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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Bitcoin network turns 13, celebrates with new hash rate all-time high
2) France: Lawmakers suspend debate on enhanced COVID-19-based ghettoization scheme
3) Biden regime announces $1 billion meat socialism scheme
4) Turkey: Inflation hits 19-year high in lira crisis
5) Judge blocks US Navy's vaccine mandate for challengers citing religious objections
6) NY: James subpoenas disgraced former president, children
7) US FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots for 12- to 15-year-olds
8) Andrew accuser's 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public
9) Canada: Ontario regime closes schools, indoor dining and gyms
10) VA: In nation at war with itself, one town tries cup of civility
11) India: Bulli Bai app that "put Muslim women up for sale" is shut
12) Biden tells Zelensky US regime would act "decisively" if Russians support seceded republics versus Ukrainian invaders
13) NY: Woman arrested for injecting teen with COVID vaccine
14) Brazil: Bolsonaro hospitalized
15) Health Experts Predict "Unprecedented Number of Social Disruptions" Amid Omicron Surge
16) Apple hits $3 trillion market cap
17) Mauritius: Newborn baby found in toilet bin of plane
18) Sudan: Hamdok resigns as coup forces continue murderous rampage
19) CDC cuts quarantine time for health care workers
20) Tesla says it delivered record 936k vehicles in 2021, up 87%
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) They Said They Would Slow the Spread
22) Ending The College Bottleneck
23) Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894
24) Is free speech outdated? Part 6 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen
25) The Jan. 6 committee must consider Trump's criminal liability
26) Those Who Support Internet Censorship [sic] Lack Psychological Maturity
27) It's 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020's COVID Playbook
28) Everything Is Political and No One Can Do Anything About It
29) Why Commodities Could Absolutely Soar in the Next Decade
30) Not just governments lie
31) Clay Shaw, Liar and Perjurer
32) What USA must do about China in 2022
33) Quantum Vibe, 01/03/22
34) Why Government Should Not "Deliver"
35) What I learned on the progress beat
36) Ukrainian neutrality: "Golden bridge" out of a current geopolitical trap
37) Price Controls Are the Worst Possible Solution to Inflation
38) Trouble in Paradise: The Crumbling California Model
39) The Tide Is Turning in Freedom's Favor
40) Drop Your Left vs Right Blinders
41) Taking Back Our Liberty in 2022
42) Why The President's Party Almost Always Has A Bad Midterm
43) Uncle Sam Should Make Some New Year's Resolutions
44) 2022 Should Be Seen as the Year for Democracy
45) Inflation is a tax on us all
46) How To Build Confidence And Courage
47) Russell's Theory of Descriptions
48) NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange's Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
49) 2022 the Year to Take Back Ground
50) The Collins and Fauci Attack on Traditional Public Health
51) Inflation or Recession? The Fed Faces a Choice.
52) Blackstone on Judicial Tenure
53) Si Vis Pacem, Don't Listen to Joe Lieberman
54) The Care Crisis Isn't What You Think
55) Packing Away the Constitution
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56) Reason Roundtable, 01/03/22
57) Free Talk Live, 01/03/22
58) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/03/22
59) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/03/22
60) Part Of the Problem, 01/03/22
61) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/03/22
62) Real Coffee with Scott Adams, episode 1612
63) Lions of Liberty, 01/03/22
64) EconTalk, 01/03/22
65) Conflicts of Interest, episode 209
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1) Bitcoin network turns 13, celebrates with new hash rate all-time high
Source: CoinTelegraph
"Monday marks the 13th year since Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined the genesis block, or block 0, of the Bitcoin network and, for the first time, mined a reward of 50 Bitcoin (BTC) back on Jan. 3, 2009. Fast-forward to 2022, the Bitcoin network shows no signs of slowing down, reaching a new all-time high hash rate of 207.53 exahashes per second (EH/s). The Bitcoin hash rate, which correlates to the strength of the network based on the number of active miners, saw a temporary downfall after China banned citizens and businesses from pursuing crypto mining and trading activities. Bitcoin's hash rate saw an eventual comeback as Chinese miners began migrating to friendly jurisdictions. On Saturday, the Bitcoin network recorded a new all-time high of 207.53 EH/s, reclaiming the network's security by increasing the mining difficulty." (01/03/22)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-network-turns-13-celebrates-with-new-hash-rate-all-time-high
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2) France: Lawmakers suspend debate on enhanced COVID-19-based ghettoization scheme
Source: France 24 [French state media]
"France's lower house of parliament has suspended debates over a controversial bill that makes it mandatory for people to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination to go to a restaurant or cinema or take the train. Tense discussions of the new legislation, which would remove the option of showing a negative test result instead of having the inoculations, were halted after midnight on Monday when a majority of deputies voted to suspend the session. ... A strained debate in parliament on Monday highlighted what the government and the opposition described as widespread fatigue with the pandemic and [authoritarian measures exploiting] it. The proposed tightening of the rules has angered anti-vaccination activists and some lawmakers say they have been subject to aggression including vandalism and violent threats." (01/04/22)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220104-french-lawmakers-suspend-fractious-vaccine-pass-debate-in-setback-for-government
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3) Biden regime announces $1 billion meat socialism scheme
Source: The Hill
"The White House on Monday announced plans aimed at addressing rising prices for meat and poultry, including setting aside $1 billion for smaller producers. The Biden administration unveiled its action plan to diversify and strengthen the meat-producing supply chain ahead of a scheduled virtual meeting between President Biden and independent farmers and ranchers. The White House has previously pointed to a small number of conglomerates for driving higher meat and poultry prices, which have been a major contributor [sic] to broader inflation in recent months." [editor's note: Higher meat prices are a symptom of, not a cause of or "contributor to" inflation. Inflation is a function of money supply, which in the case of the United States means a function of government – TLK] (01/03/21)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/587968-white-house-announces-steps-to-address-increases-in-meat-prices
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4) Turkey: Inflation hits 19-year high in lira crisis
Source: Yahoo! News
"Turkey's annual inflation rate surged to its highest level since 2002 in December, official data showed Monday, after a currency crisis sparked by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's [idiotic] economic policies. Consumer prices jumped by 36.1 percent last month from the same period in 2020, up from a 21.3 percent increase in November, according to the Turkish statistics office. The figure is the highest since October 2002 when inflation reached 33.45 percent, before the party of Erdogan came to power. It is also more than seven times the official government target. ... Erdogan on Monday accused 'the elites' of profiting from 'unearned interest income,' sticking by his pledge not to raise borrowing costs. The Turkish lira lost 44 percent of its value against the dollar in 2021, with the losses accelerating at the end of last year, when Erdogan orchestrated a series of sharp interest rate reductions." (01/03/22)
https://news.yahoo.com/turkish-inflation-hits-19-high-091633121.html
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5) Judge blocks US Navy's vaccine mandate for challengers citing religious objections
Source: CNN
"A federal judge in Texas on Monday ruled against the Biden administration's vaccine requirement for members of the military in a decision that took aim at how the Navy's policies handled those who sought religious exemptions from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. US District Judge Reed O'Connor issued a preliminary order blocking the Navy from taking adverse action against 35 Navy Seals who sued in court because they are seeking exemption from the vaccine requirement for religious reasons. The order blocked the Navy from implementing policies that would allow those religious objectors to be deemed non-deployable or disqualified from Special Operations." [editor's note: Those exemption requests must be interesting -- "God's cool with me murdering eight-year-old girls and stuff like that, but the vaccine? That's just a bridge too far!" – TLK] (01/03/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/politics/navy-covid-vaccine-policy-religious-objection/index.html
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6) NY: James subpoenas disgraced former president, children
Source: Albuquerque Journal
"New York's attorney general recently subpoenaed former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., demanding their testimony in connection with a civil investigation into the family's business practices, according to a court filing made public Monday. The subpoenas, stemming from Attorney General Letitia James'[s] yearslong investigation into matters including 'the valuation of properties owned or controlled' by Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, came to light after James went to court last month seeking to force the Trumps to comply. The attorney general's attempt to get testimony from the former president was reported in December, but the court filing Monday was the first public disclosure that investigators were also seeking information from Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr." (01/03/22)
https://www.abqjournal.com/2458395/trump-ivanka-don-jr-subpoenaed-by-ny-attorney-general.html
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7) US FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots for 12- to 15-year-olds
Source: New York Post
"The FDA on Monday gave its nod to Pfizer booster shots for kids ages 12 to 15 as part of a series of new recommendations to combat the highly contagious Omicron variant. The FDA-approved booster use must now be OK'd by the CDC, which is expected to officially authorize it as early as this week. The Food and Drug Administration said it backs the emergency use of the booster for the age group after determining its benefits outweighed the risks amid a surge in the COVID-19 Omicron variant. The agency said its decision was based on 'real-world data' provided by the Israeli Ministry of Health from 6,300 individuals within the age range who received a Pfizer booster." (01/03/22)
https://nypost.com/2022/01/03/fda-oks-pfizer-boosters-for-12-to-15-year-olds/
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8) Andrew accuser's 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Virginia Giuffre agreed not to sue anyone connected to Jeffrey Epstein who could be described as a 'potential defendant,' a 2009 damages settlement against the sex offender shows. The document, disclosed by a New York court, reveals the financier paid her $500,000 (£371,000) to end her claim. Ms Giuffre is suing the Duke of York in a civil case for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager. He has consistently denied the claims. Ms Giuffre alleges that 20 years ago she was trafficked to the prince by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The document was released ahead of a critical hearing on Tuesday in the civil case involving Prince Andrew. The prince's lawyers say this previously-secret 2009 deal means she cannot sue him, because she agreed to end all legal action against anyone connected to the offender who could be described as a 'potential defendant.'" (01/03/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59861831
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9) Canada: Ontario regime closes schools, indoor dining and gyms
Source: Hastings Tribune
"All schools in Canada's most populous province will be shut down and move to online learning because of a record number of coronavirus infections fueled by the ultra-contagious omicron variant, Ontario's premier announced Monday. Premier Doug Ford also announced the closure of indoor dining. Gyms and cinemas will also close. Ontario is seeing record new infections and there are concerns about hospital capacity. 'I know online learning is not ideal,' Ford said. 'The fact is omicron spreads like wildfire.' The reopening of schools has been delayed until at least Jan. 17." [editor's note: Once again the narrative shifts, from "deaths and overcrowded hospitals" to "cases" of mostly minimal severity – SAT] (01/03/22)
https://www.hastingstribune.com/ap/agriculture/ontario-shuts-schools-indoor-dining-and-gyms/article_0c8e10f8-ad1d-563e-b988-cc0e8a61cfb5.html
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10) VA: In nation at war with itself, one town tries cup of civility
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
"When Maureen Donnelly Morris came from nearby Leesburg to open her café in Lovettsville, she got a warm welcome. Neighbors rallied to her aid. Divisions ripping at their town and their country were set aside. America's thunderous rage felt distant. They sank posts for her parking signs. They brought solar lights for the cheery space outdoors, sharpened her bagel-slicing blades and contributed plants, all to herald what would become the town's social hub and civil common ground, Back Street Brews. Forget, at least for one split second, red, blue, left, right, pro-Trump, anti-Trump. No one asked the woman from Leesburg: Which side are you on? ... In this community of some 2,200 and others like it across the United States, neighborly ways and social ties persist, even in a country that seems to be at war with itself." (01/03/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/In-nation-at-war-with-itself-one-town-tries-cup-16741731.php
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11) India: Bulli Bai app that "put Muslim women up for sale" is shut
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Police in two Indian states have registered cases after an app shared photos of more than 100 Muslim women saying they were on 'sale.' The accused include developers of the app and Twitter handles that shared the images and content. The open source app -- Bulli Bai -- was hosted on web platform GitHub, which has since taken it down. This was the second attempt in months to harass Muslim women in India by 'auctioning' them online. In July, an app and website called 'Sulli Deals' created profiles of more than 80 Muslim women (using photos they uploaded online) and described them as 'deals of the day.' In both cases, there was no real sale of any kind; the purpose was to degrade and humiliate Muslim women by sharing their personal images." (01/03/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59856619
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12) Biden tells Zelensky US regime would act "decisively" if Russians support seceded republics versus Ukrainian invaders
Source: CBS News
"President Joe Biden reiterated his statements that the U.S. and allies will act 'decisively' if Russia further [sic] invades [sic] Ukraine to President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call Sunday, as Russia masses troops along the border between [Russia and independent republics which seceded from Ukraine in 2014]. ... Biden has spoken of hitting Russia with economy-jarring sanctions if it moves on Ukraine's territory, but he said last month that U.S. military action is not on the table. The Kremlin has demanded that any further expansion of NATO exclude Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. The Russians have also demanded that the military alliance remove offensive weaponry from countries in the region." (01/03/22)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-russia-ukraine-putin-invasion-threat/
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13) NY: Woman arrested for injecting teen with COVID vaccine
Source: Fox News
"A New York woman is facing charges after allegedly injecting a 17-year-old with a coronavirus vaccine without his parents' permission. The alleged incident involving Laura Russo, 54, happened on New Year's Eve inside her home in Sea Cliff, Nassau County Police told the New York Post. Russo has since been charged with unauthorized practice of a profession and is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 21. Detectives say Russo gave the teenage boy an injection of what is believed to be a coronavirus vaccine, according to WABC. Police reportedly were notified after the teen left Russo's home and later told his mother what allegedly happened. The relationship between Russo and the boy was not immediately clear, but police say she is not a medical worker and was not administered [sic] to give vaccines, the New York Post reports." [editor's note: Child abuse persists – SAT] (01/03/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-woman-arrested-coronavirus-vaccine-injection-report
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14) Brazil: Bolsonaro hospitalized
Source: CNBC
"Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to a Sao Paulo hospital early Monday with a suspected intestinal obstruction, the country's media reported. Globo reported that Bolsonaro returned to the Brazilian capital during the night from a New Year break on the coast and was immediately taken to Hospital Vila Nova Star. Globo quoted Bolsonaro's doctor, Antonio Luiz Macedo, as saying Bolsonaro had stomach pains. ... Since his stabbing during the 2018 presidential election, Bolsonaro has undergone stomach surgery several times." (01/03/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/03/brazilian-president-bolsonaro-hospitalized-in-sao-paulo.html
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15) Health Experts Predict "Unprecedented Number of Social Disruptions" Amid Omicron Surge
Source: Common Dreams
"As the ultra-transmissible Omicron variant causes Covid-19 cases in the United States and around the world to explode at an unprecedented rate, public health experts are warning that the first month of 2022 is likely to be defined by more suffering and widespread disruptions of daily life. 'Omicron is truly everywhere,' Megan Ranney, a professor of emergency medicine at Brown University's School of Public Health, told CNN on Friday night. 'What I am so worried about over the next month or so is that our economy is going to shut down, not because of policies from the federal government or from the state governments, but rather because so many of us are ill.'" [editor's note: Having just gotten over the omicron variant, I'll predict it will become the actual path thru which the "pandemic" becomes part of the normal "flu season" – SAT] (01/03/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/02/expect-unprecedented-number-social-disruptions-amid-omicron-surge-health-experts
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16) Apple hits $3 trillion market cap
Source: The Verge
"Apple's market cap passed $3 trillion on Monday more than a year after it surpassed the $2 trillion mark and three years after eclipsing $1 trillion. Apple's huge success is due in large part to the iPhone, which revolutionized the smartphone industry and remains a cash cow for the company. But Apple continues to see strong momentum in its other businesses as well, with its services and Mac divisions reporting all-time highs in its Q4 2021 earnings. ... In recent years, Apple has also jostled with others for the crown of the world's most valuable publicly traded company. It passed Saudi Aramco in July 2020, though it was overtaken for a time by Microsoft in October." (01/03/22)
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/3/22828277/apple-3-trillion-market-cap-company-earnings
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17) Mauritius: Newborn baby found in toilet bin of plane
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Airport staff in Mauritius have found a newborn baby boy abandoned in the rubbish bin toilet of a plane's toilet. A 20-year-old woman from Madagascar, suspected of having given birth on the flight, was arrested. The Air Mauritius plane, which arrived from Madagascar, landed at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport on 1 January. Airport officers made the discovery when they screened the plane for a routine customs check. They rushed the baby to a public hospital for treatment. The woman suspected of being the child's mother, who initially denied the boy was hers, was made to undergo a medical examination which confirmed that she had just given birth. She was placed under police surveillance at the hospital. Both she and the baby are said to be doing well." (01/03/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59859148
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18) Sudan: Hamdok resigns as coup forces continue murderous rampage
Source: Hindustan Times [India]
"Sudan's civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned Sunday, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown on protesters, with the military now firmly in control. Sudan had been undergoing a fragile journey toward civilian rule since the 2019 ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, but was plunged into turmoil when military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan launched his coup on October 25 and detained Hamdok. Hamdok was reinstated on November 21 under a deal promising elections for mid-2023, but local media had recently reported he had been absent from his office for days, with rumours swirling over his possible resignation. ... Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday braved tear gas, a heavy troop deployment and a telecommunications blackout to demand a civilian government." (01/03/22)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/sudan-pm-resigns-as-deadly-crackdown-on-protesters-goes-on-report-101641196285990-amp.html
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19) CDC cuts quarantine time for health care workers
Source: Fox News
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it will be cutting the quarantine time for health care workers to 7 days after they test positive for COVID-19. Workers previously were required to isolate themselves for ten days, according to the New York Post. Employees are now able to come back to the workplace after receiving a negative COVID-19 test within two days of their return and after not having a fever for 24 hours. The CDC's new recommendation comes amid the outbreak of the highly-contagious omicron variant which may contribute to a staffing shortage. Omicron accounts for 73.2% of new coronavirus infections in the United States, according to a recent Fox News report. The CDC's new guidance, which is only applicable to health care workers, could change depending on staffing shortages. Additionally, designated crisis workers could face no restrictions." (01/03/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cdc-cuts-quarantine-time-health-care-workers
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20) Tesla says it delivered record 936k vehicles in 2021, up 87%
Source: ABC News
"Tesla delivered a record 936,000 vehicles last year, up 87% from its 2020 delivery count, the company said. The Austin, Texas-based electric vehicle company announced its fourth-quarter production and delivery results on Sunday. The carmaker said it delivered 308,600 vehicles in the final quarter of 2021, which is also a record for the company and thousands more cars than Wall Street analysts expected." (01/02/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tesla-delivered-record-936k-vehicles-2021-87-82044733
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21) They Said They Would Slow the Spread
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
"There was a goal (stop cases). There was a method (state compulsion). And there was a test (cases were supposed to go down and go away). There would be a war on a virus and the state would win! And now we look around and see the evidence of failure so pronounced, so impossible to deny, that we must face that which so many have worked so hard to deny for so long. ... After nearly two years of work to control the spread, after brutal shutdowns of the whole country -- shutdowns that happened two years too early, as judged by actual case trends (but of course lockdowns never should have been considered in the first place) -- Covid is here. Not just here. It is everywhere. The case counts are beyond anything anyone on the planet could have imagined a year or two ago." (01/03/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/they-said-they-would-slow-the-spread/
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22) Ending The College Bottleneck
Source: The American Conservative
by Neetu Arnold
"A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for The Hill arguing against a proposed expansion of the Pell Grant program under the Biden administration's Build Back Better bill. ... I received significant pushback -- vitriol would be a more appropriate word -- from higher-education policymakers and administrators. They implied that my support for alternatives to the higher education system was actually driven by a desire to withhold opportunities from low-income students. After all, college graduates earn higher wages than non-college graduates, so anyone who discourages college education for all must want the poor to stay poor, right? This argument doesn't hold up to even the most superficial inspection. One could just as easily say that since investment bankers earn more than workers in other professions, anyone who discourages investment banking as a career for everyone must want the poor to stay poor." (01/03/22)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/ending-the-college-bottleneck/
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23) Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
"Retroactive public goods funding is one of those ideas that's so great people can't stop reinventing it. I know of at least five independent inventions under five different names: 'social impact bonds' by a New Zealand economist in 1988, 'certificates of impact' by Paul Christiano in 2014, 'retroactive public goods funding' by Vitalik Buterin a few years ago, 'EA loans' by a blogger who prefers to remain anonymous, and 'venture grants' by Mako Yass. ... they all share a basic core: some structure that lets profit-seeking venture capitalist types invest in altruistic causes, in the hopes that altruists will pay them back later once they've been shown to work. ... Julie K says that the actual first person to invent this idea was Lewis Carroll (aka author of Alice in Wonderland) back in 1894." (01/03/22)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lewis-carroll-invented-retroactive
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24) Is free speech outdated? Part 6 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
by Greg Lukianoff & Nadine Strossen
"John Stuart Mill's central arguments in 'On Liberty' remain undefeated, including one of his strongest arguments in favor of freedom of speech -- Mill's trident -- of which I have never heard a persuasive refutation. Mill's trident holds that, for any given belief, there are three options: 1. You are wrong; in which case freedom of speech is essential to allow people to correct you. 2. You are partially correct; in which case you need freedom of speech and contrary viewpoints to help you get a more precise understanding of what the truth really is. 3. You are 100% correct. In this unlikely event, you still need people to argue with you, to try to contradict you, and to try to prove you wrong. Why? Because if you never have to defend your points of view, there is a very good chance you don't really understand them ..." (01/03/22)
https://www.thefire.org/is-free-speech-outdated-part-6-of-answers-to-bad-arguments-against-free-speech-from-nadine-strossen/
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25) The Jan. 6 committee must consider Trump's criminal liability
Source: Washington Post
by Jennifer Rubin
"The Jan. 6 House select committee appears to be assembling a powerful case that, as president, Donald Trump conducted a months-long effort to overturn the 2020 election results and, ultimately, instigated an assault on the U.S. Capitol to try to block the electoral vote count. Both the Democratic chairman and the Republican vice chair have indicated this could constitute criminal activity. ... Ultimately, the decision to prosecute is up to the executive branch, but from a practical perspective, it matters greatly whether Congress believes criminal activity has occurred. The public will want to know: Was this a crime? Observers are unlikely to be satisfied if the committee offers no official opinion. And if the committee refuses to make a referral where the facts and law indicate criminal liability, its silence would be interpreted as exoneration or at the very least a plea not to prosecute." (01/03/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/03/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-statute-sedition/
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26) Those Who Support Internet Censorship [sic] Lack Psychological Maturity
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what the platform calls 'repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,' much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere. This follows the Twitter ban of Dr Robert Malone on the same grounds a few days prior, which followed an unbroken pattern of continually escalating and expanding censorship protocols ever since the 2016 US election. In reality nobody ever gets banned for 'Covid misinformation;' that's just today's excuse. Before that it was the fallout from the Capitol riot, before that it was election security, before that it was Russian disinformation, foreign influence ops, fake news, etc. In reality the real agenda behind the normalization of internet censorship is the normalization of internet censorship itself." (01/03/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/01/03/those-who-support-internet-censorship-lack-psychological-maturity/
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27) It's 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020's COVID Playbook
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kerry McDonald
"It's 2022 but you'd be forgiven for thinking it's still 2020 -- especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling. Some parents are grappling this week with a return to, or threat of, remote learning first introduced nearly two years ago. ... While some parents, anxious about Omicron, likely applaud the effort to return to remote schooling and praise districts for their heightened coronavirus testing regimes and ongoing mitigation measures, other parents have had enough." (01/03/22)
https://fee.org/articles/it-s-2022-but-many-schools-are-reverting-to-2020-s-covid-playbook/
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28) Everything Is Political and No One Can Do Anything About It
Source: Jacobin
by Anton Jager
"A new form of 'politics' is present on the football pitch, in the most popular Netflix shows, in the ways people describe themselves on their social media pages. To many on the Right, society now feels overtaken by a permanent Dreyfus Affair, cleaving family dinners, friends' drinks, and workplace lunches. To many in the center, it has created a longing for an era before this hyper-politics .... Those that were politicized by the era marked by the Financial Crash will remember when nothing, not even the austerity policies imposed in its wake, could be described as political. Today, everything is politics. And yet, despite people being intensely politicized in all of these dimensions, very few are involved in the kind of organized conflict of interests that we might once have described as politics in the classical, twentieth-century sense." (01/03/22)
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/hyper-politics-annie-ernaux-moralism-identity-media-individualization/
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29) Why Commodities Could Absolutely Soar in the Next Decade
Source: American Consequences
by Dan Ferris
"Stocks have been the best way for most folks to build real wealth with their savings over the long term. Since the day before I was born, the S&P 500 has risen annually by an average of 7.2%. It doesn't sound like much, but it's a great return if you can keep it up for 60 years. Every $10,000 invested 60 years ago is worth about $640,000 today. ... equities are near all-time-high valuations today, and anybody who has held them for decades knows they've been a tremendous long-term investment. Today, though, I want to focus on something else -- and get a sense of where the broader world of commodities stands. In short, while this is a volatile asset class, we could be on the verge of a new market cycle. Let's start with a look at the S&P GSCI commodity index from 1971 to the present." (01/03/22)
https://americanconsequences.com/dan-ferris-why-commodities-could-absolutely-soar-in-the-next-decade/
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30) Not just governments lie
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
"Last month, a Council Bluffs (Iowa -- across the river from Omaha and once an incredible business investment by a certain Chicago lawyer) high school teacher was arrested and fired for committing acts of terrorism. She was 37, an Anglo, and claimed she didn't mean to carry out the 'gun violence' threats she wrote in several notes, in which she pretended to be a bullied student. In other words, she lied. Her excuse? She wanted to make preventing school gun violence a priority for the school and district, parents, and others. She didn't lie for monetary gain, she didn't lie to promote herself. She lied for political purposes. It isn't just governments that lie about political matters, or safety or health or whatever." (01/03/22)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/01/03/not-just-governments-lie/
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31) Clay Shaw, Liar and Perjurer
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
"In 1969, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison brought a criminal prosecution against a man named Clay Shaw. In the trial, Garrison rejected the lone-nut theory of the assassination of President Kennedy. He alleged instead that Kennedy was assassinated in a highly sophisticated regime-change operation spearheaded by the U.S. national-security establishment. Garrison alleged that Shaw had played a role in that operation. Although Shaw was quickly acquitted .... defenders of the lone-nut theory of the Kennedy assassination have portrayed Clay Shaw as an innocent victim of an abusive criminal prosecution. As it turns out however, Shaw wasn't as sweet and innocent as the lone-nut theorists have long claimed. He actually was a perjurer and a liar." (01/03/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/01/03/clay-shaw-liar-and-perjurer/
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32) What USA must do about China in 2022
Source: Fox News Forum
by Gordon G Chang
"China's regime attacks America every day, and every day America's political leaders, and especially its president, refuse to react. Why? 'The Biden administration believes climate change, not Communist China, poses the greatest threat to U.S. national security,' Len Khodorkovsky, former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Trump administration, told me at the end of last month. Therefore, President Biden has been willing to hand out free passes to Beijing as long as Chinese officials say the right things about carbon neutrality. Unfortunately, the Biden administration completely misunderstands the nature of the relationship with the Chinese regime." [editor's note: Mr. Chang correctly identifies the problem; if only his "solution" were not so military – SAT] [additional editor's note: Actually, there's no real "problem" to "identify" here that the US government couldn't solve by minding its own business – TLK] (01/03/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-biden-china-2022-gordon-chang
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33) Quantum Vibe, 01/03/22
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (01/03/22)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2304
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34) Why Government Should Not "Deliver"
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
"To counter 'disillusionment with the government,' Sen. Chris Murphy (D. Conn) expressed a widespread but invalid or seriously misleading idea: it is the idea that governments should 'deliver' or, in other words, be efficient .... The idea that government should 'deliver' is seriously misleading because it depends on what exactly it delivers. The WSJ reports that Mr. Murphy was 'arguing for passage of Mr. Biden's stalled economic agenda.' For anybody who disagrees with this trillion-dollar agenda -- and about half of American voters do -- the government should not 'deliver.'" (01/03/22)
https://www.econlib.org/why-government-should-not-deliver/
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35) What I learned on the progress beat
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by Lindsey McGinnis
"It was June 2020. COVID-19, economic turmoil, and police brutality dominated the news. Articles about combating 'news fatigue' or 'media burnout' punctuated long bouts of doomscrolling. The New York Times declared, 'On the Future, Americans Can Agree, It Doesn't Look Good.' It wasn't exactly an auspicious time to take on the progress beat. And yet, my assignment was clear: As the Monitor's Points of Progress reporter, I needed to identify a handful of credible progress stories every week. It felt like searching for a piece of hay in a pile of needles. For every hint of progress, I encountered at least 30 distressing headlines. It was hard to accept that those glimmers of growth could hold much weight in the midst of such overwhelmingly grim news. But over time, I began to recognize them as fuel for hope." (01/03/22)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editor/2022/0103/What-I-learned-on-the-progress-beat
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36) Ukrainian neutrality: "Golden bridge" out of a current geopolitical trap
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
"Whether deliberately or not, the Russian government has left the United States and NATO a perfect 'golden bridge' out of the trap that is developing in Ukraine. In diplomatic parlance, this means finding the other side a way of abandoning an untenable position without excessive loss of face or sacrifice of truly important interests. In the present crisis between Russia and the West, the golden bridge is Ukrainian neutrality, along the general lines of the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, by which Western and Soviet occupying troops withdrew from that country, allowing it to develop as a successful free-market democracy. The Biden administration, either directly or through German and French mediation, should seek to 'own' the idea of Ukrainian neutrality as its response to Russia's demands." (01/03/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/03/ukrainian-neutrality-golden-bridge-out-of-a-current-geopolitical-trap/
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37) Price Controls Are the Worst Possible Solution to Inflation
Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster
"Nearly nine out of 10 Americans are worried about inflation, according to one recent survey. And they're right to be concerned: When inflation outpaces growth in wages, your money is worth less. As with any political issue, opinions vary on what can be done about inflation, which hit its highest level since 1982 in November. But some suggestions are simply not worth trying. ... Price controls have a tendency to create shortages and surpluses regardless of their effects on inflation. When a price for a good is set too high, nobody can afford it, creating a surplus. And when a price for a good is set too low, people are incentivized to overbuy and hoard, and the supply is depleted. You do not have to look to far-flung autocracies like Venezuela to find examples: All across the U.S., price controls lead to astronomical health care costs and a scarcity of rental homes." (01/03/22)
https://reason.com/2022/01/03/price-controls-are-the-worst-possible-solution-to-inflation/
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38) Trouble in Paradise: The Crumbling California Model
Source: National Review
by Joel Kotkin
"Some horrified conservatives dismiss California as the progressive dystopia, bound for bankruptcy and, let's hope, growing irrelevance. Progressives, for their part, hail the Golden State as the avatar of a better future, the role model for a new, more environmentally friendly and socially just economic order. They often dismiss critiques as conservative misinformation. Yet California is not doomed, at least in the near term, nor is it anything like a model of social democracy. ... The big problem with the California model is that it does not work for most Californians, who suffer from the highest poverty rate (cost of living adjusted) in the country." (01/03/22)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/trouble-in-paradise-the-crumbling-california-model/
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39) The Tide Is Turning in Freedom's Favor
Source: Town Hall
by Kurt Schlichter
"Looking backwards in a few years, it is entirely possible that we will see that December 2021 was the high-water mark of the great progressive coup, when leftists reached out for the brass ring, but their soft, girlish hands were too weak to grasp it. It is likely all downhill for them from here, though that is not entirely clear to us right now. When Gandalf returned from getting balrogged in the Lord of the Rings flicks, he says, 'I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.' Except all their big battles were still ahead. And even if the tide has turned for us too, so are ours. But perhaps this epic elf opera, as my pal Kenny dubbed the genre, has some wisdom to impart. We have huge fights before us, and we can still lose." (01/03/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/01/03/the-tide-is-turning-in-freedoms-favor-n2601282
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40) Drop Your Left vs Right Blinders
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Gary Galles
"As a libertarian, I have long objected to being characterized on a left-right political spectrum (as with studies of political affiliations that group libertarians with republicans or conservatives on the right). In response to inquiries about where I fit in that framework, over the years, I have taken to saying that my views were orthogonal (meaning at right angles or perpendicular) to the framework. Since almost no one knows what that word means, those I say it to are puzzled, and ask for clarification, which allows me to explain why I fit in neither category." (01/03/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/drop-your-left-vs-right-blinders/
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41) Taking Back Our Liberty in 2022
Source: Campaign For Liberty
by Ron Paul
"For those of us who value liberty, these past two years have been a bad dream. It seems like we fell asleep in early 2020 and woke up in 1984! They said that if we just put on a mask and stayed home for two weeks, we'd be able to return to normal. The two weeks came and went and instead of going back to normal they added more restrictions. These past two years have been a story of moving goalposts and 'experts' like Anthony Fauci constantly contradicting themselves. ... What is to be done to defeat tyranny in 2022? We must continue to tell the truth. The truth is winning and the liars are losing. One by one their lies are being exposed. But it is not an easy task." (01/03/22)
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/taking-back-liberty-2022
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42) Why The President's Party Almost Always Has A Bad Midterm
Source: FiveThirtyEight
by Geoffrey Skelley
"One of the most ironclad rules in American politics is that the president's party loses ground in midterm elections. Almost no president is immune. President George W. Bush's Republicans took a 'thumping' in 2006. President Barack Obama's Democrats received a 'shellacking' in 2010. President Donald Trump's Republicans were buried under a blue wave in 2018. And the results out of Virginia and New Jersey last November suggest that a red wave might hit President Biden's Democrats in 2022. It's worth digging into the data behind this rule, though, and the reasons why it so often holds true. Are Republicans really a lock to sweep the 2022 midterms?" (01/03/22)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-presidents-party-almost-always-has-a-bad-midterm/
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43) Uncle Sam Should Make Some New Year's Resolutions
Source: Antiwar.com
by Doug Bandow
"Truth be told, many of us have someone like Uncle Sam in our family. It could be an uncle or grandmother. Perhaps a brother- or sister-in-law. A second cousin thrice removed or even more distant relation. Someone who everyone gossips about but who can't be barred from annual family gatherings. In most cases they are an embarrassment, but not particularly dangerous. You can't deny that you are related, but most everyone knows that you aren't responsible for their actions -- especially their debts and crimes. Not so Uncle Sam, unfortunately. He insists on representing us even if he turns out to be bad at his job." (01/03/21)
https://original.antiwar.com/doug-bandow/2022/01/02/uncle-sam-should-make-some-new-years-resolutions/
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44) 2022 Should Be Seen as the Year for Democracy
Source: Common Dreams
by John Nichols
"One hundred and fifteen years ago, on Jan. 1, 1907, the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to his wife, Clara: 'And now, let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.' Rilke was a delicious wordsmith, and these are some of his finest phrases. But we ought not imagine that his call for a deep embrace of the new year as a moment of hope and opportunity was merely a romantic notion. We should begin each new year with a faith in its possibility." (01/03/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/03/2022-should-be-seen-year-democracy
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45) Inflation is a tax on us all
Source: Orange County Register
by Jon Coupal
"Milton Friedman explained that inflation is always 'a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.' Inflation hits everyone, but especially the middle class and those on fixed incomes. Inflation is a threat to the middle class because price increases reduce purchasing power so that the things that the middle class could previously afford are now out of reach. This pushes the lower rungs of the middle class out of the picture. The disproportionate impact of inflation on the middle class relative to the wealthy may seem counterintuitive because the inflation rate -- projected now at over 6% -- is the same for everyone. But while all suffer the same rate of inflation, those with lower incomes tend to have lesser means of adapting to the increases in consumer prices." (01/02/22)
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/02/inflation-is-a-tax-on-us-all/
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46) How To Build Confidence And Courage
Source: Freeman's Perspective
by Paul Rosenberg
"Confidence and courage are not magic. They are built, just as other aspects of human character are built. If we want them (and I think we should) we'll have to develop them the old-fashioned way: with work." (01/03/22)
https://freemansperspective.com/how-to-build-confidence-and-courage/
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47) Russell's Theory of Descriptions
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
"Russell sought to eliminate ambiguities and contradictions he found in Frege and Meinong so he developed his Theory of Descriptions. He starts out by defining a concept, the denoting phrase, by which he means basically the same thing that Frege referred to as a proper name, in other words a noun or noun phrase. He argues that while we can 'affirm a number of propositions' about something denoted, in some cases such as the center of mass of the solar system at some point in time, 'we have no immediate acquaintance with this point, which is only known to us by description.'" (01/02/22)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2022/01/russells-theory-of-descriptions.html
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48) NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange's Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
"Two of the television outlets on which American liberals rely most for their news -- NBC News and CNN -- have spent the last six years hiring a virtual army of former CIA operatives, FBI officials, NSA spies, Pentagon chiefs, and DOJ prosecutors to work in their newsrooms. The multiple ways in which journalism is fundamentally corrupted by this spectacle are all vividly illustrated by a new article from NBC News that urges the prosecution and extradition of Julian Assange .... The NBC article is written by former FBI Assistant Director and current NBC News employee Frank Figliuzzi, who played a central role during the Obama years in the FBI's attempt to investigate and criminalize Assange: a rather relevant fact concealed by NBC when publishing this. But this is how U.S. security state agents now directly control corporate news outlets." (01/02/22)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/nbc-news-uses-ex-fbi-official-frank
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49) 2022 the Year to Take Back Ground
Source: Town Hall
by Michael Brown
"I write these words as a declaration rather than a prediction, as a proclamation rather than a prophecy. Put another way, I'm issuing a challenge and encouraging a faith-filled mindset: let 2022 be a year of taking back ground! It's clear, of course, that every year is mixed, with progress in some areas and regress in others. And it's clear that, until Jesus returns, this world will be messed up, marked by pain and suffering and sin. But that doesn't mean that we simply accept defeat as inevitable. Or that we embrace a mentality of hopelessness. Or that we develop a theology of pessimism (as in, 'It's only going to get worse before Jesus returns, so why even bother to try?') Absolutely not. To the contrary, as I've emphasized countless times before, the Bible encourages us to have the mentality of overcomers and victors." (01/03/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2022/01/03/2022-the-year-to-take-back-ground-n2601320
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50) The Collins and Fauci Attack on Traditional Public Health
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jayanta Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff
"On Oct. 4, 2020, with Prof. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University, we wrote the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). Our purpose was to express our grave concerns over the inadequate protection of the vulnerable and the devastating harms of the lockdown pandemic policy adopted by much of the world; We proposed an alternative strategy of focused protection. ... Unbeknownst to us, our call for a more focused pandemic strategy posed a political problem for Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci. ... Rather than engaging in scientific discourse, they authorized 'a quick and devastating published takedown' of this proposal, which they characterized as by 'three fringe epidemiologists' from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford. ... Collins, Fauci, and Farrar got the pandemic strategy they advocated for, and they own the results together with other lockdown proponents." (01/02/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-collins-and-fauci-attack-on-traditional-public-health/
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51) Inflation or Recession? The Fed Faces a Choice.
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Siddharth Gundapaneni
"With the quantitative easing policy maintained throughout the covid-19-induced recession finally ending, the federal funds rate is expected to rise to 0.9 percent in 2022, 1.6 percent in 2023, 2.1 percent in 2024, and 2.5 percent in the undetermined long run. Mortgage-backed security and bond purchases will be reduced by $10 billion and $20 billion a month, respectively, in order to expedite the conclusion of the program by March 2022, rather than June. While this course of action is likely to mitigate the soaring inflation, it may lead to a myriad of detrimental effects to other facets of the economy." (01/03/22)
https://mises.org/wire/inflation-or-recession-fed-faces-choice
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52) Blackstone on Judicial Tenure
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael D Ramsey
"As noted in my opening post in this series, earlier this month Professor Jed Shugerman sharply criticized originalist executive power scholars, and particularly a brief submitted to the Supreme Court by originalist scholars in Seila Law v. CFPB. One key point of dispute was the extent to which Blackstone's Commentaries indicates that the eighteenth-century English monarch had removal power over executive officers. In my first post, I discussed Blackstone's account of the monarch's executive power. This post addresses a key area in which, in Blackstone's description, the king's removal power was limited: the tenure of judges." (01/02/22)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/01/02/blackstone-on-judicial-tenure/
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53) Si Vis Pacem, Don't Listen to Joe Lieberman
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
"As he usually does, Joe Lieberman is banging war drums: 'A great Roman general said a long time ago, "If you want peace, prepare for war.' That is wise counsel worth following with Russia and Iran in 2022.' Hawks love to cite this phrase, which is originally traced back to Vegetius. ... Hawks usually interpret this phrase in the most combative and militaristic way possible. It does not have to be read this way, but this is the way that hawks choose to read it. For someone like Lieberman, it is not enough simply to prepare for war. He wants the U.S. to seek conflict and rule out every path that might lead away from war." (01/02/22)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/si-vis-pacem-dont-listen-to-joe-lieberman
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54) The Care Crisis Isn't What You Think
Source: The American Prospect
by Laura Mauldin
"On a recent visit with research participants for my book on spousal caregiving, I sat with a man who had a stroke three years ago, at age 59. He can only use one side of his body, rendering him unable to work; his wife serves as his caregiver. He told me about how much he hated himself. 'All I do is take resources. I don't contribute anything.' Tears streamed down his cheeks. President Biden's signature Build Back Better bill, which includes funding for long-neglected social programs like Medicaid's home and community-based services (HCBS), is facing an uncertain future. An upgraded HCBS program would allow millions of people currently stuck on wait lists to receive care at home, rather than in congregant settings. But facing questions from the likes of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) about cost, the new investments in HCBS may not become law." (01/03/22)
https://prospect.org/health/disability-care-crisis-isnt-what-you-think/
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55) Packing Away the Constitution
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Gary M Galles
"Packing the Supreme Court, not on anyone's front burner when Barack Obama was President, sharply moved in that direction after Donald Trump was elected. Now with Joe Biden in office but facing a Court not likely to rubber-stamp his or Democratic legislative proposals, we're back at it. And the potential for the Court to reconsider its Roe v. Wade precedent has supercharged court-packing support. A good illustration comes from Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. He goes to great lengths to support the idea, but never once mentions fidelity to the Constitution as a criterion." (01/02/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/packing-away-the-constitution/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
56) Reason Roundtable, 01/03/22
Source: Reason
"What We Got Right and Wrong About 2021 (and What We Predict for 2022)." [various formats] (01/03/21)
https://reason.com/podcast/2022/01/03/what-we-got-right-and-wrong-about-2021-and-what-we-predict-for-2022/
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57) Free Talk Live, 01/03/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Bitcoin's 13th Birthday :: Decentralization and Inflation :: Melania NFT :: CIA Bitcoin? :: Matt Damon and Crypto.com :: Bitcoin Worse than Ponzi Scheme? :: Show: 2022-01-03 Ian, Bonnie, Aria." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/03/22)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2022-01-03
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58) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/03/22
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
"Creating Content for the Algorithm in the Sky | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Doug Lain." [Flash video] (01/03/22)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63435
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59) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/03/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"With a new year before us, it's understandable that many of us are engaging in a bit of self-examination as to where we can work on improving ourselves. Here's a novel suggestion by Rustic Mama from the Organic Prepper site: 2022 is a fine year to work on standing up to bullies -- especially the one that lives in your own head." [various formats] (01/03/22)
https://thebryanhydeshow.podbean.com/e/2022-january-3-the-bryan-hyde-show-hour-one/
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60) Part Of the Problem, 01/03/22
Source: GaS Digital Network
"2021 w/ Michael Malice." [various formats] (01/03/22)
https://art19.com/shows/d0ab5d6f-1972-4441-b3f8-6b61d09f7f15/embed?playlist_type=playlist&playlist_size=10#
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61) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/03/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Narrative Implosion: German Authorities Report Most Omicron Cases Among Vacccinated." [Flash video] (01/03/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/narrative-implosion-german-authorities-report-most-omicron-cases-among-vacccinated
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62) Real Coffee with Scott Adams, episode 1612
Source: Scott Adams Says
"Today I Will Violate the Narrative on 2020 Election and Vaccination Safety." [editor's note: Of special note, consider the passage at about 1.20:00, where he addresses the vaccine issue with analysis of why we might question everything in the "narrative." Without spoiling it let's just say it's a pretty good summary of the problem – SAT] [Flash video] (01/03/22)
https://rumble.com/vrv89o-episode-1612-scott-adams-today-i-will-violate-the-narrative-on-2020-electio.html
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63) Lions of Liberty, 01/03/22
Source: Lions of Liberty
"Dave Smith [for the authoritarian position] vs. Spike Cohen [for the libertarian position]: The Borders Debate." [Flash audio] (01/03/22)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/dave-smith-vs-spike-cohen
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64) EconTalk, 01/03/22
Source: EconTalk
"Lorne Buchman on Creativity, Leadership, and Art." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/03/22)
https://www.econtalk.org/lorne-buchman-on-creativity-leadership-and-art/
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65) Conflicts of Interest, episode 209
Source: Libertarian Institute
"American Wars Will Plague the Middle East for Generations." [various formats] (01/02/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-209-american-wars-will-plague-the-middle-east-for-generations/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Bitcoin network turns 13, celebrates with new hash rate all-time high
2) France: Lawmakers suspend debate on enhanced COVID-19-based ghettoization scheme
3) Biden regime announces $1 billion meat socialism scheme
4) Turkey: Inflation hits 19-year high in lira crisis
5) Judge blocks US Navy's vaccine mandate for challengers citing religious objections
6) NY: James subpoenas disgraced former president, children
7) US FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots for 12- to 15-year-olds
8) Andrew accuser's 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public
9) Canada: Ontario regime closes schools, indoor dining and gyms
10) VA: In nation at war with itself, one town tries cup of civility
11) India: Bulli Bai app that "put Muslim women up for sale" is shut
12) Biden tells Zelensky US regime would act "decisively" if Russians support seceded republics versus Ukrainian invaders
13) NY: Woman arrested for injecting teen with COVID vaccine
14) Brazil: Bolsonaro hospitalized
15) Health Experts Predict "Unprecedented Number of Social Disruptions" Amid Omicron Surge
16) Apple hits $3 trillion market cap
17) Mauritius: Newborn baby found in toilet bin of plane
18) Sudan: Hamdok resigns as coup forces continue murderous rampage
19) CDC cuts quarantine time for health care workers
20) Tesla says it delivered record 936k vehicles in 2021, up 87%
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) They Said They Would Slow the Spread
22) Ending The College Bottleneck
23) Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894
24) Is free speech outdated? Part 6 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen
25) The Jan. 6 committee must consider Trump's criminal liability
26) Those Who Support Internet Censorship [sic] Lack Psychological Maturity
27) It's 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020's COVID Playbook
28) Everything Is Political and No One Can Do Anything About It
29) Why Commodities Could Absolutely Soar in the Next Decade
30) Not just governments lie
31) Clay Shaw, Liar and Perjurer
32) What USA must do about China in 2022
33) Quantum Vibe, 01/03/22
34) Why Government Should Not "Deliver"
35) What I learned on the progress beat
36) Ukrainian neutrality: "Golden bridge" out of a current geopolitical trap
37) Price Controls Are the Worst Possible Solution to Inflation
38) Trouble in Paradise: The Crumbling California Model
39) The Tide Is Turning in Freedom's Favor
40) Drop Your Left vs Right Blinders
41) Taking Back Our Liberty in 2022
42) Why The President's Party Almost Always Has A Bad Midterm
43) Uncle Sam Should Make Some New Year's Resolutions
44) 2022 Should Be Seen as the Year for Democracy
45) Inflation is a tax on us all
46) How To Build Confidence And Courage
47) Russell's Theory of Descriptions
48) NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange's Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
49) 2022 the Year to Take Back Ground
50) The Collins and Fauci Attack on Traditional Public Health
51) Inflation or Recession? The Fed Faces a Choice.
52) Blackstone on Judicial Tenure
53) Si Vis Pacem, Don't Listen to Joe Lieberman
54) The Care Crisis Isn't What You Think
55) Packing Away the Constitution
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
56) Reason Roundtable, 01/03/22
57) Free Talk Live, 01/03/22
58) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/03/22
59) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/03/22
60) Part Of the Problem, 01/03/22
61) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/03/22
62) Real Coffee with Scott Adams, episode 1612
63) Lions of Liberty, 01/03/22
64) EconTalk, 01/03/22
65) Conflicts of Interest, episode 209
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1) Bitcoin network turns 13, celebrates with new hash rate all-time high
Source: CoinTelegraph
"Monday marks the 13th year since Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined the genesis block, or block 0, of the Bitcoin network and, for the first time, mined a reward of 50 Bitcoin (BTC) back on Jan. 3, 2009. Fast-forward to 2022, the Bitcoin network shows no signs of slowing down, reaching a new all-time high hash rate of 207.53 exahashes per second (EH/s). The Bitcoin hash rate, which correlates to the strength of the network based on the number of active miners, saw a temporary downfall after China banned citizens and businesses from pursuing crypto mining and trading activities. Bitcoin's hash rate saw an eventual comeback as Chinese miners began migrating to friendly jurisdictions. On Saturday, the Bitcoin network recorded a new all-time high of 207.53 EH/s, reclaiming the network's security by increasing the mining difficulty." (01/03/22)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-network-turns-13-celebrates-with-new-hash-rate-all-time-high
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2) France: Lawmakers suspend debate on enhanced COVID-19-based ghettoization scheme
Source: France 24 [French state media]
"France's lower house of parliament has suspended debates over a controversial bill that makes it mandatory for people to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination to go to a restaurant or cinema or take the train. Tense discussions of the new legislation, which would remove the option of showing a negative test result instead of having the inoculations, were halted after midnight on Monday when a majority of deputies voted to suspend the session. ... A strained debate in parliament on Monday highlighted what the government and the opposition described as widespread fatigue with the pandemic and [authoritarian measures exploiting] it. The proposed tightening of the rules has angered anti-vaccination activists and some lawmakers say they have been subject to aggression including vandalism and violent threats." (01/04/22)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220104-french-lawmakers-suspend-fractious-vaccine-pass-debate-in-setback-for-government
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3) Biden regime announces $1 billion meat socialism scheme
Source: The Hill
"The White House on Monday announced plans aimed at addressing rising prices for meat and poultry, including setting aside $1 billion for smaller producers. The Biden administration unveiled its action plan to diversify and strengthen the meat-producing supply chain ahead of a scheduled virtual meeting between President Biden and independent farmers and ranchers. The White House has previously pointed to a small number of conglomerates for driving higher meat and poultry prices, which have been a major contributor [sic] to broader inflation in recent months." [editor's note: Higher meat prices are a symptom of, not a cause of or "contributor to" inflation. Inflation is a function of money supply, which in the case of the United States means a function of government – TLK] (01/03/21)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/587968-white-house-announces-steps-to-address-increases-in-meat-prices
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4) Turkey: Inflation hits 19-year high in lira crisis
Source: Yahoo! News
"Turkey's annual inflation rate surged to its highest level since 2002 in December, official data showed Monday, after a currency crisis sparked by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's [idiotic] economic policies. Consumer prices jumped by 36.1 percent last month from the same period in 2020, up from a 21.3 percent increase in November, according to the Turkish statistics office. The figure is the highest since October 2002 when inflation reached 33.45 percent, before the party of Erdogan came to power. It is also more than seven times the official government target. ... Erdogan on Monday accused 'the elites' of profiting from 'unearned interest income,' sticking by his pledge not to raise borrowing costs. The Turkish lira lost 44 percent of its value against the dollar in 2021, with the losses accelerating at the end of last year, when Erdogan orchestrated a series of sharp interest rate reductions." (01/03/22)
https://news.yahoo.com/turkish-inflation-hits-19-high-091633121.html
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5) Judge blocks US Navy's vaccine mandate for challengers citing religious objections
Source: CNN
"A federal judge in Texas on Monday ruled against the Biden administration's vaccine requirement for members of the military in a decision that took aim at how the Navy's policies handled those who sought religious exemptions from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. US District Judge Reed O'Connor issued a preliminary order blocking the Navy from taking adverse action against 35 Navy Seals who sued in court because they are seeking exemption from the vaccine requirement for religious reasons. The order blocked the Navy from implementing policies that would allow those religious objectors to be deemed non-deployable or disqualified from Special Operations." [editor's note: Those exemption requests must be interesting -- "God's cool with me murdering eight-year-old girls and stuff like that, but the vaccine? That's just a bridge too far!" – TLK] (01/03/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/politics/navy-covid-vaccine-policy-religious-objection/index.html
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6) NY: James subpoenas disgraced former president, children
Source: Albuquerque Journal
"New York's attorney general recently subpoenaed former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., demanding their testimony in connection with a civil investigation into the family's business practices, according to a court filing made public Monday. The subpoenas, stemming from Attorney General Letitia James'[s] yearslong investigation into matters including 'the valuation of properties owned or controlled' by Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, came to light after James went to court last month seeking to force the Trumps to comply. The attorney general's attempt to get testimony from the former president was reported in December, but the court filing Monday was the first public disclosure that investigators were also seeking information from Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr." (01/03/22)
https://www.abqjournal.com/2458395/trump-ivanka-don-jr-subpoenaed-by-ny-attorney-general.html
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7) US FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots for 12- to 15-year-olds
Source: New York Post
"The FDA on Monday gave its nod to Pfizer booster shots for kids ages 12 to 15 as part of a series of new recommendations to combat the highly contagious Omicron variant. The FDA-approved booster use must now be OK'd by the CDC, which is expected to officially authorize it as early as this week. The Food and Drug Administration said it backs the emergency use of the booster for the age group after determining its benefits outweighed the risks amid a surge in the COVID-19 Omicron variant. The agency said its decision was based on 'real-world data' provided by the Israeli Ministry of Health from 6,300 individuals within the age range who received a Pfizer booster." (01/03/22)
https://nypost.com/2022/01/03/fda-oks-pfizer-boosters-for-12-to-15-year-olds/
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8) Andrew accuser's 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Virginia Giuffre agreed not to sue anyone connected to Jeffrey Epstein who could be described as a 'potential defendant,' a 2009 damages settlement against the sex offender shows. The document, disclosed by a New York court, reveals the financier paid her $500,000 (£371,000) to end her claim. Ms Giuffre is suing the Duke of York in a civil case for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager. He has consistently denied the claims. Ms Giuffre alleges that 20 years ago she was trafficked to the prince by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The document was released ahead of a critical hearing on Tuesday in the civil case involving Prince Andrew. The prince's lawyers say this previously-secret 2009 deal means she cannot sue him, because she agreed to end all legal action against anyone connected to the offender who could be described as a 'potential defendant.'" (01/03/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59861831
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9) Canada: Ontario regime closes schools, indoor dining and gyms
Source: Hastings Tribune
"All schools in Canada's most populous province will be shut down and move to online learning because of a record number of coronavirus infections fueled by the ultra-contagious omicron variant, Ontario's premier announced Monday. Premier Doug Ford also announced the closure of indoor dining. Gyms and cinemas will also close. Ontario is seeing record new infections and there are concerns about hospital capacity. 'I know online learning is not ideal,' Ford said. 'The fact is omicron spreads like wildfire.' The reopening of schools has been delayed until at least Jan. 17." [editor's note: Once again the narrative shifts, from "deaths and overcrowded hospitals" to "cases" of mostly minimal severity – SAT] (01/03/22)
https://www.hastingstribune.com/ap/agriculture/ontario-shuts-schools-indoor-dining-and-gyms/article_0c8e10f8-ad1d-563e-b988-cc0e8a61cfb5.html
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10) VA: In nation at war with itself, one town tries cup of civility
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
"When Maureen Donnelly Morris came from nearby Leesburg to open her café in Lovettsville, she got a warm welcome. Neighbors rallied to her aid. Divisions ripping at their town and their country were set aside. America's thunderous rage felt distant. They sank posts for her parking signs. They brought solar lights for the cheery space outdoors, sharpened her bagel-slicing blades and contributed plants, all to herald what would become the town's social hub and civil common ground, Back Street Brews. Forget, at least for one split second, red, blue, left, right, pro-Trump, anti-Trump. No one asked the woman from Leesburg: Which side are you on? ... In this community of some 2,200 and others like it across the United States, neighborly ways and social ties persist, even in a country that seems to be at war with itself." (01/03/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/In-nation-at-war-with-itself-one-town-tries-cup-16741731.php
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11) India: Bulli Bai app that "put Muslim women up for sale" is shut
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Police in two Indian states have registered cases after an app shared photos of more than 100 Muslim women saying they were on 'sale.' The accused include developers of the app and Twitter handles that shared the images and content. The open source app -- Bulli Bai -- was hosted on web platform GitHub, which has since taken it down. This was the second attempt in months to harass Muslim women in India by 'auctioning' them online. In July, an app and website called 'Sulli Deals' created profiles of more than 80 Muslim women (using photos they uploaded online) and described them as 'deals of the day.' In both cases, there was no real sale of any kind; the purpose was to degrade and humiliate Muslim women by sharing their personal images." (01/03/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59856619
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12) Biden tells Zelensky US regime would act "decisively" if Russians support seceded republics versus Ukrainian invaders
Source: CBS News
"President Joe Biden reiterated his statements that the U.S. and allies will act 'decisively' if Russia further [sic] invades [sic] Ukraine to President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call Sunday, as Russia masses troops along the border between [Russia and independent republics which seceded from Ukraine in 2014]. ... Biden has spoken of hitting Russia with economy-jarring sanctions if it moves on Ukraine's territory, but he said last month that U.S. military action is not on the table. The Kremlin has demanded that any further expansion of NATO exclude Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. The Russians have also demanded that the military alliance remove offensive weaponry from countries in the region." (01/03/22)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-russia-ukraine-putin-invasion-threat/
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13) NY: Woman arrested for injecting teen with COVID vaccine
Source: Fox News
"A New York woman is facing charges after allegedly injecting a 17-year-old with a coronavirus vaccine without his parents' permission. The alleged incident involving Laura Russo, 54, happened on New Year's Eve inside her home in Sea Cliff, Nassau County Police told the New York Post. Russo has since been charged with unauthorized practice of a profession and is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 21. Detectives say Russo gave the teenage boy an injection of what is believed to be a coronavirus vaccine, according to WABC. Police reportedly were notified after the teen left Russo's home and later told his mother what allegedly happened. The relationship between Russo and the boy was not immediately clear, but police say she is not a medical worker and was not administered [sic] to give vaccines, the New York Post reports." [editor's note: Child abuse persists – SAT] (01/03/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-woman-arrested-coronavirus-vaccine-injection-report
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14) Brazil: Bolsonaro hospitalized
Source: CNBC
"Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to a Sao Paulo hospital early Monday with a suspected intestinal obstruction, the country's media reported. Globo reported that Bolsonaro returned to the Brazilian capital during the night from a New Year break on the coast and was immediately taken to Hospital Vila Nova Star. Globo quoted Bolsonaro's doctor, Antonio Luiz Macedo, as saying Bolsonaro had stomach pains. ... Since his stabbing during the 2018 presidential election, Bolsonaro has undergone stomach surgery several times." (01/03/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/03/brazilian-president-bolsonaro-hospitalized-in-sao-paulo.html
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15) Health Experts Predict "Unprecedented Number of Social Disruptions" Amid Omicron Surge
Source: Common Dreams
"As the ultra-transmissible Omicron variant causes Covid-19 cases in the United States and around the world to explode at an unprecedented rate, public health experts are warning that the first month of 2022 is likely to be defined by more suffering and widespread disruptions of daily life. 'Omicron is truly everywhere,' Megan Ranney, a professor of emergency medicine at Brown University's School of Public Health, told CNN on Friday night. 'What I am so worried about over the next month or so is that our economy is going to shut down, not because of policies from the federal government or from the state governments, but rather because so many of us are ill.'" [editor's note: Having just gotten over the omicron variant, I'll predict it will become the actual path thru which the "pandemic" becomes part of the normal "flu season" – SAT] (01/03/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/02/expect-unprecedented-number-social-disruptions-amid-omicron-surge-health-experts
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16) Apple hits $3 trillion market cap
Source: The Verge
"Apple's market cap passed $3 trillion on Monday more than a year after it surpassed the $2 trillion mark and three years after eclipsing $1 trillion. Apple's huge success is due in large part to the iPhone, which revolutionized the smartphone industry and remains a cash cow for the company. But Apple continues to see strong momentum in its other businesses as well, with its services and Mac divisions reporting all-time highs in its Q4 2021 earnings. ... In recent years, Apple has also jostled with others for the crown of the world's most valuable publicly traded company. It passed Saudi Aramco in July 2020, though it was overtaken for a time by Microsoft in October." (01/03/22)
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/3/22828277/apple-3-trillion-market-cap-company-earnings
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17) Mauritius: Newborn baby found in toilet bin of plane
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Airport staff in Mauritius have found a newborn baby boy abandoned in the rubbish bin toilet of a plane's toilet. A 20-year-old woman from Madagascar, suspected of having given birth on the flight, was arrested. The Air Mauritius plane, which arrived from Madagascar, landed at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport on 1 January. Airport officers made the discovery when they screened the plane for a routine customs check. They rushed the baby to a public hospital for treatment. The woman suspected of being the child's mother, who initially denied the boy was hers, was made to undergo a medical examination which confirmed that she had just given birth. She was placed under police surveillance at the hospital. Both she and the baby are said to be doing well." (01/03/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59859148
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18) Sudan: Hamdok resigns as coup forces continue murderous rampage
Source: Hindustan Times [India]
"Sudan's civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned Sunday, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown on protesters, with the military now firmly in control. Sudan had been undergoing a fragile journey toward civilian rule since the 2019 ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, but was plunged into turmoil when military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan launched his coup on October 25 and detained Hamdok. Hamdok was reinstated on November 21 under a deal promising elections for mid-2023, but local media had recently reported he had been absent from his office for days, with rumours swirling over his possible resignation. ... Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday braved tear gas, a heavy troop deployment and a telecommunications blackout to demand a civilian government." (01/03/22)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/sudan-pm-resigns-as-deadly-crackdown-on-protesters-goes-on-report-101641196285990-amp.html
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19) CDC cuts quarantine time for health care workers
Source: Fox News
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it will be cutting the quarantine time for health care workers to 7 days after they test positive for COVID-19. Workers previously were required to isolate themselves for ten days, according to the New York Post. Employees are now able to come back to the workplace after receiving a negative COVID-19 test within two days of their return and after not having a fever for 24 hours. The CDC's new recommendation comes amid the outbreak of the highly-contagious omicron variant which may contribute to a staffing shortage. Omicron accounts for 73.2% of new coronavirus infections in the United States, according to a recent Fox News report. The CDC's new guidance, which is only applicable to health care workers, could change depending on staffing shortages. Additionally, designated crisis workers could face no restrictions." (01/03/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cdc-cuts-quarantine-time-health-care-workers
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20) Tesla says it delivered record 936k vehicles in 2021, up 87%
Source: ABC News
"Tesla delivered a record 936,000 vehicles last year, up 87% from its 2020 delivery count, the company said. The Austin, Texas-based electric vehicle company announced its fourth-quarter production and delivery results on Sunday. The carmaker said it delivered 308,600 vehicles in the final quarter of 2021, which is also a record for the company and thousands more cars than Wall Street analysts expected." (01/02/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tesla-delivered-record-936k-vehicles-2021-87-82044733
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21) They Said They Would Slow the Spread
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
"There was a goal (stop cases). There was a method (state compulsion). And there was a test (cases were supposed to go down and go away). There would be a war on a virus and the state would win! And now we look around and see the evidence of failure so pronounced, so impossible to deny, that we must face that which so many have worked so hard to deny for so long. ... After nearly two years of work to control the spread, after brutal shutdowns of the whole country -- shutdowns that happened two years too early, as judged by actual case trends (but of course lockdowns never should have been considered in the first place) -- Covid is here. Not just here. It is everywhere. The case counts are beyond anything anyone on the planet could have imagined a year or two ago." (01/03/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/they-said-they-would-slow-the-spread/
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22) Ending The College Bottleneck
Source: The American Conservative
by Neetu Arnold
"A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for The Hill arguing against a proposed expansion of the Pell Grant program under the Biden administration's Build Back Better bill. ... I received significant pushback -- vitriol would be a more appropriate word -- from higher-education policymakers and administrators. They implied that my support for alternatives to the higher education system was actually driven by a desire to withhold opportunities from low-income students. After all, college graduates earn higher wages than non-college graduates, so anyone who discourages college education for all must want the poor to stay poor, right? This argument doesn't hold up to even the most superficial inspection. One could just as easily say that since investment bankers earn more than workers in other professions, anyone who discourages investment banking as a career for everyone must want the poor to stay poor." (01/03/22)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/ending-the-college-bottleneck/
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23) Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
"Retroactive public goods funding is one of those ideas that's so great people can't stop reinventing it. I know of at least five independent inventions under five different names: 'social impact bonds' by a New Zealand economist in 1988, 'certificates of impact' by Paul Christiano in 2014, 'retroactive public goods funding' by Vitalik Buterin a few years ago, 'EA loans' by a blogger who prefers to remain anonymous, and 'venture grants' by Mako Yass. ... they all share a basic core: some structure that lets profit-seeking venture capitalist types invest in altruistic causes, in the hopes that altruists will pay them back later once they've been shown to work. ... Julie K says that the actual first person to invent this idea was Lewis Carroll (aka author of Alice in Wonderland) back in 1894." (01/03/22)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lewis-carroll-invented-retroactive
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24) Is free speech outdated? Part 6 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
by Greg Lukianoff & Nadine Strossen
"John Stuart Mill's central arguments in 'On Liberty' remain undefeated, including one of his strongest arguments in favor of freedom of speech -- Mill's trident -- of which I have never heard a persuasive refutation. Mill's trident holds that, for any given belief, there are three options: 1. You are wrong; in which case freedom of speech is essential to allow people to correct you. 2. You are partially correct; in which case you need freedom of speech and contrary viewpoints to help you get a more precise understanding of what the truth really is. 3. You are 100% correct. In this unlikely event, you still need people to argue with you, to try to contradict you, and to try to prove you wrong. Why? Because if you never have to defend your points of view, there is a very good chance you don't really understand them ..." (01/03/22)
https://www.thefire.org/is-free-speech-outdated-part-6-of-answers-to-bad-arguments-against-free-speech-from-nadine-strossen/
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25) The Jan. 6 committee must consider Trump's criminal liability
Source: Washington Post
by Jennifer Rubin
"The Jan. 6 House select committee appears to be assembling a powerful case that, as president, Donald Trump conducted a months-long effort to overturn the 2020 election results and, ultimately, instigated an assault on the U.S. Capitol to try to block the electoral vote count. Both the Democratic chairman and the Republican vice chair have indicated this could constitute criminal activity. ... Ultimately, the decision to prosecute is up to the executive branch, but from a practical perspective, it matters greatly whether Congress believes criminal activity has occurred. The public will want to know: Was this a crime? Observers are unlikely to be satisfied if the committee offers no official opinion. And if the committee refuses to make a referral where the facts and law indicate criminal liability, its silence would be interpreted as exoneration or at the very least a plea not to prosecute." (01/03/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/03/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-statute-sedition/
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26) Those Who Support Internet Censorship [sic] Lack Psychological Maturity
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what the platform calls 'repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,' much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere. This follows the Twitter ban of Dr Robert Malone on the same grounds a few days prior, which followed an unbroken pattern of continually escalating and expanding censorship protocols ever since the 2016 US election. In reality nobody ever gets banned for 'Covid misinformation;' that's just today's excuse. Before that it was the fallout from the Capitol riot, before that it was election security, before that it was Russian disinformation, foreign influence ops, fake news, etc. In reality the real agenda behind the normalization of internet censorship is the normalization of internet censorship itself." (01/03/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/01/03/those-who-support-internet-censorship-lack-psychological-maturity/
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27) It's 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020's COVID Playbook
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kerry McDonald
"It's 2022 but you'd be forgiven for thinking it's still 2020 -- especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling. Some parents are grappling this week with a return to, or threat of, remote learning first introduced nearly two years ago. ... While some parents, anxious about Omicron, likely applaud the effort to return to remote schooling and praise districts for their heightened coronavirus testing regimes and ongoing mitigation measures, other parents have had enough." (01/03/22)
https://fee.org/articles/it-s-2022-but-many-schools-are-reverting-to-2020-s-covid-playbook/
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28) Everything Is Political and No One Can Do Anything About It
Source: Jacobin
by Anton Jager
"A new form of 'politics' is present on the football pitch, in the most popular Netflix shows, in the ways people describe themselves on their social media pages. To many on the Right, society now feels overtaken by a permanent Dreyfus Affair, cleaving family dinners, friends' drinks, and workplace lunches. To many in the center, it has created a longing for an era before this hyper-politics .... Those that were politicized by the era marked by the Financial Crash will remember when nothing, not even the austerity policies imposed in its wake, could be described as political. Today, everything is politics. And yet, despite people being intensely politicized in all of these dimensions, very few are involved in the kind of organized conflict of interests that we might once have described as politics in the classical, twentieth-century sense." (01/03/22)
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/hyper-politics-annie-ernaux-moralism-identity-media-individualization/
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29) Why Commodities Could Absolutely Soar in the Next Decade
Source: American Consequences
by Dan Ferris
"Stocks have been the best way for most folks to build real wealth with their savings over the long term. Since the day before I was born, the S&P 500 has risen annually by an average of 7.2%. It doesn't sound like much, but it's a great return if you can keep it up for 60 years. Every $10,000 invested 60 years ago is worth about $640,000 today. ... equities are near all-time-high valuations today, and anybody who has held them for decades knows they've been a tremendous long-term investment. Today, though, I want to focus on something else -- and get a sense of where the broader world of commodities stands. In short, while this is a volatile asset class, we could be on the verge of a new market cycle. Let's start with a look at the S&P GSCI commodity index from 1971 to the present." (01/03/22)
https://americanconsequences.com/dan-ferris-why-commodities-could-absolutely-soar-in-the-next-decade/
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30) Not just governments lie
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
"Last month, a Council Bluffs (Iowa -- across the river from Omaha and once an incredible business investment by a certain Chicago lawyer) high school teacher was arrested and fired for committing acts of terrorism. She was 37, an Anglo, and claimed she didn't mean to carry out the 'gun violence' threats she wrote in several notes, in which she pretended to be a bullied student. In other words, she lied. Her excuse? She wanted to make preventing school gun violence a priority for the school and district, parents, and others. She didn't lie for monetary gain, she didn't lie to promote herself. She lied for political purposes. It isn't just governments that lie about political matters, or safety or health or whatever." (01/03/22)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/01/03/not-just-governments-lie/
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31) Clay Shaw, Liar and Perjurer
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
"In 1969, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison brought a criminal prosecution against a man named Clay Shaw. In the trial, Garrison rejected the lone-nut theory of the assassination of President Kennedy. He alleged instead that Kennedy was assassinated in a highly sophisticated regime-change operation spearheaded by the U.S. national-security establishment. Garrison alleged that Shaw had played a role in that operation. Although Shaw was quickly acquitted .... defenders of the lone-nut theory of the Kennedy assassination have portrayed Clay Shaw as an innocent victim of an abusive criminal prosecution. As it turns out however, Shaw wasn't as sweet and innocent as the lone-nut theorists have long claimed. He actually was a perjurer and a liar." (01/03/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/01/03/clay-shaw-liar-and-perjurer/
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32) What USA must do about China in 2022
Source: Fox News Forum
by Gordon G Chang
"China's regime attacks America every day, and every day America's political leaders, and especially its president, refuse to react. Why? 'The Biden administration believes climate change, not Communist China, poses the greatest threat to U.S. national security,' Len Khodorkovsky, former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Trump administration, told me at the end of last month. Therefore, President Biden has been willing to hand out free passes to Beijing as long as Chinese officials say the right things about carbon neutrality. Unfortunately, the Biden administration completely misunderstands the nature of the relationship with the Chinese regime." [editor's note: Mr. Chang correctly identifies the problem; if only his "solution" were not so military – SAT] [additional editor's note: Actually, there's no real "problem" to "identify" here that the US government couldn't solve by minding its own business – TLK] (01/03/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-biden-china-2022-gordon-chang
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33) Quantum Vibe, 01/03/22
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (01/03/22)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2304
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34) Why Government Should Not "Deliver"
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
"To counter 'disillusionment with the government,' Sen. Chris Murphy (D. Conn) expressed a widespread but invalid or seriously misleading idea: it is the idea that governments should 'deliver' or, in other words, be efficient .... The idea that government should 'deliver' is seriously misleading because it depends on what exactly it delivers. The WSJ reports that Mr. Murphy was 'arguing for passage of Mr. Biden's stalled economic agenda.' For anybody who disagrees with this trillion-dollar agenda -- and about half of American voters do -- the government should not 'deliver.'" (01/03/22)
https://www.econlib.org/why-government-should-not-deliver/
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35) What I learned on the progress beat
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by Lindsey McGinnis
"It was June 2020. COVID-19, economic turmoil, and police brutality dominated the news. Articles about combating 'news fatigue' or 'media burnout' punctuated long bouts of doomscrolling. The New York Times declared, 'On the Future, Americans Can Agree, It Doesn't Look Good.' It wasn't exactly an auspicious time to take on the progress beat. And yet, my assignment was clear: As the Monitor's Points of Progress reporter, I needed to identify a handful of credible progress stories every week. It felt like searching for a piece of hay in a pile of needles. For every hint of progress, I encountered at least 30 distressing headlines. It was hard to accept that those glimmers of growth could hold much weight in the midst of such overwhelmingly grim news. But over time, I began to recognize them as fuel for hope." (01/03/22)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editor/2022/0103/What-I-learned-on-the-progress-beat
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36) Ukrainian neutrality: "Golden bridge" out of a current geopolitical trap
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
"Whether deliberately or not, the Russian government has left the United States and NATO a perfect 'golden bridge' out of the trap that is developing in Ukraine. In diplomatic parlance, this means finding the other side a way of abandoning an untenable position without excessive loss of face or sacrifice of truly important interests. In the present crisis between Russia and the West, the golden bridge is Ukrainian neutrality, along the general lines of the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, by which Western and Soviet occupying troops withdrew from that country, allowing it to develop as a successful free-market democracy. The Biden administration, either directly or through German and French mediation, should seek to 'own' the idea of Ukrainian neutrality as its response to Russia's demands." (01/03/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/03/ukrainian-neutrality-golden-bridge-out-of-a-current-geopolitical-trap/
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37) Price Controls Are the Worst Possible Solution to Inflation
Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster
"Nearly nine out of 10 Americans are worried about inflation, according to one recent survey. And they're right to be concerned: When inflation outpaces growth in wages, your money is worth less. As with any political issue, opinions vary on what can be done about inflation, which hit its highest level since 1982 in November. But some suggestions are simply not worth trying. ... Price controls have a tendency to create shortages and surpluses regardless of their effects on inflation. When a price for a good is set too high, nobody can afford it, creating a surplus. And when a price for a good is set too low, people are incentivized to overbuy and hoard, and the supply is depleted. You do not have to look to far-flung autocracies like Venezuela to find examples: All across the U.S., price controls lead to astronomical health care costs and a scarcity of rental homes." (01/03/22)
https://reason.com/2022/01/03/price-controls-are-the-worst-possible-solution-to-inflation/
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38) Trouble in Paradise: The Crumbling California Model
Source: National Review
by Joel Kotkin
"Some horrified conservatives dismiss California as the progressive dystopia, bound for bankruptcy and, let's hope, growing irrelevance. Progressives, for their part, hail the Golden State as the avatar of a better future, the role model for a new, more environmentally friendly and socially just economic order. They often dismiss critiques as conservative misinformation. Yet California is not doomed, at least in the near term, nor is it anything like a model of social democracy. ... The big problem with the California model is that it does not work for most Californians, who suffer from the highest poverty rate (cost of living adjusted) in the country." (01/03/22)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/trouble-in-paradise-the-crumbling-california-model/
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39) The Tide Is Turning in Freedom's Favor
Source: Town Hall
by Kurt Schlichter
"Looking backwards in a few years, it is entirely possible that we will see that December 2021 was the high-water mark of the great progressive coup, when leftists reached out for the brass ring, but their soft, girlish hands were too weak to grasp it. It is likely all downhill for them from here, though that is not entirely clear to us right now. When Gandalf returned from getting balrogged in the Lord of the Rings flicks, he says, 'I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.' Except all their big battles were still ahead. And even if the tide has turned for us too, so are ours. But perhaps this epic elf opera, as my pal Kenny dubbed the genre, has some wisdom to impart. We have huge fights before us, and we can still lose." (01/03/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/01/03/the-tide-is-turning-in-freedoms-favor-n2601282
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40) Drop Your Left vs Right Blinders
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Gary Galles
"As a libertarian, I have long objected to being characterized on a left-right political spectrum (as with studies of political affiliations that group libertarians with republicans or conservatives on the right). In response to inquiries about where I fit in that framework, over the years, I have taken to saying that my views were orthogonal (meaning at right angles or perpendicular) to the framework. Since almost no one knows what that word means, those I say it to are puzzled, and ask for clarification, which allows me to explain why I fit in neither category." (01/03/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/drop-your-left-vs-right-blinders/
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41) Taking Back Our Liberty in 2022
Source: Campaign For Liberty
by Ron Paul
"For those of us who value liberty, these past two years have been a bad dream. It seems like we fell asleep in early 2020 and woke up in 1984! They said that if we just put on a mask and stayed home for two weeks, we'd be able to return to normal. The two weeks came and went and instead of going back to normal they added more restrictions. These past two years have been a story of moving goalposts and 'experts' like Anthony Fauci constantly contradicting themselves. ... What is to be done to defeat tyranny in 2022? We must continue to tell the truth. The truth is winning and the liars are losing. One by one their lies are being exposed. But it is not an easy task." (01/03/22)
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/taking-back-liberty-2022
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42) Why The President's Party Almost Always Has A Bad Midterm
Source: FiveThirtyEight
by Geoffrey Skelley
"One of the most ironclad rules in American politics is that the president's party loses ground in midterm elections. Almost no president is immune. President George W. Bush's Republicans took a 'thumping' in 2006. President Barack Obama's Democrats received a 'shellacking' in 2010. President Donald Trump's Republicans were buried under a blue wave in 2018. And the results out of Virginia and New Jersey last November suggest that a red wave might hit President Biden's Democrats in 2022. It's worth digging into the data behind this rule, though, and the reasons why it so often holds true. Are Republicans really a lock to sweep the 2022 midterms?" (01/03/22)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-presidents-party-almost-always-has-a-bad-midterm/
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43) Uncle Sam Should Make Some New Year's Resolutions
Source: Antiwar.com
by Doug Bandow
"Truth be told, many of us have someone like Uncle Sam in our family. It could be an uncle or grandmother. Perhaps a brother- or sister-in-law. A second cousin thrice removed or even more distant relation. Someone who everyone gossips about but who can't be barred from annual family gatherings. In most cases they are an embarrassment, but not particularly dangerous. You can't deny that you are related, but most everyone knows that you aren't responsible for their actions -- especially their debts and crimes. Not so Uncle Sam, unfortunately. He insists on representing us even if he turns out to be bad at his job." (01/03/21)
https://original.antiwar.com/doug-bandow/2022/01/02/uncle-sam-should-make-some-new-years-resolutions/
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44) 2022 Should Be Seen as the Year for Democracy
Source: Common Dreams
by John Nichols
"One hundred and fifteen years ago, on Jan. 1, 1907, the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to his wife, Clara: 'And now, let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.' Rilke was a delicious wordsmith, and these are some of his finest phrases. But we ought not imagine that his call for a deep embrace of the new year as a moment of hope and opportunity was merely a romantic notion. We should begin each new year with a faith in its possibility." (01/03/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/03/2022-should-be-seen-year-democracy
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45) Inflation is a tax on us all
Source: Orange County Register
by Jon Coupal
"Milton Friedman explained that inflation is always 'a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.' Inflation hits everyone, but especially the middle class and those on fixed incomes. Inflation is a threat to the middle class because price increases reduce purchasing power so that the things that the middle class could previously afford are now out of reach. This pushes the lower rungs of the middle class out of the picture. The disproportionate impact of inflation on the middle class relative to the wealthy may seem counterintuitive because the inflation rate -- projected now at over 6% -- is the same for everyone. But while all suffer the same rate of inflation, those with lower incomes tend to have lesser means of adapting to the increases in consumer prices." (01/02/22)
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/02/inflation-is-a-tax-on-us-all/
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46) How To Build Confidence And Courage
Source: Freeman's Perspective
by Paul Rosenberg
"Confidence and courage are not magic. They are built, just as other aspects of human character are built. If we want them (and I think we should) we'll have to develop them the old-fashioned way: with work." (01/03/22)
https://freemansperspective.com/how-to-build-confidence-and-courage/
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47) Russell's Theory of Descriptions
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
"Russell sought to eliminate ambiguities and contradictions he found in Frege and Meinong so he developed his Theory of Descriptions. He starts out by defining a concept, the denoting phrase, by which he means basically the same thing that Frege referred to as a proper name, in other words a noun or noun phrase. He argues that while we can 'affirm a number of propositions' about something denoted, in some cases such as the center of mass of the solar system at some point in time, 'we have no immediate acquaintance with this point, which is only known to us by description.'" (01/02/22)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2022/01/russells-theory-of-descriptions.html
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48) NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange's Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
"Two of the television outlets on which American liberals rely most for their news -- NBC News and CNN -- have spent the last six years hiring a virtual army of former CIA operatives, FBI officials, NSA spies, Pentagon chiefs, and DOJ prosecutors to work in their newsrooms. The multiple ways in which journalism is fundamentally corrupted by this spectacle are all vividly illustrated by a new article from NBC News that urges the prosecution and extradition of Julian Assange .... The NBC article is written by former FBI Assistant Director and current NBC News employee Frank Figliuzzi, who played a central role during the Obama years in the FBI's attempt to investigate and criminalize Assange: a rather relevant fact concealed by NBC when publishing this. But this is how U.S. security state agents now directly control corporate news outlets." (01/02/22)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/nbc-news-uses-ex-fbi-official-frank
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49) 2022 the Year to Take Back Ground
Source: Town Hall
by Michael Brown
"I write these words as a declaration rather than a prediction, as a proclamation rather than a prophecy. Put another way, I'm issuing a challenge and encouraging a faith-filled mindset: let 2022 be a year of taking back ground! It's clear, of course, that every year is mixed, with progress in some areas and regress in others. And it's clear that, until Jesus returns, this world will be messed up, marked by pain and suffering and sin. But that doesn't mean that we simply accept defeat as inevitable. Or that we embrace a mentality of hopelessness. Or that we develop a theology of pessimism (as in, 'It's only going to get worse before Jesus returns, so why even bother to try?') Absolutely not. To the contrary, as I've emphasized countless times before, the Bible encourages us to have the mentality of overcomers and victors." (01/03/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2022/01/03/2022-the-year-to-take-back-ground-n2601320
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50) The Collins and Fauci Attack on Traditional Public Health
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jayanta Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff
"On Oct. 4, 2020, with Prof. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University, we wrote the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). Our purpose was to express our grave concerns over the inadequate protection of the vulnerable and the devastating harms of the lockdown pandemic policy adopted by much of the world; We proposed an alternative strategy of focused protection. ... Unbeknownst to us, our call for a more focused pandemic strategy posed a political problem for Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci. ... Rather than engaging in scientific discourse, they authorized 'a quick and devastating published takedown' of this proposal, which they characterized as by 'three fringe epidemiologists' from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford. ... Collins, Fauci, and Farrar got the pandemic strategy they advocated for, and they own the results together with other lockdown proponents." (01/02/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-collins-and-fauci-attack-on-traditional-public-health/
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51) Inflation or Recession? The Fed Faces a Choice.
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Siddharth Gundapaneni
"With the quantitative easing policy maintained throughout the covid-19-induced recession finally ending, the federal funds rate is expected to rise to 0.9 percent in 2022, 1.6 percent in 2023, 2.1 percent in 2024, and 2.5 percent in the undetermined long run. Mortgage-backed security and bond purchases will be reduced by $10 billion and $20 billion a month, respectively, in order to expedite the conclusion of the program by March 2022, rather than June. While this course of action is likely to mitigate the soaring inflation, it may lead to a myriad of detrimental effects to other facets of the economy." (01/03/22)
https://mises.org/wire/inflation-or-recession-fed-faces-choice
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52) Blackstone on Judicial Tenure
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael D Ramsey
"As noted in my opening post in this series, earlier this month Professor Jed Shugerman sharply criticized originalist executive power scholars, and particularly a brief submitted to the Supreme Court by originalist scholars in Seila Law v. CFPB. One key point of dispute was the extent to which Blackstone's Commentaries indicates that the eighteenth-century English monarch had removal power over executive officers. In my first post, I discussed Blackstone's account of the monarch's executive power. This post addresses a key area in which, in Blackstone's description, the king's removal power was limited: the tenure of judges." (01/02/22)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/01/02/blackstone-on-judicial-tenure/
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53) Si Vis Pacem, Don't Listen to Joe Lieberman
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
"As he usually does, Joe Lieberman is banging war drums: 'A great Roman general said a long time ago, "If you want peace, prepare for war.' That is wise counsel worth following with Russia and Iran in 2022.' Hawks love to cite this phrase, which is originally traced back to Vegetius. ... Hawks usually interpret this phrase in the most combative and militaristic way possible. It does not have to be read this way, but this is the way that hawks choose to read it. For someone like Lieberman, it is not enough simply to prepare for war. He wants the U.S. to seek conflict and rule out every path that might lead away from war." (01/02/22)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/si-vis-pacem-dont-listen-to-joe-lieberman
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54) The Care Crisis Isn't What You Think
Source: The American Prospect
by Laura Mauldin
"On a recent visit with research participants for my book on spousal caregiving, I sat with a man who had a stroke three years ago, at age 59. He can only use one side of his body, rendering him unable to work; his wife serves as his caregiver. He told me about how much he hated himself. 'All I do is take resources. I don't contribute anything.' Tears streamed down his cheeks. President Biden's signature Build Back Better bill, which includes funding for long-neglected social programs like Medicaid's home and community-based services (HCBS), is facing an uncertain future. An upgraded HCBS program would allow millions of people currently stuck on wait lists to receive care at home, rather than in congregant settings. But facing questions from the likes of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) about cost, the new investments in HCBS may not become law." (01/03/22)
https://prospect.org/health/disability-care-crisis-isnt-what-you-think/
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55) Packing Away the Constitution
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Gary M Galles
"Packing the Supreme Court, not on anyone's front burner when Barack Obama was President, sharply moved in that direction after Donald Trump was elected. Now with Joe Biden in office but facing a Court not likely to rubber-stamp his or Democratic legislative proposals, we're back at it. And the potential for the Court to reconsider its Roe v. Wade precedent has supercharged court-packing support. A good illustration comes from Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. He goes to great lengths to support the idea, but never once mentions fidelity to the Constitution as a criterion." (01/02/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/packing-away-the-constitution/
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56) Reason Roundtable, 01/03/22
Source: Reason
"What We Got Right and Wrong About 2021 (and What We Predict for 2022)." [various formats] (01/03/21)
https://reason.com/podcast/2022/01/03/what-we-got-right-and-wrong-about-2021-and-what-we-predict-for-2022/
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57) Free Talk Live, 01/03/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Bitcoin's 13th Birthday :: Decentralization and Inflation :: Melania NFT :: CIA Bitcoin? :: Matt Damon and Crypto.com :: Bitcoin Worse than Ponzi Scheme? :: Show: 2022-01-03 Ian, Bonnie, Aria." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/03/22)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2022-01-03
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58) Bloggingheads.tv, 01/03/22
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
"Creating Content for the Algorithm in the Sky | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Doug Lain." [Flash video] (01/03/22)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63435
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59) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/03/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"With a new year before us, it's understandable that many of us are engaging in a bit of self-examination as to where we can work on improving ourselves. Here's a novel suggestion by Rustic Mama from the Organic Prepper site: 2022 is a fine year to work on standing up to bullies -- especially the one that lives in your own head." [various formats] (01/03/22)
https://thebryanhydeshow.podbean.com/e/2022-january-3-the-bryan-hyde-show-hour-one/
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60) Part Of the Problem, 01/03/22
Source: GaS Digital Network
"2021 w/ Michael Malice." [various formats] (01/03/22)
https://art19.com/shows/d0ab5d6f-1972-4441-b3f8-6b61d09f7f15/embed?playlist_type=playlist&playlist_size=10#
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61) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/03/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Narrative Implosion: German Authorities Report Most Omicron Cases Among Vacccinated." [Flash video] (01/03/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/narrative-implosion-german-authorities-report-most-omicron-cases-among-vacccinated
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62) Real Coffee with Scott Adams, episode 1612
Source: Scott Adams Says
"Today I Will Violate the Narrative on 2020 Election and Vaccination Safety." [editor's note: Of special note, consider the passage at about 1.20:00, where he addresses the vaccine issue with analysis of why we might question everything in the "narrative." Without spoiling it let's just say it's a pretty good summary of the problem – SAT] [Flash video] (01/03/22)
https://rumble.com/vrv89o-episode-1612-scott-adams-today-i-will-violate-the-narrative-on-2020-electio.html
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63) Lions of Liberty, 01/03/22
Source: Lions of Liberty
"Dave Smith [for the authoritarian position] vs. Spike Cohen [for the libertarian position]: The Borders Debate." [Flash audio] (01/03/22)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/dave-smith-vs-spike-cohen
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64) EconTalk, 01/03/22
Source: EconTalk
"Lorne Buchman on Creativity, Leadership, and Art." [Flash audio or MP3] (01/03/22)
https://www.econtalk.org/lorne-buchman-on-creativity-leadership-and-art/
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65) Conflicts of Interest, episode 209
Source: Libertarian Institute
"American Wars Will Plague the Middle East for Generations." [various formats] (01/02/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-209-american-wars-will-plague-the-middle-east-for-generations/
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