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Thomas L. Knapp
Jun 25, 2024, 6:32:54 AMJun 25
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Today's Freedom News:
1) UK: Political prisoner Assange freed after agreeing to pretend he committed a crime
2) Kenya: Regime finally deploys occupation force to Haiti amid protests at home
3) SCOTUS to take up state bans on healthcare for minors
4) US regime rejects Middle East terror kingpin’s accusation that it did the right thing
5) “I don’t appreciate your tone”: Judge in disgraced former president’s documents case reprimands prosecutor
6) Study: Texas’s abortion ban tied to more Infant deaths
7) NYC: Millionaire investment banker filmed punching woman during anti-Israel protest quits job
8) Sierra Leone: Parliament passes child marriage ban
9) Rwanda: Deadly crush at rally as election campaign starts
10) FL: Teen dies at home after night at seafood bar, police probe homicide
11) Lawsuit challenges new Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
12) MD: Dali cargo ship leaves Baltimore for Virginia, nearly three months after bridge collapse
13) Disgraced former president’s campaign claims he was “tortured” in Fulton County Jail — as it peddles coffee cups with his mugshot
14) Russia: Regime Summons the American Ambassador Over a Deadly Attack That Moscow Says Used US-Made Missiles
15) Russia: Eight killed in deadly fire at Moscow office building
16) UPS agrees to sell its freight-brokerage division for less than it paid for the business in 2015
17) HI: Lifeguard/surfer/actor killed in shark attack
18) New Caledonia: Buildings burned, police attacked amid renewed revolt against colonial masters
19) Apple becomes first target of EU’s new digital competition rules aimed at big tech
20) IN: Resident shoots home intruder
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Therapy for Radicals
22) The Superstition of Warning Labels
23) Programmable Incentives
24) Abolish Occupational Licensure
25) Stop Taxing Tips
26) WaPo editor drama only exposes its lack of “ethics” after debasing Trump for years
27) The Supreme Court’s Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munoz
28) Joe Biden Wants To Steal Your Children
29) Our Rulers Are Literally Driving Us Crazy
30) Here’s What to Really Ask Biden and Trump at the Debate
31) Is it campaign season yet?
32) How Sturdy Is the Democrats’ “Blue Wall” in 2024?
33) The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First
34) Trump cabinet hopeful wants the “Israel model” for US China policy
35) Contempt unconstrained: Are judges taking their power too far?
36) You Keep Using the Term “Authoritarian”
37) Microaggression madness in Oregon could cost doctors their licenses
38) The Government Caused New York’s Legal Pot “Disaster”
39) Why Putin Sent Russian Ships to Cuba
40) To Defeat Health Tyrants, Eat Real Food
41) Boeing Will Either Face or Not Face Accountability
42) Natural vs. Regulated
43) Want Better Higher Ed? Get the Feds Out
44) From Stonewall to Blair Mountain: A Rant in Defense of Riots
45) RFK Jr. Deserves Secret Service Protection
46) Free and Independent: The Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson
47) The plight of a double hater in the presidential election
48) The internal contradictions of nationalism
49) We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State
50) When Big Business Fails, Small Shops Prevail
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Reason Roundtable, 06/24/24
52) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 149
53) Mutual Exchange Radio, 06/24/24
54) Conflicts of Interest, episode 621
55) My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, 06/24/24
56) EconTalk, 06/24/24
57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/24/24
58) The Corbett Report, episode 461
59) Free Talk Live, 06/23/24
60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2508
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1) UK: Political prisoner Assange freed after agreeing to pretend he committed a crime
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the United Kingdom and is travelling home to Australia after he agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of breaching the espionage law in the United States. Assange, 52, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to a filing in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. He was freed from the UK’s high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday and taken to the airport, from where he flew out of the country. Assange will appear at a court in Saipan, a US Pacific territory, at 9am on Wednesday (23:00 GMT on Tuesday), where he will be sentenced to 62 months of the time already served.” (06/25/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/julian-assange-is-free-wikileaks-founder-freed-in-deal-with-us
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2) Kenya: Regime finally deploys occupation force to Haiti amid protests at home
Source: Semafor
“Kenya’s President William Ruto on Monday, saw off 400 police officers set to deploy to Haiti as part of a UN-backed security mission. They will leave for Haiti on Tuesday, June 25. Kenya is expected to send a total of 1,000 officers to the island nation in a phased approach. Ruto handed the officers the Kenyan flag in a low-key event at State House, the presidential residence in Nairobi. The media was not invited to the event, in which Kenyan clergy members also prayed for the forces. Godfrey Otunge, senior assistant inspector general of Kenya’s police force, was named commander of the officers deployed to Haiti.The initial batch of officers is composed of elite officers from various specialized response units. The deployment, however, continues to face opposition from a section of Kenyans, including several activist groups.” (06/24/24)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/24/2024/kenya-deploys-police-to-haiti-amid-protests
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3) SCOTUS to take up state bans on healthcare for minors
Source: ABC News
“The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care. The justices’ action comes as Republican-led states have enacted a variety of restrictions on health care for transgender people, school sports participation, bathroom usage and drag shows. The administration and Democratic-led states have extended protections for transgender people, including a new federal regulation that seeks to protect transgender students. The case before the high court involves a law in Tennessee that restrict puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors.” (06/24/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/supreme-court-state-bans-gender-affirming-care-minors-111366382
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4) US regime rejects Middle East terror kingpin’s accusation that it did the right thing
Source: Haaretz [Israel]
“The Biden administration vehemently rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion on Sunday that Washington has deliberately reduced arms shipments to Israel and accused Netanyahu of political motivations. Senior Israeli officials said there has in fact been a slowdown in recent weeks in the rate at which ammunition and replacement parts are arriving. But unlike Netanyahu, they think this stems from bureaucratic and technical problems rather than a deliberate decision. The biggest fear on both sides is that Netanyahu’s claims will cause a political crisis between Washington and Jerusalem, just as the chances of all-out war with Hezbollah are increasing.” (06/24/24)
https://archive.is/EB2Fa
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5) “I don’t appreciate your tone”: Judge in disgraced former president’s documents case reprimands prosecutor
Source: NBC News
“The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case reprimanded a prosecutor from special counsel Jack Smith’s office at a hearing Monday on a proposed gag order for the former president. ‘I don’t appreciate your tone,’ U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said when attorney David Harbach appeared to get exasperated as she questioned the need to modify Trump’s conditions of release. Smith’s office has challenged those conditions over Trump’s false claims that FBI agents were prepared to kill him while they were executing a 2022 search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The tense exchange at a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce came as attorney Harbach was arguing that Cannon should bar Trump from making more inflammatory statements about FBI agents who worked on the investigation.” (06/24/24)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-trump-classified-documents-case-reprimands-prosecutor-hearing-rcna158725
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6) Study: Texas’s abortion ban tied to more Infant deaths
Source: United Press International
“Following state legislation passed in 2021 that essentially banned abortion in Texas, the rate of infant deaths rose by almost 13%, compared to a much smaller 1.8% rise nationwide, a new study finds. The number of Texan babies whose deaths were specifically linked to birth defects also jumped by 22.9% in 2022, the year after the ban was put in place. In the rest of the United States, such deaths declined by 3.1% over the same time period, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. … The findings were published June 24 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.” (06/24/24)
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/06/24/abortion-ban-Texas-infant-deaths/4551719242119/
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7) NYC: Millionaire investment banker filmed punching woman during anti-Israel protest quits job
Source: New York Post
“The millionaire investment banker who slugged a woman in the face in Brooklyn earlier this month has resigned from his job, the company said Monday. Jonathan Kaye, head of the global business services franchise at Manhattan-based Moelis & Co., was caught punching the anti-Israel protester in Park Slope on June 8 in the video, which quickly went viral. … Kaye, who is Jewish, and the unidentified woman reportedly got into a verbal altercation over the Israel-Hamas war. A source close to Kaye told The Post on Monday that he was out getting ice cream for his children when he turned the corner and ran into a group of demonstrators who were taking part in a ‘Queers for Palestine’ protest. The source said Kaye was surrounded by six people who were shouting slurs at him and then was doused with a red and white liquid.” (06/24/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/business/millionaire-banker-filmed-punching-woman-at-brooklyn-pride-event-quits-job/
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8) Sierra Leone: Parliament passes child marriage ban
Source: Semafor
“Sierra Leone’s Parliament passed a historic bill criminalizing child marriage, a major victory for campaigners in a region that has the highest prevalence of the practice in the world. The bill, which includes jail terms of up to 15 years or a hefty fine for perpetrators, still needs to be signed into law by President Julius Maada Bio. The West African country is home to 800,000 child brides, half of whom were married before the age of 15, according to a 2019 UNICEF report.” (06/24/24)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/24/2024/sierra-leone-bans-child-marriage-in-huge-win-for-activists
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9) Rwanda: Deadly crush at rally as election campaign starts
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“One person has died and dozens were injured during a crush at an election rally for Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, officials say. Campaigning for July’s general election began on Saturday, with Mr Kagame holding two rallies in northern Rwanda over the weekend. The crush happened on Sunday in Rubavu district, where 37 people were injured, four of whom were hospitalised with serious injuries, a statement from the ministry of local government said. It apologised to the deceased’s family, adding that a medical team on site ‘did everything possible.’ Mr Kagame is running for a fourth term. He has been the country’s de facto leader since 1994, when his then rebel group, the Rwanda Patriotic Front, seized power at the end of the genocide directed at members of his Tutsi ethnic group. He won the last presidential election in 2017 with nearly 99% of the vote.” (06/24/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxxxlylgg7o
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10) FL: Teen dies at home after night at seafood bar, police probe homicide
Source: Fox News
“Florida investigators have launched a homicide investigation after two teenagers were rushed to the hospital from a Fort Myers restaurant and one of them died hours after returning home. Ava Hulett, 19, was out with a group at Pelican Larry’s Raw Bar and Grill when she and at least one friend suffered from medical emergencies, according to her family’s attorney, Anthony Rickman. She later returned home, but her family found her unresponsive hours later. … Detectives launched a homicide investigation, but the sheriff’s office also said there was no evidence that restaurant staff were to blame. ‘They’re not investigating the restaurant for anything like poisoning,’ Rickman told Fox News Digital. ‘If it is a poisoning circumstance, it’s our belief that it was an intentional act by another third party that caused the medical situation for Ava Hulett.'” (06/24/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-teen-dies-home-after-night-seafood-bar-police-probe-homicide
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11) Lawsuit challenges new Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Source: SFGate
“Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday to block Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of Louisiana public school children, represented by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Under the legislation signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry last week, all public K-12 classrooms and state-funded universities will be required to display a poster-sized version of the Ten Commandments in ‘large, easily readable font’ next year. Opponents argue that the law is a violation of separation of church and state and that the display will isolate students, especially those who are not Christian.” (06/24/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/lawsuit-challenges-new-louisiana-law-requiring-19532455.php
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12) MD: Dali cargo ship leaves Baltimore for Virginia, nearly three months after bridge collapse
Source: Seattle Times
“The cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse. The 984-foot Dali started moving shortly before 8:30 a.m. with four tugboats. It is headed to Norfolk, Virginia, for the removal of the remaining containers on the vessel and additional repairs. … A National Transportation Safety Board investigation found the ship experienced two power outages in the hours before it left the Port of Baltimore. In the moments before the bridge collapsed, it lost power again and veered off course. The agency is still investigating what caused the electrical failures.” (06/24/24)
https://archive.is/HAAtw
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13) Disgraced former president’s campaign claims he was “tortured” in Fulton County Jail — as it peddles coffee cups with his mugshot
Source: New York Post
“Donald Trump’s team claimed Monday that he was ‘tortured’ in Fulton County Jail during his August surrender on election tampering raps — as it peddled coffee cups with his mugshot. ‘I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail, and TOOK MY MUGSHOT. So guess what?’ a new fundraising pitch from his camp said. ‘I put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE!’ The missive offered fans the opportunity to purchase one of his ‘limited edition’ coffee cups featuring the mugshot of a scowling Trump during his booking.” (06/24/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/us-news/trump-camp-claims-he-was-tortured-in-fulton-county-jail/
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14) Russia: Regime Summons the American Ambassador Over a Deadly Attack That Moscow Says Used US-Made Missiles
Source: US News & World Report
“The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest what it says was the use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea that reportedly killed four people and wounded more than 150. Washington ‘has effectively become a party’ to the war on Ukraine’s side, the ministry said in a statement, adding, ‘Retaliatory measures will certainly follow.’ It did not elaborate. There was no immediate comment from U.S. or Ukrainian officials. The Associated Press could not independently verify Russia’s claims about the missiles used. Kyiv’s forces have relied heavily on Western-supplied weaponry since Russia’s invasion more than three years ago.” (06/24/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-24/russia-summons-the-american-ambassador-over-a-deadly-attack-that-moscow-says-used-us-made-missiles
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15) Russia: Eight killed in deadly fire at Moscow office building
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“At least eight people have died in a large office building fire near Moscow, the regional Governor Andrey Vorobyov has said. Emergency officials told the state-owned Tass news agency that just one person was rescued from the blaze at the burning building in Fryazino, about 25km (15.5 miles) north-east of the capital. … There are conflicting reports about the building’s purpose. It once homed the Platan Research Institute and defence industry, according to Tass. A statement to the agency from Ruselectronics, a Russia-owned electronics organisation, said the building has been privately owned since the 1990s. However, opposition media outlets recently reported that Platan was based in the building as late as 2023.” (06/24/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8444kxgrkeo
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16) UPS agrees to sell its freight-brokerage division for less than it paid for the business in 2015
Source: ABC 11 News
“United Parcel Service said Sunday it agreed to sell its Coyote Logistics division to RXO for just over $1 billion — less than it paid for the freight-brokerage company in 2015 — to focus more on its core package-delivery business. UPS said it expects to close the sale by the year if regulators allow the deal. Atlanta-based UPS said it will update its financial outlook once the sale is completed. … Freight brokers serve as middlemen between shippers and carriers such as UPS. RXO, a freight broker based in Charlotte, North Carolina, said acquiring Coyote will nearly double the company, to $7.1 billion in annual revenue, and make it the third-biggest freight broker in North America.” (06/23/24)
https://abc11.com/post/ups-agrees-sell-freight-brokerage-division-less-paid/14993512/
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17) HI: Lifeguard/surfer/actor killed in shark attack
Source: Fox News
“A Hawaiian lifeguard died Sunday after suffering a shark attack as he was surfing off the island of Oahu, according to authorities. Tamayo Perry, 49, a City and County of Honolulu Ocean Safety lifeguard, died from the shark bites near Goat Island, Honolulu Emergency Services Department’s Shayne Enright said in a statement to The Associated Press. … The 49-year-old was a professional surfer and an actor who appeared in the movies ‘Blue Crush’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,’ along with a role in an episode of ‘Hawaii Five-0.'” (06/24/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hawaii-lifeguard-killed-shark-attack-after-surfing-tragic-loss
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18) New Caledonia: Buildings burned, police attacked amid renewed revolt against colonial masters
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Several buildings, including a police station and a town hall, were set on fire in New Caledonia overnight, authorities said Monday, as the French Pacific territory was hit by a fresh surge of unrest. ‘The night was… marked by unrest throughout the mainland and on the island of Pins and Mare, requiring the intervention of numerous reinforcements: with attacks on the police, arson and roadblocks,’ the High Commission, which represents the French state in the archipelago, said in a press release. Rioting and looting erupted in New Caledonia in mid-May over an electoral reform plan that Indigenous Kanak people feared would leave them in a permanent minority, putting independence hopes definitively out of reach.” (06/24/24)
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240624-buildings-burned-police-attacked-amid-renewed-unrest-in-new-caledonia
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19) Apple becomes first target of EU’s new digital competition rules aimed at big tech
Source: SFGate
“European Union regulators on Monday leveled their first charges under the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook, accusing Apple of preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The European Commission said that according to the preliminary findings of its investigation, the restrictions that the iPhone maker imposes on developers using its mobile App Store had breached the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Markets Act. The rulebook, also known as the DMA, is a sweeping set of regulations aimed at preventing tech ‘gatekeepers’ from cornering digital markets under threat of heavy financial penalties.” (06/24/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/european-union-regulators-accuse-apple-of-19531442.php
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20) IN: Resident shoots home intruder
Source: Fox 59 News
“It was at 4 a.m., two hours before Sunday’s dawn, when Darrell Gibbs was awakened by the sound of six to eight gunshots that were fired out of the back of his house, which is located in the 800 block of Denison Street on the southwest side of Indianapolis. … Three armed and masked men had been trying to kick in Gibbs’[s] back door. … Gibbs said his son told him that he traded gunfire with a man in the backyard. ‘I see the intruder laying here on the ground, and he wanted me to make a call for him, and ‘You know me, you know me,’’ Gibbs said of what the wounded man told him. … Gibbs’[s] son eventually identified the intruder as a family member. … ‘It was little Matt, my nephew’s son.’ … As of this article’s publication, [Matthew] Kinnaird, who had been shot previously in 2020, remained hospitalized.” (06/23/24)
https://fox59.com/news/indianapolis-resident-shoots-cousin-during-home-invasion/
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21) Therapy for Radicals
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra & Ryan Neugebauer
“In 1971, American activist Saul Alinsky published a book called Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. Alinsky bemoaned the fact that activists, with ‘no illusions about the system,’ sought to ‘Burn the system down!’ Many of these same activists had ‘plenty of illusions about the way to change our world.’ Alinsky’s playbook on practical strategies for political activism has been appropriated not only by tacticians on the left but also by establishment politicians among liberal Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and conservative Tea Party Republicans. That’s an important point to keep in mind because the issues that we address in this article are applicable to anyone who seeks social change, regardless of its form or direction. Alinsky’s discussion is, perhaps, more relevant today than it was when it was first published over a half-century ago.” (06/24/24)
https://c4ss.org/content/59685
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22) The Superstition of Warning Labels
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Populists and anti-business progressives already are committed to the storyline that social media platforms such as Facebook will sink to any depth of corporate wickedness in the pursuit of profit, and you can see the rhetorical lines being drawn: Over here, ‘the children;’ over there, mustache-twirling corporate villains. But we have been here before. Warning labels on music and video games had no effect on public morals in the 1980s and 1990s, and warning labels on social media platforms are going to have no effect on the mental health of young people in our time.” (06/24/24)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/superstition-warning-labels-130000884.html
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23) Programmable Incentives
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“In the past, humans had to get big things done through different structures of social coherence. Whether it was allegiance to the Queen and Country or fear of IRS agents breaking down your door, social coherence was achievable. But more and more, getting big things done will be carried out through biomimicry. That is, we’ll act more like bees. Distributed ledgers aren’t AI supercomputers that figure everything out or tell us what to do. In many distributed ledgers, more like what bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopoulos calls ‘dumb networks,’ only with fairly smart beings as nodes in those networks. And those beings have billions of perspectives. ‘They will act as the connective tissue between humans and machines, mediated by incentives,’ writes Goro. ‘If humans are neurons in the human hive mind, blockchain technology acts as the connective tissue and neurotransmitters.'” (06/24/24)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/programmable-incentives
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24) Abolish Occupational Licensure
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The Declaration of Independence, which Americans will celebrate in a couple of weeks, points out that everyone is endowed with natural, God-given rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life necessarily encompasses the right to sustain one’s life through labor. Liberty necessarily encompasses entering into mutually beneficial economic transactions with others. The pursuit of happiness necessarily encompasses the right to live your life any way you choose, so long as you don’t initiate force or fraud against others. So, a question naturally arises: Why do people have to ask the government for permission to engage in any line of work?” (06/24/24)
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/24/abolish-occupational-licensure/
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25) Stop Taxing Tips
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul
“Donald Trump recently promised that, if he wins the November election, he will support eliminating taxes on tips as part of his proposal to renew and expand the 2017 tax cuts. This tax law change would be a long overdue boost for millions of Americans. Tips often comprise a substantial portion of the earnings of waiters and waitresses, as well as of other service-sector employees. However, unlike regular wages, a service-sector employee usually has no guarantee of, or legal right to, a tip. Instead, the amount of a tip usually depends on how well an employee satisfies his customers. Since the amount of taxes one pays increases along with the size of tips, taxing tips punishes workers for doing a superior job!” (06/24/24)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/stop-taxing-tips
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26) WaPo editor drama only exposes its lack of “ethics” after debasing Trump for years
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Morale is plummeting in the viper’s nest that passes for the Washington Post newsroom. Not because readers are deserting the paper in droves. Not because the newspaper lost $77 million last year. The oh-so-ethical journalists of the WaPo couldn’t care less about such trivialities. They’re too busy finding ways to cover up Joe Biden’s corruption or swallowing new Deep State lies about Donald Trump’s ‘existential threat to democracy.’ They’re just upset that the paper’s owner, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, wants to stem the bleeding and has installed new management to carry out his wishes.” [editor’s note: Well, DeVine’s credentials in lacking ethics are indisputable, so I guess we should accept her as an expert witness – TLK] (06/23/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/23/opinion/washington-posts-editor-drama-only-exposes-its-lack-of-ethics-after-debasing-trump-for-years/
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27) The Supreme Court’s Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munoz
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“In its important recent immigration decision in Department of State v. Munoz, the Supreme Court ruled there are virtually no constitutional limits on the federal government’s power to bar non-citizen spouses of American citizens from entering the country. In the process, Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion (written on behalf of herself and the five other conservative justices) commits serious errors in historical analysis, and violates Justice Barrett’s own well-taken strictures about the appropriate use of history in constitutional analysis.” (06/24/24)
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/24/the-supreme-courts-dubious-use-of-history-in-department-of-state-v-munoz/
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28) Joe Biden Wants To Steal Your Children
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Dan McKnight
“I made the decision to join the United States Armed Forces twice in my life. First, in the early 1990s after school when I enlisted and trained as a U.S. Marine. Then, following the 9/11 attacks, I signed up for the Idaho National Guard and was later deployed to Afghanistan. Those were my decisions, ones I made because I believed in service, and knew the military would be good for me. But what if it wasn’t your choice to join the military? What if it wasn’t your son’s choice? What if, suddenly, your daughter was forced to join the military?” (06/24/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/joe-biden-wants-to-steal-your-children/
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29) Our Rulers Are Literally Driving Us Crazy
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s probably worth noting that the empire doesn’t actually lose anything from our society’s increasing mental health problems, and in fact actually benefits from them. Which is probably why everything in this dystopia is pointed at making everyone crazier and crazier. In a society that is guided not by the pursuit of human thriving but by the pursuit of profit, there is no downside to all the underlings being depressed, anxious and overwhelmed all the time, so long as they’re still showing up to work and still consuming products. As long as the gears of capitalism are still being turned, it doesn’t matter whether the people turning them are enjoying their lives. As luck would have it, it turns out that their depression and anxiety are themselves actually wonderful sources of profit.” (06/23/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/06/23/our-rulers-are-literally-driving-us-crazy/
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30) Here’s What to Really Ask Biden and Trump at the Debate
Source: The Daily Beast
by Ginny Hogan
“The first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is right around the corner. I expect the standard questions: What would you do to bring peace to the Middle East? How are you going to fight inflation? What’s your plan to save the planet (if you have one)? … etc. But I don’t think those questions will cut it this time around. For one thing, Biden and Trump have already debated each other several times. In fact, they’ve already run an entire campaign against the other. They’re on the record answering many of the standard questions (or just yelling, like during the one Chris Wallace moderated). And they’ve both already been president, so asking hypotheticals seems like a waste of time. No, the regular questions won’t do.” (06/24/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-moderators-should-ask-biden-and-trump-at-the-debate
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31) Is it campaign season yet?
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“Trump and Biden will take the stage this week to engage in the first Presidential debate of the 2024 election. This election season has been comparably demure. Given that Biden is essentially a walking zombie and Trump has been saddled with lawsuits, this should come as no surprise. Very little actual politicking or discussion of policy has occurred. Instead, we’ve been subject to a kind of ambient campaign strategy that focuses less on policy and more on the temperature (or ‘vibe’) of the country. At such a crucial impasse, this fact is vaguely unsettling.” (06/24/24)
https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/is-it-campaign-season-yet/
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32) How Sturdy Is the Democrats’ “Blue Wall” in 2024?
Source: The Bulwark
by Daniel McGraw
“Back in 2015, it was reasonable to believe that folks in the Midwestern United States wouldn’t be drawn to Donald Trump. Midwestern voters favor real punches over mindless talk, solidity over frivolity — and here comes a haughty rich guy from New York who literally started his campaign riding down a golden escalator. What could a suburban voter from the part of the country where folks make big metal things for businesses that make littler metal things see in a guy as pretentious as Donald Trump? But Trump knew his crowd. … If either Biden or Trump wins all three of those states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin — he will almost certainly win the White House. So how do things stand in those three Blue Wall states today?” (06/24/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democratic-blue-wall-midwest-2024
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33) The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First
Source: Common Dreams
by Mike Lofgren
“In Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, there is a remarkable description of a February 1933 meeting that occurred shortly after Adolf Hitler was chosen as German chancellor. It is remarkable because it occurred almost a century ago, a prelude to one of the darkest chapters in world history. It is a period that has been thoroughly historicized; yet something about it is eerily familiar and up to date. The newly installed Nazis summoned the oligarchs of German commerce and industry — Krupp, the heads of IG Farben and the largest steel companies, and others — to Hermann Goering’s estate outside Berlin so that Hitler could ‘explain his policies.’ While the moguls expected a dialogue (in deference to their financial power), Hitler appeared late, addressed them at some length, and departed without answering questions.” (06/24/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-american-billionaires-who-fell-in-love-with-fascism-are-not-the-first
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34) Trump cabinet hopeful wants the “Israel model” for US China policy
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by James Carden
“Recall that as the Ukrainian counteroffensive ground to a halt late last year there was a lot of talk in Washington about how to sustain assistance to Ukraine in the face of growing Republican opposition in the House. One way around the presumed opposition (opposition that never actually materialized in any meaningful way) was floated by Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan: the Israel model. But there are drawbacks to the model, especially if we are serious about rethinking America’s role in the world in light of the extraordinary challenges we now face at home …. Over time, aid in the Israeli model becomes an expected part of doing business — still more, unlimited aid (which is what U.S. aid to Israel basically amounts to) creates perverse incentives for client states to act more recklessly than they otherwise might.” (06/24/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/robert-obrien-trump/
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35) Contempt unconstrained: Are judges taking their power too far?
Source: The Hill
by Ryan Scott
“In the last year, there has been a string of high-profile threats of contempt, including against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden and Peter Navarro. In just the last few weeks, we have seen more instances of contempt for attorneys who were duty-bound to patiently and professionally advocate for their clients. If the contempt power continues to be this widely used — and abused — it has the potential to precipitate tremendous civil unrest in our democratic elections. Something needs to be done quickly to prevent contempt from becoming the reflexive salvo to our disagreements.” (06/24/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4733863-contempt-power-abuse/
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36) You Keep Using the Term “Authoritarian”
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“You know the term ‘authoritarian.’ You think you know what it means. An authoritarian dad, boss, or government says: my way or the highway. They are forever barking orders and see compliance as the answer to all human problems. There is no room for uncertainty, adaptation to time and place, or negotiation. It’s ruling by personal dictate while tolerating no dissent. To be authoritarian is to be inhumane, to rule with arbitrary and capricious imposition. It can also mean to be ruled impersonally by a machine regardless of the cost. Sounds like a conventional government bureaucracy, right? Indeed. Think of the Department of Motor Vehicles.” (06/24/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/you-keep-using-the-term-authoritarian/
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37) Microaggression madness in Oregon could cost doctors their licenses
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“There is a controversy in Oregon over a proposed change in the ethics rule from the Oregon Medical Board. At issue is the use of ‘microaggressions’ to discipline doctors and to make reporting such transgressions mandatory for all doctors. It seems before you can give stitches, you have to join snitches under one of the most ambiguous categories of prescribed speech. I have been a critic of microaggression rules on college campuses and discuss this trend in my book out this week, ‘The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage’. In past debates over this category of offensive speech, I have objected that it is hopelessly vague and highly controversial. That ambiguity creates a threat to free speech through a chilling effect on speakers who are unsure of what will be considered microaggressive.” (06/24/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/microaggression-madness-oregon-could-cost-doctors-license
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38) The Government Caused New York’s Legal Pot “Disaster”
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“As of early May, more than three years after New York legalized recreational marijuana, just 119 licensed dispensaries were serving that market in the entire state. Unauthorized pot shops outnumbered legal outlets by 20 to 1, according to The New York Times, with more than 2,000 operating in New York City alone. The state had less than one licensed pot store per 100,000 residents — in contrast with about six in Massachusetts, 10 in Maine, 11 in Colorado, 19 in Oregon, and 48 in New Mexico. Legislators and regulators could have avoided this ‘disaster,’ as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently called it, had they learned from the mistakes of other states that have struggled to displace the black market. Yet New York politicians somehow did not anticipate what would happen after people could legally use marijuana but could not obtain it from legal sources.” (06/24/24)
https://reason.com/2024/06/24/new-yorks-predictable-legal-pot-disaster/
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39) Why Putin Sent Russian Ships to Cuba
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“On June 17, Russian naval vessels left Cuba without incident, concluding a five-day visit. The visit may have been without incident, but it wasn’t without meaning. Frustrated that their diplomatic messages were not being heard, Russia sent a louder message. But that message may not have simply been about projecting power as the West has presented it.” (06/24/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/06/23/why-putin-sent-russian-ships-to-cuba/
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40) To Defeat Health Tyrants, Eat Real Food
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a sad old story: the poor quality of the ultra-processed bread in American supermarkets. The WSJ told us they bought ‘fresh’ bread in April, which still looked ‘fresh’ in June. If you enjoy eating real sourdough bread made with very few ingredients, you know it gets hard within days. If the sourdough bread you eat is made with organic whole grains, you reduce your glyphosate consumption, and the impact on your body is far different from supermarket bread. … A war is raging against real food. The war’s first casualty is your health.” (06/24/24)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/to-defeat-health-tyrants-eat-real
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41) Boeing Will Either Face or Not Face Accountability
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Boeing either may or may not be prosecuted for violating the terms of a settlement agreement in 2021 involving its 737 MAX planes. That’s my informed perspective after reading elite media reports. If you read The New York Times, you’d learn that the Justice Department is ‘considering’ another deferred prosecution agreement to replace the last deferred prosecution agreement. It could install a federal monitor to oversee Boeing’s manufacturing processes, but it would sidestep a lawsuit as ‘too legally risky.’ If you read Reuters, you’d learn that actually, prosecutors working on the case have recommended criminal charges to senior Justice Department leadership. These can both be correct. The prosecutors could recommend criminal prosecution for violating the settlement agreement (after all, that’s the by-the-book response to such a violation) while the leadership could decline the recommendation and instead move to a settlement again.” (06/24/24)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-06-24-boeing-accountability-justice-settlement/
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42) Natural vs. Regulated
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Raw milk and its products have been produced for human consumption for millennia. Of course there are dangers, and pasteurization has done wonders to curb bacteriological infections and death. Still, a lot of people wonder what we’ve lost in the pasteurization process. Nutrition and immune system health, for example. So for decades — perhaps as long as there have been regulations to make pasteurization mandatory — there’s been a ‘pro-natural’ backlash. On the Nature side, we note that our populations aren’t as healthy as you’d expect from the benevolent tyranny of politicians, regulators, and, uh, ‘obese bureaucrats.'” (06/24/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/06/24/natural-vs-regulated/
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43) Want Better Higher Ed? Get the Feds Out
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Neal McCluskey
“Two things seem like they should go without saying: People use their own money more efficiently than they use someone else’s, and the more you subsidize a thing the more of it you tend to get. Both profoundly apply to American higher education, a teetering tower of ivory made simultaneously skyscraping and bloated by federal taxpayer dollars. We would all be better off if the feds withdrew from higher education, requiring ivory tower denizens to sustain themselves not with money originally belonging to involuntary third-party participants – taxpayers – but students, lenders, and research patrons using their own money to buy what the tower is hawking. That would make higher education more efficient, effective, and better for society.” (06/24/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/want-better-higher-ed-get-the-feds-out/
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44) From Stonewall to Blair Mountain: A Rant in Defense of Riots
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reed
“Every single chickenshit privilege that we call a right in this nation was taken by force in uprisings frequently labeled as riots. There would have been no eight-hour workday or five-day workweek if it wasn’t for the West Virginia Coal Wars that forced Washington to send in the National Guard to put down the largest uprising since the Civil War at Blair Mountain in 1921. And we might have held onto a few of those hours too if we had kept fighting instead of joining the federal government with FDR’s duplicitous New Deal.” (06/23/24)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2024/06/from-stonewall-to-blair-mountain-rant.html
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45) RFK Jr. Deserves Secret Service Protection
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Provost
“There are several reasons Mr. Kennedy deserves a Secret Service detail, any one of them by themselves making a strong case for his increased security. 1. Mr. Kennedy is a viable candidate for the presidency. While his chances of winning are at the longest of odds and bordering on the impossible, there is little doubt that RFK Jr. could play the role of spoiler …. 2. Mr. Kennedy’s name unfortunately provokes too many whack jobs and glory hunters who, due to the previous assassinations of Kennedy’s father and uncle, seek out an individual such as he. 3. There is precedent for such a decision to award Secret Service protection, even to long shot candidates or even non candidates.” (06/24/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryprovost/2024/06/24/rfk-jr-deserves-secret-service-protection-n2640856
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46) Free and Independent: The Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“Anxious to preserve their hard-won independence, Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson championed a foreign policy centered on avoiding ‘entangling alliances.’ They envisioned a nation pursuing peace, trade, and ‘friendship with all nations,’ but beholden to none. A major theme of George Washington’s Farewell Address was foreign policy. He advised that the United States should take advantage of its political and geographic situation – a massive physical separation from the old countries – to pursue a truly independent course.” (06/23/24)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/06/23/free-and-independent-the-foreign-policy-of-washington-and-jefferson/
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47) The plight of a double hater in the presidential election
Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming
“I’m a double hater — a growing segment of voters who loathe both of our two main options for president. And what’s not to loathe? It’s a three-card monte dealer vs. ‘Weekend at Bernie’s.’ One loves bankruptcy and the other loves soft foods at early-bird specials. One might not be able to legally leave New York soon and the other probably should not drive at night. One doesn’t care where he is unless it has his name on it and the other doesn’t know where he is even if it had his name on it. … How is it possible that these are our two options? How have they BOTH been president recently?” (06/23/24)
https://archive.is/ZqI6L
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48) The internal contradictions of nationalism
Source: EconLog
by Scott Sumner
“It seems to me that there are two types of American nationalism. One type might be called ‘nostalgic nationalism.’ A yearning to recreate the America of the 1950s. Another type might be called ‘future-oriented nationalism,’ and focuses on winning the race to control AI and thus dominate the world. …
Nostalgic nationalism is the real thing, but it’s full of internal contradictions. Its proponents wish to go back to the 1950s, but they also want to confront the threat of a rising China.” (06/23/24)
https://www.econlib.org/the-internal-contradictions-of-nationalism/
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49) We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State
Source: In These Times
by Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz
“While attending the University of Oklahoma in 1956-57, I met a Palestinian petroleum engineering student named Said Abu-Lughod. Said, whose older brother Ibrahim Abu-Lughod would become a renowned professor at Northwestern University, told me how Israeli settlers had violently forced his family out of their ancestral home in Jaffa during the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This had happened only eight years earlier, when Said was 12 years old. His family fled as refugees to Jordan. Said also gave me a book (What Price Israel? by Alfred M. Lilienthal) that truly changed my thinking. Now there are many excellent studies by Palestinian and other historians, but in the 1950s there was nothing else like it. This experience as a teenager was my introduction to the concept of settler colonialism and made me a supporter of Palestinian self-determination and right of return.” (06/24/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/roxanne-dubar-ortiz-zionism–israel-palestine-israel-settler-colonialism
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50) When Big Business Fails, Small Shops Prevail
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kimberlee Josephson
“A few weeks ago, I accidentally dropped my phone, and the screen shattered. The phone itself still worked—I could hear notifications, and calls could come in — but without the function of the touch screen, it was completely unusable. What made matters worse was that I had recently embarked on a month-long commitment for teaching a study abroad course in the Netherlands. … I met up with my students for a city tour and lunch, and while chomping on some baguette sandwiches, I shared my plight. One of the students said, ‘Why don’t you just get it fixed?’ I wondered if the student had been listening to me at all, since I had just vented about my attempts with both Verizon and Apple. … before I knew it, a quick search on their fully functioning phones showed that there were at least two repair shops within a short walking distance.” (06/23/24)
https://fee.org/articles/when-big-business-fails-small-shops-prevail/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Reason Roundtable, 06/24/24
Source: Reason
"Eating Doritos While Drowning in Debt." (06/24/24)
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/06/24/eating-doritos-while-drowning-in-debt/
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52) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 149
Source: Agorist Nexus
“World war 3 and the recent Ukrainian strikes.” (06/24/24)
https://www.agoristnexus.com/wwiiiukrainianstrikes/
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53) Mutual Exchange Radio, 06/24/24
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
“Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall on How to Run Wars.” (06/24/24)
https://c4ss.org/content/59718
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54) Conflicts of Interest, episode 621
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Israel Scaling Down in Gaza for War with Hezbollah?” (06/24/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-621-is-israel-scaling-down-in-gaza-for-war-with-hezbollah
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55) My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, 06/24/24
Source: My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
“William Howard Taft w/ Richard Lim of This American President Podcast.” (06/24/24)
https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/william-howard-taft-w-richard-lim-of-this-american-president-podcast/
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56) EconTalk, 06/24/24
Source: EconTalk
“Rene Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven).” (06/24/24)
https://www.econtalk.org/rene-girard-mimesis-and-conflict-with-cynthia-haven/
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57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/24/24
Source: The Dispatch
“Destined for Greatness.” (06/24/24)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/destined-for-greatness/
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58) The Corbett Report, episode 461
Source: The Corbett Report
“I Read The Most Dangerous Superstition (And You Can, Too!).” (06/24)
https://corbettreport.com/the-most-dangerous-superstition/
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59) Free Talk Live, 06/23/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Recycling is a scam and also dangerous :: Can you take a parachute on a commercial flight? :: Plastic surgery for animals? :: Skeeter calls to yell :: Matthew calls about Skeeter calling to yell :: Do you own the air around you? :: 2024-06-23 Hosts: Bonnie, Lori, Rich E Rich.” (06/23/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-06-23
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60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2508
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Any Prospects for Peace in Ukraine or Gaza?” (06/23/24)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2508-any-prospects-for-peace-in-ukraine-or-gaza/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) UK: Political prisoner Assange freed after agreeing to pretend he committed a crime
2) Kenya: Regime finally deploys occupation force to Haiti amid protests at home
3) SCOTUS to take up state bans on healthcare for minors
4) US regime rejects Middle East terror kingpin’s accusation that it did the right thing
5) “I don’t appreciate your tone”: Judge in disgraced former president’s documents case reprimands prosecutor
6) Study: Texas’s abortion ban tied to more Infant deaths
7) NYC: Millionaire investment banker filmed punching woman during anti-Israel protest quits job
8) Sierra Leone: Parliament passes child marriage ban
9) Rwanda: Deadly crush at rally as election campaign starts
10) FL: Teen dies at home after night at seafood bar, police probe homicide
11) Lawsuit challenges new Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
12) MD: Dali cargo ship leaves Baltimore for Virginia, nearly three months after bridge collapse
13) Disgraced former president’s campaign claims he was “tortured” in Fulton County Jail — as it peddles coffee cups with his mugshot
14) Russia: Regime Summons the American Ambassador Over a Deadly Attack That Moscow Says Used US-Made Missiles
15) Russia: Eight killed in deadly fire at Moscow office building
16) UPS agrees to sell its freight-brokerage division for less than it paid for the business in 2015
17) HI: Lifeguard/surfer/actor killed in shark attack
18) New Caledonia: Buildings burned, police attacked amid renewed revolt against colonial masters
19) Apple becomes first target of EU’s new digital competition rules aimed at big tech
20) IN: Resident shoots home intruder
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Therapy for Radicals
22) The Superstition of Warning Labels
23) Programmable Incentives
24) Abolish Occupational Licensure
25) Stop Taxing Tips
26) WaPo editor drama only exposes its lack of “ethics” after debasing Trump for years
27) The Supreme Court’s Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munoz
28) Joe Biden Wants To Steal Your Children
29) Our Rulers Are Literally Driving Us Crazy
30) Here’s What to Really Ask Biden and Trump at the Debate
31) Is it campaign season yet?
32) How Sturdy Is the Democrats’ “Blue Wall” in 2024?
33) The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First
34) Trump cabinet hopeful wants the “Israel model” for US China policy
35) Contempt unconstrained: Are judges taking their power too far?
36) You Keep Using the Term “Authoritarian”
37) Microaggression madness in Oregon could cost doctors their licenses
38) The Government Caused New York’s Legal Pot “Disaster”
39) Why Putin Sent Russian Ships to Cuba
40) To Defeat Health Tyrants, Eat Real Food
41) Boeing Will Either Face or Not Face Accountability
42) Natural vs. Regulated
43) Want Better Higher Ed? Get the Feds Out
44) From Stonewall to Blair Mountain: A Rant in Defense of Riots
45) RFK Jr. Deserves Secret Service Protection
46) Free and Independent: The Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson
47) The plight of a double hater in the presidential election
48) The internal contradictions of nationalism
49) We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State
50) When Big Business Fails, Small Shops Prevail
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Reason Roundtable, 06/24/24
52) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 149
53) Mutual Exchange Radio, 06/24/24
54) Conflicts of Interest, episode 621
55) My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, 06/24/24
56) EconTalk, 06/24/24
57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/24/24
58) The Corbett Report, episode 461
59) Free Talk Live, 06/23/24
60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2508
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1) UK: Political prisoner Assange freed after agreeing to pretend he committed a crime
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the United Kingdom and is travelling home to Australia after he agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of breaching the espionage law in the United States. Assange, 52, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to a filing in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. He was freed from the UK’s high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday and taken to the airport, from where he flew out of the country. Assange will appear at a court in Saipan, a US Pacific territory, at 9am on Wednesday (23:00 GMT on Tuesday), where he will be sentenced to 62 months of the time already served.” (06/25/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/julian-assange-is-free-wikileaks-founder-freed-in-deal-with-us
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2) Kenya: Regime finally deploys occupation force to Haiti amid protests at home
Source: Semafor
“Kenya’s President William Ruto on Monday, saw off 400 police officers set to deploy to Haiti as part of a UN-backed security mission. They will leave for Haiti on Tuesday, June 25. Kenya is expected to send a total of 1,000 officers to the island nation in a phased approach. Ruto handed the officers the Kenyan flag in a low-key event at State House, the presidential residence in Nairobi. The media was not invited to the event, in which Kenyan clergy members also prayed for the forces. Godfrey Otunge, senior assistant inspector general of Kenya’s police force, was named commander of the officers deployed to Haiti.The initial batch of officers is composed of elite officers from various specialized response units. The deployment, however, continues to face opposition from a section of Kenyans, including several activist groups.” (06/24/24)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/24/2024/kenya-deploys-police-to-haiti-amid-protests
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3) SCOTUS to take up state bans on healthcare for minors
Source: ABC News
“The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care. The justices’ action comes as Republican-led states have enacted a variety of restrictions on health care for transgender people, school sports participation, bathroom usage and drag shows. The administration and Democratic-led states have extended protections for transgender people, including a new federal regulation that seeks to protect transgender students. The case before the high court involves a law in Tennessee that restrict puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors.” (06/24/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/supreme-court-state-bans-gender-affirming-care-minors-111366382
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4) US regime rejects Middle East terror kingpin’s accusation that it did the right thing
Source: Haaretz [Israel]
“The Biden administration vehemently rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion on Sunday that Washington has deliberately reduced arms shipments to Israel and accused Netanyahu of political motivations. Senior Israeli officials said there has in fact been a slowdown in recent weeks in the rate at which ammunition and replacement parts are arriving. But unlike Netanyahu, they think this stems from bureaucratic and technical problems rather than a deliberate decision. The biggest fear on both sides is that Netanyahu’s claims will cause a political crisis between Washington and Jerusalem, just as the chances of all-out war with Hezbollah are increasing.” (06/24/24)
https://archive.is/EB2Fa
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5) “I don’t appreciate your tone”: Judge in disgraced former president’s documents case reprimands prosecutor
Source: NBC News
“The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case reprimanded a prosecutor from special counsel Jack Smith’s office at a hearing Monday on a proposed gag order for the former president. ‘I don’t appreciate your tone,’ U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said when attorney David Harbach appeared to get exasperated as she questioned the need to modify Trump’s conditions of release. Smith’s office has challenged those conditions over Trump’s false claims that FBI agents were prepared to kill him while they were executing a 2022 search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The tense exchange at a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce came as attorney Harbach was arguing that Cannon should bar Trump from making more inflammatory statements about FBI agents who worked on the investigation.” (06/24/24)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-trump-classified-documents-case-reprimands-prosecutor-hearing-rcna158725
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6) Study: Texas’s abortion ban tied to more Infant deaths
Source: United Press International
“Following state legislation passed in 2021 that essentially banned abortion in Texas, the rate of infant deaths rose by almost 13%, compared to a much smaller 1.8% rise nationwide, a new study finds. The number of Texan babies whose deaths were specifically linked to birth defects also jumped by 22.9% in 2022, the year after the ban was put in place. In the rest of the United States, such deaths declined by 3.1% over the same time period, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. … The findings were published June 24 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.” (06/24/24)
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/06/24/abortion-ban-Texas-infant-deaths/4551719242119/
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7) NYC: Millionaire investment banker filmed punching woman during anti-Israel protest quits job
Source: New York Post
“The millionaire investment banker who slugged a woman in the face in Brooklyn earlier this month has resigned from his job, the company said Monday. Jonathan Kaye, head of the global business services franchise at Manhattan-based Moelis & Co., was caught punching the anti-Israel protester in Park Slope on June 8 in the video, which quickly went viral. … Kaye, who is Jewish, and the unidentified woman reportedly got into a verbal altercation over the Israel-Hamas war. A source close to Kaye told The Post on Monday that he was out getting ice cream for his children when he turned the corner and ran into a group of demonstrators who were taking part in a ‘Queers for Palestine’ protest. The source said Kaye was surrounded by six people who were shouting slurs at him and then was doused with a red and white liquid.” (06/24/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/business/millionaire-banker-filmed-punching-woman-at-brooklyn-pride-event-quits-job/
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8) Sierra Leone: Parliament passes child marriage ban
Source: Semafor
“Sierra Leone’s Parliament passed a historic bill criminalizing child marriage, a major victory for campaigners in a region that has the highest prevalence of the practice in the world. The bill, which includes jail terms of up to 15 years or a hefty fine for perpetrators, still needs to be signed into law by President Julius Maada Bio. The West African country is home to 800,000 child brides, half of whom were married before the age of 15, according to a 2019 UNICEF report.” (06/24/24)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/24/2024/sierra-leone-bans-child-marriage-in-huge-win-for-activists
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9) Rwanda: Deadly crush at rally as election campaign starts
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“One person has died and dozens were injured during a crush at an election rally for Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, officials say. Campaigning for July’s general election began on Saturday, with Mr Kagame holding two rallies in northern Rwanda over the weekend. The crush happened on Sunday in Rubavu district, where 37 people were injured, four of whom were hospitalised with serious injuries, a statement from the ministry of local government said. It apologised to the deceased’s family, adding that a medical team on site ‘did everything possible.’ Mr Kagame is running for a fourth term. He has been the country’s de facto leader since 1994, when his then rebel group, the Rwanda Patriotic Front, seized power at the end of the genocide directed at members of his Tutsi ethnic group. He won the last presidential election in 2017 with nearly 99% of the vote.” (06/24/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxxxlylgg7o
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10) FL: Teen dies at home after night at seafood bar, police probe homicide
Source: Fox News
“Florida investigators have launched a homicide investigation after two teenagers were rushed to the hospital from a Fort Myers restaurant and one of them died hours after returning home. Ava Hulett, 19, was out with a group at Pelican Larry’s Raw Bar and Grill when she and at least one friend suffered from medical emergencies, according to her family’s attorney, Anthony Rickman. She later returned home, but her family found her unresponsive hours later. … Detectives launched a homicide investigation, but the sheriff’s office also said there was no evidence that restaurant staff were to blame. ‘They’re not investigating the restaurant for anything like poisoning,’ Rickman told Fox News Digital. ‘If it is a poisoning circumstance, it’s our belief that it was an intentional act by another third party that caused the medical situation for Ava Hulett.'” (06/24/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-teen-dies-home-after-night-seafood-bar-police-probe-homicide
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11) Lawsuit challenges new Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Source: SFGate
“Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday to block Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of Louisiana public school children, represented by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Under the legislation signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry last week, all public K-12 classrooms and state-funded universities will be required to display a poster-sized version of the Ten Commandments in ‘large, easily readable font’ next year. Opponents argue that the law is a violation of separation of church and state and that the display will isolate students, especially those who are not Christian.” (06/24/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/lawsuit-challenges-new-louisiana-law-requiring-19532455.php
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12) MD: Dali cargo ship leaves Baltimore for Virginia, nearly three months after bridge collapse
Source: Seattle Times
“The cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse. The 984-foot Dali started moving shortly before 8:30 a.m. with four tugboats. It is headed to Norfolk, Virginia, for the removal of the remaining containers on the vessel and additional repairs. … A National Transportation Safety Board investigation found the ship experienced two power outages in the hours before it left the Port of Baltimore. In the moments before the bridge collapsed, it lost power again and veered off course. The agency is still investigating what caused the electrical failures.” (06/24/24)
https://archive.is/HAAtw
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13) Disgraced former president’s campaign claims he was “tortured” in Fulton County Jail — as it peddles coffee cups with his mugshot
Source: New York Post
“Donald Trump’s team claimed Monday that he was ‘tortured’ in Fulton County Jail during his August surrender on election tampering raps — as it peddled coffee cups with his mugshot. ‘I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail, and TOOK MY MUGSHOT. So guess what?’ a new fundraising pitch from his camp said. ‘I put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE!’ The missive offered fans the opportunity to purchase one of his ‘limited edition’ coffee cups featuring the mugshot of a scowling Trump during his booking.” (06/24/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/us-news/trump-camp-claims-he-was-tortured-in-fulton-county-jail/
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14) Russia: Regime Summons the American Ambassador Over a Deadly Attack That Moscow Says Used US-Made Missiles
Source: US News & World Report
“The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest what it says was the use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea that reportedly killed four people and wounded more than 150. Washington ‘has effectively become a party’ to the war on Ukraine’s side, the ministry said in a statement, adding, ‘Retaliatory measures will certainly follow.’ It did not elaborate. There was no immediate comment from U.S. or Ukrainian officials. The Associated Press could not independently verify Russia’s claims about the missiles used. Kyiv’s forces have relied heavily on Western-supplied weaponry since Russia’s invasion more than three years ago.” (06/24/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-24/russia-summons-the-american-ambassador-over-a-deadly-attack-that-moscow-says-used-us-made-missiles
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15) Russia: Eight killed in deadly fire at Moscow office building
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“At least eight people have died in a large office building fire near Moscow, the regional Governor Andrey Vorobyov has said. Emergency officials told the state-owned Tass news agency that just one person was rescued from the blaze at the burning building in Fryazino, about 25km (15.5 miles) north-east of the capital. … There are conflicting reports about the building’s purpose. It once homed the Platan Research Institute and defence industry, according to Tass. A statement to the agency from Ruselectronics, a Russia-owned electronics organisation, said the building has been privately owned since the 1990s. However, opposition media outlets recently reported that Platan was based in the building as late as 2023.” (06/24/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8444kxgrkeo
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16) UPS agrees to sell its freight-brokerage division for less than it paid for the business in 2015
Source: ABC 11 News
“United Parcel Service said Sunday it agreed to sell its Coyote Logistics division to RXO for just over $1 billion — less than it paid for the freight-brokerage company in 2015 — to focus more on its core package-delivery business. UPS said it expects to close the sale by the year if regulators allow the deal. Atlanta-based UPS said it will update its financial outlook once the sale is completed. … Freight brokers serve as middlemen between shippers and carriers such as UPS. RXO, a freight broker based in Charlotte, North Carolina, said acquiring Coyote will nearly double the company, to $7.1 billion in annual revenue, and make it the third-biggest freight broker in North America.” (06/23/24)
https://abc11.com/post/ups-agrees-sell-freight-brokerage-division-less-paid/14993512/
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17) HI: Lifeguard/surfer/actor killed in shark attack
Source: Fox News
“A Hawaiian lifeguard died Sunday after suffering a shark attack as he was surfing off the island of Oahu, according to authorities. Tamayo Perry, 49, a City and County of Honolulu Ocean Safety lifeguard, died from the shark bites near Goat Island, Honolulu Emergency Services Department’s Shayne Enright said in a statement to The Associated Press. … The 49-year-old was a professional surfer and an actor who appeared in the movies ‘Blue Crush’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,’ along with a role in an episode of ‘Hawaii Five-0.'” (06/24/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hawaii-lifeguard-killed-shark-attack-after-surfing-tragic-loss
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18) New Caledonia: Buildings burned, police attacked amid renewed revolt against colonial masters
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Several buildings, including a police station and a town hall, were set on fire in New Caledonia overnight, authorities said Monday, as the French Pacific territory was hit by a fresh surge of unrest. ‘The night was… marked by unrest throughout the mainland and on the island of Pins and Mare, requiring the intervention of numerous reinforcements: with attacks on the police, arson and roadblocks,’ the High Commission, which represents the French state in the archipelago, said in a press release. Rioting and looting erupted in New Caledonia in mid-May over an electoral reform plan that Indigenous Kanak people feared would leave them in a permanent minority, putting independence hopes definitively out of reach.” (06/24/24)
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240624-buildings-burned-police-attacked-amid-renewed-unrest-in-new-caledonia
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19) Apple becomes first target of EU’s new digital competition rules aimed at big tech
Source: SFGate
“European Union regulators on Monday leveled their first charges under the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook, accusing Apple of preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The European Commission said that according to the preliminary findings of its investigation, the restrictions that the iPhone maker imposes on developers using its mobile App Store had breached the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Markets Act. The rulebook, also known as the DMA, is a sweeping set of regulations aimed at preventing tech ‘gatekeepers’ from cornering digital markets under threat of heavy financial penalties.” (06/24/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/european-union-regulators-accuse-apple-of-19531442.php
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20) IN: Resident shoots home intruder
Source: Fox 59 News
“It was at 4 a.m., two hours before Sunday’s dawn, when Darrell Gibbs was awakened by the sound of six to eight gunshots that were fired out of the back of his house, which is located in the 800 block of Denison Street on the southwest side of Indianapolis. … Three armed and masked men had been trying to kick in Gibbs’[s] back door. … Gibbs said his son told him that he traded gunfire with a man in the backyard. ‘I see the intruder laying here on the ground, and he wanted me to make a call for him, and ‘You know me, you know me,’’ Gibbs said of what the wounded man told him. … Gibbs’[s] son eventually identified the intruder as a family member. … ‘It was little Matt, my nephew’s son.’ … As of this article’s publication, [Matthew] Kinnaird, who had been shot previously in 2020, remained hospitalized.” (06/23/24)
https://fox59.com/news/indianapolis-resident-shoots-cousin-during-home-invasion/
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21) Therapy for Radicals
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra & Ryan Neugebauer
“In 1971, American activist Saul Alinsky published a book called Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. Alinsky bemoaned the fact that activists, with ‘no illusions about the system,’ sought to ‘Burn the system down!’ Many of these same activists had ‘plenty of illusions about the way to change our world.’ Alinsky’s playbook on practical strategies for political activism has been appropriated not only by tacticians on the left but also by establishment politicians among liberal Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and conservative Tea Party Republicans. That’s an important point to keep in mind because the issues that we address in this article are applicable to anyone who seeks social change, regardless of its form or direction. Alinsky’s discussion is, perhaps, more relevant today than it was when it was first published over a half-century ago.” (06/24/24)
https://c4ss.org/content/59685
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22) The Superstition of Warning Labels
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Populists and anti-business progressives already are committed to the storyline that social media platforms such as Facebook will sink to any depth of corporate wickedness in the pursuit of profit, and you can see the rhetorical lines being drawn: Over here, ‘the children;’ over there, mustache-twirling corporate villains. But we have been here before. Warning labels on music and video games had no effect on public morals in the 1980s and 1990s, and warning labels on social media platforms are going to have no effect on the mental health of young people in our time.” (06/24/24)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/superstition-warning-labels-130000884.html
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23) Programmable Incentives
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“In the past, humans had to get big things done through different structures of social coherence. Whether it was allegiance to the Queen and Country or fear of IRS agents breaking down your door, social coherence was achievable. But more and more, getting big things done will be carried out through biomimicry. That is, we’ll act more like bees. Distributed ledgers aren’t AI supercomputers that figure everything out or tell us what to do. In many distributed ledgers, more like what bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopoulos calls ‘dumb networks,’ only with fairly smart beings as nodes in those networks. And those beings have billions of perspectives. ‘They will act as the connective tissue between humans and machines, mediated by incentives,’ writes Goro. ‘If humans are neurons in the human hive mind, blockchain technology acts as the connective tissue and neurotransmitters.'” (06/24/24)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/programmable-incentives
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24) Abolish Occupational Licensure
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The Declaration of Independence, which Americans will celebrate in a couple of weeks, points out that everyone is endowed with natural, God-given rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life necessarily encompasses the right to sustain one’s life through labor. Liberty necessarily encompasses entering into mutually beneficial economic transactions with others. The pursuit of happiness necessarily encompasses the right to live your life any way you choose, so long as you don’t initiate force or fraud against others. So, a question naturally arises: Why do people have to ask the government for permission to engage in any line of work?” (06/24/24)
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/24/abolish-occupational-licensure/
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25) Stop Taxing Tips
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul
“Donald Trump recently promised that, if he wins the November election, he will support eliminating taxes on tips as part of his proposal to renew and expand the 2017 tax cuts. This tax law change would be a long overdue boost for millions of Americans. Tips often comprise a substantial portion of the earnings of waiters and waitresses, as well as of other service-sector employees. However, unlike regular wages, a service-sector employee usually has no guarantee of, or legal right to, a tip. Instead, the amount of a tip usually depends on how well an employee satisfies his customers. Since the amount of taxes one pays increases along with the size of tips, taxing tips punishes workers for doing a superior job!” (06/24/24)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/stop-taxing-tips
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26) WaPo editor drama only exposes its lack of “ethics” after debasing Trump for years
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Morale is plummeting in the viper’s nest that passes for the Washington Post newsroom. Not because readers are deserting the paper in droves. Not because the newspaper lost $77 million last year. The oh-so-ethical journalists of the WaPo couldn’t care less about such trivialities. They’re too busy finding ways to cover up Joe Biden’s corruption or swallowing new Deep State lies about Donald Trump’s ‘existential threat to democracy.’ They’re just upset that the paper’s owner, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, wants to stem the bleeding and has installed new management to carry out his wishes.” [editor’s note: Well, DeVine’s credentials in lacking ethics are indisputable, so I guess we should accept her as an expert witness – TLK] (06/23/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/23/opinion/washington-posts-editor-drama-only-exposes-its-lack-of-ethics-after-debasing-trump-for-years/
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27) The Supreme Court’s Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munoz
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“In its important recent immigration decision in Department of State v. Munoz, the Supreme Court ruled there are virtually no constitutional limits on the federal government’s power to bar non-citizen spouses of American citizens from entering the country. In the process, Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion (written on behalf of herself and the five other conservative justices) commits serious errors in historical analysis, and violates Justice Barrett’s own well-taken strictures about the appropriate use of history in constitutional analysis.” (06/24/24)
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/24/the-supreme-courts-dubious-use-of-history-in-department-of-state-v-munoz/
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28) Joe Biden Wants To Steal Your Children
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Dan McKnight
“I made the decision to join the United States Armed Forces twice in my life. First, in the early 1990s after school when I enlisted and trained as a U.S. Marine. Then, following the 9/11 attacks, I signed up for the Idaho National Guard and was later deployed to Afghanistan. Those were my decisions, ones I made because I believed in service, and knew the military would be good for me. But what if it wasn’t your choice to join the military? What if it wasn’t your son’s choice? What if, suddenly, your daughter was forced to join the military?” (06/24/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/joe-biden-wants-to-steal-your-children/
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29) Our Rulers Are Literally Driving Us Crazy
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s probably worth noting that the empire doesn’t actually lose anything from our society’s increasing mental health problems, and in fact actually benefits from them. Which is probably why everything in this dystopia is pointed at making everyone crazier and crazier. In a society that is guided not by the pursuit of human thriving but by the pursuit of profit, there is no downside to all the underlings being depressed, anxious and overwhelmed all the time, so long as they’re still showing up to work and still consuming products. As long as the gears of capitalism are still being turned, it doesn’t matter whether the people turning them are enjoying their lives. As luck would have it, it turns out that their depression and anxiety are themselves actually wonderful sources of profit.” (06/23/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/06/23/our-rulers-are-literally-driving-us-crazy/
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30) Here’s What to Really Ask Biden and Trump at the Debate
Source: The Daily Beast
by Ginny Hogan
“The first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is right around the corner. I expect the standard questions: What would you do to bring peace to the Middle East? How are you going to fight inflation? What’s your plan to save the planet (if you have one)? … etc. But I don’t think those questions will cut it this time around. For one thing, Biden and Trump have already debated each other several times. In fact, they’ve already run an entire campaign against the other. They’re on the record answering many of the standard questions (or just yelling, like during the one Chris Wallace moderated). And they’ve both already been president, so asking hypotheticals seems like a waste of time. No, the regular questions won’t do.” (06/24/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-moderators-should-ask-biden-and-trump-at-the-debate
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31) Is it campaign season yet?
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“Trump and Biden will take the stage this week to engage in the first Presidential debate of the 2024 election. This election season has been comparably demure. Given that Biden is essentially a walking zombie and Trump has been saddled with lawsuits, this should come as no surprise. Very little actual politicking or discussion of policy has occurred. Instead, we’ve been subject to a kind of ambient campaign strategy that focuses less on policy and more on the temperature (or ‘vibe’) of the country. At such a crucial impasse, this fact is vaguely unsettling.” (06/24/24)
https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/is-it-campaign-season-yet/
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32) How Sturdy Is the Democrats’ “Blue Wall” in 2024?
Source: The Bulwark
by Daniel McGraw
“Back in 2015, it was reasonable to believe that folks in the Midwestern United States wouldn’t be drawn to Donald Trump. Midwestern voters favor real punches over mindless talk, solidity over frivolity — and here comes a haughty rich guy from New York who literally started his campaign riding down a golden escalator. What could a suburban voter from the part of the country where folks make big metal things for businesses that make littler metal things see in a guy as pretentious as Donald Trump? But Trump knew his crowd. … If either Biden or Trump wins all three of those states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin — he will almost certainly win the White House. So how do things stand in those three Blue Wall states today?” (06/24/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democratic-blue-wall-midwest-2024
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33) The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First
Source: Common Dreams
by Mike Lofgren
“In Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, there is a remarkable description of a February 1933 meeting that occurred shortly after Adolf Hitler was chosen as German chancellor. It is remarkable because it occurred almost a century ago, a prelude to one of the darkest chapters in world history. It is a period that has been thoroughly historicized; yet something about it is eerily familiar and up to date. The newly installed Nazis summoned the oligarchs of German commerce and industry — Krupp, the heads of IG Farben and the largest steel companies, and others — to Hermann Goering’s estate outside Berlin so that Hitler could ‘explain his policies.’ While the moguls expected a dialogue (in deference to their financial power), Hitler appeared late, addressed them at some length, and departed without answering questions.” (06/24/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-american-billionaires-who-fell-in-love-with-fascism-are-not-the-first
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34) Trump cabinet hopeful wants the “Israel model” for US China policy
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by James Carden
“Recall that as the Ukrainian counteroffensive ground to a halt late last year there was a lot of talk in Washington about how to sustain assistance to Ukraine in the face of growing Republican opposition in the House. One way around the presumed opposition (opposition that never actually materialized in any meaningful way) was floated by Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan: the Israel model. But there are drawbacks to the model, especially if we are serious about rethinking America’s role in the world in light of the extraordinary challenges we now face at home …. Over time, aid in the Israeli model becomes an expected part of doing business — still more, unlimited aid (which is what U.S. aid to Israel basically amounts to) creates perverse incentives for client states to act more recklessly than they otherwise might.” (06/24/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/robert-obrien-trump/
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35) Contempt unconstrained: Are judges taking their power too far?
Source: The Hill
by Ryan Scott
“In the last year, there has been a string of high-profile threats of contempt, including against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden and Peter Navarro. In just the last few weeks, we have seen more instances of contempt for attorneys who were duty-bound to patiently and professionally advocate for their clients. If the contempt power continues to be this widely used — and abused — it has the potential to precipitate tremendous civil unrest in our democratic elections. Something needs to be done quickly to prevent contempt from becoming the reflexive salvo to our disagreements.” (06/24/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4733863-contempt-power-abuse/
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36) You Keep Using the Term “Authoritarian”
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“You know the term ‘authoritarian.’ You think you know what it means. An authoritarian dad, boss, or government says: my way or the highway. They are forever barking orders and see compliance as the answer to all human problems. There is no room for uncertainty, adaptation to time and place, or negotiation. It’s ruling by personal dictate while tolerating no dissent. To be authoritarian is to be inhumane, to rule with arbitrary and capricious imposition. It can also mean to be ruled impersonally by a machine regardless of the cost. Sounds like a conventional government bureaucracy, right? Indeed. Think of the Department of Motor Vehicles.” (06/24/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/you-keep-using-the-term-authoritarian/
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37) Microaggression madness in Oregon could cost doctors their licenses
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“There is a controversy in Oregon over a proposed change in the ethics rule from the Oregon Medical Board. At issue is the use of ‘microaggressions’ to discipline doctors and to make reporting such transgressions mandatory for all doctors. It seems before you can give stitches, you have to join snitches under one of the most ambiguous categories of prescribed speech. I have been a critic of microaggression rules on college campuses and discuss this trend in my book out this week, ‘The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage’. In past debates over this category of offensive speech, I have objected that it is hopelessly vague and highly controversial. That ambiguity creates a threat to free speech through a chilling effect on speakers who are unsure of what will be considered microaggressive.” (06/24/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/microaggression-madness-oregon-could-cost-doctors-license
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38) The Government Caused New York’s Legal Pot “Disaster”
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“As of early May, more than three years after New York legalized recreational marijuana, just 119 licensed dispensaries were serving that market in the entire state. Unauthorized pot shops outnumbered legal outlets by 20 to 1, according to The New York Times, with more than 2,000 operating in New York City alone. The state had less than one licensed pot store per 100,000 residents — in contrast with about six in Massachusetts, 10 in Maine, 11 in Colorado, 19 in Oregon, and 48 in New Mexico. Legislators and regulators could have avoided this ‘disaster,’ as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently called it, had they learned from the mistakes of other states that have struggled to displace the black market. Yet New York politicians somehow did not anticipate what would happen after people could legally use marijuana but could not obtain it from legal sources.” (06/24/24)
https://reason.com/2024/06/24/new-yorks-predictable-legal-pot-disaster/
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39) Why Putin Sent Russian Ships to Cuba
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“On June 17, Russian naval vessels left Cuba without incident, concluding a five-day visit. The visit may have been without incident, but it wasn’t without meaning. Frustrated that their diplomatic messages were not being heard, Russia sent a louder message. But that message may not have simply been about projecting power as the West has presented it.” (06/24/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/06/23/why-putin-sent-russian-ships-to-cuba/
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40) To Defeat Health Tyrants, Eat Real Food
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a sad old story: the poor quality of the ultra-processed bread in American supermarkets. The WSJ told us they bought ‘fresh’ bread in April, which still looked ‘fresh’ in June. If you enjoy eating real sourdough bread made with very few ingredients, you know it gets hard within days. If the sourdough bread you eat is made with organic whole grains, you reduce your glyphosate consumption, and the impact on your body is far different from supermarket bread. … A war is raging against real food. The war’s first casualty is your health.” (06/24/24)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/to-defeat-health-tyrants-eat-real
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41) Boeing Will Either Face or Not Face Accountability
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Boeing either may or may not be prosecuted for violating the terms of a settlement agreement in 2021 involving its 737 MAX planes. That’s my informed perspective after reading elite media reports. If you read The New York Times, you’d learn that the Justice Department is ‘considering’ another deferred prosecution agreement to replace the last deferred prosecution agreement. It could install a federal monitor to oversee Boeing’s manufacturing processes, but it would sidestep a lawsuit as ‘too legally risky.’ If you read Reuters, you’d learn that actually, prosecutors working on the case have recommended criminal charges to senior Justice Department leadership. These can both be correct. The prosecutors could recommend criminal prosecution for violating the settlement agreement (after all, that’s the by-the-book response to such a violation) while the leadership could decline the recommendation and instead move to a settlement again.” (06/24/24)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-06-24-boeing-accountability-justice-settlement/
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42) Natural vs. Regulated
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Raw milk and its products have been produced for human consumption for millennia. Of course there are dangers, and pasteurization has done wonders to curb bacteriological infections and death. Still, a lot of people wonder what we’ve lost in the pasteurization process. Nutrition and immune system health, for example. So for decades — perhaps as long as there have been regulations to make pasteurization mandatory — there’s been a ‘pro-natural’ backlash. On the Nature side, we note that our populations aren’t as healthy as you’d expect from the benevolent tyranny of politicians, regulators, and, uh, ‘obese bureaucrats.'” (06/24/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/06/24/natural-vs-regulated/
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43) Want Better Higher Ed? Get the Feds Out
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Neal McCluskey
“Two things seem like they should go without saying: People use their own money more efficiently than they use someone else’s, and the more you subsidize a thing the more of it you tend to get. Both profoundly apply to American higher education, a teetering tower of ivory made simultaneously skyscraping and bloated by federal taxpayer dollars. We would all be better off if the feds withdrew from higher education, requiring ivory tower denizens to sustain themselves not with money originally belonging to involuntary third-party participants – taxpayers – but students, lenders, and research patrons using their own money to buy what the tower is hawking. That would make higher education more efficient, effective, and better for society.” (06/24/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/want-better-higher-ed-get-the-feds-out/
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44) From Stonewall to Blair Mountain: A Rant in Defense of Riots
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reed
“Every single chickenshit privilege that we call a right in this nation was taken by force in uprisings frequently labeled as riots. There would have been no eight-hour workday or five-day workweek if it wasn’t for the West Virginia Coal Wars that forced Washington to send in the National Guard to put down the largest uprising since the Civil War at Blair Mountain in 1921. And we might have held onto a few of those hours too if we had kept fighting instead of joining the federal government with FDR’s duplicitous New Deal.” (06/23/24)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2024/06/from-stonewall-to-blair-mountain-rant.html
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45) RFK Jr. Deserves Secret Service Protection
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Provost
“There are several reasons Mr. Kennedy deserves a Secret Service detail, any one of them by themselves making a strong case for his increased security. 1. Mr. Kennedy is a viable candidate for the presidency. While his chances of winning are at the longest of odds and bordering on the impossible, there is little doubt that RFK Jr. could play the role of spoiler …. 2. Mr. Kennedy’s name unfortunately provokes too many whack jobs and glory hunters who, due to the previous assassinations of Kennedy’s father and uncle, seek out an individual such as he. 3. There is precedent for such a decision to award Secret Service protection, even to long shot candidates or even non candidates.” (06/24/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryprovost/2024/06/24/rfk-jr-deserves-secret-service-protection-n2640856
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46) Free and Independent: The Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“Anxious to preserve their hard-won independence, Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson championed a foreign policy centered on avoiding ‘entangling alliances.’ They envisioned a nation pursuing peace, trade, and ‘friendship with all nations,’ but beholden to none. A major theme of George Washington’s Farewell Address was foreign policy. He advised that the United States should take advantage of its political and geographic situation – a massive physical separation from the old countries – to pursue a truly independent course.” (06/23/24)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/06/23/free-and-independent-the-foreign-policy-of-washington-and-jefferson/
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47) The plight of a double hater in the presidential election
Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming
“I’m a double hater — a growing segment of voters who loathe both of our two main options for president. And what’s not to loathe? It’s a three-card monte dealer vs. ‘Weekend at Bernie’s.’ One loves bankruptcy and the other loves soft foods at early-bird specials. One might not be able to legally leave New York soon and the other probably should not drive at night. One doesn’t care where he is unless it has his name on it and the other doesn’t know where he is even if it had his name on it. … How is it possible that these are our two options? How have they BOTH been president recently?” (06/23/24)
https://archive.is/ZqI6L
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48) The internal contradictions of nationalism
Source: EconLog
by Scott Sumner
“It seems to me that there are two types of American nationalism. One type might be called ‘nostalgic nationalism.’ A yearning to recreate the America of the 1950s. Another type might be called ‘future-oriented nationalism,’ and focuses on winning the race to control AI and thus dominate the world. …
Nostalgic nationalism is the real thing, but it’s full of internal contradictions. Its proponents wish to go back to the 1950s, but they also want to confront the threat of a rising China.” (06/23/24)
https://www.econlib.org/the-internal-contradictions-of-nationalism/
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49) We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State
Source: In These Times
by Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz
“While attending the University of Oklahoma in 1956-57, I met a Palestinian petroleum engineering student named Said Abu-Lughod. Said, whose older brother Ibrahim Abu-Lughod would become a renowned professor at Northwestern University, told me how Israeli settlers had violently forced his family out of their ancestral home in Jaffa during the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This had happened only eight years earlier, when Said was 12 years old. His family fled as refugees to Jordan. Said also gave me a book (What Price Israel? by Alfred M. Lilienthal) that truly changed my thinking. Now there are many excellent studies by Palestinian and other historians, but in the 1950s there was nothing else like it. This experience as a teenager was my introduction to the concept of settler colonialism and made me a supporter of Palestinian self-determination and right of return.” (06/24/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/roxanne-dubar-ortiz-zionism–israel-palestine-israel-settler-colonialism
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50) When Big Business Fails, Small Shops Prevail
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kimberlee Josephson
“A few weeks ago, I accidentally dropped my phone, and the screen shattered. The phone itself still worked—I could hear notifications, and calls could come in — but without the function of the touch screen, it was completely unusable. What made matters worse was that I had recently embarked on a month-long commitment for teaching a study abroad course in the Netherlands. … I met up with my students for a city tour and lunch, and while chomping on some baguette sandwiches, I shared my plight. One of the students said, ‘Why don’t you just get it fixed?’ I wondered if the student had been listening to me at all, since I had just vented about my attempts with both Verizon and Apple. … before I knew it, a quick search on their fully functioning phones showed that there were at least two repair shops within a short walking distance.” (06/23/24)
https://fee.org/articles/when-big-business-fails-small-shops-prevail/
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51) Reason Roundtable, 06/24/24
Source: Reason
"Eating Doritos While Drowning in Debt." (06/24/24)
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/06/24/eating-doritos-while-drowning-in-debt/
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52) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 149
Source: Agorist Nexus
“World war 3 and the recent Ukrainian strikes.” (06/24/24)
https://www.agoristnexus.com/wwiiiukrainianstrikes/
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53) Mutual Exchange Radio, 06/24/24
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
“Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall on How to Run Wars.” (06/24/24)
https://c4ss.org/content/59718
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54) Conflicts of Interest, episode 621
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Israel Scaling Down in Gaza for War with Hezbollah?” (06/24/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-621-is-israel-scaling-down-in-gaza-for-war-with-hezbollah
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55) My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, 06/24/24
Source: My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
“William Howard Taft w/ Richard Lim of This American President Podcast.” (06/24/24)
https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/william-howard-taft-w-richard-lim-of-this-american-president-podcast/
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56) EconTalk, 06/24/24
Source: EconTalk
“Rene Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven).” (06/24/24)
https://www.econtalk.org/rene-girard-mimesis-and-conflict-with-cynthia-haven/
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57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/24/24
Source: The Dispatch
“Destined for Greatness.” (06/24/24)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/destined-for-greatness/
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58) The Corbett Report, episode 461
Source: The Corbett Report
“I Read The Most Dangerous Superstition (And You Can, Too!).” (06/24)
https://corbettreport.com/the-most-dangerous-superstition/
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59) Free Talk Live, 06/23/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Recycling is a scam and also dangerous :: Can you take a parachute on a commercial flight? :: Plastic surgery for animals? :: Skeeter calls to yell :: Matthew calls about Skeeter calling to yell :: Do you own the air around you? :: 2024-06-23 Hosts: Bonnie, Lori, Rich E Rich.” (06/23/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-06-23
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60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2508
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Any Prospects for Peace in Ukraine or Gaza?” (06/23/24)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2508-any-prospects-for-peace-in-ukraine-or-gaza/
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