Tambov district, several "gangs" united for a joint action against Soviet power.

The Tambov Uprising began - one of the last, largest and bloodiest episodes of the Civil War, which took the lives of more than 30,000 Russian people, Reds and rebels.

The peasant war, which almost overturned all the achievements of the Bolsheviks, broke out in the deep rear of the Red Army.

By that time, the fronts were far to the west (where the Red Army counteroffensive against Poland was underway), to the east - in Transbaikalia and the Amur region and in the steppes of Northern Taurida, where the Russian army of Pyotr Wrangel was advancing. The largest "third force" in Novorossiya - the anarchist freebooters of Nestor Makhno at that time were once again considered enemies of Soviet power.

But soon, in October 1920, the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR would propose to the father an alliance with Baron Wrangel. In general, the Civil War was shifting to the outskirts of the former Russian Empire. But in the Russian Black Earth Region it smoldered latently.

In 1918–1919, the policy of war communism had already led to local skirmishes between food detachments and peasants in the Tambov province. More than once, weapons that ended up in the hands of the “kulak underground” after Denikin’s General Konstantin Mamontov’s raid on Tambov region made themselves known.

But local bodies of the RCP(b) on the "bayonets" of the CHONs - special purpose units (analogous to the internal troops) - achieved that one of the granaries of Russia would give the planned volume of grain to the cities. Thus, at the peak of the Civil War, in 1919, the required 12.3 million poods were taken out of the province.

For the 1920 harvest, the Bolsheviks set a seemingly more lenient norm of 11.5 million poods. Nature dealt a fatal blow: at the beginning of the summer, a drought hit the Tambov region. But the provincial food committee stood its ground: 11.5 million poods of grain had to be given, given that only 12 million had been collected, God willing.

Plus, penalties were imposed on that part of the province that in the past, 1919, was temporarily under the control of the White Volunteer Army (and did not submit the required food tax quota).

The highest levy rates fell on the districts most affected by the drought - Kirsanovsky, Borisoglebsky and Tambovsky. It is not surprising that it was the last two that became the centers of the rebellion.

Telegrams were sent from the particularly affected volosts to Tambov and the center: after the food detachments had delivered their quotas, the peasants were left with only quinoa, bark, and nettles.

The Bolshevik experiments in creating agricultural communes, the first experience of forced collectivization with the total socialization of inventory and property, right down to small livestock, also proved ineffective.

In the summer of 1920, the Tambov organization of the Socialist Revolutionaries (which found itself in a strange, semi-prohibited position, like the entire Socialist Revolutionary Party) reported to its Central Committee: “The state farms were completely unable to cope with the seized land. Thus, in the Aleksandrovsky state farm of the Tambov province, out of 820 dessiatines of arable land, only 140 dessiatines of winter crops were sown, but even these results were achieved exclusively by forcibly attracting peasants to work…”

The local Soviet authorities relied exclusively on the "stick", clearly forgetting about the "carrot". The head of the provincial executive committee, the old Bolshevik Alexander Shlikhter, reported on August 8 at a food conference:

“I consider it necessary to note precisely this feature of the work of the Tambov Provincial Food Committee - to take into one’s fist the kulak element that predominates in the Tambov province, to squeeze it in a vice to such an extent that the kulak would take into account the orders of the Provincial Food Committee as something that is inevitable, unavoidable in itself…”

On August 15, the first lightning flashed: in the village of Khitrovo in Tambov district, peasants disarmed the food detachment. And on the 19th, the uprising, like a forest fire, engulfed several districts at once. It is characteristic that one of the first targets was the state agricultural commune - the Ivanovo state farm. Here, a group of about 40 deserters stole previously "collectivized" horses, killing two worker activists.

It is not surprising that recent Red Army soldiers appeared in the first reports about the Tambov Rebellion. This was an "echo" of the mass mobilizations in the province in 1919 - the Red Army compensated for the losses at the fronts with reinforcements, and the command was forced to ignore the motivation of the new recruits (often from the prosperous peasantry with an anti-Bolshevik attitude).

It is not surprising that those mobilized often left the Reds for the "Greens". Thus, in May 1919, the Borisoglebsk Uyezd Committee - the district committee of the RCP (b) - received reports that the number of deserters in the entrusted territory "amounts to 3 thousand people, they are armed with rifles, machine guns, and cannons."

Nature, which "contributed" to the incitement of the uprising, also gave it a base. In the Borisoglebsk district, along the Khoper River, there is the Tellermanovsky forest, which provided shelter to the "rebellious" Cossacks of Kondraty Bulavin.

The war began - which Soviet historians would have included in the same row with the speeches of Razin, Bulavin and Pugachev - if not for the anti-Soviet direction of this rebellion.

COMRADE SCHLICHTER'S FIASCO
On August 21, the Tambov Provincial Committee of the RCP (b) created an emergency operational headquarters and declared a state of siege. Nine days later, a telegram was sent to Moscow: "the situation is serious," the Bolshevik activists of the provincial center were transferred to barracks. On August 31, Comrade Shlikhter personally led a punitive detachment of mobilized party members, but the detachment was defeated in a skirmish with the rebels.

For this failure, Schlichter was removed from his post, and in Moscow they realized that a large-scale rebellion was unfolding in the rear of the Red Army.

In a matter of weeks, the Bolsheviks lost control over the countryside in the Tambov, Kirsanovsky, Borisoglebsky, and Kozlovsky districts of the Tambov province. The insurgent movement spread to the neighboring districts of the Voronezh and Saratov provinces.

In November, at a congress of commanders of partisan detachments (or, as they were called in the party documents of the RCP(b), “raging counter-revolutionary White Socialist Revolutionary gangs”), it was decided to proclaim a United Partisan Army.

The Union of Working Peasants, the political wing of the uprising, was also formed. The STC proclaimed itself an organization close to the Socialist Revolutionaries. True, the Socialist Revolutionaries themselves, right and left, were in no hurry to recognize the Tambov peasants as "their own", partly fearing the close interest of the Cheka.

The program of the "United Army" and the STC was not particularly new - restoration of rights and freedoms of the February 1917 model, "all power to the Constituent Assembly", establishment of a temporary democratic republic in Tambov region with councils without communists, etc. The real agenda "on the ground" was simpler: down with the food tax, commissars and poor committees, give freedom to use land and dispose of grain.

POLICEMAN FROM VLADIMIR CENTRAL
At the same time, the name “in whose honor” the uprising would be named began to appear in the reports: Alexander Antonov.

The man whom Soviet historians would call the leader of the Antonov movement was a seasoned revolutionary. Born in Moscow (though to a family of native Tambovites), Antonov joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party during the First Russian Revolution. He drew his brother Dmitry along with him, who became his closest comrade-in-arms.

He took part in expropriations, which the Bolsheviks, led by the "legendary Kamo ", did not disdain. He was sentenced to death by a military court, which was replaced by life imprisonment by order of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin. He sat in Vladimir Central, where the future army commander and then RSDLP(b) activist Mikhail Frunze also served his sentence.

The "victim of tsarism" was liberated by the February Revolution. After October 1917, during the short period when the Left Socialist Revolutionaries were, along with the Bolsheviks, the ruling party, Comrade Antonov headed the militia of the Kirsanovsky district. One of his subordinates was the former lieutenant of the imperial army Pyotr Tokmakov, who was to play a decisive role in the Tambov uprising.

The "independent Socialist Revolutionary" Antonov remained in the police post even after the demonstration of his fellow party members in Moscow in June 1918. But already at the end of the summer he went underground, having formed, according to the old Socialist Revolutionary habit, a combat organization with expropriations and individual terror - now no longer against the "tsarist satraps", but against the Bolsheviks.

In the summer of 1919, Antonov’s detachment numbered 150 bayonets from among the deserters and a large “support base” among the Kirsanov peasants.

But despite the fact that the great uprising that broke out in the summer of 1920 was called "Antonovshchina" in Soviet monographs and textbooks, Alexander Stepanovich was not its sole leader. However, he was not a "screen" called upon to give the Socialist Revolutionary legitimacy to the peasant rebellion. Antonov commanded the 2nd Partisan Army, and then headed the Main Operational Headquarters of the United Army. His brother Dmitry, commander of the 4th Nizhne-Spassky Regiment of the Insurgent Forces, also served under him.

The Antonovs also influenced the ideological agenda of the STK and the United Army, for example, the compilation of leaflets addressed to the Red Army soldiers: "Brothers, Red Army soldiers! Come to your senses, who are you fighting? This is not a gang, but a peasant uprising - we have risen up in order to free citizens from the commune," etc.

The general command of the rebels was carried out by a retired lieutenant, ex-policeman Tokmakov - unlike the Antonov politicians, a man with experience of the First World War. Tokmakov's authority was such that the lieutenant was subordinated to Colonel of the Imperial Army Alexander Boguslavsky, who became the commander of one of the three rebel armies, the 1st.

"TAKE HOSTAGES FROM CITIZENS AGED 18 YEARS AND OLDER"
Soviet historiography emphasized the cruelty of the "kulaks and white bandits" who terrorized not only the poor peasants and communists, but also the poorest peasants loyal to the Soviet government. Post-Soviet sources focused on the Red Army's punitive raids against the rebels. In fact, in the third year of the fratricidal Civil War, both sides were cruel.

The report of the Kirsanov district committee of the RCP (b) reported on what was happening in the small homeland of the rebel “commander-in-chief” Pyotr Tokmakov, in the village of Inokovka:

"On August 29, bandits raided the Inokovsky party organization, brutally killing 17 people. Since the bandits' action, eleven volost organizations have been completely destroyed, in which seventy-eight communists have been slaughtered, including a visiting session of the GubChK with 19 employees. In total, up to one hundred and fifty communists have been recorded as dead by March 1, that is, half of the members of the village organizations."

The rebels did not spare those who were suspected of collaborating with the "Bolsheviks". Thus, in the village of Kalugino, the chairman of the VolkomPart (the volost party committee) Golomazov was demonstratively executed - "they heated the wire until it was red hot and pulled it through his nostrils, ears and mouth. Then they cut off the limbs of the body and tied the mutilated corpse to the tail of a horse and dragged it around the village."

On the other hand, the very first order of the operational headquarters of the Tambov Provincial Cheka, dated August 31, 1920, stated:

"In relation to villages in which citizens are noticed participating in bandit actions or harboring bandits, conduct a merciless red terror." Red Army soldiers and Chekists were ordered to take hostages "members of families from those families whose members joined the bandits or helped them; take hostages citizens from 18 years of age, regardless of their gender."

THE "GREEN" THREAT
Already in October 1920, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Lenin ordered the head of the Cheka Felix Dzerzhinsky to "speed up the defeat of the Antonov rebels." But even after the mobilization of the VOKhR and ChON forces against the rebels, the Reds could deploy less than 4.5 thousand fighters with 22 machine guns and five artillery pieces. At the same time, the "United Partisan Army of the Tambov Region" had 20 thousand "bayonets" and 44 machine guns at its disposal.

At the peak of the uprising, by the turn of 1920-21, the troops of Tokmakov and Antonov reached 50 thousand fighters, the rebels operated on a territory larger than the Benelux countries. True, the "green" area was exclusively rural - like the Makhnovist movement, the Tambov rebels relied only on peasants, but not on workers. Nevertheless, the peasant war raged 350-400 kilometers from the capital of the RSFSR.

In the Insurgent Army, Batko Makhno looked at the Tambovites as possible allies in the fight against the "counterrevolutionaries in the revolution" - the Bolsheviks. Especially since the Red Army forces were distracted by the fight against Wrangel and the campaign in Poland.

But the evacuation of Wrangel’s Russian army from Crimea in November 1920 and the Riga Peace Treaty concluded with Poland on March 18, 1921, predetermined the fate of the Tambov uprising.

NEP AND PHOSGENE
We must give credit to the Moscow leadership - unlike their Tambov comrades, they used not only the stick, but also the carrot, knocking the social base out from under the army of Tokmakov and Antonov. From February 1921, the food tax was reduced and then abolished.

It was replaced by a more lenient food tax - a natural food tax, the rates of which were half the requirements of the food tax. This was the first sign of the new economic policy. The NEP, we recall, was announced in March 1921 by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee based on the decision of the 10th Congress of the RCP (b) and under the obvious impression of the Tambov experience.

Nature also made its "bite". With the beginning of spring field work, the number of the rebel army decreased by half. The peasants returned to the allotments that were supposedly guaranteed to them by the Bolshevik Decree on Land of 1917. Moreover, in the spring of 1921, the Bolsheviks declared an amnesty for ordinary rebels - on the condition that they surrender their weapons and inform the Cheka of the location of the "gang leaders".

At the same time, the "whip" was also at work. After the "Antonovites" ignored the ultimatum of commander Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko and did not surrender by April 12, Moscow assigned the liquidation of the rebellion to Mikhail Tukhachevsky. The recent failed conqueror of Warsaw was given the task of suppressing the "White Socialist Revolutionary rebellion" within a month.

In May, the Red Army launched a massive offensive. The Reds had a point in their favor, since the commander of the United Army, Tokmakov, had died in battle back in February 1921. In April, the head of the Voronezh rebels, the commander of the 3rd Antonov Army, Ivan Kolesnikov, was killed.

The Red Cavalry Brigades, the 15th Siberian Cavalry Brigade and other units under the overall command of Ieronim Uborevich defeated Colonel Boguslavsky's 2nd Army and other large rebel units in late May and early June. Completing the operation, Grigory Kotovsky's rear troops dispersed the remaining rebel regiments.

On June 12, 1921, Commander Tukhachevsky issued an order classified as “secret,” which read:

"The forests where the bandits are hiding must be cleared with poisonous gases, precisely calculated so that the cloud of suffocating gases spreads completely throughout the entire forest, destroying everything that was hiding in it."

The Red Army used artillery with chlorine and its mixture with phosgene and drove the rebels out of their shelters several times (although lethal gas weapons were still used only occasionally).

THE FATE OF THE LOSERS AND THE WINNERS
At the same time, mass repressions were carried out against the families of the rebels: for refusing to report the location of the partisans, people were arrested and shot as “outcasts”, and hostages were taken into custody in the villages.

"Nothing works without executions, " Tukhachevsky openly admitted at headquarters. By mid-June, more than 5,000 people had been taken hostage, dozens of villages were considered "special regime zones" - the entire male population was rounded up, and unscheduled executions of villagers found sympathetic to the rebels were carried out.

In total, during the operations in the summer of 1921, the state deployed up to 55 thousand Red Army soldiers, armed with armored trains and aircraft. By the end of the summer, the uprising was practically suppressed. The remnants of the 1st rebel army went to the Don (where they were soon caught), and even Aleksandr Antonov with several close associates hid in the forests until June 1922, but was eventually discovered by the Chekists and died in a shootout.

The defeat of the uprising was achieved with great bloodshed: the irretrievable losses of peasant families in the Tambov province amounted to tens of thousands of souls. The combat losses of the Red Army exceeded 5 thousand, with 15 thousand rebels killed in battle.

The number of people convicted at various times on suspicion of participating in or supporting the “kulak rebellion” reaches 250 thousand.
That’s not a few…
The leaders of the uprising perished, but history did not spare the victors either. In 1925, Kotovsky was killed under mysterious circumstances. In 1937, Tukhachevsky and his closest comrade Uborevich were convicted and shot under the fabricated "case of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist military organization", and in 1938, one of the key participants in the October Revolution, Antonov-Ovseenko.

Nevertheless, it was precisely after the Tambov rebellion (to which one can add the Kronstadt mutiny of the “peasants in sailor’s pea jackets”) that the Russian “sower and keeper” was given a short respite and the opportunity to work on his land – until collectivization.

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