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Thomas L. Knapp
Apr 11, 2025, 6:21:21 AMApr 11
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Ukraine war: European regimes unveil new military support for Kyiv
2) Dow ends 1,000 pts lower after sharp swings; S&P 500 sinks 3.5%
3) Mike Johnson quashes GOP revolt to pass Trump-backed borrow-and-spend bill
4) US regime fires Greenland base commander after JD Vance visit
5) Trump signs order to “make America’s showers great again”
6) DoorDash starts robot deliveries in LA and Chicago
7) Zimbabwe: Regime makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land seizures
8) OpenAI countersues Elon Musk in legal dispute over ChatGPT maker’s business ambitions
9) Bangladesh: Court issues new arrest warrant against ousted PM Sheikh Hasina in graft case
10) Croatia protests Serbia’s expulsions of its citizens as part of crackdown on dissent
11) US egg prices increase to record high despite Trump’s predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing
12) US, Russian regimes exchange hostages
13) Senate Commerce Committee discusses “Daylight Saving Time” scam
14) Turkey: Regime abducts two journalists
15) Meta whistleblower details Mark Zuckerberg’s fixation on China “profits”
16) South Korea: Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung announces presidential bid following Yoon’s ouster
17) US regime moves B-2 bombers to Indian Ocean military base as threat to Iran
18) Macron says France could recognise Palestinian state
19) Soil from the moon’s far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth
20) Mexico: Carrillo released after serving 40 years in killing of rival gang member
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Other Cost of Protectionism
22) Trump’s modest proposal
23) Now’s The Time To Get That Garden Going
24) A Tariffic Strategy
25) President Trump’s Reduced Tariff/Taxes Are Still Unconstitutional
26) What a Jewish-Muslim bond can do
27) These Reforms Would Simplify Our Messy Tax Code — and Level the Playing Field
28) Adam Smith Would not Approve
29) Trump Faces Palestine: Who Are the Barbarians on This Planet?
30) The Return of Negative Real Yields in the Euro Area
31) Modern Democrats reveal their true intentions align with those of the Confederacy
32) The Global Order of Free Rides
33) Backlash Against Israel’s Western-Backed Crimes Will Fuel The Far Right
34) Great News on Free Trade!
35) Take Trump Literally
36) A Missed Opportunity to Curtail Eminent Domain Abuse
37) Global system took advantage of America on trade and defense; that free ride is over
38) Talking to America: How Far Will Iran Go?
39) Looming Indian Ocean showdown
40) Foreign Policy As If Liberalism Mattered
41) North Dakota’s Drone Contracts Link The State to Genocide
42) The Tariff King
43) The United States Can and Should Reduce Its Defense Spending
44) This Administration’s Mercurial Trade Policy Injures Our Economy and Our Democracy
45) The Left [sic] Discovers Milton Friedman
46) Executive orders aren’t enough: How to actually stop waste, fraud, and abuse
47) Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?
48) The Nonsense of the “Tariff Men”
49) North Carolina’s Equal-Opportunity Voter Suppression
50) How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
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51) The Fifth Column, episode 500
52) Capital Record, episode 225
53) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2629
54) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 04/10/25
55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 04/10/25
56) Advisory Opinions, 04/10/25
57) IP … Frequently, episode 279
58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/10/25
59) Nonzero, 04/09/25
60) The Political Orphanage, 04/09/25
61) System Update, episode 436
62) The Intercept Briefing, 04/09/25
63) Reason Interview: Mark Clifford
64) The David Frum Show, 04/09/25
65) The Learning Curve, 04/09/25
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1) Ukraine war: European regimes unveil new military support for Kyiv
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“European allies have announced a ‘surge’ of military support for Ukraine, with the British government unveiling £450m ($580m) in UK-led aid. The support is partly aimed at strengthening the country’s position ahead of any peace deal with Russia. The UK will provide £350m this year, with Norway contributing further funding, Britain’s ministry of defence said on Friday. The funding will provide repairs and maintenance to vehicles and equipment as well as radar systems, anti-tank mines and hundreds of thousands of drones. The UK and Germany are host a meeting of 50 nations at Nato’s headquarters in Brussels on Friday. British defence secretary John Healey and his German counterpart, defence minister Boris Pistorius, will co-chair the 27th Ukraine Defence Contact Group, a role previously performed by the US defence secretary until Donald Trump’s return to office.” (04/11/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/ukraine-war-briefing-europe-unveils-new-military-support-for-kyiv-ahead-of-defence-summit
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2) Dow ends 1,000 pts lower after sharp swings; S&P 500 sinks 3.5%
Source: CNBC TV 18
“US stocks closed sharply lower on Thursday in a volatile session that saw the major averages swing wildly, as markets reacted to an updated tariff announcement from the White House. The major indexes plunged to session lows after officials confirmed that increased levies on Chinese goods would rise to 145% — not 125% as previously stated. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2,100 points at its worst, the S&P 500 fell 6%, and the Nasdaq Composite tumbled over 7%. However, the losses were trimmed by the close. The Dow ended 1,014 points, or 2.5% lower. The S&P 500 shed 3.46%, while the Nasdaq lost 4.31%.” (04/10/25)
https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/us-stock-market-live-updates-trump-tariff-pause-impact-dow-snp-nasdaq-china-bonds-liveblog-19587418.htm
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3) Mike Johnson quashes GOP revolt to pass Trump-backed borrow-and-spend bill
Source: Axios
“House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday overcame a sizable revolt of his members and passed a budget resolution that was endorsed by President Trump. It puts Republican leaders one critical step closer to being able to pass a hulking fiscal bill that includes $4 trillion in tax cuts and a $5 trillion debt ceiling increase. … The budget measure passed 216-214, with GOP Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Victoria Spartz (Ind.) joining Democrats in voting against it.” (04/10/25)
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/10/mike-johnson-trump-budget-taxes-passes
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4) US regime fires Greenland base commander after JD Vance visit
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“The US has sacked the commander of its military base in Greenland over her alleged attempts to ‘subvert President Trump’s agenda’ after hosting the American vice-president on the Arctic island. Colonel Susannah Meyers was removed as commander of the Pituffik Space Base late on Thursday after reports that she had sent an email critical of vice-president JD Vance’s visit to the island last month. … ‘I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the US administration discussed by vice-president Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base,’ the email sent on March 31 said, according to military.com. Greenland has been thrust into the geopolitical spotlight after President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to take over the Arctic island of 57,000 people from Denmark and has refused to rule out using force to do so.” (04/11/25)
https://archive.is/lwXlQ
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5) Trump signs order to “make America’s showers great again”
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Donald Trump is going to ‘make America’s showers great again’ by easing rules restricting water flow, the White House says. The US president is ordering the energy secretary to rescind a change introduced by Barack Obama that restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute overall. This served ‘a radical green agenda that made life worse for Americans’, the White House said, as Trump criticised the ‘ridiculous’ amount of time he says it takes to wet his hair in the shower. … Under a 1992 energy law, showerheads in the US are not allowed to produce more than 2.5 gallons (9.5l) of water per minute.” [editor’s note: Nice to see him doing something good! – TLK] (04/10/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2eeggyppzo
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6) DoorDash starts robot deliveries in LA and Chicago
Source: Engadget
“DoorDash has started robot deliveries in Los Angeles and Chicago. This is thanks to a partnership with the company Coco Robotics. Eligible customers will be able to receive sidewalk deliveries sourced from over 600 participating merchants. Coco robots have been making deliveries for DoorDash in Helsinki since late last year through its international sub-brand Wolt. DoorDash says that Coco robots completed over 100,000 deliveries during this initial pilot phase. … DoorDash isn’t the only delivery company in town experimenting with robots. Grubhub recently started bringing delivery robots to college campuses and Uber Eats expanded autonomous deliveries to Japan.” (04/10/25)
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/doordash-starts-robot-deliveries-in-la-and-chicago-172358704.html
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7) Zimbabwe: Regime makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land seizures
Source: SFGate
“Zimbabwe says it has started paying compensation to white farmers who lost land and property more than 20 years ago in controversial and often-violent farm seizures, a move the government hopes will help thaw icy relations with the West. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said the government has approved the disbursement of $3.1 million, the first such payment under a deal signed between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and dispossessed white farmers in 2020. Ncube said in a statement this week that the amount is equivalent to 1% of the total compensation claim of $311 million. He said 740 farms have been approved for compensation, with 378 benefiting from the first batch of payments. About 4,000 white farmers lost their homes and swaths of land when the [b]lack-majority country’s then-president, Robert Mugabe, launched the often-chaotic redistribution program in 2000.” (04/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/zimbabwe-makes-first-compensation-payments-to-20269117.php
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8) OpenAI countersues Elon Musk in legal dispute over ChatGPT maker’s business ambitions
Source: Seattle Times
“OpenAI is suing Elon Musk for unfair competition and interfering with its business relationships with investors and customers, escalating a legal battle between the ChatGPT maker and the billionaire who helped bankroll the artificial intelligence startup a decade ago. The allegations against Musk were filed Wednesday in a federal court in California as a counterclaim to the Tesla CEO’s lawsuit against OpenAI, which is heading to a jury trial next year. Musk, an early OpenAI investor who now runs his own AI firm, xAI, along with Tesla, SpaceX, social media platform X and President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, began a legal offensive against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman more than a year ago. He first sued for breach of contract over what he said was the betrayal of its founding aims as a nonprofit research laboratory, and later expanded his claims.” (04/10/25)
https://archive.is/EY2DT
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9) Bangladesh: Court issues new arrest warrant against ousted PM Sheikh Hasina in graft case
Source: The Indian Express [India]
“A Bangladesh court on Thursday issued a fresh arrest warrant against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her daughter Saima Wajed Putul, and 17 others in connection with a graft case involving alleged fraudulent acquisition of a residential plot. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib accepted the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) charge sheet and issued the warrants, noting that all accused were absconding. … This development follows two previous arrest warrants issued by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal against Hasina and others for alleged crimes against humanity. It also comes a day after the ACC launched a new probe into the alleged misappropriation of Taka 4,000 crore during the ‘Mujib Centenary’ celebrations, involving Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and retired official Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury. … 77-year-old Hasina has reportedly been living in India, which has yet to respond to Bangladesh’s request for her extradition.” (04/10/25)
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/sheikh-hasina-arrest-warrant-bangladesh-court-extradition-request-india-9936867/
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10) Croatia protests Serbia’s expulsions of its citizens as part of crackdown on dissent
Source: SFGate
“On Thursday, Croatia protested a spate of expulsions of its citizens from Serbia, where the government of populist President Aleksandar Vucic is faced with massive anti-corruption protests that have shaken his tight grip on power in the Balkan state. Dozens of foreign citizens, including 15 Croats, have been expelled from Serbia in the past few months or slapped an entry ban, allegedly for posing a security risk for the country. Croatia has sent a protest note to Belgrade and informed the European Union about the expulsions, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, adding that Serbia’s moves are ‘unacceptable’. ‘We are demanding an explanation from the Serbian authorities,’ Plenkovic said at a government session. ‘Croatia condemns such behavior.’ There was no immediate response from Belgrade while a protest rally against the expulsions of Croatian and other foreign citizens critical of Vucic and the Serbian government was held Thursday in Belgrade.” (04/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/croatia-protests-serbia-s-expulsions-of-its-20268929.php
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11) US egg prices increase to record high despite Trump’s predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks. The increase reported Thursday in the Consumer Price Index means consumers and businesses that rely on eggs might not get much immediate relief. Demand for eggs is typically elevated until after Easter, which falls on April 20. Industry experts were expecting the index to reflect a drop in retail egg prices because wholesale egg prices dropped significantly in March.” (04/10/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/10/egg-prices-increase/
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12) US, Russian regimes exchange hostages
Source: CBS News
“Russia has released Ksenia Karelina, a dual U.S.-Russian national who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason in August last year, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post early Thursday, offering no information about the terms of her release. The Wall Street Journal first reported Karelina’s release, saying she was freed in a [hostage] swap orchestrated by the two countries’ intelligence agencies. … In exchange for Karelina, a ballet dancer who lived in California, the Journal said the U.S. government had freed Arthur Petrov, a German-Russian national arrested in Cyprus 2023 at the request of U.S. authorities. He was being held on allegations of exporting sensitive microelectronics.” (04/10/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-frees-american-ksenia-karelina-prisoner-swap/
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13) Senate Commerce Committee discusses “Daylight Saving Time” scam
Source: Fox News
“In 1957, rockabilly singer Bob Ehret repeated, ‘We’ve got to stop the clock, baby; to spend more time with you’ — and in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle strongly considered the benefits of doing so, in a way. Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Daylight Saving was grounded in good-faith efforts to reduce energy consumption, but that instead it has led to increased auto accidents in the dark, workplace issues and objections from the agriculture sector that relies on early-morning sunlight. ‘We find ourselves adjusting our clocks … springing forward and falling back in the fall. For many Americans, this biannual ritual is a minor inconvenience … But when we take a closer look at the implications of changing the clocks, its impact on our economy, our health and our everyday lives, we can see that this practice is more than an annoyance,’ Cruz said.” (04/10/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stop-clock-gop-dems-come-together-end-daylight-saving-over-health-economic-risks
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14) Turkey: Regime abducts two journalists
Source: US News & World Report
“Two of Turkey’s leading journalists were detained Thursday on what their newspapers said were false charges stemming from their work. Writers Timur Soykan of BirGun and Cumhuriyet’s Murat Agirel were arrested at their homes on charges of making threats and blackmail in an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Both papers have criticized the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They have extensively covered events surrounding the March 19 arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Istanbul’s mayor, which led to the largest protests in Turkey in more than a decade. More than a dozen journalists have been detained at their homes after covering the protests, which were banned by the authorities.” (04/10/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-10/2-leading-turkish-journalists-are-detained-on-charges-their-newspapers-say-are-based-on-their-work
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15) Meta whistleblower details Mark Zuckerberg’s fixation on China “profits”
Source: SFGate
“Following the explosive response to her tell-all memoir, an ex-Facebook director-turned-whistleblower testified before Congress on Wednesday alleging Facebook’s close relationship with China poses serious risks to U.S. national security, a charge parent company Meta denies. In ‘Careless People’, published last month, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a lawyer, former diplomat and ex-director of global public policy, who worked at Facebook for seven years starting in 2011, describes misconduct and harassment at the hands of Meta executives, including accusations that the company has lied about its relationship to China. In her book, Wynn-Williams alleges sexual harassment at the hands of top executives. Meta has previously said her statements are ‘misleading’ and ‘unfound’. She was fired in 2017, according to reports, for ‘poor performance’. In the book, she also accuses Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of lying during a 2018 Senate hearing and downplaying his relationship with the Chinese government.” (04/09/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-whistleblower-zuckerberg-china-profits-20267163.php
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16) South Korea: Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung announces presidential bid following Yoon’s ouster
Source: United Press International
“South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung said Thursday he would run for president in the June snap election triggered by the removal of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. Lee, who resigned as chairman of the Democratic Party on Wednesday ahead of the announcement, is the strong frontrunner in most opinion polls. In a survey released last week by Realmeter Korea, 49.5% of respondents found Lee the most suitable candidate for president and he won by decisive margins in various hypothetical head-to-head matchups. In an 11-minute video message announcing his candidacy, Lee said addressing income inequality and promoting economic growth would be his top goals when taking office.” (04/10/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/04/10/Lee-Jae-myung-presidential-bid-South-Korea-snap-election-Yoon-Suk-Yeol-impeachment/2411744277014/
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17) US regime moves B-2 bombers to Indian Ocean military base as threat to Iran
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said it was up to Iran to decide whether the recent US movement of B-2 bombers was a message to Tehran, as he voiced hope that US-Iran negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme could be resolved peacefully. As many as six B-2 bombers relocated in March to a US-British military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, US officials said, amid a US bombing campaign in Yemen and mounting tensions with Iran. There are only 20 B-2 bombers in the air force’s inventory so they are usually used sparingly.” (04/10/25)
https://archive.is/lcp0J
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18) Macron says France could recognise Palestinian state
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“President Emmanuel Macron says France could recognise a Palestinian state ‘in the coming months.’ Macron told France 5 television on Wednesday that he aimed to finalise the move at a United Nations conference on the Israel-Palestine conflict, which his country will co-chair with Saudi Arabia in June. ‘We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron said.’ … Palestine’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, told the news agency AFP that France’s recognition would be ‘a step in the right direction in line with safeguarding the rights of the Palestinian people and the two-state solution.’ Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said any ‘unilateral recognition’ of a Palestinian state would be a ‘boost for Hamas.'” [editor’s note: Joining the 147 other regimes that recognize Palestine would hardly be “unilateral” – TLK] (04/09/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/9/macron-says-france-could-recognise-palestinian-state-in-june
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19) Soil from the moon’s far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth
Source: SFGate
“Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday. But they cautioned more samples are needed for a clearer picture. A better understanding of the abundance of water in the lunar mantle can help explain how the moon evolved, the researchers noted. But it could also be all the more reason for astronauts to stick close to the near side of the moon as currently planned. China became the first country to land on the moon’s far side last year. The Chang’e 6 spacecraft scooped up the volcanic rock and dirt from the ancient, sprawling South Pole-Aitken basin, one of the largest impact craters in the solar system. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Sen Hu said he and his team received 5 grams of soil samples, then selected 578 particles for detailed analysis using electron microscopes.” (04/09/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/soil-from-the-moon-s-far-side-suggests-drier-20266906.php
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20) Mexico: Carrillo released after serving 40 years in killing of rival gang member
Source: ABC News
“Drug lord Ernesto ‘Don Neto’ Fonseca Carrillo, who was convicted in the 1985 killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, was freed from prison after completing his 40-year sentence, a federal agent confirmed late Wednesday. Fonseca, 94, had been serving the remainder of his sentence under home confinement outside Mexico City since being moved from prison in 2016. The federal agent, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said he was released last weekend. The co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel along with Rafael Caro Quintero, Fonseca was convicted in the kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena.” (04/09/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexican-drug-lord-convicted-killing-dea-agent-released-120666897
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21) The Other Cost of Protectionism
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vincent Geloso
“[T]ariffs tend to increase input prices which would make them less competitive on foreign markets. It would also increase prices for domestic consumers and thus reduce sales. Tariffs also have effects on exchange rates that end up making exports harder. Finally, and more generally, when domestic production expands due to import taxes, producers must use resources that are less efficient or better suited to other uses. … These costs of tariffs, however, are only the tip of the iceberg. Focusing solely on them suggests that the American economy would contract temporarily before returning to its previous growth rate — a scenario known as a ‘level shock,’ not a ‘trend shock.’ But protectionism — the broader policy goal tariffs are meant to serve — does produce a trend shock by slowing long-run growth.” (04/10/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-other-cost-of-protectionism/
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22) Trump’s modest proposal
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“In a surprise move this week, President Trump signed an executive order granting himself the power of prima nocta. The Latin term refers to the (likely apocryphal) medieval tradition in which a king or lord could sleep with any underling’s wife. … In an article quickly published online by the Claremont-VDARE Journal of Law and Physiognomy, academics Randy Barnett, Ilan Wurman, and Kurt Lash made the case that ‘history and tradition’ supported the new policy. … A reporter pointed out to Barnett that historians generally believe prima nocta to be a myth …. ‘No one cares,’ replied Barnett, who lost the only Supreme Court case he has argued. ‘This is a game, man.’ … Barnett, who recently compared Trump to God, added, ‘As a legal scholar, there’s nothing more invigorating than getting a federal court to sign onto some bullshit you made up out of whole cloth.'” (04/10/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-modest-proposal
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23) Now’s The Time To Get That Garden Going
Source: The Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Don’t just put in a garden. Stock up on canned food. If you can, get and keep a chicken or three. Consider buying a ‘whole cow’ package from your local butcher shop (and, if need be, a chest freezer to store it in). I try my best to avoid predictions of imminent catastrophe, and I still hold out hope that we can get through all this nonsense with nothing more than a mild to moderate recession before cooler heads prevail. But it’s not a ‘no pain, no gain’ situation. The hammer isn’t just cocked on the upcoming craziness; the gun has been fired. It’s a ‘pain, no gain’ situation, and all we can do is act preemptively to minimize the pain.” (04/10/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19496
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24) A Tariffic Strategy
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Singapore uses the War Games Strategy. That is, the only way to win is not to play. In other words, Singaporeans engage in unilateral free trade, whatever the rest do. Economically, the city-state punches high above its weight. The US, under the Trump Administration, uses the Chaos Strategy. That is, the only way to win is to go batshit long enough to get your counterparts to renegotiate amid the chaos. (Below, I discuss potential Trump Administration infighting between Reciprocols and Retardos.) My preferred strategy, the Everybody Wins Strategy, is probably too idealistic: the only way to win is universal free trade, which means governments get out of the way.” (04/10/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/a-tariffic-strategy?
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25) President Trump’s Reduced Tariff/Taxes Are Still Unconstitutional
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Steven Calabresi
“The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariff/taxes in Article I, Section 8, clause 1, and it gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. Trump incorrectly claims that Congress has delegated that power to him under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by declaring multiple ‘national emergencies’ …. The Supreme Court should narrowly construe the ’emergency power’ these statutes grant to the President, to avoid the conclusion that Congress has delegated its taxing power to the President. I know that in Trump’s mind trade deficits are an ’emergency’ because he thinks they are really a big problem, but that is not what the word ’emergency’ in NEA or IEEPA mean.” (04/10/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/04/10/president-trumps-reduced-tariff-taxes-are-still-unconstitutional/
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26) What a Jewish-Muslim bond can do
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“The only Muslim country that openly cherishes its Jewish minority did something very helpful on Wednesday. Azerbaijan mediated talks between Israel and Turkey. The aim: to prevent the two Middle East giants from a military clash over a dangerous competition to influence neighboring Syria, newly liberated from a dictator and still in disarray. Azerbaijan’s long friendship with both Turkey and Israel ‘has been proven in difficult times,’ said President Ilham Aliyev. The talks were necessary, he added, to calm tensions that are ‘very troubling.’ Most people in Azerbaijan are close to Turks in language, religion, and culture. Yet their centurieslong embrace of a thriving Jewish community – less than 1% of the population – has stood out in the Islamic world as a model of religious tolerance.” (04/10/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0410/What-a-Jewish-Muslim-bond-can-do
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27) These Reforms Would Simplify Our Messy Tax Code — and Level the Playing Field
Source: Reason
by Veronique de Rugy
“The U.S. tax code is broken. That’s mainly because it collects revenue in an arbitrary, distortionary, and unfair manner. At the heart of the problem are ‘tax expenditures’: credits, deductions, and loopholes that benefit the government’s favorite groups and behaviors. These provisions make the tax code more complicated, less neutral, and less growth oriented than it ought to be. Worse, they shift the burden onto the unfavored groups, requiring higher rates to make up for revenue lost to carveouts. This isn’t just a matter of accounting or administrative complexity; it’s a matter of morals. As the late economist David Bradford observed, our tax code reflects no coherent philosophy.” (04/10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/04/10/these-reforms-would-simplify-our-messy-tax-code-and-level-the-playing-field/
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28) Adam Smith Would not Approve
Source: EconLog
by Janet Bufton
“Someone asked recently what would change as a result of the world being plunged into a trade war by the Rose Garden tariffs. I quipped that either Adam Smith would be proved wrong or we’d all get poorer. (This is also true of the scaled-back tariffs, which still leave American tariffs higher than they’ve been in a century.) In response, as sometimes happens, they brought up Adam Smith’s arguments for tariffs. These arguments come from Book 4, Chapter 2 of Wealth of Nations. They’re a red herring, as we’ll see. But let’s look at how they apply.” (04/10/25)
https://www.econlib.org/adam-smith-would-not-approve/
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29) Trump Faces Palestine: Who Are the Barbarians on This Planet?
Source: TomDispatch
by Aviva Chomsky
“In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was a necessary form of self-defense needed to tame irrational eruptions of brutality among the colonized. To make sense of the bipartisan U.S. devotion to Israel, including the glorification of Israeli violence and the demonization of Palestinians, as well as the Trump administration’s recent attacks on Black South Africa, student activists, and immigrants, it’s important to grasp that worldview.” (04/10/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/trump-faces-palestine/
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30) The Return of Negative Real Yields in the Euro Area
Source: Cobden Centre
by Thorsten Polleit
“While negative real yields are currently no longer an issue for many investors, they are becoming a pressing topic once again, especially for those of us focused on building and preserving savings. The root cause of this issue is inflation. Before we continue discussing future inflation and the emergence of negative real yields, let’s first clarify what the term ‘inflation’ really means.” (04/10/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/04/the-return-of-negative-real-yields-in-the-euro-area/
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31) Modern Democrats reveal their true intentions align with those of the Confederacy
Source: New York Post
by Adam B Coleman
“Modern Democrats have latched onto an argument in favor of illegal [sic] immigration — and it’s the same one pro-slavery Democrats used in the 1800s. ‘So, I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact we are a country of immigrants. The fact is ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now,’ Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said at a speech commemorating Grace Baptist Church’s 125th anniversary in Waterbury, Conn. ‘You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.’ A cheap, illegal [sic] workforce is necessary, the Democrats argue, and the peoples of Mexico, Honduras, Haiti and other nations should be forced to fill it.” (04/09/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/opinion/modern-democrats-reveal-their-true-intentions-align-with-those-of-the-confederacy/
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32) The Global Order of Free Rides
Source: Law & Liberty
by Bruno Meyerhof Salama
“It’s become a common refrain in US foreign policy circles that the rest of the world is free riding on American power. The accusation sounds familiar — other countries enjoy the security provided by US military spending, benefit from American technological innovation, and sell goods into the vast US consumer market, all while contributing little in return. But the story is more layered; for all its complaints, the United States is also free riding on the rest of the world. Let’s start with the classic grievances.” (04/10/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-global-order-of-free-rides/
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33) Backlash Against Israel’s Western-Backed Crimes Will Fuel The Far Right
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“A new Pew survey has found that a majority of Americans now have a negative view of Israel, with 53 percent of respondents now holding an unfavorable view of the Zionist state — up from 42 percent just three years ago. This comes as Benjamin Netanyahu announces after his latest meeting with Donald Trump that negotiations with Iran will necessarily have to include a ‘Libyan-style’ dismantling of the nation’s civilian nuclear infrastructure in order to avoid the war that the US is openly preparing to wage. This, naturally, is a complete non-starter condition for Iran. It also comes as Trump’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services announces that it’s going to be screening the social media posts of immigrants for ‘antisemitic’ speech, which of course in practice means criticism of Israel and its atrocities.” (04/10/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/04/10/the-backlash-against-israels-western-backed-crimes-will-fuel-the-far-right/
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34) Great News on Free Trade!
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Immediately after launching his trade war, President Trump surrendered to the ‘enemy.’ Well, okay, it wasn’t a complete surrender. Let’s call it a partial surrender in the form of a unilateral 90-day cease fire. That’s good news, of course, to everyone in the world, including Americans. Well, except for the Chinese people, against whom Trump has decided to continue waging his trade war with tremendous, angry ferocity. But Trump’s immediate capitulation to all the other trade-war ‘enemies’ is not the best news to come out of the tariff/protectionism-versus-free-trade chaos that has ensued ever since Trump resumed the presidency. The best news is the fact that the dominant sentiment in America is clearly in favor of free trade and against economic protectionism, tariffs, and trade wars.” (04/10/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/04/10/great-news-on-free-trade/
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35) Take Trump Literally
Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk
“Back in 2016, Salena Zito, a conservative writer and faithful chronicler of Trump — she later stood a few feet from him when a gunman attempted to assassinate him in Butler, Pennsylvania — argued that ‘the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.’ This idea quickly went viral, entering the bloodstream of how many commentators thought about Trump, and it retains a certain plausibility even today. … If you take everything that Trump says literally, you really do fall into his trap. But the events of the last week show that it is just as big a mistake to dismiss Trump’s most outlandish statements as pure trolling.” (04/10/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/take-trump-literally
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36) A Missed Opportunity to Curtail Eminent Domain Abuse
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Rachel Chiu
“Eminent domain is a practice where the government can take private property for ‘public use,’ typically for projects such as highways and government buildings. Takings are expressly limited by the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits private property from being ‘taken for public use, without just compensation.’ That language implies that the government may only use its eminent domain power if the land is taken for public use. In 2005, the Supreme Court infamously expanded the scope of eminent domain when it held that the government could take homes to make way for private development. That case, Kelo v. City of New London, relied on a deeply flawed reading of ‘public use.’ … Bowers could have been the moment that the Supreme Court curtailed eminent domain abuse and restored value to private property rights in the face of government overreach. Instead, it is now a missed opportunity.” (04/10/25)
https://fee.org/articles/a-missed-opportunity-to-curtail-eminent-domain-abuse/
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37) Global system took advantage of America on trade and defense; that free ride is over
Source: Fox News
by John Rakolta, Jr.
“For nearly eight decades, the United States has shouldered a disproportionate burden in maintaining global peace, prosperity and order. After World War II, we had little choice. The world lay in ruins, and America alone had the industrial strength and confidence to lead. We opened our markets, extended our military shield, rebuilt broken nations and underwrote a new international system. But that era is over. And our policies haven’t caught up. Today, wealthy nations like Germany, France, Japan, South Korea — and yes, Canada — enjoy universal healthcare, world-class infrastructure and generous social safety nets, all while under-investing in their own defense and benefiting from privileged access to American markets. Their security remains subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, our troops and defense treaties forged when these nations were fragile and vulnerable.” (04/10/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/global-system-took-advantage-america-trade-defense-free-ride-over
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38) Talking to America: How Far Will Iran Go?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“That the U.S. and Iran will open the door to talks this weekend is a very positive development. Though the media focus is on whether those talks will be direct or indirect, what will really determine their chance of success is not their format but their scope. If the talks remain tightly focused on verifiable limitations on Iran’s peaceful, civilian nuclear program, they have a real chance of succeeding; if they widen the focus to dismantling Iran’s legal civilian nuclear program, then the talks are likely dead before they even begin.” (04/10/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/04/09/talking-to-america-how-far-will-iran-go/
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39) Looming Indian Ocean showdown
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mark Thompson
“It’s not every day the U.S. military concentrates one of its most powerful weapons on a tiny island far from nowhere. After all, their vulnerability renders them a tempting target for troublemakers. But that’s just what the Pentagon has done, dispatching at least six B-2 bombers to desolate Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean. … The $2 billion (each!) B-2s have been attacking Houthi rebels in Yemen, which is about as gross an example of ‘overmatch’ as you can get. But the Houthis are aligned with Iran, and the U.S. is far more interested in sending Tehran a message than pulverizing second-rate Houthi military assets. The message is this: The B-2 is the only warplane that can carry the GBU-57B Massive Ordnance Penetrator. These 30,000-pound blasting behemoths are ideal for attacking Iran’s buried nuclear-development sites.” (04/10/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/the-bunker-2671728586/
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40) Foreign Policy As If Liberalism Mattered
Source: Liberal Currents
by Jason Kuznicki
“What would a radically liberal foreign policy look like? I don’t think we’ve ever had one. As we’ve all seen it, foreign policy is the domain and the creature of nation-states, while liberalism aims at taking individuals’ liberties seriously. Making that liberty interest show through isn’t easy in foreign policy. … Liberalism at home starts with the individual, with their rights, their dignities, and their personal development. What would our foreign policy look like if we stopped seeing the world as consisting of 200-odd states? What if we saw foreign policy as mostly about a world of 8 billion individuals — with the states usually standing in the way of how we would prefer, as liberals, to treat them?” (04/10/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/foreign-policy-as-if-liberalism-mattered/
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41) North Dakota’s Drone Contracts Link The State to Genocide
Source: Common Dreams
by Lindsey Bertsch & Danaka Katovich
“Recently, Aviation International published a conversation between the Department of Commerce Commissioner of North Dakota and a director at Thales group. The article, titled ‘North Dakota: The Silicon Valley of Drone Innovation,’ makes the case that North Dakota is the go-to state for drone technology. North Dakota’s strong ties with the drone industry formed a few years ago, with the state’s goal of transforming the state into ground zero for drone technology. By taking advantage of the state, its resources, and its people, the mission to turn North Dakota into a silicon valley for drones has already produced a vast network of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technological hubs. However, in doing so it has also entangled North Dakotans into a deep relationship with Elbit Systems of America, a subsidiary of the Israeli company.” (04/10/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/north-dakota-drones-genocide
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42) The Tariff King
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Whatever the alleged merits of high tariffs, unilateral free trade, or any of these issues, these policies should not be decided by the president; the Constitution gives Congress the responsibility ‘to lay Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises’ and ‘regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.’ By handing the president ’emergency’ powers to change tariff policy in the first place, Congress has abdicated its role in setting tax policy. … Apparently, Congress wants the president to be king.” (04/10/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/04/10/the-tariff-king/
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43) The United States Can and Should Reduce Its Defense Spending
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“Today most of America’s “defense” budget goes to offense. Some of that is for utterly inane operations, such as invading Iraq, defeating the Taliban to turn Afghanistan into a modern parliamentary democracy, and battling Yemen’s Ansar Allah to keep the oceans free for Europe and China. Even more resources are devoted to protecting prosperous, populous allies — Europe, along with South Korea, Japan, and numerous others. Whatever would the Pentagon do with hundreds of billions of dollars more? If all these nations spent according to their ability and need, there would be no reason for Washington to keep them as defense dependents. What new wars does Rubio imagine fighting? It is time for the U.S. to embrace peace.” (04/10/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-united-states-can-and-should-reduce-its-defense-spending/
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44) This Administration’s Mercurial Trade Policy Injures Our Economy and Our Democracy
Source: The UnPopulist
by Emily Chamlee-Wright
“As an economist, I feel professionally obligated to point out that there is nothing inherently bad about trade deficits. Americans run deficits with some countries and surpluses with others as a natural result of consumer choice and comparative advantage, not because of nefarious foreign barriers. Again, as an economist, I care a great deal about trade — not as an abstraction, but as a mechanism of opportunity. Since the end of World War II, freer trade has catalyzed the greatest reduction of poverty in human history. In America and around the globe, wherever leaders have embraced markets, economic liberalization has raised life expectancy, lowered infant mortality, and created pathways to prosperity. … That’s why I’m baffled by the idea that tariffs are a pathway to renewal.” (04/09/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/this-administrations-mercurial-trade
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45) The Left [sic] Discovers Milton Friedman
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“After President Donald Trump imposed broad tariffs, some of his left-wing critics began quoting economists like Milton Friedman, who adamantly believed in unilateral free trade. Friedman preferred that our trading partners refrain from imposing barriers on goods imported from the United States. He said: ‘We would be benefited by dispensing with our tariffs even if other countries did not. We would of course be benefited even more if they reduce theirs but our benefiting does not require that they reduce tariffs.’ What if Trump succeeds in getting our trading partners to reduce their tariffs, which are imposed at a higher rate on American goods? Friedman served as an adviser to former President Ronald Reagan, who, free trade rhetoric aside, did engage in some protectionism, including imposing ‘voluntary import quotas’ on foreign vehicles, primarily from Japan.” (04/10/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/04/10/the-left-discovers-milton-friedman-n2655276
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46) Executive orders aren’t enough: How to actually stop waste, fraud, and abuse
Source: Niskanen Center
by Ann Lewis
“While it would technically be possible for all agency programs to allow any executive branch leader to have direct access to all data, doing so would create myriad security risks and provide minimal value. That’s why large private sector companies favor balancing robust security practices with carefully managed access granted to fraud-focused teams. Large private-sector companies don’t rely on small strike teams with broad access to all datasets. Instead, they invest in robust, long-term anti-fraud capabilities that leverage continuous monitoring of fraud signals, cloud-first security models, AI-driven detection, and adaptive risk modeling.” (04/09/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-to-stop-waste-fraud-and-abuse
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47) Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Make no mistake about it. When one nation-state drops bombs on another nation-state, that is an act of war. When the first bomb drops, the United States will initiating another war of aggression — that is, the type of war that was condemned as a war crime at Nuremberg. Before then, U.S. officials will undoubtedly try to pressure Mexican president Claudia Scheinbaum into agreeing to their bombing campaign. That way, they can say that they are not really waging war on Mexico with their bombs because Mexico’s president has agreed to the U.S. Empire’s bombing of her country.” (04/09/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/04/09/bomb-bomb-bomb-mexico/
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48) The Nonsense of the “Tariff Men”
Source: Quillette
by Phillip W Magness
“When Trump bluffs then retracts a tariff threat to attain diplomatic concessions, tariffs are merely a negotiating device. When he pulls the tariff trigger on the same nation a few days later, we’re told that it’s to address a national-security ’emergency’ on the border or part of a plan to somehow offset Chinese steel production by taxing Canadian steel. When the markets crash, it’s all part of an elaborate four-dimensional chess game to restructure the global economy. Administration talking points about the dangers of a tariff-induced recession change by the hour, ranging from denying any threat of economic turmoil to insinuating that some purposeful economic ‘reset’ of the global trading system is afoot.” (04/09/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/04/09/the-nonsense-of-the-tariff-men-trump-navarro-miran-lutnick-hassett/
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49) North Carolina’s Equal-Opportunity Voter Suppression
Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley
“Members of the armed forces have been pummeled with disrespect over the past several months. Veterans nationwide have had their health care snatched away, their jobs abolished, and their careers sideswiped. The latest indignity comes courtesy of North Carolina, where active-duty members who are state residents now find themselves facing an incomprehensible threat: disenfranchisement. ‘They are furious about this,’ says Jason Cain, a ten-year Army veteran and member of Common Defense, a veterans advocacy group. … All told, more than 65,000 North Carolina voters’ ballots from last November’s election are being contested because the Republican candidate for a state supreme court seat, Jefferson Griffin, an appeals court judge, found himself on the wrong side of a 734-vote margin that favored Allison Riggs, the Democratic state supreme court justice seeking re-election.” (04/10/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-04-10-north-carolinas-equal-opportunity-voter-suppression/
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50) How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“The year was 1971 and the claims against dollar-based debt were pouring in from every country. The rumor was that the US did not really have the gold to pay. Foreign holders of US assets decided to test the promise, just in case. Sure enough, Nixon panicked and shut the gold window, in effect defaulting on the terms of the deal, as did his predecessor FDR back in 1933. Nixon too was panicking over the draining of gold from the US Treasury. His intention was to protect the US dollar. Briefly, the US attempted a fixed-rate regime without settlement but failed. Two years later, the US announced a new system, one that they claimed would be better than ever. Henceforth, the US would be backed by nothing but confidence.” (04/09/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-richard-nixon-wrecked-free-trade/
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51) The Fifth Column, episode 500
Source: The Fifth Column
“The Triumph of the Idiots.” (04/10/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/500-the-triumph-of-the-idiots
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52) Capital Record, episode 225
Source: National Review
“The Morality of Trade Deficits vs. Central Planning.” (04/10/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/the-morality-of-trade-deficits-vs-central-planning/
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53) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2629
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Trump Tariffs: A Debate.” (04/10/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2629-the-trump-tariffs-a-debate/
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54) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 04/10/25
Source: The New Republic
“‘Trump Is Backing Down Again’: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip-Flop.” (04/10/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/193827/trump-backing-again-hakeem-jeffries-mocks-tariff-flip-flop
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55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 04/10/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Big Beautiful Budget … Or Ugly Spending Death Spiral?” (04/10/25)
https://rumble.com/v6rx0bp-big-beautiful-budget…or-ugly-spending-death-spiral.html
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56) Advisory Opinions, 04/10/25
Source: The Dispatch
“The Rights of Deportees.” (04/10/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-rights-of-deportees/
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57) IP … Frequently, episode 279
Source: IP … Frequently
“No Romance in China, No Truth in Washington.” (04/10/25)
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ip-frequently/episodes/Ep–279—No-Romance-in-China–No-Truth-in-Washington-e319ov0
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/10/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Says Israel Could Lead Iran Attack, Houthis Shoot Down Another US MQ-9 Reaper Drone, and More.” (04/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EAEDSrGv0
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59) Nonzero, 04/09/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Psycho-logic of Trump’s Tariffs | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom” (04/09/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/68575
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60) The Political Orphanage, 04/09/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Trump, Napoleon III, and the Global Economic Order.” (04/09/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/trump-napoleon-iii-and-the-global-economic-order
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61) System Update, episode 436
Source: System Update
“Trump’s Tariffs: A Threat to the Neoliberal Order? With Journalist David Sirota; Biden CBP Fabricated Doc to Help Imprison Bolsonaro Adviser? Plus: Israel Support Collapsing.” (04/09/25)
https://rumble.com/v6rvtiz-system-update-show-436.html
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62) The Intercept Briefing, 04/09/25
Source: The Intercept
“Unchecked: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the President’s Power Grab.” (04/09/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/09/briefing-podcast-ayanna-pressley-rumeysa-ozturk/
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63) Reason Interview: Mark Clifford
Source: Reason
“The former editor in chief of the South China Morning Post discusses his book on Jimmy Lai, who is currently on trial in Hong Kong for having the audacity to stand up to the government.” (04/09/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/04/09/mark-clifford-a-political-prisoner-fights-for-free-speech-in-china/
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64) The David Frum Show, 04/09/25
Source: The Atlantic
“Treating Friends Like Enemies.” (04/09/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/04/the-david-frum-show-rahm-emanuel-treating-friends-like-enemies/682362/
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65) The Learning Curve, 04/09/25
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Jeffrey Meyers on F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby’s 100th Anniversary.” (04/09/25)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/learning-curve/jeffrey-meyers-on-f-scott-fitzgerald-the-great-gatsbys-100th-anniversary/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Ukraine war: European regimes unveil new military support for Kyiv
2) Dow ends 1,000 pts lower after sharp swings; S&P 500 sinks 3.5%
3) Mike Johnson quashes GOP revolt to pass Trump-backed borrow-and-spend bill
4) US regime fires Greenland base commander after JD Vance visit
5) Trump signs order to “make America’s showers great again”
6) DoorDash starts robot deliveries in LA and Chicago
7) Zimbabwe: Regime makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land seizures
8) OpenAI countersues Elon Musk in legal dispute over ChatGPT maker’s business ambitions
9) Bangladesh: Court issues new arrest warrant against ousted PM Sheikh Hasina in graft case
10) Croatia protests Serbia’s expulsions of its citizens as part of crackdown on dissent
11) US egg prices increase to record high despite Trump’s predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing
12) US, Russian regimes exchange hostages
13) Senate Commerce Committee discusses “Daylight Saving Time” scam
14) Turkey: Regime abducts two journalists
15) Meta whistleblower details Mark Zuckerberg’s fixation on China “profits”
16) South Korea: Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung announces presidential bid following Yoon’s ouster
17) US regime moves B-2 bombers to Indian Ocean military base as threat to Iran
18) Macron says France could recognise Palestinian state
19) Soil from the moon’s far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth
20) Mexico: Carrillo released after serving 40 years in killing of rival gang member
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Other Cost of Protectionism
22) Trump’s modest proposal
23) Now’s The Time To Get That Garden Going
24) A Tariffic Strategy
25) President Trump’s Reduced Tariff/Taxes Are Still Unconstitutional
26) What a Jewish-Muslim bond can do
27) These Reforms Would Simplify Our Messy Tax Code — and Level the Playing Field
28) Adam Smith Would not Approve
29) Trump Faces Palestine: Who Are the Barbarians on This Planet?
30) The Return of Negative Real Yields in the Euro Area
31) Modern Democrats reveal their true intentions align with those of the Confederacy
32) The Global Order of Free Rides
33) Backlash Against Israel’s Western-Backed Crimes Will Fuel The Far Right
34) Great News on Free Trade!
35) Take Trump Literally
36) A Missed Opportunity to Curtail Eminent Domain Abuse
37) Global system took advantage of America on trade and defense; that free ride is over
38) Talking to America: How Far Will Iran Go?
39) Looming Indian Ocean showdown
40) Foreign Policy As If Liberalism Mattered
41) North Dakota’s Drone Contracts Link The State to Genocide
42) The Tariff King
43) The United States Can and Should Reduce Its Defense Spending
44) This Administration’s Mercurial Trade Policy Injures Our Economy and Our Democracy
45) The Left [sic] Discovers Milton Friedman
46) Executive orders aren’t enough: How to actually stop waste, fraud, and abuse
47) Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?
48) The Nonsense of the “Tariff Men”
49) North Carolina’s Equal-Opportunity Voter Suppression
50) How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) The Fifth Column, episode 500
52) Capital Record, episode 225
53) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2629
54) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 04/10/25
55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 04/10/25
56) Advisory Opinions, 04/10/25
57) IP … Frequently, episode 279
58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/10/25
59) Nonzero, 04/09/25
60) The Political Orphanage, 04/09/25
61) System Update, episode 436
62) The Intercept Briefing, 04/09/25
63) Reason Interview: Mark Clifford
64) The David Frum Show, 04/09/25
65) The Learning Curve, 04/09/25
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1) Ukraine war: European regimes unveil new military support for Kyiv
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“European allies have announced a ‘surge’ of military support for Ukraine, with the British government unveiling £450m ($580m) in UK-led aid. The support is partly aimed at strengthening the country’s position ahead of any peace deal with Russia. The UK will provide £350m this year, with Norway contributing further funding, Britain’s ministry of defence said on Friday. The funding will provide repairs and maintenance to vehicles and equipment as well as radar systems, anti-tank mines and hundreds of thousands of drones. The UK and Germany are host a meeting of 50 nations at Nato’s headquarters in Brussels on Friday. British defence secretary John Healey and his German counterpart, defence minister Boris Pistorius, will co-chair the 27th Ukraine Defence Contact Group, a role previously performed by the US defence secretary until Donald Trump’s return to office.” (04/11/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/ukraine-war-briefing-europe-unveils-new-military-support-for-kyiv-ahead-of-defence-summit
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2) Dow ends 1,000 pts lower after sharp swings; S&P 500 sinks 3.5%
Source: CNBC TV 18
“US stocks closed sharply lower on Thursday in a volatile session that saw the major averages swing wildly, as markets reacted to an updated tariff announcement from the White House. The major indexes plunged to session lows after officials confirmed that increased levies on Chinese goods would rise to 145% — not 125% as previously stated. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 2,100 points at its worst, the S&P 500 fell 6%, and the Nasdaq Composite tumbled over 7%. However, the losses were trimmed by the close. The Dow ended 1,014 points, or 2.5% lower. The S&P 500 shed 3.46%, while the Nasdaq lost 4.31%.” (04/10/25)
https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/us-stock-market-live-updates-trump-tariff-pause-impact-dow-snp-nasdaq-china-bonds-liveblog-19587418.htm
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3) Mike Johnson quashes GOP revolt to pass Trump-backed borrow-and-spend bill
Source: Axios
“House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday overcame a sizable revolt of his members and passed a budget resolution that was endorsed by President Trump. It puts Republican leaders one critical step closer to being able to pass a hulking fiscal bill that includes $4 trillion in tax cuts and a $5 trillion debt ceiling increase. … The budget measure passed 216-214, with GOP Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Victoria Spartz (Ind.) joining Democrats in voting against it.” (04/10/25)
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/10/mike-johnson-trump-budget-taxes-passes
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4) US regime fires Greenland base commander after JD Vance visit
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“The US has sacked the commander of its military base in Greenland over her alleged attempts to ‘subvert President Trump’s agenda’ after hosting the American vice-president on the Arctic island. Colonel Susannah Meyers was removed as commander of the Pituffik Space Base late on Thursday after reports that she had sent an email critical of vice-president JD Vance’s visit to the island last month. … ‘I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the US administration discussed by vice-president Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base,’ the email sent on March 31 said, according to military.com. Greenland has been thrust into the geopolitical spotlight after President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to take over the Arctic island of 57,000 people from Denmark and has refused to rule out using force to do so.” (04/11/25)
https://archive.is/lwXlQ
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5) Trump signs order to “make America’s showers great again”
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Donald Trump is going to ‘make America’s showers great again’ by easing rules restricting water flow, the White House says. The US president is ordering the energy secretary to rescind a change introduced by Barack Obama that restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute overall. This served ‘a radical green agenda that made life worse for Americans’, the White House said, as Trump criticised the ‘ridiculous’ amount of time he says it takes to wet his hair in the shower. … Under a 1992 energy law, showerheads in the US are not allowed to produce more than 2.5 gallons (9.5l) of water per minute.” [editor’s note: Nice to see him doing something good! – TLK] (04/10/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2eeggyppzo
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6) DoorDash starts robot deliveries in LA and Chicago
Source: Engadget
“DoorDash has started robot deliveries in Los Angeles and Chicago. This is thanks to a partnership with the company Coco Robotics. Eligible customers will be able to receive sidewalk deliveries sourced from over 600 participating merchants. Coco robots have been making deliveries for DoorDash in Helsinki since late last year through its international sub-brand Wolt. DoorDash says that Coco robots completed over 100,000 deliveries during this initial pilot phase. … DoorDash isn’t the only delivery company in town experimenting with robots. Grubhub recently started bringing delivery robots to college campuses and Uber Eats expanded autonomous deliveries to Japan.” (04/10/25)
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/doordash-starts-robot-deliveries-in-la-and-chicago-172358704.html
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7) Zimbabwe: Regime makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land seizures
Source: SFGate
“Zimbabwe says it has started paying compensation to white farmers who lost land and property more than 20 years ago in controversial and often-violent farm seizures, a move the government hopes will help thaw icy relations with the West. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said the government has approved the disbursement of $3.1 million, the first such payment under a deal signed between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and dispossessed white farmers in 2020. Ncube said in a statement this week that the amount is equivalent to 1% of the total compensation claim of $311 million. He said 740 farms have been approved for compensation, with 378 benefiting from the first batch of payments. About 4,000 white farmers lost their homes and swaths of land when the [b]lack-majority country’s then-president, Robert Mugabe, launched the often-chaotic redistribution program in 2000.” (04/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/zimbabwe-makes-first-compensation-payments-to-20269117.php
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8) OpenAI countersues Elon Musk in legal dispute over ChatGPT maker’s business ambitions
Source: Seattle Times
“OpenAI is suing Elon Musk for unfair competition and interfering with its business relationships with investors and customers, escalating a legal battle between the ChatGPT maker and the billionaire who helped bankroll the artificial intelligence startup a decade ago. The allegations against Musk were filed Wednesday in a federal court in California as a counterclaim to the Tesla CEO’s lawsuit against OpenAI, which is heading to a jury trial next year. Musk, an early OpenAI investor who now runs his own AI firm, xAI, along with Tesla, SpaceX, social media platform X and President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, began a legal offensive against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman more than a year ago. He first sued for breach of contract over what he said was the betrayal of its founding aims as a nonprofit research laboratory, and later expanded his claims.” (04/10/25)
https://archive.is/EY2DT
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9) Bangladesh: Court issues new arrest warrant against ousted PM Sheikh Hasina in graft case
Source: The Indian Express [India]
“A Bangladesh court on Thursday issued a fresh arrest warrant against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her daughter Saima Wajed Putul, and 17 others in connection with a graft case involving alleged fraudulent acquisition of a residential plot. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib accepted the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) charge sheet and issued the warrants, noting that all accused were absconding. … This development follows two previous arrest warrants issued by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal against Hasina and others for alleged crimes against humanity. It also comes a day after the ACC launched a new probe into the alleged misappropriation of Taka 4,000 crore during the ‘Mujib Centenary’ celebrations, involving Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and retired official Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury. … 77-year-old Hasina has reportedly been living in India, which has yet to respond to Bangladesh’s request for her extradition.” (04/10/25)
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/sheikh-hasina-arrest-warrant-bangladesh-court-extradition-request-india-9936867/
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10) Croatia protests Serbia’s expulsions of its citizens as part of crackdown on dissent
Source: SFGate
“On Thursday, Croatia protested a spate of expulsions of its citizens from Serbia, where the government of populist President Aleksandar Vucic is faced with massive anti-corruption protests that have shaken his tight grip on power in the Balkan state. Dozens of foreign citizens, including 15 Croats, have been expelled from Serbia in the past few months or slapped an entry ban, allegedly for posing a security risk for the country. Croatia has sent a protest note to Belgrade and informed the European Union about the expulsions, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, adding that Serbia’s moves are ‘unacceptable’. ‘We are demanding an explanation from the Serbian authorities,’ Plenkovic said at a government session. ‘Croatia condemns such behavior.’ There was no immediate response from Belgrade while a protest rally against the expulsions of Croatian and other foreign citizens critical of Vucic and the Serbian government was held Thursday in Belgrade.” (04/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/croatia-protests-serbia-s-expulsions-of-its-20268929.php
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11) US egg prices increase to record high despite Trump’s predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks. The increase reported Thursday in the Consumer Price Index means consumers and businesses that rely on eggs might not get much immediate relief. Demand for eggs is typically elevated until after Easter, which falls on April 20. Industry experts were expecting the index to reflect a drop in retail egg prices because wholesale egg prices dropped significantly in March.” (04/10/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/10/egg-prices-increase/
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12) US, Russian regimes exchange hostages
Source: CBS News
“Russia has released Ksenia Karelina, a dual U.S.-Russian national who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason in August last year, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post early Thursday, offering no information about the terms of her release. The Wall Street Journal first reported Karelina’s release, saying she was freed in a [hostage] swap orchestrated by the two countries’ intelligence agencies. … In exchange for Karelina, a ballet dancer who lived in California, the Journal said the U.S. government had freed Arthur Petrov, a German-Russian national arrested in Cyprus 2023 at the request of U.S. authorities. He was being held on allegations of exporting sensitive microelectronics.” (04/10/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-frees-american-ksenia-karelina-prisoner-swap/
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13) Senate Commerce Committee discusses “Daylight Saving Time” scam
Source: Fox News
“In 1957, rockabilly singer Bob Ehret repeated, ‘We’ve got to stop the clock, baby; to spend more time with you’ — and in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle strongly considered the benefits of doing so, in a way. Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Daylight Saving was grounded in good-faith efforts to reduce energy consumption, but that instead it has led to increased auto accidents in the dark, workplace issues and objections from the agriculture sector that relies on early-morning sunlight. ‘We find ourselves adjusting our clocks … springing forward and falling back in the fall. For many Americans, this biannual ritual is a minor inconvenience … But when we take a closer look at the implications of changing the clocks, its impact on our economy, our health and our everyday lives, we can see that this practice is more than an annoyance,’ Cruz said.” (04/10/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stop-clock-gop-dems-come-together-end-daylight-saving-over-health-economic-risks
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14) Turkey: Regime abducts two journalists
Source: US News & World Report
“Two of Turkey’s leading journalists were detained Thursday on what their newspapers said were false charges stemming from their work. Writers Timur Soykan of BirGun and Cumhuriyet’s Murat Agirel were arrested at their homes on charges of making threats and blackmail in an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Both papers have criticized the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They have extensively covered events surrounding the March 19 arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Istanbul’s mayor, which led to the largest protests in Turkey in more than a decade. More than a dozen journalists have been detained at their homes after covering the protests, which were banned by the authorities.” (04/10/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-10/2-leading-turkish-journalists-are-detained-on-charges-their-newspapers-say-are-based-on-their-work
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15) Meta whistleblower details Mark Zuckerberg’s fixation on China “profits”
Source: SFGate
“Following the explosive response to her tell-all memoir, an ex-Facebook director-turned-whistleblower testified before Congress on Wednesday alleging Facebook’s close relationship with China poses serious risks to U.S. national security, a charge parent company Meta denies. In ‘Careless People’, published last month, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a lawyer, former diplomat and ex-director of global public policy, who worked at Facebook for seven years starting in 2011, describes misconduct and harassment at the hands of Meta executives, including accusations that the company has lied about its relationship to China. In her book, Wynn-Williams alleges sexual harassment at the hands of top executives. Meta has previously said her statements are ‘misleading’ and ‘unfound’. She was fired in 2017, according to reports, for ‘poor performance’. In the book, she also accuses Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of lying during a 2018 Senate hearing and downplaying his relationship with the Chinese government.” (04/09/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-whistleblower-zuckerberg-china-profits-20267163.php
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16) South Korea: Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung announces presidential bid following Yoon’s ouster
Source: United Press International
“South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung said Thursday he would run for president in the June snap election triggered by the removal of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. Lee, who resigned as chairman of the Democratic Party on Wednesday ahead of the announcement, is the strong frontrunner in most opinion polls. In a survey released last week by Realmeter Korea, 49.5% of respondents found Lee the most suitable candidate for president and he won by decisive margins in various hypothetical head-to-head matchups. In an 11-minute video message announcing his candidacy, Lee said addressing income inequality and promoting economic growth would be his top goals when taking office.” (04/10/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/04/10/Lee-Jae-myung-presidential-bid-South-Korea-snap-election-Yoon-Suk-Yeol-impeachment/2411744277014/
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17) US regime moves B-2 bombers to Indian Ocean military base as threat to Iran
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said it was up to Iran to decide whether the recent US movement of B-2 bombers was a message to Tehran, as he voiced hope that US-Iran negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme could be resolved peacefully. As many as six B-2 bombers relocated in March to a US-British military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, US officials said, amid a US bombing campaign in Yemen and mounting tensions with Iran. There are only 20 B-2 bombers in the air force’s inventory so they are usually used sparingly.” (04/10/25)
https://archive.is/lcp0J
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18) Macron says France could recognise Palestinian state
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“President Emmanuel Macron says France could recognise a Palestinian state ‘in the coming months.’ Macron told France 5 television on Wednesday that he aimed to finalise the move at a United Nations conference on the Israel-Palestine conflict, which his country will co-chair with Saudi Arabia in June. ‘We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron said.’ … Palestine’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, told the news agency AFP that France’s recognition would be ‘a step in the right direction in line with safeguarding the rights of the Palestinian people and the two-state solution.’ Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said any ‘unilateral recognition’ of a Palestinian state would be a ‘boost for Hamas.'” [editor’s note: Joining the 147 other regimes that recognize Palestine would hardly be “unilateral” – TLK] (04/09/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/9/macron-says-france-could-recognise-palestinian-state-in-june
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19) Soil from the moon’s far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth
Source: SFGate
“Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday. But they cautioned more samples are needed for a clearer picture. A better understanding of the abundance of water in the lunar mantle can help explain how the moon evolved, the researchers noted. But it could also be all the more reason for astronauts to stick close to the near side of the moon as currently planned. China became the first country to land on the moon’s far side last year. The Chang’e 6 spacecraft scooped up the volcanic rock and dirt from the ancient, sprawling South Pole-Aitken basin, one of the largest impact craters in the solar system. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Sen Hu said he and his team received 5 grams of soil samples, then selected 578 particles for detailed analysis using electron microscopes.” (04/09/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/soil-from-the-moon-s-far-side-suggests-drier-20266906.php
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20) Mexico: Carrillo released after serving 40 years in killing of rival gang member
Source: ABC News
“Drug lord Ernesto ‘Don Neto’ Fonseca Carrillo, who was convicted in the 1985 killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, was freed from prison after completing his 40-year sentence, a federal agent confirmed late Wednesday. Fonseca, 94, had been serving the remainder of his sentence under home confinement outside Mexico City since being moved from prison in 2016. The federal agent, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said he was released last weekend. The co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel along with Rafael Caro Quintero, Fonseca was convicted in the kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena.” (04/09/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexican-drug-lord-convicted-killing-dea-agent-released-120666897
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21) The Other Cost of Protectionism
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vincent Geloso
“[T]ariffs tend to increase input prices which would make them less competitive on foreign markets. It would also increase prices for domestic consumers and thus reduce sales. Tariffs also have effects on exchange rates that end up making exports harder. Finally, and more generally, when domestic production expands due to import taxes, producers must use resources that are less efficient or better suited to other uses. … These costs of tariffs, however, are only the tip of the iceberg. Focusing solely on them suggests that the American economy would contract temporarily before returning to its previous growth rate — a scenario known as a ‘level shock,’ not a ‘trend shock.’ But protectionism — the broader policy goal tariffs are meant to serve — does produce a trend shock by slowing long-run growth.” (04/10/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-other-cost-of-protectionism/
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22) Trump’s modest proposal
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“In a surprise move this week, President Trump signed an executive order granting himself the power of prima nocta. The Latin term refers to the (likely apocryphal) medieval tradition in which a king or lord could sleep with any underling’s wife. … In an article quickly published online by the Claremont-VDARE Journal of Law and Physiognomy, academics Randy Barnett, Ilan Wurman, and Kurt Lash made the case that ‘history and tradition’ supported the new policy. … A reporter pointed out to Barnett that historians generally believe prima nocta to be a myth …. ‘No one cares,’ replied Barnett, who lost the only Supreme Court case he has argued. ‘This is a game, man.’ … Barnett, who recently compared Trump to God, added, ‘As a legal scholar, there’s nothing more invigorating than getting a federal court to sign onto some bullshit you made up out of whole cloth.'” (04/10/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-modest-proposal
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23) Now’s The Time To Get That Garden Going
Source: The Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Don’t just put in a garden. Stock up on canned food. If you can, get and keep a chicken or three. Consider buying a ‘whole cow’ package from your local butcher shop (and, if need be, a chest freezer to store it in). I try my best to avoid predictions of imminent catastrophe, and I still hold out hope that we can get through all this nonsense with nothing more than a mild to moderate recession before cooler heads prevail. But it’s not a ‘no pain, no gain’ situation. The hammer isn’t just cocked on the upcoming craziness; the gun has been fired. It’s a ‘pain, no gain’ situation, and all we can do is act preemptively to minimize the pain.” (04/10/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19496
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24) A Tariffic Strategy
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Singapore uses the War Games Strategy. That is, the only way to win is not to play. In other words, Singaporeans engage in unilateral free trade, whatever the rest do. Economically, the city-state punches high above its weight. The US, under the Trump Administration, uses the Chaos Strategy. That is, the only way to win is to go batshit long enough to get your counterparts to renegotiate amid the chaos. (Below, I discuss potential Trump Administration infighting between Reciprocols and Retardos.) My preferred strategy, the Everybody Wins Strategy, is probably too idealistic: the only way to win is universal free trade, which means governments get out of the way.” (04/10/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/a-tariffic-strategy?
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25) President Trump’s Reduced Tariff/Taxes Are Still Unconstitutional
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Steven Calabresi
“The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariff/taxes in Article I, Section 8, clause 1, and it gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. Trump incorrectly claims that Congress has delegated that power to him under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by declaring multiple ‘national emergencies’ …. The Supreme Court should narrowly construe the ’emergency power’ these statutes grant to the President, to avoid the conclusion that Congress has delegated its taxing power to the President. I know that in Trump’s mind trade deficits are an ’emergency’ because he thinks they are really a big problem, but that is not what the word ’emergency’ in NEA or IEEPA mean.” (04/10/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/04/10/president-trumps-reduced-tariff-taxes-are-still-unconstitutional/
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26) What a Jewish-Muslim bond can do
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“The only Muslim country that openly cherishes its Jewish minority did something very helpful on Wednesday. Azerbaijan mediated talks between Israel and Turkey. The aim: to prevent the two Middle East giants from a military clash over a dangerous competition to influence neighboring Syria, newly liberated from a dictator and still in disarray. Azerbaijan’s long friendship with both Turkey and Israel ‘has been proven in difficult times,’ said President Ilham Aliyev. The talks were necessary, he added, to calm tensions that are ‘very troubling.’ Most people in Azerbaijan are close to Turks in language, religion, and culture. Yet their centurieslong embrace of a thriving Jewish community – less than 1% of the population – has stood out in the Islamic world as a model of religious tolerance.” (04/10/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0410/What-a-Jewish-Muslim-bond-can-do
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27) These Reforms Would Simplify Our Messy Tax Code — and Level the Playing Field
Source: Reason
by Veronique de Rugy
“The U.S. tax code is broken. That’s mainly because it collects revenue in an arbitrary, distortionary, and unfair manner. At the heart of the problem are ‘tax expenditures’: credits, deductions, and loopholes that benefit the government’s favorite groups and behaviors. These provisions make the tax code more complicated, less neutral, and less growth oriented than it ought to be. Worse, they shift the burden onto the unfavored groups, requiring higher rates to make up for revenue lost to carveouts. This isn’t just a matter of accounting or administrative complexity; it’s a matter of morals. As the late economist David Bradford observed, our tax code reflects no coherent philosophy.” (04/10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/04/10/these-reforms-would-simplify-our-messy-tax-code-and-level-the-playing-field/
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28) Adam Smith Would not Approve
Source: EconLog
by Janet Bufton
“Someone asked recently what would change as a result of the world being plunged into a trade war by the Rose Garden tariffs. I quipped that either Adam Smith would be proved wrong or we’d all get poorer. (This is also true of the scaled-back tariffs, which still leave American tariffs higher than they’ve been in a century.) In response, as sometimes happens, they brought up Adam Smith’s arguments for tariffs. These arguments come from Book 4, Chapter 2 of Wealth of Nations. They’re a red herring, as we’ll see. But let’s look at how they apply.” (04/10/25)
https://www.econlib.org/adam-smith-would-not-approve/
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29) Trump Faces Palestine: Who Are the Barbarians on This Planet?
Source: TomDispatch
by Aviva Chomsky
“In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was a necessary form of self-defense needed to tame irrational eruptions of brutality among the colonized. To make sense of the bipartisan U.S. devotion to Israel, including the glorification of Israeli violence and the demonization of Palestinians, as well as the Trump administration’s recent attacks on Black South Africa, student activists, and immigrants, it’s important to grasp that worldview.” (04/10/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/trump-faces-palestine/
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30) The Return of Negative Real Yields in the Euro Area
Source: Cobden Centre
by Thorsten Polleit
“While negative real yields are currently no longer an issue for many investors, they are becoming a pressing topic once again, especially for those of us focused on building and preserving savings. The root cause of this issue is inflation. Before we continue discussing future inflation and the emergence of negative real yields, let’s first clarify what the term ‘inflation’ really means.” (04/10/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/04/the-return-of-negative-real-yields-in-the-euro-area/
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31) Modern Democrats reveal their true intentions align with those of the Confederacy
Source: New York Post
by Adam B Coleman
“Modern Democrats have latched onto an argument in favor of illegal [sic] immigration — and it’s the same one pro-slavery Democrats used in the 1800s. ‘So, I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact we are a country of immigrants. The fact is ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now,’ Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said at a speech commemorating Grace Baptist Church’s 125th anniversary in Waterbury, Conn. ‘You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.’ A cheap, illegal [sic] workforce is necessary, the Democrats argue, and the peoples of Mexico, Honduras, Haiti and other nations should be forced to fill it.” (04/09/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/opinion/modern-democrats-reveal-their-true-intentions-align-with-those-of-the-confederacy/
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32) The Global Order of Free Rides
Source: Law & Liberty
by Bruno Meyerhof Salama
“It’s become a common refrain in US foreign policy circles that the rest of the world is free riding on American power. The accusation sounds familiar — other countries enjoy the security provided by US military spending, benefit from American technological innovation, and sell goods into the vast US consumer market, all while contributing little in return. But the story is more layered; for all its complaints, the United States is also free riding on the rest of the world. Let’s start with the classic grievances.” (04/10/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-global-order-of-free-rides/
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33) Backlash Against Israel’s Western-Backed Crimes Will Fuel The Far Right
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“A new Pew survey has found that a majority of Americans now have a negative view of Israel, with 53 percent of respondents now holding an unfavorable view of the Zionist state — up from 42 percent just three years ago. This comes as Benjamin Netanyahu announces after his latest meeting with Donald Trump that negotiations with Iran will necessarily have to include a ‘Libyan-style’ dismantling of the nation’s civilian nuclear infrastructure in order to avoid the war that the US is openly preparing to wage. This, naturally, is a complete non-starter condition for Iran. It also comes as Trump’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services announces that it’s going to be screening the social media posts of immigrants for ‘antisemitic’ speech, which of course in practice means criticism of Israel and its atrocities.” (04/10/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/04/10/the-backlash-against-israels-western-backed-crimes-will-fuel-the-far-right/
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34) Great News on Free Trade!
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Immediately after launching his trade war, President Trump surrendered to the ‘enemy.’ Well, okay, it wasn’t a complete surrender. Let’s call it a partial surrender in the form of a unilateral 90-day cease fire. That’s good news, of course, to everyone in the world, including Americans. Well, except for the Chinese people, against whom Trump has decided to continue waging his trade war with tremendous, angry ferocity. But Trump’s immediate capitulation to all the other trade-war ‘enemies’ is not the best news to come out of the tariff/protectionism-versus-free-trade chaos that has ensued ever since Trump resumed the presidency. The best news is the fact that the dominant sentiment in America is clearly in favor of free trade and against economic protectionism, tariffs, and trade wars.” (04/10/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/04/10/great-news-on-free-trade/
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35) Take Trump Literally
Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk
“Back in 2016, Salena Zito, a conservative writer and faithful chronicler of Trump — she later stood a few feet from him when a gunman attempted to assassinate him in Butler, Pennsylvania — argued that ‘the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.’ This idea quickly went viral, entering the bloodstream of how many commentators thought about Trump, and it retains a certain plausibility even today. … If you take everything that Trump says literally, you really do fall into his trap. But the events of the last week show that it is just as big a mistake to dismiss Trump’s most outlandish statements as pure trolling.” (04/10/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/take-trump-literally
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36) A Missed Opportunity to Curtail Eminent Domain Abuse
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Rachel Chiu
“Eminent domain is a practice where the government can take private property for ‘public use,’ typically for projects such as highways and government buildings. Takings are expressly limited by the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits private property from being ‘taken for public use, without just compensation.’ That language implies that the government may only use its eminent domain power if the land is taken for public use. In 2005, the Supreme Court infamously expanded the scope of eminent domain when it held that the government could take homes to make way for private development. That case, Kelo v. City of New London, relied on a deeply flawed reading of ‘public use.’ … Bowers could have been the moment that the Supreme Court curtailed eminent domain abuse and restored value to private property rights in the face of government overreach. Instead, it is now a missed opportunity.” (04/10/25)
https://fee.org/articles/a-missed-opportunity-to-curtail-eminent-domain-abuse/
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37) Global system took advantage of America on trade and defense; that free ride is over
Source: Fox News
by John Rakolta, Jr.
“For nearly eight decades, the United States has shouldered a disproportionate burden in maintaining global peace, prosperity and order. After World War II, we had little choice. The world lay in ruins, and America alone had the industrial strength and confidence to lead. We opened our markets, extended our military shield, rebuilt broken nations and underwrote a new international system. But that era is over. And our policies haven’t caught up. Today, wealthy nations like Germany, France, Japan, South Korea — and yes, Canada — enjoy universal healthcare, world-class infrastructure and generous social safety nets, all while under-investing in their own defense and benefiting from privileged access to American markets. Their security remains subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, our troops and defense treaties forged when these nations were fragile and vulnerable.” (04/10/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/global-system-took-advantage-america-trade-defense-free-ride-over
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38) Talking to America: How Far Will Iran Go?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“That the U.S. and Iran will open the door to talks this weekend is a very positive development. Though the media focus is on whether those talks will be direct or indirect, what will really determine their chance of success is not their format but their scope. If the talks remain tightly focused on verifiable limitations on Iran’s peaceful, civilian nuclear program, they have a real chance of succeeding; if they widen the focus to dismantling Iran’s legal civilian nuclear program, then the talks are likely dead before they even begin.” (04/10/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/04/09/talking-to-america-how-far-will-iran-go/
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39) Looming Indian Ocean showdown
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mark Thompson
“It’s not every day the U.S. military concentrates one of its most powerful weapons on a tiny island far from nowhere. After all, their vulnerability renders them a tempting target for troublemakers. But that’s just what the Pentagon has done, dispatching at least six B-2 bombers to desolate Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean. … The $2 billion (each!) B-2s have been attacking Houthi rebels in Yemen, which is about as gross an example of ‘overmatch’ as you can get. But the Houthis are aligned with Iran, and the U.S. is far more interested in sending Tehran a message than pulverizing second-rate Houthi military assets. The message is this: The B-2 is the only warplane that can carry the GBU-57B Massive Ordnance Penetrator. These 30,000-pound blasting behemoths are ideal for attacking Iran’s buried nuclear-development sites.” (04/10/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/the-bunker-2671728586/
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40) Foreign Policy As If Liberalism Mattered
Source: Liberal Currents
by Jason Kuznicki
“What would a radically liberal foreign policy look like? I don’t think we’ve ever had one. As we’ve all seen it, foreign policy is the domain and the creature of nation-states, while liberalism aims at taking individuals’ liberties seriously. Making that liberty interest show through isn’t easy in foreign policy. … Liberalism at home starts with the individual, with their rights, their dignities, and their personal development. What would our foreign policy look like if we stopped seeing the world as consisting of 200-odd states? What if we saw foreign policy as mostly about a world of 8 billion individuals — with the states usually standing in the way of how we would prefer, as liberals, to treat them?” (04/10/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/foreign-policy-as-if-liberalism-mattered/
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41) North Dakota’s Drone Contracts Link The State to Genocide
Source: Common Dreams
by Lindsey Bertsch & Danaka Katovich
“Recently, Aviation International published a conversation between the Department of Commerce Commissioner of North Dakota and a director at Thales group. The article, titled ‘North Dakota: The Silicon Valley of Drone Innovation,’ makes the case that North Dakota is the go-to state for drone technology. North Dakota’s strong ties with the drone industry formed a few years ago, with the state’s goal of transforming the state into ground zero for drone technology. By taking advantage of the state, its resources, and its people, the mission to turn North Dakota into a silicon valley for drones has already produced a vast network of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technological hubs. However, in doing so it has also entangled North Dakotans into a deep relationship with Elbit Systems of America, a subsidiary of the Israeli company.” (04/10/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/north-dakota-drones-genocide
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42) The Tariff King
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Whatever the alleged merits of high tariffs, unilateral free trade, or any of these issues, these policies should not be decided by the president; the Constitution gives Congress the responsibility ‘to lay Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises’ and ‘regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.’ By handing the president ’emergency’ powers to change tariff policy in the first place, Congress has abdicated its role in setting tax policy. … Apparently, Congress wants the president to be king.” (04/10/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/04/10/the-tariff-king/
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43) The United States Can and Should Reduce Its Defense Spending
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“Today most of America’s “defense” budget goes to offense. Some of that is for utterly inane operations, such as invading Iraq, defeating the Taliban to turn Afghanistan into a modern parliamentary democracy, and battling Yemen’s Ansar Allah to keep the oceans free for Europe and China. Even more resources are devoted to protecting prosperous, populous allies — Europe, along with South Korea, Japan, and numerous others. Whatever would the Pentagon do with hundreds of billions of dollars more? If all these nations spent according to their ability and need, there would be no reason for Washington to keep them as defense dependents. What new wars does Rubio imagine fighting? It is time for the U.S. to embrace peace.” (04/10/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-united-states-can-and-should-reduce-its-defense-spending/
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44) This Administration’s Mercurial Trade Policy Injures Our Economy and Our Democracy
Source: The UnPopulist
by Emily Chamlee-Wright
“As an economist, I feel professionally obligated to point out that there is nothing inherently bad about trade deficits. Americans run deficits with some countries and surpluses with others as a natural result of consumer choice and comparative advantage, not because of nefarious foreign barriers. Again, as an economist, I care a great deal about trade — not as an abstraction, but as a mechanism of opportunity. Since the end of World War II, freer trade has catalyzed the greatest reduction of poverty in human history. In America and around the globe, wherever leaders have embraced markets, economic liberalization has raised life expectancy, lowered infant mortality, and created pathways to prosperity. … That’s why I’m baffled by the idea that tariffs are a pathway to renewal.” (04/09/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/this-administrations-mercurial-trade
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45) The Left [sic] Discovers Milton Friedman
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“After President Donald Trump imposed broad tariffs, some of his left-wing critics began quoting economists like Milton Friedman, who adamantly believed in unilateral free trade. Friedman preferred that our trading partners refrain from imposing barriers on goods imported from the United States. He said: ‘We would be benefited by dispensing with our tariffs even if other countries did not. We would of course be benefited even more if they reduce theirs but our benefiting does not require that they reduce tariffs.’ What if Trump succeeds in getting our trading partners to reduce their tariffs, which are imposed at a higher rate on American goods? Friedman served as an adviser to former President Ronald Reagan, who, free trade rhetoric aside, did engage in some protectionism, including imposing ‘voluntary import quotas’ on foreign vehicles, primarily from Japan.” (04/10/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/04/10/the-left-discovers-milton-friedman-n2655276
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46) Executive orders aren’t enough: How to actually stop waste, fraud, and abuse
Source: Niskanen Center
by Ann Lewis
“While it would technically be possible for all agency programs to allow any executive branch leader to have direct access to all data, doing so would create myriad security risks and provide minimal value. That’s why large private sector companies favor balancing robust security practices with carefully managed access granted to fraud-focused teams. Large private-sector companies don’t rely on small strike teams with broad access to all datasets. Instead, they invest in robust, long-term anti-fraud capabilities that leverage continuous monitoring of fraud signals, cloud-first security models, AI-driven detection, and adaptive risk modeling.” (04/09/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-to-stop-waste-fraud-and-abuse
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47) Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Make no mistake about it. When one nation-state drops bombs on another nation-state, that is an act of war. When the first bomb drops, the United States will initiating another war of aggression — that is, the type of war that was condemned as a war crime at Nuremberg. Before then, U.S. officials will undoubtedly try to pressure Mexican president Claudia Scheinbaum into agreeing to their bombing campaign. That way, they can say that they are not really waging war on Mexico with their bombs because Mexico’s president has agreed to the U.S. Empire’s bombing of her country.” (04/09/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/04/09/bomb-bomb-bomb-mexico/
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48) The Nonsense of the “Tariff Men”
Source: Quillette
by Phillip W Magness
“When Trump bluffs then retracts a tariff threat to attain diplomatic concessions, tariffs are merely a negotiating device. When he pulls the tariff trigger on the same nation a few days later, we’re told that it’s to address a national-security ’emergency’ on the border or part of a plan to somehow offset Chinese steel production by taxing Canadian steel. When the markets crash, it’s all part of an elaborate four-dimensional chess game to restructure the global economy. Administration talking points about the dangers of a tariff-induced recession change by the hour, ranging from denying any threat of economic turmoil to insinuating that some purposeful economic ‘reset’ of the global trading system is afoot.” (04/09/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/04/09/the-nonsense-of-the-tariff-men-trump-navarro-miran-lutnick-hassett/
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49) North Carolina’s Equal-Opportunity Voter Suppression
Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley
“Members of the armed forces have been pummeled with disrespect over the past several months. Veterans nationwide have had their health care snatched away, their jobs abolished, and their careers sideswiped. The latest indignity comes courtesy of North Carolina, where active-duty members who are state residents now find themselves facing an incomprehensible threat: disenfranchisement. ‘They are furious about this,’ says Jason Cain, a ten-year Army veteran and member of Common Defense, a veterans advocacy group. … All told, more than 65,000 North Carolina voters’ ballots from last November’s election are being contested because the Republican candidate for a state supreme court seat, Jefferson Griffin, an appeals court judge, found himself on the wrong side of a 734-vote margin that favored Allison Riggs, the Democratic state supreme court justice seeking re-election.” (04/10/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-04-10-north-carolinas-equal-opportunity-voter-suppression/
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50) How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“The year was 1971 and the claims against dollar-based debt were pouring in from every country. The rumor was that the US did not really have the gold to pay. Foreign holders of US assets decided to test the promise, just in case. Sure enough, Nixon panicked and shut the gold window, in effect defaulting on the terms of the deal, as did his predecessor FDR back in 1933. Nixon too was panicking over the draining of gold from the US Treasury. His intention was to protect the US dollar. Briefly, the US attempted a fixed-rate regime without settlement but failed. Two years later, the US announced a new system, one that they claimed would be better than ever. Henceforth, the US would be backed by nothing but confidence.” (04/09/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-richard-nixon-wrecked-free-trade/
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51) The Fifth Column, episode 500
Source: The Fifth Column
“The Triumph of the Idiots.” (04/10/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/500-the-triumph-of-the-idiots
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52) Capital Record, episode 225
Source: National Review
“The Morality of Trade Deficits vs. Central Planning.” (04/10/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/the-morality-of-trade-deficits-vs-central-planning/
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53) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2629
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Trump Tariffs: A Debate.” (04/10/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2629-the-trump-tariffs-a-debate/
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54) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 04/10/25
Source: The New Republic
“‘Trump Is Backing Down Again’: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip-Flop.” (04/10/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/193827/trump-backing-again-hakeem-jeffries-mocks-tariff-flip-flop
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55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 04/10/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Big Beautiful Budget … Or Ugly Spending Death Spiral?” (04/10/25)
https://rumble.com/v6rx0bp-big-beautiful-budget…or-ugly-spending-death-spiral.html
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56) Advisory Opinions, 04/10/25
Source: The Dispatch
“The Rights of Deportees.” (04/10/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-rights-of-deportees/
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57) IP … Frequently, episode 279
Source: IP … Frequently
“No Romance in China, No Truth in Washington.” (04/10/25)
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ip-frequently/episodes/Ep–279—No-Romance-in-China–No-Truth-in-Washington-e319ov0
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/10/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Says Israel Could Lead Iran Attack, Houthis Shoot Down Another US MQ-9 Reaper Drone, and More.” (04/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EAEDSrGv0
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59) Nonzero, 04/09/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Psycho-logic of Trump’s Tariffs | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom” (04/09/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/68575
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60) The Political Orphanage, 04/09/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Trump, Napoleon III, and the Global Economic Order.” (04/09/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/trump-napoleon-iii-and-the-global-economic-order
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61) System Update, episode 436
Source: System Update
“Trump’s Tariffs: A Threat to the Neoliberal Order? With Journalist David Sirota; Biden CBP Fabricated Doc to Help Imprison Bolsonaro Adviser? Plus: Israel Support Collapsing.” (04/09/25)
https://rumble.com/v6rvtiz-system-update-show-436.html
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62) The Intercept Briefing, 04/09/25
Source: The Intercept
“Unchecked: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the President’s Power Grab.” (04/09/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/09/briefing-podcast-ayanna-pressley-rumeysa-ozturk/
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63) Reason Interview: Mark Clifford
Source: Reason
“The former editor in chief of the South China Morning Post discusses his book on Jimmy Lai, who is currently on trial in Hong Kong for having the audacity to stand up to the government.” (04/09/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/04/09/mark-clifford-a-political-prisoner-fights-for-free-speech-in-china/
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64) The David Frum Show, 04/09/25
Source: The Atlantic
“Treating Friends Like Enemies.” (04/09/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/04/the-david-frum-show-rahm-emanuel-treating-friends-like-enemies/682362/
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65) The Learning Curve, 04/09/25
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Jeffrey Meyers on F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby’s 100th Anniversary.” (04/09/25)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/learning-curve/jeffrey-meyers-on-f-scott-fitzgerald-the-great-gatsbys-100th-anniversary/
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