06/20 -- RFK Jr. misses deadline to join Biden-Trump debate next week; An Economic Policy That’s Just a Little Bit Radical
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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) RFK Jr. misses deadline to join Biden-Trump debate next week
2) Ukraine war: Russians hammer power grid, Ukrainians target oil depots
3) Willie Mays, 1931-2024
4) Israel: IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM
5) VA: Challenger backed by disgraced former president holds slight lead over incumbent, inside recount margin, in GOP US House primary
6) Chinese “underground bankers” accused of aiding Mexican cartel
7) US soldier jailed for nearly four years in Russia
8) DOJ: Alaska did not provide accessible voting for those with disabilities
9) UK: Vandals cover parts of Stonehenge in powder paint
10) Chad: Explosion and fire at military ammunition depot causes fatalities
11) CA: Wingnut group tries to cultivate moral panic over “Pandora’s Box” of polyamory & child marriages under proposed amendment
12) CA: Regime seeks $5.9 million bribe from Amazon
13) What’s known, and not known, about the partnership agreement signed by Russia & North Korea
14) China: Central bank vows supportive monetary policy but dismisses dramatic easing measures
15) Sanders: After Netanyahu Video, US Should “Halt All Offensive Military Aid”
16) SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
17) “Not safe here”: Florida family robbed while dropping son off at California college
18) France: Macron draws fire on trans rights comments
19) South Africa: With help from coalition parties, Ramaphosa sworn in for second term as president
20) Prosecutors try to link alleged Menendez bribes to appointment of federal prosecutor
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) An Economic Policy That’s Just a Little Bit Radical
22) “Conformity is the enemy of free speech”
23) The Problem With AI Is the Word “Intelligence”
24) Everything In Our Civilization Is Stacked To Keep Us Believing The Propaganda
25) Sixteen Things Individuals Can Do to Help Bring America Together
26) Gavin Newsom Wants to Be an Emperor
27) No Charges in ATF Killing Over Paperwork Firearms Violation
28) Trump’s Campaign Has Lost Whatever Substance It Once Had
29) Safe learning for children in war zones
30) Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans
31) The Real Covid Failure
32) Uncontrolled Spending on Nukes and War in Ukraine — The Tory-Labour Election Pact
33) The Road to Neo-Feudalism
34) Let’s Organize for an Anti-US War Machine Summer
35) The Unreported Irony of Hunter Biden’s Conviction
36) First presidential debate: “Let’s get ready to mumble!”
37) The US Has No Viable Iran Policy
38) You can’t explain away Biden’s Juneteenth moment
39) The Switzerland Summit: Peace Through Delusion
40) In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one.
41) A Second Life for Limits
42) Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?
43) Beauvoir’s Best Insight
44) Stiglitz: When Good Minds Seek Fools’ Favor
45) Democrats Turn Lawfare Into a Campaign Ad
46) Responsible Conservatism Really Was a Thing for a While
47) A Hearty Breakfast for Mind and Soul
48) The Truth About the “Horrible” Crime in Milwaukee
49) Treasury Foresaw the Synapse Collapse Two Years Ago
50) Food Corruption: Fake Meat, GMOs, and Beyond
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51) The Political Orphanage, 06/19/24
52) Reason Interview: John Mackey
53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 618
54) Rising, 06/19/24
55) Pod Save America, 06/19/24
56) Politics Politics Politics, 06/19/24
57) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/19/24
58) Intercepted, 06/19/24
59) Quillette Podcast, episode 239
60) SolutionsWatch, 06/19/24
61) Nonzero, 06/18/24
62) The Bulwark Podcast, 06/18/24
63) Fourth Branch Explainer, 06/18/24
64) System Update, episode 284
65) Hubwonk, 06/18/24
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1) RFK Jr. misses deadline to join Biden-Trump debate next week
Source: Reuters
“Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unlikely to participate in 2024’s first U.S. presidential debate after missing a deadline to meet criteria set by hosting news organization CNN. … The conditions included appearing on enough state ballots to potentially win the presidency and also garnering at least 15% voter support in four separate national polls. Kennedy had received at least 15% in only three accepted polls to date and, by CNN’s tally, had qualified for the ballot in just six states. That would not be enough to win the presidency. … The Kennedy campaign asked that the Federal Election Commission take action by Thursday and keep CNN, Biden and Trump from holding the June 27 debate unless it makes changes. The FEC declined to comment.” (06/20/24)
https://archive.is/ycHO2
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2) Ukraine war: Russians hammer power grid, Ukrainians target oil depots
Source: Associated Press
“Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, officials said Thursday. … In its seventh major attack on Ukrainian power plants since Moscow intensified energy infrastructure attacks three months ago, Russia fired nine missiles and 27 Shahed drones at energy facilities and critical infrastructure in central and eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said. Air defenses intercepted all the drones and five cruise missiles, it said. The attack hit power structures in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv and Vinnytsia regions of Ukraine, according to national power company Ukrenergo. … In Russia, meanwhile, authorities in two regions reported fires at oil storage depots after drone attacks, two days after a Ukrainian strike started a huge blaze at another refinery.” (06/20/24)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-attacks-power-grid-oil-f117d1493f690d2192c9f6c60cbcf32d
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3) Willie Mays, 1931-2024
Source: New York Times
“Willie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants led many to call him the greatest all-around player in baseball history, died on Tuesday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 93. … In 22 National League seasons, with the Giants in New York and San Francisco and a brief return to New York with the Mets, preceded by a 1948 stint in the Negro leagues, Mays compiled extraordinary statistics. He hit 660 career home runs and had 3,293 hits and a .301 career batting average. But Mays did more than personify the complete ballplayer. An exuberant style of play and an effervescent personality made him one of the game’s, and America’s, most charismatic figures, a name that even people far afield from the baseball world recognized instantly as a national treasure.” (06/18/24)
https://archive.is/dyEBP
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4) Israel: IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM
Source: Times of Israel [Palestine]
“IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari on Wednesday cast Israel’s war aim of eradicating the Hamas terror group as unattainable, appearing to underscore tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top defense officials over his handling of the war in Gaza. ‘This business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear — it’s simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public,’ Hagari told Channel 13 news in an interview. ‘Hamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. It’s rooted in the hearts of the people — anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong,’ he continued. … In response, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the security cabinet ‘has defined as one of the war goals the destruction of Hamas’s military and governance capabilities.'” (06/20/24)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-spokesman-says-hamas-cant-be-eliminated-will-remain-in-gaza-if-no-alternative/
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5) VA: Challenger backed by disgraced former president holds slight lead over incumbent, inside recount margin, in GOP US House primary
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
“In the Virginia race where former president Donald Trump’s endorsement boomed loudest, his favored candidate, state Sen. John McGuire, R-Goochland, eked out a narrow 315-vote lead over Rep. Bob Good, R-5th. With all Election Day, early voting and mail-in ballots counted, McGuire has a 0.5 percentage point lead, which is the point where a recount if requested is paid for by the state.
McGuire received 31,370 votes to Good’s 31,055, according to the state Department of Election’s unofficial count. In Virginia, candidates can ask for recounts when the gap is 1 percentage point or less, but the candidate must pick up the cost when the gap is between 0.5 and 1 percentage point. … Turnout in the 5th District, at more than 62,000 votes, dwarfed voting in Virginia’s other U.S. House primary races, where turnout was mostly under 30,000 votes cast.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/hMYhU
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6) Chinese “underground bankers” accused of aiding Mexican cartel
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The US has accused a Chinese ‘underground banking’ network of helping Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel with money laundering and other crimes. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged 24 people with offences that also include distributing narcotics. Law enforcement officers have seized about $5m (£4m) in proceeds, as well as guns and hundreds of pounds of cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy pills. The DoJ touted the close co-operation with Mexican and Chinese law enforcement — a message that has been echoed on the Chinese side. The US accuses the Sinaloa cartel of helping to fuel a deadly epidemic by flooding the country with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin.” (06/19/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw44mdkg0e9o
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7) US soldier jailed for nearly four years in Russia
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A Russian court has sentenced a US soldier to three years and nine months in jail on charges of theft and threatening to kill his girlfriend, state news agencies reported. Staff Sgt Gordon Black was sentenced by a court in Vladivostok in Russia’s far east and will serve his time in a penal colony. Sgt Black, who was arrested in May, had pleaded not guilty to the murder threat charges but admitted he was ‘partially’ guilty of stealing 10,000 roubles ($116; £89) from her. He will appeal the verdict, state news agencies said. Prosecutors had called for him to be jailed for four years and eight months, while his defence asked for him to be acquitted. US officials said Sgt Black, 34, met his girlfriend in South Korea. He enlisted as an infantryman in 2008 and was deployed to Iraq in 2009 and Afghanistan in 2013. He was most recently assigned to the Eighth Army, US Forces Korea at Camp Humphreys.” (06/19/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11v674rd5o
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8) DOJ: Alaska did not provide accessible voting for those with disabilities
Source: SFGate
“The state of Alaska has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing accessible machines for in-person voting, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. The state was also faulted for selecting inaccessible polling places and operating a state elections website that can’t be accessed by everyone. The department informed Carol Beecher, Alaska’s election chief, in a letter dated Monday that the state ‘must, at a minimum, implement remedial measures to bring its voting services, programs and activities into compliance.’ Beecher did not respond to emails or a phone call by The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday. The state has until July 1 to respond to the justice department about resolutions.” (06/19/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/alaska-did-not-provide-accessible-voting-for-19521270.php
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9) UK: Vandals cover parts of Stonehenge in powder paint
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Part of Stonehenge has been covered in orange powder paint by protesters. Two Just Stop Oil campaigners sprayed the powder paint on the historic site near Salisbury, Wiltshire, at about 12:00 BST on Wednesday. The move comes the day before celebrations begin for the Summer Solstice at the 5,000-year-old landmark. Wiltshire Police confirmed two people had been arrested on suspicion of damaging the ancient monument. Just Stop Oil said the orange powder paint was cornflour and it would ‘wash away with rain’. The group named the two protesters as Niamh Lynch, a 21-year-old student from Oxford, and Rajan Naidu, a 73-year-old from Birmingham, in a statement. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the incident as a ‘disgraceful act of vandalism.'” (06/19/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw44mdee0zzo
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10) Chad: Explosion and fire at military ammunition depot causes fatalities
Source: ABC News
“Nine people were killed and more than 40 injured when a fire set off explosions at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital, an official said Wednesday. Government spokesperson Abderaman Koulamallah said 46 people were being treated for various injuries after the explosions jolted residents from their sleep late Tuesday in the Goudji district of the capital, N’Djamena. The situation has been brought under control, Koulamallah said. The explosions lit up the sky as thick smoke covered the clouds in the West African nation, setting off frantic efforts to extinguish the fire as residents fled their homes for safety. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, and President Mahamat Deby Itno said an investigation would be conducted.” (06/19/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/explosion-fire-military-ammunition-depot-chads-capital-causes-111242116
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11) CA: Wingnut group tries to cultivate moral panic over “Pandora’s Box” of polyamory & child marriages under proposed amendment
Source: Fox News
“A pro-family [sic] California organization is warning that a proposed state constitutional amendment to eliminate the traditional definition of marriage from state law could potentially open up a ‘Pandora’s box’ to legitimize polyamorous, incestuous and child marriages. Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA 5), which aims to repeal Proposition 8’s language that states marriage is ‘only between a man and a woman,’ was introduced by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Evan Low to protect same-sex marriages. If passed, in its place, the state constitution would provide that ‘the right to marry is a fundamental right.’ However, the California Family Council (CFC), a conservative advocacy group, believes the wording of ACA 5 is too open-ended and will lead to the normalization of non-traditional marriage structures that could harm children’s development.” (06/19/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pandoras-box-polyamory-child-marriages-possible-under-proposed-california-amendment-group-warns
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12) CA: Regime seeks $5.9 million bribe from Amazon
Source: Fox Business
“The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million on allegations the company violated a state law by working warehouse employees so hard that their safety was put at risk. The two citations, which were issued in May, said Amazon.com Services LLC violated the state’s Warehouse Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the labor commissioner’s office said Tuesday in a press release. … The Warehouse Quota Law, enacted in 2022, requires warehouse employers to provide employees with written notice of any quotas they are expected to follow, including how many tasks they need to complete per hour and any discipline that could result from not meeting the requirements, the labor commissioner’s office said. Amazon said Tuesday that it denies the allegations from the state and has appealed the citations.” (06/19/24)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/california-fines-amazon-6m-alleged-violations-warehouse-quota-law-2-warehouses-state
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13What’s known, and not known, about the partnership agreement signed by Russia & North Korea
Source: SFGate
“Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say the strategic partnership they signed Wednesday is a breakthrough. But neither side has released the text of the agreement that resulted from their summit in Pyongyang, and its consequences for the near and long terms are uncertain. Relations between sprawling Russia and small, isolated North Korea — both of them nuclear powers — have warmed significantly in recent years amid Russia’s growing acrimony with the West over the invasion of Ukraine and suppression of all domestic opposition. The new agreement could bring them even closer, while also posing new challenges to the international community. … Putin told a briefing after the signing that ‘the comprehensive partnership agreement provides, among other things, for the provision of mutual assistance in the event of aggression against one of the parties to this document.’ That sentence raises an array of questions.” (06/19/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/what-s-known-and-not-known-about-the-19522138.php
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14) China: Central bank vows supportive monetary policy but dismisses dramatic easing measures
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“China’s central bank governor has pledged to continue accommodative monetary policies to jolt the economy, but he also doubled down on long-maintained intentions to avoid Western-style quantitative loosening. Speaking at the 15th Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai on Wednesday, Pan Gongsheng said the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will avoid drastic policy changes while taking into account other objectives such as risk controls and promoting a moderate rise in consumer prices. Meanwhile, Pan revealed for the first time that the PBOC is in talks with the finance ministry for treasury bond purchases in the secondary markets, emphasising that it will be a gradual process and that details have yet to be worked out.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/vtAJp
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15) Sanders: After Netanyahu Video, US Should “Halt All Offensive Military Aid”
Source: Common Dreams
“U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that the Biden administration should immediately halt all shipments of offensive weaponry to Israel after the country’s far-right prime minister claimed in a video that American arms aren’t flowing quickly enough. ‘No doubt, we will hear similar complaints when he addresses Congress on July 24,’ Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a video statement of his own. ‘Virtually everyone recognizes Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism and respond to the horrific October 7th Hamas attack that killed 1,200 innocent Israelis and took hundreds of hostages. But the Israeli government did not and does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people. Yet that is exactly what has happened.’ Sanders’ remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a brief English-language video accusing the Biden administration of ‘withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel.'” (06/19/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/benjamin-netanyahu-video
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16) SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
Source: United Press International
“SpaceX on Tuesday launched a Falcon 9 rocket topped with another batch of 20 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. The launch occurred at 8:40 p.m. PDT from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The batch of orbitals included a baker’s dozen with Direct-to-Cell capabilities, which enable constant access to texting, calling and Internet browsing on or water, according to Starlink’s website. Not long after launch, first-stage separation was confirmed, with the booster, which was on its fifth flight, returning to Earth where it landed upon the Of Course I Still Love you droneship that was awaiting its return in the Pacific Ocean.” (06/19/24)
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/06/19/SpaceX-Starlink-launch/4671718767746/
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17) “Not safe here”: Florida family robbed while dropping son off at California college
Source: New York Post
“A Florida family was robbed of all their belongings, including $3,000 and their passports, in California when thieves broke into their rental car while they were dropping their son off at college — with the mom now vowing to bring her son back to the Sunshine State. Rhomel Crossman and his family had just flown into the Bay area from Coconut Creek, Fla. on Saturday to register for classes at Lincoln University in Oakland, KTVU reported. … They parked the SUV a block from the private university around 6:15 p.m. before heading to a nearby Jamaican restaurant to pick up food, leaving their five suitcases inside the car. The family returned 15 minutes later and discovered the SUV’s windows were smashed out, glass scattered around the ground and all of their belongings inside gone.” (06/19/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/19/us-news/florida-teen-rhomel-crossman-family-robbed-while-dropping-son-off-at-california-college-now-plans-to-pull-him-from-school-over-crime/
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18) France: Macron draws fire on trans rights comments
Source: Politico
“Facing an uphill electoral battle, French President Emmanuel Macron is looking for new arguments to dent his opponents — even at the risk of souring some of his own supporters. On Tuesday, Macron accused the New Popular Front, a left-wing alliance built for the upcoming legislative elections, of promoting ‘completely crazy things, like going to the town hall to change your sex.’ The New Popular Front’s manifesto includes a proposal to ‘authorize a [cost] free change of civil status before a registrar,’ which the president characterized as being among the ‘gruesome things’ in the program of the ‘extreme left.’ … While the left-wing alliance has been prone to infighting over its first six days of its existence, its leaders were unanimous in condemning Macron’s statements. … Macron’s comments have also pushed some people within his own camp to speak up.” (06/19/24)
https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-divides-with-own-ranks-party-comments-trans-rights-left-manifesto/
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19) South Africa: With help from coalition parties, Ramaphosa sworn in for second term as president
Source: SFGate
“Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president on Wednesday in a ceremony in the administrative capital, Pretoria, after his reelection with the help from a coalition of parties, a first in the country’s 30-year rule. Ramaphosa is now set to appoint a Cabinet in a new coalition government after his African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in an election last month. He was reelected president by lawmakers on Friday after the main opposition party and a smaller third party joined the ANC in an agreement to co-govern Africa’s most industrialized economy. He will have to guide the first coalition government in which no party has a majority. At least three parties will make up what the ANC is calling a government of national unity, with more invited to join.” (06/19/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/cyril-ramaphosa-is-sworn-in-for-a-2nd-term-as-19521859.php
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20) Prosecutors try to link alleged Menendez bribes to appointment of federal prosecutor
Source: Associated Press
“Prosecutors at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez used the testimony of his former campaign manager on Tuesday to try to link alleged bribes of the Democrat to the appointment of New Jersey’s top prosecutor three years ago. Michael Soliman, a former top Menendez political adviser, testified immediately after New Jersey’s U.S. attorney, Philip R. Sellinger, finished two days on the witness stand at the Manhattan federal court trial that is in its sixth week. Menendez, 70, and two New Jersey businessmen are on trial on charges alleging the senator accepted gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and a luxury car from businessmen from 2018 to 2022 in return for helping them in their business dealings, including by trying to meddle in court cases.” (06/18/24)
https://apnews.com/article/menendez-bribery-trial-ef4b3e2a5b8eaf9908e732bba35a57b6
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21) An Economic Policy That’s Just a Little Bit Radical
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Hey, politician. Yeah, you. Want to give Americans a modest tax cut, raise the standard of living for middle-class and lower-income families, reduce federal bureaucracy, and make U.S. companies more competitive in the global marketplace? Easy — all you have to do is enact the single most unpopular idea in American politics: unilateral free trade. … Free trade would be better for everybody. But why would we want to adopt the stupid and frequently corrupt trade policies of badly governed countries just because some of our people do business with some of their people?” (06/19/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/an-economic-policy-thats-just-a-little-bit-radical/
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22) “Conformity is the enemy of free speech”
Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill
Interview with Greg Lukianoff. Lukianoff: “One of the reasons I’m worried about the future of freedom of speech, in the United States and beyond, is that there used to be a contingent of the left that unapologetically defended free expression. These people were always in tension with those totalitarians who believed that, if society was governed by enlightened people like them, censorship would be justified. For the most part, I grew up at a time when freedom of speech was actually considered a left-wing value. But with totalitarian thinking winning on the left and the rise of the populist right, there’s no natural constituency for free speech today other than the centre.” (06/19/24)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/19/conformity-is-the-enemy-of-free-speech/
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23) The Problem With AI Is the Word “Intelligence”
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“The conversational and grammatical capacities of an AI bot like ChatGPT are impressive. This bot writes better and appears to be a better conversationist than what must be a significant proportion of human beings. I am told that he (or she, except that the thing has no sex and I am anyway using the neutral ‘he’) efficiently performs tasks of identification and classification of objects and that he does simple coding. It’s a very sophisticated program. But he crucially depends on his humongous database, in which he makes zillions of comparisons with brute electronic force. I have had occasions to check that his analytical and artistic capacities are limited. … from what we know about thinking and understanding, we can safely infer that electronic devices, as useful as they are, will likely never be intelligent.” (06/19/24)
https://www.econlib.org/the-problem-with-ai-is-the-word-intelligence/
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24) Everything In Our Civilization Is Stacked To Keep Us Believing The Propaganda
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s not so much that people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are dumb, or because humans are selfish. Primarily, people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are lazy. By this I don’t mean to say that people don’t work hard enough or don’t stay busy enough; humans sleep less than any other primate on earth, and if anything the world would probably be better off if our species chilled out a bit. When I say people are lazy, I mean we are lazy thinkers. And we are lazy thinkers for reasons that aren’t really our fault. The human brain is wired to select for cognitive ease, which means we tend to favor pathways of thought which require less mental strain in order to conserve energy — probably because our evolutionary ancestors needed all their mental energy for important stuff like finding food and avoiding saber-toothed tigers.” (06/19/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/06/19/everything-in-our-civilization-is-stacked-to-keep-us-believing-the-propaganda/
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25) Sixteen Things Individuals Can Do to Help Bring America Together
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W Reed
“Americans are angry and divided — perhaps more than at any time since the Civil War. Holding strong opinions, especially in defense of truth, is no vice. But failing to bridge our differences and resolve them peacefully is no virtue either. Here’s my ‘to do’ list if you want to be part of the solution instead of the problem.” (06/19/24)
https://fee.org/articles/16-things-individuals-can-do-to-help-bring-america-together/
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26) Gavin Newsom Wants to Be an Emperor
Source: The American Spectator
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
“Afew weeks ago, while I was on my honeymoon in Rome, I was walking among the city’s ancient ruins. As I walked down the path that was once Rome’s main street, I suddenly encountered a man who I immediately recognized as California Gov. Gavin Newsom. This was an insane coincidence because I have just authored a book on Gavin Newsom, which goes on sale today. In Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, I unmask Newsom’s dangerous arrogance and relentless pursuit of power. To make the whole situation more poetic, Newsom’s behavior in the ancient center of Rome perfectly symbolized the Newsom that I unveil in my book. While in the forum, Newsom and his wife gazed almost exclusively upon the Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, which was dedicated to the deified emperor and his deified wife.” (06/19/24)
https://spectator.org/gavin-newsom-wants-to-be-an-emperor/
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27) No Charges in ATF Killing Over Paperwork Firearms Violation
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) suspected that Bryan Malinowski, executive director of the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, and an avid firearms collector, was reselling enough firearms at gun shows to make him more of a commercial dealer than a hobbyist. That meant he should, in the ATF’s view, get a Federal Firearms License. So on March 19, agents did what law enforcers do when they suspect people of paperwork violations: They raided his home before dawn, taped over the doorbell camera, and shot Malinowski dead less than a minute later when he opened fire on intruders who had just busted in his front door. Unsurprisingly, the ATF agents are on their way to evading consequences for causing a man’s death over a paperwork violation.” (06/19/24)
https://reason.com/2024/06/19/no-charges-in-atf-killing-over-paperwork-firearms-violation/
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28) Trump’s Campaign Has Lost Whatever Substance It Once Had
Source: The Atlantic
by David A Graham
“Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was, among other things, one of the most impressive displays of branding on a large scale, in a short time, ever. There were hats. There were flags. And above all, there were slogans. ‘Make America Great Again.’ ‘Build the wall.’ ‘Lock her up.’ And later, ‘Drain the swamp,’ which Trump conceded on the stump that he’d initially hated. No matter: Crowds loved it, which was good enough for Trump to decide that he did, too. One peculiarity of Trump’s 2024 campaign is the absence of any similar mantra. … In their place, Trump’s stump speech has become dominated by grievances about the wrongs he believes have been done to him and his promises to get even for them. It doesn’t quite create the festive atmosphere of eight years ago, when many attendees were clearly having a great time.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/ZwONl
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29) Safe learning for children in war zones
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“A new school that opened last month in Ukraine’s second-largest city is only 18 miles from Russia – with only a five-minute warning of incoming missiles. Yet Kharkiv’s primary school 155 is also on the front line of innovative efforts to ensure that children in crisis-affected countries have safe access to education. The school is the first of many to come in Ukraine that was built with permanent underground classrooms. On opening day in mid-May, a gaggle of third graders – who had never been in a physical school during two years of war – walked down 20 feet of steps into windowless but brightly lit rooms to be taught by their teachers. ‘The children have dreamed of meeting their classmates,’ one father told Deutsche Welle news media. Now when air sirens go off, the students will not need to interrupt their studies by running to a bomb shelter.” (06/18/24)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2024/0618/Safe-learning-for-children-in-war-zones
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30) Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“The international community has before it two official proposals — Ukrainian and Russian — for a peace settlement to end the war in Ukraine. Both as they stand, and in present circumstances, are absurd. Diplomats and analysts should however give thought to whether they could nonetheless in the future provide the starting point for negotiations leading to an eventual compromise.” (06/19/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-peace/
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31) The Real Covid Failure
Source: The Wall Street Journal
by Holman W Jenkins, Jr.
“You didn’t think any question related to Covid would be settled in the recent congressional grilling of Anthony Fauci and you were right. That’s why the episode came and went from your news feed with barely a ripple. Here’s the story that needs to be fleshed out. Covid was a superfast spreader compared with the ordinary flu or even the novel pandemic flu that afflicts mankind once or twice a century. Its superfast spread had a particular outcome in Wuhan, Northern Italy and New York City, where the virus spread unrecognized for weeks and severe cases, though a small percentage of the total, reached a critical mass that overwhelmed hospitals. Where communities anticipated the virus and people made small adjustments, these catastrophes weren’t repeated.” (06/18/24)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-covid-failure-fauci-ef8487a3?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
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32) Uncontrolled Spending on Nukes and War in Ukraine — The Tory-Labour Election Pact
Source; Antiwar.com
by Ian Proud
“On 12 April, Keir Starmer announced that Labour would commit to increase UK defense spending to 2.5%. While the Conservative Party has been talking up the need to increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP for some time, Rishi Sunak made his formal announcement on 24 April. On the eve of Rishi’s reveal, the UK Defense Journal declared ‘Britain to boost defense spending due to threat from Russia!’ Out of the blue, spending 2.5% of GDP on defense had become a joint Tory-Labour commitment. For voters, at a time of an ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, Israeli atrocities in Gaza and growing fear of China, spending an extra 0.5% of GDP on defense a headline grabber. But why is there no debate between the two main political parties in the UK general election campaign about foreign, security and defense policy?” (06/19/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ian_proud/2024/06/18/uncontrolled-spending-on-nukes-and-war-in-ukraine-the-tory-labour-election-pact/
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33) The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Source: Quillette
by Joel Kotkin
“For middle- and working-class people across the developed world, home ownership has served as a primary driver of upward mobility. But in a growing number of places, this aspiration is being systematically undermined with grave implications for liberal democracy, the economy, and even fertility.” (06/19/24)
https://quillette.com/2024/06/19/the-road-to-neo-feudalism/
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34) Let’s Organize for an Anti-US War Machine Summer
Source: Common Dreams
by Zishun Ning & Audrey Hui
“The movement against the continued Palestinian genocide in Gaza has sparked protests and encampments in colleges across the country and beyond. Local governments, such as the New York City government, collude with universities like Columbia, NYU, and CUNY to criminalize students for speaking out against the U.S. war machine by brutalizing peaceful protests. But this crackdown has only drawn more sympathy from people across the city and nation. Meanwhile, New York Mayor Eric Adams, who takes cues from billionaires and big real estate, tries to divide students from the rest of the community, portraying students as ‘antisemetic’ and supporters as ‘outside agitators.'” (06/19/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/anti-u-s-warm-machine
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35) The Unreported Irony of Hunter Biden’s Conviction
Source: CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
“It has gone largely, if not completely, unremarked in all the verbiage spun out by the 24-hour news cycle in the US media that the law under which the president’s son, Hunter Biden was convicted on three felony counts, was something pushed by his own dad, Joe Biden as part of his effort to ‘lock up drug users’ for lengthy terms in 1994. It’s no secret that Papa Biden, as a Senator and chair of the Senate Judicial Committee, teamed up with President Bill Clinton in a deliberate strategy of passing a get-tough-on-crime bill, undermining habeas corpus, making the death penalty tougher to appeal, and contriving to pile on years of jail time when offenses could be linked to one’s drug use in order to lock up low-level drug users and other perps — mostly nonwhite — for serious time behind bars.” (06/19/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/19/the-unreported-irony-of-hunter-bidens-conviction/
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36) First presidential debate: “Let’s get ready to mumble!”
Source: Orange County Register
by Ron Hart
“A rarity happens next week: a presidential debate before either party’s convention. Trump probably should not have agreed to the unusual CNN debate this early. If Biden melts down or freezes up, Dems have time to replace him before their official nomination in Chicago. I would have waited, but where there is a camera and a national audience, you will have a Trump. … Trump did have one poignant request: that both he and Biden be drug tested before the debate. I disagree, because if they make those two aged men tinkle in a bottle before the event, the debate would be delayed for an hour to get measurable levels. One could argue these two geezers should just argue in the balcony seats at The Muppet Theater instead.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/3PhhR
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37) The US Has No Viable Iran Policy
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“Six years after President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the JCPOA, and almost four since his successor failed to rejoin it, the United States still has no viable Iran policy. If the metric of success is defined by denying Iran nuclear weapons capability, then the policy has been a failure: Iran’s nuclear program is steadily advancing. … Western efforts at isolating Iran are faltering. A far better course of action for the U.S. would be to rejoin the JCPOA or negotiate a realistic alternative agreement based on the same premises — curbs on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.” (06/19/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-u-s-has-no-viable-iran-policy/
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38) You can’t explain away Biden’s Juneteenth moment
Source: Washington Examiner
by Byron York
“The White House and its media allies are in full defensive mode over videos of President Joe Biden appearing to freeze, or zone out, or something, at three recent public events. … The three incidents are Biden’s June 6 appearance at D-Day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy, France, his June 10 appearance at a White House Juneteenth concert, and his June 15 appearance at a celebrity-filled Hollywood fundraiser. In the D-Day matter, Biden seemed to wander away from a group of leaders watching a skydiving exhibition. There is no doubt he seemed a bit disconnected, but on the other hand, there were skydivers landing all around the group, and Biden appeared to be interested in greeting some of them who were a little removed from the leaders’ group. So maybe that is all Biden was doing, in his slow and somewhat out-of-it way.” (06/19/24)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3050724/you-cant-explain-away-bidens-juneteenth-moment/
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39) The Switzerland Summit: Peace Through Delusion
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brad Pearce
“Ukraine has been at war for over ten years, and even the political establishment wipeout in the European elections has not managed to shock the Western ruling class back into coherence. Nothing could provide a clearer example of their clownish nature than the recent ‘Peace Conference’ in Switzerland where Russia was not invited, China did not attend, and meaningful negotiation with Russia was taken off the table before it began. Ukraine’s now-illegitimate President Volodymyr Zelensky continues in his maximalist war aims of insisting that Ukraine return to its 1991 borders even though that no one believes Russia will give up Crimea under any circumstances, or for that matter that any substantial portion of Crimea’s population wants to be part of Ukraine.” (06/19/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-switzerland-summit-peace-through-delusion/
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40) In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one.
Source: Washington Post
by Francis S Barry
“President Biden’s recent speech in Normandy, highlighting the choice the world faces between democracy and autocracy, underscored what has been clear since he kicked off his reelection campaign in January: He is running as a democrat as much as a Democrat. Can he turn the election into a referendum on democracy — and win? The answer might depend on whether he learns from a political blunder made by the man he often lionizes: Abraham Lincoln.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/ltRGq
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41) A Second Life for Limits
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Will the Supreme Court let states impose limits on the representatives and senators they send to Washington, D.C.? Thanks to events in North Dakota, there’s a good chance this question is about to asked again. And get a different answer. … In May 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 5-4 decision, that states cannot impose restrictions like term limits on their congressional delegations. But: ‘Nothing in the Constitution deprives the people of each State of the power to prescribe eligibility requirements for the candidates who seek to represent them in Congress,’ observed Justice Clarence Thomas in his dissent. ‘And where the Constitution is silent, it raises no bar to action by the States or the people.'” [editor’s note: The Constitution is not silent on the subject. It exhaustively lists the qualifications for those offices, and “has served x or fewer terms” ain’t there – TLK] (06/19/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/06/19/a-second-life-for-limits/
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42) Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffery D Sachs
“For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this time in proposals made by President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2024. Four previous times, the U.S. rejected the offer of negotiations in favor of a neocon strategy to weaken or dismember Russia through war and covert operations. The U.S. neocon tactics have failed disastrously, devastating Ukraine in the process, and endangering the whole world. After all the warmongering, it’s time for Biden to open negotiations for peace with Russia.” [editor’s note: Putin’s latest “peace proposal” boils down to an unserious “give me everything I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to seize for the last 28 months and I’ll pinky promise not to pull that sh*t again” – TLK] (06/19/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/role-of-us-in-russia-ukraine-war
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43) Beauvoir’s Best Insight
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu
“Simone de Beauvoir identified as a communist for much of her adult life. She was a firm advocate for abortion and artificial contraceptives. As noted by Emina Melonic in her lead essay, she had a kinky sex life and questionable taste in men, as well as a pronounced hostility to maternity. As a conservative, pro-life, anti-communist, Catholic mother of five, I am obviously supposed to revile Beauvoir. But actually, reading through her most famous work, The Second Sex, I find some segments quite compelling. When I first picked it up some years ago, I was startled to find that some passages tracked my own considered view rather well.” (06/19/24)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-othering-of-woman/
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44) Stiglitz: When Good Minds Seek Fools’ Favor
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Michael Munger
“To be free, I must be able to make and keep voluntary agreements. The central problem with the Hobbesian ‘state of nature’ is precisely that each person has ‘too much liberty,’ precisely because no contract, promise, or right to property can be relied on. Such ‘enforcement’ of agreements is not coercive, but is literally required for the liberty to engage in commerce and division of labor. … The need for such order has been recognized since (at least) the Scottish Enlightenment …. What does any of this have to do with Joseph Stiglitz’s book, The Road to Freedom? Almost nothing, it seems, and that’s a big problem. Stiglitz wants to argue — actually, it’s simply an unsupported assertion — that no one who advocates for commerce and markets ever thought about the problem of rules.” (06/19/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/stiglitz-when-good-minds-seek-fools-favor/
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45) Democrats Turn Lawfare Into a Campaign Ad
Source: Town Hall
by Byron York
“President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has released a new ad that synopsizes the Democratic effort to use criminal charges and lawsuits against former President Donald Trump. ‘In the courtroom, we see Donald Trump for who he is,’ the ad begins. ‘He’s been convicted of 34 felonies. Found liable for sexual assault. And he committed financial fraud.’ Trump, the ad continues, is a ‘convicted criminal,’ while Biden is ‘a president who’s fighting for your family.’ Maybe there were times when you wondered what accounted for the swarm of legal attacks on Trump, coming from elected Democratic prosecutors and appointees of the Biden Justice Department, in late 2022 and 2023. Part of it was delayed gratification …. But a larger reason was the coming 2024 presidential campaign. By the middle of 2022, it was clear that Trump intended to run for his old office again.” (06/19/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2024/06/19/democrats-turn-lawfare-into-a-campaign-ad-n2640641
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46) Responsible Conservatism Really Was a Thing for a While
Source: The UnPopulist
by Joseph Stieb
“The trauma of the Trump years has struck historians as much as anyone. They have had to reconsider the American political tradition, seeking out the strains and threads that made an apparent aberration like Trump possible. David Austin Walsh, a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, argues in Taking America Back that the right’s Trumpian turn did not represent a decisive break with conservatism’s past but was an outgrowth of the comfortable place extremism had enjoyed on the right for nearly a century. Walsh’s book certainly has its strengths, but its biggest weakness is that it reads the present moment of extremism too closely into the history of conservatism, blurring some very real boundaries that existed between the radicals and the mainstream well into the 2010s.” (06/18/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/responsible-conservatism-really-was
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47) A Hearty Breakfast for Mind and Soul
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Dan Sanchez
“You’ve probably heard that ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day.’ According to The Daily Telegraph, the saying was coined by American dietitian Lenna Cooper in a 1917 article in Good Health, a magazine published by a medical facility run by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes. Whether consuming carbs and calories early in the morning is bio-optimal or not, I have found that ingesting new ideas as soon as possible after waking is a mentally fueling and spiritually nourishing way to start a great day. As Moses and Jesus taught, man does not live on bread alone. The most important meal of the day may actually be a hearty breakfast for the mind and soul.” (06/18/24)
https://fee.org/articles/a-hearty-breakfast-for-mind-and-soul/
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48) The Truth About the “Horrible” Crime in Milwaukee
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“Last week, Donald Trump said behind closed doors to House Republicans, ‘Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.’ Trump now denies making the insult to the city where the Republican National Convention will convene in mid-July. But several Republicans in the room already copped to it, while making excuses such as, ‘he was only talking about crime.’ The former president’s perception of Milwaukee may be shaped by the rise in homicides while he was in office. The Milwaukee murder rate nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 in Trump’s last year in office, when the mismanaged Covid-19 pandemic led to a nationwide spike in crime. But it’s a different story under the Biden administration. According to data from the Milwaukee Police Department, the number of homicides dropped 20 percent last year, and is down another 17 percent so far this year.” (06/18/24)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/18/the-truth-about-the-horrible-crime-in-milwaukee/
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49) Treasury Foresaw the Synapse Collapse Two Years Ago
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“It may be hard for folks to believe, but not so long ago, a leading debate in U.S. politics involved how best to regulate reckless financial activity out of existence. As recently as the 2016 Democratic primary, financial regulation was a lead topic, with the two main candidates exhibiting starkly different approaches to dealing with Wall Street. That focus was the natural outgrowth of the massive financial crisis of 2008, which led to millions of layoffs and millions more foreclosures. Problems like too-big-to-fail banks, excessive securitization, and proprietary trading with other people’s money were seen as among the biggest confronting the nation. But memories fade, thoughts turn to other priorities, and the pendulum begins to swing from tight to loose financial regulation.” (06/19/24)
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-19-treasury-foresaw-synapse-collapse/
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50) Food Corruption: Fake Meat, GMOs, and Beyond
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Tracy Thurman
“In my last three articles, we examined the global war on farmers, the culprits behind the agenda, and the tactics used to prepare the public for the destruction of our food freedom. Today we will cover some of the projects and products that will be used to take away your right to access healthy foods. Most readers are likely familiar with GMOs and how genetically modified organisms have been shown to cause significant health problems, how they have ruined the lives of independent farmers who are sued after their land is involuntarily contaminated by Monsanto seeds, and how glyphosate use has risen thanks to Roundup Ready GMO crops. Unfortunately, corruption of the food supply is advancing far beyond this.” (06/18/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/food-corruption-fake-meat-gmos-and-beyond/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) The Political Orphanage, 06/19/24
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Down the RFK, Jr. Rabbit Hole on Vaccines and Spoilers.” [editor’s note: Looks like a REALLY interesting episode … but at the moment the audio doesn’t seem to actually be up. I’ll check before RRND/FND “press time” to see if that’s been fixed, otherwise I guess bookmark it and wait! – TLK] (06/19/24)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/down-the-rfk-jr-rabbit-hole-on-vaccines-and-spoilers
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52) Reason Interview: John Mackey
Source: Reason
“The co-founder of Whole Foods discusses his new memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism as he launches his new holistic health venture, Love.Life.” (06/19/24)
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/06/19/whole-foods-john-mackey-we-must-change-how-we-think-about-capitalism/
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53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 618
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Will Biden Follow Netanyahu to War in Lebanon?” (06/19/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-618-will-biden-follow-netanyahu-to-war-in-lebanon
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54) Rising, 06/19/24
Source: The Hill
“Lily Greenberg discusses her resignation from the government over the Biden administration’s handling of the war in Gaza.” (06/19/24)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4729718-rising-june-19-2024/mlite/
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55) Pod Save America, 06/19/24
Source: Crooked Media
“The Plan to Fight Trump’s Second-Term Agenda.” (06/19/24)
https://stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/9aa1e238-cbed-4305-9808-c9228fc6dd4f/episodes/a8f621c2-0d45-4cb2-a58a-872a2496349c/audio/128/default.mp3
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56) Politics Politics Politics, 06/19/24
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Cheap Fakes. Trump’s VP Reality Show Plan and Power Poll (with Tom LoBianco).” (06/19/24)
https://shows.acast.com/politicspoliticspolitics/episodes/cheap-fakes-trumps-vp-reality-show-plan-and-power-poll-with-
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57) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/19/24
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“One way to suck every last molecule of fun out of life is to be overly concerned about cultural appropriation. Paul Rosenberg says it’s actually a good and necessary thing.” (06/19/24)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-n7tnw-164722a
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58) Intercepted, 06/19/24
Source: The Intercept
“War Clouds Over Lebanon as Hezbollah and Israel Clash.” (06/19/24)
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/19/intercepted-podcast-israel-lebanon-hezbollah/
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59) Quillette Podcast, episode 239
Source: Quillette
“Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report’ Comes to Canada.” (06/19/24)
https://quillette.com/2024/06/19/justin-trudeaus-ominous-online-harms-act-minority-report-comes-to-canada/
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60) SolutionsWatch, 06/19/24
Source: The Corbett Report
“Winning the Fluoride Fight.” (06/19/24)
https://corbettreport.com/winning-the-fluoride-fight/
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61) Nonzero, 06/18/24
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
“Elon, Sex, AI, and Free Will (among other things) | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom.” (06/18/24)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67726
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62) The Bulwark Podcast, 06/18/24
Source: The Bulwark
“Lauren Windsor and Ben Wittes: A Deep Rot.” (06/18/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-windsor-and-ben-wittes-a-deep
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63) Fourth Branch Explainer, 06/18/24
Source: Federalist Society
“Discussing the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.” (06/18/24)
https://rtp.fedsoc.org/podcast/podcast-explainer-69-discussing-the-anti-semitism-awareness-act/
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64) System Update, episode 284
Source: System Update
“Media Converts Taboos About Ukraine Into Acknowledged Truths; Orthodox Rabbis on Condemning Israeli War; PLUS: Media Denies Biden’s Decline.” (06/18/24)
https://rumble.com/v52ctvf-system-update-show-284.html
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65) Hubwonk, 06/18/24
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Jawboning Free Speech: State Coercion Finds Limits at Supreme Court.” (06/18/24)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/jawboning-free-speech-state-coercion-finds-limits-at-supreme-court/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) RFK Jr. misses deadline to join Biden-Trump debate next week
2) Ukraine war: Russians hammer power grid, Ukrainians target oil depots
3) Willie Mays, 1931-2024
4) Israel: IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM
5) VA: Challenger backed by disgraced former president holds slight lead over incumbent, inside recount margin, in GOP US House primary
6) Chinese “underground bankers” accused of aiding Mexican cartel
7) US soldier jailed for nearly four years in Russia
8) DOJ: Alaska did not provide accessible voting for those with disabilities
9) UK: Vandals cover parts of Stonehenge in powder paint
10) Chad: Explosion and fire at military ammunition depot causes fatalities
11) CA: Wingnut group tries to cultivate moral panic over “Pandora’s Box” of polyamory & child marriages under proposed amendment
12) CA: Regime seeks $5.9 million bribe from Amazon
13) What’s known, and not known, about the partnership agreement signed by Russia & North Korea
14) China: Central bank vows supportive monetary policy but dismisses dramatic easing measures
15) Sanders: After Netanyahu Video, US Should “Halt All Offensive Military Aid”
16) SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
17) “Not safe here”: Florida family robbed while dropping son off at California college
18) France: Macron draws fire on trans rights comments
19) South Africa: With help from coalition parties, Ramaphosa sworn in for second term as president
20) Prosecutors try to link alleged Menendez bribes to appointment of federal prosecutor
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) An Economic Policy That’s Just a Little Bit Radical
22) “Conformity is the enemy of free speech”
23) The Problem With AI Is the Word “Intelligence”
24) Everything In Our Civilization Is Stacked To Keep Us Believing The Propaganda
25) Sixteen Things Individuals Can Do to Help Bring America Together
26) Gavin Newsom Wants to Be an Emperor
27) No Charges in ATF Killing Over Paperwork Firearms Violation
28) Trump’s Campaign Has Lost Whatever Substance It Once Had
29) Safe learning for children in war zones
30) Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans
31) The Real Covid Failure
32) Uncontrolled Spending on Nukes and War in Ukraine — The Tory-Labour Election Pact
33) The Road to Neo-Feudalism
34) Let’s Organize for an Anti-US War Machine Summer
35) The Unreported Irony of Hunter Biden’s Conviction
36) First presidential debate: “Let’s get ready to mumble!”
37) The US Has No Viable Iran Policy
38) You can’t explain away Biden’s Juneteenth moment
39) The Switzerland Summit: Peace Through Delusion
40) In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one.
41) A Second Life for Limits
42) Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?
43) Beauvoir’s Best Insight
44) Stiglitz: When Good Minds Seek Fools’ Favor
45) Democrats Turn Lawfare Into a Campaign Ad
46) Responsible Conservatism Really Was a Thing for a While
47) A Hearty Breakfast for Mind and Soul
48) The Truth About the “Horrible” Crime in Milwaukee
49) Treasury Foresaw the Synapse Collapse Two Years Ago
50) Food Corruption: Fake Meat, GMOs, and Beyond
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) The Political Orphanage, 06/19/24
52) Reason Interview: John Mackey
53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 618
54) Rising, 06/19/24
55) Pod Save America, 06/19/24
56) Politics Politics Politics, 06/19/24
57) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/19/24
58) Intercepted, 06/19/24
59) Quillette Podcast, episode 239
60) SolutionsWatch, 06/19/24
61) Nonzero, 06/18/24
62) The Bulwark Podcast, 06/18/24
63) Fourth Branch Explainer, 06/18/24
64) System Update, episode 284
65) Hubwonk, 06/18/24
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1) RFK Jr. misses deadline to join Biden-Trump debate next week
Source: Reuters
“Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unlikely to participate in 2024’s first U.S. presidential debate after missing a deadline to meet criteria set by hosting news organization CNN. … The conditions included appearing on enough state ballots to potentially win the presidency and also garnering at least 15% voter support in four separate national polls. Kennedy had received at least 15% in only three accepted polls to date and, by CNN’s tally, had qualified for the ballot in just six states. That would not be enough to win the presidency. … The Kennedy campaign asked that the Federal Election Commission take action by Thursday and keep CNN, Biden and Trump from holding the June 27 debate unless it makes changes. The FEC declined to comment.” (06/20/24)
https://archive.is/ycHO2
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2) Ukraine war: Russians hammer power grid, Ukrainians target oil depots
Source: Associated Press
“Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, officials said Thursday. … In its seventh major attack on Ukrainian power plants since Moscow intensified energy infrastructure attacks three months ago, Russia fired nine missiles and 27 Shahed drones at energy facilities and critical infrastructure in central and eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said. Air defenses intercepted all the drones and five cruise missiles, it said. The attack hit power structures in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv and Vinnytsia regions of Ukraine, according to national power company Ukrenergo. … In Russia, meanwhile, authorities in two regions reported fires at oil storage depots after drone attacks, two days after a Ukrainian strike started a huge blaze at another refinery.” (06/20/24)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-attacks-power-grid-oil-f117d1493f690d2192c9f6c60cbcf32d
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3) Willie Mays, 1931-2024
Source: New York Times
“Willie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants led many to call him the greatest all-around player in baseball history, died on Tuesday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 93. … In 22 National League seasons, with the Giants in New York and San Francisco and a brief return to New York with the Mets, preceded by a 1948 stint in the Negro leagues, Mays compiled extraordinary statistics. He hit 660 career home runs and had 3,293 hits and a .301 career batting average. But Mays did more than personify the complete ballplayer. An exuberant style of play and an effervescent personality made him one of the game’s, and America’s, most charismatic figures, a name that even people far afield from the baseball world recognized instantly as a national treasure.” (06/18/24)
https://archive.is/dyEBP
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4) Israel: IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM
Source: Times of Israel [Palestine]
“IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari on Wednesday cast Israel’s war aim of eradicating the Hamas terror group as unattainable, appearing to underscore tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top defense officials over his handling of the war in Gaza. ‘This business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear — it’s simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public,’ Hagari told Channel 13 news in an interview. ‘Hamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. It’s rooted in the hearts of the people — anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong,’ he continued. … In response, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the security cabinet ‘has defined as one of the war goals the destruction of Hamas’s military and governance capabilities.'” (06/20/24)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-spokesman-says-hamas-cant-be-eliminated-will-remain-in-gaza-if-no-alternative/
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5) VA: Challenger backed by disgraced former president holds slight lead over incumbent, inside recount margin, in GOP US House primary
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
“In the Virginia race where former president Donald Trump’s endorsement boomed loudest, his favored candidate, state Sen. John McGuire, R-Goochland, eked out a narrow 315-vote lead over Rep. Bob Good, R-5th. With all Election Day, early voting and mail-in ballots counted, McGuire has a 0.5 percentage point lead, which is the point where a recount if requested is paid for by the state.
McGuire received 31,370 votes to Good’s 31,055, according to the state Department of Election’s unofficial count. In Virginia, candidates can ask for recounts when the gap is 1 percentage point or less, but the candidate must pick up the cost when the gap is between 0.5 and 1 percentage point. … Turnout in the 5th District, at more than 62,000 votes, dwarfed voting in Virginia’s other U.S. House primary races, where turnout was mostly under 30,000 votes cast.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/hMYhU
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6) Chinese “underground bankers” accused of aiding Mexican cartel
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The US has accused a Chinese ‘underground banking’ network of helping Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel with money laundering and other crimes. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged 24 people with offences that also include distributing narcotics. Law enforcement officers have seized about $5m (£4m) in proceeds, as well as guns and hundreds of pounds of cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy pills. The DoJ touted the close co-operation with Mexican and Chinese law enforcement — a message that has been echoed on the Chinese side. The US accuses the Sinaloa cartel of helping to fuel a deadly epidemic by flooding the country with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin.” (06/19/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw44mdkg0e9o
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7) US soldier jailed for nearly four years in Russia
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A Russian court has sentenced a US soldier to three years and nine months in jail on charges of theft and threatening to kill his girlfriend, state news agencies reported. Staff Sgt Gordon Black was sentenced by a court in Vladivostok in Russia’s far east and will serve his time in a penal colony. Sgt Black, who was arrested in May, had pleaded not guilty to the murder threat charges but admitted he was ‘partially’ guilty of stealing 10,000 roubles ($116; £89) from her. He will appeal the verdict, state news agencies said. Prosecutors had called for him to be jailed for four years and eight months, while his defence asked for him to be acquitted. US officials said Sgt Black, 34, met his girlfriend in South Korea. He enlisted as an infantryman in 2008 and was deployed to Iraq in 2009 and Afghanistan in 2013. He was most recently assigned to the Eighth Army, US Forces Korea at Camp Humphreys.” (06/19/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11v674rd5o
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8) DOJ: Alaska did not provide accessible voting for those with disabilities
Source: SFGate
“The state of Alaska has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing accessible machines for in-person voting, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. The state was also faulted for selecting inaccessible polling places and operating a state elections website that can’t be accessed by everyone. The department informed Carol Beecher, Alaska’s election chief, in a letter dated Monday that the state ‘must, at a minimum, implement remedial measures to bring its voting services, programs and activities into compliance.’ Beecher did not respond to emails or a phone call by The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday. The state has until July 1 to respond to the justice department about resolutions.” (06/19/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/alaska-did-not-provide-accessible-voting-for-19521270.php
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9) UK: Vandals cover parts of Stonehenge in powder paint
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Part of Stonehenge has been covered in orange powder paint by protesters. Two Just Stop Oil campaigners sprayed the powder paint on the historic site near Salisbury, Wiltshire, at about 12:00 BST on Wednesday. The move comes the day before celebrations begin for the Summer Solstice at the 5,000-year-old landmark. Wiltshire Police confirmed two people had been arrested on suspicion of damaging the ancient monument. Just Stop Oil said the orange powder paint was cornflour and it would ‘wash away with rain’. The group named the two protesters as Niamh Lynch, a 21-year-old student from Oxford, and Rajan Naidu, a 73-year-old from Birmingham, in a statement. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the incident as a ‘disgraceful act of vandalism.'” (06/19/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw44mdee0zzo
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10) Chad: Explosion and fire at military ammunition depot causes fatalities
Source: ABC News
“Nine people were killed and more than 40 injured when a fire set off explosions at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital, an official said Wednesday. Government spokesperson Abderaman Koulamallah said 46 people were being treated for various injuries after the explosions jolted residents from their sleep late Tuesday in the Goudji district of the capital, N’Djamena. The situation has been brought under control, Koulamallah said. The explosions lit up the sky as thick smoke covered the clouds in the West African nation, setting off frantic efforts to extinguish the fire as residents fled their homes for safety. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, and President Mahamat Deby Itno said an investigation would be conducted.” (06/19/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/explosion-fire-military-ammunition-depot-chads-capital-causes-111242116
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11) CA: Wingnut group tries to cultivate moral panic over “Pandora’s Box” of polyamory & child marriages under proposed amendment
Source: Fox News
“A pro-family [sic] California organization is warning that a proposed state constitutional amendment to eliminate the traditional definition of marriage from state law could potentially open up a ‘Pandora’s box’ to legitimize polyamorous, incestuous and child marriages. Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA 5), which aims to repeal Proposition 8’s language that states marriage is ‘only between a man and a woman,’ was introduced by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Evan Low to protect same-sex marriages. If passed, in its place, the state constitution would provide that ‘the right to marry is a fundamental right.’ However, the California Family Council (CFC), a conservative advocacy group, believes the wording of ACA 5 is too open-ended and will lead to the normalization of non-traditional marriage structures that could harm children’s development.” (06/19/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pandoras-box-polyamory-child-marriages-possible-under-proposed-california-amendment-group-warns
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12) CA: Regime seeks $5.9 million bribe from Amazon
Source: Fox Business
“The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million on allegations the company violated a state law by working warehouse employees so hard that their safety was put at risk. The two citations, which were issued in May, said Amazon.com Services LLC violated the state’s Warehouse Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the labor commissioner’s office said Tuesday in a press release. … The Warehouse Quota Law, enacted in 2022, requires warehouse employers to provide employees with written notice of any quotas they are expected to follow, including how many tasks they need to complete per hour and any discipline that could result from not meeting the requirements, the labor commissioner’s office said. Amazon said Tuesday that it denies the allegations from the state and has appealed the citations.” (06/19/24)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/california-fines-amazon-6m-alleged-violations-warehouse-quota-law-2-warehouses-state
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13What’s known, and not known, about the partnership agreement signed by Russia & North Korea
Source: SFGate
“Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say the strategic partnership they signed Wednesday is a breakthrough. But neither side has released the text of the agreement that resulted from their summit in Pyongyang, and its consequences for the near and long terms are uncertain. Relations between sprawling Russia and small, isolated North Korea — both of them nuclear powers — have warmed significantly in recent years amid Russia’s growing acrimony with the West over the invasion of Ukraine and suppression of all domestic opposition. The new agreement could bring them even closer, while also posing new challenges to the international community. … Putin told a briefing after the signing that ‘the comprehensive partnership agreement provides, among other things, for the provision of mutual assistance in the event of aggression against one of the parties to this document.’ That sentence raises an array of questions.” (06/19/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/what-s-known-and-not-known-about-the-19522138.php
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14) China: Central bank vows supportive monetary policy but dismisses dramatic easing measures
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“China’s central bank governor has pledged to continue accommodative monetary policies to jolt the economy, but he also doubled down on long-maintained intentions to avoid Western-style quantitative loosening. Speaking at the 15th Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai on Wednesday, Pan Gongsheng said the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will avoid drastic policy changes while taking into account other objectives such as risk controls and promoting a moderate rise in consumer prices. Meanwhile, Pan revealed for the first time that the PBOC is in talks with the finance ministry for treasury bond purchases in the secondary markets, emphasising that it will be a gradual process and that details have yet to be worked out.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/vtAJp
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15) Sanders: After Netanyahu Video, US Should “Halt All Offensive Military Aid”
Source: Common Dreams
“U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that the Biden administration should immediately halt all shipments of offensive weaponry to Israel after the country’s far-right prime minister claimed in a video that American arms aren’t flowing quickly enough. ‘No doubt, we will hear similar complaints when he addresses Congress on July 24,’ Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a video statement of his own. ‘Virtually everyone recognizes Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism and respond to the horrific October 7th Hamas attack that killed 1,200 innocent Israelis and took hundreds of hostages. But the Israeli government did not and does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people. Yet that is exactly what has happened.’ Sanders’ remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a brief English-language video accusing the Biden administration of ‘withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel.'” (06/19/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/benjamin-netanyahu-video
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16) SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
Source: United Press International
“SpaceX on Tuesday launched a Falcon 9 rocket topped with another batch of 20 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. The launch occurred at 8:40 p.m. PDT from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The batch of orbitals included a baker’s dozen with Direct-to-Cell capabilities, which enable constant access to texting, calling and Internet browsing on or water, according to Starlink’s website. Not long after launch, first-stage separation was confirmed, with the booster, which was on its fifth flight, returning to Earth where it landed upon the Of Course I Still Love you droneship that was awaiting its return in the Pacific Ocean.” (06/19/24)
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/06/19/SpaceX-Starlink-launch/4671718767746/
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17) “Not safe here”: Florida family robbed while dropping son off at California college
Source: New York Post
“A Florida family was robbed of all their belongings, including $3,000 and their passports, in California when thieves broke into their rental car while they were dropping their son off at college — with the mom now vowing to bring her son back to the Sunshine State. Rhomel Crossman and his family had just flown into the Bay area from Coconut Creek, Fla. on Saturday to register for classes at Lincoln University in Oakland, KTVU reported. … They parked the SUV a block from the private university around 6:15 p.m. before heading to a nearby Jamaican restaurant to pick up food, leaving their five suitcases inside the car. The family returned 15 minutes later and discovered the SUV’s windows were smashed out, glass scattered around the ground and all of their belongings inside gone.” (06/19/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/19/us-news/florida-teen-rhomel-crossman-family-robbed-while-dropping-son-off-at-california-college-now-plans-to-pull-him-from-school-over-crime/
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18) France: Macron draws fire on trans rights comments
Source: Politico
“Facing an uphill electoral battle, French President Emmanuel Macron is looking for new arguments to dent his opponents — even at the risk of souring some of his own supporters. On Tuesday, Macron accused the New Popular Front, a left-wing alliance built for the upcoming legislative elections, of promoting ‘completely crazy things, like going to the town hall to change your sex.’ The New Popular Front’s manifesto includes a proposal to ‘authorize a [cost] free change of civil status before a registrar,’ which the president characterized as being among the ‘gruesome things’ in the program of the ‘extreme left.’ … While the left-wing alliance has been prone to infighting over its first six days of its existence, its leaders were unanimous in condemning Macron’s statements. … Macron’s comments have also pushed some people within his own camp to speak up.” (06/19/24)
https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-divides-with-own-ranks-party-comments-trans-rights-left-manifesto/
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19) South Africa: With help from coalition parties, Ramaphosa sworn in for second term as president
Source: SFGate
“Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president on Wednesday in a ceremony in the administrative capital, Pretoria, after his reelection with the help from a coalition of parties, a first in the country’s 30-year rule. Ramaphosa is now set to appoint a Cabinet in a new coalition government after his African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in an election last month. He was reelected president by lawmakers on Friday after the main opposition party and a smaller third party joined the ANC in an agreement to co-govern Africa’s most industrialized economy. He will have to guide the first coalition government in which no party has a majority. At least three parties will make up what the ANC is calling a government of national unity, with more invited to join.” (06/19/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/cyril-ramaphosa-is-sworn-in-for-a-2nd-term-as-19521859.php
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20) Prosecutors try to link alleged Menendez bribes to appointment of federal prosecutor
Source: Associated Press
“Prosecutors at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez used the testimony of his former campaign manager on Tuesday to try to link alleged bribes of the Democrat to the appointment of New Jersey’s top prosecutor three years ago. Michael Soliman, a former top Menendez political adviser, testified immediately after New Jersey’s U.S. attorney, Philip R. Sellinger, finished two days on the witness stand at the Manhattan federal court trial that is in its sixth week. Menendez, 70, and two New Jersey businessmen are on trial on charges alleging the senator accepted gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and a luxury car from businessmen from 2018 to 2022 in return for helping them in their business dealings, including by trying to meddle in court cases.” (06/18/24)
https://apnews.com/article/menendez-bribery-trial-ef4b3e2a5b8eaf9908e732bba35a57b6
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21) An Economic Policy That’s Just a Little Bit Radical
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Hey, politician. Yeah, you. Want to give Americans a modest tax cut, raise the standard of living for middle-class and lower-income families, reduce federal bureaucracy, and make U.S. companies more competitive in the global marketplace? Easy — all you have to do is enact the single most unpopular idea in American politics: unilateral free trade. … Free trade would be better for everybody. But why would we want to adopt the stupid and frequently corrupt trade policies of badly governed countries just because some of our people do business with some of their people?” (06/19/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/an-economic-policy-thats-just-a-little-bit-radical/
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22) “Conformity is the enemy of free speech”
Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill
Interview with Greg Lukianoff. Lukianoff: “One of the reasons I’m worried about the future of freedom of speech, in the United States and beyond, is that there used to be a contingent of the left that unapologetically defended free expression. These people were always in tension with those totalitarians who believed that, if society was governed by enlightened people like them, censorship would be justified. For the most part, I grew up at a time when freedom of speech was actually considered a left-wing value. But with totalitarian thinking winning on the left and the rise of the populist right, there’s no natural constituency for free speech today other than the centre.” (06/19/24)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/19/conformity-is-the-enemy-of-free-speech/
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23) The Problem With AI Is the Word “Intelligence”
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“The conversational and grammatical capacities of an AI bot like ChatGPT are impressive. This bot writes better and appears to be a better conversationist than what must be a significant proportion of human beings. I am told that he (or she, except that the thing has no sex and I am anyway using the neutral ‘he’) efficiently performs tasks of identification and classification of objects and that he does simple coding. It’s a very sophisticated program. But he crucially depends on his humongous database, in which he makes zillions of comparisons with brute electronic force. I have had occasions to check that his analytical and artistic capacities are limited. … from what we know about thinking and understanding, we can safely infer that electronic devices, as useful as they are, will likely never be intelligent.” (06/19/24)
https://www.econlib.org/the-problem-with-ai-is-the-word-intelligence/
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24) Everything In Our Civilization Is Stacked To Keep Us Believing The Propaganda
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s not so much that people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are dumb, or because humans are selfish. Primarily, people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are lazy. By this I don’t mean to say that people don’t work hard enough or don’t stay busy enough; humans sleep less than any other primate on earth, and if anything the world would probably be better off if our species chilled out a bit. When I say people are lazy, I mean we are lazy thinkers. And we are lazy thinkers for reasons that aren’t really our fault. The human brain is wired to select for cognitive ease, which means we tend to favor pathways of thought which require less mental strain in order to conserve energy — probably because our evolutionary ancestors needed all their mental energy for important stuff like finding food and avoiding saber-toothed tigers.” (06/19/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/06/19/everything-in-our-civilization-is-stacked-to-keep-us-believing-the-propaganda/
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25) Sixteen Things Individuals Can Do to Help Bring America Together
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W Reed
“Americans are angry and divided — perhaps more than at any time since the Civil War. Holding strong opinions, especially in defense of truth, is no vice. But failing to bridge our differences and resolve them peacefully is no virtue either. Here’s my ‘to do’ list if you want to be part of the solution instead of the problem.” (06/19/24)
https://fee.org/articles/16-things-individuals-can-do-to-help-bring-america-together/
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26) Gavin Newsom Wants to Be an Emperor
Source: The American Spectator
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
“Afew weeks ago, while I was on my honeymoon in Rome, I was walking among the city’s ancient ruins. As I walked down the path that was once Rome’s main street, I suddenly encountered a man who I immediately recognized as California Gov. Gavin Newsom. This was an insane coincidence because I have just authored a book on Gavin Newsom, which goes on sale today. In Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, I unmask Newsom’s dangerous arrogance and relentless pursuit of power. To make the whole situation more poetic, Newsom’s behavior in the ancient center of Rome perfectly symbolized the Newsom that I unveil in my book. While in the forum, Newsom and his wife gazed almost exclusively upon the Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, which was dedicated to the deified emperor and his deified wife.” (06/19/24)
https://spectator.org/gavin-newsom-wants-to-be-an-emperor/
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27) No Charges in ATF Killing Over Paperwork Firearms Violation
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) suspected that Bryan Malinowski, executive director of the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, and an avid firearms collector, was reselling enough firearms at gun shows to make him more of a commercial dealer than a hobbyist. That meant he should, in the ATF’s view, get a Federal Firearms License. So on March 19, agents did what law enforcers do when they suspect people of paperwork violations: They raided his home before dawn, taped over the doorbell camera, and shot Malinowski dead less than a minute later when he opened fire on intruders who had just busted in his front door. Unsurprisingly, the ATF agents are on their way to evading consequences for causing a man’s death over a paperwork violation.” (06/19/24)
https://reason.com/2024/06/19/no-charges-in-atf-killing-over-paperwork-firearms-violation/
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28) Trump’s Campaign Has Lost Whatever Substance It Once Had
Source: The Atlantic
by David A Graham
“Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was, among other things, one of the most impressive displays of branding on a large scale, in a short time, ever. There were hats. There were flags. And above all, there were slogans. ‘Make America Great Again.’ ‘Build the wall.’ ‘Lock her up.’ And later, ‘Drain the swamp,’ which Trump conceded on the stump that he’d initially hated. No matter: Crowds loved it, which was good enough for Trump to decide that he did, too. One peculiarity of Trump’s 2024 campaign is the absence of any similar mantra. … In their place, Trump’s stump speech has become dominated by grievances about the wrongs he believes have been done to him and his promises to get even for them. It doesn’t quite create the festive atmosphere of eight years ago, when many attendees were clearly having a great time.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/ZwONl
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29) Safe learning for children in war zones
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“A new school that opened last month in Ukraine’s second-largest city is only 18 miles from Russia – with only a five-minute warning of incoming missiles. Yet Kharkiv’s primary school 155 is also on the front line of innovative efforts to ensure that children in crisis-affected countries have safe access to education. The school is the first of many to come in Ukraine that was built with permanent underground classrooms. On opening day in mid-May, a gaggle of third graders – who had never been in a physical school during two years of war – walked down 20 feet of steps into windowless but brightly lit rooms to be taught by their teachers. ‘The children have dreamed of meeting their classmates,’ one father told Deutsche Welle news media. Now when air sirens go off, the students will not need to interrupt their studies by running to a bomb shelter.” (06/18/24)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2024/0618/Safe-learning-for-children-in-war-zones
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30) Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“The international community has before it two official proposals — Ukrainian and Russian — for a peace settlement to end the war in Ukraine. Both as they stand, and in present circumstances, are absurd. Diplomats and analysts should however give thought to whether they could nonetheless in the future provide the starting point for negotiations leading to an eventual compromise.” (06/19/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-peace/
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31) The Real Covid Failure
Source: The Wall Street Journal
by Holman W Jenkins, Jr.
“You didn’t think any question related to Covid would be settled in the recent congressional grilling of Anthony Fauci and you were right. That’s why the episode came and went from your news feed with barely a ripple. Here’s the story that needs to be fleshed out. Covid was a superfast spreader compared with the ordinary flu or even the novel pandemic flu that afflicts mankind once or twice a century. Its superfast spread had a particular outcome in Wuhan, Northern Italy and New York City, where the virus spread unrecognized for weeks and severe cases, though a small percentage of the total, reached a critical mass that overwhelmed hospitals. Where communities anticipated the virus and people made small adjustments, these catastrophes weren’t repeated.” (06/18/24)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-covid-failure-fauci-ef8487a3?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
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32) Uncontrolled Spending on Nukes and War in Ukraine — The Tory-Labour Election Pact
Source; Antiwar.com
by Ian Proud
“On 12 April, Keir Starmer announced that Labour would commit to increase UK defense spending to 2.5%. While the Conservative Party has been talking up the need to increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP for some time, Rishi Sunak made his formal announcement on 24 April. On the eve of Rishi’s reveal, the UK Defense Journal declared ‘Britain to boost defense spending due to threat from Russia!’ Out of the blue, spending 2.5% of GDP on defense had become a joint Tory-Labour commitment. For voters, at a time of an ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, Israeli atrocities in Gaza and growing fear of China, spending an extra 0.5% of GDP on defense a headline grabber. But why is there no debate between the two main political parties in the UK general election campaign about foreign, security and defense policy?” (06/19/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ian_proud/2024/06/18/uncontrolled-spending-on-nukes-and-war-in-ukraine-the-tory-labour-election-pact/
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33) The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Source: Quillette
by Joel Kotkin
“For middle- and working-class people across the developed world, home ownership has served as a primary driver of upward mobility. But in a growing number of places, this aspiration is being systematically undermined with grave implications for liberal democracy, the economy, and even fertility.” (06/19/24)
https://quillette.com/2024/06/19/the-road-to-neo-feudalism/
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34) Let’s Organize for an Anti-US War Machine Summer
Source: Common Dreams
by Zishun Ning & Audrey Hui
“The movement against the continued Palestinian genocide in Gaza has sparked protests and encampments in colleges across the country and beyond. Local governments, such as the New York City government, collude with universities like Columbia, NYU, and CUNY to criminalize students for speaking out against the U.S. war machine by brutalizing peaceful protests. But this crackdown has only drawn more sympathy from people across the city and nation. Meanwhile, New York Mayor Eric Adams, who takes cues from billionaires and big real estate, tries to divide students from the rest of the community, portraying students as ‘antisemetic’ and supporters as ‘outside agitators.'” (06/19/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/anti-u-s-warm-machine
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35) The Unreported Irony of Hunter Biden’s Conviction
Source: CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
“It has gone largely, if not completely, unremarked in all the verbiage spun out by the 24-hour news cycle in the US media that the law under which the president’s son, Hunter Biden was convicted on three felony counts, was something pushed by his own dad, Joe Biden as part of his effort to ‘lock up drug users’ for lengthy terms in 1994. It’s no secret that Papa Biden, as a Senator and chair of the Senate Judicial Committee, teamed up with President Bill Clinton in a deliberate strategy of passing a get-tough-on-crime bill, undermining habeas corpus, making the death penalty tougher to appeal, and contriving to pile on years of jail time when offenses could be linked to one’s drug use in order to lock up low-level drug users and other perps — mostly nonwhite — for serious time behind bars.” (06/19/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/19/the-unreported-irony-of-hunter-bidens-conviction/
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36) First presidential debate: “Let’s get ready to mumble!”
Source: Orange County Register
by Ron Hart
“A rarity happens next week: a presidential debate before either party’s convention. Trump probably should not have agreed to the unusual CNN debate this early. If Biden melts down or freezes up, Dems have time to replace him before their official nomination in Chicago. I would have waited, but where there is a camera and a national audience, you will have a Trump. … Trump did have one poignant request: that both he and Biden be drug tested before the debate. I disagree, because if they make those two aged men tinkle in a bottle before the event, the debate would be delayed for an hour to get measurable levels. One could argue these two geezers should just argue in the balcony seats at The Muppet Theater instead.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/3PhhR
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37) The US Has No Viable Iran Policy
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“Six years after President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the JCPOA, and almost four since his successor failed to rejoin it, the United States still has no viable Iran policy. If the metric of success is defined by denying Iran nuclear weapons capability, then the policy has been a failure: Iran’s nuclear program is steadily advancing. … Western efforts at isolating Iran are faltering. A far better course of action for the U.S. would be to rejoin the JCPOA or negotiate a realistic alternative agreement based on the same premises — curbs on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.” (06/19/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-u-s-has-no-viable-iran-policy/
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38) You can’t explain away Biden’s Juneteenth moment
Source: Washington Examiner
by Byron York
“The White House and its media allies are in full defensive mode over videos of President Joe Biden appearing to freeze, or zone out, or something, at three recent public events. … The three incidents are Biden’s June 6 appearance at D-Day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy, France, his June 10 appearance at a White House Juneteenth concert, and his June 15 appearance at a celebrity-filled Hollywood fundraiser. In the D-Day matter, Biden seemed to wander away from a group of leaders watching a skydiving exhibition. There is no doubt he seemed a bit disconnected, but on the other hand, there were skydivers landing all around the group, and Biden appeared to be interested in greeting some of them who were a little removed from the leaders’ group. So maybe that is all Biden was doing, in his slow and somewhat out-of-it way.” (06/19/24)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3050724/you-cant-explain-away-bidens-juneteenth-moment/
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39) The Switzerland Summit: Peace Through Delusion
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brad Pearce
“Ukraine has been at war for over ten years, and even the political establishment wipeout in the European elections has not managed to shock the Western ruling class back into coherence. Nothing could provide a clearer example of their clownish nature than the recent ‘Peace Conference’ in Switzerland where Russia was not invited, China did not attend, and meaningful negotiation with Russia was taken off the table before it began. Ukraine’s now-illegitimate President Volodymyr Zelensky continues in his maximalist war aims of insisting that Ukraine return to its 1991 borders even though that no one believes Russia will give up Crimea under any circumstances, or for that matter that any substantial portion of Crimea’s population wants to be part of Ukraine.” (06/19/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-switzerland-summit-peace-through-delusion/
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40) In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one.
Source: Washington Post
by Francis S Barry
“President Biden’s recent speech in Normandy, highlighting the choice the world faces between democracy and autocracy, underscored what has been clear since he kicked off his reelection campaign in January: He is running as a democrat as much as a Democrat. Can he turn the election into a referendum on democracy — and win? The answer might depend on whether he learns from a political blunder made by the man he often lionizes: Abraham Lincoln.” (06/19/24)
https://archive.is/ltRGq
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41) A Second Life for Limits
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Will the Supreme Court let states impose limits on the representatives and senators they send to Washington, D.C.? Thanks to events in North Dakota, there’s a good chance this question is about to asked again. And get a different answer. … In May 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 5-4 decision, that states cannot impose restrictions like term limits on their congressional delegations. But: ‘Nothing in the Constitution deprives the people of each State of the power to prescribe eligibility requirements for the candidates who seek to represent them in Congress,’ observed Justice Clarence Thomas in his dissent. ‘And where the Constitution is silent, it raises no bar to action by the States or the people.'” [editor’s note: The Constitution is not silent on the subject. It exhaustively lists the qualifications for those offices, and “has served x or fewer terms” ain’t there – TLK] (06/19/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/06/19/a-second-life-for-limits/
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42) Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffery D Sachs
“For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this time in proposals made by President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2024. Four previous times, the U.S. rejected the offer of negotiations in favor of a neocon strategy to weaken or dismember Russia through war and covert operations. The U.S. neocon tactics have failed disastrously, devastating Ukraine in the process, and endangering the whole world. After all the warmongering, it’s time for Biden to open negotiations for peace with Russia.” [editor’s note: Putin’s latest “peace proposal” boils down to an unserious “give me everything I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to seize for the last 28 months and I’ll pinky promise not to pull that sh*t again” – TLK] (06/19/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/role-of-us-in-russia-ukraine-war
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43) Beauvoir’s Best Insight
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu
“Simone de Beauvoir identified as a communist for much of her adult life. She was a firm advocate for abortion and artificial contraceptives. As noted by Emina Melonic in her lead essay, she had a kinky sex life and questionable taste in men, as well as a pronounced hostility to maternity. As a conservative, pro-life, anti-communist, Catholic mother of five, I am obviously supposed to revile Beauvoir. But actually, reading through her most famous work, The Second Sex, I find some segments quite compelling. When I first picked it up some years ago, I was startled to find that some passages tracked my own considered view rather well.” (06/19/24)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-othering-of-woman/
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44) Stiglitz: When Good Minds Seek Fools’ Favor
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Michael Munger
“To be free, I must be able to make and keep voluntary agreements. The central problem with the Hobbesian ‘state of nature’ is precisely that each person has ‘too much liberty,’ precisely because no contract, promise, or right to property can be relied on. Such ‘enforcement’ of agreements is not coercive, but is literally required for the liberty to engage in commerce and division of labor. … The need for such order has been recognized since (at least) the Scottish Enlightenment …. What does any of this have to do with Joseph Stiglitz’s book, The Road to Freedom? Almost nothing, it seems, and that’s a big problem. Stiglitz wants to argue — actually, it’s simply an unsupported assertion — that no one who advocates for commerce and markets ever thought about the problem of rules.” (06/19/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/stiglitz-when-good-minds-seek-fools-favor/
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45) Democrats Turn Lawfare Into a Campaign Ad
Source: Town Hall
by Byron York
“President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has released a new ad that synopsizes the Democratic effort to use criminal charges and lawsuits against former President Donald Trump. ‘In the courtroom, we see Donald Trump for who he is,’ the ad begins. ‘He’s been convicted of 34 felonies. Found liable for sexual assault. And he committed financial fraud.’ Trump, the ad continues, is a ‘convicted criminal,’ while Biden is ‘a president who’s fighting for your family.’ Maybe there were times when you wondered what accounted for the swarm of legal attacks on Trump, coming from elected Democratic prosecutors and appointees of the Biden Justice Department, in late 2022 and 2023. Part of it was delayed gratification …. But a larger reason was the coming 2024 presidential campaign. By the middle of 2022, it was clear that Trump intended to run for his old office again.” (06/19/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2024/06/19/democrats-turn-lawfare-into-a-campaign-ad-n2640641
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46) Responsible Conservatism Really Was a Thing for a While
Source: The UnPopulist
by Joseph Stieb
“The trauma of the Trump years has struck historians as much as anyone. They have had to reconsider the American political tradition, seeking out the strains and threads that made an apparent aberration like Trump possible. David Austin Walsh, a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, argues in Taking America Back that the right’s Trumpian turn did not represent a decisive break with conservatism’s past but was an outgrowth of the comfortable place extremism had enjoyed on the right for nearly a century. Walsh’s book certainly has its strengths, but its biggest weakness is that it reads the present moment of extremism too closely into the history of conservatism, blurring some very real boundaries that existed between the radicals and the mainstream well into the 2010s.” (06/18/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/responsible-conservatism-really-was
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47) A Hearty Breakfast for Mind and Soul
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Dan Sanchez
“You’ve probably heard that ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day.’ According to The Daily Telegraph, the saying was coined by American dietitian Lenna Cooper in a 1917 article in Good Health, a magazine published by a medical facility run by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes. Whether consuming carbs and calories early in the morning is bio-optimal or not, I have found that ingesting new ideas as soon as possible after waking is a mentally fueling and spiritually nourishing way to start a great day. As Moses and Jesus taught, man does not live on bread alone. The most important meal of the day may actually be a hearty breakfast for the mind and soul.” (06/18/24)
https://fee.org/articles/a-hearty-breakfast-for-mind-and-soul/
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48) The Truth About the “Horrible” Crime in Milwaukee
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“Last week, Donald Trump said behind closed doors to House Republicans, ‘Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.’ Trump now denies making the insult to the city where the Republican National Convention will convene in mid-July. But several Republicans in the room already copped to it, while making excuses such as, ‘he was only talking about crime.’ The former president’s perception of Milwaukee may be shaped by the rise in homicides while he was in office. The Milwaukee murder rate nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 in Trump’s last year in office, when the mismanaged Covid-19 pandemic led to a nationwide spike in crime. But it’s a different story under the Biden administration. According to data from the Milwaukee Police Department, the number of homicides dropped 20 percent last year, and is down another 17 percent so far this year.” (06/18/24)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/18/the-truth-about-the-horrible-crime-in-milwaukee/
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49) Treasury Foresaw the Synapse Collapse Two Years Ago
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“It may be hard for folks to believe, but not so long ago, a leading debate in U.S. politics involved how best to regulate reckless financial activity out of existence. As recently as the 2016 Democratic primary, financial regulation was a lead topic, with the two main candidates exhibiting starkly different approaches to dealing with Wall Street. That focus was the natural outgrowth of the massive financial crisis of 2008, which led to millions of layoffs and millions more foreclosures. Problems like too-big-to-fail banks, excessive securitization, and proprietary trading with other people’s money were seen as among the biggest confronting the nation. But memories fade, thoughts turn to other priorities, and the pendulum begins to swing from tight to loose financial regulation.” (06/19/24)
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-19-treasury-foresaw-synapse-collapse/
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50) Food Corruption: Fake Meat, GMOs, and Beyond
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Tracy Thurman
“In my last three articles, we examined the global war on farmers, the culprits behind the agenda, and the tactics used to prepare the public for the destruction of our food freedom. Today we will cover some of the projects and products that will be used to take away your right to access healthy foods. Most readers are likely familiar with GMOs and how genetically modified organisms have been shown to cause significant health problems, how they have ruined the lives of independent farmers who are sued after their land is involuntarily contaminated by Monsanto seeds, and how glyphosate use has risen thanks to Roundup Ready GMO crops. Unfortunately, corruption of the food supply is advancing far beyond this.” (06/18/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/food-corruption-fake-meat-gmos-and-beyond/
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51) The Political Orphanage, 06/19/24
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Down the RFK, Jr. Rabbit Hole on Vaccines and Spoilers.” [editor’s note: Looks like a REALLY interesting episode … but at the moment the audio doesn’t seem to actually be up. I’ll check before RRND/FND “press time” to see if that’s been fixed, otherwise I guess bookmark it and wait! – TLK] (06/19/24)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/down-the-rfk-jr-rabbit-hole-on-vaccines-and-spoilers
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52) Reason Interview: John Mackey
Source: Reason
“The co-founder of Whole Foods discusses his new memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism as he launches his new holistic health venture, Love.Life.” (06/19/24)
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/06/19/whole-foods-john-mackey-we-must-change-how-we-think-about-capitalism/
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53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 618
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Will Biden Follow Netanyahu to War in Lebanon?” (06/19/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-618-will-biden-follow-netanyahu-to-war-in-lebanon
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54) Rising, 06/19/24
Source: The Hill
“Lily Greenberg discusses her resignation from the government over the Biden administration’s handling of the war in Gaza.” (06/19/24)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4729718-rising-june-19-2024/mlite/
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55) Pod Save America, 06/19/24
Source: Crooked Media
“The Plan to Fight Trump’s Second-Term Agenda.” (06/19/24)
https://stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/9aa1e238-cbed-4305-9808-c9228fc6dd4f/episodes/a8f621c2-0d45-4cb2-a58a-872a2496349c/audio/128/default.mp3
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56) Politics Politics Politics, 06/19/24
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Cheap Fakes. Trump’s VP Reality Show Plan and Power Poll (with Tom LoBianco).” (06/19/24)
https://shows.acast.com/politicspoliticspolitics/episodes/cheap-fakes-trumps-vp-reality-show-plan-and-power-poll-with-
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57) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/19/24
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“One way to suck every last molecule of fun out of life is to be overly concerned about cultural appropriation. Paul Rosenberg says it’s actually a good and necessary thing.” (06/19/24)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-n7tnw-164722a
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58) Intercepted, 06/19/24
Source: The Intercept
“War Clouds Over Lebanon as Hezbollah and Israel Clash.” (06/19/24)
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/19/intercepted-podcast-israel-lebanon-hezbollah/
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59) Quillette Podcast, episode 239
Source: Quillette
“Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report’ Comes to Canada.” (06/19/24)
https://quillette.com/2024/06/19/justin-trudeaus-ominous-online-harms-act-minority-report-comes-to-canada/
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60) SolutionsWatch, 06/19/24
Source: The Corbett Report
“Winning the Fluoride Fight.” (06/19/24)
https://corbettreport.com/winning-the-fluoride-fight/
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61) Nonzero, 06/18/24
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
“Elon, Sex, AI, and Free Will (among other things) | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom.” (06/18/24)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67726
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62) The Bulwark Podcast, 06/18/24
Source: The Bulwark
“Lauren Windsor and Ben Wittes: A Deep Rot.” (06/18/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-windsor-and-ben-wittes-a-deep
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63) Fourth Branch Explainer, 06/18/24
Source: Federalist Society
“Discussing the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.” (06/18/24)
https://rtp.fedsoc.org/podcast/podcast-explainer-69-discussing-the-anti-semitism-awareness-act/
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64) System Update, episode 284
Source: System Update
“Media Converts Taboos About Ukraine Into Acknowledged Truths; Orthodox Rabbis on Condemning Israeli War; PLUS: Media Denies Biden’s Decline.” (06/18/24)
https://rumble.com/v52ctvf-system-update-show-284.html
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65) Hubwonk, 06/18/24
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Jawboning Free Speech: State Coercion Finds Limits at Supreme Court.” (06/18/24)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/jawboning-free-speech-state-coercion-finds-limits-at-supreme-court/
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