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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) US House throws tantrum over ICC warrant requests for Israeli terror kingpins
2) Australia: Regime drops attempt to censor posts on X
3) IL: Chicago police tweak mass arrests policy ahead of Democratic National Convention
4) Hamas wants Israel to commit to permanent ceasefire, full withdrawal from Gaza
5) Gaetz was US House’s top 2023 recipient of congresscritter welfare checks
6) Nigeria: Unions suspend strike for talks over new minimum wage
7) Biden Regime Rolls Out Migration Order That Aims to Shut Down Asylum Requests, After Months of Anticipation
8) Spain: Prime minister’s wife summoned to court over corruption allegations
9) WI: Disgraced former president’s allies charged in 2020 fake elector scheme
10) Oxfam: Incessant IDF Strikes Making Gaza Aid Deliveries “Virtually Impossible”
11) Italy: Knox to defend herself in court against 16-year-old slander charge
12) KS: Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a fundamental right
13) Intel unveils new AI chips as it seeks to reclaim market share from Nvidia and AMD
14) China: Regime cracks down on attempts to mark 35 years since Tiananmen massacre
15) Turkey: Pro-Kurdish lawmakers stage protest in parliament to denounce ouster of new mayor
16) NE: Woman pronounced dead found alive at funeral home
17) Toyota raided as safety testing scandal grows
18) Epoch Times executive arrested over alleged $67 million money laundering scheme
19) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope temporarily pauses observations after malfunction
20) OK: Deadly home invasion ends with intruder killed in gunfire exchange
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Trumpism With Chinese Characteristics
22) Walter Block’s “Distance” Recommendation
23) Your Vote Versus Differences Which Make No Difference
24) Want government to work better? Then have it do fewer things.
25) America Can’t Do Without Immigrants
26) When divisions deepen, dig in to something shared
27) The Manhattan Jury Pool Isn’t All That Liberal
28) The Bloody River
29) Elon Musk Shows Us Why Individuals Can’t Save the World
30) “Show Me the Man and I’ll Show You the Crime” vs. The Rule of Law
31) Children Are Gifts, Not Projects
32) No One Is Above the Law, Unless You’re a Democrat
33) 63 US Banks on Brink! FDIC Blames Inflation, Not Bailouts
34) How Constitutional Litigation Can Help End Exclusionary Zoning
35) The Enemy Is Us (And I’m Not Just Thinking About Donald Trump)
36) Trump’s Payoff to Stormy Was the Best $130,000 He Ever Spent
37) Hunter’s Trial Reveals Trump’s Big Lie About Biden and Justice
38) Donald Trump: Victim, but Certainly No Hero
39) The IAEA is readying to censure Iran. It shouldn’t.
40) DEI and one of the biggest problems facing black Americans
41) Sweden’s Electric Sense
42) The West Should Be Receptive to Russia’s Openness to Talks
43) The Trump trial and our injustice system
44) One Person One Price
45) Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence
46) Ludwig Von Mises And The Austrian Theory Of Money, Banking, And The Business Cycle, part 1
47) Distinguishing Libertarian Philosophy from Political Strategy
48) The 100th Anniversary of One of America’s Worst Laws — the 1924 Immigration Act
49) Biden fundraising smears of Trump reflect his OWN hatred of your freedom
50) Biden’s deepfake dodge to keep Hur interview secret reveals his war on truth
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51) Free Speech on Trial: Jailed But Re-elected
52) The rise of the abundance faction
53) Wind Subsidies Are Rising …
54) The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad
55) News Publishers Try To Sic the Government on Google AI
56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 607
57) Rising, 06/04/24
58) Ill Literacy, episode 144
59) Hubwonk, 06/04/24
60) The New Abnormal, 06/04/24
61) SolutionsWatch, 06/04/24
62) Advisory Opinions, 06/04/24
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1) US House throws tantrum over ICC warrant requests for Israeli terror kingpins
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The US House of Representatives has voted to pass legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its prosecutor applied for arrest warrants against Israeli officials. The move comes after The Hague-based court’s prosecutor said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant should be arrested on charges relating to the war in Gaza. The prosecutor is also seeking warrants for three leaders of Hamas. The bill, proposed by pro-Israel Republicans, targets ICC officials involved in the case by blocking their entry to the US. On Tuesday, it passed with a majority of Republican support by a vote of 247-155. Two Republicans voted ‘present’ and 42 pro-Israel Democrats crossed the aisle to back the legislation. Though the bill passed in the House, it is not expected to become law.” (06/04/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5512l7yero
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2) Australia: Regime drops attempt to censor posts on X
Source: Aol
“Australia’s cyber safety regulator on Wednesday decided to drop a legal challenge against Elon Musk-owned X over the removal of videos of the stabbing of an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney, after a setback last month in the federal court. Judge Geoffrey Kennett in May rejected a bid by the eSafety commissioner to extend a temporary order for the social media platform to block videos of the knife attack, which Australian authorities had called a terrorist attack. Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said in a statement the regulator had decided to drop its legal action against X. … X had blocked Australian users from viewing the posts but refused to remove them globally on the grounds that one country’s rules should not control the internet.” (06/05/24)
https://www.aol.com/news/australia-drops-court-action-against-055203915.html
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3) IL: Chicago police tweak mass arrests policy ahead of Democratic National Convention
Source: ABC News
“Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Tuesday touted the nation’s second-largest police department as fully prepared to handle crowds of protesters expected during the Democratic National Convention, including new ways to handle possible mass arrests. Law enforcement agencies have been planning for more than a year for the August convention that is expected to draw an estimated 50,000 visitors and massive protests. … More than 50 organizations plan to protest in Chicago, which has denied permits for demonstrations near the United Center convention site. That has sparked lawsuits and groups vowing to march whether or not they have permits.” [editor’s note: As Mayor Daley noted in 1968, “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder” – TLK] (06/04/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chicago-police-tweak-mass-arrests-policy-ahead-democratic-110821590
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4) Hamas wants Israel to commit to permanent ceasefire, full withdrawal from Gaza
Source: Reuters
“Hamas cannot agree to any deal unless Israel makes a ‘clear’ commitment to a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a senior official from the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday. Qatar, which alongside the United States and Egypt has been mediating talks between Hamas and Israel, has also urged Israel to provide a clear position that has the backing of its entire government to reach a deal. ‘We cannot agree to an agreement that doesn’t secure, guarantee, and ensure a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and completing a real serious swap deal accordingly,’ Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official, told a televised press conference.” (06/04/24)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-wants-israel-commit-permanent-ceasefire-full-withdrawal-gaza-2024-06-04/
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5) Gaetz was US House’s top 2023 recipient of congresscritter welfare checks
Source: The Hill
“Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was the top spender last year under the House’s new reimbursement program, an analysis by The Washington Post found. The reimbursement program, passed last year by a House panel, allows members to be reimbursed for expenses from living both in their home districts and in Washington. More than 300 members were reimbursed at least $5.2 million in 2023, the Post analysis found. … In the first 11 months of the program, the Post reported that 153 Democrats and 166 Republicans received reimbursements. Gaetz was the program’s top spender. He was reimbursed for nearly $30,000 in lodging expenses and more than $10,000 for food in 2023, the Post found. In two different months he billed more than $4,000 for lodging and more than $3,000 for five different months in the 11-month period.” (06/04/24)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4702611-gaetz-was-top-spender-in-houses-reimbursement-program-wapo-analysis/
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6) Nigeria: Unions suspend strike for talks over new minimum wage
Source: Reuters
“Nigeria’s main labour unions suspended an indefinite strike for a week on Tuesday in order to continue talks with the government over a new minimum wage after reforms in the West African nation caused inflation to spike, worsening a cost of living crisis. Nigeria’s two biggest union federations, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), shut down the national grid and disrupted flights across the country on Monday as they began an indefinite strike over the government’s failure to agree a new minimum wage. Unions and the government met late on Monday for talks where the government said it was open to a higher monthly minimum wage than the amount of 60,000 naira ($41.38) it had proposed. But a new amount is yet to be announced. The unions had demanded a 16-fold rise in the minimum wage to 494,000 naira a month, from 30,000 naira.” (06/04/24)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/nigeria-oil-workers-await-outcome-tuesdays-talks-before-quitting-oil-rigs-union-2024-06-04/
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7) Biden Regime Rolls Out Migration Order That Aims to Shut Down Asylum Requests, After Months of Anticipation
Source: US News & World Report
“President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. The White House detailed the long-anticipated presidential proclamation signed by Biden, which would bar migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed. The Democratic president has contemplated unilateral action for months, especially after the collapse of a bipartisan border security deal in Congress that most Republican lawmakers rejected at the behest of Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. The order will go into effect when the number of border encounters between ports of entry hits 2,500 per day, according to senior administration officials.” (06/04/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-06-04/biden-rolls-out-migration-order-that-aims-to-shut-down-asylum-requests-after-months-of-anticipation
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8) Spain: Prime minister’s wife summoned to court over corruption allegations
Source: Politico
“A Madrid court on Tuesday summoned Begoña Gomez, who is married to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, as part of a corruption probe — breathing new life into a saga that almost drove Sanchez to resign. The summons for July 5 is in relation to ‘the alleged offenses of corruption in the private sector and influence peddling,’ the court said. Her business ties and government connections have been under scrutiny since an obscure anti-graft nongovernmental organizatoin with links to the far right filed a legal complaint against her, leading a judge to launch a preliminary investigation in April. But in May, the Civil Guard — which was charged with investigating Gómez’s alleged crimes — said it had not found any evidence of influence peddling. Spain’s government was quick to denounce the new investigation.” (06/04/24)
https://www.politico.eu/article/spanish-prime-minister-wife-begona-gomez-pedro-sanchez-summoned-court-corruption-allegations/
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9) WI: Disgraced former president’s allies charged in 2020 fake elector scheme
Source: Axios
“Former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro was charged in Wisconsin on Tuesday with one count of forgery in connection to the 2020 fake electors scheme in the state. … Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) also filed one forgery count on Tuesday against attorney Jim Troupis and ex-Trump campaign aide Michael Roman. The three defendants are scheduled for a court appearance on Sept. 19.” (06/04/24)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/04/kenneth-chesebro-wisconsin-2020-election-trump
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10) Oxfam: Incessant IDF Strikes Making Gaza Aid Deliveries “Virtually Impossible”
Source: Common Dreams
“A leading global humanitarian group said Tuesday that the Israeli military’s relentless bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip and continued obstruction of aid operations there have made efforts to deliver food, medicine, and other assistance to desperate Gazans ‘virtually impossible’. Oxfam International noted in a statement that two-thirds of Gaza’s population — roughly 1.7 million people — is now packed into less than a fifth of the occupied enclave, often in areas with little to no access to the meager humanitarian assistance that Israel has allowed to enter in recent months. According to the latest United Nations figures, the amount of aid entering Gaza has plummeted by 67% since Israeli forces launched their ground assault on Rafah last month. More than a million people have fled Rafah since early May, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East said Monday.” (06/04/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/humanitarian-aid-gaza
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11) Italy: Knox to defend herself in court against 16-year-old slander charge
Source: ABC News
“Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all. Her chance was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning after the murder of her British roommate in November 2007. The slander conviction for accusing a Congolese bar owner in the murder is the only charge against Knox that withstood five court rulings that ultimately cleared her in the brutal murder of her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the idyllic central Italian university town of Perugia. A verdict in the slander case retrial ordered by Italy’s highest court is expected on Wednesday, with Knox appearing in an Italian court for the first time in more than 12 1/2 years.” (06/04/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/amanda-knox-defend-italian-court-16-year-slander-110804078
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12) KS: Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a fundamental right
Source: SFGate
“A split Kansas Supreme Court ruling last week issued in a lawsuit over a 2021 election law found that voting is not a fundamental right listed in the state Constitution’s Bill of Rights. The finding drew sharp criticism from three dissenting justices on the high court. The Associated Press looks at what the ruling might mean for Kansas residents and future elections. The ruling itself is wide-reaching, combining different lawsuits at various stages of litigation that challenge three different segments of a 2021 election law passed by the Kansas Legislature. It was a lawsuit challenging a ballot signature verification measure in which a majority of the high court found there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights.” (06/04/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-kansas-supreme-court-has-ruled-that-voting-is-19493336.php
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13) Intel unveils new AI chips as it seeks to reclaim market share from Nvidia and AMD
Source: CNBC
“U.S. chipmaker Intel on Tuesday announced new artificial intelligence chips for data centers, as it looks to take on rivals Nvidia and AMD which have showcased upcoming chips in the last two days. Intel’s Xeon 6 processor will deliver better performance and power efficiency for high-intensity data center workloads as compared to its predecessor, CEO Pat Gelsinger said during the Computex tech conference in Taiwan. The announcement comes as rivals Nvidia and AMD launched new AI chips on Sunday and Monday, respectively, as they jostle for leadership in the booming industry.” (06/04/24)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/intel-unveils-new-ai-chips-as-it-seeks-to-take-on-nvidia-and-amd.html
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14) China: Regime cracks down on attempts to mark 35 years since Tiananmen massacre
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the Chinese government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule. An estimated 180,000 troops and armed police rolled in with tanks and armoured vehicles, and fired into crowds as they pushed toward Tiananmen Square. The death toll remains unknown to this day. Hundreds, if not thousands are believed to have been killed in an operation that started the night of June 3 through the following morning. Across China, the event remains a sensitive and taboo subject that is heavily censored, and any mention or reference on social media are erased.” (06/04/24)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240604-heavy-police-security-presence-china-commemorates-35th-anniversary-tiananmen-square-protests
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15) Turkey: Pro-Kurdish lawmakers stage protest in parliament to denounce ouster of new mayor
Source: SFGate
“More than a dozen legislators from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party staged a demonstration in parliament on Tuesday to denounce the arrest and expulsion from office of a newly elected mayor, Turkish media reported. On Monday, authorities detained Mehmet Siddik Akis, mayor of Hakkari province, over alleged links to Kurdish militants and replaced him with the province’s state-appointed governor. Akis, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, had been elected in March. The DEM, the third largest party in Turkey’s parliament, denies allegations of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which is listed as a terror organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. In the past, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has similarly expelled numerous elected pro-Kurdish mayors over alleged connections to Kurdish militants and replaced them with government-appointed trustees.” (06/04/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/pro-kurdish-lawmakers-stage-protest-in-turkey-s-19494566.php
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16) NE: Woman pronounced dead found alive at funeral home
Source: United Press International
“Authorities in Nebraska said a woman who was pronounced dead at her nursing home was found alive two hours later at the funeral parlor. Chief Deputy Ben Houchin of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office identified the woman in a press conference as 74-year-old Constance Glantz of Lincoln, Neb. He said she was a resident at the Mulberry at Waverly nursing home …. The nursing home pronounced Glantz dead Tuesday morning at 9:44 a.m., Houchin said, stating its employees then transported the body of a person ‘they believed was deceased’ to the funeral home. At the funeral home, an employee was placing Glantz on to a table to start ‘their process’ when they noticed she was breathing and called emergency services.” (06/04/24)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/06/04/Nebraska-woman-alive-funeral-home/6071717481589/
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17) Toyota raided as safety testing scandal grows
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Japan’s transport ministry raided the headquarters of motor giant Toyota on Tuesday, as a scandal over faulty safety data escalated. The world’s largest carmaker has apologised for providing incorrect or manipulated data for safety certification tests. The scandal has shaken the Japanese car industry, with rivals Honda, Mazda and Suzuki also admitting to submitting faulty data. … It has also been accused of using modified vehicles during safety collision tests, for vehicles that are no longer in production. The raids come a day after Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda apologised to customers and car enthusiasts. He bowed deeply and held the position for a few seconds, which is customary in Japan when companies apologise for wrongdoing.” (06/04/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wwj1p2wdyo
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18) Epoch Times executive arrested over alleged $67 million money laundering scheme
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A top executive at the Epoch Times, a New York-based conservative media outlet known for its fierce criticism of the Chinese government, has been arrested over his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme. Weidong ‘Bill’ Guan, the outlet’s chief financial officer, is alleged to have participated in a ‘sprawling, transnational scheme’ to launder at least $67m in illegally obtained funds to benefit himself and the company, the United States Department of Justice said on Monday. … members of the company’s ‘Make Money Online’ team used cryptocurrency to buy tens of millions of dollars in crime proceeds …. Employees then used stolen personal information to open bank and cryptocurrency accounts for transferring the illicit proceeds, which were further laundered through other bank accounts held by the Epoch Times and Guan, according to federal prosecutors. Prosecutors said the charges are not related to the Epoch Times’s news-gathering activities.” (06/04/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/4/epoch-times-executive-arrested-over-alleged-67m-money-laundering-scheme?traffic_source=rss
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19) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope temporarily pauses observations after malfunction
Source: SFGate
“The Hubble Space Telescope has temporarily stopped observing the cosmos. NASA said the telescope slipped into a hibernating state more than a week ago when one of its three remaining gyroscopes — part of the pointing system — malfunctioned. The same device has been acting up for months and disrupting scientific operations. Hubble remains safe but inactive as flight controllers figure out how to proceed, officials said. The space agency planned to outline a path forward on Tuesday. Hubble got six new gyroscopes during astronauts’ final visit in 2009. The devices’ spinning wheels keep the telescope stable and looking the right way by tracking Hubble’s rotation and position in space. Three gyroscopes no longer function. NASA said the 34-year-old observatory could keep making discoveries with only one or two good gyroscopes.” (06/04/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/nasa-s-hubble-space-telescope-temporarily-pauses-19494416.php
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20) OK: Deadly home invasion ends with intruder killed in gunfire exchange
Source: Fox 25 News
“One person is dead after trying to break into a home in Ponca City. Police responded to a home invasion involving gunfire near Northwest 36th and North Rockwell Avenue. A witness reported that a subject had been shot while trying to force his way into the home. Officials located 29-year-old Jacob S. Grudowski nearby and found he’d been shot multiple times. Police said Grudowski reportedly was involved in an ongoing domestic situation with one of the residents at the home. When Grudowski arrived, he fired multiple shots while trying to force his way in. He and one of the residents exchanged gunfire and Grudowski was hit multiple times.” (06/03/24)
https://okcfox.com/news/local/deadly-home-invasion-in-ponca-city-ends-with-intruder-killed-in-gunfire-exchange-police-investigation-pronounced-dead-scene-domestic-situation-crime-stoppers
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21) Trumpism With Chinese Characteristics
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“One of the ironies of contemporary politics is that Donald Trump offers himself as the champion of American interests against China when Donald Trump personifies the Chinese ethos. Consider the three most important parallels: 1. Both Trump and Beijing are, fundamentally, whiners. They complain endlessly about being singled out and treated — in Trump’s favorite words — ‘very unfairly,’ as though fairness and fair play were consistent with their own values rather than perfectly opposed to them. 2. Both sanctimoniously claim the protection of laws, rules, and norms they hold in comprehensive contempt when they do not align with their own interests. … 3. Both Beijing and Trump argue that economic success is an answer to all criticism. Trump’s argument for himself always has been, in essence, I’m very rich, so I must know what I am doing.” (06/04/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trumpism-with-chinese-characteristics/
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22) Walter Block’s “Distance” Recommendation
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“In his Wall Street Journal op-ed calling for libertarians (‘we,’ he writes) to vote for Donald Trump, Walter Block’s central argument is that Joe Biden ‘is much further from us on the political-economic spectrum than Mr. Trump’ (‘Libertarians Should Vote for Trump,’ May 28, 2024). This argument is debatable. Walter only intends his recommendation for libertarians in ‘swing states,’ which raises a first set of problems. We first need to identify the ‘swing states,’ which can be many combinations of them and which anyway are only known after the election. But I want to focus on the ‘distance’ criterion implied by his “further from.” I will suggest that such a distance is not easy to make sense of and that an obvious alternative criterion does not point to Trump.” (06/04/24)
https://www.econlib.org/walter-block-distance-recommendation
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23) Your Vote Versus Differences Which Make No Difference
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Voters who’ve supported Donald Trump for president twice are almost certain to support him a third time. They knew he was a snake when they picked him up. One more bit of snakiness — especially one that’s old news, was really just a misdemeanor the statute of limitations had expired on, and was tortured back into existence and into felony status by trying to tie it to unspecified ‘underlying crimes’ — won’t change their minds. Voters who’ve supported Joe Biden for president once are almost certain to support him again. They knew he was a snake when they picked him up. One more bit of snakiness — especially one that’s patently unconstitutional, indirect, and unrelated to corruption involving the father/son relationship — won’t change their minds. Even those who MIGHT change their minds aren’t likely to switch ‘major party’ sides.” (06/04/24)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/18729
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24) Want government to work better? Then have it do fewer things.
Source: The Hill
by Kevin R Kosar
“Whatever one may think about tariffs and tax cut extensions as public policy, one thing is worth recognizing: Self-interested groups that benefit from these temporary policies are advocating on behalf of them and want them to become permanent. ‘So what?’ you might think. ‘That’s how the system works.’ That is absolutely true. The First Amendment protects Americans’ right to ‘petition government for a redress of grievances.’ They can lobby Congress, and if that doesn’t work they can file comments with executive agencies, sue in federal courts and campaign for elected officials who will do their bidding. But ask yourself, what happens to the government when organized interests relentlessly demand that it creates new benefits and maintains old programs? Answer: The government becomes so overloaded with to-do’s that it becomes scatterbrained and unable to focus its resources on the most pressing problems.” (06/04/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4700719-want-government-to-work-better-then-have-it-do-fewer-things/mlite/
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25) America Can’t Do Without Immigrants
Source: The UnPopulist
by David Bier
“In a free society, markets incentivize people to contribute to the welfare of others through their work, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Thanks to freedom, America isn’t a fixed pie — it’s a growing pie. It is exactly for these reasons that so many people from around the world come to the United States, and it is exactly for those same reasons that we should let them come legally.” (06/04/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-cant-do-without-immigrants
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26) When divisions deepen, dig in to something shared
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“When people are confronted with enormous obstacles, it can be easy for them to feel overwhelmed, and perhaps even a little cynical. In the United States, the events of the past few years, from the pandemic to social justice protests to contentious political campaigns, have laid bare divisions that have long been simmering beneath the country’s surface. For journalists, part of the job is to report such obstacles to our common life together. The ideological differences that have morphed into entrenched tribalism. People who retreat into media echo chambers and vilify those who hold opposing views. A fractured landscape where dialogue has been replaced by diatribe, and political compromise has mostly become a relic of a bygone era. We often view each other with suspicion, and as strangers.” (06/04/24)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2024/0604/political-division-trust-common-ground
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27) The Manhattan Jury Pool Isn’t All That Liberal
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Froma Harrop
“A rumor’s going around that the Manhattan jury pool could not have produced 12 peers willing to give Donald Trump a fair shake. And that explains the jurors’ decision to find him guilty on all 34 charges in the hush money case. That rumor is unfounded, however. It is true that there are far more registered Democratic voters in Manhattan than registered Republicans, 70% versus just under 8%. But that 8% represents almost 87,000 Republicans. We can assume that registered Democrats are perfectly able to impartially assess evidence. (Trump’s lawyers had to approve them.) Likewise, Republican Manhattanites are capable of finding fault in an ex-president’s conduct.” (06/04/24)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/04/the_manhattan_jury_pool_isnt_all_that_liberal_151043.html
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28) The Bloody River
Source: Liberal Currents
by Samantha Hancox-Li
“Let us begin with a simple question: what ends wars? The history of Europe — and elsewhere — provides an answer. Nationalists of all stripes long fantasized that if the lines on the map were simply drawn just right — so that each people had one state and each state one people — if the spheres of influence were simply divided up according to what is just and proper — then peace and harmony between peoples would follow. Nationalists of all stripes spent the better part of a century trying to achieve this, and for their efforts receiving only blood. ‘National integrity’ did not bring peace to Europe. Democracy did.” (06/04/24)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-bloody-river/
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29) Elon Musk Shows Us Why Individuals Can’t Save the World
Source: Common Dreams
by Manuel Pastor
“Elon Musk likes to be portrayed as a swashbuckling entrepreneur, a sort of romantic character in an Ayn Rand novel who opens up new enterprises and industries where others fear to tread. But these days, heroism is hard to find in at least one Musk-owned business: sales at Tesla are dropping, the Department of Justice is investigating the company for wire fraud given safety issues with their self-driving vehicles, and Musk is laying off the entire Tesla charging team. Why the turn in fortunes? It’s easy to lay the blame on particulars: the rise of Chinese EV competitors, the difficulties of opening Tesla’s closed charging systems to other brands, and the complexity of making self-propelled autos that are, well, not that well-propelled. But the lesson might be a bit simple for Musk and others wrapped up in their own self-made stories: live by the public will, die by the public will.” (06/04/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/elon-musk-libertarian
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30) “Show Me the Man and I’ll Show You the Crime” vs. The Rule of Law
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“Lavrentiy Beria was an unrelenting and merciless secret police chief under Stalin’s rule. Stalin’s reign of terror claimed the lives of millions of innocents. Beria ‘bragged that he could prove criminal conduct on anyone, even the innocent. ‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’ was Beria’s infamous boast.’’ … In 1984, George Orwell wrote, ‘The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure.’ That Trump has so many haters doesn’t establish his innocence, nor, for that matter, his guilt.” (06/04/24)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/show-me-the-man-and-ill-show-you
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31) Children Are Gifts, Not Projects
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Thomas Harrington
“I had my first child in graduate school. When the news came that I’d be a father, I was 30, in a relatively new relationship, living on a $700-a-month TA stipend, and had no money, I mean zero, in the bank. To say I was anxious is an understatement. … one of the kinder members of my department, a crusty Galician who had grown up in Cuba and studied with Fidel Castro, stopped me in the hall one day and said ‘Tom, sabes lo que dicen en Espana? Los bebes nacen con una barra de pan debajo del brazo”. (‘Tom, do you know what they say in Spain? All babies are born with a loaf of bread under their arms’). … my brother, someone not usually given to philosophizing or moral pronouncements, provided me with another pearl: ‘Your first job as a parent is to enjoy your children.'” (06/04/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/children-are-gifts-not-projects/
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32) No One Is Above the Law, Unless You’re a Democrat
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“You can’t say Democrats don’t have a sense of humor. Actually, it’s a little bit different – they’re a joke. While you can’t help but laugh at them, the biggest problem is the joke is on all of us. Democrats have a revolving repertoire of material they default to – they’re pro-choice (but only on abortion, nothing else), they love the country, yet can’t find anything nice to say about it ever, etc. That they’re able to deliver their lines with a straight face, or sleep at night after doing what they do, is a testament to the power of sociopathy. In their adventures in sociopathy, Democrats are in the midst of the ‘No one is above the law’ bumper sticker phase of distorting reality.” (06/04/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/06/04/no-one-is-above-the-lawunless-youre-a-democrat-n2639910
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33) 63 US Banks on Brink! FDIC Blames Inflation, Not Bailouts
Source: Palm Beach Examiner
by Karl Dickey
“The Federal Reserve and the FDIC’s involvement in the banking system creates moral hazard and instability which is the complete opposite of their mandate. This situation highlights the need for a free market approach to banking and an end to consistently needing to bail out a banking system that clearly does not work for the long term. One thing the FDIC may do is simple window dressing, to instill confidence in depositors so they do not create a run on banks; however, that does not solve the fundamental issue of the U.S. banking business model.” (06/04/24)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/63-us-banks-on-brink-fdic-blames
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34) How Constitutional Litigation Can Help End Exclusionary Zoning
Source: Bet On It
by Ilya Somin
“If the Supreme Court rules that exclusionary zoning regulations are takings, governments would have to pay ‘just compensation’ to affected property owners (usually defined as the ‘fair market value’ of the property right in question). Few if any local governments could afford to compensate all of the many thousands of property owners currently barred from building high-rise or multifamily housing on their land by single-family zoning requirements and other exclusionary rules. To avoid crushing liability, they would have to either abolish exclusionary zoning or at least severely cut back on it.” (06/04/24)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/how-constitutional-litigation-can
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35) The Enemy Is Us (And I’m Not Just Thinking About Donald Trump)
Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Honestly, doesn’t it befuddle you? I mean, don’t you think we humans are kinda mad? And worse yet, at some deep level, we simply can’t seem to stop. All too often, we just can’t curb our urge to destroy. Looking back, the desire to make war and obliterate our ‘enemies’ is a deeply ingrained and repetitive pattern in our history. Each individual example can, of course, be explained (away) in its own fashion, but the overall pattern? Hmmm … I mean, you can certainly ‘understand’ the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Depending on your politics, you can explain it in terms of the threatening expansion of NATO or of a country run by an autocrat willing to see countless numbers of his people die … in order to take more territory …” (06/04/24)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-enemy-is-us/
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36) Trump’s Payoff to Stormy Was the Best $130,000 He Ever Spent
Source: Washington Monthly
by Margaret Carlson
“Could Teflon Don lose his grip on a third of the country because 12 twelve ordinary Americans did their duty, even the one who said he gets all his news from Truth Social? When Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of masterminding a scheme, it exposed him for all to see as a ‘loser’ like the war hero who got captured, the ‘sucker’ son of Gold Star parents …. If he had the $130,000 to pay off Stormy Daniels again, he would. It was the best money he ever spent. Without keeping that assignation from voters — even if it hadn’t come after Mike Pence and mother spent a weekend mulling whether to stay on a ticket with a man who described where he grabbed women — it was over for him. Without the untraceable money to Daniels, there would have been no Trump on Air Force One.” (06/04/24)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/04/trumps-payoff-to-stormy-was-the-best-130000-he-ever-spent/
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37) Hunter’s Trial Reveals Trump’s Big Lie About Biden and Justice
Source: The Daily Beast
by Matt Lewis
“The kickoff of jury selection in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial might be hurtful and embarrassing for Joe Biden’s family, but it is also a timely refutation of Donald Trump’s central campaign premise: the notion that Biden has weaponized the justice system. … If Biden had that kind of power, wouldn’t he have already made this pesky case against Hunter Biden disappear? Surely a president powerful and corrupt enough to summon the full weight of the judicial system against a former president could find a way to avoid the messiness of seeing his son raked through the proverbial coals.” (06/04/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunters-trial-reveals-trumps-big-lie-about-biden-and-justice
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38) Donald Trump: Victim, but Certainly No Hero
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“In my opinion, Trumpsters and other right-wing acolytes of Donald Trump are correct in their assessment of the grave abuse of prosecutorial and judicial power that led to his criminal conviction. However, given their blind allegiance to the former president, what they are unable to see is that Trump is largely responsible for his own woes in the New York proceeding. Moreover, while they are able to see that Trump is clearly a victim of such abuse, they are unable to recognize that he is far from being a hero.” (06/04/24)
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/04/donald-trump-victim-but-certainly-no-hero/
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39) The IAEA is readying to censure Iran. It shouldn’t.
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Sina Toossi
“Tehran deserves to be admonished over it’s nuclear activities, but doing so now would be a strategic misstep.” (06/04/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iaea-iran/
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40) DEI and one of the biggest problems facing black Americans
Source: Fox News
by Corey Brooks
“The recent race controversy at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine reminded me once again of one of the more devastating and pressing issues facing Black people: inferiority. What struck me the most about this controversy scandal was how the school was accused of sacrificing meritocracy at the altar of diversity to admit an unqualified Black prospect. UCLA has denied the claim that they have discriminated on the basis of race and have pushed back against this uproar. However, their own dean of the medical school runs a minorities-only fellowship which violates the California law that prohibits public institutions from using race as a consideration in any matter. Still, the accusations surprised me in many ways.” (06/04/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dei-one-biggest-problems-facing-black-americans
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41) Sweden’s Electric Sense
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Under the policy of Sweden’s current government, the Swedish people are to be allowed to illuminate and heat their homes and do all the other things they use electricity for. The Swedish parliament has formally relinquished the government’s former target of somehow reaching ‘net-zero’ renewable energy by 2045. Such unreliable means of generating power as erratic wind and erratic sunshine just don’t cut it, says Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson.” (06/04/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/06/04/swedens-electric-sense/
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42) The West Should Be Receptive to Russia’s Openness to Talks
Source: The American Conservative
by Nicolai N Petro & Ted Snider
“There is clearly a path around the roadblocks that have prevented peace so far — security guarantees that would satisfy both Ukraine and Russia and serve as a starting point for territorial compromises. It would leave a secure Ukraine with 80 percent of its territory, which is more than it has been able to gain on the battlefield, and lead to EU membership. As Alexey Arestovich, a former Zelensky advisor who was involved in the Istanbul negotiations put it, for Ukraine this would be ‘not a bad deal at all.’ With tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers being wounded or killed each month, and the acute risk of more territory being lost, isn’t the option of negotiating a settlement with Russia at least worth exploring?” (06/04/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-west-should-be-receptive-to-russias-openness-to-talks/
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43) The Trump trial and our injustice system
Source: Orange County Register
by Ron Paul
“I’ve long criticized our current US justice system – on all levels – as becoming much more about political justice than blind justice. The bizarre trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump last week on 34 felonies only reinforces my concerns.” (06/04/24)
https://archive.is/xiYxO
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44) One Person One Price
Source: American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Six years ago, I was at a conference at the University of Chicago, the intellectual heart of corporate-friendly capitalism, when my eyes found the cover of the Chicago Booth Review, the business school’s flagship publication. ‘Are You Ready for Personalized Pricing?’ the headline asked. I wasn’t, so I started reading. The story looked at how online shopping, persistent data collection, and machine-learning algorithms could combine to generate the stuff of economist dreams: individual prices for each customer. It even recounted an experiment in 2015, where online employment website ZipRecruiter essentially outsourced its pricing strategy to two U of Chicago economists, Sanjog Misra and Jean-Pierre Dubé. ZipRecruiter had previously charged businesses one fixed monthly price for its job-screening services.” (06/04/24)
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/
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45) Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt
“As the New York Mets compiled a record of 40 wins and 120 losses during their comically inept inaugural season, manager Casey Stengel famously lamented: ‘Can’t anyone here play this game?’ I thought of Stengel’s remark when I learned that the temporary pier the United States had built to bring relief aid into Gaza had collapsed. It was an apt metaphor for the Biden administration’s handling of the whole Gaza conflict, as critics on social media were quick to point out. Constructing the pier was essentially an expensive PR stunt undertaken because U.S. officials were unwilling to force Israel to open the border crossings and allow sufficient relief aid for civilians facing a man-made humanitarian catastrophe. This largely symbolic effort managed to deliver about 60 truckloads of aid before rough seas damaged the structure and aid deliveries were suspended.” (06/04/24)
https://archive.is/0GK1H
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46) Ludwig Von Mises And The Austrian Theory Of Money, Banking, And The Business Cycle, part 1
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Richard M Ebeling
“One hundred years ago, in 1924, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises issued a revised German-language edition of his 1912 book Theorie des Geldes und der Unlaufsmittel. Ninety years ago, in 1934, there appeared an English-language edition under the title The Theory of Money and Credit. Over the more than a century since Mises’s book first appeared, the political and institutional circumstances of much of the world have gone through dramatic changes, yet the theoretical and policy analyses and insights of The Theory of Money and Credit have withstood the test of time.” (06/04/24)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2024/06/ludwig-von-mises-and-the-austrian-theory-of-money-banking-and-the-business-cycle-part-1/
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47) Distinguishing Libertarian Philosophy from Political Strategy
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya & David Gordon
“Political disputation is not confined to the ground of an ethics of liberty but extends to cover matters of political strategy. Political strategy often involves coalitions and alliances that may cover many different philosophical perspectives. As Murray Rothbard observes in ‘A Strategy for the Right,’ there is no obviously accurate political label to identify the political strategy that he defended …. Ultimately, the debate on what a libertarian society is shows the philosophical limits of the political philosophy of libertarianism.” (06/04/24)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/distinguishing-libertarian-philosophy-political-strategy
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48) The 100th Anniversary of One of America’s Worst Laws — the 1924 Immigration Act
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“This is the law that made most immigration presumptively illegal, with terrible effects that continue even today.” (06/03/24)
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/03/the-100th-anniversary-of-one-of-americas-worst-laws-the-1924-immigration-act/
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49) Biden fundraising smears of Trump reflect his OWN hatred of your freedom
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Joe Biden’s anti-Donald Trump ramblings are always a case of projection, and his latest eruption is no different. Speaking at a fat-cat fundraiser, the prez insisted his rival is running because he’s ‘worried about preserving his freedoms.’ Uh, no: The indictments only started hitting Trump after he announced his 2024 run. And Biden’s bizarre locution says it all: He knows he’s the one attacking our freedoms and is letting the mask slip. Like through his obscene decision to classify the audio tapes of his humiliating interview with special counsel Robert Hur, though the transcript is already public). Or his administration’s efforts to fight ‘disinformation’ (i.e., opinions that Democrats don’t like and facts that prove politically inconvenient for them, with Orwellian uses of government power. Even on trivial stuff, like gas stoves, the Biden administration is salivating over the prospect of crackdowns.” (06/04/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/opinion/biden-fundraising-smears-on-trump-reflect-his-own-hatred-of-your-freedom/
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50) Biden’s deepfake dodge to keep Hur interview secret reveals his war on truth
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“On Thursday, a Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felonies after prosecutors hustled a harebrained legal theory that claimed the former president had ‘hoodwinked’ voters in the 2016 election. On Friday, the Department of Justice told a federal judge that accurate, authentic audiotapes of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur should not be released because someone might hoodwink voters with manipulated deepfake versions created by artificial intelligence. But citizens were already hoodwinked when Biden proclaimed in a White House press conference that Hur’s report showed he hadn’t violated federal law.” (06/03/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/06/03/n-y-post-biden-deepfake-dodge-hur-secret-war-truth/
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51) Free Speech on Trial: Jailed But Re-elected
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“In a time of political turmoil, when criticism of the government could land you behind bars, Matthew Lyon, a congressman and fierce critic of the Federalist administration of John Adams, dared to defy the Sedition Act, a law that criminalized free speech. This would lead to an extraordinary story of the only person in US history to be re-elected – while in jail. It’s also a tale of government power being used to target opponents.” (06/03/24)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/06/03/free-speech-on-trial-jailed-but-re-elected/
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52) The rise of the abundance faction
Source: hypertext
by Steven Teles & Rob Saldin
“For nearly a decade now, political moderates have been on their heels, as right-wing populists have taken the reins of the Republican Party and democratic socialists have established a beachhead in the Democratic Party. In response, startled and flailing moderates, including the authors, have grasped for institutional footholds within the two parties. Some have latched on to the idea of creating a moderate faction inside the Democratic Party with its own distinctive ideology, institutions, and sources of funding and organization. Others have given up on the two major parties and flirted with the idea of a moderate third party. We have, with some reluctance, concluded that moderation itself is a dead end.” (06/03/24)
https://hypertextjournal.substack.com/p/879f5abf-8087-46cb-b481-32204715a71a
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53) Wind Subsidies Are Rising …
Source: Independent Institute
by Paige Lambermont
“New data recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows a decrease in wind power production in 2023. Despite record highs in installed wind capacity and continually rising subsidies production is falling. Thanks to these subsidies, including the longstanding Production Tax Credit (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and the extensions that these credits received in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), subsidies for wind power have seen a dramatic increase over the last decade. The IRA extended these credits through 2025, and replaces them with the new, but similar, Clean Energy PTC and Clean Energy ITC through 2032. It also added provisions to provide even larger subsidies for projects that meet ‘Environmental Justice’ requirements.” (06/03/24)
https://blog.independent.org/2024/06/03/wind-subsidies-are-rising
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54) The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad
Source: In These Times
by Branko Marcetic
“On the eve of a high-profile Democratic primary in April, incumbent Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) wasn’t giving a speech or knocking on doors. She was at a Passover Seder. The representative and members of her campaign team joined supporters and their families at a home in Pittsburgh’s historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighborhood, the site of a deadly 2018 attack where 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life Congregation were murdered by a white supremacist. At the Seder, as the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza raged in the background, Lee and her fellow peace activists reflected on the trying months since October 7, 2023. Organizers who criticized Israel’s brutal response to Hamas’ attack had been smeared as anti-Semitic and apologists for atrocities. Exhausted but optimistic, they spoke about creating a larger movement that would span race, class and age.” (06/04/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/squad-aipac-israel-corporate-dark-money
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55) News Publishers Try To Sic the Government on Google AI
Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
“Google’s pivot to artificial intelligence has news publishers freaking out — and running to the government. ‘Agency intervention is necessary to stop the existential threat Google poses to original content creators,’ the News/Media Alliance — a major news industry trade group — wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It asked the agencies to use antitrust authority ‘to stop Google’s latest expansion of AI Overviews,’ a search engine innovation that Google has been rolling out recently. … Overviews give ‘comprehensive answers without the user ever having to click to another page,’ the New York Times warns. And this worries websites that rely on Google to drive much of their traffic. … [Publishers] want to punish Google preemptively for daring (once again) to disrupt media business models in a way that news organizations don’t like.” (06/03/24)
https://reason.com/2024/06/03/news-publishers-try-to-sic-the-government-on-google-ai/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 607
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Moscow Warns NATO and Russia Are Close to WWIII.” (06/04/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-607-moscow-warns-nato-and-russia-are-close-to-wwiii/
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57) Rising, 06/04/24
Source: The Hill
“Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s expected signing of an executive order to limit the flow of migrants across the southern border.” (06/04/24)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4702376-rising-may-4-2024/
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58) Ill Literacy, episode 144
Source: Heartland Institute
“The Ecology of Nations (Guest: John M. Owen IV).” (06/03/24)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/ill-literacy-episode-144-the-ecology-of-nations-guest-john-m-owen-iv/
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59) Hubwonk, 06/04/24
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Universal Savings Accounts: Designing Tax Incentives that Pay to Save.” (06/04/24)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/universal-savings-accounts-designing-tax-incentives-that-pay-to-save/
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60) The New Abnormal, 06/04/24
Source: The Daily Beast
“Is Biden the White Moderate MLK Jr. Warned Us About?” (06/04/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-biden-the-white-moderate-mlk-jr-warned-us-about
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61) SolutionsWatch, 06/04/24
Source: The Corbett Report
“The Fight for Health Freedom Continues.” (06/04/24)
https://corbettreport.com/the-fight-for-health-freedom/
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62) Advisory Opinions, 06/04/24
Source: The Dispatch
“Will President Biden Pardon His Son?” (06/04/24)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/will-president-biden-pardon-his-son/
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63) How To Fix The Internet, 06/04/24
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“AI on the Artist’s Palette.” (06/04/24)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-ai-artists-palette
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64) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/04/24
Source: Antiwar.com
“Netanyahu Sabotaging Potential Ceasefire Deal, Biden To Skip Ukraine War Summit, and More.” (06/04/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrlG8_XsWyo
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65) Free Talk Live, 06/03/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Ross Ulbricht & Donald Trump :: Trans kids transitioning :: Federal prison is stupid :: Enemies of the state :: Bitcoin & banks :: American Justice System failures :: Banks are the worst :: 2024-06-03 Hosts: Aria, Mark, Riley.” (06/03/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-06-03
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1) US House throws tantrum over ICC warrant requests for Israeli terror kingpins
2) Australia: Regime drops attempt to censor posts on X
3) IL: Chicago police tweak mass arrests policy ahead of Democratic National Convention
4) Hamas wants Israel to commit to permanent ceasefire, full withdrawal from Gaza
5) Gaetz was US House’s top 2023 recipient of congresscritter welfare checks
6) Nigeria: Unions suspend strike for talks over new minimum wage
7) Biden Regime Rolls Out Migration Order That Aims to Shut Down Asylum Requests, After Months of Anticipation
8) Spain: Prime minister’s wife summoned to court over corruption allegations
9) WI: Disgraced former president’s allies charged in 2020 fake elector scheme
10) Oxfam: Incessant IDF Strikes Making Gaza Aid Deliveries “Virtually Impossible”
11) Italy: Knox to defend herself in court against 16-year-old slander charge
12) KS: Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a fundamental right
13) Intel unveils new AI chips as it seeks to reclaim market share from Nvidia and AMD
14) China: Regime cracks down on attempts to mark 35 years since Tiananmen massacre
15) Turkey: Pro-Kurdish lawmakers stage protest in parliament to denounce ouster of new mayor
16) NE: Woman pronounced dead found alive at funeral home
17) Toyota raided as safety testing scandal grows
18) Epoch Times executive arrested over alleged $67 million money laundering scheme
19) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope temporarily pauses observations after malfunction
20) OK: Deadly home invasion ends with intruder killed in gunfire exchange
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Trumpism With Chinese Characteristics
22) Walter Block’s “Distance” Recommendation
23) Your Vote Versus Differences Which Make No Difference
24) Want government to work better? Then have it do fewer things.
25) America Can’t Do Without Immigrants
26) When divisions deepen, dig in to something shared
27) The Manhattan Jury Pool Isn’t All That Liberal
28) The Bloody River
29) Elon Musk Shows Us Why Individuals Can’t Save the World
30) “Show Me the Man and I’ll Show You the Crime” vs. The Rule of Law
31) Children Are Gifts, Not Projects
32) No One Is Above the Law, Unless You’re a Democrat
33) 63 US Banks on Brink! FDIC Blames Inflation, Not Bailouts
34) How Constitutional Litigation Can Help End Exclusionary Zoning
35) The Enemy Is Us (And I’m Not Just Thinking About Donald Trump)
36) Trump’s Payoff to Stormy Was the Best $130,000 He Ever Spent
37) Hunter’s Trial Reveals Trump’s Big Lie About Biden and Justice
38) Donald Trump: Victim, but Certainly No Hero
39) The IAEA is readying to censure Iran. It shouldn’t.
40) DEI and one of the biggest problems facing black Americans
41) Sweden’s Electric Sense
42) The West Should Be Receptive to Russia’s Openness to Talks
43) The Trump trial and our injustice system
44) One Person One Price
45) Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence
46) Ludwig Von Mises And The Austrian Theory Of Money, Banking, And The Business Cycle, part 1
47) Distinguishing Libertarian Philosophy from Political Strategy
48) The 100th Anniversary of One of America’s Worst Laws — the 1924 Immigration Act
49) Biden fundraising smears of Trump reflect his OWN hatred of your freedom
50) Biden’s deepfake dodge to keep Hur interview secret reveals his war on truth
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Speech on Trial: Jailed But Re-elected
52) The rise of the abundance faction
53) Wind Subsidies Are Rising …
54) The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad
55) News Publishers Try To Sic the Government on Google AI
56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 607
57) Rising, 06/04/24
58) Ill Literacy, episode 144
59) Hubwonk, 06/04/24
60) The New Abnormal, 06/04/24
61) SolutionsWatch, 06/04/24
62) Advisory Opinions, 06/04/24
63) How To Fix The Internet, 06/04/24
64) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/04/24
65) Free Talk Live, 06/03/24
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1) US House throws tantrum over ICC warrant requests for Israeli terror kingpins
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The US House of Representatives has voted to pass legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its prosecutor applied for arrest warrants against Israeli officials. The move comes after The Hague-based court’s prosecutor said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant should be arrested on charges relating to the war in Gaza. The prosecutor is also seeking warrants for three leaders of Hamas. The bill, proposed by pro-Israel Republicans, targets ICC officials involved in the case by blocking their entry to the US. On Tuesday, it passed with a majority of Republican support by a vote of 247-155. Two Republicans voted ‘present’ and 42 pro-Israel Democrats crossed the aisle to back the legislation. Though the bill passed in the House, it is not expected to become law.” (06/04/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5512l7yero
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2) Australia: Regime drops attempt to censor posts on X
Source: Aol
“Australia’s cyber safety regulator on Wednesday decided to drop a legal challenge against Elon Musk-owned X over the removal of videos of the stabbing of an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney, after a setback last month in the federal court. Judge Geoffrey Kennett in May rejected a bid by the eSafety commissioner to extend a temporary order for the social media platform to block videos of the knife attack, which Australian authorities had called a terrorist attack. Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said in a statement the regulator had decided to drop its legal action against X. … X had blocked Australian users from viewing the posts but refused to remove them globally on the grounds that one country’s rules should not control the internet.” (06/05/24)
https://www.aol.com/news/australia-drops-court-action-against-055203915.html
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3) IL: Chicago police tweak mass arrests policy ahead of Democratic National Convention
Source: ABC News
“Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Tuesday touted the nation’s second-largest police department as fully prepared to handle crowds of protesters expected during the Democratic National Convention, including new ways to handle possible mass arrests. Law enforcement agencies have been planning for more than a year for the August convention that is expected to draw an estimated 50,000 visitors and massive protests. … More than 50 organizations plan to protest in Chicago, which has denied permits for demonstrations near the United Center convention site. That has sparked lawsuits and groups vowing to march whether or not they have permits.” [editor’s note: As Mayor Daley noted in 1968, “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder” – TLK] (06/04/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chicago-police-tweak-mass-arrests-policy-ahead-democratic-110821590
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4) Hamas wants Israel to commit to permanent ceasefire, full withdrawal from Gaza
Source: Reuters
“Hamas cannot agree to any deal unless Israel makes a ‘clear’ commitment to a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a senior official from the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday. Qatar, which alongside the United States and Egypt has been mediating talks between Hamas and Israel, has also urged Israel to provide a clear position that has the backing of its entire government to reach a deal. ‘We cannot agree to an agreement that doesn’t secure, guarantee, and ensure a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and completing a real serious swap deal accordingly,’ Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official, told a televised press conference.” (06/04/24)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-wants-israel-commit-permanent-ceasefire-full-withdrawal-gaza-2024-06-04/
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5) Gaetz was US House’s top 2023 recipient of congresscritter welfare checks
Source: The Hill
“Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was the top spender last year under the House’s new reimbursement program, an analysis by The Washington Post found. The reimbursement program, passed last year by a House panel, allows members to be reimbursed for expenses from living both in their home districts and in Washington. More than 300 members were reimbursed at least $5.2 million in 2023, the Post analysis found. … In the first 11 months of the program, the Post reported that 153 Democrats and 166 Republicans received reimbursements. Gaetz was the program’s top spender. He was reimbursed for nearly $30,000 in lodging expenses and more than $10,000 for food in 2023, the Post found. In two different months he billed more than $4,000 for lodging and more than $3,000 for five different months in the 11-month period.” (06/04/24)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4702611-gaetz-was-top-spender-in-houses-reimbursement-program-wapo-analysis/
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6) Nigeria: Unions suspend strike for talks over new minimum wage
Source: Reuters
“Nigeria’s main labour unions suspended an indefinite strike for a week on Tuesday in order to continue talks with the government over a new minimum wage after reforms in the West African nation caused inflation to spike, worsening a cost of living crisis. Nigeria’s two biggest union federations, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), shut down the national grid and disrupted flights across the country on Monday as they began an indefinite strike over the government’s failure to agree a new minimum wage. Unions and the government met late on Monday for talks where the government said it was open to a higher monthly minimum wage than the amount of 60,000 naira ($41.38) it had proposed. But a new amount is yet to be announced. The unions had demanded a 16-fold rise in the minimum wage to 494,000 naira a month, from 30,000 naira.” (06/04/24)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/nigeria-oil-workers-await-outcome-tuesdays-talks-before-quitting-oil-rigs-union-2024-06-04/
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7) Biden Regime Rolls Out Migration Order That Aims to Shut Down Asylum Requests, After Months of Anticipation
Source: US News & World Report
“President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. The White House detailed the long-anticipated presidential proclamation signed by Biden, which would bar migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed. The Democratic president has contemplated unilateral action for months, especially after the collapse of a bipartisan border security deal in Congress that most Republican lawmakers rejected at the behest of Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. The order will go into effect when the number of border encounters between ports of entry hits 2,500 per day, according to senior administration officials.” (06/04/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-06-04/biden-rolls-out-migration-order-that-aims-to-shut-down-asylum-requests-after-months-of-anticipation
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8) Spain: Prime minister’s wife summoned to court over corruption allegations
Source: Politico
“A Madrid court on Tuesday summoned Begoña Gomez, who is married to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, as part of a corruption probe — breathing new life into a saga that almost drove Sanchez to resign. The summons for July 5 is in relation to ‘the alleged offenses of corruption in the private sector and influence peddling,’ the court said. Her business ties and government connections have been under scrutiny since an obscure anti-graft nongovernmental organizatoin with links to the far right filed a legal complaint against her, leading a judge to launch a preliminary investigation in April. But in May, the Civil Guard — which was charged with investigating Gómez’s alleged crimes — said it had not found any evidence of influence peddling. Spain’s government was quick to denounce the new investigation.” (06/04/24)
https://www.politico.eu/article/spanish-prime-minister-wife-begona-gomez-pedro-sanchez-summoned-court-corruption-allegations/
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9) WI: Disgraced former president’s allies charged in 2020 fake elector scheme
Source: Axios
“Former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro was charged in Wisconsin on Tuesday with one count of forgery in connection to the 2020 fake electors scheme in the state. … Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) also filed one forgery count on Tuesday against attorney Jim Troupis and ex-Trump campaign aide Michael Roman. The three defendants are scheduled for a court appearance on Sept. 19.” (06/04/24)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/04/kenneth-chesebro-wisconsin-2020-election-trump
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10) Oxfam: Incessant IDF Strikes Making Gaza Aid Deliveries “Virtually Impossible”
Source: Common Dreams
“A leading global humanitarian group said Tuesday that the Israeli military’s relentless bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip and continued obstruction of aid operations there have made efforts to deliver food, medicine, and other assistance to desperate Gazans ‘virtually impossible’. Oxfam International noted in a statement that two-thirds of Gaza’s population — roughly 1.7 million people — is now packed into less than a fifth of the occupied enclave, often in areas with little to no access to the meager humanitarian assistance that Israel has allowed to enter in recent months. According to the latest United Nations figures, the amount of aid entering Gaza has plummeted by 67% since Israeli forces launched their ground assault on Rafah last month. More than a million people have fled Rafah since early May, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East said Monday.” (06/04/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/humanitarian-aid-gaza
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11) Italy: Knox to defend herself in court against 16-year-old slander charge
Source: ABC News
“Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all. Her chance was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning after the murder of her British roommate in November 2007. The slander conviction for accusing a Congolese bar owner in the murder is the only charge against Knox that withstood five court rulings that ultimately cleared her in the brutal murder of her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the idyllic central Italian university town of Perugia. A verdict in the slander case retrial ordered by Italy’s highest court is expected on Wednesday, with Knox appearing in an Italian court for the first time in more than 12 1/2 years.” (06/04/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/amanda-knox-defend-italian-court-16-year-slander-110804078
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12) KS: Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a fundamental right
Source: SFGate
“A split Kansas Supreme Court ruling last week issued in a lawsuit over a 2021 election law found that voting is not a fundamental right listed in the state Constitution’s Bill of Rights. The finding drew sharp criticism from three dissenting justices on the high court. The Associated Press looks at what the ruling might mean for Kansas residents and future elections. The ruling itself is wide-reaching, combining different lawsuits at various stages of litigation that challenge three different segments of a 2021 election law passed by the Kansas Legislature. It was a lawsuit challenging a ballot signature verification measure in which a majority of the high court found there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights.” (06/04/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-kansas-supreme-court-has-ruled-that-voting-is-19493336.php
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13) Intel unveils new AI chips as it seeks to reclaim market share from Nvidia and AMD
Source: CNBC
“U.S. chipmaker Intel on Tuesday announced new artificial intelligence chips for data centers, as it looks to take on rivals Nvidia and AMD which have showcased upcoming chips in the last two days. Intel’s Xeon 6 processor will deliver better performance and power efficiency for high-intensity data center workloads as compared to its predecessor, CEO Pat Gelsinger said during the Computex tech conference in Taiwan. The announcement comes as rivals Nvidia and AMD launched new AI chips on Sunday and Monday, respectively, as they jostle for leadership in the booming industry.” (06/04/24)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/intel-unveils-new-ai-chips-as-it-seeks-to-take-on-nvidia-and-amd.html
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14) China: Regime cracks down on attempts to mark 35 years since Tiananmen massacre
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the Chinese government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule. An estimated 180,000 troops and armed police rolled in with tanks and armoured vehicles, and fired into crowds as they pushed toward Tiananmen Square. The death toll remains unknown to this day. Hundreds, if not thousands are believed to have been killed in an operation that started the night of June 3 through the following morning. Across China, the event remains a sensitive and taboo subject that is heavily censored, and any mention or reference on social media are erased.” (06/04/24)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240604-heavy-police-security-presence-china-commemorates-35th-anniversary-tiananmen-square-protests
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15) Turkey: Pro-Kurdish lawmakers stage protest in parliament to denounce ouster of new mayor
Source: SFGate
“More than a dozen legislators from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party staged a demonstration in parliament on Tuesday to denounce the arrest and expulsion from office of a newly elected mayor, Turkish media reported. On Monday, authorities detained Mehmet Siddik Akis, mayor of Hakkari province, over alleged links to Kurdish militants and replaced him with the province’s state-appointed governor. Akis, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, had been elected in March. The DEM, the third largest party in Turkey’s parliament, denies allegations of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which is listed as a terror organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. In the past, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has similarly expelled numerous elected pro-Kurdish mayors over alleged connections to Kurdish militants and replaced them with government-appointed trustees.” (06/04/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/pro-kurdish-lawmakers-stage-protest-in-turkey-s-19494566.php
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16) NE: Woman pronounced dead found alive at funeral home
Source: United Press International
“Authorities in Nebraska said a woman who was pronounced dead at her nursing home was found alive two hours later at the funeral parlor. Chief Deputy Ben Houchin of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office identified the woman in a press conference as 74-year-old Constance Glantz of Lincoln, Neb. He said she was a resident at the Mulberry at Waverly nursing home …. The nursing home pronounced Glantz dead Tuesday morning at 9:44 a.m., Houchin said, stating its employees then transported the body of a person ‘they believed was deceased’ to the funeral home. At the funeral home, an employee was placing Glantz on to a table to start ‘their process’ when they noticed she was breathing and called emergency services.” (06/04/24)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/06/04/Nebraska-woman-alive-funeral-home/6071717481589/
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17) Toyota raided as safety testing scandal grows
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Japan’s transport ministry raided the headquarters of motor giant Toyota on Tuesday, as a scandal over faulty safety data escalated. The world’s largest carmaker has apologised for providing incorrect or manipulated data for safety certification tests. The scandal has shaken the Japanese car industry, with rivals Honda, Mazda and Suzuki also admitting to submitting faulty data. … It has also been accused of using modified vehicles during safety collision tests, for vehicles that are no longer in production. The raids come a day after Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda apologised to customers and car enthusiasts. He bowed deeply and held the position for a few seconds, which is customary in Japan when companies apologise for wrongdoing.” (06/04/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wwj1p2wdyo
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18) Epoch Times executive arrested over alleged $67 million money laundering scheme
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A top executive at the Epoch Times, a New York-based conservative media outlet known for its fierce criticism of the Chinese government, has been arrested over his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme. Weidong ‘Bill’ Guan, the outlet’s chief financial officer, is alleged to have participated in a ‘sprawling, transnational scheme’ to launder at least $67m in illegally obtained funds to benefit himself and the company, the United States Department of Justice said on Monday. … members of the company’s ‘Make Money Online’ team used cryptocurrency to buy tens of millions of dollars in crime proceeds …. Employees then used stolen personal information to open bank and cryptocurrency accounts for transferring the illicit proceeds, which were further laundered through other bank accounts held by the Epoch Times and Guan, according to federal prosecutors. Prosecutors said the charges are not related to the Epoch Times’s news-gathering activities.” (06/04/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/4/epoch-times-executive-arrested-over-alleged-67m-money-laundering-scheme?traffic_source=rss
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19) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope temporarily pauses observations after malfunction
Source: SFGate
“The Hubble Space Telescope has temporarily stopped observing the cosmos. NASA said the telescope slipped into a hibernating state more than a week ago when one of its three remaining gyroscopes — part of the pointing system — malfunctioned. The same device has been acting up for months and disrupting scientific operations. Hubble remains safe but inactive as flight controllers figure out how to proceed, officials said. The space agency planned to outline a path forward on Tuesday. Hubble got six new gyroscopes during astronauts’ final visit in 2009. The devices’ spinning wheels keep the telescope stable and looking the right way by tracking Hubble’s rotation and position in space. Three gyroscopes no longer function. NASA said the 34-year-old observatory could keep making discoveries with only one or two good gyroscopes.” (06/04/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/nasa-s-hubble-space-telescope-temporarily-pauses-19494416.php
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20) OK: Deadly home invasion ends with intruder killed in gunfire exchange
Source: Fox 25 News
“One person is dead after trying to break into a home in Ponca City. Police responded to a home invasion involving gunfire near Northwest 36th and North Rockwell Avenue. A witness reported that a subject had been shot while trying to force his way into the home. Officials located 29-year-old Jacob S. Grudowski nearby and found he’d been shot multiple times. Police said Grudowski reportedly was involved in an ongoing domestic situation with one of the residents at the home. When Grudowski arrived, he fired multiple shots while trying to force his way in. He and one of the residents exchanged gunfire and Grudowski was hit multiple times.” (06/03/24)
https://okcfox.com/news/local/deadly-home-invasion-in-ponca-city-ends-with-intruder-killed-in-gunfire-exchange-police-investigation-pronounced-dead-scene-domestic-situation-crime-stoppers
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21) Trumpism With Chinese Characteristics
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“One of the ironies of contemporary politics is that Donald Trump offers himself as the champion of American interests against China when Donald Trump personifies the Chinese ethos. Consider the three most important parallels: 1. Both Trump and Beijing are, fundamentally, whiners. They complain endlessly about being singled out and treated — in Trump’s favorite words — ‘very unfairly,’ as though fairness and fair play were consistent with their own values rather than perfectly opposed to them. 2. Both sanctimoniously claim the protection of laws, rules, and norms they hold in comprehensive contempt when they do not align with their own interests. … 3. Both Beijing and Trump argue that economic success is an answer to all criticism. Trump’s argument for himself always has been, in essence, I’m very rich, so I must know what I am doing.” (06/04/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trumpism-with-chinese-characteristics/
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22) Walter Block’s “Distance” Recommendation
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“In his Wall Street Journal op-ed calling for libertarians (‘we,’ he writes) to vote for Donald Trump, Walter Block’s central argument is that Joe Biden ‘is much further from us on the political-economic spectrum than Mr. Trump’ (‘Libertarians Should Vote for Trump,’ May 28, 2024). This argument is debatable. Walter only intends his recommendation for libertarians in ‘swing states,’ which raises a first set of problems. We first need to identify the ‘swing states,’ which can be many combinations of them and which anyway are only known after the election. But I want to focus on the ‘distance’ criterion implied by his “further from.” I will suggest that such a distance is not easy to make sense of and that an obvious alternative criterion does not point to Trump.” (06/04/24)
https://www.econlib.org/walter-block-distance-recommendation
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23) Your Vote Versus Differences Which Make No Difference
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Voters who’ve supported Donald Trump for president twice are almost certain to support him a third time. They knew he was a snake when they picked him up. One more bit of snakiness — especially one that’s old news, was really just a misdemeanor the statute of limitations had expired on, and was tortured back into existence and into felony status by trying to tie it to unspecified ‘underlying crimes’ — won’t change their minds. Voters who’ve supported Joe Biden for president once are almost certain to support him again. They knew he was a snake when they picked him up. One more bit of snakiness — especially one that’s patently unconstitutional, indirect, and unrelated to corruption involving the father/son relationship — won’t change their minds. Even those who MIGHT change their minds aren’t likely to switch ‘major party’ sides.” (06/04/24)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/18729
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24) Want government to work better? Then have it do fewer things.
Source: The Hill
by Kevin R Kosar
“Whatever one may think about tariffs and tax cut extensions as public policy, one thing is worth recognizing: Self-interested groups that benefit from these temporary policies are advocating on behalf of them and want them to become permanent. ‘So what?’ you might think. ‘That’s how the system works.’ That is absolutely true. The First Amendment protects Americans’ right to ‘petition government for a redress of grievances.’ They can lobby Congress, and if that doesn’t work they can file comments with executive agencies, sue in federal courts and campaign for elected officials who will do their bidding. But ask yourself, what happens to the government when organized interests relentlessly demand that it creates new benefits and maintains old programs? Answer: The government becomes so overloaded with to-do’s that it becomes scatterbrained and unable to focus its resources on the most pressing problems.” (06/04/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4700719-want-government-to-work-better-then-have-it-do-fewer-things/mlite/
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25) America Can’t Do Without Immigrants
Source: The UnPopulist
by David Bier
“In a free society, markets incentivize people to contribute to the welfare of others through their work, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Thanks to freedom, America isn’t a fixed pie — it’s a growing pie. It is exactly for these reasons that so many people from around the world come to the United States, and it is exactly for those same reasons that we should let them come legally.” (06/04/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-cant-do-without-immigrants
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26) When divisions deepen, dig in to something shared
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“When people are confronted with enormous obstacles, it can be easy for them to feel overwhelmed, and perhaps even a little cynical. In the United States, the events of the past few years, from the pandemic to social justice protests to contentious political campaigns, have laid bare divisions that have long been simmering beneath the country’s surface. For journalists, part of the job is to report such obstacles to our common life together. The ideological differences that have morphed into entrenched tribalism. People who retreat into media echo chambers and vilify those who hold opposing views. A fractured landscape where dialogue has been replaced by diatribe, and political compromise has mostly become a relic of a bygone era. We often view each other with suspicion, and as strangers.” (06/04/24)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2024/0604/political-division-trust-common-ground
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27) The Manhattan Jury Pool Isn’t All That Liberal
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Froma Harrop
“A rumor’s going around that the Manhattan jury pool could not have produced 12 peers willing to give Donald Trump a fair shake. And that explains the jurors’ decision to find him guilty on all 34 charges in the hush money case. That rumor is unfounded, however. It is true that there are far more registered Democratic voters in Manhattan than registered Republicans, 70% versus just under 8%. But that 8% represents almost 87,000 Republicans. We can assume that registered Democrats are perfectly able to impartially assess evidence. (Trump’s lawyers had to approve them.) Likewise, Republican Manhattanites are capable of finding fault in an ex-president’s conduct.” (06/04/24)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/04/the_manhattan_jury_pool_isnt_all_that_liberal_151043.html
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28) The Bloody River
Source: Liberal Currents
by Samantha Hancox-Li
“Let us begin with a simple question: what ends wars? The history of Europe — and elsewhere — provides an answer. Nationalists of all stripes long fantasized that if the lines on the map were simply drawn just right — so that each people had one state and each state one people — if the spheres of influence were simply divided up according to what is just and proper — then peace and harmony between peoples would follow. Nationalists of all stripes spent the better part of a century trying to achieve this, and for their efforts receiving only blood. ‘National integrity’ did not bring peace to Europe. Democracy did.” (06/04/24)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-bloody-river/
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29) Elon Musk Shows Us Why Individuals Can’t Save the World
Source: Common Dreams
by Manuel Pastor
“Elon Musk likes to be portrayed as a swashbuckling entrepreneur, a sort of romantic character in an Ayn Rand novel who opens up new enterprises and industries where others fear to tread. But these days, heroism is hard to find in at least one Musk-owned business: sales at Tesla are dropping, the Department of Justice is investigating the company for wire fraud given safety issues with their self-driving vehicles, and Musk is laying off the entire Tesla charging team. Why the turn in fortunes? It’s easy to lay the blame on particulars: the rise of Chinese EV competitors, the difficulties of opening Tesla’s closed charging systems to other brands, and the complexity of making self-propelled autos that are, well, not that well-propelled. But the lesson might be a bit simple for Musk and others wrapped up in their own self-made stories: live by the public will, die by the public will.” (06/04/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/elon-musk-libertarian
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30) “Show Me the Man and I’ll Show You the Crime” vs. The Rule of Law
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“Lavrentiy Beria was an unrelenting and merciless secret police chief under Stalin’s rule. Stalin’s reign of terror claimed the lives of millions of innocents. Beria ‘bragged that he could prove criminal conduct on anyone, even the innocent. ‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’ was Beria’s infamous boast.’’ … In 1984, George Orwell wrote, ‘The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure.’ That Trump has so many haters doesn’t establish his innocence, nor, for that matter, his guilt.” (06/04/24)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/show-me-the-man-and-ill-show-you
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31) Children Are Gifts, Not Projects
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Thomas Harrington
“I had my first child in graduate school. When the news came that I’d be a father, I was 30, in a relatively new relationship, living on a $700-a-month TA stipend, and had no money, I mean zero, in the bank. To say I was anxious is an understatement. … one of the kinder members of my department, a crusty Galician who had grown up in Cuba and studied with Fidel Castro, stopped me in the hall one day and said ‘Tom, sabes lo que dicen en Espana? Los bebes nacen con una barra de pan debajo del brazo”. (‘Tom, do you know what they say in Spain? All babies are born with a loaf of bread under their arms’). … my brother, someone not usually given to philosophizing or moral pronouncements, provided me with another pearl: ‘Your first job as a parent is to enjoy your children.'” (06/04/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/children-are-gifts-not-projects/
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32) No One Is Above the Law, Unless You’re a Democrat
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“You can’t say Democrats don’t have a sense of humor. Actually, it’s a little bit different – they’re a joke. While you can’t help but laugh at them, the biggest problem is the joke is on all of us. Democrats have a revolving repertoire of material they default to – they’re pro-choice (but only on abortion, nothing else), they love the country, yet can’t find anything nice to say about it ever, etc. That they’re able to deliver their lines with a straight face, or sleep at night after doing what they do, is a testament to the power of sociopathy. In their adventures in sociopathy, Democrats are in the midst of the ‘No one is above the law’ bumper sticker phase of distorting reality.” (06/04/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/06/04/no-one-is-above-the-lawunless-youre-a-democrat-n2639910
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33) 63 US Banks on Brink! FDIC Blames Inflation, Not Bailouts
Source: Palm Beach Examiner
by Karl Dickey
“The Federal Reserve and the FDIC’s involvement in the banking system creates moral hazard and instability which is the complete opposite of their mandate. This situation highlights the need for a free market approach to banking and an end to consistently needing to bail out a banking system that clearly does not work for the long term. One thing the FDIC may do is simple window dressing, to instill confidence in depositors so they do not create a run on banks; however, that does not solve the fundamental issue of the U.S. banking business model.” (06/04/24)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/63-us-banks-on-brink-fdic-blames
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34) How Constitutional Litigation Can Help End Exclusionary Zoning
Source: Bet On It
by Ilya Somin
“If the Supreme Court rules that exclusionary zoning regulations are takings, governments would have to pay ‘just compensation’ to affected property owners (usually defined as the ‘fair market value’ of the property right in question). Few if any local governments could afford to compensate all of the many thousands of property owners currently barred from building high-rise or multifamily housing on their land by single-family zoning requirements and other exclusionary rules. To avoid crushing liability, they would have to either abolish exclusionary zoning or at least severely cut back on it.” (06/04/24)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/how-constitutional-litigation-can
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35) The Enemy Is Us (And I’m Not Just Thinking About Donald Trump)
Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Honestly, doesn’t it befuddle you? I mean, don’t you think we humans are kinda mad? And worse yet, at some deep level, we simply can’t seem to stop. All too often, we just can’t curb our urge to destroy. Looking back, the desire to make war and obliterate our ‘enemies’ is a deeply ingrained and repetitive pattern in our history. Each individual example can, of course, be explained (away) in its own fashion, but the overall pattern? Hmmm … I mean, you can certainly ‘understand’ the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Depending on your politics, you can explain it in terms of the threatening expansion of NATO or of a country run by an autocrat willing to see countless numbers of his people die … in order to take more territory …” (06/04/24)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-enemy-is-us/
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36) Trump’s Payoff to Stormy Was the Best $130,000 He Ever Spent
Source: Washington Monthly
by Margaret Carlson
“Could Teflon Don lose his grip on a third of the country because 12 twelve ordinary Americans did their duty, even the one who said he gets all his news from Truth Social? When Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of masterminding a scheme, it exposed him for all to see as a ‘loser’ like the war hero who got captured, the ‘sucker’ son of Gold Star parents …. If he had the $130,000 to pay off Stormy Daniels again, he would. It was the best money he ever spent. Without keeping that assignation from voters — even if it hadn’t come after Mike Pence and mother spent a weekend mulling whether to stay on a ticket with a man who described where he grabbed women — it was over for him. Without the untraceable money to Daniels, there would have been no Trump on Air Force One.” (06/04/24)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/04/trumps-payoff-to-stormy-was-the-best-130000-he-ever-spent/
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37) Hunter’s Trial Reveals Trump’s Big Lie About Biden and Justice
Source: The Daily Beast
by Matt Lewis
“The kickoff of jury selection in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial might be hurtful and embarrassing for Joe Biden’s family, but it is also a timely refutation of Donald Trump’s central campaign premise: the notion that Biden has weaponized the justice system. … If Biden had that kind of power, wouldn’t he have already made this pesky case against Hunter Biden disappear? Surely a president powerful and corrupt enough to summon the full weight of the judicial system against a former president could find a way to avoid the messiness of seeing his son raked through the proverbial coals.” (06/04/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunters-trial-reveals-trumps-big-lie-about-biden-and-justice
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38) Donald Trump: Victim, but Certainly No Hero
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“In my opinion, Trumpsters and other right-wing acolytes of Donald Trump are correct in their assessment of the grave abuse of prosecutorial and judicial power that led to his criminal conviction. However, given their blind allegiance to the former president, what they are unable to see is that Trump is largely responsible for his own woes in the New York proceeding. Moreover, while they are able to see that Trump is clearly a victim of such abuse, they are unable to recognize that he is far from being a hero.” (06/04/24)
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/04/donald-trump-victim-but-certainly-no-hero/
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39) The IAEA is readying to censure Iran. It shouldn’t.
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Sina Toossi
“Tehran deserves to be admonished over it’s nuclear activities, but doing so now would be a strategic misstep.” (06/04/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iaea-iran/
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40) DEI and one of the biggest problems facing black Americans
Source: Fox News
by Corey Brooks
“The recent race controversy at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine reminded me once again of one of the more devastating and pressing issues facing Black people: inferiority. What struck me the most about this controversy scandal was how the school was accused of sacrificing meritocracy at the altar of diversity to admit an unqualified Black prospect. UCLA has denied the claim that they have discriminated on the basis of race and have pushed back against this uproar. However, their own dean of the medical school runs a minorities-only fellowship which violates the California law that prohibits public institutions from using race as a consideration in any matter. Still, the accusations surprised me in many ways.” (06/04/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dei-one-biggest-problems-facing-black-americans
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41) Sweden’s Electric Sense
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Under the policy of Sweden’s current government, the Swedish people are to be allowed to illuminate and heat their homes and do all the other things they use electricity for. The Swedish parliament has formally relinquished the government’s former target of somehow reaching ‘net-zero’ renewable energy by 2045. Such unreliable means of generating power as erratic wind and erratic sunshine just don’t cut it, says Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson.” (06/04/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/06/04/swedens-electric-sense/
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42) The West Should Be Receptive to Russia’s Openness to Talks
Source: The American Conservative
by Nicolai N Petro & Ted Snider
“There is clearly a path around the roadblocks that have prevented peace so far — security guarantees that would satisfy both Ukraine and Russia and serve as a starting point for territorial compromises. It would leave a secure Ukraine with 80 percent of its territory, which is more than it has been able to gain on the battlefield, and lead to EU membership. As Alexey Arestovich, a former Zelensky advisor who was involved in the Istanbul negotiations put it, for Ukraine this would be ‘not a bad deal at all.’ With tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers being wounded or killed each month, and the acute risk of more territory being lost, isn’t the option of negotiating a settlement with Russia at least worth exploring?” (06/04/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-west-should-be-receptive-to-russias-openness-to-talks/
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43) The Trump trial and our injustice system
Source: Orange County Register
by Ron Paul
“I’ve long criticized our current US justice system – on all levels – as becoming much more about political justice than blind justice. The bizarre trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump last week on 34 felonies only reinforces my concerns.” (06/04/24)
https://archive.is/xiYxO
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44) One Person One Price
Source: American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Six years ago, I was at a conference at the University of Chicago, the intellectual heart of corporate-friendly capitalism, when my eyes found the cover of the Chicago Booth Review, the business school’s flagship publication. ‘Are You Ready for Personalized Pricing?’ the headline asked. I wasn’t, so I started reading. The story looked at how online shopping, persistent data collection, and machine-learning algorithms could combine to generate the stuff of economist dreams: individual prices for each customer. It even recounted an experiment in 2015, where online employment website ZipRecruiter essentially outsourced its pricing strategy to two U of Chicago economists, Sanjog Misra and Jean-Pierre Dubé. ZipRecruiter had previously charged businesses one fixed monthly price for its job-screening services.” (06/04/24)
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/
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45) Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt
“As the New York Mets compiled a record of 40 wins and 120 losses during their comically inept inaugural season, manager Casey Stengel famously lamented: ‘Can’t anyone here play this game?’ I thought of Stengel’s remark when I learned that the temporary pier the United States had built to bring relief aid into Gaza had collapsed. It was an apt metaphor for the Biden administration’s handling of the whole Gaza conflict, as critics on social media were quick to point out. Constructing the pier was essentially an expensive PR stunt undertaken because U.S. officials were unwilling to force Israel to open the border crossings and allow sufficient relief aid for civilians facing a man-made humanitarian catastrophe. This largely symbolic effort managed to deliver about 60 truckloads of aid before rough seas damaged the structure and aid deliveries were suspended.” (06/04/24)
https://archive.is/0GK1H
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46) Ludwig Von Mises And The Austrian Theory Of Money, Banking, And The Business Cycle, part 1
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Richard M Ebeling
“One hundred years ago, in 1924, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises issued a revised German-language edition of his 1912 book Theorie des Geldes und der Unlaufsmittel. Ninety years ago, in 1934, there appeared an English-language edition under the title The Theory of Money and Credit. Over the more than a century since Mises’s book first appeared, the political and institutional circumstances of much of the world have gone through dramatic changes, yet the theoretical and policy analyses and insights of The Theory of Money and Credit have withstood the test of time.” (06/04/24)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2024/06/ludwig-von-mises-and-the-austrian-theory-of-money-banking-and-the-business-cycle-part-1/
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47) Distinguishing Libertarian Philosophy from Political Strategy
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya & David Gordon
“Political disputation is not confined to the ground of an ethics of liberty but extends to cover matters of political strategy. Political strategy often involves coalitions and alliances that may cover many different philosophical perspectives. As Murray Rothbard observes in ‘A Strategy for the Right,’ there is no obviously accurate political label to identify the political strategy that he defended …. Ultimately, the debate on what a libertarian society is shows the philosophical limits of the political philosophy of libertarianism.” (06/04/24)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/distinguishing-libertarian-philosophy-political-strategy
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48) The 100th Anniversary of One of America’s Worst Laws — the 1924 Immigration Act
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“This is the law that made most immigration presumptively illegal, with terrible effects that continue even today.” (06/03/24)
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/03/the-100th-anniversary-of-one-of-americas-worst-laws-the-1924-immigration-act/
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49) Biden fundraising smears of Trump reflect his OWN hatred of your freedom
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Joe Biden’s anti-Donald Trump ramblings are always a case of projection, and his latest eruption is no different. Speaking at a fat-cat fundraiser, the prez insisted his rival is running because he’s ‘worried about preserving his freedoms.’ Uh, no: The indictments only started hitting Trump after he announced his 2024 run. And Biden’s bizarre locution says it all: He knows he’s the one attacking our freedoms and is letting the mask slip. Like through his obscene decision to classify the audio tapes of his humiliating interview with special counsel Robert Hur, though the transcript is already public). Or his administration’s efforts to fight ‘disinformation’ (i.e., opinions that Democrats don’t like and facts that prove politically inconvenient for them, with Orwellian uses of government power. Even on trivial stuff, like gas stoves, the Biden administration is salivating over the prospect of crackdowns.” (06/04/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/opinion/biden-fundraising-smears-on-trump-reflect-his-own-hatred-of-your-freedom/
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50) Biden’s deepfake dodge to keep Hur interview secret reveals his war on truth
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“On Thursday, a Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felonies after prosecutors hustled a harebrained legal theory that claimed the former president had ‘hoodwinked’ voters in the 2016 election. On Friday, the Department of Justice told a federal judge that accurate, authentic audiotapes of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur should not be released because someone might hoodwink voters with manipulated deepfake versions created by artificial intelligence. But citizens were already hoodwinked when Biden proclaimed in a White House press conference that Hur’s report showed he hadn’t violated federal law.” (06/03/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/06/03/n-y-post-biden-deepfake-dodge-hur-secret-war-truth/
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51) Free Speech on Trial: Jailed But Re-elected
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“In a time of political turmoil, when criticism of the government could land you behind bars, Matthew Lyon, a congressman and fierce critic of the Federalist administration of John Adams, dared to defy the Sedition Act, a law that criminalized free speech. This would lead to an extraordinary story of the only person in US history to be re-elected – while in jail. It’s also a tale of government power being used to target opponents.” (06/03/24)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/06/03/free-speech-on-trial-jailed-but-re-elected/
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52) The rise of the abundance faction
Source: hypertext
by Steven Teles & Rob Saldin
“For nearly a decade now, political moderates have been on their heels, as right-wing populists have taken the reins of the Republican Party and democratic socialists have established a beachhead in the Democratic Party. In response, startled and flailing moderates, including the authors, have grasped for institutional footholds within the two parties. Some have latched on to the idea of creating a moderate faction inside the Democratic Party with its own distinctive ideology, institutions, and sources of funding and organization. Others have given up on the two major parties and flirted with the idea of a moderate third party. We have, with some reluctance, concluded that moderation itself is a dead end.” (06/03/24)
https://hypertextjournal.substack.com/p/879f5abf-8087-46cb-b481-32204715a71a
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53) Wind Subsidies Are Rising …
Source: Independent Institute
by Paige Lambermont
“New data recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows a decrease in wind power production in 2023. Despite record highs in installed wind capacity and continually rising subsidies production is falling. Thanks to these subsidies, including the longstanding Production Tax Credit (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and the extensions that these credits received in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), subsidies for wind power have seen a dramatic increase over the last decade. The IRA extended these credits through 2025, and replaces them with the new, but similar, Clean Energy PTC and Clean Energy ITC through 2032. It also added provisions to provide even larger subsidies for projects that meet ‘Environmental Justice’ requirements.” (06/03/24)
https://blog.independent.org/2024/06/03/wind-subsidies-are-rising
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54) The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad
Source: In These Times
by Branko Marcetic
“On the eve of a high-profile Democratic primary in April, incumbent Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) wasn’t giving a speech or knocking on doors. She was at a Passover Seder. The representative and members of her campaign team joined supporters and their families at a home in Pittsburgh’s historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighborhood, the site of a deadly 2018 attack where 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life Congregation were murdered by a white supremacist. At the Seder, as the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza raged in the background, Lee and her fellow peace activists reflected on the trying months since October 7, 2023. Organizers who criticized Israel’s brutal response to Hamas’ attack had been smeared as anti-Semitic and apologists for atrocities. Exhausted but optimistic, they spoke about creating a larger movement that would span race, class and age.” (06/04/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/squad-aipac-israel-corporate-dark-money
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55) News Publishers Try To Sic the Government on Google AI
Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
“Google’s pivot to artificial intelligence has news publishers freaking out — and running to the government. ‘Agency intervention is necessary to stop the existential threat Google poses to original content creators,’ the News/Media Alliance — a major news industry trade group — wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It asked the agencies to use antitrust authority ‘to stop Google’s latest expansion of AI Overviews,’ a search engine innovation that Google has been rolling out recently. … Overviews give ‘comprehensive answers without the user ever having to click to another page,’ the New York Times warns. And this worries websites that rely on Google to drive much of their traffic. … [Publishers] want to punish Google preemptively for daring (once again) to disrupt media business models in a way that news organizations don’t like.” (06/03/24)
https://reason.com/2024/06/03/news-publishers-try-to-sic-the-government-on-google-ai/
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56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 607
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Moscow Warns NATO and Russia Are Close to WWIII.” (06/04/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-607-moscow-warns-nato-and-russia-are-close-to-wwiii/
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57) Rising, 06/04/24
Source: The Hill
“Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s expected signing of an executive order to limit the flow of migrants across the southern border.” (06/04/24)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4702376-rising-may-4-2024/
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58) Ill Literacy, episode 144
Source: Heartland Institute
“The Ecology of Nations (Guest: John M. Owen IV).” (06/03/24)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/ill-literacy-episode-144-the-ecology-of-nations-guest-john-m-owen-iv/
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59) Hubwonk, 06/04/24
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Universal Savings Accounts: Designing Tax Incentives that Pay to Save.” (06/04/24)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/universal-savings-accounts-designing-tax-incentives-that-pay-to-save/
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60) The New Abnormal, 06/04/24
Source: The Daily Beast
“Is Biden the White Moderate MLK Jr. Warned Us About?” (06/04/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-biden-the-white-moderate-mlk-jr-warned-us-about
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61) SolutionsWatch, 06/04/24
Source: The Corbett Report
“The Fight for Health Freedom Continues.” (06/04/24)
https://corbettreport.com/the-fight-for-health-freedom/
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62) Advisory Opinions, 06/04/24
Source: The Dispatch
“Will President Biden Pardon His Son?” (06/04/24)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/will-president-biden-pardon-his-son/
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63) How To Fix The Internet, 06/04/24
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“AI on the Artist’s Palette.” (06/04/24)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-ai-artists-palette
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64) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/04/24
Source: Antiwar.com
“Netanyahu Sabotaging Potential Ceasefire Deal, Biden To Skip Ukraine War Summit, and More.” (06/04/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrlG8_XsWyo
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65) Free Talk Live, 06/03/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Ross Ulbricht & Donald Trump :: Trans kids transitioning :: Federal prison is stupid :: Enemies of the state :: Bitcoin & banks :: American Justice System failures :: Banks are the worst :: 2024-06-03 Hosts: Aria, Mark, Riley.” (06/03/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-06-03
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