05/25 -- GA: GOP voters nix disgraced former president's primary picks; It's Long Past Time For Congress To Break Up The FBI
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Thomas L. Knapp
May 25, 2022, 6:28:05 AM5/25/22
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Today's Freedom News:
1) GA: GOP voters nix disgraced former president's primary picks
2) Pakistan: Regime bans Khan rally, cracks down on supporters in overnight raids
3) TX: Gunman kills 19 at elementary school
4) Amnesty Reports Rise In "State-Sanctioned" Executions
5) DE: Carney vetoes marijuana legalization bill
6) Appeals court temporarily blocks House's Capitol riot exploitation committee from getting RNC records
7) Swedish, Finnish regimes to send delegations to Turkey over NATO bids
8) Hungary: Orban seizes "emergency powers," citing Ukraine war
9) Russia: Regime court rejects appeal of political prisoner Navalny
10) Gun rights group's ATF report accuses agency of making "illegal gun registry"
11) Life imitates art: "Jaws" extra named police chief of town where it was filmed
12) Afghanistan: Regime says deal signed with UAE firm to manage airports
13) China: Faces from Uyghur detention camps revealed
14) GA: Charges dropped against man who shot at suspects to protect his home
15) TN: Poor People's Campaign Marches in Memphis Ahead of DC Gathering
16) WHO: Monkeypox outbreak "'containable"
17) MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC ignore testimony that Clinton OK'd leaking of Trump-Russian allegations
18) Southern Baptists accused of covering up sexual abuse complaints
19) MN: Skull, Nearly 8,000 years old, found in river
20) Myanmar: Junta "court" gives go-ahead for Suu Kyi "trial"
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) It's Long Past Time For Congress To Break Up The FBI
22) Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
23) They're Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
24) The accidental warmonger
25) On Taiwan, Joe Biden Just Said What Everybody Already Knows
26) The Drug War Is Keeping Truckers Off the Road
27) Exxon and Climate Change: Reasonable Doubt?
28) Once More, Against Moralism in Community
29) Climate Change: Pro and Con, part 2
30) The Permanent War Economy
31) Sussmann Trial: Mook Outs Clinton as "Russiagate" Shot-Caller
32) Government Greed Caused Inflation, For the Record
33) Arsenal of Autocracy: Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine
34) The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System
35) Biden's Taiwan remarks reject the Constitution and his own promise
36) The Dethroned King Is Losing His Midas Touch
37) Democrats' Latest Phony Inflation Scapegoat: Credit Cards
38) Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering
39) In Politics, Money Will Always Talk. Unless ...
40) Biden Admin Takes Steps Toward A Digital Dollar
41) A Regulator Signals Comfort With Allowing More Bank Mergers
42) We need a real debate about the Ukraine war
43) How Party-Switching Can Reduce Polarization
44) With Taiwan comments, is Biden signaling a two-front war strategy?
45) Biden takes every opportunity to divide America
46) Data Brokers and True the Vote are the Real Villains of "2000 Mules" Movie
47) Surveillance Transparency Report Documents Wide FBI Reach
48) Willpower, Human and Machine
49) How the Child Welfare System Is Silently Destroying Black Families
50) The Pandemic of Executive Overreach Comes to an End. When Will the Next One Begin?
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Talk Live, 05/24/22
52) Conflicts Of Interest, episode 280
53) Part Of The Problem, 05/24/22
54) Hubwonk, 05/24/22
55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 05/24/22
56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 05/24/22
57) Rising, 05/24/22
58) Questions For Corbett, episode 87
59) How to Fix the Internet, 05/24/22
60) The Chris Spangle Show, 05/23/22
61) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 05/23/22
62) Lions of Liberty Podcast, 05/23/22
63) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2130
64) Quillette Podcast, episode 189
65) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 408
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_____ Today's Freedom News _____
1) GA: GOP voters nix disgraced former president's primary picks
Source: ClickOnDetroit
"Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia easily dispatched Donald Trump's hand-picked challenger on Tuesday in a Republican primary that demonstrated the limits of the former president and his conspiracy-fueled politics in a critical swing state. Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams this fall in what will be one of the nation's most consequential governor's races. The GOP results, combined with the loss of the Trump-backed candidate for secretary of state, served as a stinging rebuke for the former president in a state he prioritized above almost all others. ... Altogether, Trump failed to replace all four Republican incumbents he targeted in the state, including the governor, attorney general and secretary of state. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who refused to support the former president's direct calls to overturn the 2020 election, defeated Trump's choice, Rep. Jody Hice." (05/24/22)
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/2022/05/24/trumps-bid-to-reshape-gop-faces-biggest-hurdles-in-georgia/
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2) Pakistan: Regime bans Khan rally, cracks down on supporters in overnight raids
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
"Pakistan on Tuesday banned ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding a massive, planned rally in the capital of Islamabad and cracked down on his supporters in overnight raids across the country, arresting hundreds. The ban came hours after a policeman was killed during one of the raids, when a supporter of the former premier opened fire after officers entered his home in the city of Lahore. ... Earlier this week, Khan urged supporters to converge on Islamabad on Wednesday for a massive rally to pressure Sharif's government. The demonstration, he said, would continue until a date for snap elections was announced. Sanaullah, the interior minister, said the decision to ban the rally was taken after Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party failed to assure the administration in writing that the rally would be peaceful." (05/24/22)
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3178999/pakistan-bans-ex-pm-imran-khans-rally-cracks-down-supporters
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3) TX: Gunman kills 19 at elementary school
Source: KSL News
"An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade and the latest gruesome moment for a country scarred by a string of massacres. The attacker was killed by law enforcement. The death toll also included two adults, authorities said. Gov. Greg Abbott said one of the two was a teacher. The rampage at Robb Elementary School in the heavily Latino town of Uvalde was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012." [editor's note: Surely this would never have happened if the guy had had the Gun-Free School Zones Act explained to him, right? – TLK] (05/24/22)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1990
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4) Amnesty Reports Rise In "State-Sanctioned" Executions
Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty [US state media]
"Last year saw a 'worrying rise' in global executions in 2021 amid an easing in pandemic restrictions, Amnesty International has said, with Iran recording its highest number of state-sanctioned killings since 2017. The global number of executions saw a 20 percent increase over 2020, with Iran accounting for most of the rise. ... Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, more than doubled the number of executed people last year. Amnesty also mentions that Saudi Arabia this year stepped up the practice, with the execution of 81 people in just one day in March. ... At least 2,052 death sentences were handed down last year in 56 countries." (05/24/22)
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-amnesty-rise-executions/31865034.html
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5) DE: Carney vetoes marijuana legalization bill
Source: Delaware Public Media [US state media]
"Delaware Governor John Carney has vetoed a bill that would have removed all penalties for possessing small quantities of recreational marijuana on Tuesday, citing his long-standing concerns about the health and public safety impacts of marijuana use and sales. ... State Rep. Edward Osienski's (D-Newark) bill was the simpler half of a two-pronged effort to legalize recreational marijuana sales and use; the bill passed in the Senate earlier this month. A companion bill -- also sponsored by Osienski -- establishing regulations for the sale and production of marijuana failed in the state's House of Representatives last week. Osienski may, however, have a chance to have the latter bill reconsidered before the end of this year's legislative session." (05/24/22)
https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2022-05-24/governor-carney-vetoes-marijuana-legalization-bill
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6) Appeals court temporarily blocks House's Capitol riot exploitation committee from getting RNC records
Source: The Hill
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the House Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining Republican National Committee (RNC) records while the GOP challenges a subpoena for documents pertaining to its fundraising efforts in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the RNC a temporary administrative injunction prohibiting third-party vendor Salesforce from turning over the party's fundraising records to the select committee. The injunction will remain in effect until the judges decide the RNC's emergency motion for a more lasting injunction, the panel said in a brief order." (05/24/22)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3499852-appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-jan-6-committee-from-getting-rnc-records/
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7) Swedish, Finnish regimes to send delegations to Turkey over NATO bids
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
"Sweden and Finland are sending delegations to Turkey, hoping to clear up Ankara's opposition to their applications to join NATO, according to Finnish foreign minister Pekka Haavisto. 'When we see the problems coming, of course, we take this diplomatically. We are sending our delegations to visit Ankara from both Sweden and Finland. This will happen tomorrow,' Haavisto told attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. Sweden and Finland applied to join the transatlantic alliance in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine." (05/24/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/24/sweden-finland-to-send-delegations-to-turkey-over-nato-bids
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8) Hungary: Orban seizes "emergency powers," citing Ukraine war
Source: US News & World Report
"Hungary's government will assume emergency powers in order to be able to respond more quickly to challenges created by the war in neighbouring Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a Facebook video on Tuesday. Orban, who won a fourth consecutive term in an election on April 3, has used the special legal order in the past, once due to Europe's migration crisis and later during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new state of emergency similarly empowers Orban's government to approve measures by decree." (05/24/22)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-05-24/hungarys-government-gets-emergency-powers-due-to-ukraine-war-pm-orban-says
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9) Russia: Regime court rejects appeal of political prisoner Navalny
Source: France 24 [French state media]
"A Moscow court on Tuesday threw out jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's appeal against a nine-year prison sentence that he and his allies condemn as politically motivated. Moscow City Court ruled to 'leave the sentence without changes' and for it to enter into force immediately. This meant that Navalny will be transferred to a strict regime prison colony to serve out his term, after he was found guilty in March of embezzlement and contempt of court, charges he denies. Navalny, by far Russia's most prominent opposition figure, was handed the nine-year jail term in March in addition to the two-and-half years he is already serving. Navalny maintains the charges against him were fabricated to thwart his political ambitions." (05/24/22)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220524-russian-court-rejects-appeal-of-jailed-kremlin-critic-navalny
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10) Gun rights group's ATF report accuses agency of making "illegal gun registry"
Source: Fox News
"A gun rights organization's new report on the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) accuses the agency of creating an 'illegal gun registry' with a new rule as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, takes aim in Congress. Gun Owners of America (GOA), a gun rights advocacy group, blasted the ATF for their 'illegal gun registry' in their new report on the finalized rule requiring federal firearms licensees (FFLs) to maintain purchase records indefinitely. The group's report on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested documents revealed the ATF 'is maintaining a digital, searchable, centralized registry of guns and gun owners in violation of various federal prohibitions.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gun-rights-atf-accuses-agency-illegal-gun-registry
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11) Life imitates art: "Jaws" extra named police chief of town where it was filmed
Source: SFGate
"A man who as a child had a brief but key role in 'Jaws' has been named police chief on the Massachusetts island on which the 1975 movie was partially filmed. Jonathan Searle was offered the job of police chief in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard last week. 'I'm clearly elated and and I'm humbled and honored to have been offered the position,' Searle, currently a sergeant with Edgartown police, told the Vineyard Gazette, which first reported the appointment. The movie centers on the efforts of a police chief in a fictional resort town trying to rid the local waters of a killer shark. Scenes were filmed in various locations on Martha's Vineyard. In the movie, Searle played one of two boys who send beachgoers into a panic by swimming around with a fake shark's fin." (05/24/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Life-imitates-art-Jaws-extra-named-police-chief-17192021.php
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12) Afghanistan: Regime says deal signed with UAE firm to manage airports
Source: Seattle Times
"The Taliban announced a deal Tuesday allowing an Emirati company to manage three airports in Afghanistan after the fall of the country's U.S.-backed government. However, the United Arab Emirates did not immediately acknowledge the deal. Under the deal, the Abu Dhabi-based firm GAAC Solutions would manage the airports in Herat, Kabul and Kandahar, the Taliban said. They held a news conference in Kabul in which they signed the deal with an individual they identified as a managing director for GAAC." (05/24/22)
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/taliban-say-deal-signed-with-uae-firm-to-manage-airports/
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13) China: Faces from Uyghur detention camps revealed
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Thousands of photographs from the heart of China's highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region. The Xinjiang Police Files, as they're being called, were passed to the BBC earlier this year. After a months-long effort to investigate and authenticate them, they can be shown to offer significant new insights into the internment of the region's Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities. ... The cache reveals, in unprecedented detail, China's use of 're-education' camps and formal prisons as two separate but related systems of mass detention for Uyghurs – and seriously calls into question its well-honed public narrative about both." (05/24/22)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85qihtvw6e/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps
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14) GA: Charges dropped against man who shot at suspects to protect his home
Source: WSB TV News
"A Georgia man found himself in handcuffs after protecting his home from intruders, he said. 'After a while you can't take no more, you know,' Steven Bannister told Channel 2′s Matt Johnson. Bannister said he, his wife and child were living in fear after multiple car break-ins in their own driveway. 'At that point, you know, when you feel helpless, you have to help yourself,' he said. So in August 2018, the Army veteran shot someone who had broken into his car yet again on Crooked Creek Way in Covington. Body camera video from the Newton County Sheriff's Office shows the bullet holes on the driver-side window. The teen suspect and two others were arrested -- but so was Bannister. ... Monday, four years later, the Alcovy Circuit Court district attorney took steps to stop prosecuting and drop the charges." (05/24/22)
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/newton-county/charges-dropped-against-georgia-man-who-shot-suspects-protect-his-home/I64S6JAYV5DSHCCO7QIUTBIVVM/
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15) TN: Poor People's Campaign Marches in Memphis Ahead of DC Gathering
Source: Common Dreams
"Low-wage workers from three southern states marched and rallied in Memphis on Monday, the final stop made by the revived Poor People's Campaign before it converges in Washington, D.C. next month. The Mid-South Mobilization Committee, comprised of working people from Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, led the demonstration, which can be viewed in full here. The march ended at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. It's been more than a half-century since King was killed while in Memphis to support the city's striking sanitation workers--a visit he made during the original Poor People's Campaign for economic justice. But 'this is not about nostalgia,' Bishop William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC:NCMR), said at Monday's rally. 'It's not about just remembering the path.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/24/not-about-nostalgia-poor-peoples-campaign-marches-memphis-ahead-dc-gathering
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16) WHO: Monkeypox outbreak "'containable"
Source: CNBC
"The World Health Organization said Tuesday that a recent outbreak of monkeypox cases in non-endemic countries is 'containable,' even as it continues to confound health experts. As of Tuesday, there were 131 confirmed cases and 106 suspected cases of the disease since the first was reported on May 7, according to the public health body. The cases are reportedly located in 19 countries outside of Africa. The WHO said it was currently unclear whether the spike in cases was the 'tip of the iceberg' or whether a peak in transmission had already been reached." (05/24/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/monkeypox-outbreak-containable-says-who-as-confirmed-cases-hit-131.html
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17) MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC ignore testimony that Clinton OK'd leaking of Trump-Russian allegations
Source: Fox News
"MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News and CBS News have nearly completely ignored Friday's bombshell testimony in which former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Clinton approved the dissemination of materials to the media alleging a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, despite campaign officials 'not being totally confident' in the legitimacy of the data. 'Left-wing [sic] media outlets shout from the rooftops that disinformation matters and is a threat to democracy. Unless, of course, it makes Democrats or the press look bad,' radio host Jason Rantz told Fox News Digital. The mainstream media has largely avoided covering the trial of ex-Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with making a false statement to the FBI." (05/24/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sussmann-msnbc-abc-cbs-nbc-testimony-clinton
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18) Southern Baptists accused of covering up sexual abuse complaints
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is drawing condemnation for its failure to address allegations of sexual abuse and its treatment of victims over two decades, according to a newly released investigative report. The report, issued Sunday, was the result of a seven-month investigation and was released just weeks before next month's 2022 SBC Annual Meeting & Pastors' Conference in Anaheim, Calif. ... The report found that a few senior executive committee members closely guarded information about abuse allegations and lawsuits and were focused on avoiding liability for the SBC. Abuse survivors were 'ignored, disbelieved' or told that the denomination couldn't take action because of church autonomy." (05/24/22)
https://www.ajc.com/news/southern-baptists-accused-of-covering-up-sexual-abuse-complaints/ADQYVFQRQFDIXJ7LXIUB2CXLWQ/
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19) MN: Skull, Nearly 8,000 years old, found in river
Source: SFGate
"A partial skull that was discovered last summer by two kayakers in Minnesota will be returned to Native American officials after investigations determined it was about 8,000 years old. The kayakers found the skull in the drought-depleted Minnesota River about 110 miles (180 kilometers) west of Minneapolis, Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable said. Thinking it might be related to a missing person case or murder, Hable turned the skull over to a medical examiner and eventually to the FBI, where a forensic anthropologist used carbon dating to determine it was likely the skull of a young man who lived between 5500 and 6000 B.C., Hable said. 'It was a complete shock to us that that bone was that old,' Hable told Minnesota Public Radio. The anthropologist determined the man had a depression in his skull that was 'perhaps suggestive of the cause of death.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Nearly-8-000-year-old-skull-found-in-Minnesota-17189279.php
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20) Myanmar: Junta "court" gives go-ahead for Suu Kyi "trial"
Source: ABC News
"A court in Myanmar ruled Tuesday that a corruption trial for ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and three political colleagues will continue after finding that prosecutors presented sufficient evidence for their indictment. Suu Kyi, who was forced from office when the military seized power from her elected government last year, has been charged with 11 counts under the Anti-Corruption Act, with each count punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine. The corruption cases are among a large number of charges under which the military is prosecuting her. If found guilty of all the charges, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison." (05/24/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/myanmar-court-ahead-suu-kyi-corruption-trial-84931916
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21) It's Long Past Time For Congress To Break Up The FBI
Source: The Federalist
by Joe Popularis
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation's long history of abusing its power is once again prominent amid the continued expose by Special Counsel John Durham. His prosecution is demonstrating the FBI's use of its power to deploy federal intelligence assets against political opponents of Democrats. The FBI routinely intervenes in politics, such as when the FBI assisted the Hillary Clinton campaign in painting former President Donald Trump as a Russian intelligence asset, as Durham's investigation is emphasizing with more evidence. ... it appears the FBI's animus for Trump was rooted in disagreements about the foreign policy that Trump campaigned on. Spygate, however, is only a more recent manifestation of a long history of FBI abuses that Congress must rein in as soon as possible." (05/24/22)
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/23/its-long-past-time-for-congress-to-break-up-the-fbi/
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22) Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
"At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, President Donald Trump ludicrously proclaimed that 'Anybody that wants a test can get a test.' That was baloney then, and, unfortunately, despite a barrage of political promises in the meantime, it is still malarkey today. The Centers for Disease Control utterly botched the initial testing regime, sending out bogus, contaminated tests to detect COVID to state and local health departments that gave false readings. Trump boasted that those tests were 'perfect.' The Food and Drug Administration helped turn the coronavirus from a deadly peril into a national catastrophe. Long after foreign nations had been ravaged and many cases had been detected in America, the FDA continued blocking private testing and forcing the nation's most innovative firms to submit to its command-and-control approach and satisfy irrelevant criteria to gain approval." (05/24/22)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2022/05/24/federal-testing-debacle-multiplied-covid-carnage/
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23) They're Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"We're in the final countdown to British Home Secretary Priti Patel's decision on the fate of Julian Assange, with the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the United States due to be approved or rejected by the end of the month. Joe Lauria has a new article out with Consortium News on the various pressures that Patel is being faced with from both sides of this history-making issue at this crucial time. And I can't stop thinking, as this situation comes to a boil, about how absurd it is that the US empire is working to set a precedent which essentially outlaws information-sharing that the US doesn't like at the same time western news media are full of hand-wringing headlines about the dangerous threat of 'disinformation.'" (05/23/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/05/23/theyre-worried-about-the-spread-of-information-not-disinformation/
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24) The accidental warmonger
Source: spiked
by Brendan O'Neill
"Many frail, elderly folk like to be taken for a walk every now and then. With Joe Biden it's a little different. Old Joe is forever being walked back. Barely a week passes without the discombobulated president saying something crazy or inflammatory that is later 'walked back' by his minions in Washington. This week he casually threatened war with China. As you do. Most people who are slowly losing their faculties are guilty merely of the occasional social faux pas; Sleepy Joe, in contrast, risks blundering us all into world war." (05/24/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/24/the-accidental-warmonger/
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25) On Taiwan, Joe Biden Just Said What Everybody Already Knows
Source: The New Republic
by David Rieff
"President Biden's decision during Monday's joint press conference in Tokyo with the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, to state categorically that the United States will intervene militarily should China attack Taiwan has provoked a great deal of anger in Beijing and a great deal of discomfort in much, if not most, of the American foreign policy establishment, very much including many of the president's own supporters both outside and even inside the administration. ... The core problem for Washington is that the doctrine of strategic ambiguity that was developed at the end of the '70s today seems long past its sell-by date. It is this that Biden has recognized, even if his State Department has not." (05/24/22)
https://newrepublic.com/article/166591/biden-taiwan-policy-everybody-knows
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26) The Drug War Is Keeping Truckers Off the Road
Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster
"Many people are justifiably concerned about the ongoing disruption of the global supply chain. More than 70 percent of Americans have either been unable to get a certain product, or have experienced a delay. Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply has struggled to keep up with demand. Shortages of materials and parts have combined with protectionist trade policies, leading to empty shelves and inflated prices. But another factor contributing to kinks in the supply chain is a lack of truck drivers. ... According to the FMCSA Clearinghouse's monthly report covering through the end of March, drivers tested positive for marijuana more than 10,000 times just this year. From the beginning of 2020, the number of positive tests is over 70,000. That constitutes 70,000 instances in which a driver was taken off the road, with no distinction between whether they were unsafe to drive or had merely used marijuana recently." (05/24/22)
https://reason.com/2022/05/24/the-drug-war-is-keeping-truckers-off-the-road/
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27) Exxon and Climate Change: Reasonable Doubt?
Source: EconLog
by Robert Bradley & Richard Fulmer
"In our previous post, we examined the Inside Climate News (ICN) claims about Exxon's research goals and processes with regard to climate change. Exxon had real doubts about the state of the science, and it supported reasonable public policies based on the science. From computer models of the earth's climate to the Kyoto Protocol, today's perspective does not contradict the company's early impressions." (05/24/22)
https://www.econlib.org/exxon-and-climate-change-reasonable-doubt/
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28) Once More, Against Moralism in Community
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
"Legal moralists worry about the degradation of social norms and community connections. Their worry is that immorality tears at the 'fabric of society' where that 'fabric,' presumably, is the system of moral beliefs held in common by most people in the community. Legal moralists are thus happy to impose their own moral views on others with the power of government -- they think that this must be done if the norms (and moral beliefs commonly held) are threatened. In their willingness to use government power to impose their views of morality, moralists ignore the fact that when a government is empowered to force people to act in certain ways, that power crowds out the ability of individuals to interact freely with one another." (05/24/22)
https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/05/24/once-more-against-moralism-in-community/
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29) Climate Change: Pro and Con, part 2
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
"While the left likes to paint right wing opponents of climate change as anti-science and more, the right wing opposition is much more subtle and sophisticated than that. The radical left has taken to painting opponents on climate change in terms of that most vile of racialist stereotypes, the holocaust denier. Climate change opponents aren't merely people with a difference of opinion. They are climate change deniers, an epithet expressed with the same moral outrage as one uses to condemn proto-Nazis. In the words of Greta Thunberg, 'How dare you!'" (05/24/22)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2022/05/climate-change-pro-and-conpart-2.html
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30) The Permanent War Economy
Source: Common Dreams
by Chris Hedges
"The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed trains. No universal health care. No viable Covid relief program. No respite from 8.3 percent inflation. No infrastructure programs to repair decaying roads and bridges, which require $41.8 billion to fix the 43,586 structurally deficient bridges, on average 68 years old. No forgiveness of $1.7 trillion in student debt. No addressing income inequality. No program to feed the 17 million children who go to bed each night hungry. No rational gun control or curbing of the epidemic of nihilistic violence and mass shootings. No help for the 100,000 Americans who die each year of drug overdoses. No minimum wage of $15 an hour to counter 44 years of wage stagnation. No respite from gas prices that are projected to hit $6 a gallon." (05/24/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/23/permanent-war-economy
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31) Sussmann Trial: Mook Outs Clinton as "Russiagate" Shot-Caller
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
"It's unlikely that [Hillary] Clinton will ever face criminal penalties or other severe consequences -- beyond of course, losing a presidential election and discrediting herself in ways that preclude a comeback -- for her leading role in [the "Russiagate" scam]. The best we can hope for is that history will treat her as very much the political twin of Donald Trump -- a con artist, a sore loser, and a Big Liar." (05/24/22)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/16855
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32) Government Greed Caused Inflation, For the Record
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Hannah Cox
"Government policies fail and create problems in the real world every day. But most Americans are so busy in their daily lives and so detached from the political system that they do not notice ... or at least they don't know enough to point to the root of the problem. Such is not the case with the current skyrocketing inflation, which has gotten everyone's attention. ... For those unfamiliar with the real causes of inflation, there's actually a basic recipe that tends to repeat in cycles in the US. The government gets greedy and wants to live beyond its means, promising all manner of special favors and services in exchange for votes that enshrine the political power of politicians. They pass spending bills we don't have the money to afford. And then, in response, the Federal Reserve prints new dollars." (05/24/22)
https://fee.org/articles/government-greed-caused-inflation-for-the-record/
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33) Arsenal of Autocracy: Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine
Source: TomDispatch
by William D Hartung
"These are good times to be an arms maker. Not only are tens of billions of dollars in new military spending headed for the coffers of this country's largest weapons contractors, but they're being praised as defenders of freedom and democracy, thanks to their role in arming Ukraine to fight the Russians. The last time the industry gained such a sterling reputation was during World War II when it was lauded as the 'arsenal of democracy' for fueling the fight against fascism."(05/24/22)
https://tomdispatch.com/arsenal-of-autocracy/
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34) The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Aaron Kheriaty
"The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December 2021 in a special session for only the second time since the WHO's founding in 1948, the Health Assembly of the WHO adopted a single decision titled, 'The World Together.' ... As part of this plan, the WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system, with plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID. ... This system will be universal, mandatory, trans-national, and operated by unelected bureaucrats in a captured NGO who already bungled the covid pandemic response." (05/24/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-who-treaty-is-tied-to-a-global-digital-passport-and-id-system/
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35) Biden's Taiwan remarks reject the Constitution and his own promise
Source: The Hill
by Bruce Fein
"In Tokyo on Monday, President Joe Biden extra-constitutionally pledged a United States military response to China to defend Taiwan. Congress should demand that Biden retract his claim of extra-constitutional war powers or be reminded of a promise he made as a senator to impeach a past president for similar actions. As George Mason explained at the constitutional convention, 'attempts to subvert the Constitution' were paradigm impeachable offenses. ... every participant in the drafting and ratification of the Constitution understood that war power was assigned exclusively to Congress. That understanding was echoed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson in supporting NATO before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Before entering the White House as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2007, Biden agreed." (05/24/22)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3499297-bidens-taiwan-statement-rejects-the-constitution-and-his-own-promise/
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36) The Dethroned King Is Losing His Midas Touch
Source: The New Republic
by Walter Shapiro
"Although it is too soon to know for sure -- and hope can cloud judgment -- a case can be made that Trump (yes, the All-Powerful Donald J. Trump) is beginning to lose cachet among Republican primary voters -- even if his views have been embraced by the candidates running in 2022. ... While reporters are obsessively keeping track of Trump's batting average with his endorsements in GOP primaries, they have, for the most part, missed a consistent pattern in these Trumpified races. Candidates who have received the official hands-on blessing from Mar-a-Lago tend to be limited to around one-third of the vote. That can sometimes result in a plurality that will propel someone to the general election in a crowded primary race but isn't exactly evidence of a resounding victory." (05/24/22)
https://newrepublic.com/article/166587/donald-trump-2022-endorsements
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37) Democrats' Latest Phony Inflation Scapegoat: Credit Cards
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
"In this administration, it's always someone else's fault. Inflation is now the No. 1 concern of voters, so the White House first blamed COVID. Then Donald Trump's tax cuts. Then Vladimir Putin. Then meatpackers and the poultry industry, Big Oil and pharmaceutical companies. Now, Democrats have identified a new inflation scapegoat: plastic. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and other credit cards hidden away in your wallet. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) has had it out for credit cards for almost two decades, even though over that period, credit cards, which were once reserved for the rich, are now nearly ubiquitous in our society. Many stores don't even take cash anymore in the post-COVID world. The benefits and conveniences of paying with a plastic card are easily in the tens of billions of dollars to retailers and shoppers." (05/24/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2022/05/24/democrats-latest-phony-inflation-scapegoat-credit-cards-n2607674
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38) Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
"American conservatives, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, have to be in state of ecstasy over an article about Cuba that appeared in last Sunday's Washington Post. The article stated that 'in a nation plagued by malnutrition,' there is no milk for the Cuban people to purchase. The article points that Cuba 'careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years' and that Cubans 'have been hit by mass shortages of dairy and other basic goods.' Why would other people's suffering put conservatives in a state of ecstasy? Because ever since the Cuban revolution, this is what they have been dreaming of and striving for." (05/24/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/05/24/statist-ecstasy-over-cuban-suffering/
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39) In Politics, Money Will Always Talk. Unless ...
Source: CounterPunch
by Sam Pizzigati
"Traditional primary elections these days typically decide less than we think about who actually gets the Democratic and Republican Party nods to run for office in November. The real threshold determination comes well before any voters head to the polls. Political analysts call this earlier decision -- quite appropriately -- the 'money primary.' The ability to raise large sums of cash quickly and early, as political analysts Robert Borosage and Ruy Teixeira have noted, now 'separates the serious candidates from the dreamers before voters even learn their names.' Money, of course, has always impacted our democracy big-time. Only two things matter in American politics, as GOP political strategist Mark Hanna famously quipped amid our nation's initial Gilded Age: 'The first is money, and I can't remember what the other one is.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/24/in-politics-money-will-always-talk-unless/
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40) Biden Admin Takes Steps Toward A Digital Dollar
Source: The American Conservative
by Kevin Stocklin
"'Give me control of a nation's money,' an 18th-century banking oligarch once said, 'and I care not who makes its laws.' That may have sounded like hubris at the time, but digital technology could soon make it an understatement. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), currently in various stages of development around the world, are being created as a new form of money that, depending on how they are structured, could give government bureaucrats more control over citizens than any law ever could. ... On March 9, President Biden took a first step toward creating a U.S. CBDC, directing his administration to report to him by this fall on whether and how to implement a federal digital dollar." (05/24/22)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/biden-admin-takes-steps-toward-a-digital-dollar/
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41) A Regulator Signals Comfort With Allowing More Bank Mergers
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
"A few years ago, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell produced an incredible statistic in response to a query from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Between 2006 and 2017, banks submitted 3,819 merger applications to the Fed. Of this number, 3,316 were approved and 503 were withdrawn prior to action by the Fed. That adds up to 3,819, meaning that the Fed did not deny a single merger application over that decade-plus period. And there is no formal accounting of the Fed denying any mergers in the five years since. Jeremy Kress of the University of Michigan has written that the last denial of a bank merger was in 2003." (05/24/22)
https://prospect.org/economy/regulator-signals-comfort-with-allowing-more-bank-mergers/
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42) We need a real debate about the Ukraine war
Source: Washington Post
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
"Those who have departed from the orthodox line on Ukraine are regularly excluded from or marginalized -- certainly rarely seen -- on big corporate media. The result is that alternative and countervailing views and voices seem nonexistent. Wouldn't it be healthy to have more diversity of views, history and context rather than 'confirmation bias?' ... prominent figures such as Noam Chomsky, University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and former U.S. ambassador Chas Freeman, among others, have been demonized or slurred for raising cogent arguments and providing much-needed context and history to explain the background of this war. In our fragile democracy, the cost of dissent is comparatively low. Why, then, aren't more individuals at think tanks or in academia, media or politics challenging the orthodox U.S. political-media narrative?" (05/24/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/24/ukraine-russia-war-biden-strategry-debate-dissent-noam-chomseky-john-mearsheimer-chas-freeman-matt-taibi-david-petraeus-walter-lippman/
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43) How Party-Switching Can Reduce Polarization
Source: The Atlantic
by Jonathan Robinson & Sean Trende
"Pundits and voters of all stripes lament just how extreme, polarized, and ideological American politics has become. But such grievances rarely come with advice for how ordinary people can address this problem, other than by voting for their preferred political party's candidates in general elections. Even that advice isn't very helpful: Voters in many parts of the country do not have the chance to participate in close electoral contests. Yet Democrats in Alabama and Republicans in New York, say, still have the power to secure better representation in Congress and strike a blow against political polarization. In places where electoral competition is lacking, primary elections by and large decide political outcomes. Voters in those places are accustomed to participating in their own party's primaries. But often the opposite party's primary is more competitive and more consequential. So why not strategically vote in the other party's primary?" (05/24/22)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/primary-election-voting-party-switching/630171/
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44) With Taiwan comments, is Biden signaling a two-front war strategy?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by George Beebe
"President Biden's statement in Tokyo on Monday, that the United States would respond militarily to defend Taiwan should China invade, raises important questions about Washington's new strategic approach to 'great power competition' with China and Russia. Since Nixon's opening to China in the early 1970s, it had been a fundamental dictum of U.S. strategy that Washington should have better relations with Beijing and Moscow than they have with each other. This approach minimized the likelihood that they would coordinate their peacetime activities against the United States, and it also reduced the chances we might face a two-front war against a pair of formidable nuclear powers. This approach has now become history." (05/24/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/24/with-taiwan-comments-is-bidens-signaling-two-front-war-strategy/
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45) Biden takes every opportunity to divide America
Source: Fox News
by Greg Gutfeld
"President Biden's numbers are looking up, as in looking up from a bottomless pit in hell. Say hello to Ted Kennedy. According to a CBS News YouGov poll, most Americans believe things are going badly under distracted and incontinent, I mean, incompetent Biden. Nearly eight in ten voters say things in our country are going somewhat or very badly. Now for a comparison. Getting your face eaten by a chimp gets better reviews, science. Speaking of chimps, we've got a new concern. It's called Monkeypox, and it's not as fun as it sounds. Kind of gross, actually. And according to the World Health Organization, this disease is being spread by sex at raves in Europe. So just to be safe, no raves for me in Europe. Definitely no sex with monkeys, at least for two weeks. You got to flatten that curve." (05/24/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-biden-takes-opportunity-divide-america
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46) Data Brokers and True the Vote are the Real Villains of "2000 Mules" Movie
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Will Greenberg
"2000 Mules is a movie which claims to expose election fraud with phone app location data. While these claims have already been thoroughly debunked, the movie also deserves condemnation for performing wildly invasive research on thousands of people's location data without their consent or even knowledge. It is a reminder of our need to stop the industry of shady data brokers that enabled this massive privacy invasion." (05/23/22)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/data-brokers-and-true-vote-are-villains-2000-mules-movie
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47) Surveillance Transparency Report Documents Wide FBI Reach
Source: Independent Institute
by Matthew Guariglia
"The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has released its Annual Statistical Transparency Report disclosing the use of national security surveillance laws for the year 2021 -- and to no one's surprise it documents the wide-ranging overreach of intelligence agencies and the continued misuse of surveillance authorities to spy on millions of Americans. Specifically, the report chronicles how Section 702, an amendment to the Foriegn Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), that authorizes the U.S. government to engage in mass surveillance of foreign targets' communications, is still being abused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to spy on Americans without a warrant. Specifically, the report reveals that between December 2020 and November 2021, the FBI queried the data of potentially more than 3,000,000 'U.S. persons' without a warrant." (05/23/22)
https://blog.independent.org/2022/05/23/surveillance-transparency-report-documents-wide-fbi-reach/
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48) Willpower, Human and Machine
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
"Many stories of AI risk focus on how single-minded AIs are: how they can focus literally every action on the exact right course to achieve some predetermined goal. Such single-minded AIs are theoretically possible, and we'll probably get them eventually. But before that, we might get AIs that have weakness of will, just like we do." (05/23/22)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/willpower-human-and-machine
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49) How the Child Welfare System Is Silently Destroying Black Families
Source: In These Times
by Dorothy Roberts
"The sun had just begun to rise over Manhattan on an August morning in 2013. Angeline Montauban was whispering into the phone as she crouched in the bathroom of her apartment. As her partner and their 3‑year-old son slept, Montauban had tiptoed to the bathroom to call Safe Horizon, a domestic abuse hotline she had seen advertised in subway stations. She had decided it was time to stop the violence she was experiencing at the hands of her partner, and she hoped Safe Horizon could provide counseling or help her relocate with her son. At first, the social worker who answered her call listened sympathetically to Montauban's story. But once Montauban mentioned the couple had a little boy, the voice on the other end turned harsh and began collecting information about the family's whereabouts." (05/24/22)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/systemic-inequalities-in-the-child-welfare-system-target-black-families
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50) The Pandemic of Executive Overreach Comes to an End. When Will the Next One Begin?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Mitch Nemeth
"Over the past few decades, the executive branch of the federal government has taken an increasingly autocratic approach to governing. Past presidents have unilaterally attempted to bypass Congress due to partisan gridlock and the inevitable tug-of-war involved in governing a nation of 330 million people. President Joe Biden has governed in a similar fashion, regardless of progressive anger at him for not 'doing something.'" (05/23/22)
https://mises.org/wire/pandemic-executive-overreach-comes-end-when-will-next-one-begin
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Free Talk Live, 05/24/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Elementary School Shooter in TX :: Aliens and Politicians :: Replacement Theory :: Former State Rep Charged With Spiking Trees :: Liberland :: Skogen Bosque :: World Economic Forum Evil on Display :: Show: 2022-05-24 Ian, Aria, Conan." [Flash audio or MP3] (05/24/22)
https://freetalklive.com/archives?ppplayer=5c48425a5422918dc6f904bd1cb7e00f&ppepisode=832920ab42350b1624aefad4e3005d6a
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52) Conflicts Of Interest, episode 280
Source: Libertarian Institute
"Con Men Claim Ukraine Is Vital to American Security." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-280-con-men-claim-ukraine-is-vital-to-american-security/
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53) Part Of The Problem, 05/24/22
Source: GaS Digital Network
"A Very Nasty Woman." [MP3] (05/24/22)
https://chrt.fm/track/9C8FAD/pdst.fm/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/d204db6a-bd64-402e-85cf-ce31a2c1cdbe.mp3
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54) Hubwonk, 05/24/22
Source: Pioneer Institute
"Forsaking Massachusetts's Miracle: Risking Our Future With Past Mistakes." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/podcast-hubwonk/forsaking-massachusettss-miracle-risking-our-future-with-past-mistakes/
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55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 05/24/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Surviving In The Age of Corporatism & Shortages -- with Jack Spirko." [Flash video] (05/24/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/surviving-in-the-age-of-corporatism-shortages-with-jack-spirko
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 05/24/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"Friend of liberty and fellow wrongthinker Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly discussion of current events." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-32bkz-12337e9
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57) Rising, 05/24/22
Source: The Hill
"Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Dr. Fauci's denouncement of misinformation, and discuss the role of the federal public health apparatus in creating our current political climate." [Flash video] (05/24/22)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/3499230-rising-may-24-2022/
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58) Questions For Corbett, episode 87
Source: The Corbett Report
"Richard Cox of DeepStateConsciousness.com and author of The Essence of Anarchy joins me today to help answer a question about anarchy: How can we defend voluntarism in the face of arguments about the positive benefits of state regulation?" [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc087-voluntarism/
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59) How to Fix the Internet, 05/24/22
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Securing the Vote." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/podcast-episode-securing-vote
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60) The Chris Spangle Show, 05/23/22
Source: We Are Libertarians
"What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage? And What to Do If You Can't Breastfeed or Find Formula." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://wearelibertarians.com/css-what-caused-the-baby-formula-shortage-and-what-to-do-if-you-cant-breastfeed-or-find-formula/
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61) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 05/23/22
Source: FiveThirtyEight
"Are Trump's Endorsees About To Lose In Georgia?" [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-are-trumps-endorsees-about-to-lose-in-georgia%EF%BF%BC/
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62) Lions of Liberty Podcast, 05/23/22
Source: Lions of Liberty
"The Political and Spiritual Journey of Buck Johnson." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/the-political-and-spiritual-journey-of-buck-johnson
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63) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2130
Source: The Tom Woods Show
"Dissident Voices and Free Speech." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2130-dissident-voices-and-free-speech/
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64) Quillette Podcast, episode 189
Source: Quillette
"Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://quillette.com/2022/05/23/progressive-social-panic-at-yale-and-princeton/
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65) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 408
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
"This week's Cyberlaw Podcast covers efforts to get the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas law that treats social media platforms like common carriers and prohibits them from discriminating based on viewpoint when they take posts down." [MP3] (05/23/22)
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/23/but-was-the-sex-viewpoint-neutral/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) GA: GOP voters nix disgraced former president's primary picks
2) Pakistan: Regime bans Khan rally, cracks down on supporters in overnight raids
3) TX: Gunman kills 19 at elementary school
4) Amnesty Reports Rise In "State-Sanctioned" Executions
5) DE: Carney vetoes marijuana legalization bill
6) Appeals court temporarily blocks House's Capitol riot exploitation committee from getting RNC records
7) Swedish, Finnish regimes to send delegations to Turkey over NATO bids
8) Hungary: Orban seizes "emergency powers," citing Ukraine war
9) Russia: Regime court rejects appeal of political prisoner Navalny
10) Gun rights group's ATF report accuses agency of making "illegal gun registry"
11) Life imitates art: "Jaws" extra named police chief of town where it was filmed
12) Afghanistan: Regime says deal signed with UAE firm to manage airports
13) China: Faces from Uyghur detention camps revealed
14) GA: Charges dropped against man who shot at suspects to protect his home
15) TN: Poor People's Campaign Marches in Memphis Ahead of DC Gathering
16) WHO: Monkeypox outbreak "'containable"
17) MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC ignore testimony that Clinton OK'd leaking of Trump-Russian allegations
18) Southern Baptists accused of covering up sexual abuse complaints
19) MN: Skull, Nearly 8,000 years old, found in river
20) Myanmar: Junta "court" gives go-ahead for Suu Kyi "trial"
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) It's Long Past Time For Congress To Break Up The FBI
22) Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
23) They're Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
24) The accidental warmonger
25) On Taiwan, Joe Biden Just Said What Everybody Already Knows
26) The Drug War Is Keeping Truckers Off the Road
27) Exxon and Climate Change: Reasonable Doubt?
28) Once More, Against Moralism in Community
29) Climate Change: Pro and Con, part 2
30) The Permanent War Economy
31) Sussmann Trial: Mook Outs Clinton as "Russiagate" Shot-Caller
32) Government Greed Caused Inflation, For the Record
33) Arsenal of Autocracy: Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine
34) The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System
35) Biden's Taiwan remarks reject the Constitution and his own promise
36) The Dethroned King Is Losing His Midas Touch
37) Democrats' Latest Phony Inflation Scapegoat: Credit Cards
38) Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering
39) In Politics, Money Will Always Talk. Unless ...
40) Biden Admin Takes Steps Toward A Digital Dollar
41) A Regulator Signals Comfort With Allowing More Bank Mergers
42) We need a real debate about the Ukraine war
43) How Party-Switching Can Reduce Polarization
44) With Taiwan comments, is Biden signaling a two-front war strategy?
45) Biden takes every opportunity to divide America
46) Data Brokers and True the Vote are the Real Villains of "2000 Mules" Movie
47) Surveillance Transparency Report Documents Wide FBI Reach
48) Willpower, Human and Machine
49) How the Child Welfare System Is Silently Destroying Black Families
50) The Pandemic of Executive Overreach Comes to an End. When Will the Next One Begin?
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Talk Live, 05/24/22
52) Conflicts Of Interest, episode 280
53) Part Of The Problem, 05/24/22
54) Hubwonk, 05/24/22
55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 05/24/22
56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 05/24/22
57) Rising, 05/24/22
58) Questions For Corbett, episode 87
59) How to Fix the Internet, 05/24/22
60) The Chris Spangle Show, 05/23/22
61) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 05/23/22
62) Lions of Liberty Podcast, 05/23/22
63) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2130
64) Quillette Podcast, episode 189
65) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 408
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_____ Today's Freedom News _____
1) GA: GOP voters nix disgraced former president's primary picks
Source: ClickOnDetroit
"Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia easily dispatched Donald Trump's hand-picked challenger on Tuesday in a Republican primary that demonstrated the limits of the former president and his conspiracy-fueled politics in a critical swing state. Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams this fall in what will be one of the nation's most consequential governor's races. The GOP results, combined with the loss of the Trump-backed candidate for secretary of state, served as a stinging rebuke for the former president in a state he prioritized above almost all others. ... Altogether, Trump failed to replace all four Republican incumbents he targeted in the state, including the governor, attorney general and secretary of state. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who refused to support the former president's direct calls to overturn the 2020 election, defeated Trump's choice, Rep. Jody Hice." (05/24/22)
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/2022/05/24/trumps-bid-to-reshape-gop-faces-biggest-hurdles-in-georgia/
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2) Pakistan: Regime bans Khan rally, cracks down on supporters in overnight raids
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
"Pakistan on Tuesday banned ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding a massive, planned rally in the capital of Islamabad and cracked down on his supporters in overnight raids across the country, arresting hundreds. The ban came hours after a policeman was killed during one of the raids, when a supporter of the former premier opened fire after officers entered his home in the city of Lahore. ... Earlier this week, Khan urged supporters to converge on Islamabad on Wednesday for a massive rally to pressure Sharif's government. The demonstration, he said, would continue until a date for snap elections was announced. Sanaullah, the interior minister, said the decision to ban the rally was taken after Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party failed to assure the administration in writing that the rally would be peaceful." (05/24/22)
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3178999/pakistan-bans-ex-pm-imran-khans-rally-cracks-down-supporters
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3) TX: Gunman kills 19 at elementary school
Source: KSL News
"An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade and the latest gruesome moment for a country scarred by a string of massacres. The attacker was killed by law enforcement. The death toll also included two adults, authorities said. Gov. Greg Abbott said one of the two was a teacher. The rampage at Robb Elementary School in the heavily Latino town of Uvalde was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012." [editor's note: Surely this would never have happened if the guy had had the Gun-Free School Zones Act explained to him, right? – TLK] (05/24/22)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1990
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4) Amnesty Reports Rise In "State-Sanctioned" Executions
Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty [US state media]
"Last year saw a 'worrying rise' in global executions in 2021 amid an easing in pandemic restrictions, Amnesty International has said, with Iran recording its highest number of state-sanctioned killings since 2017. The global number of executions saw a 20 percent increase over 2020, with Iran accounting for most of the rise. ... Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, more than doubled the number of executed people last year. Amnesty also mentions that Saudi Arabia this year stepped up the practice, with the execution of 81 people in just one day in March. ... At least 2,052 death sentences were handed down last year in 56 countries." (05/24/22)
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-amnesty-rise-executions/31865034.html
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5) DE: Carney vetoes marijuana legalization bill
Source: Delaware Public Media [US state media]
"Delaware Governor John Carney has vetoed a bill that would have removed all penalties for possessing small quantities of recreational marijuana on Tuesday, citing his long-standing concerns about the health and public safety impacts of marijuana use and sales. ... State Rep. Edward Osienski's (D-Newark) bill was the simpler half of a two-pronged effort to legalize recreational marijuana sales and use; the bill passed in the Senate earlier this month. A companion bill -- also sponsored by Osienski -- establishing regulations for the sale and production of marijuana failed in the state's House of Representatives last week. Osienski may, however, have a chance to have the latter bill reconsidered before the end of this year's legislative session." (05/24/22)
https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2022-05-24/governor-carney-vetoes-marijuana-legalization-bill
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6) Appeals court temporarily blocks House's Capitol riot exploitation committee from getting RNC records
Source: The Hill
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the House Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining Republican National Committee (RNC) records while the GOP challenges a subpoena for documents pertaining to its fundraising efforts in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the RNC a temporary administrative injunction prohibiting third-party vendor Salesforce from turning over the party's fundraising records to the select committee. The injunction will remain in effect until the judges decide the RNC's emergency motion for a more lasting injunction, the panel said in a brief order." (05/24/22)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3499852-appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-jan-6-committee-from-getting-rnc-records/
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7) Swedish, Finnish regimes to send delegations to Turkey over NATO bids
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
"Sweden and Finland are sending delegations to Turkey, hoping to clear up Ankara's opposition to their applications to join NATO, according to Finnish foreign minister Pekka Haavisto. 'When we see the problems coming, of course, we take this diplomatically. We are sending our delegations to visit Ankara from both Sweden and Finland. This will happen tomorrow,' Haavisto told attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. Sweden and Finland applied to join the transatlantic alliance in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine." (05/24/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/24/sweden-finland-to-send-delegations-to-turkey-over-nato-bids
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8) Hungary: Orban seizes "emergency powers," citing Ukraine war
Source: US News & World Report
"Hungary's government will assume emergency powers in order to be able to respond more quickly to challenges created by the war in neighbouring Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a Facebook video on Tuesday. Orban, who won a fourth consecutive term in an election on April 3, has used the special legal order in the past, once due to Europe's migration crisis and later during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new state of emergency similarly empowers Orban's government to approve measures by decree." (05/24/22)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-05-24/hungarys-government-gets-emergency-powers-due-to-ukraine-war-pm-orban-says
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9) Russia: Regime court rejects appeal of political prisoner Navalny
Source: France 24 [French state media]
"A Moscow court on Tuesday threw out jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's appeal against a nine-year prison sentence that he and his allies condemn as politically motivated. Moscow City Court ruled to 'leave the sentence without changes' and for it to enter into force immediately. This meant that Navalny will be transferred to a strict regime prison colony to serve out his term, after he was found guilty in March of embezzlement and contempt of court, charges he denies. Navalny, by far Russia's most prominent opposition figure, was handed the nine-year jail term in March in addition to the two-and-half years he is already serving. Navalny maintains the charges against him were fabricated to thwart his political ambitions." (05/24/22)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220524-russian-court-rejects-appeal-of-jailed-kremlin-critic-navalny
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10) Gun rights group's ATF report accuses agency of making "illegal gun registry"
Source: Fox News
"A gun rights organization's new report on the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) accuses the agency of creating an 'illegal gun registry' with a new rule as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, takes aim in Congress. Gun Owners of America (GOA), a gun rights advocacy group, blasted the ATF for their 'illegal gun registry' in their new report on the finalized rule requiring federal firearms licensees (FFLs) to maintain purchase records indefinitely. The group's report on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested documents revealed the ATF 'is maintaining a digital, searchable, centralized registry of guns and gun owners in violation of various federal prohibitions.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gun-rights-atf-accuses-agency-illegal-gun-registry
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11) Life imitates art: "Jaws" extra named police chief of town where it was filmed
Source: SFGate
"A man who as a child had a brief but key role in 'Jaws' has been named police chief on the Massachusetts island on which the 1975 movie was partially filmed. Jonathan Searle was offered the job of police chief in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard last week. 'I'm clearly elated and and I'm humbled and honored to have been offered the position,' Searle, currently a sergeant with Edgartown police, told the Vineyard Gazette, which first reported the appointment. The movie centers on the efforts of a police chief in a fictional resort town trying to rid the local waters of a killer shark. Scenes were filmed in various locations on Martha's Vineyard. In the movie, Searle played one of two boys who send beachgoers into a panic by swimming around with a fake shark's fin." (05/24/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Life-imitates-art-Jaws-extra-named-police-chief-17192021.php
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12) Afghanistan: Regime says deal signed with UAE firm to manage airports
Source: Seattle Times
"The Taliban announced a deal Tuesday allowing an Emirati company to manage three airports in Afghanistan after the fall of the country's U.S.-backed government. However, the United Arab Emirates did not immediately acknowledge the deal. Under the deal, the Abu Dhabi-based firm GAAC Solutions would manage the airports in Herat, Kabul and Kandahar, the Taliban said. They held a news conference in Kabul in which they signed the deal with an individual they identified as a managing director for GAAC." (05/24/22)
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/taliban-say-deal-signed-with-uae-firm-to-manage-airports/
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13) China: Faces from Uyghur detention camps revealed
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Thousands of photographs from the heart of China's highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region. The Xinjiang Police Files, as they're being called, were passed to the BBC earlier this year. After a months-long effort to investigate and authenticate them, they can be shown to offer significant new insights into the internment of the region's Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities. ... The cache reveals, in unprecedented detail, China's use of 're-education' camps and formal prisons as two separate but related systems of mass detention for Uyghurs – and seriously calls into question its well-honed public narrative about both." (05/24/22)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85qihtvw6e/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps
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14) GA: Charges dropped against man who shot at suspects to protect his home
Source: WSB TV News
"A Georgia man found himself in handcuffs after protecting his home from intruders, he said. 'After a while you can't take no more, you know,' Steven Bannister told Channel 2′s Matt Johnson. Bannister said he, his wife and child were living in fear after multiple car break-ins in their own driveway. 'At that point, you know, when you feel helpless, you have to help yourself,' he said. So in August 2018, the Army veteran shot someone who had broken into his car yet again on Crooked Creek Way in Covington. Body camera video from the Newton County Sheriff's Office shows the bullet holes on the driver-side window. The teen suspect and two others were arrested -- but so was Bannister. ... Monday, four years later, the Alcovy Circuit Court district attorney took steps to stop prosecuting and drop the charges." (05/24/22)
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/newton-county/charges-dropped-against-georgia-man-who-shot-suspects-protect-his-home/I64S6JAYV5DSHCCO7QIUTBIVVM/
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15) TN: Poor People's Campaign Marches in Memphis Ahead of DC Gathering
Source: Common Dreams
"Low-wage workers from three southern states marched and rallied in Memphis on Monday, the final stop made by the revived Poor People's Campaign before it converges in Washington, D.C. next month. The Mid-South Mobilization Committee, comprised of working people from Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, led the demonstration, which can be viewed in full here. The march ended at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. It's been more than a half-century since King was killed while in Memphis to support the city's striking sanitation workers--a visit he made during the original Poor People's Campaign for economic justice. But 'this is not about nostalgia,' Bishop William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC:NCMR), said at Monday's rally. 'It's not about just remembering the path.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/24/not-about-nostalgia-poor-peoples-campaign-marches-memphis-ahead-dc-gathering
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16) WHO: Monkeypox outbreak "'containable"
Source: CNBC
"The World Health Organization said Tuesday that a recent outbreak of monkeypox cases in non-endemic countries is 'containable,' even as it continues to confound health experts. As of Tuesday, there were 131 confirmed cases and 106 suspected cases of the disease since the first was reported on May 7, according to the public health body. The cases are reportedly located in 19 countries outside of Africa. The WHO said it was currently unclear whether the spike in cases was the 'tip of the iceberg' or whether a peak in transmission had already been reached." (05/24/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/monkeypox-outbreak-containable-says-who-as-confirmed-cases-hit-131.html
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17) MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC ignore testimony that Clinton OK'd leaking of Trump-Russian allegations
Source: Fox News
"MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News and CBS News have nearly completely ignored Friday's bombshell testimony in which former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Clinton approved the dissemination of materials to the media alleging a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, despite campaign officials 'not being totally confident' in the legitimacy of the data. 'Left-wing [sic] media outlets shout from the rooftops that disinformation matters and is a threat to democracy. Unless, of course, it makes Democrats or the press look bad,' radio host Jason Rantz told Fox News Digital. The mainstream media has largely avoided covering the trial of ex-Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with making a false statement to the FBI." (05/24/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sussmann-msnbc-abc-cbs-nbc-testimony-clinton
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18) Southern Baptists accused of covering up sexual abuse complaints
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is drawing condemnation for its failure to address allegations of sexual abuse and its treatment of victims over two decades, according to a newly released investigative report. The report, issued Sunday, was the result of a seven-month investigation and was released just weeks before next month's 2022 SBC Annual Meeting & Pastors' Conference in Anaheim, Calif. ... The report found that a few senior executive committee members closely guarded information about abuse allegations and lawsuits and were focused on avoiding liability for the SBC. Abuse survivors were 'ignored, disbelieved' or told that the denomination couldn't take action because of church autonomy." (05/24/22)
https://www.ajc.com/news/southern-baptists-accused-of-covering-up-sexual-abuse-complaints/ADQYVFQRQFDIXJ7LXIUB2CXLWQ/
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19) MN: Skull, Nearly 8,000 years old, found in river
Source: SFGate
"A partial skull that was discovered last summer by two kayakers in Minnesota will be returned to Native American officials after investigations determined it was about 8,000 years old. The kayakers found the skull in the drought-depleted Minnesota River about 110 miles (180 kilometers) west of Minneapolis, Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable said. Thinking it might be related to a missing person case or murder, Hable turned the skull over to a medical examiner and eventually to the FBI, where a forensic anthropologist used carbon dating to determine it was likely the skull of a young man who lived between 5500 and 6000 B.C., Hable said. 'It was a complete shock to us that that bone was that old,' Hable told Minnesota Public Radio. The anthropologist determined the man had a depression in his skull that was 'perhaps suggestive of the cause of death.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Nearly-8-000-year-old-skull-found-in-Minnesota-17189279.php
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20) Myanmar: Junta "court" gives go-ahead for Suu Kyi "trial"
Source: ABC News
"A court in Myanmar ruled Tuesday that a corruption trial for ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and three political colleagues will continue after finding that prosecutors presented sufficient evidence for their indictment. Suu Kyi, who was forced from office when the military seized power from her elected government last year, has been charged with 11 counts under the Anti-Corruption Act, with each count punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine. The corruption cases are among a large number of charges under which the military is prosecuting her. If found guilty of all the charges, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison." (05/24/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/myanmar-court-ahead-suu-kyi-corruption-trial-84931916
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21) It's Long Past Time For Congress To Break Up The FBI
Source: The Federalist
by Joe Popularis
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation's long history of abusing its power is once again prominent amid the continued expose by Special Counsel John Durham. His prosecution is demonstrating the FBI's use of its power to deploy federal intelligence assets against political opponents of Democrats. The FBI routinely intervenes in politics, such as when the FBI assisted the Hillary Clinton campaign in painting former President Donald Trump as a Russian intelligence asset, as Durham's investigation is emphasizing with more evidence. ... it appears the FBI's animus for Trump was rooted in disagreements about the foreign policy that Trump campaigned on. Spygate, however, is only a more recent manifestation of a long history of FBI abuses that Congress must rein in as soon as possible." (05/24/22)
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/23/its-long-past-time-for-congress-to-break-up-the-fbi/
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22) Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
"At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, President Donald Trump ludicrously proclaimed that 'Anybody that wants a test can get a test.' That was baloney then, and, unfortunately, despite a barrage of political promises in the meantime, it is still malarkey today. The Centers for Disease Control utterly botched the initial testing regime, sending out bogus, contaminated tests to detect COVID to state and local health departments that gave false readings. Trump boasted that those tests were 'perfect.' The Food and Drug Administration helped turn the coronavirus from a deadly peril into a national catastrophe. Long after foreign nations had been ravaged and many cases had been detected in America, the FDA continued blocking private testing and forcing the nation's most innovative firms to submit to its command-and-control approach and satisfy irrelevant criteria to gain approval." (05/24/22)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2022/05/24/federal-testing-debacle-multiplied-covid-carnage/
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23) They're Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"We're in the final countdown to British Home Secretary Priti Patel's decision on the fate of Julian Assange, with the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the United States due to be approved or rejected by the end of the month. Joe Lauria has a new article out with Consortium News on the various pressures that Patel is being faced with from both sides of this history-making issue at this crucial time. And I can't stop thinking, as this situation comes to a boil, about how absurd it is that the US empire is working to set a precedent which essentially outlaws information-sharing that the US doesn't like at the same time western news media are full of hand-wringing headlines about the dangerous threat of 'disinformation.'" (05/23/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/05/23/theyre-worried-about-the-spread-of-information-not-disinformation/
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24) The accidental warmonger
Source: spiked
by Brendan O'Neill
"Many frail, elderly folk like to be taken for a walk every now and then. With Joe Biden it's a little different. Old Joe is forever being walked back. Barely a week passes without the discombobulated president saying something crazy or inflammatory that is later 'walked back' by his minions in Washington. This week he casually threatened war with China. As you do. Most people who are slowly losing their faculties are guilty merely of the occasional social faux pas; Sleepy Joe, in contrast, risks blundering us all into world war." (05/24/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/24/the-accidental-warmonger/
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25) On Taiwan, Joe Biden Just Said What Everybody Already Knows
Source: The New Republic
by David Rieff
"President Biden's decision during Monday's joint press conference in Tokyo with the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, to state categorically that the United States will intervene militarily should China attack Taiwan has provoked a great deal of anger in Beijing and a great deal of discomfort in much, if not most, of the American foreign policy establishment, very much including many of the president's own supporters both outside and even inside the administration. ... The core problem for Washington is that the doctrine of strategic ambiguity that was developed at the end of the '70s today seems long past its sell-by date. It is this that Biden has recognized, even if his State Department has not." (05/24/22)
https://newrepublic.com/article/166591/biden-taiwan-policy-everybody-knows
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26) The Drug War Is Keeping Truckers Off the Road
Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster
"Many people are justifiably concerned about the ongoing disruption of the global supply chain. More than 70 percent of Americans have either been unable to get a certain product, or have experienced a delay. Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply has struggled to keep up with demand. Shortages of materials and parts have combined with protectionist trade policies, leading to empty shelves and inflated prices. But another factor contributing to kinks in the supply chain is a lack of truck drivers. ... According to the FMCSA Clearinghouse's monthly report covering through the end of March, drivers tested positive for marijuana more than 10,000 times just this year. From the beginning of 2020, the number of positive tests is over 70,000. That constitutes 70,000 instances in which a driver was taken off the road, with no distinction between whether they were unsafe to drive or had merely used marijuana recently." (05/24/22)
https://reason.com/2022/05/24/the-drug-war-is-keeping-truckers-off-the-road/
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27) Exxon and Climate Change: Reasonable Doubt?
Source: EconLog
by Robert Bradley & Richard Fulmer
"In our previous post, we examined the Inside Climate News (ICN) claims about Exxon's research goals and processes with regard to climate change. Exxon had real doubts about the state of the science, and it supported reasonable public policies based on the science. From computer models of the earth's climate to the Kyoto Protocol, today's perspective does not contradict the company's early impressions." (05/24/22)
https://www.econlib.org/exxon-and-climate-change-reasonable-doubt/
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28) Once More, Against Moralism in Community
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
"Legal moralists worry about the degradation of social norms and community connections. Their worry is that immorality tears at the 'fabric of society' where that 'fabric,' presumably, is the system of moral beliefs held in common by most people in the community. Legal moralists are thus happy to impose their own moral views on others with the power of government -- they think that this must be done if the norms (and moral beliefs commonly held) are threatened. In their willingness to use government power to impose their views of morality, moralists ignore the fact that when a government is empowered to force people to act in certain ways, that power crowds out the ability of individuals to interact freely with one another." (05/24/22)
https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/05/24/once-more-against-moralism-in-community/
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29) Climate Change: Pro and Con, part 2
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
"While the left likes to paint right wing opponents of climate change as anti-science and more, the right wing opposition is much more subtle and sophisticated than that. The radical left has taken to painting opponents on climate change in terms of that most vile of racialist stereotypes, the holocaust denier. Climate change opponents aren't merely people with a difference of opinion. They are climate change deniers, an epithet expressed with the same moral outrage as one uses to condemn proto-Nazis. In the words of Greta Thunberg, 'How dare you!'" (05/24/22)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2022/05/climate-change-pro-and-conpart-2.html
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30) The Permanent War Economy
Source: Common Dreams
by Chris Hedges
"The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed trains. No universal health care. No viable Covid relief program. No respite from 8.3 percent inflation. No infrastructure programs to repair decaying roads and bridges, which require $41.8 billion to fix the 43,586 structurally deficient bridges, on average 68 years old. No forgiveness of $1.7 trillion in student debt. No addressing income inequality. No program to feed the 17 million children who go to bed each night hungry. No rational gun control or curbing of the epidemic of nihilistic violence and mass shootings. No help for the 100,000 Americans who die each year of drug overdoses. No minimum wage of $15 an hour to counter 44 years of wage stagnation. No respite from gas prices that are projected to hit $6 a gallon." (05/24/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/23/permanent-war-economy
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31) Sussmann Trial: Mook Outs Clinton as "Russiagate" Shot-Caller
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
"It's unlikely that [Hillary] Clinton will ever face criminal penalties or other severe consequences -- beyond of course, losing a presidential election and discrediting herself in ways that preclude a comeback -- for her leading role in [the "Russiagate" scam]. The best we can hope for is that history will treat her as very much the political twin of Donald Trump -- a con artist, a sore loser, and a Big Liar." (05/24/22)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/16855
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32) Government Greed Caused Inflation, For the Record
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Hannah Cox
"Government policies fail and create problems in the real world every day. But most Americans are so busy in their daily lives and so detached from the political system that they do not notice ... or at least they don't know enough to point to the root of the problem. Such is not the case with the current skyrocketing inflation, which has gotten everyone's attention. ... For those unfamiliar with the real causes of inflation, there's actually a basic recipe that tends to repeat in cycles in the US. The government gets greedy and wants to live beyond its means, promising all manner of special favors and services in exchange for votes that enshrine the political power of politicians. They pass spending bills we don't have the money to afford. And then, in response, the Federal Reserve prints new dollars." (05/24/22)
https://fee.org/articles/government-greed-caused-inflation-for-the-record/
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33) Arsenal of Autocracy: Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine
Source: TomDispatch
by William D Hartung
"These are good times to be an arms maker. Not only are tens of billions of dollars in new military spending headed for the coffers of this country's largest weapons contractors, but they're being praised as defenders of freedom and democracy, thanks to their role in arming Ukraine to fight the Russians. The last time the industry gained such a sterling reputation was during World War II when it was lauded as the 'arsenal of democracy' for fueling the fight against fascism."(05/24/22)
https://tomdispatch.com/arsenal-of-autocracy/
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34) The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Aaron Kheriaty
"The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December 2021 in a special session for only the second time since the WHO's founding in 1948, the Health Assembly of the WHO adopted a single decision titled, 'The World Together.' ... As part of this plan, the WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system, with plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID. ... This system will be universal, mandatory, trans-national, and operated by unelected bureaucrats in a captured NGO who already bungled the covid pandemic response." (05/24/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-who-treaty-is-tied-to-a-global-digital-passport-and-id-system/
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35) Biden's Taiwan remarks reject the Constitution and his own promise
Source: The Hill
by Bruce Fein
"In Tokyo on Monday, President Joe Biden extra-constitutionally pledged a United States military response to China to defend Taiwan. Congress should demand that Biden retract his claim of extra-constitutional war powers or be reminded of a promise he made as a senator to impeach a past president for similar actions. As George Mason explained at the constitutional convention, 'attempts to subvert the Constitution' were paradigm impeachable offenses. ... every participant in the drafting and ratification of the Constitution understood that war power was assigned exclusively to Congress. That understanding was echoed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson in supporting NATO before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Before entering the White House as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2007, Biden agreed." (05/24/22)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3499297-bidens-taiwan-statement-rejects-the-constitution-and-his-own-promise/
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36) The Dethroned King Is Losing His Midas Touch
Source: The New Republic
by Walter Shapiro
"Although it is too soon to know for sure -- and hope can cloud judgment -- a case can be made that Trump (yes, the All-Powerful Donald J. Trump) is beginning to lose cachet among Republican primary voters -- even if his views have been embraced by the candidates running in 2022. ... While reporters are obsessively keeping track of Trump's batting average with his endorsements in GOP primaries, they have, for the most part, missed a consistent pattern in these Trumpified races. Candidates who have received the official hands-on blessing from Mar-a-Lago tend to be limited to around one-third of the vote. That can sometimes result in a plurality that will propel someone to the general election in a crowded primary race but isn't exactly evidence of a resounding victory." (05/24/22)
https://newrepublic.com/article/166587/donald-trump-2022-endorsements
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37) Democrats' Latest Phony Inflation Scapegoat: Credit Cards
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
"In this administration, it's always someone else's fault. Inflation is now the No. 1 concern of voters, so the White House first blamed COVID. Then Donald Trump's tax cuts. Then Vladimir Putin. Then meatpackers and the poultry industry, Big Oil and pharmaceutical companies. Now, Democrats have identified a new inflation scapegoat: plastic. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and other credit cards hidden away in your wallet. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) has had it out for credit cards for almost two decades, even though over that period, credit cards, which were once reserved for the rich, are now nearly ubiquitous in our society. Many stores don't even take cash anymore in the post-COVID world. The benefits and conveniences of paying with a plastic card are easily in the tens of billions of dollars to retailers and shoppers." (05/24/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2022/05/24/democrats-latest-phony-inflation-scapegoat-credit-cards-n2607674
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38) Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
"American conservatives, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, have to be in state of ecstasy over an article about Cuba that appeared in last Sunday's Washington Post. The article stated that 'in a nation plagued by malnutrition,' there is no milk for the Cuban people to purchase. The article points that Cuba 'careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years' and that Cubans 'have been hit by mass shortages of dairy and other basic goods.' Why would other people's suffering put conservatives in a state of ecstasy? Because ever since the Cuban revolution, this is what they have been dreaming of and striving for." (05/24/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/05/24/statist-ecstasy-over-cuban-suffering/
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39) In Politics, Money Will Always Talk. Unless ...
Source: CounterPunch
by Sam Pizzigati
"Traditional primary elections these days typically decide less than we think about who actually gets the Democratic and Republican Party nods to run for office in November. The real threshold determination comes well before any voters head to the polls. Political analysts call this earlier decision -- quite appropriately -- the 'money primary.' The ability to raise large sums of cash quickly and early, as political analysts Robert Borosage and Ruy Teixeira have noted, now 'separates the serious candidates from the dreamers before voters even learn their names.' Money, of course, has always impacted our democracy big-time. Only two things matter in American politics, as GOP political strategist Mark Hanna famously quipped amid our nation's initial Gilded Age: 'The first is money, and I can't remember what the other one is.'" (05/24/22)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/24/in-politics-money-will-always-talk-unless/
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40) Biden Admin Takes Steps Toward A Digital Dollar
Source: The American Conservative
by Kevin Stocklin
"'Give me control of a nation's money,' an 18th-century banking oligarch once said, 'and I care not who makes its laws.' That may have sounded like hubris at the time, but digital technology could soon make it an understatement. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), currently in various stages of development around the world, are being created as a new form of money that, depending on how they are structured, could give government bureaucrats more control over citizens than any law ever could. ... On March 9, President Biden took a first step toward creating a U.S. CBDC, directing his administration to report to him by this fall on whether and how to implement a federal digital dollar." (05/24/22)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/biden-admin-takes-steps-toward-a-digital-dollar/
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41) A Regulator Signals Comfort With Allowing More Bank Mergers
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
"A few years ago, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell produced an incredible statistic in response to a query from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Between 2006 and 2017, banks submitted 3,819 merger applications to the Fed. Of this number, 3,316 were approved and 503 were withdrawn prior to action by the Fed. That adds up to 3,819, meaning that the Fed did not deny a single merger application over that decade-plus period. And there is no formal accounting of the Fed denying any mergers in the five years since. Jeremy Kress of the University of Michigan has written that the last denial of a bank merger was in 2003." (05/24/22)
https://prospect.org/economy/regulator-signals-comfort-with-allowing-more-bank-mergers/
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42) We need a real debate about the Ukraine war
Source: Washington Post
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
"Those who have departed from the orthodox line on Ukraine are regularly excluded from or marginalized -- certainly rarely seen -- on big corporate media. The result is that alternative and countervailing views and voices seem nonexistent. Wouldn't it be healthy to have more diversity of views, history and context rather than 'confirmation bias?' ... prominent figures such as Noam Chomsky, University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and former U.S. ambassador Chas Freeman, among others, have been demonized or slurred for raising cogent arguments and providing much-needed context and history to explain the background of this war. In our fragile democracy, the cost of dissent is comparatively low. Why, then, aren't more individuals at think tanks or in academia, media or politics challenging the orthodox U.S. political-media narrative?" (05/24/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/24/ukraine-russia-war-biden-strategry-debate-dissent-noam-chomseky-john-mearsheimer-chas-freeman-matt-taibi-david-petraeus-walter-lippman/
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43) How Party-Switching Can Reduce Polarization
Source: The Atlantic
by Jonathan Robinson & Sean Trende
"Pundits and voters of all stripes lament just how extreme, polarized, and ideological American politics has become. But such grievances rarely come with advice for how ordinary people can address this problem, other than by voting for their preferred political party's candidates in general elections. Even that advice isn't very helpful: Voters in many parts of the country do not have the chance to participate in close electoral contests. Yet Democrats in Alabama and Republicans in New York, say, still have the power to secure better representation in Congress and strike a blow against political polarization. In places where electoral competition is lacking, primary elections by and large decide political outcomes. Voters in those places are accustomed to participating in their own party's primaries. But often the opposite party's primary is more competitive and more consequential. So why not strategically vote in the other party's primary?" (05/24/22)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/primary-election-voting-party-switching/630171/
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44) With Taiwan comments, is Biden signaling a two-front war strategy?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by George Beebe
"President Biden's statement in Tokyo on Monday, that the United States would respond militarily to defend Taiwan should China invade, raises important questions about Washington's new strategic approach to 'great power competition' with China and Russia. Since Nixon's opening to China in the early 1970s, it had been a fundamental dictum of U.S. strategy that Washington should have better relations with Beijing and Moscow than they have with each other. This approach minimized the likelihood that they would coordinate their peacetime activities against the United States, and it also reduced the chances we might face a two-front war against a pair of formidable nuclear powers. This approach has now become history." (05/24/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/24/with-taiwan-comments-is-bidens-signaling-two-front-war-strategy/
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45) Biden takes every opportunity to divide America
Source: Fox News
by Greg Gutfeld
"President Biden's numbers are looking up, as in looking up from a bottomless pit in hell. Say hello to Ted Kennedy. According to a CBS News YouGov poll, most Americans believe things are going badly under distracted and incontinent, I mean, incompetent Biden. Nearly eight in ten voters say things in our country are going somewhat or very badly. Now for a comparison. Getting your face eaten by a chimp gets better reviews, science. Speaking of chimps, we've got a new concern. It's called Monkeypox, and it's not as fun as it sounds. Kind of gross, actually. And according to the World Health Organization, this disease is being spread by sex at raves in Europe. So just to be safe, no raves for me in Europe. Definitely no sex with monkeys, at least for two weeks. You got to flatten that curve." (05/24/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-biden-takes-opportunity-divide-america
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46) Data Brokers and True the Vote are the Real Villains of "2000 Mules" Movie
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Will Greenberg
"2000 Mules is a movie which claims to expose election fraud with phone app location data. While these claims have already been thoroughly debunked, the movie also deserves condemnation for performing wildly invasive research on thousands of people's location data without their consent or even knowledge. It is a reminder of our need to stop the industry of shady data brokers that enabled this massive privacy invasion." (05/23/22)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/data-brokers-and-true-vote-are-villains-2000-mules-movie
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47) Surveillance Transparency Report Documents Wide FBI Reach
Source: Independent Institute
by Matthew Guariglia
"The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has released its Annual Statistical Transparency Report disclosing the use of national security surveillance laws for the year 2021 -- and to no one's surprise it documents the wide-ranging overreach of intelligence agencies and the continued misuse of surveillance authorities to spy on millions of Americans. Specifically, the report chronicles how Section 702, an amendment to the Foriegn Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), that authorizes the U.S. government to engage in mass surveillance of foreign targets' communications, is still being abused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to spy on Americans without a warrant. Specifically, the report reveals that between December 2020 and November 2021, the FBI queried the data of potentially more than 3,000,000 'U.S. persons' without a warrant." (05/23/22)
https://blog.independent.org/2022/05/23/surveillance-transparency-report-documents-wide-fbi-reach/
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48) Willpower, Human and Machine
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
"Many stories of AI risk focus on how single-minded AIs are: how they can focus literally every action on the exact right course to achieve some predetermined goal. Such single-minded AIs are theoretically possible, and we'll probably get them eventually. But before that, we might get AIs that have weakness of will, just like we do." (05/23/22)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/willpower-human-and-machine
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49) How the Child Welfare System Is Silently Destroying Black Families
Source: In These Times
by Dorothy Roberts
"The sun had just begun to rise over Manhattan on an August morning in 2013. Angeline Montauban was whispering into the phone as she crouched in the bathroom of her apartment. As her partner and their 3‑year-old son slept, Montauban had tiptoed to the bathroom to call Safe Horizon, a domestic abuse hotline she had seen advertised in subway stations. She had decided it was time to stop the violence she was experiencing at the hands of her partner, and she hoped Safe Horizon could provide counseling or help her relocate with her son. At first, the social worker who answered her call listened sympathetically to Montauban's story. But once Montauban mentioned the couple had a little boy, the voice on the other end turned harsh and began collecting information about the family's whereabouts." (05/24/22)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/systemic-inequalities-in-the-child-welfare-system-target-black-families
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50) The Pandemic of Executive Overreach Comes to an End. When Will the Next One Begin?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Mitch Nemeth
"Over the past few decades, the executive branch of the federal government has taken an increasingly autocratic approach to governing. Past presidents have unilaterally attempted to bypass Congress due to partisan gridlock and the inevitable tug-of-war involved in governing a nation of 330 million people. President Joe Biden has governed in a similar fashion, regardless of progressive anger at him for not 'doing something.'" (05/23/22)
https://mises.org/wire/pandemic-executive-overreach-comes-end-when-will-next-one-begin
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Free Talk Live, 05/24/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Elementary School Shooter in TX :: Aliens and Politicians :: Replacement Theory :: Former State Rep Charged With Spiking Trees :: Liberland :: Skogen Bosque :: World Economic Forum Evil on Display :: Show: 2022-05-24 Ian, Aria, Conan." [Flash audio or MP3] (05/24/22)
https://freetalklive.com/archives?ppplayer=5c48425a5422918dc6f904bd1cb7e00f&ppepisode=832920ab42350b1624aefad4e3005d6a
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52) Conflicts Of Interest, episode 280
Source: Libertarian Institute
"Con Men Claim Ukraine Is Vital to American Security." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-280-con-men-claim-ukraine-is-vital-to-american-security/
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53) Part Of The Problem, 05/24/22
Source: GaS Digital Network
"A Very Nasty Woman." [MP3] (05/24/22)
https://chrt.fm/track/9C8FAD/pdst.fm/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/d204db6a-bd64-402e-85cf-ce31a2c1cdbe.mp3
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54) Hubwonk, 05/24/22
Source: Pioneer Institute
"Forsaking Massachusetts's Miracle: Risking Our Future With Past Mistakes." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/podcast-hubwonk/forsaking-massachusettss-miracle-risking-our-future-with-past-mistakes/
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55) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 05/24/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Surviving In The Age of Corporatism & Shortages -- with Jack Spirko." [Flash video] (05/24/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/surviving-in-the-age-of-corporatism-shortages-with-jack-spirko
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 05/24/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"Friend of liberty and fellow wrongthinker Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly discussion of current events." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-32bkz-12337e9
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57) Rising, 05/24/22
Source: The Hill
"Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Dr. Fauci's denouncement of misinformation, and discuss the role of the federal public health apparatus in creating our current political climate." [Flash video] (05/24/22)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/3499230-rising-may-24-2022/
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58) Questions For Corbett, episode 87
Source: The Corbett Report
"Richard Cox of DeepStateConsciousness.com and author of The Essence of Anarchy joins me today to help answer a question about anarchy: How can we defend voluntarism in the face of arguments about the positive benefits of state regulation?" [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc087-voluntarism/
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59) How to Fix the Internet, 05/24/22
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Securing the Vote." [various formats] (05/24/22)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/podcast-episode-securing-vote
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60) The Chris Spangle Show, 05/23/22
Source: We Are Libertarians
"What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage? And What to Do If You Can't Breastfeed or Find Formula." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://wearelibertarians.com/css-what-caused-the-baby-formula-shortage-and-what-to-do-if-you-cant-breastfeed-or-find-formula/
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61) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 05/23/22
Source: FiveThirtyEight
"Are Trump's Endorsees About To Lose In Georgia?" [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-are-trumps-endorsees-about-to-lose-in-georgia%EF%BF%BC/
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62) Lions of Liberty Podcast, 05/23/22
Source: Lions of Liberty
"The Political and Spiritual Journey of Buck Johnson." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/the-political-and-spiritual-journey-of-buck-johnson
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63) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2130
Source: The Tom Woods Show
"Dissident Voices and Free Speech." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2130-dissident-voices-and-free-speech/
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64) Quillette Podcast, episode 189
Source: Quillette
"Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton." [various formats] (05/23/22)
https://quillette.com/2022/05/23/progressive-social-panic-at-yale-and-princeton/
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65) Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 408
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
"This week's Cyberlaw Podcast covers efforts to get the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas law that treats social media platforms like common carriers and prohibits them from discriminating based on viewpoint when they take posts down." [MP3] (05/23/22)
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/23/but-was-the-sex-viewpoint-neutral/
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