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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/
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.”
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
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
…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
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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Bill Gates-backed companies approved to sell ‘lab-grown’ chicken in the US
Posted by M. C. on July 5, 2023
Why am I thinking…Stephen King?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light for the controversial product, which is backed by Bill Gates, earlier this week.
The United States has become the second country in the world to approve “cell-based” chicken for public consumption, joining Singapore, who legalized the experimental food in 2020. The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light for the controversial product, which is backed by Bill Gates, earlier this week.
Billed as a major tool in the fight against “climate change,” so-called “cultivated chicken” is grown in a lab. The costly process involves extracting stem cells and giving them a nutrient-dense bath in vitamins, minerals, salt, and even soy inside a steel bioreactor. An average batch takes about two weeks to harvest.
Proponents argue that the controlled, indoor environment ensures sanitation standards are more easily met, and that the alleged harmful effects of raising animals on a farm are avoided entirely. Critics question not only its moral aspects but its purported nutritional benefits as well.
“I’d rather eat my shoe than lab-grown meat,” dietitian Diana Rodgers told The New York Post Wednesday. TV personality chef Andrew Gruel called it “a junk product” filled with “additives.”
On average, Americans eat 8 billion chickens per year. At present, two California-based companies create lab-grown poultry — Upside Foods and Good Meat, a division of Eat Just Incorporated. Upside was founded in 2015 by a former Mayo Clinic cardiologist.
According to multiple media outlets, Bill Gates is among the investors in both Upside Foods and East Just, which began selling synthetic eggs to retail stores in 2019. Gates has backed an array of other companies pushing genetically modified food as well, including Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods.
Upside’s Chief Operating Officer Amy Chen spoke with Fox News host Neil Cavuto earlier this week about the USDA’s approval and the future of “cultivated food.”
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Presidents Keep Hiring Elliott Abrams Because The US Empire Is Just That Evil
Posted by M. C. on July 5, 2023
Because our society is so profoundly sick, one of the fastest ways to fortune and esteem is to be as gross as Elliott Abrams. That’s how messed up you have to be inside to rise to prominence within the US power structure: willing to say and do whatever needs to be said and done in order to secure the continued dominance of a global empire that is sustained by human blood.
CNN reports that President Biden has nominated criminal neocon Elliott Abrams for a position on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which according to the US State Department is responsible for “appraising activities intended to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics” and pays “acute attention” to the US government’s official foreign propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media.
Usually when you hear someone called a “neocon” it’s not a strictly accurate description from a technical point of view and is frequently used to just mean “warmonger”, but Abrams is actually a proper PNAC neoconservative ideologue with deep ties to the old-school neocons of the 1970s, and has helped promote violent US imperialism in Latin America and the Middle East for decades.
In addition to serving as the Trump administration’s special representative for both Iran and Venezuela (two of the nations where Trump’s foreign policy was at its most murderous), Abrams is probably best known for confessing to his role in the criminal coverup of Iran-Contra during the Reagan administration. CNN — notoriously reluctant to criticize both US foreign policy and Democratic presidential administrations — was surprisingly critical on this point in its report on Biden’s nomination of Abrams to the position.
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Minimizing the State’s Ability To Coerce You… How To Obtain Real Independence
Posted by M. C. on July 5, 2023
…In light of Independence Day, I think we should consider an important question:
What does real independence look like, and how can you achieve it?
It might be better to start with what it doesn’t look like:
- The cumulative effect of income tax, sales tax, property tax, capital gains tax, estate tax, and countless others
- Vaccine mandates
- Travel restrictions
- Legal tender laws, which force people to use rapidly debasing government confetti as money
- ESG social credit scores
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
- Forever wars
- The gutting of the Bill of Rights
- The need to comply with an ever-growing stack of regulations, mandates, and laws
- The politicization of the justice system
- Government and Big Business promoting cultural degeneracy
This is just a short synopsis of the current state of affairs. The list is far from exhaustive.
Here’s the bottom line.
It doesn’t matter which party is in power. They are all headed in the same direction, albeit at different speeds…
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They Don’t Dare Tell You What the 4th Is About
Posted by M. C. on July 5, 2023
So let’s recap: local self-government, secession, and strict construction. Not exactly the themes you learned in school.
From the Tom Woods Letter:
Independence Day is tomorrow, and I wonder how many people really get why it matters.
In school, we were told this: “No taxation without representation.”
Zzzzzzzz.
The real principles were more like the following.
(1) No legislation without representation.
The colonists insisted that they could be governed only by the colonial legislatures. This is the principle of self-government. This is what the War for Independence was all about: local self-government.
Yet today, when the Supreme Court says the federal government has no authority over a particular issue and that it is better decided at the state level, instead of being pleased that the decentralized American political order is once again being respected, tens of millions of Americans respond as if Frankenstein’s monster were roaming the land.
2) Contrary to the modern Western view of the state that it must be considered one and indivisible, the colonists believed that a smaller unit may withdraw from a larger one. Today we are supposed to consider this unthinkable.
(3) The colonists’ view of the (unwritten) British constitution was that Parliament could legislate only in those areas that had traditionally been within the purview of the British government. Customary practice was the test of constitutionality. The Parliament’s view, by contrast, was in effect that the will and act of Parliament sufficed to make its measures constitutional.
So the American colonists insisted on strict construction, if you will, while the British held to more of a “living, breathing” view of the Constitution. Sound familiar?
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