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Here’s What’s Really Behind the Global Reset and Sustainable Development Agenda 2030

Posted by M. C. on July 7, 2023

The answer is that the sociopaths at the UN and in Washington have no real intent for the peasants to continue with their current standard of living. They intend for us all to live in our 15-minute cities, eating bugs, immersed in the metaverse, and hooked up to a neverending feed of pharmaceuticals, which we’ll be forced to take, otherwise your UBI (universal basic income) gets cut off.

Here’s What’s Really Behind the Global Reset and Sustainable Development Agenda 2030

by Chris MacIntosh

Global Reset and Sustainable Development Agenda 2030

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Captive in the so-called 15-minute cities, eat bugs and no meat, immerse in the metaverse, and a never ending feed of pharmaceuticals, and all that by force, otherwise your universal basic income (UBI) gets cut off.

Energy? Dirty.

Lower motorway speeds and driving ban in plan to tackle oil reliance. Here’s an extract from Daily Echo article

Lowering motorway speed limits and introducing driving bans on Sunday are ideas being suggested to cut Britain’s reliance on oil.

The ideas are part of a ten-point plan proposed by the International Energy Agency in a bid to reduce global oil demand by 2.7 million barrels per day.

Motorway speed limits would be reduced by 6 mph across the country under the proposals, while the plan also suggests a ban on driving in cities every Sunday.

This is horseshit! It has nothing to do with “reducing reliance on oil” and everything to do with the WEF and UN “sustainable development Agenda 2030.”

You know what’s going to happen? The existing stream of folks leaving countries implementing these policies will turn into a flood (more on this in a minute). With it will come capital controls, because the sociopaths driving this agenda will never see their own policies as the problem. No, it’s always those silly peasants who are the problem.

In case you’re wondering… that’s you.

Meat? Dirty.

Irish considering massive cattle culling. We are flabbergasted that killing 200,000 head of cattle is even a consideration…

Wasn’t Ireland “famous” for its potato famine? You would think that people would learn from history. I am coming to the view that little/nothing is learnt by studying history.

When will folks wake up to this delusional stuff going on? Perhaps when their living standards take a bat to the knees.

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Bombshell: US House Bill to Cut Funding for WHO Entirely, Terminate Involvement in WEF, Considers Exiting WHO. Threatens Implementation of WHO “Pandemic Treaty”?

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

Heavy backing will be needed to overcome a Biden veto.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/bombshell-us-house-floats-bill-defund-who-wef-other-misinformation-programs-considers-exiting-who/5824430

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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations (CoA), a highly influential US Congressional body on US budget proposals, has advised cutting government funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) entirely, as part of its budget proposal for fiscal year 2024.

The CoA’s bill would also block funding to the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology, the EcoHealth Alliance, as well as gain-of-function research. In addition, the legislation would terminate US government involvement in the World Economic Forum (WEF).

This bombshell report was published a few days ago by RFK Jr’s Defender, based on extensive interviews with concerned US Congress people. See this full report by Michael Nevradikis, Ph.D, a regular contributor to the Children’s Health Defense Newsletter.

U.S. House Floats Bill to Defund WHO, WEF and ‘Misinformation’ Programs

By Michael Nevradakis, July 03, 2023

The proposal would enhance the US government’s attempt to ban “misinformation” and “disinformation” programs, and to retain – and even bring back – the US’s Constitutional sovereignty and citizen’s right to free speech and expression.

Cutting US funding to the WHO would amount to about US$ 700 million savings per year. With Big Pharma, Bill Gates and other interest groups funding more than 80% of WHO’s budget, the US$ 700 million – though by far the largest country contribution to the “health organization”, may not be a lot, but it has significant symbolic and political meaning.

Other nations look to the US, since many, especially from the Global South, are fed-up with WHO’s scandalous Covid imposition during the past three years, WHO’s impending health tyranny through the planned revised International Health Regulations (IHR) and the fully integrated so-called “Pandemic Treaty”. If the US dares take this drastic, but necessary step, others who feel likewise may follow suit.

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How Should We Regulate the Sun (Since Our Government Regulates Nearly Everything Else)? | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

While the candlemakers of the world may want to use the government to deprive us completely of sunlight, we must not go the other direction and act as though we have a so-called right to the sun. While, obviously, sun rights are not the battle of today, every time we hear an advocate coming out with a different idea of new positive rights, we must remember that each and every one of them is as ridiculous as a right to the sun.

https://mises.org/wire/how-should-we-regulate-sun-our-government-regulates-nearly-everything-else

Connor Mortell

When we think of “solar power,” we picture a field or a roof full of glass panels churning out electricity. However, this is just a more recent development in channeling the sun’s energy. Most histories of solar power will begin with stories regarding the use of magnifying glasses and mirrors to make fire. From the first to fourth centuries, the Romans began including large south-facing windows in their famous bathhouses, optimizing the heat energy the sun provided to heat the buildings.

However, this led to an interesting development. In the sixth century, not only bathhouses but also many Roman houses and public buildings all trended toward having a sunroom. As such, the Justinian Code actually enshrined “sun rights” so that each individual would be guaranteed access to the sun. Once the government enshrines access to the sun as a right, it is easy to compare “sun rights” to Murray Rothbard’s hypothetical government’s right to shoes:

The libertarian who wants to replace government by private enterprises in the above areas is thus treated in the same way as he would be if the government had, for various reasons, been supplying shoes as a tax-financed monopoly from time immemorial. If the government and only the government had a monopoly of the shoe manufacturing and retailing business, how would most of the public treat the libertarian who now came along to advocate that the government get out of the shoe business and throw it open to private enterprise? He would undoubtedly be treated as follows: people would cry, “How could you? You are opposed to the public, and to poor people, wearing shoes! And who would supply shoes to the public if the government got out of the business? Tell us that! Be constructive! It’s easy to be negative and smart-alecky about government; but tell us who would supply shoes? Which people? How many shoe stores would be available in each city and town? How would the shoe firms be capitalized? How many brands would there be? What material would they use? What lasts? What would be the pricing arrangements for shoes? Wouldn’t regulation of the shoe industry be needed to see to it that the product is sound? And who would supply the poor with shoes? Suppose a poor person didn’t have the money to buy a pair?”

Once the right to sun is enshrined, all these same questions can be asked. A sunroom raises the price of a home, and the poor will be priced out without a guaranteed right to the sun. One could cry that if one didn’t support this right, one would be opposed to people having sun and receiving vitamin D. In fact, there is a stronger argument to regulate the sun. While the sun is not an economic good—it is not scarce—it far more meets the definition of a public good than shoes do.

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Nikki Haley turns hawkish takes on China up to 11

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

The Republican presidential candidate has no interest in dialing back tensions with Beijing amid a burgeoning cold war.

Why am I thinking there may be a lot of military business done in SC? Those scrapes on her knees are from bowing at the entrance to the pentagon.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/29/nikki-haley-turns-hawkish-takes-on-china-up-to-11/

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Daniel Larison

Speaking before the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute Tuesday, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley laid out a hawkish policy for China. Sharply critical of the Biden administration’s alleged ineptitude in confronting China, Haley, who served briefly as Donald Trump’s UN ambassador, made a series of proposals that were actually not all that different from the current policy, only with a greater emphasis on economic decoupling and a dash of extra fearmongering. 

She would take a policy that is already heavy on building up the military and coercive tactics against Beijing and make it heavier yet. This is unfortunately typical of the debate over China policy in this country. It is often taken for granted that the only “realistic” alternative to the current policy of containment and rivalry is a more intense and reckless version of the same. But America deserves better options.

Notably lacking in Haley’s plan is any discussion of positive economic statecraft in the Asia-Pacific region, diplomatic engagement with non-aligned countries, or working with Beijing on mitigating the effects of climate change. On bilateral trade, her only suggestion was to reduce it due to the role played by Chinese manufacturers in the fentanyl crisis. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that previewed her speech, she wrote, “I will push Congress to revoke permanent normal trade relations [with China] until the flow of fentanyl ends.” 

If the U.S. acted on this threat, it would result in significant costs for American businesses and consumers, but Haley spoke as if revoking PNTR would harm only China. Moreover, during questions afterward, Haley entertained the possibility of “full-on decoupling” from China if it was “necessary” for national security. The former governor and ambassador sounded every bit like the hardline ideologue that we saw during the Trump years. 

At one point in her speech, she called Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing a “gold-plated invitation for more Chinese aggression.” She later tried to walk this back a little during the questions, saying that she objected to the way that the Biden administration was doing things, but it’s hard to see what kind of diplomatic engagement with China she would support other than issuing threats and ultimatums. 

Like other hawkish critics of Biden’s China policy, Haley ignored much of what Biden has done that those critics support while emphasizing the president’s supposed weakness. For what it’s worth, the Biden administration recently made an effort to address the crisis directly when it expanded interdiction efforts by the Department of Homeland Security. To the extent that she acknowledged any of what Biden has done on export controls, it was only to fault him for not going far enough. She wants the U.S. to “deepen” military ties with regional allies and with India, but then this is exactly what Biden has been doing for the last two years. 

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Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Families Joining the Military

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

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The Fake China Threat, Then and Now

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

The ability of client states to drag their patrons into conflicts is as old as Thucydides, as is their use of powerful interest groups within that patron state to influence policy decisions.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-fake-china-threat-then-and-now/

by Joseph Solis-Mullen 

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Republicans are terrible on China. Examples abound, but perhaps the most instructive illustration of this long-term handicap comes from the following quotation:

“We must be prepared to go it alone in China if our allies desert us. We must not fool ourselves into thinking we can avoid taking up arms with the Chinese Reds. If we don’t fight them in China and Formosa [Taiwan] we’ll be fighting them in San Francisco, in Seattle, in Kansas City.”1

This wasn’t excerpted from a recent speech by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK). Rather, it was by then-Senate Majority Leader William Knowland (R-CA), in the January 1954 edition of Collier’s Magazine. While perhaps particularly rabid in his Sinophobia, President Dwight D. Eisenhower privately opined that “Knowland has no foreign policy, except to develop high blood pressure whenever he mentions ‘Red China’…In his case, there seems to be no final answer to the question, ‘How stupid can you get?’”2 The parallels between Knowland’s time and our own are significant. Representing the respective nadirs of Sino-American relations, they are worth considering in depth.

First, a necessary bit of high-level background.

In 1949 Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party defeated the nominally republican forces of Chiang Kai-shek. Despite internal warnings that this was likely to happen, Chiang and his nationalist cronies being “thieves, every last one of them…corrupt as they come” according to President Harry Truman, this kicked off a firestorm in Washington3. “Who lost China?” subsequently became a driving force of the Second Red Scare that consumed American politics, distorting perceptions and constraining the ability of even the most powerful figures, such as Eisenhower or Secretary of State Dean Acheson, to act towards China in the more rational manner they would have liked.

Dean Acheson had presciently forecast as early as 1950 that Mao could be an “Asian Tito,” a disruptor of communist unity akin to the Yugoslav leader, Josip Broz Tito, Stalin’s bête noire. As things happened, however, the powerful China Lobby, led by men such as the editor of Time Henry Luce, was predictably able to push policy in the opposite direction.

For his part, Chiang refused to acknowledge defeat and demanded help retaking the mainland.While Eisenhower had bowed to domestic pressure to “unleash Chiang” in 1953, removing American impediments to cross-Strait engagement, further American support was not (yet) forthcoming. While Chiang’s friends worked on Washington, succeeding in securing for him more American planes and bombs, Chiang sought to do what he could to make life difficult for the new communist regime in Beijing. His policy of “Guanbi,” or “closed port policy,” involved the interdicting of foreign vessels bound for the mainland, eventually some one hundred in total.

The provocative policy prevented necessary trade and led to a series of skirmishes and several deaths, playing a larger role in precipitating what would come to be known as the First Taiwan Straits Crisis. In 1954 Chiang decided to fortify Quemoy and Matsu, islands so close to mainland China they’re visible from the shore on a clear day.

Predictably, the islands quickly came under bombardment by PRC forces. Resisting calls by the Joint Chiefs to either place U.S. troops in Taiwan or unleash nuclear weapons on mainland China, Eisenhower felt forced into the next worst thing. Concluding, in the words of Patterson, that “it would be politically risky to do nothing,” Eisenhower formalized the American commitment to defend Taiwan in the event of an attack. In making this commitment Eisenhower was careful to exclude islands such as Quemoy and Matsu, while also securing from Chiang a promise to cease unilateral military actions against the mainland.

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UN “Pact For The Future” Seeks Permanent Emergency Powers For “Complex Global Shocks”

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

It goes on to suggest that the UN would have the power to oversee the “stakeholders” of the world, including academics, governments, private sector actors, and “international financial institutions” to ensure there is a unified, global response to whatever crisis is declared.

The paper further suggests that such authority would “Ensure that all participating actors make commitments that can contribute meaningfully to the response and that they are held to account for delivery on those commitments.”

It also states that while the emergency authority would have an initial finite lifespan, the UN would be able to extend it indefinitely if it saw fit to do so.

The Federalist report notes that the Biden Administration has backed the proposal on multiple occasions, prompting reporter Justin Haskins to warn that “If the emergency platform is approved, the United States as we know it could cease to exist.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-pact-future-seeks-permanent-emergency-powers-complex-global-shocks

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BY TYLER DURDEN

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

The UN is set to outline a far reaching plan to secure emergency powers that would allow the global body to lead a “common agenda” for all nations during any “complex global shocks” such as a new pandemic.

The Federalist reports that the plan is to be finalised at a September 2024 ‘Summit of the Future,’ where the UN will adopt a ‘Pact for the Future,’ to include policies that have been outlined in the globalist body’s ‘Our Common Agenda‘ report.

One such policy is an “emergency platform” during any events that have a global impact that would provide the UN the authority to “actively promote and drive an international response that places the principles of equity and solidarity at the centre of its work.”

The report notes that some details of the emergency platform were outlined in a paper from March with the UN secretary-general declaring “I propose that the General Assembly provide the Secretary-General and the United Nations system with a standing authority to convene and operationalize automatically an Emergency Platform in the event of a future complex global shock of sufficient scale, severity and reach.”

The paper gives several examples of what could trigger the emergency authority, including “major climatic event,” “future pandemic risks,” a “global digital connectivity disruption,” “major event in outer space,” and generic “unforeseen risks, (‘black swan’ events).”

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Pennsylvania Governor Caves To Teachers Union On School Choice

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

“Our Commonwealth should not be plunged into a painful, protracted budget impasse while our communities wait for the help and resources this commonsense budget will deliver,”

When you hear about “commonsense” legislation…lookout!

I am guessing the only “impasse” Shapiro is worried about, like former Gov Ridge, is in receiving PSEA votes and contributions.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-governor-caves-to-teachers-union-on-school-choice

By  Michael Whittaker

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro dropped his previous demands for a $100 million school vouchers program from the state budget after fierce opposition from teachers unions and other Democrats.

The voucher program was supported by the Republican-controlled state Senate, but stalled in the Democratic state House. While the budget contained many Democratic priorities, such as increased spending for education and state funding for legal defense (Pennsylvania is currently the only state that does not fund public defenders – that responsibility rests with its counties), the voucher program faced fierce opposition from the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the largest teachers union in the state. That opposition was enough to stall the state budget past its June 30 deadline, leading Shapiro to back down.

“Our Commonwealth should not be plunged into a painful, protracted budget impasse while our communities wait for the help and resources this commonsense budget will deliver,” Shapiro said. “Knowing that the two chambers will not reach consensus at this time to enact [the voucher program], and unwilling to hold up our entire budget process over this issue, I will line-item veto the full $100 million appropriation and it will not be part of this budget bill,” Shapiro said.

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The Ever-Escalating Downfall of Man Bathing in an Absence of Interest

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2023

The Ever-Escalating Downfall of Man Bathing in an Absence of Interest

By Gary D. Barnett

…Indifference, apathy, laziness, cowardice, and dependence, are the foundations of bondage, and the epitome of consenting to your own servitude by acquiescing to a master or master class of power-seeking monsters. Actually, these attitudes are what are sought by the ruling ‘elite’ and their cadre of controlled and complicit pawns in politics and government. For without a mindless and obedient populace, rule by the few is impossible to achieve,…

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Comments from the most notable advisor to the evil Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, (WEF) Yuval Noah Harari, are appropriate here, as understanding the motives of those who seek to rule the world is imperative to discovering the plans of these monsters, which they readily and openly admit. He states in a WEF speech:

“The defining equation of the 21st century is biological knowledge, multiplied by computer power, multiplied by data, equals the ability to hack humans.”

“A system that understands us better than we understand ourselves – can predict our feelings and decisions – can manipulate our feelings and decisions – and can ultimately make decisions for us.”

How exactly will the future masters of the planet look like? This will be decided by the people who own the data.”

“Humans are now hackable animals.”

“We are probably one of the last generations of Homo Sapiens, because in the coming generations, we will learn how to engineer bodies, brains, and minds.”

“The whole idea that humans have this soul and spirit, and they have free will, and no one knows what’s happening inside me, so whatever I choose, whether in the election, or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will; that’s over. Free will, that’s over!”

“People could look back in 100 years and identify the corona virus epidemic as the moment when a new regime of surveillance took over. Especially surveillance under the skin, which I think is maybe the most important development of the 21st century – is the ability to hack human beings, to go under the skin, collect biometric data, analyze it, and understand people better than they understand themselves.” (Think about the bioweapon injections)

Now for the first time in history, it is becoming feasible to monitor everybody all the time, not just in what we do, but even what we feel.”

“Control of data might enable human elites to do something even more radical than just build digital dictatorships. By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself.”

“Science is replacing evolution by natural selection, with evolution by intelligent design. Not some intelligent design by some God above the clouds, but our intelligent design. And the intelligent design of our clouds: the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud, these are the new driving forces of evolution. In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us God-like abilities to re-engineer life and even to create new life forms.”

“We are really acquiring Divine powers of creation and destruction. We are really upgrading humans into Gods.”

How did we get to this place? Why did the supposed most intelligent creatures on earth allow the takeover of their minds and bodies at the hands of evil tyrants and rulers? Why have the masses of common humans abandoned all responsibility for their own freedom and survival?… 

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It’s Time to ‘Bork’ Robert Bork On The Matter of ‘Consumer Welfare’

Posted by M. C. on July 5, 2023

https://walterblock.substack.com/p/its-time-to-bork-robert-bork-on-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


WALTER BLOCK

With the resignation of Christine Wilson from the Federal Trade Commission due to Lina Khans’s unwarranted and totalitarian anti-trust policies, Robert Bork is now in the news, again. Yes, he was unfairly “Borked” by the Democratic Party for his political views, mainly on civil rights legislation. We believe in piling on. We are now going to Bork him for his irrational views on economics, sub category, anti-trust policy.

What is his perspective on this matter? Bork is most famously associated with the stance that anti-trust policy should be predicated not on the basis of promoting the economic welfare of business, but, rather, that of consumers.  As stated, there is nothing egregiously wrong with such a policy. The kicker comes in when we realize that he is urging this public policy as an aspect of free enterprise, with which he has been long and falsely associated.  Even opinion molders such as the Wall Street Journal, who are otherwise strong advocates of private property rights, limited government and laissez-faire capitalism have fallen for Bork’s siren song. They are not at all in opposition to his call to place the big fat thumb of government on the supposed side of consumers in any other sector of the economy, but they have fallen like a ton of bricks for this one.

Suppose that the price of a unit of beans is $3. Consumers are complaining this this price is too high. What would a socialist, interventionist “consumer welfare standard” implement in response? Simple: Impose a price control on this item. But as any freshman who has honestly earned a C or better in economics 101 full well knows, this would create a shortage. Similarly, if consumers protest that their wages are too low, the ostensible remedy would be to create a minimum wage law, and/or raise its level (or more compulsory unionization). But again, apart from economic illiterates, it is a basic law of economics that these policies will lead to a surplus of labor, e.g., to unemployment.

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