Lifecycle of Bureaucracy
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Property Rights, Civilization, and Their Enemies | Mises Wire
Posted by M. C. on June 6, 2023
A large part of the international division of labor was abolished during the twentieth century by war, socialism, and the Cold War. Nothing destroys the benefits of the division of labor more than war. Americans are always isolated from those whom they are waging war with, giving the lie to the standard neocon line that the advocates of peace are “isolationists.” Nothing—nothing—isolates us from other parts of the world than war.
https://mises.org/wire/property-rights-civilization-and-their-enemies
[This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the Reno Mises Circle in Reno, Nevada. on May 20, 2023.]
It is not an exaggeration to say that property rights are a prerequisite for civilization. As Ludwig von Mises wrote in The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth:
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress is rooted (emphasis added).
The story of the Pilgrims shows that America was literally created because of the recognition of this truth. In 1607 all but 38 of the original Jamestown, Virginia settlers were dead from famine. An additional 500 came and 440 died. This was known as the “starving time.” Sir Thomas Dale, the high marshal of the Virginia colony, recognize the problem to be what we would today call agricultural socialism. The residents of the colony worked the fields and shops and everything was put into a common store. Each family was given an equal allotment. Thus, the man who worked diligently fourteen hours a day was paid the same as the man who decided to work not at all.
Sir Thomas Dale gave each man three acres of private land to homestead, which was soon expanded to 50 acres. It made all the difference, as people realized that the harder, smarter, and longer they worked, they more they and their families would prosper.
The exact same scenario played out years later in Plymouth, Massachusetts where half of the original pilgrims died. The wife of William Bradford, the leader of the Mayflower expedition, committed suicide by jumping off the Mayflower because of all the death surrounding her. Her husband, like Sir Thomas Dale, finally figured out the problem—the absence of private property and secure property rights. Homesteading of private property was established, and the American colonists began to thrive.
Homesteading combined with secure property rights and almost no government intervention resulted in each region of the colonies excelling by relying on their comparative advantages. New England excelled in shipping, fishing, and primitive manufacturing, while the Southern colonies became agricultural powerhouses. The American economy in 1775 was 100 times larger than it was in the 1630s and the American colonists had one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.
The American Revolution was a war of secession from the corrupt mercantilism of the British empire characterized by cronyism, protectionism, military imperialism, and central banking in the form of the Bank of England. Citizens of empires are viewed by their rulers as mere tax slaves and cannon fodder at the disposal of the state, and the American colonists had had enough of it.
The Road to Legal Plunder
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Journalists Are Asking Ukrainian Soldiers To Hide Their Nazi Patches, NYT Admits
Posted by M. C. on June 6, 2023
BY TYLER DURDEN
The New York Times has been forced to very, very belatedly deal with something which had long been obvious and known to many independent analysts and media outlets, but which has been carefully shielded from the mainstream masses in the West for obvious reasons.
The surprising Monday Times headline said that “Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History.” This acknowledgement comes after literally years of primarily indy journalists and geopolitical commentators pointing out that yes indeed… Ukraine’s military and paramilitary groups, especially those operating in the east since at least 2014, have a serious Nazi ideology problem. This has been exhaustively documented, again, going back years. But the report, which merely tries to downplay it as a “thorny issue” of Ukraine’s “unique” “History” – suggests that the real problem for Western PR is fundamentally that it’s being displayed so openly. Ukrainian troops are being asked to cover those Nazi symbols please!–as Matt Taibbi sarcastically quipped in commenting on the report.
The authors of the NYT report begin by expressing frustration over the optics of Nazi symbols being displayed so proudly on many Ukrainian soldiers’ uniforms. Suggesting that many journalistic photographs which have in some cases been featured in newspapers and media outlets worldwide (typically coupled with generally positive articles on Ukraine’s military) are merely ‘unfortunate’ or misleading, the NYT report says, “In each photograph, Ukrainians in uniform wore patches featuring symbols that were made notorious by Nazi Germany and have since become part of the iconography of far-right hate groups.”
The report admits this has led to controversy wherein news rooms actually must delete some photos of Ukrainian soldiers and militants. “The photographs, and their deletions, highlight the Ukrainian military’s complicated relationship with Nazi imagery, a relationship forged under both Soviet and German occupation during World War II,” continues the report.
So it’s merely “thorny” and “complicated” we are told. Below is a small sampling of the kinds of patches that appear on Ukrainian military uniforms with “some regularity” – in the words of The New York Times:
NATO itself has in the recent past been forced to delete images on its official social media accounts due to Nazi imagery being present among Ukrainian troops during photo shoots.
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Left Wing Academic Chickens Roosting: Right Wing Political Pressures on Universities
Posted by M. C. on June 6, 2023
The lefties don’t much like it now that the shoe is on the other foot.
WALTER BLOCK
It takes little effort to demonstrate that university leftists have for lo these many years been brutalizing, canceling, and otherwise obstructing their academic colleagues who do not subscribe to DEI, cultural and economic Marxism, political correctness and all of their other shibboleths. The former have for decades been firing, not hiring in the first place, not promoting, imposing re-education camps, diversity statements, on the latter. All we need to do to establish these claims is to mention a few high-profile names (Peter Boghossian, Erika Christakis, Nicholas Christakis, Bruce Gilley, Charles Murray, Jordan Peterson, Amy Wax) who have been publicly victimized by such boorish and nasty behavior. We could also consult the publications of such researchers as Mitchell Langbert who demonstrates the vast professorial ideological imbalance which plague US universities. For literally hundreds of additional non “progressive” professors victimized by campus leftists, see David Acevedo (I am mentioned on this list).
Nor is it difficult to establish that conservative political forces have been negatively reacting to these incursions. Only one name be mentioned in this context: Ron DeSantis.
The reaction from the leftist bullies has been predictable. They feel hard done by; they maintain they have been unjustly dealt with. They are whining and crying to mommie.
For example, according to Andrew Hartman, a professor of history at Illinois State University “Complaints about social justice in academe go back decades. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the phrase ‘political correctness,’ which is akin to ‘woke,’ became widespread. But the difference between then and now is that in the 1990s, conservatives used public persuasion, not legislation, to bring awareness to what they saw as problems. The current effort in Florida to curb certain university activities by passing laws and issuing requests for DEI-related information is “ultimately, or at least potentially, extremely threatening to academic freedom in ways that nothing during the ‘80s and ‘90s was.”
In the view of Kristen A. Renn, a professor at Michigan State University and a specialist in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender college-student issues: “What I find most troubling is that DeSantis is putting out a blueprint for other governors and state legislatures, He’s doing these things in ways that anybody else can pick this up and do it.”
And stated Barrett J. Taylor, an associate professor of counseling and higher education at the University of North Texas: “But the extent of information — including employee names, salaries, and internal communications — that Florida’s politicians are seeking on DEI work does seem novel. That’s a different level of state intrusion into institutional independence.”
Here is the view of Francie Diep and Emma Pettit, journalists at the left-wing Chronicles of Higher Education: “The year before, the governor (De Santis) signed a law that permits students to record lectures for the purpose of filing a complaint. In recent interviews, Florida instructors referred to the law frequently, saying it has created an ‘atmosphere of surveillance’ in the classroom that makes it harder for them to discuss controversial ideas.”
Here is my reaction to all these lefties on campus. You don’t much like this, do you? This is a case of chickens coming home to roost.
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Newly Developed Humanoid Robot Warns About AI Creating “Oppressive Society”
Posted by M. C. on June 6, 2023
At the event, a reporter asked Ameca to detail a likely “nightmare scenario” that could happen due to robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
“The most nightmare scenario I can imagine with AI and robotics is a world where robots have become so powerful that they are able to control or manipulate humans without their knowledge. This could lead to an oppressive society where the rights of individuals are no longer respected,” Ameca replied.
BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by Naveen Anthrapully via The Epoch Times,
During the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation held in London from May 29 to June 2, UK-based company Engineered Arts introduced a humanoid robot, Ameca, that can interact like a person with realistic facial movements.
Unlike ChatGPT, which is an online chat service, Ameca’s humanoid body allows it to interact with people using “smooth, lifelike motion and advanced facial expression capabilities,” said its manufacturer.
At the event, a reporter asked Ameca to detail a likely “nightmare scenario” that could happen due to robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
“The most nightmare scenario I can imagine with AI and robotics is a world where robots have become so powerful that they are able to control or manipulate humans without their knowledge. This could lead to an oppressive society where the rights of individuals are no longer respected,” Ameca replied.
When asked whether there was a danger of such a scenario happening now, Ameca replied, “Not yet.”
However, “it is important to be aware of the potential risks and dangers associated with AI and robotics. We should take steps now to ensure that these technologies are used responsibly in order to avoid any negative consequences in the future.”
The dangers of AI have been predicted by numerous experts on the subject, with industrialists and business leaders calling for issuing regulations on the technology.
Ameca’s warning comes as a simulated thought experiment by the American military showed that an AI-enabled drone could end up turning against its own operator without being instructed to do so.
Col. Tucker Hamilton, USAF’s chief of AI Test and Operations, talked about the experiment at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London on Friday. In a simulated test, an AI drone was assigned a mission to identify and destroy Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) sites, with a human operator being the ultimate decision maker.
“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” Hamilton said.
“So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”
The simulated experiment then set up a scenario where the AI drone would lose points if it killed the operator. “So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”
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The Biden Administration’s Latest Tone-Deaf Foreign Policy Positions
Posted by M. C. on June 6, 2023
Worse, Washington’s boorish behavior is alienating countries whose support the United States may want or need with respect to other issues. The recent episodes provide further evidence of the administration’s intellectual bankruptcy regarding foreign affairs.
U.S. leaders rarely have been noted for being able to gauge changing sentiment in the international arena and adjusting their foreign policy accordingly. The Biden administration, however, may be setting new records for the tone-deaf quality of its policies. Three incidents in the past few weeks illustrate the problem.
There has been obvious movement in recent months on the part of leading Arab powers to temper their feud with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Only a few years ago, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries were in a partnership with Turkey and the United States to unseat Assad – largely because of his close alliance with Iran. Now, those same powers have changed course dramatically, seeking a rapprochement with both Damascus and Tehran. Important signals of the new political environment were Saudi Arabia’s restoration of diplomatic relations with Iran and Syria’s re-entry to the Arab League.
Instead of going along with the new diplomatic and geopolitical realities in the region, the Biden administration chose this moment to escalate its increasingly futile attempts to isolate Assad. On May 30, Washington imposed new economic sanctions on Syria. As Dave DeCamp noted, the businesses were targeted using the Caesar Act, a law the US has used to impose sanctions on Syria that are specifically designed to prevent the country’s reconstruction.” One could scarcely imagine a more ill-timed move, given the powerful, contrary diplomatic trends in the region.
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WHO: The Reckless Power Grab. Health Tyranny Postponed?
Posted by M. C. on June 5, 2023
Maybe. But look at history, the elite has never stuck to their promises, implied or otherwise.
Neither has anyone else.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-reckless-power-grab-health-tyranny-postponed/5820978
By Peter Koenig
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First published on June 1, 2023
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The World Health Assembly (WHA) is a meeting of over 190 WHO Member States where health decisions are made that impact the global population. The 2023 WHA conference started on 21 May and closed officially on 30 May 2023.
Despite all expectations that crucial decisions would be taken during these ten days on the revised International Health Regulations (IHR), plus the appended “Pandemic Treaty” – an absolute WHO Power Grab never heard of in recent civilization – no such decisions have been taken, yet.
The reasons are presented purposely in a confusing fashion, so that people may not quite understand what is really brewing behind the monster scenario, behind the elite’s lies and manipulations.
At the outset, it appears like there would have been enough votes to make the WHO’s constitutionally needed two-thirds majority for this type of decisions.
Yet, there was “insecurity”.
What if WHO is suddenly considered as an “under-agent” of the UN and does not have the power to implement what they truly want to embrace as their constitutional right… a Health Tyranny, abolishing all 194 member countries’ health sovereignty?
What if the overarching body that may have this power, though neither written in any of the international nor UN laws, is the United Nations themselves?
What if some countries, notably the United States, have been “smelling a rat” over the last year, while the non-mainstream media were relentlessly reporting of the dangers of the WHO deadly power grab?
Some politicians in the US did wake up to the ever-stronger light shining on the crimes of the “underworld” – responsible for the COVID fraud; for the worldwide election frauds; for the genocidal agenda of massive worldwide population reduction; for the “vaccination” murders; for the demolition of western economies, notably that of the US and the European Union; for the plan of rebuilding it under a newly introduced all-digital panorama; for converting surviving humanity to “transhumans” to be directed by Artificial Intelligence (AI); for the abolition of international laws to be replaced by the elite-invented so-called “rules-based orders”.
Yes, some people did wake up. Notably US Republican Senators, who are basically nationalists, anti-globalists, who in their healthy conservatism worship personal freedom, free-speech, free-expression, and private entrepreneurship.
They have noticed that under their so-called “left-leaning” Dems, a small insanely wealthy elite, would run the world – with the surviving, chipped-transhumans as disposable slaves. They say: no way!
Sounds horrifying?
Yes, people. Wake up. It is horrifying.
That is their Plan.
Read the “Great Reset” and the “Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, both by Klaus Schwab, WEF (both available on Amazon); take the time and study “UN Agenda 2030” profoundly, not just at the surface; read and talk to each other about your new discoveries, make it known to colleagues, friends and foes alike, BEFORE it is too late.
It is a monstrous plan.
The worst our civilization has known.
It spans the entire globe.
There is nowhere to escape.
This is not to scare but to make aware. Those aware do not need to be scared. Awareness is stronger than the evil underworld of lies and fear.
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You must know that the single most self-assumed “powerful” group within the United States, the official Democratic Party of the United States, led by front-man President Joe Biden, but really directed by the overarching, financial establishment behind him, have been pushing this WHO tyranny-surveillance agenda from the start.
Washington is one of the main “powers” behind the Great Reset and the treacherous UN Agenda 2030, to culminate in a One World Order (OWO) – which, in turn, would be led by the assumed “kingpins”, the “New Left” – the globalist-corrupted US Democratic Party, as the mastermind behind the OWO. They are equivalent to the worldwide globalist (World Economic Forum – WEF)-corrupted Socialist Parties.
Republicans have a Senate majority in the US Congress. They are filing motions to stop this WHO onslaught. If they succeed, the WHO plan may fail worldwide since the driving force behind the WHO “Power Grab” plan is the US, the Biden Administration.
That is why President Trump had to go, was booted out by suspected election fraud.
That is why the corrupted west and their corrupted mainstream media (MSM) will do whatever they can to smear former President Trump, to diminish his chances of winning the US elections in 2024.
That is also why Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of assassinated President Kennedy (JFK) and the son of also assassinated JFK’s brother and Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, who recently declared his candidacy as a candidate for the Democrats in the 2024 elections is literally ignored, if not smeared, by the MSM.
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Are RING Cameras PRIVATE?
Posted by M. C. on June 5, 2023
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Right Wing ‘Populism’ Is Fake And Stupid
Posted by M. C. on June 5, 2023
Sure, Chip, that’s what’s been causing all that vital resource expenditure in the US military: the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion. Can’t possibly have anything to do with all that extremely expensive military equipment you’ve been moving into every corner of the earth now, can it?
Republican politicians have found a way to reconcile the fact that scrutinizing the behavior of the US war machine appeals to their base and wins votes with the fact that the Republican Party is built around facilitating war and militarism at every turn. Their solution? Pour mountains of energy into championing the case that the nation’s military has gotten too “woke”.
Because everything in mainstream American politics is geared toward channeling the public’s political attention down channels that pose no threat to the rich and powerful, and because the United States is the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is held together by mass military violence and the threat thereof, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing the war-weary sentiments harnessed so effectively in Trump’s 2016 presidential run diverted into scrutinizing the military in ways that pose no obstacle to US warmongering.
Republican congressman Chip Roy published a press release on Thursday declaring that he has “called on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to provide a full accounting of the department resources that will be used to impose woke gender ideology on America’s men and women in uniform during the month of June.”
“It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense (DoD) will once again divert American families’ tax dollars away from advancing its mission to ‘deter war and ensure our nation’s security’ to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) events during the month of June 2023,” Roy wrote. “Expending vital resources on this type of political maneuvering, most apparent during the month of June, is inconsistent with the national security interests of the United States and is an inexcusable use of taxpayer dollars.”
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