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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Bitcoin mining bounces back to level before China crackdown
2) US House, Senate vote to let themselves borrow another $2.5 trillion with you as collateral
3) UK: Conservative revolt over COVID authoritarianism deals stinging blow to Johnson
4) DC: Regime files lawsuit against two groups for costs of Capitol riot response
5) Belarus: Regime court sentences political prisoner Siarhei Tsikhanouski to 18 years
6) US Air Force discharges 27 for refusing COVID-19 vaccine
7) UAE regime suspends multi-billion dollar weapons deal in sign of growing frustration with US-China showdown
8) NY: Ethics commission orders Cuomo to forfeit millions in book proceeds
9) IAEA Director: Iran’s limited access to nuclear program provides “blurred image” of reality
10) Democratic mayors under fire as crime, violence plagues Chicago, New York, Philadelphia
11) Canada: Regime offers up to $40 billion to compensate indigenous children
12) Philippines: Duterte withdraws his candidacy from 2022 Senate race
13) SD: Organizers apologize for raising money for schools
14) SCOTUS to hear appeals in landmark McGirt case involving tribal land in Oklahoma
15) Survey: “100 Million” Americans See US Healthcare System as “Expensive” or “Broken”
16) Uganda: Bobi Wine “under house arrest”
17) MRFF claim: Wreaths Across America “carpet-bombing” veteran cemeteries with “Christian gang sign”
18) China: Regime fines Weibo for publishing information
19) UK: Regime removes all 11 countries from “red list”
20) FL: Officials cave after federal threats, give money to school districts that broke law on religious headgear mandates
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) “The people” isn’t a thing
22) America’s “Justice System” is Far From Just
23) Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns
24) Race To The Totalitarian Bottom
25) The Folly of Leaving the ABM Treaty, 20 Years Later
26) What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy
27) Using Assange to Send a Three-Part Message
28) Public Schools Should Stop Threatening Unvaccinated Kids
29) They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
30) Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation
31) Empathy — and Dismay
32) The Greatest Financial Swindle of All Time
33) Rule(s) of Law(s): The problem is monopoly, not violence.
34) This time it will be different!
35) The US Military Budget in the Form of a Mushroom Cloud
36) The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career
37) California Imported Crude Oil Ranks as a Major Emissions Generator
38) Are we overhyping the threat of Omicron?
39) The Second Global Hot Spot Most Likely to Upend Your Portfolio in 2022
40) US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea
41) Could the Omicron Variant Be Good News?
42) Guantanamo in 2021: Are We a Nation of Laws or a Nation of Fears?
43) Can Even a GOP Hawk Like Jeff Sessions Learn Some Hard Foreign Policy Lessons?
44) Packing Unpacked
45) How is COVID going to end?
46) Why Biden Can’t Win On Inflation
47) Fauci on your Phone?
48) The Financial Illiteracy Cycle Is What’s Really Behind the Student Debt Crisis in America
49) In Defense of Hunting
50) Limited Government Is Back in Fashion. Can Republicans Make the Most of It?
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51) Free Talk Live, 12/14/21
52) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 12/14/21
53) “How Leftist “Saviors” Ruined Latin America
54) The Bryan Hyde Show, 12/14/21
55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 12/14/21
56) Fintech Beat, episode 118
57) How to Fix the Internet, episode 105
58) Kinsella On Liberty, episode 366
59) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 12/13/21
60) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
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1) Bitcoin mining bounces back to level before China crackdown
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Bitcoin mining worldwide has recovered to its peak level before China imposed in May a blanket ban on cryptocurrency trading, mining and related activities. The total hash rate, which measures the bitcoin network’s speed of mining new tokens and verifying transactions, reached an all-time high of nearly 182 million terahashes per second on Friday, surpassing the previous record of 181 million th/s on May 14, before falling back to 178 million th/s on Monday, according to estimates by cryptocurrency service provider Blockchain.com. … The US replaced China as the world’s largest miner with a 35.4 per cent share of the global hash rate in August, followed by Kazakhstan and Russia with 18.1 and 11.2 per cent, respectively, according to CBECI.” (12/14/21)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3159650/bitcoin-mining-bounces-back-level-china-crackdown-us-takes-crown-top
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2) US House, Senate vote to let themselves borrow another $2.5 trillion with you as collateral
Source: CBS News
“The House and the Senate both voted to raise the debt limit helping avert a first-time default by the U.S. as the clock ticks down on the government’s ability to pay its bills. This comes after months of fighting between Democrats and Republicans over raising the debt limit and spending in Washington. The bill now goes to President Biden’s desk for signature. The resolution introduced in the Senate on Tuesday to raise the debt limit by $2.5 trillion passed along party lines, 50 to 49. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said this would mean Congress won’t have to fight about raising the debt limit again until 2023 — beyond the midterm elections.” (12/15/21)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debt-ceiling-limit-raise-senate-vote-today-2021-12-14/
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3) UK: Conservative revolt over COVID authoritarianism deals stinging blow to Johnson
Source: Reuters
“Almost 100 Conservative lawmakers voted on Tuesday against new coronavirus restrictions, dealing a major blow to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authority and raising questions about his leadership. After a day of frenzied failed lobbying, Johnson was handed the biggest rebellion against his government so far by his party over measures he said were necessary to curb the spread of the new Omicron variant. The new rules, which included ordering people to wear masks in public places and use COVID-19 passes for some venues, passed thanks largely to the main opposition Labour Party.” (12/14/21)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-pm-johnson-faces-rebellion-parliament-over-covid-measures-2021-12-14/
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4) DC: Regime files lawsuit against two groups for costs of Capitol riot response
Source: Roll Call
“The District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Proud Boys International and Oath Keepers and about 30 of those groups’ alleged leaders and members ‘for conspiring to terrorize the District’ in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, who announced the civil lawsuit outside the House entrance, said the district seeks ‘to impose severe financial penalties’ on those who caused the district to ‘deploy unprecedented resources to repel and defeat an attack on our country’s capital.’ … D.C. filed its lawsuit under the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed in 1871 in the wake of the Civil War, which Racine said was designed to protect the country and citizens against violent conspiracies.” (12/14/21)
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/12/14/d-c-files-lawsuit-against-two-groups-for-costs-of-jan-6-response/
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5) Belarus: Regime court sentences political prisoner Siarhei Tsikhanouski to 18 years
Source: ABC News
“A court in Belarus on Tuesday sentenced the husband of the country’s opposition leader to 18 years in prison, six months after the trial began behind closed doors. The charges against Siarhei Tsikhanouski included organizing mass unrest and inciting hatred and have been widely seen as politically motivated. Tsikhanouski, a popular video blogger and activist, planned to challenge authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in the August 2020 presidential election. He was widely known for the anti-Lukashenko slogan ‘Stop the cockroach.’ He was arrested in May 2020, two days after he declared his candidacy. His wife, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, ran in his stead, drawing tens of thousands of people to rally in her support during the campaign. Official results of the vote handed Lukashenko a landslide victory and a sixth term in office, but were rejected by opposition and the West as a sham.” (12/14/21)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/belarus-hands-opposition-leaders-husband-18-years-prison-81741134
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6) US Air Force discharges 27 for refusing COVID-19 vaccine
Source: Yahoo! News
“The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them what officials believe are the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to get the shots. The Air Force gave its forces until Nov. 2 to get the vaccine, and thousands have either refused or sought an exemption. Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Monday that these are the first airmen to be administratively discharged for reasons involving the vaccine. She said all of them were in their first term of enlistment, so they were younger, lower-ranking personnel. And while the Air Force does not disclose what type of discharge a service member gets, legislation working its way through Congress limits the military to giving troops in vaccine refusal cases an honorable discharge or general discharge under honorable conditions.” (12/14/21)
https://news.yahoo.com/air-force-discharges-27-refusal-191730500.html
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7) UAE regime suspends multi-billion dollar weapons deal in sign of growing frustration with US-China showdown
Source: CNN
“The United Arab Emirates has suspended a multi-billion dollar deal to buy US-made F-35 fighter jets, in a sign of Abu Dhabi’s growing frustration with Washington’s attempts to limit Chinese technology sales to the oil-rich Gulf state. … The US government has repeatedly pushed the UAE to drop China’s Huawei Technologies Co. from its telecommunications network, and claimed that the technology could pose a security risk for its weapons systems. … But UAE officials have been skeptical about US claims about the potential security breach and have expressed anxiety about getting caught up in a ‘new cold war’ between a top trading partner and its main strategic ally.” (12/14/21)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/middleeast/uae-weapons-deal-washington-china-intl/index.html
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8) NY: Ethics commission orders Cuomo to forfeit millions in book proceeds
Source: CBS News
“Andrew Cuomo must return [sic] millions of dollars in proceeds from a memoir published while he was governor of New York, a state ethics panel voted Tuesday. Members of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics voted 12-1 for a resolution giving Cuomo 30 days to turn the money over to the New York State Attorney General. … It was not immediately clear if the ethics committee expected book proceeds to ultimately land in state coffers or be returned to the book’s publisher, Penguin Random House, which is a subsidiary of Crown Publishing. Jim McGuire, an attorney for Andrew Cuomo, said Cuomo will challenge Tuesday’s decision. … The panel previously voted on November 16 to rescind a 2020 approval of Cuomo’s book. … [on grounds that he] did not disclose that ‘state property, resources and personnel, including staff volunteers, were used in connection with the preparation, writing, editing and publication of the book.'” (12/14/21)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-cuomo-jcope-ordered-to-return-millions-in-book-proceeds/
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9) IAEA Director: Iran’s limited access to nuclear program provides “blurred image” of reality
Source: Fox News
“The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Tuesday that the restrictions faced by his inspectors in Iran threaten to give the world only a ‘very blurred image’ of Tehran’s program as it enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview to The Associated Press, Rafael Mariano Grossi said he wanted to tell Iran that there was ‘no way around’ his inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency if the Islamic Republic wanted to be ‘a respected country in the community of nations.’ ‘We have to work together,’ Grossi said from a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, after he visited that country’s first nuclear power plant. ‘They must work together. I will make sure they understand that in us they will have a partner.'” [editor’s note: Grossi needs to talk to the US about getting back into the nuclear deal it abrogated, then – TLK] (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-limited-access-nuclear-blurred-image
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10) Democratic mayors under fire as crime, violence plagues Chicago, New York, Philadelphia
Source: Fox News
“Democratic mayors are raising eyebrows with their responses to the rising crime plaguing major cities like New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia. The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI data — the largest annual increase on record, with Chicago topping the list. At least 12 major cities, including New York, have already set historical murder records in 2021. Robberies and assaults are also on the rise, and retailers in major cities across the country are reporting an uptick in organized smash-and-grab crimes during the busy holiday shopping season. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot faced criticism last week after she responded to the recent flood of robberies in her city by blaming retailers for not better protecting their merchandise. ‘We[‘ve] also got to push retailers,’ she said during a Dec. 6 event. … Lightfoot’s comments were blasted by retailers as misinformed.” (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-mayors-violence-chicago-new-york-philadelphia
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11) Canada: Regime offers up to $40 billion to compensate indigenous children
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Canada has pledged up to C$40bn ($31bn; £23.6bn) in compensation for indigenous children and families who suffered discrimination while in foster care. In September, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with those for non-indigenous children. It ordered C$40,000 ($31,350; £23,340) payouts to each child who was in the on-reserve welfare system after 2006. The government initially said it would appeal the verdict. But it has come under intense public scrutiny after the discovery of over 1,100 unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools. Until as recently as 1996, Canada’s residential school system separated indigenous children from their families and sent them to boarding schools where many were malnourished, beaten and sexually abused. The school system was part of attempts to assimilate indigenous children, forcing them to abandon their native languages and convert to Christianity.” (12/14/21)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59602955
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12) Philippines: Duterte withdraws his candidacy from 2022 Senate race
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his candidacy for the 2022 Senate race, the government elections monitor said, a month after he made a last-minute entry into the contest. ‘The President has filed his withdrawal from the Senatorial elections,’ James Jimenez, spokesman for the Commission on Elections office, said on Twitter. Duterte, 76, is constitutionally barred from seeking a second six-year term as president. His run for the Senate had been seen as an attempt to remain in politics while facing an international probe into his deadly drug war.” (12/14/21)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20211214-philippines-duterte-withdraws-his-candidacy-from-2022-senate-race
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13) SD: Organizers apologize for raising money for schools
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
“The organizers of a fundraiser that featured teachers on their hands and knees grabbing for dollar bills at a junior hockey league game in South Dakota are apologizing after the event drew criticism. The ‘Dash For Cash’ Saturday night in Sioux Falls was a competition in which 10 local teachers were selected to collect money for school projects. They had five minutes to collect as many of the 5,000 $1 bills that were spread out on carpet at center ice between periods at the Sioux Falls Stampede’s arena. Critics on social media called the event demeaning. Loren Paul, president of the South Dakota Education Association, said it showed that the state needs to do better for its teachers and students when it comes to funding education.” (12/14/21)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Event-featuring-teachers-crawling-for-cash-16700812.php
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14) SCOTUS to hear appeals in landmark McGirt case involving tribal land in Oklahoma
Source: Colorado Springs Gazette
“The U.S. Supreme Court will take a fresh look at a landmark case involving government jurisdiction on tribal lands after more than 40 petitions were made seeking to overturn or limit the historic 2020 ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma. … Justices will gather early next month with a focus on a Tulsa man’s case, according to a Dec. 8 update to the court’s docket. The state appealed following an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals decision to vacate a 2017 conviction and 35-year prison sentence for Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta, 36, based on the McGirt ruling. The state appeals court contended with Castro-Huerta’s testimony that Oklahoma did not have jurisdiction to prosecute him because the victim was a member of a federally recognized tribe, noting that the crime happened within the bounds of the non-disestablished Cherokee Nation reservation.” (12/14/21)
https://gazette.com/news/supreme-court-to-hear-appeals-in-landmark-mcgirt-case-involving-tribal-land-in-oklahoma/article_72270016-23f9-560d-a0f3-901d14e05771.html
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15) Survey: “100 Million” Americans See US Healthcare System as “Expensive” or “Broken”
Source: Common Dreams
“The largest survey of its kind since the start of the Covid-19 crisis found that 38% of respondents (representing around 100 million Americans) characterized the for-profit U.S. healthcare system as either ‘expensive’ or ‘broken,’ an indication that the pandemic has markedly shifted public opinion. Gallup and West Health, the two organizations behind the new survey out Tuesday, began the polling process by asking respondents to concisely describe the U.S. healthcare system in their own words. Nearly 40% used the word ‘expensive’ and 13% said the system is ‘broken’ (the two most common descriptors offered by respondents). … ‘In 2019, West Health and Gallup conducted a major survey on U.S. healthcare costs and found that close to half of Americans (48%) believed the quality of care found in the U.S. was either ‘the best in the world’ (13%) or ‘among the very best’ (36%).” (12/14/21)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/14/major-survey-finds-100-million-americans-see-us-healthcare-system-expensive-or
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16) Uganda: Bobi Wine “under house arrest”
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
“Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says security forces have surrounded his residence and put him under house arrest before a planned campaign rally. In a series of Twitter posts on Tuesday, the singer-turned-politician, who has been arrested several times in recent years, said police and military officers deployed overnight had barred him from leaving his house …. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was set to campaign on Tuesday in support of an opposition candidate running in a by-election in the central district of Kayunga, where Museveni is also expected to hold a rally. … Bobi Wine came second in a tense January election that returned Museveni to power for a sixth term. The vote was conducted under an internet blackout after campaigns where opposition candidates were routinely obstructed by police, and many people were shot dead by security forces.” (12/14/21)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/14/uganda-opposition-leader-bobi-wine-under-house-arrest
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17) MRFF claim: Wreaths Across America “carpet-bombing” veteran cemeteries with “Christian gang sign”
Source: Fox News
“The leader of a nonprofit that protects military members’ religious freedoms said wreaths laid on tombstones of veterans whose families haven’t consented are Christian gang signs. ‘We’re not saying you can’t [place wreaths], but you cannot blanket it like that,’ Military Religious Freedom Foundation president Michael ‘Mikey’ Weinstein told Fox News. ‘That’s like carpet-bombing.’ ‘That looks like it’s a Christian gang sign, that you’re creating territory that is a Christian territory’, he continued. Weinstein’s organization issued a Nov. 22 statement attacking Wreaths Across America, which has placed wreaths at veteran cemeteries for nearly 30 years. ‘On December 18, the graves of all veterans in our country’s 155 national cemeteries and numerous other locations where American veterans are buried, will be indiscriminately decorated with Christmas wreaths by the organization Wreaths Across America,’ the statement read.” (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wreaths-across-america-carpet-bombing-veteran-cemeteries-christian-gang
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18) China: Regime fines Weibo for publishing information
Source: CNN
“Chinese social media platform Weibo Corp has been slapped with a 3 million yuan ($470,000) fine by China’s internet regulator for repeatedly publishing illegal information. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said Weibo had violated a cybersecurity law on the protection of minors as well as other laws but did not give further details. It also said Beijing’s local cyberspace regulator had imposed 44 penalties on Weibo totaling 14.3 million yuan ($2.2 million) for the year to November. The company, which operates a platform similar to Twitter, has been ordered to ‘immediately rectify and deal with relevant responsible persons seriously,’ the CAC said in a statement. Weibo said in a statement it ‘sincerely accepts criticism’ from the regulator and has established a work group in response to the penalty.” (12/14/21)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/tech/weibo-fined-illegal-information-intl-hnk/index.html
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19) UK: Regime removes all 11 countries from “red list”
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK’s travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are on the list. The red list was reintroduced in late November as a precaution after the emergence of the Omicron variant. But Health Secretary Sajid Javid said it had spread so widely the rules no longer had much purpose. … Currently, all UK arrivals from red list countries must pay for and self-isolate in a pre-booked, government-approved hotel for 10 days.” (12/14/21)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59653236
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20) FL: Officials cave after federal threats, give money to school districts that broke law on religious headgear mandates
Source: Florida Phoenix
“After several months of legal challenges, state sanctions, and a special session that outlawed strict mask mandates in public schools, the Florida Department of Education returned $877,851 in state funds to eight school districts that had been punished over a COVID-related mask controversy. … The USDE had filed a cease and desist complaint, over the state withholding money from school boards that had gotten federal grants to cover previous financial penalties. A federal administrative hearing was scheduled for Dec. 10. But the feds withdrew the complaint when the state department returned funds to two school districts that had gotten federal grants. … the Florida Board of Education financially penalized eight districts for their strict mask mandates that did not allow parents to decide whether their students wear masks at schools. The state targeted the monthly salaries of school boards that approved of these strict mask mandates.” (12/13/21)
https://floridaphoenix.com/2021/12/13/following-federal-scrutiny-fl-education-officials-returned-878000-to-certain-local-school-boards/
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21) “The people” isn’t a thing
Source: The Hill
by Anthony Sanders
“The Constitution opens with the phrase: ‘We the People.’ But the concept is legal fiction. ‘The People’ isn’t a thing. It does not have a will. It’s just millions of individuals. Delegates who ratified the Constitution in 1787 could not possibly have represented all of the different perspectives and interests. The delegates did not even try. Voters who sent them to Philadelphia mostly included only adult white males — often only those with property. This was wildly democratic for the time, but the process still excluded large portions of the population. Even today, when more people have access to the polls, no vote can capture the heart and mind of everyone. Even a landslide victory in a perfect election with perfectly informed citizens would leave millions of people unsatisfied.” (12/14/21)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/585102-the-people-isnt-a-thing
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22) America’s “Justice System” is Far From Just
Source: Libertarian Party
by staff
“Even a brief peek beneath the surface of the United States[s] justice system reveals an institution rife with perverse incentives and rotten to the core from corruption. … Republicans have steadfastly refused to even contemplate anything approaching criminal justice reform, preferring instead to double down on protections for dirty cops and prosecutors and fewer protections for the innocent Americans caught up in the corruption. Democrats are content to pay only lip service to criminal justice reform, preferring instead to nominate and elect an old-school drug warrior in Joe Biden and a former prosecutor in Kamala Harris who made a career of incarcerating scores of Americans for non-violent drug offenses while covering for open and obvious corruption in the justice system. We must do something different.” (12/14/21)
https://www.lp.org/americas-justice-system-is-far-from-just/
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23) Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“Something has dramatically changed in the heart and mind of Musk over the several years. At this point, no one can seem to be able to control his mouth. And despite his ambiguous politics of the past, he is increasingly revealing himself to be what he was raised to be: a brilliant and irascible anarchist. … What’s happened to Elon is what has happened to millions of other people. He began to realize that the governing elites in this country are incredibly inept and unwilling to take responsibility for their actions. He noted the completely undemocratic methods and the unscientific rationale that were deployed to bring about lockdowns. For that reason, he has been smeared and put down as a promoter of misinformation. Anyone who has paid attention for the last two years knows exactly what that means: he is telling truths he is not supposed to tell.” (12/14/21)
https://brownstone.org/articles/elon-musk-person-of-the-year-radicalized-by-lockdowns/
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24) Race To The Totalitarian Bottom
Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“Many have yet to realize that the new cold war between the United States and China is not one between democracy and dictatorship, as was the previous one between the U.S. and the USSR. Rather, it is a battle between two emerging totalitarian states, with China intent on surpassing the U.S. as the new global hegemon. The two totalitarian progressions display different features: China is in the grip of iron fisted autocratic rule imposed from above, while America is under siege by an anarchic tyranny underwritten by cultural elites and tech titans. The difference is significant. However, Xi’s China and progressive America both aspire to total politicization of society and control over all aspects of a citizen’s life. Both regimes see no limits on governmental interference, and demand all citizens accept an official doctrine and infallible authority.” (12/14/21)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/race-to-the-totalitarian-bottom/
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25) The Folly of Leaving the ABM Treaty, 20 Years Later
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Withdrawing from the ABM Treaty was an early Bush blunder, but it is one whose costs we continue to pay even now. Perhaps because Bush made so many other epic mistakes in foreign policy, the folly of withdrawal from the treaty tends to be overlooked, but it was arguably one of the first major mistakes that helped to set U.S.-Russian relations on their downward trajectory. The hawkish commitment to missile defense has always been misguided because the technology is so unreliable and its effects were bound to be destabilizing whether it worked or not. It manages to alarm other governments into building more weapons without even temporarily providing the security that its advocates promise.” (12/14/21)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-leaving-the-abm-treaty
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26) What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Virgil Davis
“We hear a lot about emergencies these days. From the ‘climate emergency’ to the ‘covid emergency,’ it would seem we are constantly beset by emergencies that warrant special responses from ourselves and our governments. More often than not, these emergencies mean that citizens, in some way, have rights stripped from them in an attempt to ward off or prevent the certain calamity on the horizon. We’ve become all too familiar with the demands made of us in response to Covid and have become increasingly intimate with the demands made under the guise of averting a climate emergency. The enforcement of measures to ward off the specter of these emergencies is often not dictated and carried out by the state but enforced through fear and implication. … When the state does react to these emergencies, it is often in ways that supersede Democratic principles.” (12/14/21)
https://pamphleteer.co/post/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-democracy/
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27) Using Assange to Send a Three-Part Message
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“When Julian Assange and Wikileaks disclosed evidence of dark-side activity, including war crimes, on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, U.S. officials felt they had no choice but to use Assange to send a three-part message. The first message is to people within the national-security establishment who might be tempted, out of a crisis of conscience, to reveal dark-side activities of the national-security establishment. … The second message is to people who disclose the dark-side secrets that are leaked to them — organizations like Wikileaks and executives within those organizations, like Assange. … The third message is to the American people.” (12/14/21)
https://www.fff.org/2021/12/14/using-assange-to-send-a-three-part-message/
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28) Public Schools Should Stop Threatening Unvaccinated Kids
Source: Reason
by Robby Soave
“The Los Angeles Unified School District is the second-largest school system in the country, with more than 600,000 students. It is also the largest district to implement a vaccine mandate, not just for employees, but also for students. District officials had set a deadline of January 10 for everyone 12 and older to get vaccinated, but some 34,000 eligible young people have declined to get jabbed. As recently as Friday, the district’s plan was to exile all these students back to the land of virtual learning, according to The Washington Post. Unvaccinated L.A. students are likely to receive a reprieve, however: The school board is expected to vote on Tuesday to delay enforcement of the mandate until the fall semester. But the mere fact that punishing thousands of teenagers for not being vaccinated was even on the table is disconcerting.” (12/14/21)
https://reason.com/2021/12/14/public-schools-unvaccinated-kids-mandate-virtual-school/
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29) They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Julian Assange suffered a mini-stroke in October during the hearing for the US appeal of a UK court’s ruling on his extradition case. … They are killing Julian Assange. Experts agree that they are killing him. Assange’s stroke is just another item on the mountain of evidence we already had for this. The US-centralized power alliance is murdering a journalist, as surely as the Saudi regime murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The only difference is that Khashoggi was killed quickly by live dismemberment via bone saw while Assange is being killed slowly by lawfare.” (12/12/21)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/12/12/theyre-killing-him-assanges-stroke-reveals-the-western-version-of-the-saudi-bone-saw/
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30) Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Alexi Miagkov and Bennett Cyphers
“According to Google, Manifest V3 will improve privacy, security, and performance. We fundamentally disagree. The changes in Manifest V3 won’t stop malicious extensions, but will hurt innovation, reduce extension capabilities, and harm real world performance. Google is right to ban remotely hosted code (with some exceptions for things like user scripts), but this is a policy change that didn’t need to be bundled with the rest of Manifest V3. Community response to Manifest V3, whether in the Chromium extensions Google group or the W3C WebExtensions Community Group, has been largely negative. Developers are concerned about Manifest V3 breaking their extensions, confused by the poor documentation, and frustrated by the uncertainty around missing functionality coupled with the Manifest V2 end-of-life deadline.” (12/14/21)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
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31) Empathy — and Dismay
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“[E]mpathy doesn’t mean that we are required to empathize with those who are out to kill you. I would limit it to folks with whom we just might have some civil disagreements … not folks looking to gouge my eyes out.” (12/14/21)
https://notablog.net/archives/1872
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32) The Greatest Financial Swindle of All Time
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“One of the most popular provisions of the 1994 Contract with America was a rule requiring Congress to live by the same laws that families and businesses are subject to. So, why doesn’t Congress live by the financial and accounting standards required of the rest of us? I’m speaking of the multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better law, a giant financial masquerade. No one knows what it costs. None of the Democrats in Congress who are hellbent on passing it seems to care. That may be because, as the House Budget Committee chairman has pronounced, ‘We can pay for whatever we want to pay for.’ Uh-huh. Don’t hire this man as your accountant. The bookkeeping gambits in this bill are so brazen that it’s hard to believe they think they can get away with it.” (12/14/21)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2021/12/14/the-greatest-financial-swindle-of-all-time-n2600527
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33) Rule(s) of Law(s): The problem is monopoly, not violence.
Source: EconLog
by Michael Munger
“The advantages of ‘rule of law’ are obvious: the rules are consistently applied and enforced, without privilege or exemption. As F.A. Hayek put it, the purpose of the rule of law, ‘is to limit coercion by the power of the state to instances where it is explicitly required by general abstract rules which have been announced beforehand and which applied equally to all people, and refer to circumstances known to them (F.A. Hayek, The Political Ideal of the Rule of Law. Cairo: National Bank of Egypt Printing Press, 1955; p. 34). But note that there is an implicit assumption (even Hayek does it, in the quote above) that the rule of law involves a monopoly, single body of law, provided by a monopoly, single entity, the state. The rationale is the Hobbesian-Weberian story that the state is violence, and violence is required to enforce contracts.” (12/14/21)
https://www.econlib.org/rules-of-laws-the-problem-is-monopoly-not-violence/
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34) This time it will be different!
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Today, we once more have large numbers of people pushing for more and more socialism. And seemingly fewer and fewer people who understand that our current economic system (both here in the Fifty States and around the world) is far more socialist than not. Communism is just one of many forms of socialism which have been tried (and failed) around the world both in the past and today.” (12/14/21)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2021/12/14/this-time-it-will-be-different/
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35) The US Military Budget in the Form of a Mushroom Cloud
Source: Common Dreams
by William Astore
“Where are you going to get the money? That question haunts congressional proposals to help the poor, the unhoused, and those struggling to pay the mortgage or rent or medical bills, among so many other critical domestic matters. And yet (big surprise!) there’s always plenty of money for the Pentagon. In fiscal year 2022, in fact, Congress is being especially generous with $778 billion in funding, roughly $25 billion more than the Biden administration initially asked for. Even that staggering sum seriously undercounts government funding for America’s vast national security state, which, since it gobbles up more than half of federal discretionary spending, is truly this country’s primary, if unofficial, fourth branch of government.” (12/14/21)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/14/us-military-budget-form-mushroom-cloud
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36) The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career
Source: The Atlantic
by Joe Pinsker
“If 5-year-olds could read academic research reports, they might be alarmed by what they’d find in a recent one from the Stanford Center on Longevity. It opened with a bit of promising news: ‘In the United States, demographers predict that as many as half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to live to the age of 100.’ But that was followed, several pages down, by a haunting prediction: ‘Over the course of 100-year lives, we can expect to work 60 years or more.’ In the U.S., the average retirement age is 62, according to Gallup polling. For most people, 40 or so years of work is more than enough, so the idea of an additional 20 is disconcerting. But if a 60-year career sounds like a nightmare, perhaps that’s because we’re imagining 60 years of work as it is for many people today: inflexible, all-consuming, poorly matched to the rhythms of life.” (12/14/21)
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/12/future-work-shorter-hours-longer-careers/621003/
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37) California Imported Crude Oil Ranks as a Major Emissions Generator
Source: Heartland Institute
by Ronald Stein
“Shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world. The fuel used is the cheapest and most polluting fuel available for the world’s 90,000 ships that burn approximately 370 million tons of fuel per year, emitting 20 million tons of sulfur oxides. … Any high school student can easily observe from the California Energy Commission data that California imports of crude oil from foreign countries via large oil tankers were the highest in the state’s history in 2018 at almost 370 million barrels of crude oil for the year. At 2 million barrels of crude oil per super oil tanker, that’s more than 180 polluting oil tankers per year that Newsom supports unloading at West Coast ports because of his refusal to produce crude oil in-state.” (12/14/21)
https://blog.heartland.org/2021/12/california-imported-crude-oil-ranks-as-a-major-emissions-generator/
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38) Are we overhyping the threat of Omicron?
Source: spiked
by Carl Henghan & Tom Jefferson
“Cancel your parties, work from home, keep your distance; another variant — Omicron — is in town. Questions about its transmissibility, severity and potential to escape vaccines have panicked policymakers. But what occurs next depends on how governments deal with uncertainties and how individuals interpret and respond to the perceived threat. … As a society, we are more accustomed to receiving snippets of information from a few sources. And, as a result, we have become impatient and lazy. This evidence vacuum leads to disagreements, unchecked opinions, and the outsourcing of decisions to third parties about how we go about our daily lives. In consequence, as a society, we are becoming accustomed to being told what to do. Individuals can readily project their anxieties on to others – as many experts have done.” (12/14/21)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/12/14/are-we-overhyping-the-threat-of-omicron/
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39) The Second Global Hot Spot Most Likely to Upend Your Portfolio in 2022
Source: American Consequences
by Kim Iskyan
“The situation: Russia may (again) be about to invade Ukraine. As of last week, U.S. officials warned that Russia is moving up to 175,000 Russian troops to the Ukrainian border, and could be planning an offensive as soon as early next year. On December 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden had a two-hour-long video conference on the matter, during which Biden threatened economic sanctions if Russian troops entered Ukraine. Later, in a big concession, Biden said that he’d arrange a meeting with Russia and Western military alliance NATO to discuss Russia’s concerns, the biggest of which is that Ukraine might start the process to eventually join NATO or the European Union. ” (12/14/21)
https://americanconsequences.com/the-second-global-hot-spot-most-likely-to-upend-your-portfolio-in-2022/
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40) US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by William Minter, Anita Plummer, & Daniel Volman
“In the first Cold War, the Truman Doctrine laid out the premises for prioritizing an anti-communist crusade that lasted an entire generation and served as the pretext for U.S. support for apartheid South Africa and countless other anti-democratic regimes around the world. Last week’s Democracy Summit, noted CUNY Presidential Professor Branko Milanovic, is most likely ‘a prelude to the creation of an unwieldy association of states that will be used by the United States to spearhead its ideological crusade in the escalating geopolitical conflict with China and Russia.’ … That logic was reflected on the eve of the Summit when unnamed ‘intelligence officials’ and ‘senior administration officials’ took the initiative to talk to the Wall Street Journal about the threat of a possible Chinese base in Equatorial Guinea.” (12/14/21)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/12/14/us-cold-war-with-china-first-stop-equatorial-guinea/
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41) Could the Omicron Variant Be Good News?
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“If it proves to be the case that Omicron poses substantially less risk of serious illness or death than Delta, and the difference more than offsets the increase in the number of infections, then the spread of Omicron in the United States may be very good news. It will almost certainly mean an increase in the number of infections, since it will spread more quickly, but it would mean a reduction in the number of hospitalizations and deaths.” (12/14/21)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/14/could-the-omicron-variant-be-good-news/
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42) Guantanamo in 2021: Are We a Nation of Laws or a Nation of Fears?
Source: The American Prospect
by Karen J Greenberg
“Last week, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) held a much-awaited hearing titled ‘Closing Guantanamo: Ending 20 Years of Injustice.’ It was hardly the first such hearing or congressional discussion of closing the island prison. As Durbin had noted in 2013, ‘I have spoken on the Senate floor more than 65 times about the need to close this prison.’ Eight years and many hearings on closure later, the issue has now once again been put before Congress. And yet as much as this was about Gitmo closure, the underlying debate has taken on a new sense of urgency in today’s political climate. Guantanamo now houses 39 prisoners, consisting of two groups of detainees: 12 whose cases come under the jurisdiction of military commissions (ten of whom still await trial; two have been convicted); and 27 who are in indefinite detention, never having been charged.” (12/14/21)
https://prospect.org/justice/guantanamo-in-2021-are-we-a-nation-of-laws-or-fears/
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43) Can Even a GOP Hawk Like Jeff Sessions Learn Some Hard Foreign Policy Lessons?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“One must not make too much of Jeff Sessions’[s] apparent conversion regarding foreign policy. There is no sign in his address to the American Conservative, or anywhere else, that he now advocates terminating Washington’s dangerous security commitments to NATO or the collection of treaty allies in East Asia. He certainly has not given any indication that he supports even partially defunding the bloated military budget. His fresh thinking on foreign policy seems confined, at least for the moment, to a rejection of regime-change wars and nation-building ventures. It’s progress, albeit decidedly limited progress. Nevertheless, people advocating a sane role for the United States in the world should be glad about even partial converts, given the suffocating dominance that the pro-war foreign policy blob continues to exercise.” (12/14/21)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2021/12/13/can-even-a-gop-hawk-like-jeff-sessions-learn-some-hard-foreign-policy-lessons/
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44) Packing Unpacked
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The ‘court packing’ notion that progressives itch to implement has obvious flaws — which have been addressed (but not settled) in the recent report of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, initiated by the Biden Administration last April. The report, just out, did not give progressives what they want.” (12/14/21)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2021/12/14/packing-unpacked/
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45) How is COVID going to end?
Source: Fox News Forum
by Nicole Saphier, MD
“The concept of ‘Zero COVID,’ once perhaps a realistic ambition, is now a delusion as variants continue traveling the world circulating among humans and animals. Thankfully, the initial waves of the pandemic, the devastating stages of intense transmission with a high rate of consequent severe illness, are over for most of the country. This doesn’t mean the virus is gone, or that transmission is low, rather the pandemic is moving into the next phase, becoming endemic. It is almost certain the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve similar to the 1918 influenza virus. A century ago, a novel strain of influenza killed more than 50 million people worldwide. With time, those who contracted the virus and survived developed immunity, with life returning to normal several years later. The virus did not disappear. The virus continued to mutate, with seasonal outbreaks from milder variants, further dampened by vaccines and treatments.” (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/how-is-covid-going-to-end-nicole-saphier
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46) Why Biden Can’t Win On Inflation
Source: FiveThirtyEight
by Santul Nerker & Ryan Best
“It’s no secret that inflation is politically powerful. You can’t miss rising prices, and research has found that Americans care deeply about inflation. But the politics of handling it is messy, and should prices continue to rise, Biden has a difficult task. He faces a country that views inflation through a highly partisan lens — and that will judge his performance on the issue accordingly. If he ignores inflation, it could spiral as it did with Carter. But at the same time, should Biden react too forcefully, the cure could be worse than the disease.” (12/14/21)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-biden-cant-win-on-inflation/
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47) Fauci on your Phone?
Source: Campaign For Liberty
by Ron Paul
“If the Senate follows the House of Representatives lead and passes the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act (HR 550), Americans who do not get the recommended number of covid vaccines can look forward to receiving a text like this: ‘This is Dr. Anthony Fauci. According to government records you have not yet received your monthly covid booster shot. Until you prove you are following vaccine protocols, your vaccine passport will be revoked, resulting in loss of your privilege to work, worship, and visit your family.’ … HR 550 accomplishes its goal by empowering federal bureaucrats to create national standards for databases containing vaccine records. State and local governments and private health care businesses will be bribed (with money taken from current and future taxpayers) to adopt the national standards.” (12/13/21)
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/fauci-phone
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48) The Financial Illiteracy Cycle Is What’s Really Behind the Student Debt Crisis in America
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by David Chapek
“Young Americans around the country are being held back by ballooning student loan debt. In recent years, many activists and politicians — including the current administration — have been calling for loan forgiveness. But this is a bit short sighted. After all, the debt will just pile up again. And then we’ll presumably forgive it again. … If we really want to solve a problem, we have to find, as Chesterton pointed out, the real problem. In this case, the real problem is not so much that students can’t afford college — plenty of students (around 38%) graduate debt-free. So no, it’s not just the top 1 percent, or even the top 10 percent, who can pay off their tuition fees. Instead, there is another factor that most haven’t considered: financial literacy.” (12/13/21)
https://fee.org/articles/the-financial-illiteracy-cycle-is-what-s-really-behind-the-student-debt-crisis-in-america/
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49) In Defense of Hunting
Source: In These Times
by Joseph Bullington
“It’s just after dawn when I cut the tracks. Two or three of the beasts must have come up out of the valley sometime in the night and crossed the trail here before heading on into the timber to the west. The wind, risen with the sun, whips the two-day-old snow into glittering waves that roll through the high meadows and break above the tops of the trees, drifting and dulling the edges of the tracks. In the clearings, they grow faint and I grow doubtful. These tracks are a day old, you fool. I follow them anyway, onto a burned-over slope where they vanish completely. … sure I’ve lost the trail. But in the trees on the other side, I catch the tracks again.” (12/13/21)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/food-system-subsistence-meat-public-lands-wildlife-elk-hunting
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50) Limited Government Is Back in Fashion. Can Republicans Make the Most of It?
Source: Commentary
by Noah Rothman
“In 2019, First Things magazine published an open letter that captured a dominant sentiment on the American right. ‘Against the Dead Consensus’ sought to bury the ‘warmed-over Reaganism’ that passed for conservative thought and policy in favor of something more muscular. That something was and remains elusive, but what the letter rejected was plainly specific: the ‘fetishizing’ of ‘individual autonomy.’ Thus, the American right joined the left in the race to get ahead of what seemed like an emerging bipartisan sentiment in favor of activist government. … More and more voters were tempted by the promise of an expansive, overweening public sector that imposed itself on American lives — even if they disagreed on the forms that imposition should take. The era of big government was back, and it was here to stay. What a difference a pandemic makes.” (12/13/21)
https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/limited-government-is-back-in-fashion-can-republicans-make-the-most-of-it/
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51) Free Talk Live, 12/14/21
Source: Free Talk Live
"NH Independence amendment :: FBI hires prostitutes :: Wimhof and cold showers :: Critical race theory :: Biden wants you to have more faith in government :: The government is hopelessly behind on everything :: The Bank of England is scared of Bitcoin :: The Metaverse looks terrible :: Show: 2021-12-14 Aria, Ian." [Flash audio or MP3] (12/14/21)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2021-12-14
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52) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 12/14/21
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
“On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we explore the life and work of an author who died at the age of 46 but whose writings — namely ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’ — still help to shape our collective understanding of the freedoms of speech and conscience. Joining us for the discussion is the author of Orwell’s authorized biography, Indiana State University professor Michael Shelden.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://www.thefire.org/so-to-speak-podcast-george-orwell/
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53) “How Leftist “Saviors” Ruined Latin America
Source: Reason
“The Atlas Network’s Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region.” [Flash video] (12/14/21)
https://reason.com/video/2021/12/14/how-leftist-saviors-ruined-latin-america/
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54) The Bryan Hyde Show, 12/14/21
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos is a reliable source of reasoned commentary in a world where disinformation is king. We talk about why we cannot be expected to follow the demands of those who are trying to slam the door shut on discussion and why we must become our own fact-checkers.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://thebryanhydeshow.podbean.com/e/2021-december-14-the-bryan-hyde-show-hour-one/
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55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 12/14/21
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
”Lancet’ BLASTS ‘Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated’ Propaganda.” [Flash video] (12/14/21)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/lancet-blasts-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated-propaganda
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565) Fintech Beat, episode 118
Source: Roll Call
“Why the FTC matters for fintech.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://rollcall.com/podcasts/fintech-beat/why-the-ftc-matters-for-fintech/
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57) How to Fix the Internet, episode 105
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“A Better Future Starts with Secret Codes.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/podcast-episode-better-future-starts-secret-codes
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58) Kinsella On Liberty, episode 366
Source: StephanKinsella.com
“NFTS, Soho Forum Debate, Intellectual Property, Etc. on Repeal the 20th Century.” [Flash audio or MP3] (12/13/21)
https://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol366-ip-nfts-on-repeal-the-20th-century/
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59) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 12/13/21
Source: FiveThirtyEight
“How Much Have Hispanic Voters Shifted Toward The GOP?” [various formats] (12/13/21)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-how-much-have-hispanic-voters-shifted-toward-the-gop/
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60) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Dave DeCamp on Iran, Russia, China and Yemen.” [various formats] (12/13/21)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/scotthortonshow/12-10-21-dave-decamp-on-iran-russia-china-and-yemen/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Bitcoin mining bounces back to level before China crackdown
2) US House, Senate vote to let themselves borrow another $2.5 trillion with you as collateral
3) UK: Conservative revolt over COVID authoritarianism deals stinging blow to Johnson
4) DC: Regime files lawsuit against two groups for costs of Capitol riot response
5) Belarus: Regime court sentences political prisoner Siarhei Tsikhanouski to 18 years
6) US Air Force discharges 27 for refusing COVID-19 vaccine
7) UAE regime suspends multi-billion dollar weapons deal in sign of growing frustration with US-China showdown
8) NY: Ethics commission orders Cuomo to forfeit millions in book proceeds
9) IAEA Director: Iran’s limited access to nuclear program provides “blurred image” of reality
10) Democratic mayors under fire as crime, violence plagues Chicago, New York, Philadelphia
11) Canada: Regime offers up to $40 billion to compensate indigenous children
12) Philippines: Duterte withdraws his candidacy from 2022 Senate race
13) SD: Organizers apologize for raising money for schools
14) SCOTUS to hear appeals in landmark McGirt case involving tribal land in Oklahoma
15) Survey: “100 Million” Americans See US Healthcare System as “Expensive” or “Broken”
16) Uganda: Bobi Wine “under house arrest”
17) MRFF claim: Wreaths Across America “carpet-bombing” veteran cemeteries with “Christian gang sign”
18) China: Regime fines Weibo for publishing information
19) UK: Regime removes all 11 countries from “red list”
20) FL: Officials cave after federal threats, give money to school districts that broke law on religious headgear mandates
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) “The people” isn’t a thing
22) America’s “Justice System” is Far From Just
23) Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns
24) Race To The Totalitarian Bottom
25) The Folly of Leaving the ABM Treaty, 20 Years Later
26) What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy
27) Using Assange to Send a Three-Part Message
28) Public Schools Should Stop Threatening Unvaccinated Kids
29) They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
30) Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation
31) Empathy — and Dismay
32) The Greatest Financial Swindle of All Time
33) Rule(s) of Law(s): The problem is monopoly, not violence.
34) This time it will be different!
35) The US Military Budget in the Form of a Mushroom Cloud
36) The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career
37) California Imported Crude Oil Ranks as a Major Emissions Generator
38) Are we overhyping the threat of Omicron?
39) The Second Global Hot Spot Most Likely to Upend Your Portfolio in 2022
40) US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea
41) Could the Omicron Variant Be Good News?
42) Guantanamo in 2021: Are We a Nation of Laws or a Nation of Fears?
43) Can Even a GOP Hawk Like Jeff Sessions Learn Some Hard Foreign Policy Lessons?
44) Packing Unpacked
45) How is COVID going to end?
46) Why Biden Can’t Win On Inflation
47) Fauci on your Phone?
48) The Financial Illiteracy Cycle Is What’s Really Behind the Student Debt Crisis in America
49) In Defense of Hunting
50) Limited Government Is Back in Fashion. Can Republicans Make the Most of It?
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Talk Live, 12/14/21
52) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 12/14/21
53) “How Leftist “Saviors” Ruined Latin America
54) The Bryan Hyde Show, 12/14/21
55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 12/14/21
56) Fintech Beat, episode 118
57) How to Fix the Internet, episode 105
58) Kinsella On Liberty, episode 366
59) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 12/13/21
60) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
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1) Bitcoin mining bounces back to level before China crackdown
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Bitcoin mining worldwide has recovered to its peak level before China imposed in May a blanket ban on cryptocurrency trading, mining and related activities. The total hash rate, which measures the bitcoin network’s speed of mining new tokens and verifying transactions, reached an all-time high of nearly 182 million terahashes per second on Friday, surpassing the previous record of 181 million th/s on May 14, before falling back to 178 million th/s on Monday, according to estimates by cryptocurrency service provider Blockchain.com. … The US replaced China as the world’s largest miner with a 35.4 per cent share of the global hash rate in August, followed by Kazakhstan and Russia with 18.1 and 11.2 per cent, respectively, according to CBECI.” (12/14/21)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3159650/bitcoin-mining-bounces-back-level-china-crackdown-us-takes-crown-top
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2) US House, Senate vote to let themselves borrow another $2.5 trillion with you as collateral
Source: CBS News
“The House and the Senate both voted to raise the debt limit helping avert a first-time default by the U.S. as the clock ticks down on the government’s ability to pay its bills. This comes after months of fighting between Democrats and Republicans over raising the debt limit and spending in Washington. The bill now goes to President Biden’s desk for signature. The resolution introduced in the Senate on Tuesday to raise the debt limit by $2.5 trillion passed along party lines, 50 to 49. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said this would mean Congress won’t have to fight about raising the debt limit again until 2023 — beyond the midterm elections.” (12/15/21)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debt-ceiling-limit-raise-senate-vote-today-2021-12-14/
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3) UK: Conservative revolt over COVID authoritarianism deals stinging blow to Johnson
Source: Reuters
“Almost 100 Conservative lawmakers voted on Tuesday against new coronavirus restrictions, dealing a major blow to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authority and raising questions about his leadership. After a day of frenzied failed lobbying, Johnson was handed the biggest rebellion against his government so far by his party over measures he said were necessary to curb the spread of the new Omicron variant. The new rules, which included ordering people to wear masks in public places and use COVID-19 passes for some venues, passed thanks largely to the main opposition Labour Party.” (12/14/21)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-pm-johnson-faces-rebellion-parliament-over-covid-measures-2021-12-14/
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4) DC: Regime files lawsuit against two groups for costs of Capitol riot response
Source: Roll Call
“The District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Proud Boys International and Oath Keepers and about 30 of those groups’ alleged leaders and members ‘for conspiring to terrorize the District’ in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, who announced the civil lawsuit outside the House entrance, said the district seeks ‘to impose severe financial penalties’ on those who caused the district to ‘deploy unprecedented resources to repel and defeat an attack on our country’s capital.’ … D.C. filed its lawsuit under the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed in 1871 in the wake of the Civil War, which Racine said was designed to protect the country and citizens against violent conspiracies.” (12/14/21)
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/12/14/d-c-files-lawsuit-against-two-groups-for-costs-of-jan-6-response/
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5) Belarus: Regime court sentences political prisoner Siarhei Tsikhanouski to 18 years
Source: ABC News
“A court in Belarus on Tuesday sentenced the husband of the country’s opposition leader to 18 years in prison, six months after the trial began behind closed doors. The charges against Siarhei Tsikhanouski included organizing mass unrest and inciting hatred and have been widely seen as politically motivated. Tsikhanouski, a popular video blogger and activist, planned to challenge authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in the August 2020 presidential election. He was widely known for the anti-Lukashenko slogan ‘Stop the cockroach.’ He was arrested in May 2020, two days after he declared his candidacy. His wife, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, ran in his stead, drawing tens of thousands of people to rally in her support during the campaign. Official results of the vote handed Lukashenko a landslide victory and a sixth term in office, but were rejected by opposition and the West as a sham.” (12/14/21)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/belarus-hands-opposition-leaders-husband-18-years-prison-81741134
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6) US Air Force discharges 27 for refusing COVID-19 vaccine
Source: Yahoo! News
“The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them what officials believe are the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to get the shots. The Air Force gave its forces until Nov. 2 to get the vaccine, and thousands have either refused or sought an exemption. Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Monday that these are the first airmen to be administratively discharged for reasons involving the vaccine. She said all of them were in their first term of enlistment, so they were younger, lower-ranking personnel. And while the Air Force does not disclose what type of discharge a service member gets, legislation working its way through Congress limits the military to giving troops in vaccine refusal cases an honorable discharge or general discharge under honorable conditions.” (12/14/21)
https://news.yahoo.com/air-force-discharges-27-refusal-191730500.html
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7) UAE regime suspends multi-billion dollar weapons deal in sign of growing frustration with US-China showdown
Source: CNN
“The United Arab Emirates has suspended a multi-billion dollar deal to buy US-made F-35 fighter jets, in a sign of Abu Dhabi’s growing frustration with Washington’s attempts to limit Chinese technology sales to the oil-rich Gulf state. … The US government has repeatedly pushed the UAE to drop China’s Huawei Technologies Co. from its telecommunications network, and claimed that the technology could pose a security risk for its weapons systems. … But UAE officials have been skeptical about US claims about the potential security breach and have expressed anxiety about getting caught up in a ‘new cold war’ between a top trading partner and its main strategic ally.” (12/14/21)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/middleeast/uae-weapons-deal-washington-china-intl/index.html
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8) NY: Ethics commission orders Cuomo to forfeit millions in book proceeds
Source: CBS News
“Andrew Cuomo must return [sic] millions of dollars in proceeds from a memoir published while he was governor of New York, a state ethics panel voted Tuesday. Members of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics voted 12-1 for a resolution giving Cuomo 30 days to turn the money over to the New York State Attorney General. … It was not immediately clear if the ethics committee expected book proceeds to ultimately land in state coffers or be returned to the book’s publisher, Penguin Random House, which is a subsidiary of Crown Publishing. Jim McGuire, an attorney for Andrew Cuomo, said Cuomo will challenge Tuesday’s decision. … The panel previously voted on November 16 to rescind a 2020 approval of Cuomo’s book. … [on grounds that he] did not disclose that ‘state property, resources and personnel, including staff volunteers, were used in connection with the preparation, writing, editing and publication of the book.'” (12/14/21)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-cuomo-jcope-ordered-to-return-millions-in-book-proceeds/
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9) IAEA Director: Iran’s limited access to nuclear program provides “blurred image” of reality
Source: Fox News
“The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Tuesday that the restrictions faced by his inspectors in Iran threaten to give the world only a ‘very blurred image’ of Tehran’s program as it enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview to The Associated Press, Rafael Mariano Grossi said he wanted to tell Iran that there was ‘no way around’ his inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency if the Islamic Republic wanted to be ‘a respected country in the community of nations.’ ‘We have to work together,’ Grossi said from a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, after he visited that country’s first nuclear power plant. ‘They must work together. I will make sure they understand that in us they will have a partner.'” [editor’s note: Grossi needs to talk to the US about getting back into the nuclear deal it abrogated, then – TLK] (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-limited-access-nuclear-blurred-image
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10) Democratic mayors under fire as crime, violence plagues Chicago, New York, Philadelphia
Source: Fox News
“Democratic mayors are raising eyebrows with their responses to the rising crime plaguing major cities like New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia. The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI data — the largest annual increase on record, with Chicago topping the list. At least 12 major cities, including New York, have already set historical murder records in 2021. Robberies and assaults are also on the rise, and retailers in major cities across the country are reporting an uptick in organized smash-and-grab crimes during the busy holiday shopping season. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot faced criticism last week after she responded to the recent flood of robberies in her city by blaming retailers for not better protecting their merchandise. ‘We[‘ve] also got to push retailers,’ she said during a Dec. 6 event. … Lightfoot’s comments were blasted by retailers as misinformed.” (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-mayors-violence-chicago-new-york-philadelphia
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11) Canada: Regime offers up to $40 billion to compensate indigenous children
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Canada has pledged up to C$40bn ($31bn; £23.6bn) in compensation for indigenous children and families who suffered discrimination while in foster care. In September, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with those for non-indigenous children. It ordered C$40,000 ($31,350; £23,340) payouts to each child who was in the on-reserve welfare system after 2006. The government initially said it would appeal the verdict. But it has come under intense public scrutiny after the discovery of over 1,100 unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools. Until as recently as 1996, Canada’s residential school system separated indigenous children from their families and sent them to boarding schools where many were malnourished, beaten and sexually abused. The school system was part of attempts to assimilate indigenous children, forcing them to abandon their native languages and convert to Christianity.” (12/14/21)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59602955
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12) Philippines: Duterte withdraws his candidacy from 2022 Senate race
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his candidacy for the 2022 Senate race, the government elections monitor said, a month after he made a last-minute entry into the contest. ‘The President has filed his withdrawal from the Senatorial elections,’ James Jimenez, spokesman for the Commission on Elections office, said on Twitter. Duterte, 76, is constitutionally barred from seeking a second six-year term as president. His run for the Senate had been seen as an attempt to remain in politics while facing an international probe into his deadly drug war.” (12/14/21)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20211214-philippines-duterte-withdraws-his-candidacy-from-2022-senate-race
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13) SD: Organizers apologize for raising money for schools
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
“The organizers of a fundraiser that featured teachers on their hands and knees grabbing for dollar bills at a junior hockey league game in South Dakota are apologizing after the event drew criticism. The ‘Dash For Cash’ Saturday night in Sioux Falls was a competition in which 10 local teachers were selected to collect money for school projects. They had five minutes to collect as many of the 5,000 $1 bills that were spread out on carpet at center ice between periods at the Sioux Falls Stampede’s arena. Critics on social media called the event demeaning. Loren Paul, president of the South Dakota Education Association, said it showed that the state needs to do better for its teachers and students when it comes to funding education.” (12/14/21)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Event-featuring-teachers-crawling-for-cash-16700812.php
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14) SCOTUS to hear appeals in landmark McGirt case involving tribal land in Oklahoma
Source: Colorado Springs Gazette
“The U.S. Supreme Court will take a fresh look at a landmark case involving government jurisdiction on tribal lands after more than 40 petitions were made seeking to overturn or limit the historic 2020 ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma. … Justices will gather early next month with a focus on a Tulsa man’s case, according to a Dec. 8 update to the court’s docket. The state appealed following an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals decision to vacate a 2017 conviction and 35-year prison sentence for Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta, 36, based on the McGirt ruling. The state appeals court contended with Castro-Huerta’s testimony that Oklahoma did not have jurisdiction to prosecute him because the victim was a member of a federally recognized tribe, noting that the crime happened within the bounds of the non-disestablished Cherokee Nation reservation.” (12/14/21)
https://gazette.com/news/supreme-court-to-hear-appeals-in-landmark-mcgirt-case-involving-tribal-land-in-oklahoma/article_72270016-23f9-560d-a0f3-901d14e05771.html
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15) Survey: “100 Million” Americans See US Healthcare System as “Expensive” or “Broken”
Source: Common Dreams
“The largest survey of its kind since the start of the Covid-19 crisis found that 38% of respondents (representing around 100 million Americans) characterized the for-profit U.S. healthcare system as either ‘expensive’ or ‘broken,’ an indication that the pandemic has markedly shifted public opinion. Gallup and West Health, the two organizations behind the new survey out Tuesday, began the polling process by asking respondents to concisely describe the U.S. healthcare system in their own words. Nearly 40% used the word ‘expensive’ and 13% said the system is ‘broken’ (the two most common descriptors offered by respondents). … ‘In 2019, West Health and Gallup conducted a major survey on U.S. healthcare costs and found that close to half of Americans (48%) believed the quality of care found in the U.S. was either ‘the best in the world’ (13%) or ‘among the very best’ (36%).” (12/14/21)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/14/major-survey-finds-100-million-americans-see-us-healthcare-system-expensive-or
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16) Uganda: Bobi Wine “under house arrest”
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
“Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says security forces have surrounded his residence and put him under house arrest before a planned campaign rally. In a series of Twitter posts on Tuesday, the singer-turned-politician, who has been arrested several times in recent years, said police and military officers deployed overnight had barred him from leaving his house …. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was set to campaign on Tuesday in support of an opposition candidate running in a by-election in the central district of Kayunga, where Museveni is also expected to hold a rally. … Bobi Wine came second in a tense January election that returned Museveni to power for a sixth term. The vote was conducted under an internet blackout after campaigns where opposition candidates were routinely obstructed by police, and many people were shot dead by security forces.” (12/14/21)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/14/uganda-opposition-leader-bobi-wine-under-house-arrest
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17) MRFF claim: Wreaths Across America “carpet-bombing” veteran cemeteries with “Christian gang sign”
Source: Fox News
“The leader of a nonprofit that protects military members’ religious freedoms said wreaths laid on tombstones of veterans whose families haven’t consented are Christian gang signs. ‘We’re not saying you can’t [place wreaths], but you cannot blanket it like that,’ Military Religious Freedom Foundation president Michael ‘Mikey’ Weinstein told Fox News. ‘That’s like carpet-bombing.’ ‘That looks like it’s a Christian gang sign, that you’re creating territory that is a Christian territory’, he continued. Weinstein’s organization issued a Nov. 22 statement attacking Wreaths Across America, which has placed wreaths at veteran cemeteries for nearly 30 years. ‘On December 18, the graves of all veterans in our country’s 155 national cemeteries and numerous other locations where American veterans are buried, will be indiscriminately decorated with Christmas wreaths by the organization Wreaths Across America,’ the statement read.” (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wreaths-across-america-carpet-bombing-veteran-cemeteries-christian-gang
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18) China: Regime fines Weibo for publishing information
Source: CNN
“Chinese social media platform Weibo Corp has been slapped with a 3 million yuan ($470,000) fine by China’s internet regulator for repeatedly publishing illegal information. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said Weibo had violated a cybersecurity law on the protection of minors as well as other laws but did not give further details. It also said Beijing’s local cyberspace regulator had imposed 44 penalties on Weibo totaling 14.3 million yuan ($2.2 million) for the year to November. The company, which operates a platform similar to Twitter, has been ordered to ‘immediately rectify and deal with relevant responsible persons seriously,’ the CAC said in a statement. Weibo said in a statement it ‘sincerely accepts criticism’ from the regulator and has established a work group in response to the penalty.” (12/14/21)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/tech/weibo-fined-illegal-information-intl-hnk/index.html
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19) UK: Regime removes all 11 countries from “red list”
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK’s travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are on the list. The red list was reintroduced in late November as a precaution after the emergence of the Omicron variant. But Health Secretary Sajid Javid said it had spread so widely the rules no longer had much purpose. … Currently, all UK arrivals from red list countries must pay for and self-isolate in a pre-booked, government-approved hotel for 10 days.” (12/14/21)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59653236
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20) FL: Officials cave after federal threats, give money to school districts that broke law on religious headgear mandates
Source: Florida Phoenix
“After several months of legal challenges, state sanctions, and a special session that outlawed strict mask mandates in public schools, the Florida Department of Education returned $877,851 in state funds to eight school districts that had been punished over a COVID-related mask controversy. … The USDE had filed a cease and desist complaint, over the state withholding money from school boards that had gotten federal grants to cover previous financial penalties. A federal administrative hearing was scheduled for Dec. 10. But the feds withdrew the complaint when the state department returned funds to two school districts that had gotten federal grants. … the Florida Board of Education financially penalized eight districts for their strict mask mandates that did not allow parents to decide whether their students wear masks at schools. The state targeted the monthly salaries of school boards that approved of these strict mask mandates.” (12/13/21)
https://floridaphoenix.com/2021/12/13/following-federal-scrutiny-fl-education-officials-returned-878000-to-certain-local-school-boards/
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21) “The people” isn’t a thing
Source: The Hill
by Anthony Sanders
“The Constitution opens with the phrase: ‘We the People.’ But the concept is legal fiction. ‘The People’ isn’t a thing. It does not have a will. It’s just millions of individuals. Delegates who ratified the Constitution in 1787 could not possibly have represented all of the different perspectives and interests. The delegates did not even try. Voters who sent them to Philadelphia mostly included only adult white males — often only those with property. This was wildly democratic for the time, but the process still excluded large portions of the population. Even today, when more people have access to the polls, no vote can capture the heart and mind of everyone. Even a landslide victory in a perfect election with perfectly informed citizens would leave millions of people unsatisfied.” (12/14/21)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/585102-the-people-isnt-a-thing
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22) America’s “Justice System” is Far From Just
Source: Libertarian Party
by staff
“Even a brief peek beneath the surface of the United States[s] justice system reveals an institution rife with perverse incentives and rotten to the core from corruption. … Republicans have steadfastly refused to even contemplate anything approaching criminal justice reform, preferring instead to double down on protections for dirty cops and prosecutors and fewer protections for the innocent Americans caught up in the corruption. Democrats are content to pay only lip service to criminal justice reform, preferring instead to nominate and elect an old-school drug warrior in Joe Biden and a former prosecutor in Kamala Harris who made a career of incarcerating scores of Americans for non-violent drug offenses while covering for open and obvious corruption in the justice system. We must do something different.” (12/14/21)
https://www.lp.org/americas-justice-system-is-far-from-just/
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23) Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“Something has dramatically changed in the heart and mind of Musk over the several years. At this point, no one can seem to be able to control his mouth. And despite his ambiguous politics of the past, he is increasingly revealing himself to be what he was raised to be: a brilliant and irascible anarchist. … What’s happened to Elon is what has happened to millions of other people. He began to realize that the governing elites in this country are incredibly inept and unwilling to take responsibility for their actions. He noted the completely undemocratic methods and the unscientific rationale that were deployed to bring about lockdowns. For that reason, he has been smeared and put down as a promoter of misinformation. Anyone who has paid attention for the last two years knows exactly what that means: he is telling truths he is not supposed to tell.” (12/14/21)
https://brownstone.org/articles/elon-musk-person-of-the-year-radicalized-by-lockdowns/
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24) Race To The Totalitarian Bottom
Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“Many have yet to realize that the new cold war between the United States and China is not one between democracy and dictatorship, as was the previous one between the U.S. and the USSR. Rather, it is a battle between two emerging totalitarian states, with China intent on surpassing the U.S. as the new global hegemon. The two totalitarian progressions display different features: China is in the grip of iron fisted autocratic rule imposed from above, while America is under siege by an anarchic tyranny underwritten by cultural elites and tech titans. The difference is significant. However, Xi’s China and progressive America both aspire to total politicization of society and control over all aspects of a citizen’s life. Both regimes see no limits on governmental interference, and demand all citizens accept an official doctrine and infallible authority.” (12/14/21)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/race-to-the-totalitarian-bottom/
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25) The Folly of Leaving the ABM Treaty, 20 Years Later
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Withdrawing from the ABM Treaty was an early Bush blunder, but it is one whose costs we continue to pay even now. Perhaps because Bush made so many other epic mistakes in foreign policy, the folly of withdrawal from the treaty tends to be overlooked, but it was arguably one of the first major mistakes that helped to set U.S.-Russian relations on their downward trajectory. The hawkish commitment to missile defense has always been misguided because the technology is so unreliable and its effects were bound to be destabilizing whether it worked or not. It manages to alarm other governments into building more weapons without even temporarily providing the security that its advocates promise.” (12/14/21)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-leaving-the-abm-treaty
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26) What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Virgil Davis
“We hear a lot about emergencies these days. From the ‘climate emergency’ to the ‘covid emergency,’ it would seem we are constantly beset by emergencies that warrant special responses from ourselves and our governments. More often than not, these emergencies mean that citizens, in some way, have rights stripped from them in an attempt to ward off or prevent the certain calamity on the horizon. We’ve become all too familiar with the demands made of us in response to Covid and have become increasingly intimate with the demands made under the guise of averting a climate emergency. The enforcement of measures to ward off the specter of these emergencies is often not dictated and carried out by the state but enforced through fear and implication. … When the state does react to these emergencies, it is often in ways that supersede Democratic principles.” (12/14/21)
https://pamphleteer.co/post/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-democracy/
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27) Using Assange to Send a Three-Part Message
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“When Julian Assange and Wikileaks disclosed evidence of dark-side activity, including war crimes, on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, U.S. officials felt they had no choice but to use Assange to send a three-part message. The first message is to people within the national-security establishment who might be tempted, out of a crisis of conscience, to reveal dark-side activities of the national-security establishment. … The second message is to people who disclose the dark-side secrets that are leaked to them — organizations like Wikileaks and executives within those organizations, like Assange. … The third message is to the American people.” (12/14/21)
https://www.fff.org/2021/12/14/using-assange-to-send-a-three-part-message/
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28) Public Schools Should Stop Threatening Unvaccinated Kids
Source: Reason
by Robby Soave
“The Los Angeles Unified School District is the second-largest school system in the country, with more than 600,000 students. It is also the largest district to implement a vaccine mandate, not just for employees, but also for students. District officials had set a deadline of January 10 for everyone 12 and older to get vaccinated, but some 34,000 eligible young people have declined to get jabbed. As recently as Friday, the district’s plan was to exile all these students back to the land of virtual learning, according to The Washington Post. Unvaccinated L.A. students are likely to receive a reprieve, however: The school board is expected to vote on Tuesday to delay enforcement of the mandate until the fall semester. But the mere fact that punishing thousands of teenagers for not being vaccinated was even on the table is disconcerting.” (12/14/21)
https://reason.com/2021/12/14/public-schools-unvaccinated-kids-mandate-virtual-school/
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29) They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Julian Assange suffered a mini-stroke in October during the hearing for the US appeal of a UK court’s ruling on his extradition case. … They are killing Julian Assange. Experts agree that they are killing him. Assange’s stroke is just another item on the mountain of evidence we already had for this. The US-centralized power alliance is murdering a journalist, as surely as the Saudi regime murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The only difference is that Khashoggi was killed quickly by live dismemberment via bone saw while Assange is being killed slowly by lawfare.” (12/12/21)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/12/12/theyre-killing-him-assanges-stroke-reveals-the-western-version-of-the-saudi-bone-saw/
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30) Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Alexi Miagkov and Bennett Cyphers
“According to Google, Manifest V3 will improve privacy, security, and performance. We fundamentally disagree. The changes in Manifest V3 won’t stop malicious extensions, but will hurt innovation, reduce extension capabilities, and harm real world performance. Google is right to ban remotely hosted code (with some exceptions for things like user scripts), but this is a policy change that didn’t need to be bundled with the rest of Manifest V3. Community response to Manifest V3, whether in the Chromium extensions Google group or the W3C WebExtensions Community Group, has been largely negative. Developers are concerned about Manifest V3 breaking their extensions, confused by the poor documentation, and frustrated by the uncertainty around missing functionality coupled with the Manifest V2 end-of-life deadline.” (12/14/21)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
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31) Empathy — and Dismay
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“[E]mpathy doesn’t mean that we are required to empathize with those who are out to kill you. I would limit it to folks with whom we just might have some civil disagreements … not folks looking to gouge my eyes out.” (12/14/21)
https://notablog.net/archives/1872
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32) The Greatest Financial Swindle of All Time
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“One of the most popular provisions of the 1994 Contract with America was a rule requiring Congress to live by the same laws that families and businesses are subject to. So, why doesn’t Congress live by the financial and accounting standards required of the rest of us? I’m speaking of the multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better law, a giant financial masquerade. No one knows what it costs. None of the Democrats in Congress who are hellbent on passing it seems to care. That may be because, as the House Budget Committee chairman has pronounced, ‘We can pay for whatever we want to pay for.’ Uh-huh. Don’t hire this man as your accountant. The bookkeeping gambits in this bill are so brazen that it’s hard to believe they think they can get away with it.” (12/14/21)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2021/12/14/the-greatest-financial-swindle-of-all-time-n2600527
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33) Rule(s) of Law(s): The problem is monopoly, not violence.
Source: EconLog
by Michael Munger
“The advantages of ‘rule of law’ are obvious: the rules are consistently applied and enforced, without privilege or exemption. As F.A. Hayek put it, the purpose of the rule of law, ‘is to limit coercion by the power of the state to instances where it is explicitly required by general abstract rules which have been announced beforehand and which applied equally to all people, and refer to circumstances known to them (F.A. Hayek, The Political Ideal of the Rule of Law. Cairo: National Bank of Egypt Printing Press, 1955; p. 34). But note that there is an implicit assumption (even Hayek does it, in the quote above) that the rule of law involves a monopoly, single body of law, provided by a monopoly, single entity, the state. The rationale is the Hobbesian-Weberian story that the state is violence, and violence is required to enforce contracts.” (12/14/21)
https://www.econlib.org/rules-of-laws-the-problem-is-monopoly-not-violence/
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34) This time it will be different!
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Today, we once more have large numbers of people pushing for more and more socialism. And seemingly fewer and fewer people who understand that our current economic system (both here in the Fifty States and around the world) is far more socialist than not. Communism is just one of many forms of socialism which have been tried (and failed) around the world both in the past and today.” (12/14/21)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2021/12/14/this-time-it-will-be-different/
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35) The US Military Budget in the Form of a Mushroom Cloud
Source: Common Dreams
by William Astore
“Where are you going to get the money? That question haunts congressional proposals to help the poor, the unhoused, and those struggling to pay the mortgage or rent or medical bills, among so many other critical domestic matters. And yet (big surprise!) there’s always plenty of money for the Pentagon. In fiscal year 2022, in fact, Congress is being especially generous with $778 billion in funding, roughly $25 billion more than the Biden administration initially asked for. Even that staggering sum seriously undercounts government funding for America’s vast national security state, which, since it gobbles up more than half of federal discretionary spending, is truly this country’s primary, if unofficial, fourth branch of government.” (12/14/21)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/14/us-military-budget-form-mushroom-cloud
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36) The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career
Source: The Atlantic
by Joe Pinsker
“If 5-year-olds could read academic research reports, they might be alarmed by what they’d find in a recent one from the Stanford Center on Longevity. It opened with a bit of promising news: ‘In the United States, demographers predict that as many as half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to live to the age of 100.’ But that was followed, several pages down, by a haunting prediction: ‘Over the course of 100-year lives, we can expect to work 60 years or more.’ In the U.S., the average retirement age is 62, according to Gallup polling. For most people, 40 or so years of work is more than enough, so the idea of an additional 20 is disconcerting. But if a 60-year career sounds like a nightmare, perhaps that’s because we’re imagining 60 years of work as it is for many people today: inflexible, all-consuming, poorly matched to the rhythms of life.” (12/14/21)
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/12/future-work-shorter-hours-longer-careers/621003/
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37) California Imported Crude Oil Ranks as a Major Emissions Generator
Source: Heartland Institute
by Ronald Stein
“Shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world. The fuel used is the cheapest and most polluting fuel available for the world’s 90,000 ships that burn approximately 370 million tons of fuel per year, emitting 20 million tons of sulfur oxides. … Any high school student can easily observe from the California Energy Commission data that California imports of crude oil from foreign countries via large oil tankers were the highest in the state’s history in 2018 at almost 370 million barrels of crude oil for the year. At 2 million barrels of crude oil per super oil tanker, that’s more than 180 polluting oil tankers per year that Newsom supports unloading at West Coast ports because of his refusal to produce crude oil in-state.” (12/14/21)
https://blog.heartland.org/2021/12/california-imported-crude-oil-ranks-as-a-major-emissions-generator/
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38) Are we overhyping the threat of Omicron?
Source: spiked
by Carl Henghan & Tom Jefferson
“Cancel your parties, work from home, keep your distance; another variant — Omicron — is in town. Questions about its transmissibility, severity and potential to escape vaccines have panicked policymakers. But what occurs next depends on how governments deal with uncertainties and how individuals interpret and respond to the perceived threat. … As a society, we are more accustomed to receiving snippets of information from a few sources. And, as a result, we have become impatient and lazy. This evidence vacuum leads to disagreements, unchecked opinions, and the outsourcing of decisions to third parties about how we go about our daily lives. In consequence, as a society, we are becoming accustomed to being told what to do. Individuals can readily project their anxieties on to others – as many experts have done.” (12/14/21)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/12/14/are-we-overhyping-the-threat-of-omicron/
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39) The Second Global Hot Spot Most Likely to Upend Your Portfolio in 2022
Source: American Consequences
by Kim Iskyan
“The situation: Russia may (again) be about to invade Ukraine. As of last week, U.S. officials warned that Russia is moving up to 175,000 Russian troops to the Ukrainian border, and could be planning an offensive as soon as early next year. On December 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden had a two-hour-long video conference on the matter, during which Biden threatened economic sanctions if Russian troops entered Ukraine. Later, in a big concession, Biden said that he’d arrange a meeting with Russia and Western military alliance NATO to discuss Russia’s concerns, the biggest of which is that Ukraine might start the process to eventually join NATO or the European Union. ” (12/14/21)
https://americanconsequences.com/the-second-global-hot-spot-most-likely-to-upend-your-portfolio-in-2022/
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40) US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by William Minter, Anita Plummer, & Daniel Volman
“In the first Cold War, the Truman Doctrine laid out the premises for prioritizing an anti-communist crusade that lasted an entire generation and served as the pretext for U.S. support for apartheid South Africa and countless other anti-democratic regimes around the world. Last week’s Democracy Summit, noted CUNY Presidential Professor Branko Milanovic, is most likely ‘a prelude to the creation of an unwieldy association of states that will be used by the United States to spearhead its ideological crusade in the escalating geopolitical conflict with China and Russia.’ … That logic was reflected on the eve of the Summit when unnamed ‘intelligence officials’ and ‘senior administration officials’ took the initiative to talk to the Wall Street Journal about the threat of a possible Chinese base in Equatorial Guinea.” (12/14/21)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/12/14/us-cold-war-with-china-first-stop-equatorial-guinea/
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41) Could the Omicron Variant Be Good News?
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“If it proves to be the case that Omicron poses substantially less risk of serious illness or death than Delta, and the difference more than offsets the increase in the number of infections, then the spread of Omicron in the United States may be very good news. It will almost certainly mean an increase in the number of infections, since it will spread more quickly, but it would mean a reduction in the number of hospitalizations and deaths.” (12/14/21)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/14/could-the-omicron-variant-be-good-news/
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42) Guantanamo in 2021: Are We a Nation of Laws or a Nation of Fears?
Source: The American Prospect
by Karen J Greenberg
“Last week, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) held a much-awaited hearing titled ‘Closing Guantanamo: Ending 20 Years of Injustice.’ It was hardly the first such hearing or congressional discussion of closing the island prison. As Durbin had noted in 2013, ‘I have spoken on the Senate floor more than 65 times about the need to close this prison.’ Eight years and many hearings on closure later, the issue has now once again been put before Congress. And yet as much as this was about Gitmo closure, the underlying debate has taken on a new sense of urgency in today’s political climate. Guantanamo now houses 39 prisoners, consisting of two groups of detainees: 12 whose cases come under the jurisdiction of military commissions (ten of whom still await trial; two have been convicted); and 27 who are in indefinite detention, never having been charged.” (12/14/21)
https://prospect.org/justice/guantanamo-in-2021-are-we-a-nation-of-laws-or-fears/
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43) Can Even a GOP Hawk Like Jeff Sessions Learn Some Hard Foreign Policy Lessons?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“One must not make too much of Jeff Sessions’[s] apparent conversion regarding foreign policy. There is no sign in his address to the American Conservative, or anywhere else, that he now advocates terminating Washington’s dangerous security commitments to NATO or the collection of treaty allies in East Asia. He certainly has not given any indication that he supports even partially defunding the bloated military budget. His fresh thinking on foreign policy seems confined, at least for the moment, to a rejection of regime-change wars and nation-building ventures. It’s progress, albeit decidedly limited progress. Nevertheless, people advocating a sane role for the United States in the world should be glad about even partial converts, given the suffocating dominance that the pro-war foreign policy blob continues to exercise.” (12/14/21)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2021/12/13/can-even-a-gop-hawk-like-jeff-sessions-learn-some-hard-foreign-policy-lessons/
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44) Packing Unpacked
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The ‘court packing’ notion that progressives itch to implement has obvious flaws — which have been addressed (but not settled) in the recent report of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, initiated by the Biden Administration last April. The report, just out, did not give progressives what they want.” (12/14/21)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2021/12/14/packing-unpacked/
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45) How is COVID going to end?
Source: Fox News Forum
by Nicole Saphier, MD
“The concept of ‘Zero COVID,’ once perhaps a realistic ambition, is now a delusion as variants continue traveling the world circulating among humans and animals. Thankfully, the initial waves of the pandemic, the devastating stages of intense transmission with a high rate of consequent severe illness, are over for most of the country. This doesn’t mean the virus is gone, or that transmission is low, rather the pandemic is moving into the next phase, becoming endemic. It is almost certain the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve similar to the 1918 influenza virus. A century ago, a novel strain of influenza killed more than 50 million people worldwide. With time, those who contracted the virus and survived developed immunity, with life returning to normal several years later. The virus did not disappear. The virus continued to mutate, with seasonal outbreaks from milder variants, further dampened by vaccines and treatments.” (12/14/21)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/how-is-covid-going-to-end-nicole-saphier
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46) Why Biden Can’t Win On Inflation
Source: FiveThirtyEight
by Santul Nerker & Ryan Best
“It’s no secret that inflation is politically powerful. You can’t miss rising prices, and research has found that Americans care deeply about inflation. But the politics of handling it is messy, and should prices continue to rise, Biden has a difficult task. He faces a country that views inflation through a highly partisan lens — and that will judge his performance on the issue accordingly. If he ignores inflation, it could spiral as it did with Carter. But at the same time, should Biden react too forcefully, the cure could be worse than the disease.” (12/14/21)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-biden-cant-win-on-inflation/
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47) Fauci on your Phone?
Source: Campaign For Liberty
by Ron Paul
“If the Senate follows the House of Representatives lead and passes the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act (HR 550), Americans who do not get the recommended number of covid vaccines can look forward to receiving a text like this: ‘This is Dr. Anthony Fauci. According to government records you have not yet received your monthly covid booster shot. Until you prove you are following vaccine protocols, your vaccine passport will be revoked, resulting in loss of your privilege to work, worship, and visit your family.’ … HR 550 accomplishes its goal by empowering federal bureaucrats to create national standards for databases containing vaccine records. State and local governments and private health care businesses will be bribed (with money taken from current and future taxpayers) to adopt the national standards.” (12/13/21)
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/fauci-phone
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48) The Financial Illiteracy Cycle Is What’s Really Behind the Student Debt Crisis in America
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by David Chapek
“Young Americans around the country are being held back by ballooning student loan debt. In recent years, many activists and politicians — including the current administration — have been calling for loan forgiveness. But this is a bit short sighted. After all, the debt will just pile up again. And then we’ll presumably forgive it again. … If we really want to solve a problem, we have to find, as Chesterton pointed out, the real problem. In this case, the real problem is not so much that students can’t afford college — plenty of students (around 38%) graduate debt-free. So no, it’s not just the top 1 percent, or even the top 10 percent, who can pay off their tuition fees. Instead, there is another factor that most haven’t considered: financial literacy.” (12/13/21)
https://fee.org/articles/the-financial-illiteracy-cycle-is-what-s-really-behind-the-student-debt-crisis-in-america/
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49) In Defense of Hunting
Source: In These Times
by Joseph Bullington
“It’s just after dawn when I cut the tracks. Two or three of the beasts must have come up out of the valley sometime in the night and crossed the trail here before heading on into the timber to the west. The wind, risen with the sun, whips the two-day-old snow into glittering waves that roll through the high meadows and break above the tops of the trees, drifting and dulling the edges of the tracks. In the clearings, they grow faint and I grow doubtful. These tracks are a day old, you fool. I follow them anyway, onto a burned-over slope where they vanish completely. … sure I’ve lost the trail. But in the trees on the other side, I catch the tracks again.” (12/13/21)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/food-system-subsistence-meat-public-lands-wildlife-elk-hunting
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50) Limited Government Is Back in Fashion. Can Republicans Make the Most of It?
Source: Commentary
by Noah Rothman
“In 2019, First Things magazine published an open letter that captured a dominant sentiment on the American right. ‘Against the Dead Consensus’ sought to bury the ‘warmed-over Reaganism’ that passed for conservative thought and policy in favor of something more muscular. That something was and remains elusive, but what the letter rejected was plainly specific: the ‘fetishizing’ of ‘individual autonomy.’ Thus, the American right joined the left in the race to get ahead of what seemed like an emerging bipartisan sentiment in favor of activist government. … More and more voters were tempted by the promise of an expansive, overweening public sector that imposed itself on American lives — even if they disagreed on the forms that imposition should take. The era of big government was back, and it was here to stay. What a difference a pandemic makes.” (12/13/21)
https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/limited-government-is-back-in-fashion-can-republicans-make-the-most-of-it/
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51) Free Talk Live, 12/14/21
Source: Free Talk Live
"NH Independence amendment :: FBI hires prostitutes :: Wimhof and cold showers :: Critical race theory :: Biden wants you to have more faith in government :: The government is hopelessly behind on everything :: The Bank of England is scared of Bitcoin :: The Metaverse looks terrible :: Show: 2021-12-14 Aria, Ian." [Flash audio or MP3] (12/14/21)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2021-12-14
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52) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 12/14/21
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
“On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we explore the life and work of an author who died at the age of 46 but whose writings — namely ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’ — still help to shape our collective understanding of the freedoms of speech and conscience. Joining us for the discussion is the author of Orwell’s authorized biography, Indiana State University professor Michael Shelden.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://www.thefire.org/so-to-speak-podcast-george-orwell/
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53) “How Leftist “Saviors” Ruined Latin America
Source: Reason
“The Atlas Network’s Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region.” [Flash video] (12/14/21)
https://reason.com/video/2021/12/14/how-leftist-saviors-ruined-latin-america/
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54) The Bryan Hyde Show, 12/14/21
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos is a reliable source of reasoned commentary in a world where disinformation is king. We talk about why we cannot be expected to follow the demands of those who are trying to slam the door shut on discussion and why we must become our own fact-checkers.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://thebryanhydeshow.podbean.com/e/2021-december-14-the-bryan-hyde-show-hour-one/
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55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 12/14/21
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
”Lancet’ BLASTS ‘Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated’ Propaganda.” [Flash video] (12/14/21)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/lancet-blasts-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated-propaganda
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565) Fintech Beat, episode 118
Source: Roll Call
“Why the FTC matters for fintech.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://rollcall.com/podcasts/fintech-beat/why-the-ftc-matters-for-fintech/
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57) How to Fix the Internet, episode 105
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“A Better Future Starts with Secret Codes.” [various formats] (12/14/21)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/podcast-episode-better-future-starts-secret-codes
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58) Kinsella On Liberty, episode 366
Source: StephanKinsella.com
“NFTS, Soho Forum Debate, Intellectual Property, Etc. on Repeal the 20th Century.” [Flash audio or MP3] (12/13/21)
https://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol366-ip-nfts-on-repeal-the-20th-century/
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59) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 12/13/21
Source: FiveThirtyEight
“How Much Have Hispanic Voters Shifted Toward The GOP?” [various formats] (12/13/21)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-how-much-have-hispanic-voters-shifted-toward-the-gop/
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60) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Dave DeCamp on Iran, Russia, China and Yemen.” [various formats] (12/13/21)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/scotthortonshow/12-10-21-dave-decamp-on-iran-russia-china-and-yemen/
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