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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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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?

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bill-gates-backed-companies-approved-to-sell-lab-grown-chicken-in-the-us/

Stephen
Kokx

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.

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/presidents-keep-hiring-elliott-abrams?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

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

Minimizing the State’s Ability To Coerce You… How To Obtain Real Independence

by Nick Giambruno

…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.

They Don’t Dare Tell You What the 4th Is About

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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Donington Park-Always Good!

Posted by M. C. on July 5, 2023

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3 Things to Remember on Independence Day | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on July 4, 2023

Who can say with confidence that if the US government were wiped away today, that it would not be replaced with something even worse? Under such circumstances, we must never abandon the important work of laying the foundations first for a revolution in ideas.

https://mises.org/wire/3-things-remember-independence-day

Ryan McMaken

It’s difficult to say what most Americans commemorate or celebrate on Independence Day nowadays. Many appear to focus on some vague notion of “America.” Others even take to jingoism equating the United States government with the very notion of “freedom.” 

Lost in all of this is the fact that the Declaration of Independence — the document we’re supposed to remember today — is a document that promotes secession, rebellion, and what the British at the time regarded as treason. 

On the other hand, those who do recall the radical nature of the Declaration often tend to romanticize the American Revolution in a way that is neither instructive nor helpful today. 

So, what should we remember about Independence Day, and what can it teach us? For starters, here are three things about the history and context of this holiday that should continue to inform us today and into the future. 

One: If You Can’t Secede, You’re Not Really Free

The very first sentence of the Declaration of Independence lays it out. Sometimes, “it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” 

The document then goes on to list in detail why 1776’s specific act of secession was justified and necessary for preserving the rights of the colonists. 

By the 19th century, this philosophy of self-determination would become a foundational element of the ideology now known internationally as liberalism — or “classical liberalism” in the United States. 

Not surprisingly, we find this idea in the later writings of liberals such as Ludwig von Mises who, writing in Vienna in 1927, concluded:

It must always be possible to shift the boundaries of the state if the will of the inhabitants of an area to attach themselves to a state other than the one to which they presently belong has made itself clearly known…

[W]henever the inhabitants of a particular territory … make it known … that they no longer wish to remain united to the state to which they belong at the time … their wishes are to be respected and complied with.

Mises, like Jefferson, understood that without this right of self-determination, there is no freedom.

Nevertheless, modern opponents of self-determination and secession will claim that secession cannot be tolerated because it is not “legal.”

This is scarcely relevant. After all, the colonial uprising against the King was not “legal,” and it hardly matters whether political victors consider any breakaway secession movements legal. Times and societies change, and nothing is forever or written in stone. 

For Mises, secession must be tolerated for pragmatic reasons. It is “the only feasible and effective way of preventing revolutions and civil and international wars.” But For Jefferson, as for his fellow secessionists, it was a moral imperative, whether “treasonous” or not. 

Two: Independence Day Is Not a Military Holiday 

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Independence Day

Posted by M. C. on July 4, 2023

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The Real US Goal in Ukraine

Posted by M. C. on July 3, 2023

Which brings me back to the US goal in Ukraine.  It is destruction, and not the creative kind.  Ukraine completely destroyed as a free state, to be used as a dead thorn with which to poke Moscow.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/07/karen-kwiatkowski/the-real-us-goal-in-ukraine/

US state media – the NYT, WP, NPR, and the main TV news corporations – cautiously broaches topics they refused to touch a year ago.  We are learning that Nazi and racist ideologies are popular in Ukraine. We now know the US state department, with German and other EU and NATO assistance, schemed against Russia when they signed on the Minsk agreement in 2014, a noble lie in the neocon fashion.  We know, from mainstream media that the so-called Ukraine spring counteroffensive has begun, after much US and NATO urging, and is failing at every turn, at a great cost.

We are now allowed to see glimpses of the dwindling Ukrainian population, and with it, their economy.  Indirectly, we understand that there is a growing desperation in Kiev – for money, for weapons, for NATO and EU membership.  The actions of the Ukrainian army and its leadership, attacking Moscow with drones, raids into Belarus, attempts to cause nuclear contamination in Eastern Europe though attacks and sabotage of their own Ukrainian nuclear power stations and major dams are being noted.   While I believe Seymour Hersh on who did Nordstream, the convenient story of a heroic team of Uke divers doing the job had a valid purpose, to provide the Ukrainian voter with a ray of hope and heroism.

That is, if they still had voters in Ukraine. 

The casual observer of this war, 17 months in, notes physical and emotional exhaustion, and political desperation.  The orgasmic excitement expressed by US death cult in Washington the last Saturday in June was revealing.  Not of their various “goals” in Ukraine, or their fanatical Russia-hate – but that their long dry spell is beginning to make even neocons desperate for a bit of “good news.”

Neocon war is unpopular, ugly, venal.  Worst of all, it is unsuccessful – meaning instead of ending in triumph and celebration, it persists as a confusing, contradictory and costly problem multiplier.  We’ve seen this before.  Neocons are the Dylan Mulvaneys of American politics, albeit with less sincerity and self-awareness.  When it’s your influence that has destroyed the effectiveness of and any residual honor in US foreign policy for the past 70 years, as well as bankrupting the nation – the writing is on the wall.

Or it should be.  We’d probably be better off having our country led by a beer company.  Even Anheuser-Busch’s crippled instincts would not have led to the present situation in eastern Europe.

Biden is planning to send cluster bombs to Ukraine, and yes, they are indiscriminate, horrific, outlawed in 120 countries, and immoral – but – wait for it – the decision to use them is entirely Ukraine’s.  Biden and Blinken and Nuland and Sullivan, and half the Senate and half the Congress – well, they don’t have a thing to do with “Ukraine’s decisions.”

Unless Kiev or a European ally, or NATO member wants to see about ending hostilities, making peace, making Ukraine a safe place for Ukrainians to live – well that’s strictly verboten, forbidden by Washington, cannot happen, is not allowed.

We apparently have a shit ton of MK-20s in the Pentagon “warehouse.” Where else are we going to use them?  

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