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Today's Freedom News:
1) India: Regime suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates
2) Fed pauses rate hikes as inflation and economy slow down
3) Ukraine war: Russian forces strike six cities; Crimea air base allegedly seriously damaged
4) Azerbaijan claims full control over the Nagorno-Karabakh region as Armenian forces agree to disarm
5) GA: Prosecution lists disgraced former attorney as witness in election conspiracy case against disgraced former president
6) Iran: Women face ten years in jail for “inappropriate” dress
7) Mexico: Ferromex railway operator suspends routes amid migrant deaths
8) Amazon Upgrades Alexa With More Natural Conversation Powered by AI
9) Qantas ex-CEO takes 900% pay rise, but bonus cut amid scandals
10) Instacart loses almost all its IPO gains by second day of trading as rally fizzles
11) Seattle, WA: Activists decry ban on public drug use passed by blue city leaders
12) Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants
13) House GOP clash with Garland, accusing him of favoring Hunter Biden
14) OH: Court Lets “GOP-Backed Propaganda” Stay on Ballot for Abortion Rights Referendum
15) NJ: State serves violation notice to Ocean Grove for its Sunday beach closures
16) Goldman Sachs raises $15 billion to buy stakes in private equity funds
17) UN chief warns of “gates of hell” in climate summit, as carbon-polluting nations stay silent
18) Gabon: Junta charges Bongo’s son with treason, corruption
19) McCarthy: Still time to prevent a fake government shutdown
20) FDA declines to approve first needle-free option to EpiPen
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Canada’s assassination charge against India puts Biden in a pickle
22) The UAW can strike, but it’s running out of gas
23) No One Apologizes for the Theft of Time
24) Trump’s Preposterous Defense in the Purloined Documents Case
25) Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio, or: How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement
26) Britain’s hidden blasphemy laws
27) The Problem with a Chicago Municipal Grocery Store
28) The Just Case for Reparations
29) Greenpeace proves roads are better than trains
30) A Mutual Defense Treaty with the Saudis Is Absolutely Unacceptable
31) Managing mixed migration in the 21st century through the Safe Mobility Offices initiative
32) Apple’s New iPhone and European Statism
33) Let’s Start Minding Our Own Business
34) The Big Three’s Labor Shortages
35) If the Supreme Court won’t hold itself accountable, term limits can
36) Thinking Harder about “Special” Benefits
37) Earth to Matt Gaetz: Narcissistic nihilism only helps the left [sic]
38) One person’s hate speech is another’s free speech
39) A “Magic Bullet” Loses Luster — Again
40) Pentagon Budget is so Bloated That it Needs an AI Program to Navigate it
41) In Missouri, Autoworkers Fighting for the Future of the Industry
42) Algorithmic Fortune-Telling
43) Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On
44) The Real History of the War in Ukraine
45) While you struggle with inflation, smug elites say, “Let them eat cake!”
46) China’s Bill Comes Due
47) A sub-minimum wage or no wage at all?
48) The Pandemic is Over, But Pandemic Policies Are Not
49) War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society
50) Americans Need Stronger Private Sector Alternatives, Not CBDCs
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Conflicts of Interest, episode 474
52) Rising, 09/20/23
53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/20/23
54) Politics Politics Politics, 09/20/23
55) Mean Age Daydream, 09/20/23
56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/20/23
57) The Chris Hedges Report, 09/19/23
58) Nonzero, 09/19/23
59) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 42
60) Liberty at Night, 09/19/23
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1) India: Regime suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“India has suspended visa services for Canadian citizens amid an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Visa service provider BLS posted a message from India’s mission blaming ‘operational reasons’ for the decision. Tensions flared this week after Canada said it was investigating ‘credible allegations’ linking India with the murder of the separatist leader. India angrily rejected the allegation calling it ‘absurd.’ … Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that intelligence agencies were investigating whether ‘agents of the government of India’ were involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen — India had designated him a terrorist in 2020. Nijjar was shot dead in his vehicle by two masked gunmen outside a Sikh temple on 18 June in British Columbia.” (09/21/23)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66851964
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2) Fed pauses rate hikes as inflation and economy slow down
Source: NBC News
“The Federal Reserve left the main U.S. interest rate unchanged Wednesday, waiting to see if its historic series of rate hikes over the last 18 months gets inflation under control. The central bank kept its main policy rate in the range of 5.25% to 5.50%, citing an easing of economic conditions while also acknowledging that inflation is still higher than its 2% target. In a statement, the Fed said the economy is in solid shape, with job gains slowing and tighter credit conditions likely to slow economic activity and stem inflation. The Fed had raised interest rates at a historically fast pace in the last 18 months, as it increased its main rate at 11 consecutive meetings from March last year until its meeting in July.” (09/20/23)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/federal-reserve-pauses-interest-rate-hikes-inflation-economy-slow-rcna105615
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3) Ukraine war: Russian forces strike six cities; Crimea air base allegedly seriously damaged
Source: Independent [UK]
“Russia launched a massive air attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and five other cities overnight, injuring at least 18 people and damaging infrastructure facilities across the country. Vladimir Putin’s troops targeted Kherson, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, an industrial zone in the region of Lviv and the northwest city of Rivne, damaging energy infrastructure across the country, evoking memories of last year’s Russian air campaign which causes sweeping outages ahead of winter. … a Ukrainian intelligence source claimed Ukraine’s SBU security service and navy struck the Saky air base in Russian-occupied [sic] Crimea overnight, inflicting ‘serious damage.'” (09/21/23)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-military-zelensky-putin-latest-b2415568.html
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4) Azerbaijan claims full control over the Nagorno-Karabakh region as Armenian forces agree to disarm
Source: Associated Press
“Azerbaijan claimed full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region Wednesday after local Armenian forces there agreed to lay down their weapons following the latest outbreak of fighting in the decades-long separatist conflict. Authorities in the ethnic Armenian region that has run its affairs without international recognition since fighting broke out in the early 1990s declared around midday that local self-defense forces will disarm and disband under a Russia-mediated cease-fire. They also said representatives of the region will start talks Thursday with the Baku government on Nagorno-Karabakh’s ‘reintegration’ into Azerbaijan.” (09/20/23)
https://apnews.com/article/azerbaijan-armenia-explosions-nagornokarabakh-73df9b8b03c3748868e2e358b67bd018
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5) GA: Prosecution lists disgraced former attorney as witness in election conspiracy case against disgraced former president
Source: CNN
“Pro-Donald Trump [former — retired in lieu of being disbarred] lawyer Lin Wood is a ‘witness for the state’ in the Georgia election subversion case, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis revealed Wednesday. The reference to Wood was buried in a new court filing by the DA’s office that raised potential conflicts of interest for six defense attorneys because they previously represented witnesses or other defendants in related proceedings. Wood was previously subpoenaed by prosecutors in the Georgia probe but his status as a witness for the state was not previously known.” (09/20/23)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/politics/lin-wood-georgia-election-subversion-case/index.html
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6) Iran: Women face ten years in jail for “inappropriate” dress
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Iran’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that would increase prison terms and fines for women and girls who break its strict dress code. Those dressed ‘inappropriately’ face up to 10 years in jail under the bill, for which a three-year ‘trial’ was agreed. It still needs to be approved by the Guardian Council to become law. The move comes a year after protests erupted over the [police murder] of Mahsa Amini, who was held by morality police for an allegedly improper hijab. Women burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at the nationwide demonstrations against the clerical establishment, during which hundreds of people were reportedly killed in a crackdown by security forces. A growing number of women and girls have stopped covering their hair in public altogether as the unrest has subsided, despite the return of the morality police to the streets and the installation of surveillance cameras.” (09/20/23)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66863720
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7) Mexico: Ferromex railway operator suspends routes amid migrant deaths
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A company which operates some of Mexico’s railways has suspended 60 of its routes after a surge of migrants hitching rides on freight trains. Ferromex said services would be halted on the trains travelling towards Mexico’s border with the US, in order to ‘avoid accidents or loss of life.’ It added that the number of migrants trying to hitch rides on its freight trains was ‘unprecedented.’ … Grupo Mexico, which owns Mexico’s biggest rail operator, Ferromex, said in a statement published [in Spanish] on Tuesday that there had been ‘half a dozen cases of injuries or death in recent days.’ The network of freight trains is referred to by migrants as La Bestia (The Beast) and many risk jumping on board to speed up their 3,000km-journey (1,860 miles) from Mexico’s southern to its northern border.” (09/20/23)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66864868
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8) Amazon Upgrades Alexa With More Natural Conversation Powered by AI
Source: CNet
“Amazon showed off AI-enhanced conversational abilities on its Alexa line of smart home devices allowing you to have more natural back-and-forths, the company said in a press conference on Wednesday. Called Let’s Chat, the feature is intended to make Alexa sound more natural and responsive. Currently, when speaking to smart home devices, there’s often a delay between the question asked and the answer given. The goal with Let’s Chat is to reduce that time and make Alexa work as if you’re talking to a real person, where responses come quickly. This also means the ability for you to alter a question midsentence and have Alexa understand and respond accordingly. Powering this enhanced version of Alexa is a large language model, or LLM, that’s been optimized for voice, smart home, real-time info and home entertainment.” (09/20/23)
https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-upgrades-alexa-with-more-natural-conversation-powered-by-ai/
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9) Qantas ex-CEO takes 900% pay rise, but bonus cut amid scandals
Source: Reuters
“Australia’s Qantas Airways said its former CEO took a pay increase of 872% as he collected years’ worth of long-term incentives on the way out, but added it was cutting and withholding hefty bonuses amid damaging lawsuits. Alan Joyce, who retired early this month after a regulator lawsuit accused Qantas (QAN.AX) of selling tickets on thousands of already-cancelled flights, took home A$21.4 million in the 2023 financial year, according to the company’s annual report, published on Wednesday. Most of the amount was share-based incentives that Joyce was allowed to cash in after they vested, according to the report. Joyce’s total pay for the previous year was A$2.3 million. Qantas cut an additional short-term bonus for Joyce by one-fifth of the A$2.7 million available and withheld it pending the outcome of two lawsuits that may result in hefty fines and further reputational turbulence for the company, the report added.” (09/20/23)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/qantas-ex-ceo-alan-joyce-get-tenfold-higher-pay-138-mln-2023-2023-09-20/
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10) Instacart loses almost all its IPO gains by second day of trading as rally fizzles
Source: CNBC
“Instacart shares slumped more than 5% in their second day of trading Wednesday, continuing a slide that began immediately after the stock hit the Nasdaq on Tuesday, and leaving it narrowly above its IPO price. On Monday, Instacart sold shares in its long-awaited IPO at $30 a piece. Trading under ticker symbol ‘CART,’ the stock popped 40% to open at $42, but then sold off throughout the day to close at $33.70. By Wednesday afternoon, Instacart’s rally had fizzled further, and shares are now trading below $32. Instacart’s offering helped reignite a sleepy IPO market, which has been mostly closed since late 2021 as companies were plagued by inflationary pressures and rising interest rates. But Instacart’s falling share price suggests investors are still hesitant to buy into tech companies that are aiming to disrupt traditional markets despite challenging economics.” (09/20/23)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/instacart-loses-almost-all-its-ipo-gains-by-second-day-on-nasdaq.html
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11) Seattle, WA: Activists decry ban on public drug use passed by blue city leaders
Source: Fox News
“Signs and shouts filled Seattle City Council chambers Tuesday night as councilmembers voted to approve an ordinance making the use or possession of illicit drugs a gross misdemeanor. ‘You have blood on your hands,’ activists can be heard shouting after the 6-3 vote in a video by journalist Jonathan Choe. Critics call it a War on Drugs 2.0, but supporters hope enforcement will improve public safety and help push addicts into treatment. Those who use or possess illegal drugs in the Emerald City can be subject to gross misdemeanor charges, although the ordinance does encourage police to prioritize diversion. A gross misdemeanor allows a judge to impose more jail time than under a regular misdemeanor. But the council’s bill recommends arrests only when an individual ‘presents a threat of harm to others,’ The Seattle Times reported.” (09/20/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blood-hands-activists-decry-ban-public-drug-use-passed-blue-city-leaders
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12) Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants
Source: Ars Technica
“After years of delays, regulatory rejections, and allegations of animal abuse, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, is now recruiting its first human volunteers to have an experimental robot implant an experimental device directly into their brains. In a blog post Tuesday, the company announced that an independent institutional review board and an unnamed hospital site granted approval for the trial to start recruiting volunteers. Neuralink says it aims to enroll people with quadriplegia due to a spinal cord injury or ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Volunteers will have a wireless brain-computer interface implant, dubbed N1, surgically embedded into their brains by the company’s experimental surgical robot, R1. … The goal of the N1 implantation is to allow trial participants to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts. This trial will primarily evaluate safety, but also get a glimpse of efficacy, Neuralink says.” (09/20/23)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/musks-neuralink-seeks-volunteers-for-brain-implants-whos-in/
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13) House GOP clash with Garland, accusing him of favoring Hunter Biden
Source: SFGate
“House Republicans clashed with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, accusing him and the Justice Department of the ‘weaponization’ of the department’s work in favor of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Garland’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee was the first in two years and came at an unprecedented moment in the department’s history: He’s overseeing two cases against Donald Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges, and another against the sitting president’s son. Republicans on the committee — led by Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman — set the tone with accusations that the Justice Department is favoring the Biden family, while targeting his opponent, Trump. ‘There’s one investigation protecting President Biden. There’s another one attacking President Trump,’ Jordan, Republican of Ohio, said in his opening statement. ‘The Justice Department’s got both sides of the equation covered.'” (09/20/23)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/attorney-general-garland-set-to-face-his-gop-18377365.php
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14) OH: Court Lets “GOP-Backed Propaganda” Stay on Ballot for Abortion Rights Referendum
Source: Common Dreams
“The Ohio Supreme Court sided with the state’s GOP-led Ohio Ballot Board Tuesday night, ruling that the words ‘unborn child’ could be used instead of ‘fetus’ in the ballot summary of a referendum that would add reproductive rights to the state constitution. The decision is the latest setback for the referendum after voters defeated a GOP-supported measure in August that would have required a 60% majority to pass constitutional amendments. ‘This should have been simple, but the Ohio ballot board tried to mislead voters yet again,’ Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights spokesperson Lauren Blauvelt told The Guardian. ‘Issue 1 is clearly and concisely written to protect Ohioans’ right to make our own personal healthcare decisions about contraception, pregnancy, and abortion, free from government interference. The actual amendment language communicates that right clearly and without distortion.'” (09/20/23)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ohio-court-abortion-referendum
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15) NJ: State serves violation notice to Ocean Grove for its Sunday beach closures
Source: Fox News
“The state of New Jersey has taken further legal action against the Jersey Shore town of Ocean Grove. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) served a Notice of Violation to the Christian seaside community on Sept. 14 for its policy of closing its beach on 15 seasonal Sundays for a few hours on those mornings. The NJDEP forwarded the notice in an email to Fox News Digital, which was addressed to Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Director of Operations Steve Columbo. … This Notice of Violation was issued nearly one month after Ocean Grove was served a warning letter on Aug. 10, 2023, which claimed the town was non-compliant with the state’s policy to allow public access to the ocean and wet sand.” (09/20/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/new-jersey-notice-violation-ocean-grove-sunday-beach-closures-anti-christian
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16) Goldman Sachs raises $15 billion to buy stakes in private equity funds
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Goldman Sachs has raised more than $15bn to buy investors’ stakes in private equity funds and invest in deals where buyout groups sell portfolio companies from one of their funds to another, in the latest sign of sustained support for the fast-growing ‘secondary’ strategy. Goldman’s asset management unit raised more than $14bn for its largest-ever flagship secondaries fund and in excess of $1bn for its debut fund focused on secondary deals in the infrastructure sector, the bank’s global head of secondaries Harold Hope told the Financial Times.” (09/20/23)
https://archive.ph/5W6WR
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17) UN chief warns of “gates of hell” in climate summit, as carbon-polluting nations stay silent
Source: ABC News
“The head of the United Nations warned Wednesday that the ‘gates of hell’ are at hand as climate change intensifies, and top international officials said the world’s leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb pollution of heat-trapping gases. They pleaded with major emitting nations to do more. Those nations remained silent. They weren’t allowed to speak because, organizers said, they had no new actions to take. The only countries that touted their efforts — ‘first movers and doers,’ the United Nations called them — were responsible for just one-ninth of the world’s annual carbon pollution. ‘Humanity has opened the gates to hell,’ U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday, opening a special climate ambition summit with yet another plea for action. ‘Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease. And thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage.'” (09/20/23)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-warns-gates-hell-climate-summit-carbon-polluting-103343229
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18) Gabon: Junta charges Bongo’s son with treason, corruption
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“The son of Ali Bongo Ondimba and several allies of the ousted Gabon president have been charged with high treason and corruption and placed in custody, the state prosecutor told AFP Wednesday. Bongo’s eldest son Noureddin Bongo Valentin and former presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha, as well as four others close to the deposed leader, ‘have been charged and placed in provisional detention,’ said Libreville prosecutor Andre-Patrick Roponat. Bongo, 64, who had ruled the oil-rich central African country since 2009, was ousted by military leaders on August 30, moments after being proclaimed the winner in a presidential election.” (09/20/23)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230920-son-of-ousted-gabon-leader-ali-bongo-charged-with-treason-and-corruption
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19) McCarthy: Still time to prevent a fake government shutdown
Source: SFGate
“With no clear strategy, no sure support and not much time left to prevent a government shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy nevertheless vowed on Wednesday he would not give up trying to convince his colleagues to pass a temporary funding bill through the House. … ‘It’s not September 30 — the game is not over,’ McCarthy told reporters. But even if McCarthy is able to accomplish the seemingly impossible and unite his all-but-ungovernable House Republican majority around a conservative spending plan, the victory would be short-lived. The hard-right bill, with steep 8% cuts to many services, would be rejected by the Senate, where Democrats are in control but even Republicans reject the House GOP’s severe reductions.” (09/20/23)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/speaker-mccarthy-says-there-s-still-time-to-18378267.php
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20) FDA declines to approve first needle-free option to EpiPen
Source: United Press International
“Federal regulators have declined to approve the first needle-free epinephrine treatment for people who suffer from severe allergic reactions, requesting its developer, ARS Pharmaceuticals, to conduct further testing. The late Tuesday announcement by ARS Pharmaceuticals follows expectations that the Food and Drug Administration was to sign off on neffy after its Pulmonary-Allergy Drug Advisory Committee in May voted 16 to 6 in favor of adults using the nasal spray and 15 to 5 for children. … Neffy is an epinephrine treatment used to combat severe allergic reactions similar to EpiPen. But, unlike EpiPen, which administers epinephrine via injection, neffy is a nasal spray.” (09/20/23)
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/09/20/FDA-neffy-decline/1431695198479/
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21) Canada’s assassination charge against India puts Biden in a pickle
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mark Episkopos
“Canada has blamed the Indian government over the assassination of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the two countries and confronting the Biden administration with a difficult choice. … Beyond the ongoing fallout between Ottawa and New Delhi, Trudeau’s Tuesday remarks have put many of Canada’s closest allies in a difficult spot. On the one hand, the White House has made it a top strategic priority to court India amid its intensifying standoff with China. On the other hand, the Biden administration has built its foreign policy brand on the importance of marching in lockstep with its Atlantic partners — failing to publicly back Canada could deal at least a symbolic setback to the Biden administration’s grand vision of a united Atlantic front.” (09/20/23)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/canada-assassination-india/
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22) The UAW can strike, but it’s running out of gas
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“The Biden administration is ladling at least $12 billion into the automakers to cushion them against the Biden administration. Against, that is, myriad government pressures to quickly eliminate the non-EVs that the obdurate public prefers. This will require the companies to make tens of billions in capital investments, some of which with money the public will provide. The semi/sort of/once-upon-a-time private companies will pretend this is private enterprise, freshly reimagined. The UAW reasons, not unreasonably, that its job is to seize for its members as much as it can of the billions sloshing around in the name of ‘industrial policy’ subsidies. Meanwhile, non-UAW production lines are still humming along, disproportionately in the South’s right-to-work states. The UAW worries that EVs, having many fewer components than internal combustion vehicles, will require many fewer assembly workers.” (09/20/23)
https://archive.ph/Z4OOu
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23) No One Apologizes for the Theft of Time
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Eric Hussey
“[G]overnment deliberately steals time from people, perhaps at a higher rate than it steals money. The theft is without conscience or remorse. And, the theft has no constitutional safeguards. At least with money, we know that we can constitutionally blame the House of Representatives. … But no one apologizes for theft of time. When the second quarter of 2023 ended a couple of months ago, I sent Form 941, the employer’s quarterly tax return, off to the IRS. It used to be two pages. Now it is three pages. The instructions for those three pages are in a 23-page downloadable document. On Form 941 it lists the amount of time expected for filing the form: Record keeping, 22 hours, 28 minutes; Learning about the law or the form, 53 minutes; Preparing, copying, assembling, and sending the form to the IRS, 1 hour, 18 minutes.” (09/20/23)
https://brownstone.org/articles/no-one-apologizes-for-the-theft-of-time/
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24) Trump’s Preposterous Defense in the Purloined Documents Case
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“In May 2022, Donald Trump received a federal subpoena demanding all the documents with classification markings that remained in his possession at Mar-a-Lago. At that point, SiriusXM talk show host Megyn Kelly suggested in an interview with the former president last week, he was legally obligated to surrender those records. ‘I know this,’ Trump replied, then immediately corrected himself: ‘I don’t even know that, because I have the right to have those documents.’ That startling response epitomized the lazy arrogance that Trump displayed in January 2021, when he removed thousands of presidential records from the White House, and during the ensuing year and a half, when he stubbornly resisted efforts to recover them. … the story behind the documents case is relatively straightforward: Trump took a bunch of stuff that did not belong to him and refused to return it. Trump disputes both parts of that story.” (09/20/23)
https://reason.com/2023/09/20/trumps-preposterous-defense-in-the-purloined-documents-case/
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25) Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio, or: How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement
Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins
“So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement. … Mike’s movement is preparing to publish a declaration. It’s a good declaration. I contributed to it. I signed it, although my name will not appear on it now, as Mike has threatened to remove it if I published a piece like this. Mike is an extremely smart guy, but he doesn’t seem to get that I don’t respond well to threats … or, rather, that this is how I respond to threats. Or, who knows? Maybe he actually wanted me to publish this piece, and goaded me into it …. There is nothing wrong with the declaration. What has taken up most of the last three months of the coalition’s time and energy, and has led to my excommunication, is the hunt for Very Important Persons to be included as signatories when the declaration is released.” (09/20/23)
https://consentfactory.org/2023/09/20/mr-mikes-mondo-imbroglio-or-how-not-to-launch-a-global-anti-censorship-movement/
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26) Britain’s hidden blasphemy laws
Source: spiked
by Hardeep Singh
“Prohibiting Islamophobia poses significant risks to free speech. Academic discussions about Islamic conquests ‘by the sword,’ from the Ottomans to the Mughals, or contemporary debates about ‘grooming gangs’ could be considered racist, according to the examples given in the APPG’s own report. Earlier this year, a Boston councillor was denied a mayoral role following accusations of Islamophobia. He published Facebook posts during the 2022 Qatar World Cup, raising legitimate concerns about the aspects of Islamic doctrine that restrict women’s rights and criminalise homosexuality. … To be clear, anti-Muslim hatred is a serious issue – the Finsbury Park terrorist attack by Darren Osbourne in 2017 left one dead and 12 injured, for instance. But banning so-called Islamophobia, and treating it as a special form of racism, won’t help to tackle it and will cause all kinds of other problems.” (09/20/23)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/20/britains-hidden-blasphemy-laws/
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27) The Problem with a Chicago Municipal Grocery Store
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Peter Jacobsen
“Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, is experimenting with a surprising new city policy — government-run grocery stores. … The proposal comes in response to an apparent lack of access to grocery stores after giants Walmart and Whole Foods closed down their stores in large areas of the city. The companies each claim the closures were due to the stores being unprofitable. The lack of nearby grocery stores has caused significant speculation on how these locations could possibly be unprofitable. … In any case, municipal authorities in Chicago have decided these closures are severe enough issues to warrant the development of centrally planned grocery stores. How would these stores do? Economic analysis can help us understand what central planning of groceries would look like.” (09/20/23)
https://fee.org/articles/the-problem-with-a-chicago-municipal-grocery-store/
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28) The Just Case for Reparations
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed The Civil Liberties Act, which gave surviving Japanese Americans reparations for their internment during World War II. Reagan also gave a formal apology on behalf of the federal government. … The question of reparations around Native Americans and African Americans is not as easy to score as the case of Japanese Americans—and even more difficult to justify despite the magnitude of the past wrongs. Nevertheless, perhaps we can make a relatively just case for reparations.” (09/20/23)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-just-case-for-reparations
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29) Greenpeace proves roads are better than trains
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall
“Clearly, road vastly outperforms rail in gaining what is actually desired from either system – the ability of a person to travel some number of passenger km. Recall, the aim of any economic system or subset of one is the output to be gained from it. Given this vast outperformance of roads as against rail it’s possible to therefore conclude that governments vastly overspend upon rail infrastructure. We seem to gain 25 passenger km from every km of road as against 1 from every 1 km of rail. Investing only 60% more in roads is thus so much of a waste of money that it becomes a dereliction of duty to be spending upon rail. We’re not sure that we would go entirely that far but it is the correct conclusion to draw from the information as presented by Greenpeace.” (09/20/23)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/greenpeace-proves-roads-are-better-than-trains
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30) A Mutual Defense Treaty with the Saudis Is Absolutely Unacceptable
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“It is hard to think of a worse proposal than a mutual defense treaty with Saudi Arabia. The idea that our government would pledge to send Americans to fight and die for any despotic government is bad enough, but to pledge to defend this state in particular is truly vile. This is a government that indiscriminately bombs civilians, massacres refugees, executes political protesters en masse on bogus charges of terrorism, murders dissidents, and tortures female prisoners. This is the government that Biden wants the U.S. to pledge to protect. It is also completely divorced from vital U.S. interests.” (09/20/23)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/a-mutual-defense-treaty-with-the
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31) Managing mixed migration in the 21st century through the Safe Mobility Offices initiative
Source: Niskanen Center
by Kristie de Pena & Gil Guerra
“In late spring 2023, the Biden administration introduced the Safe Mobility Offices (SMO) Initiative to expand the use of and access to protection and migration pathways closer to home. Arising out of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration, SMOs (previously known as Regional Processing Centers) aim to provide people seeking safety, security, economic opportunity, and reunification with family access to regularized pathways closer to home. Though not intended to be a substitute for territorial access to asylum, SMOs reflect one modality in a larger strategic shift for how the U.S. — and other countries — can respond to the complex movement of people with protection and non-protection needs so that they do not undertake dangerous journeys northward.” (09/20/23)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/managing-mixed-migration-in-the-21st-century-through-the-safe-mobility-offices-initiative/
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32) Apple’s New iPhone and European Statism
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The new iPhone now carries a USB-C charging port, rather that the proprietary lightning charging port that Apple has long been using. While Apple’s decision to change the charging port was technically ‘voluntary,’ it came about because of a vote by the European Union to require all sellers of cell phones to carry the USB-C charging port. Thus, while Apple could have simply refrained from selling its iPhone within the EU countries, it instead chose to comply with the EU regulatory mandate in order to continue selling its product within the member nations of the European Union. Needless to say, the statists within the EU bureaucracy are ecstatic, given that they were successful in bending a gigantic American company to their political will.” (09/20/23)
https://www.fff.org/2023/09/20/apples-new-iphone-and-european-statism/
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33) Let’s Start Minding Our Own Business
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Dan McKnight
“I look at this country and I see too many veterans unable to reenter society because of their trauma from fighting these endless wars. I look at this country and I see political prisoners like Julian Assange locked up for practicing honest journalism. I look at this country and I see too many kids failing basic reading and math requirements. I look at this country and see the necessities of life getting more expensive, and people being punished for saving money. I look at this country and see problems that are painful, but solvable. That’s why I founded Bring Our Troops Home, to solve the biggest problem of all: the unconstitutional global empire that saps our resources and buries our sons and daughters.” (09/20/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/lets-start-minding-our-own-business/
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34) The Big Three’s Labor Shortages
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“UAW president Shawn Fain has announced that workers at more plants will ‘stand up’ and walk out if substantial progress is not made in negotiations by noon on Friday. But workers who are still on the job have found their own way to put pressure on the Big Three, by exploiting their long-standing worker shortages. Labor Notes reports on autoworkers’ strategy of ‘Eight and Skate,’ which means working their shifts and then refusing voluntary overtime, which is routinely offered by the Big Three. Working your shift and then leaving work (in other words, doing exactly what it is you were hired to do) shouldn’t really be debilitating to the employer. In this case, it is. The reason is understaffing: There are simply not enough workers at many auto plants to meet production goals.” (09/20/23)
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-20-big-threes-labor-shortages-uaw/
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35) If the Supreme Court won’t hold itself accountable, term limits can
Source: The Hill
by Alan M Cohn & Andrew Warren
“Out of step with American public sentiment and unwilling to hold themselves to the same ethical standards and accountability as the rest of the federal judiciary, Congress and the president, the Supreme Court is making its own case for the best possible solution to its self-made crisis in confidence: term limits. … There is no mechanism to hold justices accountable for misconduct other than impeachment, and impeachment has happened only once, in 1803. The Supreme Court derives its legitimacy from our shared acceptance of the rule of law and faith that members of the court reach their decisions honestly and ethically. Those two pillars are cracked, and faith in the court is in danger of collapse. For someone who said last fall he was concerned critics of the Supreme Court were questioning the court’s legitimacy, Chief Justice Roberts has now made the case that the criticism is well-earned.” (09/20/23)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4211871-if-the-supreme-court-wont-hold-itself-accountable-term-limits-can/
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36) Thinking Harder about “Special” Benefits
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Gary M Galles
“Virtually everywhere you turn, Americans are told government assistance is necessary because in every case it provides ‘special’ benefits to recipients. But the nearly ubiquitous use of that rationale generates a logical contradiction. When it is extended as broadly as it is today, those ‘special’ goods make up the vast majority of low-income family consumption budgets. In that situation, each subsidized good cannot be special relative to the others.” (09/20/23)
https://www.aier.org/article/thinking-harder-about-special-benefits/
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37) Earth to Matt Gaetz: Narcissistic nihilism only helps the left [sic]
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Rep. Matt Gaetz is now winning praise from The New York Times’[s] Michelle Cottle — a pretty clear sign his antics are serving the lefties he claims to oppose. At issue, mainly: the Florida Republican’s constant threats to force a vote of confidence in Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), which would achieve exactly nothing, with a small but real risk that it would wind up handing control of the House to the Democrats. And a guarantee that it would gum up the House works when Congress needs to pass a resolution to avoid a federal shutdown. McCarthy, who’s done plenty for conservative causes, is pushing a continuing resolution, or CR, that would keep the government running to Oct. 31 while trimming most non-defense discretionary spending by 8% and restoring some Trump-era border controls.” (09/19/23)
https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/matt-gaetz-stop-helping-the-left-by-hurting-kevin-mccarthy/
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38) One person’s hate speech is another’s free speech
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Jonathan Zimmerman
“Why should we allow hate speech on our campus? That’s the most common question I get from my students. And the latest controversy at Penn — where I teach — provides a clear answer: Hate speech is in the eye of the beholder. Once you decide to prohibit it, almost any speech can be banned.” (09/20/23)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn-palestine-writes-antisemitism-controversy-free-speech-roger-waters-amy-wax-20230920.html
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39) A “Magic Bullet” Loses Luster — Again
Source: The American Conservative
by Chad Nagle
“Amid decades of speculation about motives, means and opportunity among myriad opponents of Kennedy’s policies, the lion’s share of JFK assassination ‘conspiracy theory’ (that mortal sin against Anglo-American political culture) stems simply from [Arlen] Specter’s implausible little formula. Absent Specter’s distinctive hypothesis, America’s approved history on the untimely demise of its youngest-ever chief executive collapses. Specter would eventually occupy a U.S. Senate seat for thirty years, but he is probably best remembered for consolidating his Single Bullet Theory as a key element of the official narrative …. But echoing down through the ages is the voice of John Connally, witness and victim, who was ‘convinced beyond any doubt’ that he and Kennedy were not hit by the same bullet. Thus endures the widespread belief in America that more than one person was firing at the motorcade that fateful Friday.” (09/20/23)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-magic-bullet-loses-luster-again/
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40) Pentagon Budget is so Bloated That it Needs an AI Program to Navigate it
Source: The Intercept
by Ken Klippenstein
“As tech luminaries like Elon Musk issue solemn warnings about artificial intelligence’s threat of ‘civilizational destruction,’ the U.S. military is using it for a decidedly more mundane purpose: understanding its sprawling $816.7 billion budget and figuring out its own policies. Thanks to its bloat and political wrangling, the annual Department of Defense budget legislation includes hundreds of revisions and limitations telling the Pentagon what it can and cannot do. To make sense of all those provisions, the Pentagon created an AI program, codenamed GAMECHANGER. … Military brass use GAMECHANGER to help them navigate what the Defense Department itself points to as an absurd amount of ‘tedious’ policies. The program contains over 15,000 policy documents governing how the Pentagon operates, according to its GitHub entry.” (09/20/23)
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/20/pentagon-ai-budget-gamechanger/
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41) In Missouri, Autoworkers Fighting for the Future of the Industry
Source: In These Times
by Jacqui Germain
“Four of the five gated entrances to General Motors’ Wentzville factory face a busy highway. All day, striking workers have enjoyed a near-constant chorus of honks, waves, and ’Keep it up!’ yelled out windows — aside from one woman who flipped them the bird, says Matthew Bergman, an eight-year veteran at GM who’s serving as gate captain for the strike. He manages logistics at the gate and handles on-site media requests and any approaching vehicles. Bergman leads the picketers in Local 2250’s chant: ‘Two, two!’ he calls. ‘“Five, oh!’ they yell back. It’s the third day of the United Auto Workers’ ‘stand-up strike’, an escalatory strategy designed to push the ’Big Three’ automakers — GM, Ford and Chrysler parent company Stellantis — to meet the UAW’s demands in negotiations for a new labor agreement.” (09/20/23)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-wentzville-missouri-gm-plant-fain-industry
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42) Algorithmic Fortune-Telling
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Dicken
“Vaccination was introduced to Europe and North America in the early 1700s. It was met with considerable skepticism (if not outright hostility), and explicitly banned in some countries. The process, however, was finally redeemed through statistics. In 1766 the Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernouilli extracted the relevant rates of susceptibility and fatality from census records and predicted an average improvement of 14 years of life expectancy for those inoculated against smallpox. Admittedly, Bernouilli’s data was flawed, and his calculations were based upon a number of questionable assumptions, such as simply ignoring the potential risks of inoculation. But it provided the model for many of the processes that were to come …. It is perhaps also notable that Bernouilli was roundly criticized at the time for reducing the all-too-human realities of sickness and death into an abstract calculation of costs and benefits.” (09/20/23)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/algorithmic-fortune-telling/
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43) Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On
Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark
“During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause. In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to the Marxist tic, or at the very least the tic in waiting. Any government deemed by Washington to be remotely progressive would become ripe targets for violent overthrow. To this day, the murderers of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende, (wait, we hear the first apologist mock, he was not murdered but suicided out of choice) along with thousands of innocents continues to receive briefs in their defence. On September 15, Mary Anastasia O’Grady, a Wall Street Journal scratcher turned police-state boot polisher bombarded her Australian Radio National host, Tom Switzer, with the stock libels about Allende’s legacy and the military coup of September 11, 1973.” (09/20/23)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/20/brief-for-murder-pinochets-apologists-five-decades-on/
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44) The Real History of the War in Ukraine
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jeffrey D Sachs
“The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media – The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN – have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating US President Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public. Biden is again denigrating Russian President Vladimir Putin, this time accusing Putin of a ‘craven lust for land and power,’ after declaring last year that ‘For God’s sake, that man [Putin] cannot stay in power.’ Yet Biden is the one who is trapping Ukraine in an open-ended war by continuing to push NATO enlargement to Ukraine. He is afraid to tell the truth to the American and Ukrainian people, rejecting diplomacy, and opting instead for perpetual war.” (09/20/23)
https://original.antiwar.com/jeffrey_sachs/2023/09/19/the-real-history-of-the-war-in-ukraine/
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45) While you struggle with inflation, smug elites say, “Let them eat cake!”
Source: Fox News
by Carol Roth
“The August CPI numbers were even hotter than the economic consensus expected (up 0.6% for the month, the biggest monthly increase of the year), showing inflation to be a persistent issue for Americans. Regardless of the reported figures, which we know have been manipulated formulaically several times since the 1980s, Americans are struggling with food, housing, gas and other energy costs, and the general cost of living. The concerns are real and they are valid – perhaps except to those who run in elite circles. From Nobel Prize-winning economists to college professors pulling down six-figure salaries, while you grapple with the price of groceries, they say, ‘Let them eat cake!'” (09/20/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/while-you-struggle-inflation-smug-elites-say-let-them-eat-cake
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46) China’s Bill Comes Due
Source: Hoover Institution
by Mickey D Levy
“China has evolved from an engine of global growth to a source of weakness and risk, and it has its leaders and their economic policies to blame. Sizable government-generated excesses in real estate and debt are unraveling, weighing heavily on economic performance and government finances. Declines in household net worth are undercutting confidence and consumer spending. Many of the largest land developers have gone into bankruptcy or defaulted on their debt. Global economies and trade are also adversely affected. The US and Japanese experiences with real estate bubbles suggest that China probably will need years to unwind its excesses and revive dampened economic activity, and a fundamental assessment points to dramatically slower potential growth.” (09/19/23)
https://www.hoover.org/research/chinas-bill-comes-due
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47) A sub-minimum wage or no wage at all?
Source: EconLog
by John Phelan
“Legislators in Minnesota are currently debating a bill which illustrates one of the most fundamental questions of public policy. HF 2513 would abolish subminimum wages for people with disabilities. If enacted, the legislation would have drastic consequences for about 70 day and employment centers — also known as ‘sheltered workshops’ — across the state that benefit from a special allowance in federal labor law that permits them to pay disabled workers below the federal minimum wage. … We all wish that disability carried no wage penalty but the sad reality is that in many cases it does and we cannot magic it away with the wave of a legislative wand. Reality often gives us a choice between a sub-optimal outcome and an even more sub-optimal one.” (09/19/23)
https://www.econlib.org/a-sub-minimum-wage-or-no-wage-at-all/
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48) The Pandemic is Over, But Pandemic Policies Are Not
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March
“President Biden told us over a year ago that ‘the pandemic is over.’ While the virus is still mutating, the worst is clearly behind us. Recent data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control’s COVID data tracker estimates that COVID-19 causes less than 1 percent of new deaths. While fears of fast-paced outbreaks or dangerous new variants are a thing of the past, policies and measures enacted during the height of the pandemic are slowly making a comeback across the country.” (09/19/23)
https://blog.independent.org/2023/09/19/pandemic-is-over-pandemic-policies-are-not/
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49) War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“‘War is good for business.’ So reads a quote from an arms industry executive in a recent Reuters article titled “At London arms fair, global war fears are good for business” about Europe’s biggest arms show, the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International. You will probably be unsurprised to learn that Reuters does not name the war profiteer whose quote inspired their headline. The article describes the way the war in Ukraine and brinkmanship in Taiwan is leading to surging profits for the military industrial complex, with the UK doubling its arms exports in 2022 and worldwide military spending expected to continue to rise by four percent each year for the next five years.” (09/20/23)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/20/war-profiteers-are-a-sign-of-a-profoundly-sick-society/
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50) Americans Need Stronger Private Sector Alternatives, Not CBDCs
Source: Cato Institute
by Norbert Michel
“It’s true that it might take tons of capital and know‐how to compete with a well‐established company, but that’s precisely why the government should ensure the rules do not make it even more difficult to compete.” (09/19/23)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/americans-need-stronger-private-sector-alternatives-not-cbdcs#
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Conflicts of Interest, episode 474
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Biden Wants the UN to Send Troops into Haiti.” (09/20/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-474-biden-wants-the-un-to-send-troops-into-haiti/
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52) Rising, 09/20/23
Source: The Hill
“Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s upcoming visit to the U.S.” (09/20/23)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4213923-rising-september-20-2023/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/20/23
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“I’m joined by Jeff Einstein from Quality of Life Resistance Movement as we discuss the widespread media addiction currently affecting so many of us.” (09/20/23)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-r959t-14ade32
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54) Politics Politics Politics, 09/20/23
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Kevin McCarthy Stops Being Polite. Trump A Union Man? Inside the PA Murder Manhunt (with Stephen Gutowski).” (09/20/23)
https://shows.acast.com/63f52ee5886da70011a1a1ec/episodes/kevin-mccarthy-stops-being-polite-trump-a-union-man-inside-t
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55) Mean Age Daydream, 09/20/23
Source: Lions of Liberty
“A Broken Generation Raised by a Broken Society.” (09/20/23)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/a-broken-generation-raised-by-a-broken-society
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/20/23
Source: Antiwar.com
“Biden Speech at UN Exposes Hypocrisy on Russia, Govt Shutdown Could Hinder Ukraine Aid, and More.” (09/20/23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjH_l6TLSWU
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57) The Chris Hedges Report, 09/19/23
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“[F]ormer Financial Times reporter Matt Kennard about his book ‘Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy.'” (09/19/23)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-3e0
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58) Nonzero, 09/19/23
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
“Russia-Ukraine Harsh Realities | Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven.” (09/19/23)
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59) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 42
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
“Is the government’s antitrust case against Google already in trouble?” (09/19/23)
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/09/19/is-the-governments-antitrust-case-against-google-already-in-trouble/
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60) Liberty at Night, 09/19/23
Source: Free Talk Live
“Liberty at Night :: UAW strike details ::Are union strikes the new socialist revolution? :: Google anti-trust case :: FDA says a popular otc medication never worked :: Dumb tweets of the week :: 2023-09-19 Nate, Chuck.” (09/19/23)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/liberty-at-night-2023-09-19
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Today's Freedom News:
1) India: Regime suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates
2) Fed pauses rate hikes as inflation and economy slow down
3) Ukraine war: Russian forces strike six cities; Crimea air base allegedly seriously damaged
4) Azerbaijan claims full control over the Nagorno-Karabakh region as Armenian forces agree to disarm
5) GA: Prosecution lists disgraced former attorney as witness in election conspiracy case against disgraced former president
6) Iran: Women face ten years in jail for “inappropriate” dress
7) Mexico: Ferromex railway operator suspends routes amid migrant deaths
8) Amazon Upgrades Alexa With More Natural Conversation Powered by AI
9) Qantas ex-CEO takes 900% pay rise, but bonus cut amid scandals
10) Instacart loses almost all its IPO gains by second day of trading as rally fizzles
11) Seattle, WA: Activists decry ban on public drug use passed by blue city leaders
12) Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants
13) House GOP clash with Garland, accusing him of favoring Hunter Biden
14) OH: Court Lets “GOP-Backed Propaganda” Stay on Ballot for Abortion Rights Referendum
15) NJ: State serves violation notice to Ocean Grove for its Sunday beach closures
16) Goldman Sachs raises $15 billion to buy stakes in private equity funds
17) UN chief warns of “gates of hell” in climate summit, as carbon-polluting nations stay silent
18) Gabon: Junta charges Bongo’s son with treason, corruption
19) McCarthy: Still time to prevent a fake government shutdown
20) FDA declines to approve first needle-free option to EpiPen
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Canada’s assassination charge against India puts Biden in a pickle
22) The UAW can strike, but it’s running out of gas
23) No One Apologizes for the Theft of Time
24) Trump’s Preposterous Defense in the Purloined Documents Case
25) Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio, or: How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement
26) Britain’s hidden blasphemy laws
27) The Problem with a Chicago Municipal Grocery Store
28) The Just Case for Reparations
29) Greenpeace proves roads are better than trains
30) A Mutual Defense Treaty with the Saudis Is Absolutely Unacceptable
31) Managing mixed migration in the 21st century through the Safe Mobility Offices initiative
32) Apple’s New iPhone and European Statism
33) Let’s Start Minding Our Own Business
34) The Big Three’s Labor Shortages
35) If the Supreme Court won’t hold itself accountable, term limits can
36) Thinking Harder about “Special” Benefits
37) Earth to Matt Gaetz: Narcissistic nihilism only helps the left [sic]
38) One person’s hate speech is another’s free speech
39) A “Magic Bullet” Loses Luster — Again
40) Pentagon Budget is so Bloated That it Needs an AI Program to Navigate it
41) In Missouri, Autoworkers Fighting for the Future of the Industry
42) Algorithmic Fortune-Telling
43) Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On
44) The Real History of the War in Ukraine
45) While you struggle with inflation, smug elites say, “Let them eat cake!”
46) China’s Bill Comes Due
47) A sub-minimum wage or no wage at all?
48) The Pandemic is Over, But Pandemic Policies Are Not
49) War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society
50) Americans Need Stronger Private Sector Alternatives, Not CBDCs
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51) Conflicts of Interest, episode 474
52) Rising, 09/20/23
53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/20/23
54) Politics Politics Politics, 09/20/23
55) Mean Age Daydream, 09/20/23
56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/20/23
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58) Nonzero, 09/19/23
59) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 42
60) Liberty at Night, 09/19/23
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1) India: Regime suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“India has suspended visa services for Canadian citizens amid an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Visa service provider BLS posted a message from India’s mission blaming ‘operational reasons’ for the decision. Tensions flared this week after Canada said it was investigating ‘credible allegations’ linking India with the murder of the separatist leader. India angrily rejected the allegation calling it ‘absurd.’ … Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that intelligence agencies were investigating whether ‘agents of the government of India’ were involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen — India had designated him a terrorist in 2020. Nijjar was shot dead in his vehicle by two masked gunmen outside a Sikh temple on 18 June in British Columbia.” (09/21/23)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66851964
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2) Fed pauses rate hikes as inflation and economy slow down
Source: NBC News
“The Federal Reserve left the main U.S. interest rate unchanged Wednesday, waiting to see if its historic series of rate hikes over the last 18 months gets inflation under control. The central bank kept its main policy rate in the range of 5.25% to 5.50%, citing an easing of economic conditions while also acknowledging that inflation is still higher than its 2% target. In a statement, the Fed said the economy is in solid shape, with job gains slowing and tighter credit conditions likely to slow economic activity and stem inflation. The Fed had raised interest rates at a historically fast pace in the last 18 months, as it increased its main rate at 11 consecutive meetings from March last year until its meeting in July.” (09/20/23)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/federal-reserve-pauses-interest-rate-hikes-inflation-economy-slow-rcna105615
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3) Ukraine war: Russian forces strike six cities; Crimea air base allegedly seriously damaged
Source: Independent [UK]
“Russia launched a massive air attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and five other cities overnight, injuring at least 18 people and damaging infrastructure facilities across the country. Vladimir Putin’s troops targeted Kherson, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, an industrial zone in the region of Lviv and the northwest city of Rivne, damaging energy infrastructure across the country, evoking memories of last year’s Russian air campaign which causes sweeping outages ahead of winter. … a Ukrainian intelligence source claimed Ukraine’s SBU security service and navy struck the Saky air base in Russian-occupied [sic] Crimea overnight, inflicting ‘serious damage.'” (09/21/23)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-military-zelensky-putin-latest-b2415568.html
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4) Azerbaijan claims full control over the Nagorno-Karabakh region as Armenian forces agree to disarm
Source: Associated Press
“Azerbaijan claimed full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region Wednesday after local Armenian forces there agreed to lay down their weapons following the latest outbreak of fighting in the decades-long separatist conflict. Authorities in the ethnic Armenian region that has run its affairs without international recognition since fighting broke out in the early 1990s declared around midday that local self-defense forces will disarm and disband under a Russia-mediated cease-fire. They also said representatives of the region will start talks Thursday with the Baku government on Nagorno-Karabakh’s ‘reintegration’ into Azerbaijan.” (09/20/23)
https://apnews.com/article/azerbaijan-armenia-explosions-nagornokarabakh-73df9b8b03c3748868e2e358b67bd018
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5) GA: Prosecution lists disgraced former attorney as witness in election conspiracy case against disgraced former president
Source: CNN
“Pro-Donald Trump [former — retired in lieu of being disbarred] lawyer Lin Wood is a ‘witness for the state’ in the Georgia election subversion case, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis revealed Wednesday. The reference to Wood was buried in a new court filing by the DA’s office that raised potential conflicts of interest for six defense attorneys because they previously represented witnesses or other defendants in related proceedings. Wood was previously subpoenaed by prosecutors in the Georgia probe but his status as a witness for the state was not previously known.” (09/20/23)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/politics/lin-wood-georgia-election-subversion-case/index.html
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6) Iran: Women face ten years in jail for “inappropriate” dress
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Iran’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that would increase prison terms and fines for women and girls who break its strict dress code. Those dressed ‘inappropriately’ face up to 10 years in jail under the bill, for which a three-year ‘trial’ was agreed. It still needs to be approved by the Guardian Council to become law. The move comes a year after protests erupted over the [police murder] of Mahsa Amini, who was held by morality police for an allegedly improper hijab. Women burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at the nationwide demonstrations against the clerical establishment, during which hundreds of people were reportedly killed in a crackdown by security forces. A growing number of women and girls have stopped covering their hair in public altogether as the unrest has subsided, despite the return of the morality police to the streets and the installation of surveillance cameras.” (09/20/23)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66863720
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7) Mexico: Ferromex railway operator suspends routes amid migrant deaths
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A company which operates some of Mexico’s railways has suspended 60 of its routes after a surge of migrants hitching rides on freight trains. Ferromex said services would be halted on the trains travelling towards Mexico’s border with the US, in order to ‘avoid accidents or loss of life.’ It added that the number of migrants trying to hitch rides on its freight trains was ‘unprecedented.’ … Grupo Mexico, which owns Mexico’s biggest rail operator, Ferromex, said in a statement published [in Spanish] on Tuesday that there had been ‘half a dozen cases of injuries or death in recent days.’ The network of freight trains is referred to by migrants as La Bestia (The Beast) and many risk jumping on board to speed up their 3,000km-journey (1,860 miles) from Mexico’s southern to its northern border.” (09/20/23)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66864868
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8) Amazon Upgrades Alexa With More Natural Conversation Powered by AI
Source: CNet
“Amazon showed off AI-enhanced conversational abilities on its Alexa line of smart home devices allowing you to have more natural back-and-forths, the company said in a press conference on Wednesday. Called Let’s Chat, the feature is intended to make Alexa sound more natural and responsive. Currently, when speaking to smart home devices, there’s often a delay between the question asked and the answer given. The goal with Let’s Chat is to reduce that time and make Alexa work as if you’re talking to a real person, where responses come quickly. This also means the ability for you to alter a question midsentence and have Alexa understand and respond accordingly. Powering this enhanced version of Alexa is a large language model, or LLM, that’s been optimized for voice, smart home, real-time info and home entertainment.” (09/20/23)
https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-upgrades-alexa-with-more-natural-conversation-powered-by-ai/
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9) Qantas ex-CEO takes 900% pay rise, but bonus cut amid scandals
Source: Reuters
“Australia’s Qantas Airways said its former CEO took a pay increase of 872% as he collected years’ worth of long-term incentives on the way out, but added it was cutting and withholding hefty bonuses amid damaging lawsuits. Alan Joyce, who retired early this month after a regulator lawsuit accused Qantas (QAN.AX) of selling tickets on thousands of already-cancelled flights, took home A$21.4 million in the 2023 financial year, according to the company’s annual report, published on Wednesday. Most of the amount was share-based incentives that Joyce was allowed to cash in after they vested, according to the report. Joyce’s total pay for the previous year was A$2.3 million. Qantas cut an additional short-term bonus for Joyce by one-fifth of the A$2.7 million available and withheld it pending the outcome of two lawsuits that may result in hefty fines and further reputational turbulence for the company, the report added.” (09/20/23)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/qantas-ex-ceo-alan-joyce-get-tenfold-higher-pay-138-mln-2023-2023-09-20/
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10) Instacart loses almost all its IPO gains by second day of trading as rally fizzles
Source: CNBC
“Instacart shares slumped more than 5% in their second day of trading Wednesday, continuing a slide that began immediately after the stock hit the Nasdaq on Tuesday, and leaving it narrowly above its IPO price. On Monday, Instacart sold shares in its long-awaited IPO at $30 a piece. Trading under ticker symbol ‘CART,’ the stock popped 40% to open at $42, but then sold off throughout the day to close at $33.70. By Wednesday afternoon, Instacart’s rally had fizzled further, and shares are now trading below $32. Instacart’s offering helped reignite a sleepy IPO market, which has been mostly closed since late 2021 as companies were plagued by inflationary pressures and rising interest rates. But Instacart’s falling share price suggests investors are still hesitant to buy into tech companies that are aiming to disrupt traditional markets despite challenging economics.” (09/20/23)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/instacart-loses-almost-all-its-ipo-gains-by-second-day-on-nasdaq.html
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11) Seattle, WA: Activists decry ban on public drug use passed by blue city leaders
Source: Fox News
“Signs and shouts filled Seattle City Council chambers Tuesday night as councilmembers voted to approve an ordinance making the use or possession of illicit drugs a gross misdemeanor. ‘You have blood on your hands,’ activists can be heard shouting after the 6-3 vote in a video by journalist Jonathan Choe. Critics call it a War on Drugs 2.0, but supporters hope enforcement will improve public safety and help push addicts into treatment. Those who use or possess illegal drugs in the Emerald City can be subject to gross misdemeanor charges, although the ordinance does encourage police to prioritize diversion. A gross misdemeanor allows a judge to impose more jail time than under a regular misdemeanor. But the council’s bill recommends arrests only when an individual ‘presents a threat of harm to others,’ The Seattle Times reported.” (09/20/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blood-hands-activists-decry-ban-public-drug-use-passed-blue-city-leaders
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12) Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants
Source: Ars Technica
“After years of delays, regulatory rejections, and allegations of animal abuse, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, is now recruiting its first human volunteers to have an experimental robot implant an experimental device directly into their brains. In a blog post Tuesday, the company announced that an independent institutional review board and an unnamed hospital site granted approval for the trial to start recruiting volunteers. Neuralink says it aims to enroll people with quadriplegia due to a spinal cord injury or ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Volunteers will have a wireless brain-computer interface implant, dubbed N1, surgically embedded into their brains by the company’s experimental surgical robot, R1. … The goal of the N1 implantation is to allow trial participants to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts. This trial will primarily evaluate safety, but also get a glimpse of efficacy, Neuralink says.” (09/20/23)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/musks-neuralink-seeks-volunteers-for-brain-implants-whos-in/
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13) House GOP clash with Garland, accusing him of favoring Hunter Biden
Source: SFGate
“House Republicans clashed with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, accusing him and the Justice Department of the ‘weaponization’ of the department’s work in favor of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Garland’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee was the first in two years and came at an unprecedented moment in the department’s history: He’s overseeing two cases against Donald Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges, and another against the sitting president’s son. Republicans on the committee — led by Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman — set the tone with accusations that the Justice Department is favoring the Biden family, while targeting his opponent, Trump. ‘There’s one investigation protecting President Biden. There’s another one attacking President Trump,’ Jordan, Republican of Ohio, said in his opening statement. ‘The Justice Department’s got both sides of the equation covered.'” (09/20/23)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/attorney-general-garland-set-to-face-his-gop-18377365.php
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14) OH: Court Lets “GOP-Backed Propaganda” Stay on Ballot for Abortion Rights Referendum
Source: Common Dreams
“The Ohio Supreme Court sided with the state’s GOP-led Ohio Ballot Board Tuesday night, ruling that the words ‘unborn child’ could be used instead of ‘fetus’ in the ballot summary of a referendum that would add reproductive rights to the state constitution. The decision is the latest setback for the referendum after voters defeated a GOP-supported measure in August that would have required a 60% majority to pass constitutional amendments. ‘This should have been simple, but the Ohio ballot board tried to mislead voters yet again,’ Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights spokesperson Lauren Blauvelt told The Guardian. ‘Issue 1 is clearly and concisely written to protect Ohioans’ right to make our own personal healthcare decisions about contraception, pregnancy, and abortion, free from government interference. The actual amendment language communicates that right clearly and without distortion.'” (09/20/23)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ohio-court-abortion-referendum
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15) NJ: State serves violation notice to Ocean Grove for its Sunday beach closures
Source: Fox News
“The state of New Jersey has taken further legal action against the Jersey Shore town of Ocean Grove. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) served a Notice of Violation to the Christian seaside community on Sept. 14 for its policy of closing its beach on 15 seasonal Sundays for a few hours on those mornings. The NJDEP forwarded the notice in an email to Fox News Digital, which was addressed to Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Director of Operations Steve Columbo. … This Notice of Violation was issued nearly one month after Ocean Grove was served a warning letter on Aug. 10, 2023, which claimed the town was non-compliant with the state’s policy to allow public access to the ocean and wet sand.” (09/20/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/new-jersey-notice-violation-ocean-grove-sunday-beach-closures-anti-christian
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16) Goldman Sachs raises $15 billion to buy stakes in private equity funds
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Goldman Sachs has raised more than $15bn to buy investors’ stakes in private equity funds and invest in deals where buyout groups sell portfolio companies from one of their funds to another, in the latest sign of sustained support for the fast-growing ‘secondary’ strategy. Goldman’s asset management unit raised more than $14bn for its largest-ever flagship secondaries fund and in excess of $1bn for its debut fund focused on secondary deals in the infrastructure sector, the bank’s global head of secondaries Harold Hope told the Financial Times.” (09/20/23)
https://archive.ph/5W6WR
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17) UN chief warns of “gates of hell” in climate summit, as carbon-polluting nations stay silent
Source: ABC News
“The head of the United Nations warned Wednesday that the ‘gates of hell’ are at hand as climate change intensifies, and top international officials said the world’s leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb pollution of heat-trapping gases. They pleaded with major emitting nations to do more. Those nations remained silent. They weren’t allowed to speak because, organizers said, they had no new actions to take. The only countries that touted their efforts — ‘first movers and doers,’ the United Nations called them — were responsible for just one-ninth of the world’s annual carbon pollution. ‘Humanity has opened the gates to hell,’ U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday, opening a special climate ambition summit with yet another plea for action. ‘Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease. And thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage.'” (09/20/23)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-warns-gates-hell-climate-summit-carbon-polluting-103343229
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18) Gabon: Junta charges Bongo’s son with treason, corruption
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“The son of Ali Bongo Ondimba and several allies of the ousted Gabon president have been charged with high treason and corruption and placed in custody, the state prosecutor told AFP Wednesday. Bongo’s eldest son Noureddin Bongo Valentin and former presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha, as well as four others close to the deposed leader, ‘have been charged and placed in provisional detention,’ said Libreville prosecutor Andre-Patrick Roponat. Bongo, 64, who had ruled the oil-rich central African country since 2009, was ousted by military leaders on August 30, moments after being proclaimed the winner in a presidential election.” (09/20/23)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230920-son-of-ousted-gabon-leader-ali-bongo-charged-with-treason-and-corruption
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19) McCarthy: Still time to prevent a fake government shutdown
Source: SFGate
“With no clear strategy, no sure support and not much time left to prevent a government shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy nevertheless vowed on Wednesday he would not give up trying to convince his colleagues to pass a temporary funding bill through the House. … ‘It’s not September 30 — the game is not over,’ McCarthy told reporters. But even if McCarthy is able to accomplish the seemingly impossible and unite his all-but-ungovernable House Republican majority around a conservative spending plan, the victory would be short-lived. The hard-right bill, with steep 8% cuts to many services, would be rejected by the Senate, where Democrats are in control but even Republicans reject the House GOP’s severe reductions.” (09/20/23)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/speaker-mccarthy-says-there-s-still-time-to-18378267.php
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20) FDA declines to approve first needle-free option to EpiPen
Source: United Press International
“Federal regulators have declined to approve the first needle-free epinephrine treatment for people who suffer from severe allergic reactions, requesting its developer, ARS Pharmaceuticals, to conduct further testing. The late Tuesday announcement by ARS Pharmaceuticals follows expectations that the Food and Drug Administration was to sign off on neffy after its Pulmonary-Allergy Drug Advisory Committee in May voted 16 to 6 in favor of adults using the nasal spray and 15 to 5 for children. … Neffy is an epinephrine treatment used to combat severe allergic reactions similar to EpiPen. But, unlike EpiPen, which administers epinephrine via injection, neffy is a nasal spray.” (09/20/23)
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/09/20/FDA-neffy-decline/1431695198479/
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21) Canada’s assassination charge against India puts Biden in a pickle
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mark Episkopos
“Canada has blamed the Indian government over the assassination of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the two countries and confronting the Biden administration with a difficult choice. … Beyond the ongoing fallout between Ottawa and New Delhi, Trudeau’s Tuesday remarks have put many of Canada’s closest allies in a difficult spot. On the one hand, the White House has made it a top strategic priority to court India amid its intensifying standoff with China. On the other hand, the Biden administration has built its foreign policy brand on the importance of marching in lockstep with its Atlantic partners — failing to publicly back Canada could deal at least a symbolic setback to the Biden administration’s grand vision of a united Atlantic front.” (09/20/23)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/canada-assassination-india/
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22) The UAW can strike, but it’s running out of gas
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“The Biden administration is ladling at least $12 billion into the automakers to cushion them against the Biden administration. Against, that is, myriad government pressures to quickly eliminate the non-EVs that the obdurate public prefers. This will require the companies to make tens of billions in capital investments, some of which with money the public will provide. The semi/sort of/once-upon-a-time private companies will pretend this is private enterprise, freshly reimagined. The UAW reasons, not unreasonably, that its job is to seize for its members as much as it can of the billions sloshing around in the name of ‘industrial policy’ subsidies. Meanwhile, non-UAW production lines are still humming along, disproportionately in the South’s right-to-work states. The UAW worries that EVs, having many fewer components than internal combustion vehicles, will require many fewer assembly workers.” (09/20/23)
https://archive.ph/Z4OOu
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23) No One Apologizes for the Theft of Time
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Eric Hussey
“[G]overnment deliberately steals time from people, perhaps at a higher rate than it steals money. The theft is without conscience or remorse. And, the theft has no constitutional safeguards. At least with money, we know that we can constitutionally blame the House of Representatives. … But no one apologizes for theft of time. When the second quarter of 2023 ended a couple of months ago, I sent Form 941, the employer’s quarterly tax return, off to the IRS. It used to be two pages. Now it is three pages. The instructions for those three pages are in a 23-page downloadable document. On Form 941 it lists the amount of time expected for filing the form: Record keeping, 22 hours, 28 minutes; Learning about the law or the form, 53 minutes; Preparing, copying, assembling, and sending the form to the IRS, 1 hour, 18 minutes.” (09/20/23)
https://brownstone.org/articles/no-one-apologizes-for-the-theft-of-time/
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24) Trump’s Preposterous Defense in the Purloined Documents Case
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“In May 2022, Donald Trump received a federal subpoena demanding all the documents with classification markings that remained in his possession at Mar-a-Lago. At that point, SiriusXM talk show host Megyn Kelly suggested in an interview with the former president last week, he was legally obligated to surrender those records. ‘I know this,’ Trump replied, then immediately corrected himself: ‘I don’t even know that, because I have the right to have those documents.’ That startling response epitomized the lazy arrogance that Trump displayed in January 2021, when he removed thousands of presidential records from the White House, and during the ensuing year and a half, when he stubbornly resisted efforts to recover them. … the story behind the documents case is relatively straightforward: Trump took a bunch of stuff that did not belong to him and refused to return it. Trump disputes both parts of that story.” (09/20/23)
https://reason.com/2023/09/20/trumps-preposterous-defense-in-the-purloined-documents-case/
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25) Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio, or: How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement
Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins
“So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement. … Mike’s movement is preparing to publish a declaration. It’s a good declaration. I contributed to it. I signed it, although my name will not appear on it now, as Mike has threatened to remove it if I published a piece like this. Mike is an extremely smart guy, but he doesn’t seem to get that I don’t respond well to threats … or, rather, that this is how I respond to threats. Or, who knows? Maybe he actually wanted me to publish this piece, and goaded me into it …. There is nothing wrong with the declaration. What has taken up most of the last three months of the coalition’s time and energy, and has led to my excommunication, is the hunt for Very Important Persons to be included as signatories when the declaration is released.” (09/20/23)
https://consentfactory.org/2023/09/20/mr-mikes-mondo-imbroglio-or-how-not-to-launch-a-global-anti-censorship-movement/
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26) Britain’s hidden blasphemy laws
Source: spiked
by Hardeep Singh
“Prohibiting Islamophobia poses significant risks to free speech. Academic discussions about Islamic conquests ‘by the sword,’ from the Ottomans to the Mughals, or contemporary debates about ‘grooming gangs’ could be considered racist, according to the examples given in the APPG’s own report. Earlier this year, a Boston councillor was denied a mayoral role following accusations of Islamophobia. He published Facebook posts during the 2022 Qatar World Cup, raising legitimate concerns about the aspects of Islamic doctrine that restrict women’s rights and criminalise homosexuality. … To be clear, anti-Muslim hatred is a serious issue – the Finsbury Park terrorist attack by Darren Osbourne in 2017 left one dead and 12 injured, for instance. But banning so-called Islamophobia, and treating it as a special form of racism, won’t help to tackle it and will cause all kinds of other problems.” (09/20/23)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/20/britains-hidden-blasphemy-laws/
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27) The Problem with a Chicago Municipal Grocery Store
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Peter Jacobsen
“Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, is experimenting with a surprising new city policy — government-run grocery stores. … The proposal comes in response to an apparent lack of access to grocery stores after giants Walmart and Whole Foods closed down their stores in large areas of the city. The companies each claim the closures were due to the stores being unprofitable. The lack of nearby grocery stores has caused significant speculation on how these locations could possibly be unprofitable. … In any case, municipal authorities in Chicago have decided these closures are severe enough issues to warrant the development of centrally planned grocery stores. How would these stores do? Economic analysis can help us understand what central planning of groceries would look like.” (09/20/23)
https://fee.org/articles/the-problem-with-a-chicago-municipal-grocery-store/
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28) The Just Case for Reparations
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed The Civil Liberties Act, which gave surviving Japanese Americans reparations for their internment during World War II. Reagan also gave a formal apology on behalf of the federal government. … The question of reparations around Native Americans and African Americans is not as easy to score as the case of Japanese Americans—and even more difficult to justify despite the magnitude of the past wrongs. Nevertheless, perhaps we can make a relatively just case for reparations.” (09/20/23)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-just-case-for-reparations
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29) Greenpeace proves roads are better than trains
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall
“Clearly, road vastly outperforms rail in gaining what is actually desired from either system – the ability of a person to travel some number of passenger km. Recall, the aim of any economic system or subset of one is the output to be gained from it. Given this vast outperformance of roads as against rail it’s possible to therefore conclude that governments vastly overspend upon rail infrastructure. We seem to gain 25 passenger km from every km of road as against 1 from every 1 km of rail. Investing only 60% more in roads is thus so much of a waste of money that it becomes a dereliction of duty to be spending upon rail. We’re not sure that we would go entirely that far but it is the correct conclusion to draw from the information as presented by Greenpeace.” (09/20/23)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/greenpeace-proves-roads-are-better-than-trains
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30) A Mutual Defense Treaty with the Saudis Is Absolutely Unacceptable
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“It is hard to think of a worse proposal than a mutual defense treaty with Saudi Arabia. The idea that our government would pledge to send Americans to fight and die for any despotic government is bad enough, but to pledge to defend this state in particular is truly vile. This is a government that indiscriminately bombs civilians, massacres refugees, executes political protesters en masse on bogus charges of terrorism, murders dissidents, and tortures female prisoners. This is the government that Biden wants the U.S. to pledge to protect. It is also completely divorced from vital U.S. interests.” (09/20/23)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/a-mutual-defense-treaty-with-the
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31) Managing mixed migration in the 21st century through the Safe Mobility Offices initiative
Source: Niskanen Center
by Kristie de Pena & Gil Guerra
“In late spring 2023, the Biden administration introduced the Safe Mobility Offices (SMO) Initiative to expand the use of and access to protection and migration pathways closer to home. Arising out of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration, SMOs (previously known as Regional Processing Centers) aim to provide people seeking safety, security, economic opportunity, and reunification with family access to regularized pathways closer to home. Though not intended to be a substitute for territorial access to asylum, SMOs reflect one modality in a larger strategic shift for how the U.S. — and other countries — can respond to the complex movement of people with protection and non-protection needs so that they do not undertake dangerous journeys northward.” (09/20/23)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/managing-mixed-migration-in-the-21st-century-through-the-safe-mobility-offices-initiative/
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32) Apple’s New iPhone and European Statism
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The new iPhone now carries a USB-C charging port, rather that the proprietary lightning charging port that Apple has long been using. While Apple’s decision to change the charging port was technically ‘voluntary,’ it came about because of a vote by the European Union to require all sellers of cell phones to carry the USB-C charging port. Thus, while Apple could have simply refrained from selling its iPhone within the EU countries, it instead chose to comply with the EU regulatory mandate in order to continue selling its product within the member nations of the European Union. Needless to say, the statists within the EU bureaucracy are ecstatic, given that they were successful in bending a gigantic American company to their political will.” (09/20/23)
https://www.fff.org/2023/09/20/apples-new-iphone-and-european-statism/
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33) Let’s Start Minding Our Own Business
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Dan McKnight
“I look at this country and I see too many veterans unable to reenter society because of their trauma from fighting these endless wars. I look at this country and I see political prisoners like Julian Assange locked up for practicing honest journalism. I look at this country and I see too many kids failing basic reading and math requirements. I look at this country and see the necessities of life getting more expensive, and people being punished for saving money. I look at this country and see problems that are painful, but solvable. That’s why I founded Bring Our Troops Home, to solve the biggest problem of all: the unconstitutional global empire that saps our resources and buries our sons and daughters.” (09/20/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/lets-start-minding-our-own-business/
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34) The Big Three’s Labor Shortages
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“UAW president Shawn Fain has announced that workers at more plants will ‘stand up’ and walk out if substantial progress is not made in negotiations by noon on Friday. But workers who are still on the job have found their own way to put pressure on the Big Three, by exploiting their long-standing worker shortages. Labor Notes reports on autoworkers’ strategy of ‘Eight and Skate,’ which means working their shifts and then refusing voluntary overtime, which is routinely offered by the Big Three. Working your shift and then leaving work (in other words, doing exactly what it is you were hired to do) shouldn’t really be debilitating to the employer. In this case, it is. The reason is understaffing: There are simply not enough workers at many auto plants to meet production goals.” (09/20/23)
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-20-big-threes-labor-shortages-uaw/
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35) If the Supreme Court won’t hold itself accountable, term limits can
Source: The Hill
by Alan M Cohn & Andrew Warren
“Out of step with American public sentiment and unwilling to hold themselves to the same ethical standards and accountability as the rest of the federal judiciary, Congress and the president, the Supreme Court is making its own case for the best possible solution to its self-made crisis in confidence: term limits. … There is no mechanism to hold justices accountable for misconduct other than impeachment, and impeachment has happened only once, in 1803. The Supreme Court derives its legitimacy from our shared acceptance of the rule of law and faith that members of the court reach their decisions honestly and ethically. Those two pillars are cracked, and faith in the court is in danger of collapse. For someone who said last fall he was concerned critics of the Supreme Court were questioning the court’s legitimacy, Chief Justice Roberts has now made the case that the criticism is well-earned.” (09/20/23)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4211871-if-the-supreme-court-wont-hold-itself-accountable-term-limits-can/
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36) Thinking Harder about “Special” Benefits
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Gary M Galles
“Virtually everywhere you turn, Americans are told government assistance is necessary because in every case it provides ‘special’ benefits to recipients. But the nearly ubiquitous use of that rationale generates a logical contradiction. When it is extended as broadly as it is today, those ‘special’ goods make up the vast majority of low-income family consumption budgets. In that situation, each subsidized good cannot be special relative to the others.” (09/20/23)
https://www.aier.org/article/thinking-harder-about-special-benefits/
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37) Earth to Matt Gaetz: Narcissistic nihilism only helps the left [sic]
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Rep. Matt Gaetz is now winning praise from The New York Times’[s] Michelle Cottle — a pretty clear sign his antics are serving the lefties he claims to oppose. At issue, mainly: the Florida Republican’s constant threats to force a vote of confidence in Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), which would achieve exactly nothing, with a small but real risk that it would wind up handing control of the House to the Democrats. And a guarantee that it would gum up the House works when Congress needs to pass a resolution to avoid a federal shutdown. McCarthy, who’s done plenty for conservative causes, is pushing a continuing resolution, or CR, that would keep the government running to Oct. 31 while trimming most non-defense discretionary spending by 8% and restoring some Trump-era border controls.” (09/19/23)
https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/matt-gaetz-stop-helping-the-left-by-hurting-kevin-mccarthy/
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38) One person’s hate speech is another’s free speech
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Jonathan Zimmerman
“Why should we allow hate speech on our campus? That’s the most common question I get from my students. And the latest controversy at Penn — where I teach — provides a clear answer: Hate speech is in the eye of the beholder. Once you decide to prohibit it, almost any speech can be banned.” (09/20/23)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn-palestine-writes-antisemitism-controversy-free-speech-roger-waters-amy-wax-20230920.html
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39) A “Magic Bullet” Loses Luster — Again
Source: The American Conservative
by Chad Nagle
“Amid decades of speculation about motives, means and opportunity among myriad opponents of Kennedy’s policies, the lion’s share of JFK assassination ‘conspiracy theory’ (that mortal sin against Anglo-American political culture) stems simply from [Arlen] Specter’s implausible little formula. Absent Specter’s distinctive hypothesis, America’s approved history on the untimely demise of its youngest-ever chief executive collapses. Specter would eventually occupy a U.S. Senate seat for thirty years, but he is probably best remembered for consolidating his Single Bullet Theory as a key element of the official narrative …. But echoing down through the ages is the voice of John Connally, witness and victim, who was ‘convinced beyond any doubt’ that he and Kennedy were not hit by the same bullet. Thus endures the widespread belief in America that more than one person was firing at the motorcade that fateful Friday.” (09/20/23)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-magic-bullet-loses-luster-again/
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40) Pentagon Budget is so Bloated That it Needs an AI Program to Navigate it
Source: The Intercept
by Ken Klippenstein
“As tech luminaries like Elon Musk issue solemn warnings about artificial intelligence’s threat of ‘civilizational destruction,’ the U.S. military is using it for a decidedly more mundane purpose: understanding its sprawling $816.7 billion budget and figuring out its own policies. Thanks to its bloat and political wrangling, the annual Department of Defense budget legislation includes hundreds of revisions and limitations telling the Pentagon what it can and cannot do. To make sense of all those provisions, the Pentagon created an AI program, codenamed GAMECHANGER. … Military brass use GAMECHANGER to help them navigate what the Defense Department itself points to as an absurd amount of ‘tedious’ policies. The program contains over 15,000 policy documents governing how the Pentagon operates, according to its GitHub entry.” (09/20/23)
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/20/pentagon-ai-budget-gamechanger/
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41) In Missouri, Autoworkers Fighting for the Future of the Industry
Source: In These Times
by Jacqui Germain
“Four of the five gated entrances to General Motors’ Wentzville factory face a busy highway. All day, striking workers have enjoyed a near-constant chorus of honks, waves, and ’Keep it up!’ yelled out windows — aside from one woman who flipped them the bird, says Matthew Bergman, an eight-year veteran at GM who’s serving as gate captain for the strike. He manages logistics at the gate and handles on-site media requests and any approaching vehicles. Bergman leads the picketers in Local 2250’s chant: ‘Two, two!’ he calls. ‘“Five, oh!’ they yell back. It’s the third day of the United Auto Workers’ ‘stand-up strike’, an escalatory strategy designed to push the ’Big Three’ automakers — GM, Ford and Chrysler parent company Stellantis — to meet the UAW’s demands in negotiations for a new labor agreement.” (09/20/23)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-wentzville-missouri-gm-plant-fain-industry
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42) Algorithmic Fortune-Telling
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Dicken
“Vaccination was introduced to Europe and North America in the early 1700s. It was met with considerable skepticism (if not outright hostility), and explicitly banned in some countries. The process, however, was finally redeemed through statistics. In 1766 the Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernouilli extracted the relevant rates of susceptibility and fatality from census records and predicted an average improvement of 14 years of life expectancy for those inoculated against smallpox. Admittedly, Bernouilli’s data was flawed, and his calculations were based upon a number of questionable assumptions, such as simply ignoring the potential risks of inoculation. But it provided the model for many of the processes that were to come …. It is perhaps also notable that Bernouilli was roundly criticized at the time for reducing the all-too-human realities of sickness and death into an abstract calculation of costs and benefits.” (09/20/23)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/algorithmic-fortune-telling/
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43) Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On
Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark
“During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause. In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to the Marxist tic, or at the very least the tic in waiting. Any government deemed by Washington to be remotely progressive would become ripe targets for violent overthrow. To this day, the murderers of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende, (wait, we hear the first apologist mock, he was not murdered but suicided out of choice) along with thousands of innocents continues to receive briefs in their defence. On September 15, Mary Anastasia O’Grady, a Wall Street Journal scratcher turned police-state boot polisher bombarded her Australian Radio National host, Tom Switzer, with the stock libels about Allende’s legacy and the military coup of September 11, 1973.” (09/20/23)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/20/brief-for-murder-pinochets-apologists-five-decades-on/
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44) The Real History of the War in Ukraine
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jeffrey D Sachs
“The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media – The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN – have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating US President Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public. Biden is again denigrating Russian President Vladimir Putin, this time accusing Putin of a ‘craven lust for land and power,’ after declaring last year that ‘For God’s sake, that man [Putin] cannot stay in power.’ Yet Biden is the one who is trapping Ukraine in an open-ended war by continuing to push NATO enlargement to Ukraine. He is afraid to tell the truth to the American and Ukrainian people, rejecting diplomacy, and opting instead for perpetual war.” (09/20/23)
https://original.antiwar.com/jeffrey_sachs/2023/09/19/the-real-history-of-the-war-in-ukraine/
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45) While you struggle with inflation, smug elites say, “Let them eat cake!”
Source: Fox News
by Carol Roth
“The August CPI numbers were even hotter than the economic consensus expected (up 0.6% for the month, the biggest monthly increase of the year), showing inflation to be a persistent issue for Americans. Regardless of the reported figures, which we know have been manipulated formulaically several times since the 1980s, Americans are struggling with food, housing, gas and other energy costs, and the general cost of living. The concerns are real and they are valid – perhaps except to those who run in elite circles. From Nobel Prize-winning economists to college professors pulling down six-figure salaries, while you grapple with the price of groceries, they say, ‘Let them eat cake!'” (09/20/23)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/while-you-struggle-inflation-smug-elites-say-let-them-eat-cake
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46) China’s Bill Comes Due
Source: Hoover Institution
by Mickey D Levy
“China has evolved from an engine of global growth to a source of weakness and risk, and it has its leaders and their economic policies to blame. Sizable government-generated excesses in real estate and debt are unraveling, weighing heavily on economic performance and government finances. Declines in household net worth are undercutting confidence and consumer spending. Many of the largest land developers have gone into bankruptcy or defaulted on their debt. Global economies and trade are also adversely affected. The US and Japanese experiences with real estate bubbles suggest that China probably will need years to unwind its excesses and revive dampened economic activity, and a fundamental assessment points to dramatically slower potential growth.” (09/19/23)
https://www.hoover.org/research/chinas-bill-comes-due
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47) A sub-minimum wage or no wage at all?
Source: EconLog
by John Phelan
“Legislators in Minnesota are currently debating a bill which illustrates one of the most fundamental questions of public policy. HF 2513 would abolish subminimum wages for people with disabilities. If enacted, the legislation would have drastic consequences for about 70 day and employment centers — also known as ‘sheltered workshops’ — across the state that benefit from a special allowance in federal labor law that permits them to pay disabled workers below the federal minimum wage. … We all wish that disability carried no wage penalty but the sad reality is that in many cases it does and we cannot magic it away with the wave of a legislative wand. Reality often gives us a choice between a sub-optimal outcome and an even more sub-optimal one.” (09/19/23)
https://www.econlib.org/a-sub-minimum-wage-or-no-wage-at-all/
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48) The Pandemic is Over, But Pandemic Policies Are Not
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March
“President Biden told us over a year ago that ‘the pandemic is over.’ While the virus is still mutating, the worst is clearly behind us. Recent data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control’s COVID data tracker estimates that COVID-19 causes less than 1 percent of new deaths. While fears of fast-paced outbreaks or dangerous new variants are a thing of the past, policies and measures enacted during the height of the pandemic are slowly making a comeback across the country.” (09/19/23)
https://blog.independent.org/2023/09/19/pandemic-is-over-pandemic-policies-are-not/
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49) War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“‘War is good for business.’ So reads a quote from an arms industry executive in a recent Reuters article titled “At London arms fair, global war fears are good for business” about Europe’s biggest arms show, the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International. You will probably be unsurprised to learn that Reuters does not name the war profiteer whose quote inspired their headline. The article describes the way the war in Ukraine and brinkmanship in Taiwan is leading to surging profits for the military industrial complex, with the UK doubling its arms exports in 2022 and worldwide military spending expected to continue to rise by four percent each year for the next five years.” (09/20/23)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/20/war-profiteers-are-a-sign-of-a-profoundly-sick-society/
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50) Americans Need Stronger Private Sector Alternatives, Not CBDCs
Source: Cato Institute
by Norbert Michel
“It’s true that it might take tons of capital and know‐how to compete with a well‐established company, but that’s precisely why the government should ensure the rules do not make it even more difficult to compete.” (09/19/23)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/americans-need-stronger-private-sector-alternatives-not-cbdcs#
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51) Conflicts of Interest, episode 474
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Biden Wants the UN to Send Troops into Haiti.” (09/20/23)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-474-biden-wants-the-un-to-send-troops-into-haiti/
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52) Rising, 09/20/23
Source: The Hill
“Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s upcoming visit to the U.S.” (09/20/23)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4213923-rising-september-20-2023/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/20/23
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“I’m joined by Jeff Einstein from Quality of Life Resistance Movement as we discuss the widespread media addiction currently affecting so many of us.” (09/20/23)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-r959t-14ade32
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54) Politics Politics Politics, 09/20/23
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Kevin McCarthy Stops Being Polite. Trump A Union Man? Inside the PA Murder Manhunt (with Stephen Gutowski).” (09/20/23)
https://shows.acast.com/63f52ee5886da70011a1a1ec/episodes/kevin-mccarthy-stops-being-polite-trump-a-union-man-inside-t
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55) Mean Age Daydream, 09/20/23
Source: Lions of Liberty
“A Broken Generation Raised by a Broken Society.” (09/20/23)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/a-broken-generation-raised-by-a-broken-society
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/20/23
Source: Antiwar.com
“Biden Speech at UN Exposes Hypocrisy on Russia, Govt Shutdown Could Hinder Ukraine Aid, and More.” (09/20/23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjH_l6TLSWU
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57) The Chris Hedges Report, 09/19/23
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“[F]ormer Financial Times reporter Matt Kennard about his book ‘Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy.'” (09/19/23)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-3e0
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58) Nonzero, 09/19/23
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
“Russia-Ukraine Harsh Realities | Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven.” (09/19/23)
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59) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 42
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
“Is the government’s antitrust case against Google already in trouble?” (09/19/23)
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/09/19/is-the-governments-antitrust-case-against-google-already-in-trouble/
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60) Liberty at Night, 09/19/23
Source: Free Talk Live
“Liberty at Night :: UAW strike details ::Are union strikes the new socialist revolution? :: Google anti-trust case :: FDA says a popular otc medication never worked :: Dumb tweets of the week :: 2023-09-19 Nate, Chuck.” (09/19/23)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/liberty-at-night-2023-09-19
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