Cathay Pacific Airways is set to purchase 14 Boeing 777-9 jets for $8 billion, with options for seven more, marking a major expansion of its long-haul fleet. Notably, this is the Hong Kong-based airline’s first order of Boeing widebody aircraft since 2013, according to Bloomberg. The timing of the deal might be significant, as it comes when U.S.-China trade negotiations remain ongoing. 

Cathay Pacific is a publicly traded airline listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Its ownership is disproportionately concentrated in three major stakeholders: Swire Pacific Limited (Swire Group) at 45%, Air China Limited at 30%, and Qatar Airways at just under 10%. The three make up about 75% ownership of the airline, with the other 25% of its shares held by other institutional investors. 

The deal for the new 777-9 jets won’t be delivered until 2034, and suggests two things: 

• Long-term confidence in travel demand remains strong.

• Ongoing positive trade talks between the U.S. and China.

Earlier this year, China used non-tariff countermeasures during the first leg of the tit-for-tat trade war with the Trump administration. One such move by China:

• Trade War Turbulence: Chinese Airline Delays Boeing Jet Delivery In Possible Non-Tariff Countermeasure

The fact that Beijing did not object to Cathay Pacific’s 777-9 order should be viewed as a positive sign. 

Big thanks to @cathaypacific for your order for 14 more 777-9s! 🙌✈️

With a total of 35 jets on order, Cathay Pacific is now set to become the largest 777X operator in the Asia Pacific region. 🌏

More: https://t.co/WKGuOtIV0W pic.twitter.com/Cxs1JcjzZI

— Boeing Airplanes (@BoeingAirplanes) August 6, 2025

On Tuesday, President Trump said his trade negotiators were close to striking a deal with China, and that if an agreement materializes, he would meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, before the end of the year.

“He asked for a meeting, and I’ll end up having a meeting before the end of the year most likely, if we make a deal. If we don’t make a deal, I’m not going to have a meeting,” Trump told CNBC in an interview, referring to China’s Xi.

The president noted, “We’re getting very close to a deal. We’re getting along with China very well.” 

Hints like Cathay Pacific placing its first widebody jet order from Boeing in over a decade are promising signs that U.S.-China trade relations could find some common ground in the near to medium term.

The UN’s top refugee official, Filippo Grandi, warned that “catastrophic” donor-driven budget cuts to his agency are already fueling increased migration to Europe and urged EU governments to fund existing asylum systems in countries like Chad, Iran, and Kenya rather than creating new ones, according to the Financial Times this week. 

“There is no doubt in my mind that people are already moving from Chad to Libya — Sudanese refugees,” Grandi told the Financial Times, pointing to evidence of displaced Sudanese heading north due to collapsing support in Chad and Sudan. “Give more assistance to states where people are ready to stay before going back home. You solve a lot of your problems by doing that.”

FT writes that UNHCR’s budget has plummeted—from $2bn to $390mn in U.S. funding under Donald Trump, with cuts from EU nations like France and Germany as well—forcing the agency to lay off a third of its staff and pause $1.4bn in programs.

While many EU states, including Denmark and Italy, push to outsource asylum processing to non-EU countries, Grandi criticized schemes that “dump” Europe’s asylum responsibilities on others. Of such efforts, he said, “If it is dumping the responsibilities… then I think it would be a bit more problematic.”

He stressed the need for safeguards and agency coordination: “Consult with us when you are elaborating. There are windows of opportunity to do some of these innovative things.”

Grandi also voiced concern over the EU’s cooperation with Libya and Tunisia, where conditions for refugees are dire. Libya is “not a country where we could have such an arrangement,” and in Tunisia, UNHCR is no longer allowed to screen asylum seekers amid migrant pushbacks and government crackdowns.

Recall last week we wrote that Spain had now passed Germany and topped the EU in asylum requests as migrant patterns continue to shift globally. According to an unpublished EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA) report seen by the Financial Times, the bloc’s asylum system is undergoing a “significant shift,” with May 2025 seeing 64,000 applications — nearly 25% fewer than the same month in 2024. 

The drop was driven by an “extremely abrupt” fall in Syrian claims, from about 16,000 in October 2024 to just 3,100 in May.

“Since February Germany has no longer been the top EU+ destination; Spain, Italy and France all received more applications in May 2025,” the EUAA writes.

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,

A 47-year-old Moroccan national will have his French residence permit revoked after lighting a cigarette with the flame from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced on Wednesday.

The man, known to police and the courts, has 21 prior convictions for contempt, rebellion, and racial insults.

His current residency card was valid until October 2025.

The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon, when the suspect was arrested and taken into custody.

He initially denied the act before admitting it under questioning.

Retailleau condemned the gesture as “undignified and miserable,” and “harmful to the memory of those who died for France.”

🇫🇷 🚬 | Un homme a été filmé en train d’allumer une cigarette sur la tombe du Soldat inconnu, à Paris. pic.twitter.com/OqA4Rg2vhq

— Cpasdeslol (@cpasdeslol_X) August 5, 2025

Patricia Miralles, Minister of Remembrance and Veterans Affairs, described the act as “an insult to our dead, to our history, to our nation. This flame does not light a cigarette; it burns for the sacrifice of millions of our soldiers,” she added.

Several National Rally lawmakers also voiced anger. RN MEP Matthieu Valet said it “sullies the memory of our soldiers who shed their blood for our freedom,” adding, “Respect our dead.”

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, located beneath the Arc de Triomphe, holds the remains of an unidentified World War I soldier, symbolically honoring all French soldiers who have died in combat.

While incidents related to the landmark are uncommon, they have occurred.

In 1998, a Mexican tourist was arrested for dousing the flame with liquid during the France ’98 World Cup. That same year, an Australian was arrested for using it to cook an egg.

Read more here…

Authored by RFE/RL via OilPrice.com,

• European NATO countries have pledged to buy American weapons, including Patriots, for Ukraine as U.S. support under Trump wanes.

• The EU surpassed the U.S. in total aid to Ukraine and committed to boosting defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2034.

• While Europe is increasing artillery shell production, Ukraine still urgently needs U.S.-made air defense systems to counter Russian strikes.

Earlier in July, an agreement was reached for European NATO allies to purchase American weapons, including Patriot missiles, for Ukraine. While Germany recently announced that two Patriots would head to Kyiv shortly, questions remain if this deal really will give Ukraine what it needs in the months ahead.

The deal, announced by US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Washington, D.C., on July 14, is essentially a continuation of what has been the modus operandi for Western allies since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine over three years ago: the Europeans send military equipment they already have to Kyiv and then replenish their stock with new weapons — mainly American ones.

The big difference now, though, is that the Europeans must considerably step up weapons deliveries to Ukraine, with the Trump administration so far not providing any new pledges.

(Deliveries promised during the Biden administration are still continuing, however.)

To an extent, the Europeans have ramped up production to fill the gap, with the German-based Kiel Institute noting that for the first time since June 2022, Europe has surpassed the United States in total military aid to Ukraine with 72 billion euros ($83 billion), compared to 65 billion euros coming from Washington.

Increased NATO Defense Spending

The question for Ukraine and its allies is how viable the proposed mechanism will be. In the long run, the Europeans will have to buy more weapons after having pledged to spend 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defense by 2034 at the NATO summit in the Hague in June. Arms destined for Ukraine will be a key part of this spending.

A diplomat from an EU country, speaking anonymously to RFE/RL, said the July Washington deal is the best way to keep the “Americans engaged in Ukraine in particular and in Europe in general,” as the United States will benefit from the expected European defense splurge.

And while Europe is keen to invest in its own defense sector, this will take time. European leaders have decided it’s better to buy American at least in the short term.

“It’s either that or leave Ukraine without weapons,” one NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity as they aren’t authorized to speak on the record, told RFE/RL.

“I think on the European side there is a hard realization that this has to happen in some fashion or another.”

On July 21, the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, an alliance of over 50 countries including all NATO member states and several non-NATO partners, met online for the first time since the Washington deal was announced. At the meeting of the group, which has been the key coordinator of Western arms deliveries to Kyiv, as many as seven countries expressed interest in buying American weapons for Ukraine. Those countries included Canada, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and some of the Nordic nations.

The outcome of the meeting of the Contact Group, which is also known as the Ramstein group, is that Ukraine would provide a detailed “wish list” of what it needs, focusing in particular on air defense and ammunition. NATO, in turn, would provide an estimate of how much such military hardware would cost to purchase. More clarity is expected when the Ramstein group assembles again in the fall, possibly in Ukraine for the first time.

The main question now is how quickly the military hardware can be delivered to Ukraine. European countries are expected to supply 2 million 155-millimeter artillery shells this year, and with Ukraine beginning domestic production supported by Western funding, the gap caused by the absence of American exports could be covered.

Patriots In Demand

But with air defense, it’s a different story. And it’s here that Ukraine still needs American arms, notably Patriot surface-to-air missiles.

The European alternative to the Patriot missile defense system, the French-Italian SAMP-T, has been provided to Kyiv, with Rome recently announcing a third battery will be sent in the fall. But according to NATO diplomats, producing both the interceptors required and the entire setup takes longer compared to the Patriots.

Plus, Kyiv has also questioned the European system’s effectiveness.

When Trump and Rutte met the press to announce the deal on July 14, the US president mentioned that 17 Patriot systems could be readied to be purchased for Ukraine.

Germany last week announced that it will send two batteries to Ukraine in the near future, but it is not clear where the other systems would come from.

Six European countries — Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Spain — currently operate Patriot systems, but there are fears from those countries that sharing their batteries with Ukraine would leave their own skies exposed.

Both Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, the two primary producers of Patriots, are stepping up production to meet the European demands, but Ukraine, under constant Russian barrage, will likely not see the benefits anytime soon.

Police in suburban St. Louis are investigating an arson and graffiti attack that targeted vehicles at the home of US citizen who served in the Israel Defense Forces. As police search for a lone-wolf perpetrator who left anti-IDF graffiti next to the burning vehicles, various public officials, organizations and media outlets rushed to describe the wrongdoing as an “antisemitic hate crime,” fueling ongoing debates about the definition of antisemitism and the problematic concept of “hate crimes” in general. 

The attack took place in the western suburb of Clayton at around 3am on Tuesday, leaving three cars heavily damaged after an unspecified means was used to set them ablaze. The arson was accompanied by graffiti sprayed on the street. St. Louis station First Alert 4 shared a drone-acquired image of one of two messages: “DEATH TO THE IDF.”  The outlet chose to blur the other message, saying it was “targeted at a specific individual.” However, in an X post condemning the attack, Leo Terrell, Chairman of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, said the graffiti “accused him of being a murderer.” 

BREAKING:

🇮🇱🇺🇲 An Israeli soldier with US citizenship was attacked in Clayton, Missouri, his vehicles were set on fire and destroyed.

Graffiti outside the family’s home called for death to the IDF. pic.twitter.com/ZBOe3MRL6q

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) August 6, 2025

There were no injuries and, as this story is written, the IDF soldier has not been identified. Police sources told First Alert 4 they believe the attack was carried out by a single individual, but apparently have no suspect yet. They’ve asked the FBI and St. Louis Regional Bomb and Arson Unit to help with the investigation, and are soliciting tips from the public. 

By all indications, this Clayton, Missouri resident was targeted because he recently served in the IDF as that organization carried out a widely-condemned campaign in Gaza characterized by a massive civilian death toll, the deprivation of food and medicine, the purposeful and vast destruction of residences, schools, hospitals, farms and other civilian architecture, and explicit ambitions of ethnic cleansing voiced by senior Israeli cabinet ministers. That’s certainly not to justify the violation of the victim’s property rights, only to rationally explore the question of the criminal’s motive.  

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly. Yet it’s not. It is this world. And what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity that will endure for generations.”

— ITV News, with aerial footage of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/nzHDVG2LxK

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) August 4, 2025

Despite himself highlighting that the attacker wrote “Death to the IDF” and accused the victim of being a murderer, the DOJ’s Terrell raced to describe the incident as “a horrific antisemitic attack” that “has no place in America.” Separately, he told JNS, “What I saw in the graphic videos [of burned cars], I saw hate. I saw hate because of one’s religion.” The Fox News‘ headline likewise called it an “antisemitic attack,” and the Jewish Federation of St. Louis broadly interpreted the arson and anti-IDF vandalism as an “attack on members of our community.”  On the other hand, Assistant US Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon judiciously chose to refer to the villain’s messaging as only “alleged antisemitic vandalism.” 

The Anti-Defamation League‘s Jordan Kadosh linked the attack to a controversial slogan used by some pro-Palestine activists:

“When you hear somebody say ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ this is what it looks like. It looks like burned out cars on suburban streets on America. This is not confined. When somebody says they want to take this fight to Jews around the world they mean everywhere.”

Though the victim hasn’t been identified yet, police say the crime occurred in the 7500 block of Westmoreland Avenue in Clayton. Various property-search sites show that one of the homes on this block is owned by the parents of Myles Rosenblum, who moved to Israel immediately after graduating from Tulane University in 2023. He returned to St. Louis earlier this year after serving two years with the IDF, most recently in the Paratroopers Unit 101. He hasn’t shied away from publicity, granting multiple interviews to the STL Jewish Light and performing a public speaking engagement on his experience in IDF invasions of both Gaza and Lebanon. “There is nothing I’d rather be doing with my life right now, more than serving the country of Israel,” he said in October 2023, days after the Oct 7 Hamas invasion.  

Police are already calling the incident a hate crime, referring to a class of crimes where wrongdoing is motivated by bias against the victim’s membership in some class defined by characteristics such as race, color, religion or sexual orientation. Critics of the hate-crime concept question why motive should be a crime unto itself, particularly when it’s an inherently murky legal question — as would be the case with this St. Louis incident. 

Other critics point to the arbitrary designations of protected classes. As Michael Conklin wrote at the George Mason Law Review, “The Atlanta spa shootings further illustrate this principle. Since the evidence indicates [Robert] Long targeted his victims based on their working profession at a spa, it is not a hate crime. But if he had targeted these same people because they were Asian, it would have been a hate crime. It is unclear why the former deserves a less harsh punishment than the latter.” 

While the alleged hate-crime element in St Louis may eventually have to be proven in court, it’s safe to assume the ADL has already added the attack to its controversial database of antisemitic incidents. The ADL been criticized for using an expansive definition of antisemitism that results in the mere use of the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — or mere opposition to the political ideology of Zionism — as antisemitic incidents. 

Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute,

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”

 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Most people hear ‘modern slavery’ and picture trafficking victims or sweatshop workers—suffering that’s clearly visible, obviously wrong, and comfortably distant from their daily lives. What if the most effective slavery in history isn’t hidden—but public, celebrated, and defended by the very people it enslaves?

I understand that comparing contemporary life to slavery will make some readers uncomfortable. That discomfort is the point. We’ve been conditioned to reserve the word ‘slavery’ for its most extreme historical forms, but slavery is fundamentally about the extraction of labor through coercion—regardless of whether that coercion is applied with whips or withholding.

To be clear: I’m not minimizing the horrific brutality of historical slavery or the ongoing horrors of contemporary trafficking. Chattel slavery involved unimaginable physical cruelty, family separation, and dehumanization that scarred generations. The whip, the auction block, the chain—these were instruments of terror that reduced human beings to property through violence and degradation.

I recognize that freedom and slavery exist on a spectrum. Between the plantation owner’s whip and complete autonomy lies a range of arrangements—serfdom, indentured servitude, debt bondage, and various forms of regulated participation in society. Most people would place our current system somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, arguing we have enough choices and protections to avoid the ‘slavery’ label.

But consider where we actually fall: When you cannot keep the majority of your labor, cannot opt out without facing state violence, cannot choose how your extracted labor is used, and face increasing surveillance and restriction of movement—how far from the slavery end of the spectrum are we really? The question isn’t whether we’re chattel slaves, but whether we’re close enough to that end to warrant the comparison.

I use ‘slavery’ not to minimize historical suffering, but to cut through the comfortable language that obscures the actual relationship. Terms like ‘social contract’ and ‘civic duty’ prevent us from examining what’s really happening. Sometimes the most uncomfortable comparisons reveal the most important truths.

This isn’t about personal hardship or material deprivation. Many people living under this system—myself included—enjoy comforts that would have amazed historical royalty. The sophistication of modern control lies precisely in maintaining compliance through comfort rather than suffering. A golden cage is still a cage, and a comfortable slave is still a slave.

What if the most effective slavery in history makes its subjects grateful for their subjugation?

The Invisible Shackles

The genius of contemporary slavery isn’t the whip, it’s the W-2. It’s not the chain, it’s the mortgage payment. It’s not the overseer with a gun, it’s the IRS agent with a lien.

Think I’m being dramatic? Let’s examine the mechanics.

You surrender 30-50% of your labor before you ever see it. If you refuse, men with guns will eventually arrive at your door. The extraction is comprehensive and inescapable: earn money, pay income tax; own property, pay property tax; spend money, pay sales tax; save money, lose to inflation tax; invest successfully, pay capital gains tax; start a business, pay for licenses; run a profitable business, pay corporate tax; give money away, pay gift tax; die with assets, pay inheritance tax. Every economic action becomes a revenue opportunity for the system that owns your labor.

You can’t opt out of funding wars you oppose, surveillance systems that monitor you, or bureaucracies that regulate your choices. Your ‘property’ can be seized for unpaid taxes, even if you own it outright.

Historical slaves at least knew they were enslaved. The violence was visible, the coercion obvious, the enemy identifiable. Today’s slaves are convinced they’re consumers.

But here’s the real masterpiece: you’ve been convinced this is freedom.

The Comfortable Cage 

The cage isn’t just bigger now—it’s learning. As I documented in “The Invisible Leash,” we’re witnessing the elimination of cognitive friction itself. When AI systems can predict your needs before you feel them and shape your choices before you make them, you’re not using technology—you’re being optimized by it.

But the technological cage is only half the story. We’re witnessing the colonization of human biology itself.

The modern slave doesn’t just surrender their labor—they surrender their cells. Your nervous system is being mapped for networking. Your DNA is being collected, stored, and potentially auctioned in bankruptcy proceedings.

When 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, it left 15 million DNA samples vulnerable to creditors, while officials like Netanyahu openly announced genetic database plans and Congressman Crow warned about DNA-targeted bioweapons.

When RFK, Jr. announced universal wearables within four years, the infrastructure required—regardless of stated health goals—represents the final component of comprehensive biological surveillance that creates permanent legal records for insurance companies, employers, and courts to weaponize against you.

This represents the perfect synthesis of my previous investigations: “The Corporate Veil’s” legal transformation that created the framework for treating citizens as corporate assets, the technological apparatus that perfected the delivery mechanisms, and the biological colonization that provided the final substrate for control.

But here’s what makes this convergence truly unprecedented: we’re witnessing the emergence of anticipatory compliance. Your smartwatch doesn’t just track your health—studies show wearables can detect conditions like Covid-19 up to 7 days before symptoms appear, while insurance companies like John Hancock offer up to 25% premium discounts based on your activity data. Your phone doesn’t just suggest routes—it knows your behavioral patterns well enough that employers are using fitness trackers to monitor employee performance and “reliability” based on movement data. Your streaming habits don’t just reflect your preferences—they shape your psychological profile in ways that determine your access to credit, housing, and employment.

The modern slave isn’t just compliant—they’re predicted, pre-approved, and programmed for the life the system has chosen.

The Evolution of Bondage

Alongside this invisible system, the old brutalities persist today. Children mine cobalt in the Congo under armed guard to power our smartphones. Human trafficking generates $150 billion annually through forced labor and sexual exploitation. Millions remain trapped in debt bondage, forced marriage, and industrial slavery that looks remarkably similar to bondage from centuries past.

What makes the form of slavery I’m describing historically unique isn’t its cruelty but its invisibility. Traditional slavery—both historical and contemporary—relies on obvious coercion: if you’re owned, you know it. The master’s authority is visible, violent, and direct. Resistance means physical punishment, but at least the enemy is identifiable.

The slavery of the developed world operates through what we might call the ‘white glove model’—polished, comfortable, and marketed as benefit rather than bondage. Traditional slaves are told they’re property; modern slaves are told they’re customers. Traditional slaves are controlled through fear; modern slaves through convenience. Traditional slaves are kept ignorant; modern slaves are overwhelmed with curated information that shapes their conclusions.

The plantation owner never convinced his slaves that chains were jewelry. The Congolese warlord doesn’t pretend the cobalt mine is a wellness center. But we’ve been convinced that surveillance is safety, that debt is prosperity, that algorithmic control is empowerment.

Traditional slavery was economically inefficient—you had to house, feed, and guard your property. Modern slavery is self-maintaining: the slaves pay for their own monitoring devices, compete for their positions, and attack anyone who suggests they’re not free.

You celebrate when your smartwatch reminds you to exercise. You feel grateful when your phone suggests the fastest route. You trust algorithms to curate your news, your entertainment, your potential romantic partners.

We’ve been conditioned to love our cages so thoroughly that questioning them feels like madness.

The Financial DNA of Control

The economic architecture of modern slavery operates through the systematic conversion of citizens into corporate assets. The legal frameworks established after 1871 created the foundation for treating people as revenue-generating entities rather than sovereigns, as evidenced by how your name appears in ALL CAPS on government documents—the same format used for corporate entities.

This isn’t just bureaucratic formatting—it’s the paper trail of your conversion from citizen to inventory. You’re not exercising rights; you’re generating revenue for systems that process you like any other corporate asset.

The financial enslavement operates through debt that can never be repaid because the ‘money’ used to pay it is itself debt. Federal Reserve notes aren’t currency—they’re IOUs in a system where every dollar represents an obligation to private banks. You’re trying to pay off debt with debt instruments, which is mathematically impossible.

The $37 trillion national debt isn’t just a number—it’s a lien against your future productivity. You didn’t vote for this debt, you can’t discharge it, but you’re legally obligated to service it through your labor

And here’s where the noose tightens: Central Bank Digital Currencies represent programmable money that can expire, restrict purchases, or shut off entirely based on compliance—eliminating the last vestige of anonymous economic activity.

The trajectory toward financial control wasn’t accidental. The Economist’s 1988 cover predicted a ‘world currency’ emerging from the ashes of national currencies by 2018—exactly when cryptocurrency and CBDC development accelerated. By 2021, the same publication celebrated ‘Govcoins’ as inevitable, replacing ‘In God We Trust’ with ‘In Tech We Trust.’ This 33-year progression from prediction to celebration reveals the deliberate timeline for eliminating monetary sovereignty.

Cash, the last vestige of anonymous economic activity, is being systematically eliminated. What they call “financial inclusion” is actually economic imprisonment: making every purchase a permission request to algorithmic authorities.

The Divided Plantation

Perhaps most brilliantly, the system has convinced its slaves to fight each other instead of recognizing their shared bondage.

As I explored in “Divided We Fall,” the same forces profiting from your labor also fund the narratives that keep you arguing with your neighbors. The most effective plantation is one where the slaves police each other.

The protesters who storm the Capitol think they’re fighting tyranny while carrying tracking devices that record their every move. The activists who march for social justice organize through apps that harvest their data while promoting policies that expand surveillance. Both sides livestream their ‘resistance’ on platforms owned by their oppressors.

The genius isn’t in the politics—it’s in ensuring that no matter which side you choose, you’re still feeding the machine that enslaves you.

The Technological Leash Tightens

The convergence is accelerating through coordinated infrastructure:

• Identity Capture: Biometric databases make anonymous existence impossible

• Data Processing: Massive server farms process every biometric signature in real-time

• Interface Elimination: ‘Contextually aware’ devices remove conscious choice friction

• Cognitive Control: AI systems shape how you think about questions themselves

• Economic Dependency: Digital income tied to compliance monitoring

• Biological Integration: Neural interfaces turn your cells into network nodes

The technology goes beyond wearables to injectable nanosensors that can cross the blood-brain barrier and wirelessly transmit neural activity to external devices, allowing for direct monitoring of thoughts and brain activity. University of California researchers have developed NeuroSWARM3, gold-plated nanosensors “the size of a single viral particle” that can travel through the bloodstream, cross the blood-brain barrier, and “convert the signals that accompany thoughts to remotely measurable signals.”

The convergence I’ve documented across multiple essays reveals something unprecedented: a system where your legal status, technological dependencies, and biological processes have been integrated into a single control architecture. The modern slave isn’t just monitored—they’re systemically integrated at every level of existence.

The War on Consciousness: Documented in Patents

This isn’t cultural drift. It’s not accidental. It’s not even just market forces.

This is weaponized psychology, and the patents are the smoking gun.

The US Patent Office contains thousands of entries detailing the technical manipulation of human consciousness—filed by corporations, defense contractors, and intelligence affiliates. These aren’t conspiracy theories. They’re government-validated blueprints. Critics often dismiss patents as mere speculation—”just because it’s patented doesn’t mean it’s built.” But these aren’t isolated theoretical documents. They represent a documented progression from classified research to consumer products, a technological pipeline from government laboratories to your living room.

US Patent 6,506,148 B2: Nervous System Manipulation by Electromagnetic Fields from Monitors. Your screen isn’t just displaying images—it’s capable of modulating your nervous system.

Image Source: MKULTRA: The Hidden Hand, Part 3

US Patent 5,159,703: Silent Subliminal Presentation System. Sends inaudible signals straight to your subconscious—bypassing conscious resistance.

Image Source: MKULTRA: The Hidden Hand, Part 3

US Patent 3,951,134: Remote Monitoring and Alteration of Brain Waves. You don’t even need to wear the device. The environment itself becomes the weapon.

Image Source: MKULTRA: The Hidden Hand, Part 3

Even Apple has filed patents to monitor brain waves via AirPods—framed as health optimization, but in reality, they represent applied surveillance of thought.

What MKULTRA did with electrodes and LSD, modern technocrats do with earbuds and screen time. The modern slave doesn’t just carry tracking devices—they carry consciousness-control tools disguised as entertainment, wellness, and productivity.

This is a war on awareness itself—the systematic erasure of human autonomy in favor of algorithmic obedience. The only thing more chilling than these patents existing is the fact that we’re voluntarily paying for them.

The Soft Enforcement Layer

But how does the Control Grid maintain compliance without obvious violence? Through the emerging infrastructure of soft coercion—systems that make resistance economically and socially impossible.

The enforcement doesn’t come through jackbooted thugs but through bureaucratic strangulation. History shows us this pattern: the worst totalitarian states didn’t just imprison dissidents—they made exit itself impossible. As Balaji Srinivasan recently observed on X, “The right to exit is a fundamental human right. It’s equivalent to individual consent, and to communal self-determination. Even the UN recognizes this. The worst states in history revoked the human right to exit. The Soviets, the Nazis, the East Germans, the Cubans, the North Koreans…they did not let you leave.”

He provided historical documentation showing how:

The Nazis implemented the Reich Flight Tax in 1931 to rob emigrating Jews of their assets.

East Germany criminalized leaving as “desertion from the republic.”

The Soviets imposed “diploma taxes” on educated emigrants.

Cuba made escape so difficult that people still risk death on makeshift rafts.

The pattern is always the same: economic barriers replace physical walls, targeting those most likely to resist—the educated, the wealthy, the independent-minded.

Today’s version is more sophisticated but functionally identical: rather than preventing physical departure, modern systems make economic and social participation impossible without compliance—creating internal exile within your own country.

• AI workplace monitoring: Companies using behavioral analytics to assess employee “reliability” and performance through comprehensive surveillance of file activity, communication, and screen behavior

• Biometric payment systems: Facial recognition replacing cash transactions at stadiums and retail locations, with venues like the Cleveland Browns and Intuit Dome requiring facial authentication for concessions

• Social credit integration: Insurance premiums tied to wearable device compliance and lifestyle monitoring, with 69% of Americans willing to wear devices for insurance discounts 

• Digital ID expansion: Coordinated global rollout of mandatory digital identity systems for basic services, with experts predicting 5 billion digital IDs globally by 2024, including Mexico’s new biometric CURP system requiring facial scans and fingerprints for internet access

• Carbon passports: UK’s proposed yearly travel allowances restricting movement based on digital compliance, announced just last week

When I detailed this soft enforcement architecture in 2022, friends told me I was being paranoid. These mechanisms have gone from ‘conspiracy theory’ to openly considered—and often implemented—policy in three years.

This isn’t just surveillance—it’s economic exclusion for non-compliance. In the UK alone, police arrest over 12,000 people annually (more than 30 per day) under just two speech-related laws. The system doesn’t need to arrest you; it just needs to make your life impossible without submission. 

Your social credit score doesn’t put you in jail; it just makes you unemployable. Your vaccine passport doesn’t physically restrain you; it just makes you unable to participate in society. Your CBDC wallet doesn’t chain you; it just expires your money if you exhibit unapproved behavior.

The genius is making compliance feel voluntary while making resistance practically impossible.

The Global Architecture

This coordination isn’t accidental. When identical digital ID systems roll out globally using the same frameworks, when QR code rationing appears simultaneously across continents, when biometric requirements emerge in lockstep worldwide—we’re witnessing architecture, not random evolution.

The World Economic Forum openly describes this coordination through their ‘digital identity’ initiatives, ‘Great Reset’ agenda, and ‘stakeholder capitalism’ frameworks that integrate technological, financial, and biological control systems. The rhetoric of ‘building back better’ creates the infrastructure for comprehensive human management. As Laura Edelson, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, noted about China’s digital ID system just last week: ‘They want the policeman to be in your head, and a really important way of making people feel that policeman in their head is removing any illusion that someone might have that they’re anonymous.’

What China implements openly as social control, the West adopts through the language of health, safety, and convenience—but the architecture remains identical. We’re witnessing the Chinafication of the West, where the same surveillance systems get rebranded as freedom.

The Synthesis of Control

What emerges from connecting these patterns is a form of slavery more sophisticated than anything in human history: what I’ve been calling ‘The Control Grid,’ a term I first heard from Catherine Austin Fitts.

The financial layer (documented in “The Corporate Veil“) reduces you to a revenue-generating entity through legal frameworks that treat citizenship as corporate registration.

The cultural layer (explored in “Engineering Reality“) manufactures the conflicts that keep you fighting other slaves instead of recognizing the plantation.

The technological layer (exposed in “The Invisible Leash“) eliminates cognitive friction through AI systems that predict and shape your choices before you make them.

The biological layer (revealed in “Node Without Consent“) colonizes your cellular processes through devices that monitor and potentially control your physical responses.

The result isn’t just surveillance or control—it’s the systematic replacement of human agency with algorithmic optimization. You’re not living your life; you’re performing a script written by systems that know you better than you know yourself.

Historical slavery relied on external coercion—slaves knew they were enslaved even when powerless to resist. Modern slaves have surrendered their decision-making processes to systems that predict their choices, curate their information, and shape their desires. The most profound enslavement isn’t of the body—it’s of the will itself. Once you control consciousness—what people think, how they think, even whether they think—every other form of control becomes automatic. Cognitive sovereignty is the foundation of all other freedoms.

Programming the Next Generation

But the Control Grid’s most insidious achievement is psychological: we’re raising children who will never know what freedom felt like.

We’ve created what can only be called psychological cripples—people who are practiced at reading social cues and adjusting their thoughts accordingly, but who have never learned to form independent judgments. They mistake consensus for truth and popularity for virtue. This systematic conditioning process creates individuals who’ve never developed the capacity for authentic dissent.

But it goes deeper than social conditioning. We’re witnessing the systematic prevention of human consciousness development itself.

Consider what’s being lost: A child who learns to ‘feel’ through mood-tracking apps never develops internal emotional awareness. Kids who navigate exclusively through GPS never develop spatial reasoning or intuitive direction. Those who get dopamine hits from notification sounds never learn sustained attention or deep focus. Children who ask Alexa for answers never develop the cognitive struggle that builds critical thinking.

This isn’t just convenience—it’s cognitive replacement. When your device tells you how you slept, how you feel, what you need, when to eat, where to go, what to think—the faculty for self-awareness atrophies. The child never learns to read their own body’s signals, trust their own judgment, or develop what previous generations simply called ‘common sense.’

Unlike the Stasi’s victims who at least had some years of normal psychological development, these kids never get that foundation. They never develop what psychologists call ‘internal locus of control’ because they never get to make real choices with real consequences—or even learn to perceive reality without technological filters.

The result is a generation that’s either paralyzed by self-consciousness or completely reckless. Some retreat into careful blandness, crafting personas so sanitized they might as well be corporate spokespeople for their own lives. Others embrace weaponized exposure because they figure they’re already screwed.

Most devastatingly, we’re creating humans who literally cannot conceive of unmediated existence. They’ve never experienced unmonitored thought, untracked movement, or unrecorded conversation. To them, privacy isn’t a right being taken away—it’s an alien concept that feels dangerous and unnecessary.

We’re not just surveilling them—we’re programming them. Teaching them that having real convictions is dangerous, that independent thought carries unlimited downside risk, that technological mediation is superior to human judgment, that the most important skill in life is reading algorithmic cues and adjusting accordingly.

This creates the perfect slaves: people who police themselves, who mistake their cage for safety, who’ve forgotten that thoughts are meant to be shared and convictions are meant to be defended—because they never learned these capacities existed in the first place.

The Recognition

The first step toward freedom is recognizing the Control Grid. Not metaphorically—literally.

Examine your legal documents. Notice the capitalization patterns. Study how you’re identified in these systems. Track your labor extraction—calculate how much of your productivity disappears before you see it.

Most importantly, observe your own behavior. How often do you ask your device how you feel instead of feeling it yourself? How many decisions get shaped by algorithmic suggestions? How much of your self-awareness has been outsourced to technological interpretation?

They carry their monitoring device voluntarily, pay for their own surveillance, and defend the system that harvests their data. They vote in elections that don’t change the fundamental architecture of control, celebrate technological ‘conveniences’ that eliminate their agency, and attack anyone who questions the system.

They have more gadgets than any generation in history yet less control over their time, more information yet less understanding of how their world works, more ‘rights’ yet fewer choices about the fundamental terms of their existence.

The Mirror

Look in the mirror. What do you see—a free citizen or a well-managed resource?

You surrender your labor through payroll deduction. You submit to surveillance through consumer electronics. You accept financial dependency through debt-based currency. You participate in division through manufactured political theater. You outsource your biological awareness to technological mediation.

Yet this system is celebrated as freedom.

Modern slaves don’t live in chains—they live in financial obligations. They don’t answer to overseers—they answer to algorithms. They work not to build their own wealth but to service debt they never chose while feeding systems designed to harvest their biological essence.

The Choice

You have three options:

Remain unconscious. Keep believing the system works for you. Trust that your vote matters, your devices serve you, and your sacrifices are for a noble cause. It’s comfortable. It’s easy. It’s probably what most people will choose.

Become conscious but stay compliant. Recognize the system for what it is but continue participating because the alternatives seem too difficult or dangerous. At least you’ll understand why you feel increasingly trapped.

Become conscious and seek freedom. This is the hardest path. It requires questioning everything you’ve been taught about citizenship, money, technology, and authority. It means accepting that the system you’ve defended might be the source of your bondage.

Beyond the Digital Plantation

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” 

—Aldous Huxley

The recognition that we’ve been enslaved by systems we defend isn’t cause for despair—it’s the foundation for liberation. The same technologies that enable unprecedented surveillance also enable unprecedented coordination among those who recognize the system’s true nature.

But first, you have to see the Control Grid. You have to acknowledge that the most effective slavery in human history doesn’t require whips or chains—just smartphones, credit scores, and the persistent illusion that monitoring equals caring.

The modern slave looks like someone with a job, a mortgage, a smartwatch, and a Social Security number. They have more conveniences than any generation in history yet less sovereignty over their existence.

The truth might be uncomfortable, but it’s the only foundation upon which genuine freedom can be built.

After all, you can’t escape a prison you don’t know you’re in.

And the first step to freedom is admitting you’re not already free.

Republished from the author’s Substack

This’ll make us think differently the next time we hear “clean-up on aisle five…”

Seattle police were faced with a truly bizarre case of aisle-side aggression when they arrested a 33-year-old man accused of wielding a knife, shouting racial slurs, and getting far too intimate with a refrigerator inside a Trader Joe’s, according to KOMO News.

“Here are the cold, hard facts,” the Seattle Police Department deadpanned in a press release—clearly unable to resist the pun. Nice to know they have a sense of humor about being the tip of the spear of the downfall of western society, right?

According to authorities, officers responded around 2:15 p.m. to the store on the 1700 block of 16th Ave. East after receiving reports of a man threatening to kill everyone inside, using racial slurs, and brandishing a knife at store security. But that was just the beginning.

Before things escalated, the suspect had reportedly been caught, in the words of a security guard, “humping” a refrigerator—yes, humping—and attempting to do the same to an unsuspecting customer. When confronted, he lashed out by kicking over a flower display and hurling apples like he was auditioning for a deeply unsettling produce-themed action movie.

KOMO writes that it took multiple officers to wrangle the chaos. The man was arrested on suspicion of felony harassment and booked into King County Jail. Adding to the rap sheet, police confirmed he’s a registered sex offender.

All in all, not your average grocery run.

Authored by Vince Quill via CoinTelegraph.com,

US President Donald Trump’s administration has signed a deal with OpenAI to provide the enterprise-level version of the ChatGPT platform to all federal agencies in an effort to “modernize” operations.

Under the deal, all US government agencies will have access to the AI platform for $1 per agency to facilitate integration of AI into workflow operations, according to a Wednesday announcement from the US General Services Administration (GSA).

The GSA, which is the US government’s procurement office, said the private-public partnership “directly supports” the White House’s AI Action Plan, a three-pillar strategy to establish US leadership in AI development recently disclosed by the admnistration.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pitches the importance of the US investing in AI during a press conference with US President Donald Trump in January. Source: CBS News

Despite the modernization efforts, critics say the ongoing AI race between nation-states may have negative implications for privacy, data protection policies, censorship, narrative control, cybersecurity, civil liberties and governance.

The dangers of centralized AI in government

In 2023, the US Space Force, a branch of the military, paused the use of generative AI tools at the organization, including ChatGPT, due to cybersecurity concerns over sensitive data critical to national security.

Large-language models (LLMs) and AI service providers would need to overhaul their data protection standards before the tools can be widely adopted by the military, said Lisa Costa, Space Force’s deputy chief of space operations for technology and innovation at the time.

Public concerns over automating government work with AI have also grown as the AI industry develops. 

Sweden Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson recently came under fire after acknowledging that he had consulted AI for policy decisions, according to The Guardian.

Tom Samuelsson, a spokesperson for the prime minister, said Kristersson did not use AI to discuss classified matters or sensitive information related to national security.

Large-language models and AI chatbots intake large quantities of user data from the internet and conversations with willing users, which trains the AI. 

The cybersecurity risks of information storage on centralized servers are the root of the privacy concerns voiced by users, tech executives, and civil liberties activists.

ChatGPT conversations could be used as evidence against a user in a court of law, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently warned.

The CEO said that AI conversations do not have any kind of privacy protections and are subject to government search and seizure laws.

Japan continues getting further away from its pacifist constitution adopted after World War 2, as US regional allies continue strengthen defense alliances in face of the ‘China threat’.

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles announced Tuesday a major deal with his country’s Indo-Pacific trade partner Japan, hailed as “the largest defense industry deal ever made between Japan and Australia.”

Australia plans acquire a total of eleven frigates from Japan in a major boost to its navy, valued at 10 billion Australian dollars (approximately $6.5 billion or €5.6 billion).

The major contract was awarded to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which will provide Mogami-class warships, which are highly advanced and with an array of weapons, with the bid succeeding over that of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.

“This decision was made based on what was the best capability for Australia,” Marles said. “We do have a very close strategic alignment with Japan.”

“The Mogami-class frigate is the best frigate for Australia,” Marles described. “It is a next-generation vessel. It is stealthy. It has 32 vertical launch cells capable of launching long-range missiles.”

This agreement marks Japan’s first export of warships since before the Second World War, and only its second significant defense sale abroad, which is why some Australian analysts consider the landmark deal to be high risk.

Many details of the deal still remain shrouded in mystery, but one maritime sources says: “Under the agreement, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will supply the Royal Australian Navy with three upgraded Mogami-class multi-role frigates built in Japan from 2029. Eight more frigates will be built in Western Australia.”

Additionally, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has never built warships outside of Japan. Rabobank in a note has commented further of this factor as follows:

Japan continues to increase its defense exports after decades of controls to stay out of global conflicts after World War II. Mitsubishi is going to build a fleet of frigates for the Royal Australian Navy in the coming years. The first three will be built in Japan, the remainder in Australia, bolstering the defense ties between the two countries. Both are US allies and face a threat from China. Australia aims to increase its surface fleet to its largest size since WWII.

It was only just over a decade ago, in 2014, that then-prime minister Shinzo Abe partially lifted the post-WW decades-long self-imposed ban on foreign arms sales.

The high tech multi-mission stealth frigate for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, now to be supplied to Australia’s military…

Meet Mogami ⚓🇯🇵

Japan’s upgraded Mogami-class frigate has been selected as the preferred platform for the @Australian_Navy’s general purpose frigates.

Defence will now enter into the next stage of the procurement process with MHI and Japan.

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— Defence Australia (@DefenceAust) August 5, 2025

Six years after the significant policy change, Japan sold the Philippines $100 million worth of air surveillance radar systems. This was also as Washington began making more defense cooperation inroads with Japan, and the last few years have even seen deepening cooperation with NATO – which has angered China.

Authored by David Bell via The Brownstone Institute,

American healthcare is currently providing us with an excellent lesson in what capitalism looks like in the absence of a moral framework. The biggest losers are America’s children…

The Union Profiting from Childhood Sickness

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the major professional association of North American pediatricians, has overseen the rising rates of chronic illness and medicating of American children over recent decades. With 67,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, AAP distinguished itself during Covid-19 for its strident insistence that children’s faces should be covered and they should be injected with modified RNA vaccines, despite knowing from early 2020 that severe Covid-19 was very rare in healthy children. 

Funded by sources including Moderna, Merck, Sanofi, GSK, Eli Lilly, and other pharmaceutical companies, the AAP’s members are the cornerstone of the rapidly increasing pediatric pharma market in North America – by far greater than any other region. As a professional organization dedicated to ensuring income for its members, the AAP is like any similar professional association or union and acts in this manner.

The loss of trust in the medical profession since 2020 is fortunately removing the misconception that AAP-like medical societies were primarily altruistic, dedicated to the welfare of others rather than their members. The recent publication of AAP priorities, developed by its membership, should reinforce this loss of trust and so, despite its unusual callousness of approach, serve ultimately to strengthen public health by exposing more clearly the motivations of those profiting from rising illness.

Setting Priorities to Ensure Long-Term Profit

The AAP’s first stated priority is to remove parents from any authority when it comes to decisions on whether to inject their children with various substances produced commercially by its sponsors. While this should be ridiculous, it has some chance of succeeding as the ultimate beneficiaries, apart from pediatricians, are the same pharmaceutical manufacturers who heavily sponsor the election campaigns of most members of the US Congress.

Of relevance, promoting or abetting chronic disease in children ensures almost certain chronic disease through adulthood. The AAP is therefore helping to set up lifelong pharmaceutical consumers. Pharma companies are purely for-profit entities, and this is exactly what their CEOs and executives are charged by their shareholders with promoting. The AAP is simply acting as a very willing enabler.

The AAP considers that bodily autonomy is subservient to State-imposed requirements and that the post-World War II human rights of non-coercion and informed consent are subservient to the opinion of someone receiving money to perform an injection. Its approach coincides with the pre-War technocracy movement or medical fascism (in which a declared ‘expert’ decides on imposing healthcare measures rather than the patient themselves choosing it).

However, before discussing bodily autonomy and coerced medicine further, it is worth commenting on the priority list of the AAP overall, as it is fascinating, coming from a group that insists publicly on prioritizing the health of children.

Firstly, what is not there. Among the ten priorities of the AAP of which the elimination of parental rights or religious or cultural exemptions over vaccination of children is the highest, there is not a single mention of what are perhaps the three most prominent issues facing children today, and widely discussed publicly; increasing obesity and the epidemic of autism that the CDC heralds as of extraordinary proportions. While the AAP notes this problem elsewhere, it concentrates on identification and management rather than cause identification. Nowhere among its ten priorities is there any expression of interest in identifying and addressing the causes of rising chronic illness. The closest is a mention of lower costs for childhood insulin injections. The AAP’s priority list ignores diet and reducing levels of physical activity while actively promoting medicalization, seemingly oblivious to the quite catastrophic reduction in health status of the very populations they claim to be serving.

Unsurprisingly for a purely marketing organization, but inconsistent with a science-based healthcare body, the priorities include nothing regarding very obvious concerns of the impact of over 70 vaccinations, with their associated adjuvants and preservatives, now given to children by ten years of age. This number has grown from just a few 40 years ago in association with the deterioration in child health outcomes. The only interest expressed in vaccines is to remove choice from those concerned about such things, and force compliance. For a society of thinking, truth-seeking people this would be extraordinary.

Parents as an Obstacle to Return on Investment

The justification reported from AAP President Kyle E. Yasuda, M.D., FAAP for removing any remaining personal choice regarding prophylactic medical treatment (vaccination) is “the measles outbreaks” in North America in recent years. Jesse Hackell, MD, chair of the AAP’s Committee on Pediatric Workforce, notes that they were associated with the deaths of two children, the first in “many years.” The AAP simply states, regarding safety, that vaccines are “safe,” a stupid claim in medicine and biology in that adverse events do occur to injected organic substances and metal salts, and they vary from person to person (if rare events occur, then ‘safe’ is a relative term). Associations with recent DTP injection and sudden infant death are, for example, fairly well documented.

Regarding measles, it is likely that many AAP members mean well, but are genuinely misinformed regarding the impact of mass vaccination. In wealthy countries including the United States, nearly all measles mortality ceased before mass vaccination was commenced. This is not controversial – it was once stressed in medical school and is well established in national health statistics. An underlying improvement in nutrition, particularly in micronutrient deficiencies, was a likely reason. Mass vaccination then greatly reduced circulation of the measles virus, but could have only a limited impact on overall mortality. Therefore, weighing costs of vaccination (adverse events) against a very low likelihood of averting early death or disability is a real issue, and to ignore it by just reiterating ‘safe and effective’ is ignorant and foolish.

Measles vaccination is good at stopping transmission because it is very effective at preventing infections from being established. This efficacy is significant to the argument that having many vaccinated is a public good. Nearly all vaccinated people will be protected, and at no risk from the unvaccinated. Thus, mass measles vaccination really only makes sense if it is accepted that people should not have freedom to choose over their own bodies and healthcare, or that of their children. The very low measles mortality, far lower than drowning even before mass vaccination commenced in the United States, effectively removed an argument for overriding parental rights. Unless, of course, we are also going to ban children from swimming or walking near rivers or on a beach.

Lastly, regarding concerns over vaccination, many parents are uncomfortable with the role of cells harvested from induced aborted fetuses, often still alive at the time of harvesting. Again, many AAP members may believe the rhetoric that this is untrue, but nonetheless it is factual. It is how we derive cell cultures to develop many vaccines, so the DNA of these dead unborn humans can still contaminate the injection. The AAP, as an institution, officially holds that cultural and religious concerns arising from this should be overridden.

So, in the end, the AAP’s argument seems to come down to one of two possible drivers. 

Either (1) they have an ideological belief that they should simply be the authority or decision-makers on children’s healthcare rather than parents (a medical-fascist approach),

or (2) they see their role as promoting an extremely lucrative market for their sponsors, from which they also directly benefit, and setting children up for an entire lifetime of chronic illness and pharmaceutical consumption. It is challenging to decide which is less noble.

A third possibility is also possible. Most AAP members are simply going with the flow and have not actually stopped to think through the implications of their union’s policies. However, the motivation for willfully ignoring rational thought probably does come down to a mixture of money and ego, which goes back to the two potential drivers mentioned above.

Medical Fascism Should Have No Future

The AAP will almost certainly continue its path of child polypharmacy, blind adherence to protocols based on the products of their sponsors, and denigration and exclusion of the opinions of parents who recognize the stark reality of deteriorating health in North American children. Parents reading the AAP’s list of priorities would be foolhardy to then entrust their children to such care. Providing that politicians retain integrity and respect freedoms that most assumed were guaranteed in the US Constitution and through basic human rights norms, the AAP will fail in its endeavors and become increasingly irrelevant to public discourse. If they get their way, we will return further toward an approach we thought we had fought wars to overcome.

Fundamental rights of each human to make their own way in life, and protect and oversee their children, underpin any decent societal model.

In fascist societies, such decisions are removed and taken into the hands of experts and authoritarian institutions. The people must simply comply as slaves. Medical professions and their academies have a long history of supporting such approaches, and the AAP seems increasingly determined to replicate that path. It should receive all the respect that such an indecent approach deserves.