Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia would capitalize on any ceasefire to give its troops rest and to re-equip its military. He claimed that a break in fighting would prolong the war.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Zelensky said, “Freezing the conflict with the Russian Federation means a pause that gives the Russian Federation a break for rest. They will not use this pause to change their geopolitics or to renounce their claims on the former Soviet republics.”
Zelensky predicted a ceasefire would only last a few short years, then Moscow would resume its offensive. Russia “will rest and in two or three years, it will seize two more regions and say again: Freeze the conflict. And it will keep going further and further. One hundred percent,” he said.
The statements by Zelensky come as Russia has slowly captured a fifth of Ukraine’s territory. The US and its allies have sent billions in increasingly advanced weapons to Kiev. However, even long-range rocket systems have proven inadequate in aiding Ukrainian forces to retake territory.
Zelensky believes his forces will turn the tide and drive Russian troops out of Ukraine. He said, “The society believes that all the territories must be liberated first, and then we can negotiate about what to do and how we could live in the centuries ahead. Our people are convinced we can do it. And the faster we do it, the fewer will die.”
Russia President Vladimir Putin said last week that Ukraine proposed a workable offer in March, but Kiev broke off talks in April. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Zelensky in Ukraine shortly before negotiations ended. Ukrainska Pravda reported Johnson discouraged Zelensky from making an agreement with Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced last week the Kremlin plans to seize more of Ukraine’s territory because of the Western arms transfers. “Now the geography is different, it’s far from being just the DPR [Donetsk] and LPR [Luhansk], it’s also Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and a number of other territories,” the Russian foreign minister said.
“At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.”
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
What must it be like to live in a state of mind where everything that happens in this human life is thought to be natural, unplanned, coincidence, or somehow unavoidable? The requirement for this devoid state of unconsciousness, is to exist in a world of cliches and regurgitation of the thoughts of others; mostly strangers. This is the belief of the masses, not because they had no choice in the matter, or spontaneously chose to be so trusting, but because they have been conditioned for generations to act and accept the propagandized lies fed to them throughout their lives by those state players with very nefarious agendas.
All this deceit is but a programed mass marketing of disinformation, an indoctrination of the many for the benefit of the few, through a plethora of brainwashing techniques. The only cure for such a circumstance as this, is to first learn to accept that something is terribly amiss, and then find the courage to search for the truth. This requires real research and education, not the ‘schooling’ that most all have been subject to since birth, and this is why those who never accept and always question false authority, continue to write, speak, and plead with their fellow men in an attempt to wake the sleeping giant that is the general population.
All that is necessary in order to see some light, should one really desire to see the light, is to understand that evil exists, and that it exists almost everywhere. Some evil is brutal and blatantly obvious, some is sneaky and silent, and much evil can be attributed to the common man due to his indifference to the plight of others in favor of himself. But the most dangerous evil is draped in the cover of doing good; claiming the high ground of what is falsely presented as the ‘greater good.’ This is how government works, as it plays on the weaknesses of humanity by using the old method of problem, reaction, solution, to create fear and then pretend to protect in the face of that false fear. This is the mainstay of all ruler’s efforts to control the human herd of sheep. Examples of this tactic abound, and have throughout history. Considering the U.S., this deceptive practice has been prevalent since the very beginning.
This deception has been especially successful from the state’s point of view concerning war, all war, and the drive to gain the support of the people against non-existent, non-threatening, monsters from afar. This boils down to the state using the masses to destroy themselves, so that the powerful can be enriched, gain control, and continue to cull what they believe to be the inferior classes. This has always been the case, as no attacks against this country have ever occurred on the mainland, and the only real attack that was against Pearl Harbor, happened on a stolen island forcibly occupied by American soldiers; using a plot to purposely set up blatant acts of war against Japan so as to initiate this attack. This was nothing more than a false flag event staged by the U.S, and created for the sole purpose of stoking fear in the hearts of the people in order to get them to support another world war based only on aggression by the West. Little was different in any war advanced by the American nation-state, including the Indian wars, the so-called Civil War, the Spanish/American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, the ludicrous ‘War on Terror,’ and every other war plotted and planned by the ruling class and its puppets in the U.S. government since the eighteenth century and before.
Today, the threat of war and nuclear annihilation remains intact, all planned in advance, plotted, and gamed out for all to see. The problem however, is that the general public is still dumb and blind to this obvious strategy implemented at the hands of evil who control this country. The inside job that was the 9/11 ‘attack,’ gave this government and its masters two decades of ammunition so as to continue the plan of one-world government, and gain control over all of humanity, until the next stage of state terror could be unleashed on the public.
That next stage is and has been the fake and illusory threat of a ‘virus’ pandemic that does not exist and never did exist. The real threat, as is most always the case, is the state’s alleged solution to this non-existent threat purposely created once again to instill great fear in the hapless and indoctrinated public. Once that fear was solidified, the very poisonous and actively toxic bio-weapon called the ‘covid vaccine,’ was let loose on all unsuspecting members of the vast majority that is the common population, among others. As difficult as it is to swallow, hundreds of millions here, and billions around the world have succumbed to the fraudulent and absurd notion that all could die from a mystery ‘virus’; one that has never once been isolated nor identified. The state’s answer to this manufactured ‘menace’ was that our freedoms were to be sacrificed, self-imprisonment was to become universal, lockdowns and quarantines were to be implemented, the economy was to be systematically destroyed, family was to be shunned, and only those injected with a mystery poison would be safe and allowed to move about in a world all at once acting as one in concert with each; just for the sake of totalitarian control over all. What fantasy is this?
All those who have taken the state’s poison should be aware that they have voluntarily allowed their minds and bodies to be altered in an untold number of ways that will likely cause major adverse effects now and in the future, including sickness, maiming, mental incapacity, disease, and death. This reality is already evident, as great harm and deaths by “unknown” causes is sky-rocketing here; over much of the western world, and across the planet in certain areas. This is not accidental or natural; it is a planned outcome.
This set up is necessary in order for the ruling ‘elites’ and their henchmen in government, to claim ownership of all property, money, and people globally. As has been said on multiple occasions, those who control the food, the money, and the energy supplies, will control the world. That is exactly what is happening right before our eyes, and only an awakening and awareness of this fact can change enough minds so that this tyrannical juggernaut can be stopped in time. It is up to each individual to recognize this risk, and decide not to participate in this destruction of mankind.
Open your minds, and seek the truth instead of remaining slaves and puppets to this system of planned global rule. It is my studied opinion that there is little time left before this onslaught against humanity reaches a level of no return. Abandon the controlling narrative, and come to your own conclusions before it is too late. While this may seem daunting and even impossible, do not rely on the asinine idiocy that is groupthink, politics, voting, and seeking false and duplicitous scum called ‘leaders.’ Cease your hiding in the face of such obvious plots of evil. In order to face this enemy, one must first face themselves, and accept the flaws you will find, and strive to correct your own house instead of condemning or relying on the whims of others.
We can overcome this insanity and madness, but only if and when large numbers of individuals stand up and challenge the current state of affairs. Remember, to obey government means only that you have become a slave, while disobedience to that same state will set you free.
“At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.”
The Bank of China told their depositors that their savings accounts are now investment products and can no longer be withdrawn.
The New World Order is just the old world order: a cabal of parasite crime families feeding off of humanity and if we fail to take control of our own destiny now, then the New World Order will succeed and mankind will be eradicated. The choice is ours and there won’t be a second chance.
The Bank of China told their depositors that their savings accounts are now investment products and can no longer be withdrawn.
And to stop the people from trying to withdraw their money, the CCP deployed tanks.
Banks all over the world are imploding and within this Great Reset, there is great opportunity for mankind, so long as we realize who the real perpetrators are.
The word, “apocalypse” simply means “the lifting of the veil”, the revelation of truth or in modern terms, “The Great Awakening.”
Mankind is now awakening to the fact that we have been lied to and exploited as chattel for, at the very least, our entire lifetimes.
And one of the most valuable truths to be gleaned from the Great Awakening, as far as human civilization is concerned is who is responsible?
It’s crucial to identify who is responsible so that we can stop it from happening again, because the enemy likes to hide.
There is nothing new under the Sun and all we have to do is follow the money, which leads us directly to the Federal Reserve Banking System and their conglomerate of associates known as the Big Banks.
We can trace the Big Banks back to Mayer Rothschild, who famously said, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply and I care not who makes its laws.”
And he was likely speaking about the usury laws, that for centuries prevented people from charging interest on loans, because it was considered theft.
If all men are created equal, then the banks should be acting more like a service industry, not profiting off other peoples’ debt.
But Mayer Rothschild was able to bypass these usury laws, because the Rothschild banking dynasty was merely a front for the royal bloodlines as the Old World Order adapted their schemes for the Industrial Revolution, the Rothschild banking dynasty began running central banks for kings throughout Europe.
It would be difficult to find a better example of a socialist program than public (i.e., government) schooling. The state makes attendance mandatory. Funding is through coercion, i.e., taxation. Everyone in the system, including the teachers, works for the state. The state decides on the textbooks, the curriculum, and the textbooks. Everything is politicized.
Republicans sometimes introduce a bit of humor into public life, even if they have no intention of being funny.
A recent example is Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Undoubtedly catering to Cuban-Americans in the hope of garnering their votes, DeSantis recently signed a bill establishing November 7 as “Victims of Communism Day” to honor the millions of people who have suffered under communist regimes.
No, that’s not the funny part. The funny part is what follows. According to DeSantis’s website, the bill “calls for public schools to observe the day. High school students will be required to receive at least 45 minutes of instruction in their required United States Government class on topics related to communist regimes and how victims suffered at the hands of these regimes.”
Is that funny, or what?
Of course, your standard Republican wouldn’t laugh or even smile because he would have no idea why such a measure would be funny to libertarians.
It would be difficult to find a better example of a socialist program than public (i.e., government) schooling. The state makes attendance mandatory. Funding is through coercion, i.e., taxation. Everyone in the system, including the teachers, works for the state. The state decides on the textbooks, the curriculum, and the textbooks. Everything is politicized. (See FFF’s award-winning bookSeparating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families by Sheldon Richman.)
As I point out in my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, the most important aspect of public (i.e., government) schooling is its purpose. Its mission is to mold the minds of children into having a deep reverence for the state and a mindset of deference to authority of government officials. That’s what those classes in “United States Government” to which DeSantis refers are for. The public-school experience becomes a 12-year sentence of indoctrination, regimentation, and obedience to orders. It’s an army-lite version of the life of a draftee in the U.S. military.
By the time students graduate from high school, they hate education but they love the government, eagerly trust government officials, believe whatever government officials tell them, and blindly do whatever public officials say, just like your standard military draftee. Good examples are the JFK assassination, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, the twenty years of lies relating to the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, and those infamous but nonexistent WMDs in Iraq.
There is something important to note about Cuba and other communist regimes: They have public (i.e., government) school systems there too. The big difference, however, is that people in communist nations know that public (i.e., government) schooling is a socialist system.
Recently I had a popular tweet, which I thought I’d share it with you—since it helps understand why one might have doubts about the upcoming White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, billed as the biggest event on food policy in more than fifty years.
This food scoring system, called the “Food Compass,” was published in Nature Food in 2021, with lead author, Dariush Mozaffarian, who is the Dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Mozaffarian and Tufts have also led the development of the White House conference slated for sometime in September.
The Food Compass, which gives top ratings to Cheerios, Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs, is absurd on the face of it. In all, nearly 70 brand-named cereals from General Mills, Kellogg’s, and Post are ranked twice as high as eggs cooked in butter or a piece of plain, whole-wheat toast. Egg whites cooked in vegetable oils are also apparently more healthy than a whole, boiled egg, and nearly all foods are healthier than ground beef.
Tufts University touts the Food Compass as the “most comprehensive and science-based” nutrient profiling system to date that “clears up confusion to benefit consumers, policymakers.” Created by a team of Tufts researchers under the leadership of Mozaffarian, the project ranks 8,032 foods and took three years to complete.
What kind of dystopian world has nutrition “science” entered into whereby a university, a peer-reviewed journal, and one of the field’s most influential leaders legitimize advice telling the public to eat more Lucky Charms and fewer eggs? Simply eyeballing these recommendations should be enough to know this diet is a get-sick, diabetes diet, a high-carb, sugar-laden, candy-coated highway to ill-health.
Tedros overrules his panel and declares Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
In an article supportive of the declaration, Vox news provided a summary of the potential financial beneficiaries of this declaration; that being vaccine manufacturers and the holding companies who have invested in them.
In a move that is sure to trigger widespread discussion concerning the independence, objectivity and wisdom of granting authority to the WHO to manage global infectious diseases responses, the monkeypox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization. The declaration was made unilaterally, in direct contradiction of independent review panel advice, by WHO director TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus. Tedros made the declaration despite a lack of consensus among members of the WHO’s emergency committee on the monkeypox outbreak, and in so doing overruled his own review panel, who had voted 9 against, 6 for declaring the PHEIC. Tedros asserted that this committee of experts (who met on Thursday) was unable to reach a consensus, so it fell on him to decide whether to trigger the highest alert possible. Any objective outside observer would conclude that the committee failed to endorse moving to a PHEIC. When a similar meeting was previously held on June 23, 2022, the committee resolved by consensus to advise the WHO Director-General that at this stage the outbreak should be determined to not constitute a PHEIC. An official United Nations article summarizing this can be found here. When the group met in June, the breakdown was 11 against and three for. It is not clear what has changed in the intervening four weeks to justify the change in Tedros’ position, although comments from internet pundits raise concerns that the unilateral action was taken in response to pressure from special interest advocacy groups.
There has also been a sudden burst of coordinated social media postings raising concerns regarding Monkeypox risks to children, which raises the question “If Monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease, why are kids getting it?”
On Friday, the U.S. confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox in children, Centers for Disease Control Prevention and Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday. The CDC has said children, especially those under 8 years old, are among those at “especially increased risk” for severe monkeypox disease.
At a virtual event with the Washington Post on Friday focused on new coronavirus variants, Walensky stated that:
“Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men’s community,”
Clearly, the WHO committee did not reach the desired decision to declare a PHEIC, and so for some extraordinary reason Tedros stepped in.
Though the committee does not formally vote, a survey of the members revealed that nine thought a PHEIC should not be declared and six supported a declaration. “Nine and six is very, very close,” Tedros said in a news conference called to announce the decision. “Since the role of the committee is to advise, I then had to act as a tie-breaker.”
Tedros made the declaration despite a lack of consensus among members of the WHO’s emergency committee on the monkeypox outbreak. It’s the first time a leader of a UN health agency has made such a decision unilaterally.
We know from decades of unnecessary wars, and years of covid authoritarianism, that propaganda works. But it doesn’t work all the time. It hasn’t worked in convincing Americans to surrender their freedom so that government can “fix” the weather. As Biden preaches “climate emergency,” Americans must remain vigilant in protecting their privacy and freedom.
The foundation of our economy is the patent. If you invent something, you need a patent. We assume that without patent law, society would be stuck in an economic malaise. We’d be stuck in the Dark Ages. However, that isn’t true. The opposite is. Patents hold our society back and keep us stuck in economic malaise. We are in the Dark Ages compared to what we could be. There is no evidence that they increase innovation and productivity. In fact, they do the opposite.
Patents can inhibit innovation by reducing its profitability. No one wants to innovate because there’s no reward for doing so. There are two exceptions to this, however. There’s the pharmaceutical industry and the chemical industry. In those two industries, the cost of litigation because of the patent is $4 billion. The profit from those patents was $15 billion. That’s almost quadruple the cost. For every other industry, litigation costs $12 billion and profitability was $3 billion. It’s almost a reverse.
So, why do companies even bother with patents? Protection. If you have a patent, you can protect yourself from someone else with a patent. Google spends billions on defensive patents. Twitter has openly acknowledged this by saying that “…employees can be assured that their patents will be used only as a shield rather than as a weapon.” Most industries resort to patent litigation when they’ve stopped being innovative. They then resort to needing protection.
Companies like Apple or IBM or our small businesses and start-ups would still be able to succeed without patents by being the first to market. Their status as first movers would ensure strong brand recognition and customer loyalty. This would provide them a shield so that if someone copied their creation then they’d still be more successful. It would also encourage innovation by allowing time to develop cost-efficient ways of developing said product and rewarding those who invent the better product, the one more customers buy. Generally, the eruption of innovations that lead to a new industry are almost never because of patent protection and are instead from competition. Without patents, companies would be locked in a competitive environment where they’d have to innovate to survive, leading to the birth of many new industries. Music is like this. There are so many artists and so many innovations that anyone can get swept away if they fail to change in any way. The first to market and the better the song gets brand loyalty and continued success. Patents stop that from happening across industries.
Patents can do more than just hurt the economy. They can hurt people. Big Pharma games the system to secure monopolies on their products, removing any form of competition. This has resulted in the top twelve brand name drug prices rising 68% since 2012. The EpiPen has seen an increase of 500%. Insulin costs $100 a syringe in the United States because of the patent system stifling competition. In other countries, it’s less than 10% of that.
Now, eliminating patents for pharmaceutical industries could hurt them due to the high cost of development and the ease at which it takes to copy drugs. To counter this, we can set up a prize system. Such a system would lower drug prices by eliminating drug monopolies and create an incentive to innovate, especially for orphan drugs for rare diseases. It would place a burden on the taxpayer (which I don’t like), but we can cut taxes to offset the costs of the prizes.
Some claim that patents don’t protect monopolies. They claim patents prevent monopolies as long as the market is unregulated. However, a patent is a regulation. Just as a regulation tells you how something should be made or how much it produces of something, a patent tells you who can make what. It, like all regulations, restricts the individual. An unregulated market, a completely free market, could not have patents because a patent is a regulation.
Abolishing patents is not a left wing issue or a right wing issue nor a capitalist issue or a socialist issue, it is an issue of innovation and prosperity. It has been endorsed by figures across the political spectrum such as the anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard, the laissez-faire socialist Benjamin Tucker, and the more centrist founder of Georgism Henry George. It would lead to innovation in all industries, creating a competitive private sector. It would allow us cheap, high quality drugs and make our pharmaceutical industry a modern marvel. The first to market gets the bigger reward as genuine competition demands. It is the solution to our economic malaise, putting us into a hyperspeed toward the future. If we truly believe in liberty, we must liberate ourselves from patents, the enemy of innovation.
Dakota Hensley is a native of Kentucky who identifies as a left-Rothbardian. He’s written for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, The Federalist, and The American Conservative, among others.
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