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A video has emerged of Kamala during the 2019 campaign promising to fix drug prices and, failing that, to seize drug makers’ patents to lower drug prices. It is making the rounds now because she’s again demanding price controls in America. Kamala’s solution is typically tyrannical: Give her power, and she’ll exercise it without regard to property rights or the innovation that comes with the promise of profit.

One of the ways to encourage innovation is to ensure that people profit from their inventions. According to a cool little history I found, the Florentines came up with the first patent, which they granted in 1421 to Filippo Brunelleschi for a boat he designed to carry heavy loads up the Arno.

The English were not far behind, granting their first patent in 1449 to a stained-glass  manufacturer. Although the system was initially abused (because the crown profited from it), by the 18th century, the British figured out a way to allow inventors to benefit from their inventions for a specific period before the field became crowded with others using that same idea.

The Founders accepted this British viewpoint that society benefitted from a system in which people’s intellectual ideas were a form of property entitled to protection. They incorporated that protection directly into the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8:

Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

The beauty of strong protections for ideas, of course, is that these protections encourage people to innovate. Indeed, at the end of the 19th century, Americans were so inspired by Thomas Edison that every person in every city and town scrambled to come up with brilliant ideas that would make them rich and famous. A lot of the ideas were silly enough that they, in turn, inspired Rube Goldberg’s brilliant cartoons, but the principle was sound: When you encourage people to think outside the box by promising profit for doing so, you get an explosion of creativity that can change the world.

The American government often puts its thumb on the scale to encourage innovation. This became a habit in the defense industry and then drifted into the medical industry. On the one hand, it’s a good idea because it allows individuals and companies to pour money into inventions. On the other hand, I’ve always struggled with the fact that the taxpayers fund the invention, but the individuals and companies get the profits. If I were in Congress, I would mandate a profit-sharing scheme as part of dispersing those taxpayer monies. Sadly, Congress never does.

Kamala Harris is an economic and free market illiterate whose entire being is focused on the abolition of private property and consolidating it in government hands (or, alternatively, adopting the fascist socialist model of allowing private property provided it’s subject to government control). That’s why, back in 2019, Kamala announced was already dreaming of the price controls she advocates for now. Moreover, she explained that, if government price fixing (which decreases supplies) didn’t work, companies would find that the government would seize patents (ending innovation):

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) suggested late last week that she would “snatch” patents from private companies if they did not abide by her orders so that the government could “take over.”

“My plan, as a candidate for president, on these drug prices is as follows: We are going to set drug prices based on fair market,” Harris said during a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday. “So, essentially what we’re going to do – and you can visit the website if you will, and if not, get you some documents – but essentially what we’re going to do is set drug prices so that American consumers are charged a price for drugs that’s the average price that’s being charged around the globe.”

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“So, for any drug where they fail to play by our rules, and if that drug came about from federal funding for what’s called ‘R&D,’ research and development, I will snatch their patent so that we will take over,” Harris continued.

The audience asked if Harris was legally allowed to do that, to which Harris responded, “Yes, we can do that! Yes, yes, we can do that! Yes, we can do that. The question is whether you have the will to do it. I have the will to do it.”

Kamala’s idea that she can “snatch” patents is, quite simply, government theft. As the Fifth Amendment says, no person (and a corporation is a person) may be “deprived of…property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

World history has repeatedly demonstrated that when people don’t have a profit incentive to take the time, make the effort, and expend their wealth to perfect an idea and bring it to market, they won’t. This results in societies where nothing changes for hundreds or even thousands of years. They make charming tourist destinations, but they don’t increase the local or international standard of living or increase the world’s wealth. Alternatively, you get China, which steals ideas rather than comes up with them. That provides a short-term solution to a society interested in getting rich quickly, but eventually, the society stagnates. Other countries get better at protecting their intellectual property and the thieves have no creative skills. After all, innovation is as much a learned skill as it is a societal construct.

Kamala’s plans will destroy the American economic juggernaut (which, while on life-support, can still be resuscitated). It’s to be hoped that people figure this out before voting starts.

I have been vastly cheered by the hundreds of thousands of Extreme Right Wingers on the streets of Britain. You probably don’t know this, because it has been radically suppressed, but these people are, in fact, the British working class, the northerners, Labour’s supposed constituency, the ones saying not one more murdered raped brutalized little girl, we are in turmoil and it won’t stop until you listen. They are our canary, they are the first responders to a civilization-ending threat. And I was damned glad to see them step up.

Here’s the nub of it:

ER: We’ve substituted a tweet from Ben Habib, longer than the original Tiktok video that we’re unable to republish —

Add in the almost weekly slaughter of the innocents, the fact that old ladies are afraid in their homes, that women can no longer walk the streets in peace.

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And, two-tier justice:

 

The world has never produced a fighting spirit stronger than these people. They take a hella long time to wake up but when they do, they will devastate a continent.

Historian Richard Starkey:

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‘The Britain I grew up in was the most peaceful, gentle, homogenous society to have ever existed… that has been destroyed by Tony Blair and New Labour to force us to become multi-ethnic for our good’

David Starkey tells @StevenEdginton the Britain he knew has been destroyed. pic.twitter.com/Nxs33dexFg

— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 7, 2024

Trafalgar Square:

100,000 patriots as 1 in Trafalgar Square #UnitingTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/ybzzc4yqud

— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 27, 2024

Which is exactly what one woman was screaming at two Muslim men, standing impassive in front of a mosque. They towered over her, but actually flinched when she yelled, “We’re white, we devastate continents, we start world wars.”

“We’re white people, we desolate continents, we wipe out civilisations & start World Wars”

“We’ve been tolerant so far”

Is this racist/xenophobic or just an articulated lady dropping truth bombs?

Absolute must watch…… pic.twitter.com/lw3kXLIIkc

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) June 8, 2024

If you need help, you call on these people and their descendants all over the world. Our sociopathic over-lords have been trying to squish this spirit out of us, suppressing this specific foundational ancestral memory for a hundred years. They can’t do it. Isolated on an island, besieged by one conquering force after another since the year dot, overrun by Vikings, overrun by the Romans. Crazed Celts, maddened Picts, whacked out Druids, the cloister of the island created the best fighters ever.

Best fighters ever. EVER.

The Romans were so afraid of the northern Britons they built a wall to keep them out. They called them savages, they called them insane, the mighty Roman legions were terrified. The Romans built Hadrian’s Wall, set a legion to police it, and then proceeded to extract every penny out of the more passive southerners. This is what the Romans heard from over the wall. Still terrifying:

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The haunting sound that Roman soldiers would have heard from their Celtic enemies before battle was produced by the Celtic Carnyx. This ancient wind instrument was used by the Celts during the period from 300 B.C. to 200 A.D.

According to the Greek historian Polybius, the Carnyx… pic.twitter.com/dC4N7sFwsU

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) November 5, 2023

And then, after the Romans left, and the Vikings pulled out, the Scots and English thrones began to fight, and they swept over northern Britain, back and forth, back and forth for centuries.

The center of the island, the people of the border counties for hundreds of years toughened and toughened again. Their villages were devastated, their crops were devastated, the houses were pulled down, their men were killed, their sons were killed. For seven hundred years.

Cumbria. That was their home province, their spiritual home. It was “re-imagined” by the Romantic poets and called the Lake Country. No, it was not pretty and passive. It was dangerous and free. There are namesakes for Cumbrias all over the world, because these people bred. They bred survivors, they bred builders, and I’ll bet, if you counted, they have more descendants than any other “indigenous” tribe that has ever lived, barring China. These are the toughest people on the planet. And their history has been expunged. Why? They are the most dangerous to the New World Order.

These are the people who settled America, these are the people that the Marxist children call “settlers”, who built America, who built Canada in the most inhospitable climate, during the Little Ice Age, beset by indigenous who literally ate people – every tribe practiced human sacrifice – they built a modern country. Two of them. Where everybody wants to live. Not in Britain, not in destroyed Europe, not in South and Central America. In the U.S., and its somewhat retarded cousin, Canada. They created the Cowboy Way, they built the American south, the crackers and cowboys still hold to a fierce independence. They are our roots and we should acknowledge them as foundational.

They won both world wars. This is suppressed too, but modern Canada was originally settled by northern Britons. No one else wanted to come here in the 18^th century, it was too bleak, too damned cold. So the most suppressed came, the toughest.. So desperate one-third died on the voyage.

In the first and second World Wars, the Canadians were tip of the spear because they were the fiercest fighters. The socialist trope is that they were cannon fodder. They were not. They were the tip of the spear because the Germans were terrified of them. They threw spam into the German trenches and followed with bombs, they went on trench warfare with weapons they invented, and slaughtered everything that moved. They were not the cannon fodder, they were the canons. They courted death. They were supra-violent. This too was suppressed knowledge. Canadians are the most terrifying fighters in the world.

The global populist rebellion was kicked off by the Canadian truckers.

I found out that I was from one of the Riding Clans of the border long after the more polite ancestral strains were excavated. But it is the one of which I am most proud. The Nicksons/Nixons/Nicsouns were one of The Names of the Scots/English border. This is important: the Names were some of the first surnames taken by the non-aristocratic. They were not serf names, they did not take the name of a natural body like a lake or hill. They were not “profession” names, they were not owned-by-the-laird names. They were the Names of independents, who had claimed a name and held it. I suspect that ours was taken because we wanted everyone to think we were the son of old Nick, so as to terrify. The Names, the Riding Clans, had, over time, given the ceaseless wars in their homeland, become a collection of violent criminal gangs that stole cattle, that hired out as mercenaries, that raided for a living.

There is an apocryphal story of a wife slamming a pair of spurs onto her husband’s tin plate, as a sign that the cupboard was bare and get going idiot.

Elizabeth 1 on her deathbed said that “with 10,000 such men, James 1 could topple any throne in Europe.”

They kept cattle and sheep and in the summers, they would hook everyone up to carts and climb the peaks of the Lake District so their animals could fatten up for the year ahead. The Nixons were a sept of the mighty Armstrongs, and were so eccentric and violent that if you stumbled into Nicsoun territory at night, you were a dead man.

 

They did not farm because the Thrones would almost certainly devastate every year’s harvest. They did not build houses because their houses would be burnt. They lived in what they called Peel Towers, stone towers, animals on the bottom. The poorest lived in straw and mud huts, and they fought for their lives every single year. Some of them – the most violent – built castles so bleak even film doesn’t show them.

The first surnames.

Why? Because they were independent. They were not serfs, they did not belong to anyone, and they refused domination. The core of every functional army today is still border clan.

The working class of Britain just woke up to the fact that Labour is not on their side, has not been on their side for a very long time.

Tony Blair is a Fabian socialist, and the Fabians were aristocratic authoritarians who want everyone but them to be small, scared and insignificant. It took them a century to own the government of the Britain but own it they do. They took their name from the Roman General who invented the incremental advance, the slow inexorable, profoundly dishonest assault on an enemy. The Fabian strategy.

Which this week was roundly rejected.

Old Britain, the former working class, just took a right turn into populism. And there is no stopping it. This Dutch pretty girl freedom fighter just got her troops.

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Blue Tooth Mac Address Phenomenon From COVID 19 Shots – Conversation with Dr. Pedro Chavez From COMUSAV. Truth, Science and Spirit Ep 30

The fake news is ready to churn the propaganda machine and even that is scripted.

There is a planned “ATTACK” on humanity with its predetermined lockstep timeline.

Here is the paper:

In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures and explored opportunities to improve capabilities to prevent and respond to high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory (ER: LOL) with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

 

 

 

Move 1 (occurring on June 5, 2022, in scenario time) starts with an unusual outbreak of monkeypox in Brinia (population 250 million), with reports of 1,421 cases and four fatalities. There is no immediate evidence of international spread, but the outbreak takes place during a national holiday with extensive domestic and international travel by Brinians. Because monkeypox is not naturally found in Brinia, local and international experts consider this outbreak to be unusual. The Brinian government welcomes international outbreak investigations and requests medical support from the WHO. Genome sequencing of monkeypox patient samples reveals that the strain in Brinia contains mutations that make it resistant to existing vaccines.

The discussion that followed considered how the international system is postured to analyze initial indicators of pandemic risk and to communicate appropriate warnings.

Move 2 (January 10, 2023) occurs six months later, at which point the virus has spread to 83 countries with 70 million reported cases, causing more than 1.3 million fatalities. With no known effective therapies or vaccines, countries have had to rely principally on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. Highlighting significantly different national outcomes in managing the pandemic, some governments, including the fictional Republic of Dranma, promptly adopted aggressive measures to slow virus transmission by shutting down mass gatherings, imposing social-distancing measures, and implementing mask mandates. These countries have also established large-scale testing and contact-tracing operations and scaled-up their health care systems to support anticipated growing case numbers. By contrast, the scenario depicts another group of countries, including fictional Cardus, that have prioritized keeping their economies open, undertaking little-to-no NPIs, and downplaying the virus and its potential impacts. These countries have experienced much worse outcomes in terms of illness and mortality (Figure 2) than those that responded early and energetically. As Figure 3 shows, Dranma experienced far fewer cases and fatalities than Cardus.

Participant discussion in Move 2 focused on exploring the conditions that should trigger national pandemic response actions and discussing strategies and challenges for scaling public health interventions.

More surveillance is needed according to the findings:

The role of the WHO is discussed:

All participants agreed that the principal means of international pandemic risk warning now in place—the WHO Director General’s declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)—requires significant reform. Among the shortfalls they identified in the current PHEIC approach is that it is a binary tool for a world where pandemic risks are characterized by different levels of risk that evolve over time. The current PHEIC approach potentially lumps risks like a limited regional Ebola outbreak with a globally catastrophic biological event. Both are concerning, but to very different degrees, and they warrant different responses. The binary nature of the PHEIC also unintentionally creates incentives to delay warnings. In effect, if analysts and decision makers only have two choices, they are likely to err on the side of certainty before activating an international alert system.

Participants stressed that a graded pandemic warning system—analogous to graded systems used for hurricanes and other natural disasters—would arguably provide a more flexible, informative, and actionable system for communicating risk. Under the current International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), the WHO could be empowered to provide more detailed risk assessments to member states. One participant noted that formally shifting the WHO PHEIC to a graded system might require a change to the IHR, which could pose significant political challenges. Exercise participants observed that regardless of the particular institutional arrangements chosen for international systems of pandemic detection, analysis, and warning, these systems must be transparent. In particular, deliberations that currently occur behind closed doors—the WHO Emergency Committee, for example—would benefit if, at a minimum, an outside expert group could analyze the data and reach conclusions in parallel. Arguably, this would help validate and lend independent weight to official findings, or could challenge findings if they are inconsistent with available evidence.1

Please read the entire document.

Today an International Emergency over Monkey Pox (Mind) virus was declared.