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Today's Freedom News:
1) Burkina Faso: Kabore Held at Army Camp as Military Mutinies
2) DC: Thousands march against regime's segregation/ghettoization schemes
3) UK: Court rules political prisoner Julian Assange can appeal illegal extradition to US
4) Norway: Taliban talks spark new debate about recognition
5) Ukraine: US regime reduces embassy staff, orders some family members to leave
6) Belgium: Regime thugs attack anti-segregation/ghettoization protesters with chemical weapons
7) Germany: Navy chief resigns over suggestion that regime face reality
8) MN: Seven eateries sue Minneapolis regime over segregation/ghettoization scheme
9) Dangerous quack hopes people forget his complete failure as they learn to live with COVID-19
10) New Zealand: Ardern postures as one of the proles by performatively complying with her own dictates
11) PA: Truck with 100 monkeys crashes, some of them missing
12) AZ: Democratic Party censures Sinema as insufficiently Jacobin
13) Report: Biden plans tax-funded legal services program for "Remain in Mexico" immigrants
14) Italy: Presidential balloting to begin Monday as Berlusconi drops out
15) Groups Warn US Lawmakers Against Fueling "New Cold War" With China
16) NH: Legislators introduce secession bill
17) Chinese, US regimes rattle sabers in area around Taiwan
18) Turkey: Regime thugs abduct journalist for insulting their idiot boss
19) Syria: IS prison break sparks days of clashes
20) Judge Sides With University of Florida Professors in Free Speech Case
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Will Inflation Bankrupt Joe Biden?
22) Bad Politicians Think Elections Are Illegitimate if They Don't Like the Winner
23) The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing
24) Why Japan should take a stand in NATO tensions with Russia
25) The Problem with Public Goods and So-Called Economic Power
26) Why Is the Supreme Court Disregarding Individual Rights?
27) Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok
28) Conservatives and "American Nationalists" aren't the same thing
29) Anonymous Officials Claim There's An Evil Russian Plot Again, But The Evidence Is ... Secret Again
30) Regenerative Agriculture and the Denial of Comparative Advantage, part 3
31) Peace with Horror: How a Psychotic Empire Loses a War
32) Easy Cases May Make Bad Rules
33) VA Stories: Tales from the ER #8
34) Thank Omicron? Or Hypocrisy?
35) What the US and UK get wrong about Ukraine
36) The American [Inflation] Plan
37) The No. 1 Secret of Investing (and Life)
38) Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump
39) Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire
40) Dissecting the Supreme Court's Split Decision on Vaccine Mandates
41) Out-of-control Congress and Fed need binding rules
42) NATO Bears Some Responsibility For The Ukraine Crisis
43) Trump and Tiberius, Uncle Joe and Little Boots, supply chains and debt
44) Limited Government and Communism
45) The Dumbest Biden
46) The Value of Work
47) Yes, Virginia, You Can Unmask Your Kids
48) Liberty Entails the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs
49) Here's Why American Workers Are (a) Screwed and (b) Quitting
50) School Choice as Occupational Choice
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51) Free Talk Live, 01/23/22
52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 355
53) This Week in Common Sense, 01/22/22
54) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 01/21/22
55) Punk Rock Libertarians Podcast, episode 382
56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/21/22
57) Clint Ehrlich on The Scott Horton Show
58) Free Thoughts Podcast, episode 425
59) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/21/22
60) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/21/22
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1) Burkina Faso: Kabore Held at Army Camp as Military Mutinies
Source: Bloomberg
"Mutinous soldiers in Burkina Faso detained the nation's president and asked him to sign a resignation letter, people familiar with the matter said a day after an army mutiny. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore is being held at a military camp, the people said, asking not to be identified because they're not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to government spokesman Alkassoum Maiga weren't answered when Bloomberg sought comment. News of Kabore's detention came after a day of unrest in Burkina Faso on Sunday, when soldiers at several army bases opened fire, including at the military airport in the capital, Ouagadougou. The government imposed a curfew between 8 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. and ordered schools to remain closed Monday. Mobile internet services have been cut, according to Netblocks, a private business that monitors disruptions to connectivity." (01/24/22)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-23/gunfire-heard-at-military-camp-in-burkina-faso-capital-reuters
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2) DC: Thousands march against regime's segregation/ghettoization schemes
Source: United Press International
"Demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to oppose vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 regulations. Organizers for the 'Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming' march said they expected about 20,000 attendees at the rally, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service but the Washington Post reported a 'smaller crowd of several thousand' on the National Mall Sunday afternoon. A news release ahead of the rally said the march is a response to two years of 'increasing governmental overreach' in the form of mandates at local, state, and federal levels." (01/23/22)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/01/23/thousands-march-Washington-DC-rally-against-vaccine-mandates/6221642966129/
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3) UK: Court rules political prisoner Julian Assange can appeal illegal extradition to US
Source: CNN
"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can appeal to the UK's Supreme Court against extradition to the United States, Britain's High Court ruled Monday. The decision comes more than a month after two senior judges in the High Court overturned a January 2021 magistrates' court ruling and said that Assange could be extradited to the US on the basis of assurances given by the US government about his treatment there." (01/24/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/europe/wikileaks-julian-assange-appeal-extradition-intl-gbr/index.html
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4) Norway: Taliban talks spark new debate about recognition
Source: Politico
"A Taliban delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday started three days of talks in Oslo with Western officials and Afghan civil society representatives amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. The closed-door meetings were taking place at a hotel in the snow-capped mountains above the Norwegian capital and are the first time since the Taliban took over in August that their representatives have held official meetings in Europe. The talks were not without controversy, however, reigniting the debate over whether they legitimize the Taliban government, especially since they were being held in Norway, a NATO country involved in Afghanistan from 2001 until the Taliban take over last summer." (01/23/22)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/23/taliban-talks-norway-recognition-00000913
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5) Ukraine: US regime reduces embassy staff, orders some family members to leave
Source: CNN
"The State Department announced on Sunday night that it will be reducing staff levels at the US Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, beginning with the departure of nonessential staff and family members. ... CNN reported on Friday that the embassy had requested that the State Department take this step as Russia has continued to mass forces and equipment near Ukraine's borders, sparking fears of a renewed invasion. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's latest intelligence assessment, shared with CNN this week, assessed that Russia has now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region." [editor's note: Is that even close to the number of US troops continuously deployed in the "region" near the US-Mexico border? – TLK] (01/23/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/politics/us-embassy-ukraine-reduce-staff/index.html
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6) Belgium: Regime thugs attack anti-segregation/ghettoization protesters with chemical weapons
Source: Associated Press
"Police fired water cannons and thick clouds of tear gas Sunday in Brussels to disperse people protesting COVID-19 vaccinations and government restrictions that aim to curb the fast-spreading omicron variant. Police said the protest in the Belgian capital drew an estimated 50,000 people, some traveling from France, Germany and other countries to take part. ... A much smaller number of anti-vaccination demonstrators marched in Barcelona. The protests followed demonstrations in other European capitals on Saturday against vaccine passports and other requirements that European governments have imposed as daily infections and hospitalizations have surged due to the omicron variant." (01/23/22)
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-europe-brussels-415d5a6a7cf46f3fccafb339a17dc9d0
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7) Germany: Navy chief resigns over suggestion that regime face reality
Source: Reuters
"Germany's navy chief stepped down on Saturday after drawing criticism for saying Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved respect and that Kyiv would never win back annexed Crimea from Moscow. ... [Admiral Kay-Achim] Schoenbach, speaking in English, said Putin seeks to be treated as an equal by the West. 'What he (Putin) really wants is respect,' Schoenbach said. 'And my God, giving someone respect is low cost, even no cost ... It is easy to give him the respect he really demands -- and probably also deserves,' Schoenbach said, calling Russia an old and important country. Schoenbach conceded Russia's actions in Ukraine needed to be addressed. But he added that 'the Crimea peninsula is gone, it will never come back, this is a fact,' contradicting the joint Western position that Moscow's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 cannot be accepted and must be reversed." (01/22/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-navy-chief-resigns-over-putin-comments-2022-01-22/
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8) MN: Seven eateries sue Minneapolis regime over segregation/ghettoization scheme
Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Seven bars and restaurants are suing the city of Minneapolis over its new vaccine-or-test mandate, which requires bars and restaurants to ask patrons for proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test from the past 72 hours. Jeff O'Brien, an attorney with the Minneapolis firm Chestnut Cambronne, filed the request for a declaratory judgment and temporary restraining order against the city Thursday in Hennepin County District Court on behalf of Smack Shack, The Gay '90s, Sneaky Pete's, Wild Greg's Saloon, Urban Forage, Jimmy John's and Bunkers Music Bar and Grill." (01/21/22)
https://www.twincities.com/2022/01/21/restaurants-sue-minneapolis-over-vaccine-or-test-mandate/
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9) Dangerous quack hopes people forget his complete failure as they learn to live with COVID-19
Source: Fox News
"Dr. Anthony Fauci outlined a path toward a long-term plan to live with COVID-19, claiming it's the 'best-case scenario.' The president's chief medical advisor predicted this week the current surge of cases caused by the omicron variant will peak by mid-February, leaving officials wondering what happens next. Fauci said on ABC's 'This Week' that the best-case scenario will be to bring the virus under control and learn to live with it. 'Control means you're not eliminating it, you're not eradicating it,' Fauci explained. 'But it gets down to such a low level that it's essentially integrated into the general respiratory infections that we have learned to live with. I mean, we would like them not to be present, but they're there, but they don't disrupt society.' Fauci noted that he hoped the medical community will deal with COVID-19 on a 'case-by-case basis' going forward." (01/23/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/fauci-pandemic-long-term-normal-live-with-it
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10) New Zealand: Ardern postures as one of the proles by performatively complying with her own dictates
Source: New York Post
"New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had to postpone her wedding thanks to her own COVID-19 restrictions. Ardern, 41, put her island nation of 5 million people under the 'red setting' of the country's pandemic response starting Monday, which limits the sizes of gatherings and tightens mask rules. 'I just join many other New Zealanders who have had an experience like that as a result of the pandemic and to anyone who's caught up in that scenario, I am so sorry,' she said, announcing her wedding next weekend would have to be delayed. The new rules come after the country detected nine Omicron cases in a single family that flew to the nation's biggest city, Auckland, for a wedding." (01/23/22)
https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-delays-wedding-over-covid-law/
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11) PA: Truck with 100 monkeys crashes, some of them missing
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
"A truck carrying about 100 monkeys was involved in a crash Friday in Pennsylvania, state police said as authorities searched for at least three of the monkeys that appeared to have escaped the vehicle. The truck carrying the animals crashed with a dump truck in the afternoon in Montour County, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Andrea Pelachick told the Daily Item. The truck had been on its way to a lab, Pelachick said. Authorities have asked residents who might see the monkeys to call state police at 570-524-2662. It was unclear if any people or animals were injured in the crash." [editor's note: There was a time when the question would be "are there any typewriters also missing?" – SAT] (01/23/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-Truck-with-100-monkeys-crashes-some-of-16795191.php
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12) AZ: Democratic Party censures Sinema as insufficiently Jacobin
Source: CBS News
"The Arizona Democratic Party has voted to formally censure Senator Kyrsten Sinema 'as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy,' the party said Saturday. The announcement came just days after Sinema opposed a change to the Senate rules that could have moved Democratic-backed voting rights legislation forward. 'I want to be clear, the Arizona Democratic Party is a diverse coalition with plenty of room for policy disagreements, however on the matter of the filibuster and the urgency to protect voting rights, we have been crystal clear,' Arizona Democratic Party chairperson Raquel Teran said in a statement. 'In the choice between an archaic legislative norm and protecting Arizonans' right to vote, we choose the latter, and we always will.'" (01/22/22)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-censure-arizona-democratic-party/
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13) Report: Biden plans tax-funded legal services program for "Remain in Mexico" immigrants
Source: Fox News
"The Biden administration will look to make it easier for immigrants to seek legal services across the southern border with the launch of the Legal Access at the Border (LAB) program. The program will launch in seven border cities, including San Diego, Calexico, Nogales, El Paso, Eagle Pass, Laredo, and Brownsville -- all cities in which the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) was once enforced. MPP (also known as the 'Remain in Mexico' policy) appears to have provided the motivation to create the program in the first place: Many legal aid organizations have remained wary of providing assistance due to the program, which some believe presents a humanitarian issue. U.S. authorities [abducted] more than 1.7 million immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September -- the most since the passage of President Ronald Reagan's sweeping immigration reform bill in 1986." (01/23/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-legal-services-program-remain-in-mexico
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14) Italy: Presidential balloting to begin Monday as Berlusconi drops out
Source: The Guardian [UK]
"Italian parliamentarians will begin casting their votes for a new president on Monday after the scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi abandoned his dream of becoming the next head of state. More than 1,000 lawmakers and regional delegates will participate in the complex secret ballot, described as being akin to the appointment of a new pope, that could go through several rounds before a successor to Sergio Mattarella, who is due to step down on 3 February, is elected. The winner of the seven-year mandate requires a two-thirds majority within the first three rounds of voting; from the fourth, an absolute majority is sufficient. Only on three occasions in the history of the election has a new president emerged in the first round." (01/23/22)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/italy-secret-ballot-president-berlusconi-drops-out
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15) Groups Warn US Lawmakers Against Fueling "New Cold War" With China
Source: Common Dreams
"Ahead of congressional negotiations on a key technology bill, 32 global justice groups on Friday demanded revisions to the pending legislation that will encourage the United States and China to 'resolve bilateral and global challenges through dialogue and cooperation, rather than conflict and one-upmanship.' The organizations' letter to lawmakers focuses on the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), which passed the Senate with bipartisan support last June and would pour billions of dollars into American manufacturing and technology research to boost competition with China. The Chinese government has openly criticized and lobbied against the USICA because, as Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin put it last year, the bill 'distorts the facts' and 'smears China's development path and domestic and foreign policies.'" (01/23/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/21/groups-warn-us-lawmakers-against-fueling-new-cold-war-china
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16) NH: Legislators introduce secession bill
Source: Conway Daily Sun
"New Hampshire could be its own sovereign nation under a Constitutional Amendment proposed by state Rep. Mike Sylvia (R-Belmont) and now making its way through the halls of Concord, and if successful, to the ballot box. Sylvia offered the measure Thursday for the state to peacefully secede from the United States. To get it past the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs would be the first step for CACR 32. ... The analysis of the Constitutional Amendment reads that the concurrent resolution 'declares the state's independence from the United States and moves New Hampshire forward as a sovereign nation.'" (01/21/22)
https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/n-h-could-become-its-own-nation-under-cacr-32/article_79f62438-7afc-11ec-935d-b39bf17835d5.html
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17) Chinese, US regimes rattle sabers in area around Taiwan
Source: Fox News
"China launched 39 aircraft, mostly fighter jets, near Taiwan Sunday -- the largest show of force in months. The launch came the same day the U.S. Navy sailed two aircraft carriers along with a pair of amphibious assault ships alongside allies in the Philippine Sea. It's not clear what might have prompted the escalation, but China did something similar in early October during similar U.S. Navy operations. Taiwan issued radio warnings and sent combat air patrol to deter the Chinese aircraft, while air defense missile systems were deployed to monitor them, Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said in the statement issued late on Sunday. China claims Taiwan is part of its own territory and has rejected its claims of independence after the two countries split in 1949. The U.S. does not formally recognize Taiwan but maintains an unofficial relationship and is supportive of its democratic government." (01/23/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-flies-dozens-warplanes-near-taiwan
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18) Turkey: Regime thugs abduct journalist for insulting their idiot boss
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
"A Turkish court ordered prominent journalist Sedef Kabas jailed pending trial on a charge of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan under a law that has seen tens of thousands prosecuted. Police detained Kabas early on Saturday morning and took her to Istanbul's main police station before transferring her to the city's main court, which ruled in favour of her formal arrest. The alleged insult was in the form of a palace-related proverb that Kabas expressed both on an opposition television channel and on her Twitter account, drawing condemnation from government officials. 'When the ox climbs to the palace, he does not become a king, but the palace becomes a barn,' she tweeted." (01/23/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/23/turkish-journalist-arrested-on-charge-of-insulting-erdogan
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19) Syria: IS prison break sparks days of clashes
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Intense fighting is taking place in north-eastern Syria after Islamic State (IS) fighters tried to break inmates out of a Kurdish-run prison. Kurdish-led forces backed by US air strikes have been battling militants in the city of Hasaka since Thursday. The assault on Ghwayran prison is one of the group's most ambitious since its defeat in Syria nearly three years ago. The overcrowded site houses 3,500 suspected IS members including some of its leaders, a monitoring group says. Hundreds of jihadists have been recaptured since the breakout, but some are still on the run, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Kurdish security forces have surrounded the prison and are fighting for control of nearby neighbourhoods. Residents have been fleeing their homes." (01/23/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60100364
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20) Judge Sides With University of Florida Professors in Free Speech Case
Source: Tallahassee Democrat
"A federal judge has sided with three University of Florida political science professors, giving them a preliminary win in their fight to provide expert witness testimony in a lawsuit challenging a new state election law that starts in less than two weeks. ... Sharon Austin, Daniel Smith and Michael McDonald challenged the constitutionality of the revised policy after they were denied permission to provide expert testimony in a case challenging a new state elections law that places restrictions on voting by mail, among other things. Smith is chair of the department. Administrators denied their requests, saying their testimony would be adverse to the university's interests because they went against the executive branch of state government." (01/22/22)
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2022/01/21/federal-judge-orders-preliminary-injunction-against-ufs-conflict-interest-policy/6608426001/
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21) Will Inflation Bankrupt Joe Biden?
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
"Inflation has risen more than fourfold since Biden took office, jumping from 1.4% to 7%. Cynics are quipping that it's now higher than Biden's approval rating, but that is a cheap shot -- or at least premature. Last month, Biden characterized inflation as a 'bump in the road.' But that 'bump' is a hole in the gas tank for tens of millions of Americans who drive to work. Oil prices closed at their highest level in seven years the day Biden spoke. ... Will the president suffer 'death by a thousand price hikes,' as consumers blame Biden each time they hit the gas pump or grocery store? More handouts for government dependents will do nothing to ease the inflation pain of hardworking middle-class families. Biden's attempt to portray himself as an innocent bystander to the destruction of value of the US dollar will be a disastrous flop." (01/23/22)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2022/01/23/new-york-post-will-inflation-bankrupt-joe-biden/
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22) Bad Politicians Think Elections Are Illegitimate if They Don't Like the Winner
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
"President Joe Biden probably met the low bar set for his rare press conference this week by not face-planting into a pudding cup, but he also uttered a few eye-openers during his meandering performance. Among them was the claim that the 2022 midterm elections might be illegitimate if his party's voting bill doesn't pass. It was yet another reminder that former President Donald Trump has plenty of company in accepting the political process only if things go his way. So, if you're looking for a respite from disputed vote tallies, don't hold your breath." (01/21/22)
https://reason.com/2022/01/21/biden-thinks-elections-are-illegitimate-if-he-doesnt-like-the-winner/
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23) The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Isaac M Morehouse
"Universities are dying. They have long ceased being the best way to gain knowledge. More recently, the degrees they confer have ceased being the best way to signal employability; the only exception being jobs that legally require them. (Such jobs are increasingly stodgy, unattractive, bureaucratic, backwards, and subservient to tyrannical governments). The final leg universities stand on is the mythology of social status. That's it. That's what gives them what waning power they have." (01/22/21)
https://fee.org/articles/the-last-leg-universities-stand-on-is-collapsing/
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24) Why Japan should take a stand in NATO tensions with Russia
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Kazuhiko Togo
"Japan is deeply worried about increasing tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine and for good reason. There are three key concerns. First, a Ukraine military crisis would divert European attention away from the Indo-Pacific region. Tokyo has welcomed the recent European deployments of naval ships to the region to counter China's maritime assertiveness. ... Second, conflict between NATO and Russia will undoubtedly push Russia further towards China. ... Third, a Ukraine military crisis would impair Japan's global strategy. Facing the rise of China at its doorstep, Japan has adopted a strategy that combines the enhancement of deterrence capabilities and the pursuit of dialogue. To implement this strategy effectively, Japan needs good partners in Northeast Asia, and Russia is a prime candidate." (01/24/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/24/how-japan-can-foster-dialogue-in-eastern-europe/
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25) The Problem with Public Goods and So-Called Economic Power
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by David Gordon
"In this week's column, I'd like to discuss two arguments Murray Rothbard gives that respond to influential criticisms of the free market. ... The first of these arguments has to do with what are called 'public' or 'collective' goods. It may well be, supporters of the argument claim, that the market can supply efficiently most goods and services. But it cannot supply public goods, such as defense, that are nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. A nation that installs an antimissile defense system, for example, will necessarily protect the whole country, not just individuals who pay for the service of defense. Furthermore, people can't be excluded from the good: a supplier of the good can't say to people, 'If you refuse to pay for the good, we won't supply it to you.' Rothbard's response is characteristically radical. He denies that goods of this kind exist." (01/21/22)
https://mises.org/library/problem-public-goods-and-so-called-economic-power
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26) Why Is the Supreme Court Disregarding Individual Rights?
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Toby Rogers
"We should all be grateful to the U.S. Supreme Court for granting a stay that blocks enforcement of the OSHA vaccine mandate and disappointed that they split the baby in half by allowing the vaccine mandate to continue for healthcare workers in facilities that receive funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). ... I understand why the Supreme Court wanted to make the narrowest possible ruling -- they do not want to be seen as making law and they do not want to get too far out front on any issue lest they risk the credibility of the court. The problem with this approach is that if we are not going to debate the big issues at the Supreme Court, then where exactly are these debates going to take place?" (01/22/21)
https://brownstone.org/articles/why-is-the-supreme-court-disregarding-individual-rights/
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27) Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by John Whitehead
"What has unfolded over the past few years has been a test to see how well 'we the people' have assimilated the government's lessons in compliance, fear and police state tactics; a test to see how quickly 'we the people' will march in lockstep with the government's dictates, no questions asked; and a test to see how little resistance 'we the people' will offer up to the government's power grabs when made in the name of national security. Most critically of all, this has been a test to see whether the Constitution -- and our commitment to the principles enshrined in the Bill of Rights -- could survive a national crisis and true state of emergency. We have failed the test abysmally." (01/23/22)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/01/23/totalitarian-paranoia-run-amok/
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28) Conservatives and "American Nationalists" aren't the same thing
Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming
"A news story in the Orange County Register this week titled 'Police break up fracas at Orange County Republican meeting' got a lot of attention. It was reported that a group of 'conservatives' wearing 'orange shirts that said 'RINO hunters,' with crosshairs making a target of the O,' tried to storm a Republican Party of Orange County meeting in Costa Mesa on Monday night.' I disagree with the term 'conservative' being used interchangeably with 'American Nationalist,' which is what the group's leader called himself in the next paragraph. Those words are not synonyms. Had the story simply referred to the group as 'American Nationalists,' or far-right agitators or populists, there would be no issue." (01/22/22)
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/22/conservatives-and-american-nationalists-arent-the-same-thing/
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29) Anonymous Officials Claim There's An Evil Russian Plot Again, But The Evidence Is ... Secret Again
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"Major western news publications are running a story about a sinister plot by the Russian government, and (you may want to sit down for this) the sources of the report are anonymous, and the evidence for it is secret. The New York Times reports that according to anonymous individuals within the US and British governments, Russia is currently plotting to topple the existing government of Ukraine in some way using some method and then somehow install a puppet regime that is sympathetic to Moscow using some sort of means. What specifically those means and methods might be are not revealed to us in this very serious news report." (01/23/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/01/23/anonymous-officials-claim-theres-an-evil-russian-plot-again-but-the-evidence-is-secret-again/
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30) Regenerative Agriculture and the Denial of Comparative Advantage, part 3
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Desrochers
"There was a time not too long ago when most people understood that comparative advantage, trade, the division of labor and specialization delivered greater agricultural productivity and standards of living. Perhaps because they or members of their extended family weren't all that removed from quasi-subsistence farming, they saw the virtues of specializing in the production of 'cash crops' for which there were lucrative and often distant urban markets. By participating in a larger division of labor in which they concentrated on what their land was best suited for, commercial farmers achieved a much higher standard of living for themselves and others." (01/23/22)
https://www.econlib.org/regenerative-agriculture-and-the-denial-of-comparative-advantage-part-3/
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31) Peace with Horror: How a Psychotic Empire Loses a War
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
"It has been a cold cold winter for Afghanistan and I'm afraid it's only getting colder. As the temperature drops below freezing and the snow continues to fall, this tiny war-torn nation that has already seen so many different shades of hell faces yet another humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. ... The western media covers this crisis, when they cover it at all, with a strange sense of awe at the plight of the Afghan people and an occasional interlude of tisk-tisking the Taliban government for overseeing it. But any simpleton with more than a year's worth of memory can tell you that this is not a homegrown problem. The Afghans are not starving because of Taliban malfeasance. The Afghans are starving because America and its loyal western flunkies are starving them." (01/23/22)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2022/01/peace-with-horror-how-psychotic-empire.html
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32) Easy Cases May Make Bad Rules
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
"Hard cases make bad law, an adage apparently coined before 1837 tells us. In other words, 'an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases.' Not everyone has agreed that this is the case, but we'll let that go. I just want to point out that easy cases also may make bad law, or at least bad rules." (01/21/22)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/01/tgif-easy-cases-may-make-bad-law.html
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33) VA Stories: Tales from the ER #8
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Doc Paracelsus
"I was assigned to a nice intern, for once. He taught me real medicine instead of scutting me out to write notes and run blood samples to the lab. Even though it was 5:30 pm and I had been at the hospital since 5 am, I couldn't say no. The patient was an African American Gulf War vet, although he looked much older than his age of 48 years. He had come to the ER complaining of chest pain, openly admitting the pain started after smoking a bunch of crack. 'Crack is whack' as Whitney Houston said, and smoking crack can cause a heart attack. However, this patient wasn't being admitted for a heart attack. He was being admitted for pericarditis, which is inflammation of the tissue that lines the heart." (01/21/22)
https://pamphleteer.co/post/tales-from-the-er-8/
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34) Thank Omicron? Or Hypocrisy?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
"It was not immediately clear what had changed regarding 'the science,' when, midweek, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted the Queen's government's mask mandates and other coronavirus restrictions. The case for and against mask efficacy has been about the same for a very long time. There's no obvious statistical evidence for mask mandates working. And pre-2020 studies showed ambiguous results for preventing virus transmission by wearing masks -- and certainly not for the cloth masks most people wear. So what changed?" (01/21/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/01/21/thank-omicron-or-hypocrisy-2/
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35) What the US and UK get wrong about Ukraine
Source: spiked
by Mary Dejevsky
"Day after day, Western officialdom, amplified by mainstream and social media, has been warning of an imminent attack by Russia on Ukraine. The doom-laden forecasts veer from the US president talking of a possibly minor Russian incursion into the east of Ukraine, to an unnamed senior US defence official warning of a 'false flag operation' as a precursor to a 'full-blown' invasion, to word of a plan for Russia to capture the capital Kiev and install a new anti-Western government. Personally, as a long-time watcher of the region, with extensive first-hand experience of both Russia and Ukraine, I find this one-sided drumbeat of war, barely interrupted by periodic sub-summit level talks invariably called by the Russians, irresponsible and dangerous in the extreme." (01/21/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/21/what-the-us-and-uk-get-wrong-about-ukraine/
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36) The American [Inflation] Plan
Source: Libertarian Party
by Bekah Congdon
"On January 19th, 2022, Joe Biden marked the end of his first year as President with a press conference in which he painted a flowery picture of the state of our nation. Included in his rosy report were millions of new jobs, low unemployment, a 30% increase in new business applications, and a 'raise' in income for working people. It's a shame that all this good news is predicated on lies." (01/21/22)
https://www.lp.org/the-american-inflation-plan/
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37) The No. 1 Secret of Investing (and Life)
Source: American Consequences
by Dan Ferris
"If a single secret to investing and living a good life exists, this is it. I have mentioned it before in my 20-plus years of writing in this business. But I need to make sure I give a great idea its due... And I'll try to do just that today. This is one of the most important ideas you'll ever learn. And it's definitely the most important investing idea you'll ever learn. Without this one concept, you'll never make a dime in the stock market. Without mastering it, you'll flounder in your career... And even worse, you'll live a wasteful, frustrating life. This idea separates the best investors from the rest. As I'll explain today, it's the one thing such different investors and thinkers like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, George Soros, Ray Dalio, and even Albert Einstein all have in common." (01/21/22)
https://americanconsequences.com/dan-ferris-the-number-one-secret-of-investing/
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38) Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump
Source: The Atlantic
by David French
"Since last winter, the public has focused much of its attention on the violent right-wing terror attack on the Capitol on January 6. And this is understandable. But the truth is that the most compelling evidence of Trump's criminality lies in his actions before that day. And nowhere is his misconduct more clearly documented than in the state of Georgia. ... Were Trump's attempts to reverse the outcome in Georgia (and nationally) criminal? There is compelling evidence that they were, under both Georgia state law and federal criminal statutes." (01/21/22)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/georgia-path-potentially-prosecuting-trump/621326/
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39) Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire
Source: Jacobin
by Kevin Klyman
"When President Joe Biden announced in June that the United States would donate additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, he claimed it was a humanitarian gesture. 'We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions. We are sharing these vaccines to save lives and to lead the world in bringing an end to the pandemic, with the power of our example and with our values,' Biden said. This was a bald-faced lie. The United States has repeatedly traded vaccines for political influence while upholding a system of vaccine apartheid that guarantees vaccine scarcity in the Global South and reinforces US empire." (01/23/22)
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/vaccine-apartheid-us-empire-diplomacy-china-cold-war/
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40) Dissecting the Supreme Court's Split Decision on Vaccine Mandates
Source: Heartland Institute
by Paul Fisher
"Note that the switch by Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh from blocking a vaccine mandate in the one case to allowing a vaccine mandate in the other case created the mess and confusion about the power of the Federal government to mandate that Americans be jabbed with a vaccine or lose their jobs. This reinforces the 'enigma of Justice Roberts' and perhaps the alliance in that 'enigma' of Justice Kavanaugh." (01/21/22)
https://blog.heartland.org/2022/01/dissecting-the-supreme-courts-split-decision-on-vaccine-mandates/
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41) Out-of-control Congress and Fed need binding rules
Source: Fox News
by Vance Ginn & Alexander William Salter
"'May you live in interesting times,' goes the old Chinese curse. When it comes to economics, 'interesting' usually means the sky is falling. Inflation reached seven percent at the end of 2021, a rate not seen in forty years. The Federal Reserve's balance sheet more than doubled to $8.8 trillion since early 2020. And Uncle Sam's fiscal house is in shambles. The 2021 budget deficit was almost $2.8 trillion, putting the national debt at $28.5 trillion -- nearly 130 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. To call this imprudent would be a massive understatement. We need fiscal and monetary rules now. Money mischief and fiscal follies are intimately related. This isn't because deficit spending causes inflation -- things aren't that simple. Instead, profligate spending and careless money-printing reinforce each other. When politicians and bureaucrats have too much leeway, they pursue short-run benefits at the expense of long-run viability." (01/22/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/congress-federal-reserve-money-economy-inflation-ginn-salter
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42) NATO Bears Some Responsibility For The Ukraine Crisis
Source: The American Conservative
by Ivan Eland
"Great power spheres of influence, despite naive and self-serving internationalist rhetoric to the contrary, are far from outmoded. They are still widely recognized by international affairs experts as the harsh reality in anarchic international circumstances, and provide the best chance for peace among rival great powers, given such a harsh environment. After the Soviet Union and its competing Warsaw Pact alliance collapsed at the end of the Cold War, instead of the triumphalist expansion to Russia's insecure western borders, NATO should have either dissolved or admitted most European countries, including Russia. This would have eschewed its Article V military purpose and made NATO only a diplomatic problem-solving forum for Europe." (01/21/22)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nato-bears-some-responsibility-for-the-ukraine-crisis/
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43) Trump and Tiberius, Uncle Joe and Little Boots, supply chains and debt
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
"As a historian pointed out, the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (nicknamed Caligula which translates as 'little boots' -- named for the footwear of the legionnaires) was actually loved by the Roman people. They did not care that he was sleeping with his sisters, hosting giant orgies, murdering innocent people, or feasting on peacocks, they loved Caligula because he shared the surplus of Roman wealth with the people and not just the aristocracy, he contributed vast amounts of money to the Roman racecourses and coliseum, to building lavish bathhouses and other institutions, including brothels, pleasure houses, and casinos which the pre-Christian Roman population had absolutely no qualms about. The still-relatively-efficient Roman bureaucracy and military established by Augustus and managed fairly well by Tiberius kept things going in Rome and the provinces. Except for things like the insane pontoon bridge." (01/21/22)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/01/21/trump-and-tiberius-uncle-joe-and-little-boots-supply-chains-and-debt/
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44) Limited Government and Communism
Source: Everything Voluntary
by Alex R Knight III
"What do the two share in common? The original end-concept of the latter was that ultimately, via socialism, the State would simply disappear altogether. How did that work out? As to the former, it rests on the idea that, election after election, laws can be kept few, taxes low, agencies small and highly restricted in their functions, court judges pure in their rulings that ever demonstrate strict fealty to words on parchment ('constitutions'), and police always noble and respectful of the many rights the population is supposed to be able to forever enjoy. How has that ever worked out?" (01/21/22)
https://everything-voluntary.com/limited-government-and-communism
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45) The Dumbest Biden
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
"If you watched Joe Biden's press conference this week, his first in one day shy of the number of years he's been alive (78 days), you were likely not thrilled. When the best thing sycophants in the left-wing media can say about the event is 'He stood for 2 hours!' you know it was more of a testament to the quality of his adult diaper than a declaration of a winning performance. But the truth is no one named Biden is capable of giving a winning performance. They are not smart people, and they are not good people. The Biden myth (this idea that Joe is some average guy who found himself in politics, but never lost his 'middle-class Joe' roots) is a joke. Joe was never middle class. His family was wealthy until his father squandered the money. It seems no one with the name Biden was particularly bright." (01/23/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/01/23/the-dumbest-biden-n2602216
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46) The Value of Work
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Rachel Lu
"Almost 39 million Americans said 'au revoir' to their employers in 2021. September alone saw a record-breaking 4.4 million employees voluntarily quitting their jobs. Labor economists are still busy crunching numbers, trying to make sense of this 'Great Resignation.' They have theories. So many theories are circulating, in fact, that it's clear the experts are still fairly flummoxed. ... At times, I hear my elders grumble that my generation simply does not grasp 'the value of work.' I can sympathize with this sentiment, in a time when prime-aged men are opting for a life of dependence and idleness, even as millions of jobs go unfilled nationwide. It seems obvious that our culture has failed to transmit certain essential truths about the dignity of work." (01/21/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/the-value-of-work/
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47) Yes, Virginia, You Can Unmask Your Kids
Source: Cato Institute
by Ilya Shapiro
"Youngkin's allowance of parental opt‐outs is much more modest than Northam's prohibition of school‐district flexibility." (01/21/22)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/yes-virginia-you-can-unmask-kids
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48) Liberty Entails the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
"By now, even the most ardent of drug warriors has to admit that the drug war has been a manifest failure, at least if the goal was to eradicate drug use in America. At the same time, most everyone must now acknowledge the widespread violence, death, suffering, mass incarceration, infringements on civil liberties, asset forfeiture, and racial bigotry that have come with the drug war. But we also must never forget that America's drug laws have helped to destroy the liberty of the American people. That's because liberty necessarily entails the right to possess, distribute, and ingest anything you want, including dangerous and damaging drugs. Anyone who lives in a society that criminalizes such things cannot possibly be considered to be living in a free society." (01/21/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/01/21/liberty-entails-the-right-to-possess-and-consume-drugs/
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49) Here's Why American Workers Are (a) Screwed and (b) Quitting
Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
"So, 2021 was a banner year for American workers, right? Wages rising, unemployment low, the revival of the strike, unions' approval rating at its highest level (68 percent) in 50 years, and the most pro-labor administration in American history .. things looking up, no? No. Not by a long shot. Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual count of unionized workers, which made clear that the 70-year decline of unions (that is, of worker power) continues apace. The share of unionized American workers dropped from 10.8 percent last year to 10.3 percent this year (tying the all-time low set in 2019), and the rate among private-sector workers also hit a new rock bottom of 6.1 percent, which is about one-seventh of its level in the middle of the 20th century. With so much apparently going workers' way, including their record-high level of support for unions, how do we explain this continuing decline?" (01/21/22)
https://prospect.org/labor/heres-why-american-workers-are-screwed-and-quitting/
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50) School Choice as Occupational Choice
Source: 200-Proof Liberals
by Chris Freiman
"Think of attending school as a kind of occupation. Suppose that your place of work was dictated by the government based on where your house was located. Your boss might do a bad job. You might have serious conflicts with your co-workers. Your day-to-day work might be tedious and unproductive. But if that's the place of employment assigned to you based on your location, that's where you'll work. Now suppose there's a much better workplace down the street. You'd prefer to work there. You're permitted to switch jobs, but there's a catch–your former employer will garnish your wages forever even though you no longer work there." (01/21/22)
https://200proofliberals.blogspot.com/2022/01/school-choice-as-occupational-choice.html
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Free Talk Live, 01/23/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Nano-Nads :: Diplomatic Immunity :: Bad Slave orders us a pizza :: Busses in NM suck :: Abolish public schools :: Turbines inside your household water system :: Berating and abusing romantic chatbots :: Show: 2022-01-23 Captain Kickass, Rich E Rich, Nikki." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/23/22)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2022-01-23
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52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 355
Source: The Anarchist Experience
"Rich reminds MC and KS how he developed his name after KS watched the movie Ali, and they discuss these HEADLINES: The Value of Work... You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime ... Hawaii may require travelers have COVID booster shot to be 'fully vaccinated.'" [various formats] (01/22/22)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/the-anarchist-experience-355/
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53) This Week in Common Sense, 01/22/22
Source: Common Sense
"Your Rulers -- Your Child." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/22/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/01/22/listen-your-rulers-your-child/
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54) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 01/21/22
Source: Libertarian Institute
"Public Private Partnership w/Brett Hawes." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/year-zero/public-private-partnership-w-brett-hawes/
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55) Punk Rock Libertarians Podcast, episode 382
Source: The Daily Liberator
"No Bueno." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://www.thedailyliberator.com/prl-podcast-episode-382-no-bueno/
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/21/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"True confession, today is my last day of official quarantine. I took the time to watch a movie that Jeffrey A. Tucker wrote about a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad I did." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://thebryanhydeshow.podbean.com/e/2022-january-21-the-bryan-hyde-show-hour-one/
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57) Clint Ehrlich on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
"Clint Ehrlich on Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/1-20-22-clint-ehrlich-on-russia-ukraine-and-kazakhstan/
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58) Free Thoughts Podcast, episode 425
Source: Libertarianism.org
"Stephen Kent joins the show to talk about what Star Wars tells us about how to be better in a politicized world." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/how-force-can-fix-world
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59) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/21/22
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
"Ukraine and Biden's Brain | Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus." [Flash video] (01/21/22)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63541
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60) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/21/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Government Price Controls Never Work -- Why Are They Ever Used?" [Flash video] (01/21/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/government-price-controls-never-work-why-are-they-ever-used
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Burkina Faso: Kabore Held at Army Camp as Military Mutinies
2) DC: Thousands march against regime's segregation/ghettoization schemes
3) UK: Court rules political prisoner Julian Assange can appeal illegal extradition to US
4) Norway: Taliban talks spark new debate about recognition
5) Ukraine: US regime reduces embassy staff, orders some family members to leave
6) Belgium: Regime thugs attack anti-segregation/ghettoization protesters with chemical weapons
7) Germany: Navy chief resigns over suggestion that regime face reality
8) MN: Seven eateries sue Minneapolis regime over segregation/ghettoization scheme
9) Dangerous quack hopes people forget his complete failure as they learn to live with COVID-19
10) New Zealand: Ardern postures as one of the proles by performatively complying with her own dictates
11) PA: Truck with 100 monkeys crashes, some of them missing
12) AZ: Democratic Party censures Sinema as insufficiently Jacobin
13) Report: Biden plans tax-funded legal services program for "Remain in Mexico" immigrants
14) Italy: Presidential balloting to begin Monday as Berlusconi drops out
15) Groups Warn US Lawmakers Against Fueling "New Cold War" With China
16) NH: Legislators introduce secession bill
17) Chinese, US regimes rattle sabers in area around Taiwan
18) Turkey: Regime thugs abduct journalist for insulting their idiot boss
19) Syria: IS prison break sparks days of clashes
20) Judge Sides With University of Florida Professors in Free Speech Case
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Will Inflation Bankrupt Joe Biden?
22) Bad Politicians Think Elections Are Illegitimate if They Don't Like the Winner
23) The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing
24) Why Japan should take a stand in NATO tensions with Russia
25) The Problem with Public Goods and So-Called Economic Power
26) Why Is the Supreme Court Disregarding Individual Rights?
27) Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok
28) Conservatives and "American Nationalists" aren't the same thing
29) Anonymous Officials Claim There's An Evil Russian Plot Again, But The Evidence Is ... Secret Again
30) Regenerative Agriculture and the Denial of Comparative Advantage, part 3
31) Peace with Horror: How a Psychotic Empire Loses a War
32) Easy Cases May Make Bad Rules
33) VA Stories: Tales from the ER #8
34) Thank Omicron? Or Hypocrisy?
35) What the US and UK get wrong about Ukraine
36) The American [Inflation] Plan
37) The No. 1 Secret of Investing (and Life)
38) Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump
39) Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire
40) Dissecting the Supreme Court's Split Decision on Vaccine Mandates
41) Out-of-control Congress and Fed need binding rules
42) NATO Bears Some Responsibility For The Ukraine Crisis
43) Trump and Tiberius, Uncle Joe and Little Boots, supply chains and debt
44) Limited Government and Communism
45) The Dumbest Biden
46) The Value of Work
47) Yes, Virginia, You Can Unmask Your Kids
48) Liberty Entails the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs
49) Here's Why American Workers Are (a) Screwed and (b) Quitting
50) School Choice as Occupational Choice
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Talk Live, 01/23/22
52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 355
53) This Week in Common Sense, 01/22/22
54) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 01/21/22
55) Punk Rock Libertarians Podcast, episode 382
56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/21/22
57) Clint Ehrlich on The Scott Horton Show
58) Free Thoughts Podcast, episode 425
59) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/21/22
60) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/21/22
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1) Burkina Faso: Kabore Held at Army Camp as Military Mutinies
Source: Bloomberg
"Mutinous soldiers in Burkina Faso detained the nation's president and asked him to sign a resignation letter, people familiar with the matter said a day after an army mutiny. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore is being held at a military camp, the people said, asking not to be identified because they're not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to government spokesman Alkassoum Maiga weren't answered when Bloomberg sought comment. News of Kabore's detention came after a day of unrest in Burkina Faso on Sunday, when soldiers at several army bases opened fire, including at the military airport in the capital, Ouagadougou. The government imposed a curfew between 8 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. and ordered schools to remain closed Monday. Mobile internet services have been cut, according to Netblocks, a private business that monitors disruptions to connectivity." (01/24/22)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-23/gunfire-heard-at-military-camp-in-burkina-faso-capital-reuters
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2) DC: Thousands march against regime's segregation/ghettoization schemes
Source: United Press International
"Demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to oppose vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 regulations. Organizers for the 'Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming' march said they expected about 20,000 attendees at the rally, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service but the Washington Post reported a 'smaller crowd of several thousand' on the National Mall Sunday afternoon. A news release ahead of the rally said the march is a response to two years of 'increasing governmental overreach' in the form of mandates at local, state, and federal levels." (01/23/22)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/01/23/thousands-march-Washington-DC-rally-against-vaccine-mandates/6221642966129/
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3) UK: Court rules political prisoner Julian Assange can appeal illegal extradition to US
Source: CNN
"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can appeal to the UK's Supreme Court against extradition to the United States, Britain's High Court ruled Monday. The decision comes more than a month after two senior judges in the High Court overturned a January 2021 magistrates' court ruling and said that Assange could be extradited to the US on the basis of assurances given by the US government about his treatment there." (01/24/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/europe/wikileaks-julian-assange-appeal-extradition-intl-gbr/index.html
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4) Norway: Taliban talks spark new debate about recognition
Source: Politico
"A Taliban delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday started three days of talks in Oslo with Western officials and Afghan civil society representatives amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. The closed-door meetings were taking place at a hotel in the snow-capped mountains above the Norwegian capital and are the first time since the Taliban took over in August that their representatives have held official meetings in Europe. The talks were not without controversy, however, reigniting the debate over whether they legitimize the Taliban government, especially since they were being held in Norway, a NATO country involved in Afghanistan from 2001 until the Taliban take over last summer." (01/23/22)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/23/taliban-talks-norway-recognition-00000913
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5) Ukraine: US regime reduces embassy staff, orders some family members to leave
Source: CNN
"The State Department announced on Sunday night that it will be reducing staff levels at the US Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, beginning with the departure of nonessential staff and family members. ... CNN reported on Friday that the embassy had requested that the State Department take this step as Russia has continued to mass forces and equipment near Ukraine's borders, sparking fears of a renewed invasion. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's latest intelligence assessment, shared with CNN this week, assessed that Russia has now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region." [editor's note: Is that even close to the number of US troops continuously deployed in the "region" near the US-Mexico border? – TLK] (01/23/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/politics/us-embassy-ukraine-reduce-staff/index.html
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6) Belgium: Regime thugs attack anti-segregation/ghettoization protesters with chemical weapons
Source: Associated Press
"Police fired water cannons and thick clouds of tear gas Sunday in Brussels to disperse people protesting COVID-19 vaccinations and government restrictions that aim to curb the fast-spreading omicron variant. Police said the protest in the Belgian capital drew an estimated 50,000 people, some traveling from France, Germany and other countries to take part. ... A much smaller number of anti-vaccination demonstrators marched in Barcelona. The protests followed demonstrations in other European capitals on Saturday against vaccine passports and other requirements that European governments have imposed as daily infections and hospitalizations have surged due to the omicron variant." (01/23/22)
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-europe-brussels-415d5a6a7cf46f3fccafb339a17dc9d0
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7) Germany: Navy chief resigns over suggestion that regime face reality
Source: Reuters
"Germany's navy chief stepped down on Saturday after drawing criticism for saying Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved respect and that Kyiv would never win back annexed Crimea from Moscow. ... [Admiral Kay-Achim] Schoenbach, speaking in English, said Putin seeks to be treated as an equal by the West. 'What he (Putin) really wants is respect,' Schoenbach said. 'And my God, giving someone respect is low cost, even no cost ... It is easy to give him the respect he really demands -- and probably also deserves,' Schoenbach said, calling Russia an old and important country. Schoenbach conceded Russia's actions in Ukraine needed to be addressed. But he added that 'the Crimea peninsula is gone, it will never come back, this is a fact,' contradicting the joint Western position that Moscow's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 cannot be accepted and must be reversed." (01/22/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-navy-chief-resigns-over-putin-comments-2022-01-22/
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8) MN: Seven eateries sue Minneapolis regime over segregation/ghettoization scheme
Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Seven bars and restaurants are suing the city of Minneapolis over its new vaccine-or-test mandate, which requires bars and restaurants to ask patrons for proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test from the past 72 hours. Jeff O'Brien, an attorney with the Minneapolis firm Chestnut Cambronne, filed the request for a declaratory judgment and temporary restraining order against the city Thursday in Hennepin County District Court on behalf of Smack Shack, The Gay '90s, Sneaky Pete's, Wild Greg's Saloon, Urban Forage, Jimmy John's and Bunkers Music Bar and Grill." (01/21/22)
https://www.twincities.com/2022/01/21/restaurants-sue-minneapolis-over-vaccine-or-test-mandate/
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9) Dangerous quack hopes people forget his complete failure as they learn to live with COVID-19
Source: Fox News
"Dr. Anthony Fauci outlined a path toward a long-term plan to live with COVID-19, claiming it's the 'best-case scenario.' The president's chief medical advisor predicted this week the current surge of cases caused by the omicron variant will peak by mid-February, leaving officials wondering what happens next. Fauci said on ABC's 'This Week' that the best-case scenario will be to bring the virus under control and learn to live with it. 'Control means you're not eliminating it, you're not eradicating it,' Fauci explained. 'But it gets down to such a low level that it's essentially integrated into the general respiratory infections that we have learned to live with. I mean, we would like them not to be present, but they're there, but they don't disrupt society.' Fauci noted that he hoped the medical community will deal with COVID-19 on a 'case-by-case basis' going forward." (01/23/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/fauci-pandemic-long-term-normal-live-with-it
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10) New Zealand: Ardern postures as one of the proles by performatively complying with her own dictates
Source: New York Post
"New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had to postpone her wedding thanks to her own COVID-19 restrictions. Ardern, 41, put her island nation of 5 million people under the 'red setting' of the country's pandemic response starting Monday, which limits the sizes of gatherings and tightens mask rules. 'I just join many other New Zealanders who have had an experience like that as a result of the pandemic and to anyone who's caught up in that scenario, I am so sorry,' she said, announcing her wedding next weekend would have to be delayed. The new rules come after the country detected nine Omicron cases in a single family that flew to the nation's biggest city, Auckland, for a wedding." (01/23/22)
https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-delays-wedding-over-covid-law/
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11) PA: Truck with 100 monkeys crashes, some of them missing
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
"A truck carrying about 100 monkeys was involved in a crash Friday in Pennsylvania, state police said as authorities searched for at least three of the monkeys that appeared to have escaped the vehicle. The truck carrying the animals crashed with a dump truck in the afternoon in Montour County, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Andrea Pelachick told the Daily Item. The truck had been on its way to a lab, Pelachick said. Authorities have asked residents who might see the monkeys to call state police at 570-524-2662. It was unclear if any people or animals were injured in the crash." [editor's note: There was a time when the question would be "are there any typewriters also missing?" – SAT] (01/23/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-Truck-with-100-monkeys-crashes-some-of-16795191.php
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12) AZ: Democratic Party censures Sinema as insufficiently Jacobin
Source: CBS News
"The Arizona Democratic Party has voted to formally censure Senator Kyrsten Sinema 'as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy,' the party said Saturday. The announcement came just days after Sinema opposed a change to the Senate rules that could have moved Democratic-backed voting rights legislation forward. 'I want to be clear, the Arizona Democratic Party is a diverse coalition with plenty of room for policy disagreements, however on the matter of the filibuster and the urgency to protect voting rights, we have been crystal clear,' Arizona Democratic Party chairperson Raquel Teran said in a statement. 'In the choice between an archaic legislative norm and protecting Arizonans' right to vote, we choose the latter, and we always will.'" (01/22/22)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-censure-arizona-democratic-party/
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13) Report: Biden plans tax-funded legal services program for "Remain in Mexico" immigrants
Source: Fox News
"The Biden administration will look to make it easier for immigrants to seek legal services across the southern border with the launch of the Legal Access at the Border (LAB) program. The program will launch in seven border cities, including San Diego, Calexico, Nogales, El Paso, Eagle Pass, Laredo, and Brownsville -- all cities in which the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) was once enforced. MPP (also known as the 'Remain in Mexico' policy) appears to have provided the motivation to create the program in the first place: Many legal aid organizations have remained wary of providing assistance due to the program, which some believe presents a humanitarian issue. U.S. authorities [abducted] more than 1.7 million immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September -- the most since the passage of President Ronald Reagan's sweeping immigration reform bill in 1986." (01/23/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-legal-services-program-remain-in-mexico
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14) Italy: Presidential balloting to begin Monday as Berlusconi drops out
Source: The Guardian [UK]
"Italian parliamentarians will begin casting their votes for a new president on Monday after the scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi abandoned his dream of becoming the next head of state. More than 1,000 lawmakers and regional delegates will participate in the complex secret ballot, described as being akin to the appointment of a new pope, that could go through several rounds before a successor to Sergio Mattarella, who is due to step down on 3 February, is elected. The winner of the seven-year mandate requires a two-thirds majority within the first three rounds of voting; from the fourth, an absolute majority is sufficient. Only on three occasions in the history of the election has a new president emerged in the first round." (01/23/22)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/italy-secret-ballot-president-berlusconi-drops-out
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15) Groups Warn US Lawmakers Against Fueling "New Cold War" With China
Source: Common Dreams
"Ahead of congressional negotiations on a key technology bill, 32 global justice groups on Friday demanded revisions to the pending legislation that will encourage the United States and China to 'resolve bilateral and global challenges through dialogue and cooperation, rather than conflict and one-upmanship.' The organizations' letter to lawmakers focuses on the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), which passed the Senate with bipartisan support last June and would pour billions of dollars into American manufacturing and technology research to boost competition with China. The Chinese government has openly criticized and lobbied against the USICA because, as Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin put it last year, the bill 'distorts the facts' and 'smears China's development path and domestic and foreign policies.'" (01/23/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/21/groups-warn-us-lawmakers-against-fueling-new-cold-war-china
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16) NH: Legislators introduce secession bill
Source: Conway Daily Sun
"New Hampshire could be its own sovereign nation under a Constitutional Amendment proposed by state Rep. Mike Sylvia (R-Belmont) and now making its way through the halls of Concord, and if successful, to the ballot box. Sylvia offered the measure Thursday for the state to peacefully secede from the United States. To get it past the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs would be the first step for CACR 32. ... The analysis of the Constitutional Amendment reads that the concurrent resolution 'declares the state's independence from the United States and moves New Hampshire forward as a sovereign nation.'" (01/21/22)
https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/n-h-could-become-its-own-nation-under-cacr-32/article_79f62438-7afc-11ec-935d-b39bf17835d5.html
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17) Chinese, US regimes rattle sabers in area around Taiwan
Source: Fox News
"China launched 39 aircraft, mostly fighter jets, near Taiwan Sunday -- the largest show of force in months. The launch came the same day the U.S. Navy sailed two aircraft carriers along with a pair of amphibious assault ships alongside allies in the Philippine Sea. It's not clear what might have prompted the escalation, but China did something similar in early October during similar U.S. Navy operations. Taiwan issued radio warnings and sent combat air patrol to deter the Chinese aircraft, while air defense missile systems were deployed to monitor them, Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said in the statement issued late on Sunday. China claims Taiwan is part of its own territory and has rejected its claims of independence after the two countries split in 1949. The U.S. does not formally recognize Taiwan but maintains an unofficial relationship and is supportive of its democratic government." (01/23/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-flies-dozens-warplanes-near-taiwan
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18) Turkey: Regime thugs abduct journalist for insulting their idiot boss
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
"A Turkish court ordered prominent journalist Sedef Kabas jailed pending trial on a charge of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan under a law that has seen tens of thousands prosecuted. Police detained Kabas early on Saturday morning and took her to Istanbul's main police station before transferring her to the city's main court, which ruled in favour of her formal arrest. The alleged insult was in the form of a palace-related proverb that Kabas expressed both on an opposition television channel and on her Twitter account, drawing condemnation from government officials. 'When the ox climbs to the palace, he does not become a king, but the palace becomes a barn,' she tweeted." (01/23/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/23/turkish-journalist-arrested-on-charge-of-insulting-erdogan
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19) Syria: IS prison break sparks days of clashes
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Intense fighting is taking place in north-eastern Syria after Islamic State (IS) fighters tried to break inmates out of a Kurdish-run prison. Kurdish-led forces backed by US air strikes have been battling militants in the city of Hasaka since Thursday. The assault on Ghwayran prison is one of the group's most ambitious since its defeat in Syria nearly three years ago. The overcrowded site houses 3,500 suspected IS members including some of its leaders, a monitoring group says. Hundreds of jihadists have been recaptured since the breakout, but some are still on the run, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Kurdish security forces have surrounded the prison and are fighting for control of nearby neighbourhoods. Residents have been fleeing their homes." (01/23/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60100364
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20) Judge Sides With University of Florida Professors in Free Speech Case
Source: Tallahassee Democrat
"A federal judge has sided with three University of Florida political science professors, giving them a preliminary win in their fight to provide expert witness testimony in a lawsuit challenging a new state election law that starts in less than two weeks. ... Sharon Austin, Daniel Smith and Michael McDonald challenged the constitutionality of the revised policy after they were denied permission to provide expert testimony in a case challenging a new state elections law that places restrictions on voting by mail, among other things. Smith is chair of the department. Administrators denied their requests, saying their testimony would be adverse to the university's interests because they went against the executive branch of state government." (01/22/22)
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2022/01/21/federal-judge-orders-preliminary-injunction-against-ufs-conflict-interest-policy/6608426001/
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21) Will Inflation Bankrupt Joe Biden?
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
"Inflation has risen more than fourfold since Biden took office, jumping from 1.4% to 7%. Cynics are quipping that it's now higher than Biden's approval rating, but that is a cheap shot -- or at least premature. Last month, Biden characterized inflation as a 'bump in the road.' But that 'bump' is a hole in the gas tank for tens of millions of Americans who drive to work. Oil prices closed at their highest level in seven years the day Biden spoke. ... Will the president suffer 'death by a thousand price hikes,' as consumers blame Biden each time they hit the gas pump or grocery store? More handouts for government dependents will do nothing to ease the inflation pain of hardworking middle-class families. Biden's attempt to portray himself as an innocent bystander to the destruction of value of the US dollar will be a disastrous flop." (01/23/22)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2022/01/23/new-york-post-will-inflation-bankrupt-joe-biden/
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22) Bad Politicians Think Elections Are Illegitimate if They Don't Like the Winner
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
"President Joe Biden probably met the low bar set for his rare press conference this week by not face-planting into a pudding cup, but he also uttered a few eye-openers during his meandering performance. Among them was the claim that the 2022 midterm elections might be illegitimate if his party's voting bill doesn't pass. It was yet another reminder that former President Donald Trump has plenty of company in accepting the political process only if things go his way. So, if you're looking for a respite from disputed vote tallies, don't hold your breath." (01/21/22)
https://reason.com/2022/01/21/biden-thinks-elections-are-illegitimate-if-he-doesnt-like-the-winner/
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23) The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Isaac M Morehouse
"Universities are dying. They have long ceased being the best way to gain knowledge. More recently, the degrees they confer have ceased being the best way to signal employability; the only exception being jobs that legally require them. (Such jobs are increasingly stodgy, unattractive, bureaucratic, backwards, and subservient to tyrannical governments). The final leg universities stand on is the mythology of social status. That's it. That's what gives them what waning power they have." (01/22/21)
https://fee.org/articles/the-last-leg-universities-stand-on-is-collapsing/
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24) Why Japan should take a stand in NATO tensions with Russia
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Kazuhiko Togo
"Japan is deeply worried about increasing tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine and for good reason. There are three key concerns. First, a Ukraine military crisis would divert European attention away from the Indo-Pacific region. Tokyo has welcomed the recent European deployments of naval ships to the region to counter China's maritime assertiveness. ... Second, conflict between NATO and Russia will undoubtedly push Russia further towards China. ... Third, a Ukraine military crisis would impair Japan's global strategy. Facing the rise of China at its doorstep, Japan has adopted a strategy that combines the enhancement of deterrence capabilities and the pursuit of dialogue. To implement this strategy effectively, Japan needs good partners in Northeast Asia, and Russia is a prime candidate." (01/24/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/24/how-japan-can-foster-dialogue-in-eastern-europe/
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25) The Problem with Public Goods and So-Called Economic Power
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by David Gordon
"In this week's column, I'd like to discuss two arguments Murray Rothbard gives that respond to influential criticisms of the free market. ... The first of these arguments has to do with what are called 'public' or 'collective' goods. It may well be, supporters of the argument claim, that the market can supply efficiently most goods and services. But it cannot supply public goods, such as defense, that are nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. A nation that installs an antimissile defense system, for example, will necessarily protect the whole country, not just individuals who pay for the service of defense. Furthermore, people can't be excluded from the good: a supplier of the good can't say to people, 'If you refuse to pay for the good, we won't supply it to you.' Rothbard's response is characteristically radical. He denies that goods of this kind exist." (01/21/22)
https://mises.org/library/problem-public-goods-and-so-called-economic-power
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26) Why Is the Supreme Court Disregarding Individual Rights?
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Toby Rogers
"We should all be grateful to the U.S. Supreme Court for granting a stay that blocks enforcement of the OSHA vaccine mandate and disappointed that they split the baby in half by allowing the vaccine mandate to continue for healthcare workers in facilities that receive funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). ... I understand why the Supreme Court wanted to make the narrowest possible ruling -- they do not want to be seen as making law and they do not want to get too far out front on any issue lest they risk the credibility of the court. The problem with this approach is that if we are not going to debate the big issues at the Supreme Court, then where exactly are these debates going to take place?" (01/22/21)
https://brownstone.org/articles/why-is-the-supreme-court-disregarding-individual-rights/
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27) Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by John Whitehead
"What has unfolded over the past few years has been a test to see how well 'we the people' have assimilated the government's lessons in compliance, fear and police state tactics; a test to see how quickly 'we the people' will march in lockstep with the government's dictates, no questions asked; and a test to see how little resistance 'we the people' will offer up to the government's power grabs when made in the name of national security. Most critically of all, this has been a test to see whether the Constitution -- and our commitment to the principles enshrined in the Bill of Rights -- could survive a national crisis and true state of emergency. We have failed the test abysmally." (01/23/22)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/01/23/totalitarian-paranoia-run-amok/
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28) Conservatives and "American Nationalists" aren't the same thing
Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming
"A news story in the Orange County Register this week titled 'Police break up fracas at Orange County Republican meeting' got a lot of attention. It was reported that a group of 'conservatives' wearing 'orange shirts that said 'RINO hunters,' with crosshairs making a target of the O,' tried to storm a Republican Party of Orange County meeting in Costa Mesa on Monday night.' I disagree with the term 'conservative' being used interchangeably with 'American Nationalist,' which is what the group's leader called himself in the next paragraph. Those words are not synonyms. Had the story simply referred to the group as 'American Nationalists,' or far-right agitators or populists, there would be no issue." (01/22/22)
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/22/conservatives-and-american-nationalists-arent-the-same-thing/
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29) Anonymous Officials Claim There's An Evil Russian Plot Again, But The Evidence Is ... Secret Again
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"Major western news publications are running a story about a sinister plot by the Russian government, and (you may want to sit down for this) the sources of the report are anonymous, and the evidence for it is secret. The New York Times reports that according to anonymous individuals within the US and British governments, Russia is currently plotting to topple the existing government of Ukraine in some way using some method and then somehow install a puppet regime that is sympathetic to Moscow using some sort of means. What specifically those means and methods might be are not revealed to us in this very serious news report." (01/23/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/01/23/anonymous-officials-claim-theres-an-evil-russian-plot-again-but-the-evidence-is-secret-again/
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30) Regenerative Agriculture and the Denial of Comparative Advantage, part 3
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Desrochers
"There was a time not too long ago when most people understood that comparative advantage, trade, the division of labor and specialization delivered greater agricultural productivity and standards of living. Perhaps because they or members of their extended family weren't all that removed from quasi-subsistence farming, they saw the virtues of specializing in the production of 'cash crops' for which there were lucrative and often distant urban markets. By participating in a larger division of labor in which they concentrated on what their land was best suited for, commercial farmers achieved a much higher standard of living for themselves and others." (01/23/22)
https://www.econlib.org/regenerative-agriculture-and-the-denial-of-comparative-advantage-part-3/
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31) Peace with Horror: How a Psychotic Empire Loses a War
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
"It has been a cold cold winter for Afghanistan and I'm afraid it's only getting colder. As the temperature drops below freezing and the snow continues to fall, this tiny war-torn nation that has already seen so many different shades of hell faces yet another humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. ... The western media covers this crisis, when they cover it at all, with a strange sense of awe at the plight of the Afghan people and an occasional interlude of tisk-tisking the Taliban government for overseeing it. But any simpleton with more than a year's worth of memory can tell you that this is not a homegrown problem. The Afghans are not starving because of Taliban malfeasance. The Afghans are starving because America and its loyal western flunkies are starving them." (01/23/22)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2022/01/peace-with-horror-how-psychotic-empire.html
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32) Easy Cases May Make Bad Rules
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
"Hard cases make bad law, an adage apparently coined before 1837 tells us. In other words, 'an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases.' Not everyone has agreed that this is the case, but we'll let that go. I just want to point out that easy cases also may make bad law, or at least bad rules." (01/21/22)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/01/tgif-easy-cases-may-make-bad-law.html
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33) VA Stories: Tales from the ER #8
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Doc Paracelsus
"I was assigned to a nice intern, for once. He taught me real medicine instead of scutting me out to write notes and run blood samples to the lab. Even though it was 5:30 pm and I had been at the hospital since 5 am, I couldn't say no. The patient was an African American Gulf War vet, although he looked much older than his age of 48 years. He had come to the ER complaining of chest pain, openly admitting the pain started after smoking a bunch of crack. 'Crack is whack' as Whitney Houston said, and smoking crack can cause a heart attack. However, this patient wasn't being admitted for a heart attack. He was being admitted for pericarditis, which is inflammation of the tissue that lines the heart." (01/21/22)
https://pamphleteer.co/post/tales-from-the-er-8/
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34) Thank Omicron? Or Hypocrisy?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
"It was not immediately clear what had changed regarding 'the science,' when, midweek, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted the Queen's government's mask mandates and other coronavirus restrictions. The case for and against mask efficacy has been about the same for a very long time. There's no obvious statistical evidence for mask mandates working. And pre-2020 studies showed ambiguous results for preventing virus transmission by wearing masks -- and certainly not for the cloth masks most people wear. So what changed?" (01/21/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/01/21/thank-omicron-or-hypocrisy-2/
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35) What the US and UK get wrong about Ukraine
Source: spiked
by Mary Dejevsky
"Day after day, Western officialdom, amplified by mainstream and social media, has been warning of an imminent attack by Russia on Ukraine. The doom-laden forecasts veer from the US president talking of a possibly minor Russian incursion into the east of Ukraine, to an unnamed senior US defence official warning of a 'false flag operation' as a precursor to a 'full-blown' invasion, to word of a plan for Russia to capture the capital Kiev and install a new anti-Western government. Personally, as a long-time watcher of the region, with extensive first-hand experience of both Russia and Ukraine, I find this one-sided drumbeat of war, barely interrupted by periodic sub-summit level talks invariably called by the Russians, irresponsible and dangerous in the extreme." (01/21/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/21/what-the-us-and-uk-get-wrong-about-ukraine/
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36) The American [Inflation] Plan
Source: Libertarian Party
by Bekah Congdon
"On January 19th, 2022, Joe Biden marked the end of his first year as President with a press conference in which he painted a flowery picture of the state of our nation. Included in his rosy report were millions of new jobs, low unemployment, a 30% increase in new business applications, and a 'raise' in income for working people. It's a shame that all this good news is predicated on lies." (01/21/22)
https://www.lp.org/the-american-inflation-plan/
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37) The No. 1 Secret of Investing (and Life)
Source: American Consequences
by Dan Ferris
"If a single secret to investing and living a good life exists, this is it. I have mentioned it before in my 20-plus years of writing in this business. But I need to make sure I give a great idea its due... And I'll try to do just that today. This is one of the most important ideas you'll ever learn. And it's definitely the most important investing idea you'll ever learn. Without this one concept, you'll never make a dime in the stock market. Without mastering it, you'll flounder in your career... And even worse, you'll live a wasteful, frustrating life. This idea separates the best investors from the rest. As I'll explain today, it's the one thing such different investors and thinkers like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, George Soros, Ray Dalio, and even Albert Einstein all have in common." (01/21/22)
https://americanconsequences.com/dan-ferris-the-number-one-secret-of-investing/
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38) Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump
Source: The Atlantic
by David French
"Since last winter, the public has focused much of its attention on the violent right-wing terror attack on the Capitol on January 6. And this is understandable. But the truth is that the most compelling evidence of Trump's criminality lies in his actions before that day. And nowhere is his misconduct more clearly documented than in the state of Georgia. ... Were Trump's attempts to reverse the outcome in Georgia (and nationally) criminal? There is compelling evidence that they were, under both Georgia state law and federal criminal statutes." (01/21/22)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/georgia-path-potentially-prosecuting-trump/621326/
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39) Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire
Source: Jacobin
by Kevin Klyman
"When President Joe Biden announced in June that the United States would donate additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, he claimed it was a humanitarian gesture. 'We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions. We are sharing these vaccines to save lives and to lead the world in bringing an end to the pandemic, with the power of our example and with our values,' Biden said. This was a bald-faced lie. The United States has repeatedly traded vaccines for political influence while upholding a system of vaccine apartheid that guarantees vaccine scarcity in the Global South and reinforces US empire." (01/23/22)
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/vaccine-apartheid-us-empire-diplomacy-china-cold-war/
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40) Dissecting the Supreme Court's Split Decision on Vaccine Mandates
Source: Heartland Institute
by Paul Fisher
"Note that the switch by Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh from blocking a vaccine mandate in the one case to allowing a vaccine mandate in the other case created the mess and confusion about the power of the Federal government to mandate that Americans be jabbed with a vaccine or lose their jobs. This reinforces the 'enigma of Justice Roberts' and perhaps the alliance in that 'enigma' of Justice Kavanaugh." (01/21/22)
https://blog.heartland.org/2022/01/dissecting-the-supreme-courts-split-decision-on-vaccine-mandates/
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41) Out-of-control Congress and Fed need binding rules
Source: Fox News
by Vance Ginn & Alexander William Salter
"'May you live in interesting times,' goes the old Chinese curse. When it comes to economics, 'interesting' usually means the sky is falling. Inflation reached seven percent at the end of 2021, a rate not seen in forty years. The Federal Reserve's balance sheet more than doubled to $8.8 trillion since early 2020. And Uncle Sam's fiscal house is in shambles. The 2021 budget deficit was almost $2.8 trillion, putting the national debt at $28.5 trillion -- nearly 130 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. To call this imprudent would be a massive understatement. We need fiscal and monetary rules now. Money mischief and fiscal follies are intimately related. This isn't because deficit spending causes inflation -- things aren't that simple. Instead, profligate spending and careless money-printing reinforce each other. When politicians and bureaucrats have too much leeway, they pursue short-run benefits at the expense of long-run viability." (01/22/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/congress-federal-reserve-money-economy-inflation-ginn-salter
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42) NATO Bears Some Responsibility For The Ukraine Crisis
Source: The American Conservative
by Ivan Eland
"Great power spheres of influence, despite naive and self-serving internationalist rhetoric to the contrary, are far from outmoded. They are still widely recognized by international affairs experts as the harsh reality in anarchic international circumstances, and provide the best chance for peace among rival great powers, given such a harsh environment. After the Soviet Union and its competing Warsaw Pact alliance collapsed at the end of the Cold War, instead of the triumphalist expansion to Russia's insecure western borders, NATO should have either dissolved or admitted most European countries, including Russia. This would have eschewed its Article V military purpose and made NATO only a diplomatic problem-solving forum for Europe." (01/21/22)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nato-bears-some-responsibility-for-the-ukraine-crisis/
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43) Trump and Tiberius, Uncle Joe and Little Boots, supply chains and debt
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
"As a historian pointed out, the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (nicknamed Caligula which translates as 'little boots' -- named for the footwear of the legionnaires) was actually loved by the Roman people. They did not care that he was sleeping with his sisters, hosting giant orgies, murdering innocent people, or feasting on peacocks, they loved Caligula because he shared the surplus of Roman wealth with the people and not just the aristocracy, he contributed vast amounts of money to the Roman racecourses and coliseum, to building lavish bathhouses and other institutions, including brothels, pleasure houses, and casinos which the pre-Christian Roman population had absolutely no qualms about. The still-relatively-efficient Roman bureaucracy and military established by Augustus and managed fairly well by Tiberius kept things going in Rome and the provinces. Except for things like the insane pontoon bridge." (01/21/22)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/01/21/trump-and-tiberius-uncle-joe-and-little-boots-supply-chains-and-debt/
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44) Limited Government and Communism
Source: Everything Voluntary
by Alex R Knight III
"What do the two share in common? The original end-concept of the latter was that ultimately, via socialism, the State would simply disappear altogether. How did that work out? As to the former, it rests on the idea that, election after election, laws can be kept few, taxes low, agencies small and highly restricted in their functions, court judges pure in their rulings that ever demonstrate strict fealty to words on parchment ('constitutions'), and police always noble and respectful of the many rights the population is supposed to be able to forever enjoy. How has that ever worked out?" (01/21/22)
https://everything-voluntary.com/limited-government-and-communism
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45) The Dumbest Biden
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
"If you watched Joe Biden's press conference this week, his first in one day shy of the number of years he's been alive (78 days), you were likely not thrilled. When the best thing sycophants in the left-wing media can say about the event is 'He stood for 2 hours!' you know it was more of a testament to the quality of his adult diaper than a declaration of a winning performance. But the truth is no one named Biden is capable of giving a winning performance. They are not smart people, and they are not good people. The Biden myth (this idea that Joe is some average guy who found himself in politics, but never lost his 'middle-class Joe' roots) is a joke. Joe was never middle class. His family was wealthy until his father squandered the money. It seems no one with the name Biden was particularly bright." (01/23/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/01/23/the-dumbest-biden-n2602216
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46) The Value of Work
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Rachel Lu
"Almost 39 million Americans said 'au revoir' to their employers in 2021. September alone saw a record-breaking 4.4 million employees voluntarily quitting their jobs. Labor economists are still busy crunching numbers, trying to make sense of this 'Great Resignation.' They have theories. So many theories are circulating, in fact, that it's clear the experts are still fairly flummoxed. ... At times, I hear my elders grumble that my generation simply does not grasp 'the value of work.' I can sympathize with this sentiment, in a time when prime-aged men are opting for a life of dependence and idleness, even as millions of jobs go unfilled nationwide. It seems obvious that our culture has failed to transmit certain essential truths about the dignity of work." (01/21/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/the-value-of-work/
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47) Yes, Virginia, You Can Unmask Your Kids
Source: Cato Institute
by Ilya Shapiro
"Youngkin's allowance of parental opt‐outs is much more modest than Northam's prohibition of school‐district flexibility." (01/21/22)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/yes-virginia-you-can-unmask-kids
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48) Liberty Entails the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
"By now, even the most ardent of drug warriors has to admit that the drug war has been a manifest failure, at least if the goal was to eradicate drug use in America. At the same time, most everyone must now acknowledge the widespread violence, death, suffering, mass incarceration, infringements on civil liberties, asset forfeiture, and racial bigotry that have come with the drug war. But we also must never forget that America's drug laws have helped to destroy the liberty of the American people. That's because liberty necessarily entails the right to possess, distribute, and ingest anything you want, including dangerous and damaging drugs. Anyone who lives in a society that criminalizes such things cannot possibly be considered to be living in a free society." (01/21/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/01/21/liberty-entails-the-right-to-possess-and-consume-drugs/
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49) Here's Why American Workers Are (a) Screwed and (b) Quitting
Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
"So, 2021 was a banner year for American workers, right? Wages rising, unemployment low, the revival of the strike, unions' approval rating at its highest level (68 percent) in 50 years, and the most pro-labor administration in American history .. things looking up, no? No. Not by a long shot. Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual count of unionized workers, which made clear that the 70-year decline of unions (that is, of worker power) continues apace. The share of unionized American workers dropped from 10.8 percent last year to 10.3 percent this year (tying the all-time low set in 2019), and the rate among private-sector workers also hit a new rock bottom of 6.1 percent, which is about one-seventh of its level in the middle of the 20th century. With so much apparently going workers' way, including their record-high level of support for unions, how do we explain this continuing decline?" (01/21/22)
https://prospect.org/labor/heres-why-american-workers-are-screwed-and-quitting/
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50) School Choice as Occupational Choice
Source: 200-Proof Liberals
by Chris Freiman
"Think of attending school as a kind of occupation. Suppose that your place of work was dictated by the government based on where your house was located. Your boss might do a bad job. You might have serious conflicts with your co-workers. Your day-to-day work might be tedious and unproductive. But if that's the place of employment assigned to you based on your location, that's where you'll work. Now suppose there's a much better workplace down the street. You'd prefer to work there. You're permitted to switch jobs, but there's a catch–your former employer will garnish your wages forever even though you no longer work there." (01/21/22)
https://200proofliberals.blogspot.com/2022/01/school-choice-as-occupational-choice.html
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51) Free Talk Live, 01/23/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Nano-Nads :: Diplomatic Immunity :: Bad Slave orders us a pizza :: Busses in NM suck :: Abolish public schools :: Turbines inside your household water system :: Berating and abusing romantic chatbots :: Show: 2022-01-23 Captain Kickass, Rich E Rich, Nikki." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/23/22)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2022-01-23
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52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 355
Source: The Anarchist Experience
"Rich reminds MC and KS how he developed his name after KS watched the movie Ali, and they discuss these HEADLINES: The Value of Work... You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime ... Hawaii may require travelers have COVID booster shot to be 'fully vaccinated.'" [various formats] (01/22/22)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/the-anarchist-experience-355/
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53) This Week in Common Sense, 01/22/22
Source: Common Sense
"Your Rulers -- Your Child." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/22/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/01/22/listen-your-rulers-your-child/
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54) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 01/21/22
Source: Libertarian Institute
"Public Private Partnership w/Brett Hawes." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/year-zero/public-private-partnership-w-brett-hawes/
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55) Punk Rock Libertarians Podcast, episode 382
Source: The Daily Liberator
"No Bueno." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://www.thedailyliberator.com/prl-podcast-episode-382-no-bueno/
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/21/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"True confession, today is my last day of official quarantine. I took the time to watch a movie that Jeffrey A. Tucker wrote about a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad I did." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://thebryanhydeshow.podbean.com/e/2022-january-21-the-bryan-hyde-show-hour-one/
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57) Clint Ehrlich on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
"Clint Ehrlich on Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/1-20-22-clint-ehrlich-on-russia-ukraine-and-kazakhstan/
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58) Free Thoughts Podcast, episode 425
Source: Libertarianism.org
"Stephen Kent joins the show to talk about what Star Wars tells us about how to be better in a politicized world." [various formats] (01/21/22)
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/how-force-can-fix-world
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59) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/21/22
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
"Ukraine and Biden's Brain | Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus." [Flash video] (01/21/22)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63541
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60) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/21/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Government Price Controls Never Work -- Why Are They Ever Used?" [Flash video] (01/21/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/government-price-controls-never-work-why-are-they-ever-used
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