06/13 -- Bitcoin drops 12%, falling below $24,000; The Libertarian Solution
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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Bitcoin drops 12%, falling below $24,000
2) Ukraine war: Russian troops destroy bridge linking Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk
3) Biden "not yet decided" on whether to publicly fellate Saudi terror kingpin MbS
4) Iranian, Venezuelan regimes sign 20-year cooperation agreement
5) UK: Rwanda deportation ruling appealed as prince sparks row
6) Palestine: Israeli Court Gives IDF Invaders/Occupiers OK to Steal More Land
7) MA: Fed-up gas station owner stops selling fuel
8) AK: Quitter/vexatious litigator Palin among early frontrunners in special US House primary
9) "Bipartisan" Senate Deal on Guns Deemed "Pathetically Weak" by Gun-Grabbers
10) PA: Mothers file federal lawsuit to stop gender lessons at elementary school
11) India: Regime destroys houses of several Muslim figures after religious riots
12) ID: 31 Patriot Front members arrested near pride event
13) Andrew Giuliani barred from in-person debate over vax proof
14) Tanzania: Regime signs natural gas deal with Equinor and Shell
15) France: Projections show Macron's centrists to keep a majority
16) Giuliani faces disciplinary case from DC Bar for election fraud lies
17) VA: Youngkin hosts state pride events, angering some LGBT groups
18) Bolivia: Anez sentenced to ten years in prison
19) Nigeria: Gunmen free 11 hostages from train attack
20) TX: Judge orders state to suspend harassment of trans children's families
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Libertarian Solution
22) January 6th Hearing: Don't Let Motives Obscure Facts
23) Gun Control Equals Police Control: A Queer Argument for Bearing Arms
24) US Military Spending Is Undebatable Because It's Indefensible
25) Should Governments Be Bribing Seniors to Volunteer?
26) The Predators and Their Prey
27) A case study in American propaganda
28) The US Empire Acts Like A Textbook Manipulative Sociopath
29) Joe Biden's Submissive -- and Highly Revealing -- Embrace of Saudi Despots
30) Setting a Foundation: The Virginia Declaration of Rights
31) The Origin and Operation of the US Administrative State
32) Time for a Taxpayer Revolt: How Corporatist Politicians Make You Subsidize Big Corporations
33) Who's to blame for the rural crime wave?
34) Bolsonaro and Trump: Are Elections Important?
35) Media & Dems running away from the assassination attempt on a justice story
36) A woke meltdown at the Washington Post
37) Our Irrational Iran Policy
38) The GOP's Great Replacement: The truth behind the overturning of "Roe"
39) Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again
40) That Was The Best Hearing Democrats Had To Offer?
41) The January 6 Hearings May Be Surprisingly Worthwhile
42) The Problem With Inflation
43) Prime-Time Hearing Paints Sobering Picture of Attempted Coup
44) Here's What the Criminal Justice Reform Movement Can Learn From Chesa Boudin's Loss
45) The Long Road Back
46) Adam Smith, Technology, and Liberty
47) Proposed mass shooting "solutions" would mostly do nothing to prevent shootings
48) To Arm or Not to Arm Ukrainians?
49) Concentration camps -- a brief review
50) Making Sense of Monetary Policy and the Future of Inflation
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Talk Live, 06/12/22
52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 375
53) The Chris Spangle Show, 06/10/22
54) There's a Policy for That with Susan Pendergrass, 06/10/22
55) Soho Forum Debate: Did Prescription Opioids Cause The Overdose Epidemic?
56) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 06/10/22
57) Free Thoughts Podcast, 06/10/22
58) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/10/22
59) LiberatED Podcast, 06/10/22
60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/10/22
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_____ Today's Freedom News _____
1) Bitcoin drops 12%, falling below $24,000
Source: CNBC
"Bitcoin tumbled below $24,000 on Monday, hitting its lowest level since December 2020, as investors dump crypto amid a broader sell-off in risk assets. Meanwhile, a crypto lending company called Celsius has paused withdrawals for its customers, sparking fears of contagion into the broader market. The world's largest cryptocurrency bitcoin briefly dropped below the $24,000 mark around 05:00 a.m. ET, according to CoinDesk data, before jumping back above that level shortly after." (06/13/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/13/bitcoin-btc-falls-as-market-focuses-on-celsius-issue-fed-rate-hike.html
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2) Ukraine war: Russian troops destroy bridge linking Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk
Source: The West Australian [Australia]
"Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians, local officials said. ... Ukrainian and Russian forces were still fighting street-by-street there on Sunday, the governor of Luhansk province, Serhiy Gaidai, said. Russian forces have taken most of the city but Ukrainian troops remain in control of an industrial area and chemical plant where hundreds of civilians are sheltering. But the Russians had destroyed a bridge over the Siverskyi Donets River linking Sievierodonetsk with its twin city of Lysychansk, Gaidai said. That leaves just one of three bridges still standing, and reduces the number of routes that could be used to evacuate civilians or for Ukrainian troops to withdraw to positions on the western side of the river." (06/12/22)
https://thewest.com.au/news/conflict/russia-destroy-ukraine-citys-escape-route-c-7142082
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3) Biden "not yet decided" on whether to publicly fellate Saudi terror kingpin MbS
Source: Reuters
"U.S. President Joe Biden said he had 'not yet' decided if he will travel to Saudi Arabia, a week after he opened the door to a possible trip. Sources have said Biden was planning a trip to Saudi Arabia, along with a trip to Europe and Israel in late June. The White House has said the president feels that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a 'pariah' for his role in the killing of a political opponent, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Turkey in 2018. ... Asked by a reporter later in Albuquerque, New Mexico, if he would use a possible trip to the Middle East to secure a deal to improve Saudi-Israeli relations, Biden said: 'We'll see.'" (06/11/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-he-has-not-yet-decided-saudi-trip-2022-06-11/
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4) Iranian, Venezuelan regimes sign 20-year cooperation agreement
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
"Venezuela signed a 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran Saturday, a day after President Nicolas Maduro praised the Islamic Republic for sending badly needed fuel to his country. The accord comes as the two countries, among the world's top oil producers, grapple with US sanctions that are crippling their exports. Maduro said, alongside Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, that the cooperation would include the energy and financial sectors as well as a collaboration on 'defense projects.' ... Maduro is on a Eurasia tour after President Joe Biden chose not to invite him to the Summit of the Americas. Before arriving in Iran, he was in Algeria and Turkey." (06/11/22)
https://www.dw.com/en/sanctions-hit-iran-and-venezuela-sign-20-year-cooperation-agreement/a-62100737
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5) UK: Rwanda deportation ruling appealed as prince sparks row
Source: Associated Press
"Opponents of the British government's plan to deport migrants to Rwanda are preparing for an appeals court hearing Monday amid the political backlash following reports that Prince Charles had privately described the policy as 'appalling.' A coalition of groups including immigration rights advocates and public employee unions will ask the Court of Appeal in London to reverse a lower court ruling allowing the first deportation flight to go ahead as scheduled on Tuesday. ... Charles's comments are problematic because he is the heir to the throne and the British monarch is supposed to remain above the political fray." (06/12/22)
https://apnews.com/article/boris-johnson-entertainment-rwanda-london-227d203a192be78fe4258fd7f5439250
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6) Palestine: Israeli Court Gives IDF Invaders/Occupiers OK to Steal More Land
Source: Asharq al-Awsat [UK]
"Some 1,200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank region of Masafer Yatta face the risk of forced removal to make way for an army firing zone after a decades-long legal battle that ended last month in Israel's highest court. The ruling opened the way for one of the largest displacements since Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Middle East war. But residents are refusing to leave, hoping their resilience and international pressure will keep Israel from carrying out the evictions." (06/12/22)
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3698421/largest-palestinian-displacement-decades-looms-after-israeli-court-ruling
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7) MA: Fed-up gas station owner stops selling fuel
Source: SFGate
"A Massachusetts gas station owner fed up with what he considers attempts by oil companies to fleece customers with outrageously high prices at the pump has stopped selling gas as a protest. Reynold Gladu, who has run Ren's Mobil Service in downtown Amherst for nearly 50 years, drained his tanks earlier this month and has no current plans to refill them. 'I don't want to be part of it anymore,' Gladu told The Daily Hampshire Gazette for a story published Tuesday. 'This is the biggest ripoff that ever has happened to people in my lifetime.'" [editor's note: Looks like he could use an economics lesson, on how expected future prices drive the cost of oil, and how stupid government policies fuel both pessimism for investors and price spikes – SAT] (06/12/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fed-up-Massachusetts-gas-station-owner-stops-17228353.php
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8) AK: Quitter/vexatious litigator Palin among early frontrunners in special US House primary
Source: Anchorage Daily News
"Early results in Alaska's 48-candidate special primary election for U.S. House Saturday showed Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III taking the lead, followed by independent Al Gross. Democratic former state Rep. Mary Peltola, in her first statewide campaign, was in fourth. Palin, in her first campaign since resigning as Alaska governor in 2009, was the clear leader with 30%. Begich, a businessman and investor who launched his campaign before the March death of longtime Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young -- which prompted Saturday's special election -- was in second with 19%. ... The results, representing 108,981 of the nearly 140,000 ballots cast through Saturday, are not a definitive statement on which four candidates will advance. Officials said counting was finished for Saturday night, but several more tallies are scheduled over the next two weeks, and additional ballots can still arrive and be counted as long as they were postmarked by Saturday." (06/11/22)
https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/06/11/palin-begich-gross-and-peltola-are-early-frontrunners-in-alaskas-special-us-house-primary/
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9) "Bipartisan" Senate Deal on Guns Deemed "Pathetically Weak" by Gun-Grabbers
Source: Common Dreams
"A group of 20 US senators announced a deal Sunday on an outline of a bill designed to give the appearance that they are taking meaningful action. But gun safety advocates were quick to point out that the deal mostly ignored guns -- and rather focused on those areas that the NRA and their Republican supporters prefer the debate to be: mental health and hardening of schools. 'Today, we are announcing a commonsense, bipartisan proposal to protect America's children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country. Families are scared, and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore their sense of safety and security in their communities,' the group said in a statement on Sunday. 'We look forward to earning broad, bipartisan support and passing our commonsense proposal into law.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/12/bipartisan-senate-deal-guns-deemed-pathetically-weak
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10) PA: Mothers file federal lawsuit to stop gender lessons at elementary school
Source: Fox News
"Three Pennsylvania parents filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging that their children's first-grade teacher violated district policy, state law and the Constitution by teaching children about gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning. The suit, filed by mothers Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn and Gretchen Melton against the Mount Lebanon School District, seeks a court order to stop the gender-related instruction at Jefferson Elementary School in Pittsburgh, or else provide parents the option to opt their children out of it. It also seeks a jury trial in federal court to decide compensating and punitive financial damages [sic]." (06/12/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mothers-file-lawsuit-transgender-school
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11) India: Regime destroys houses of several Muslim figures after religious riots
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Security forces in India have demolished the homes of several Muslim figures allegedly linked to riots triggered by derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. The property owners in Uttar Pradesh were told to vacate their homes beforehand. Muslims have been protesting after anti-Islamic comments made by two leading members of the governing BJP. Police have arrested more than 300 people in connection with the unrest. The remarks were made by BJP spokeswoman Nupur Sharma during a TV debate in May. The BBC is not repeating Ms Sharma's remarks as they are offensive in nature. The comments incensed Indian Muslims and outraged more than a dozen Islamic nations. The head of the party's Delhi media unit, Naveen Kumar Jindal, was also expelled for sharing a screenshot of her offensive comment in a tweet. Their comments (especially Ms Sharma's) led to protests in some states." (06/12/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61777306
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12) ID: 31 Patriot Front members arrested near pride event
Source: Politico
"Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear. The men were standing inside the truck wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and beige hats with white balaclavas covering their faces when Coeur d'Alene police stopped the U-Haul and began arresting them on the side of the road. 'They came to riot downtown,' Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White said at a news conference. All 31 were charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanor, White said. The men were going through the booking process Saturday afternoon and are scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, he said. Based on evidence collected and documents, authorities found that the group was planning to riot in several areas of downtown, not just the park, White said." (06/11/22)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/11/patriot-front-members-arrested-idaho-00039000
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13) Andrew Giuliani barred from in-person debate over vax proof
Source: US News & World Report
"Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani said he has been barred from participating in-person in an upcoming primary debate because he has refused to submit proof he's been vaccinated against COVID-19. At a news conference Sunday outside the offices of CBS-TV, which is televising the debate Monday night ... Giuliani said he has chosen not to be vaccinated but that he told debate organizers he would take multiple tests leading up to and on the day of the debate. Andrew Giuliani said he was told initially that he only needed to take a test on the day of the debate, then was told he had to show proof of vaccination. 'I told them I would not do that,' he said. 'I don't think that's something that even someone who has chosen to get the shot should have to do, from a constitutional standpoint.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2022-06-12/andrew-giuliani-says-hes-banned-from-debate-over-vax-proof
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14) Tanzania: Regime signs natural gas deal with Equinor and Shell
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
"Tanzania has signed a framework agreement with Norway's Equinor and Britain's Shell that will bring them closer to starting construction on a $30bn project to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). The deal announced on Saturday foresees a final investment decision by 2025, and a start of operations by 2029-2030 at a liquefied natural gas plant to be built in Tanzania's southern coastal town of Lindi. It marks a significant step forward in Tanzania's efforts to jumpstart the export of part of the vast gas deposits off its coast, estimated at more than 57 trillion cubic feet (1,630 billion cubic metres)." (06/11/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/11/tanzania-signs-natural-gas-deal-with-equinor-and-shell
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15) France: Projections show Macron's centrists to keep a majority
Source: SFGate
"French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance is expected to keep its parliamentary majority after the first round of voting, according to projections Sunday. Projections based on partial election results showed that at the national level, Macron's party and its allies got about 25-26% of the vote. That made them neck-in-neck with a new leftist coalition composed of hard-left, Socialists and Green party supporters. Yet Macron's candidates are projected to win in a greater number of districts than their leftist rivals, giving the president a majority. More than 6,000 candidates, ranging from 18 to 92, were running Sunday for 577 seats in France's National Assembly in the first round of the election. The two-round voting system is complex and not proportionate to the nationwide support for a party." (06/12/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/France-holds-parliamentary-election-in-vital-test-17236087.php
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16) Giuliani faces disciplinary case from DC Bar for election fraud lies
Source: United Press International
"Rudy Giuliani will face a disciplinary case before the disciplinary office of the District of Columbia bar for his repeated lies about election fraud as an attorney for former President Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election. The D.C. Bar in a filing said that Giuliani violated the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, putting his career as a lawyer further into question after he was suspended from practicing law by the D.C. Court of Appeals last July and by the state of New York the month last June." (06/10/22)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/06/10/rudy-giuliani-faces-disciplinary-case-dc-bar-election-fraud-lies/7891654919481/
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17) VA: Youngkin hosts state pride events, angering some LGBT groups
Source: Fox News
"Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, hosted a series of Pride month events, angering several more liberal LGBTQ groups. Youngkin, a former private equity CEO who ran on a conservative platform, namely supporting parental rights [sic] for school children, hosted a private Pride reception at the state Capitol in Richmond. All except one member of the Virginia LGBTQ+ Advisory Board boycotted the event, while the Washington Post reported that the group of openly gay, lesbian and transgender state legislators were not invited. The one member of LGBTQ+ Advisory Board who chose to attend, Michael Berlucchi, a Republican city councilman from Virginia Beach, told WRC-TV of Youngkin's reception that, 'this demonstration of outreach, of genuine communication is reflective of why he was elected.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/youngkin-pride-events-angering-lgbtq-groups
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18) Bolivia: Anez sentenced to ten years in prison
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [Canadian state media]
"Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday on charges linked to her assumption of office in 2019 amid violent protests that led to the resignation and exile of her predecessor, Evo Morales. Anez was convicted of dereliction of duty and acting against the constitution when she proclaimed herself president in what Morales and his party have called a coup. Anez's supporters deny it was a coup, saying Morales's alleged abuse of power triggered a legitimate uprising in the streets." (06/10/22)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bolivia-sentence-anez-1.6485645
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19) Nigeria: Gunmen free 11 hostages from train attack
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Kidnappers who had detained some victims of the March attack on the Abuja to Kaduna train in northern Nigeria have released 11 hostages. The spokesman to the cleric acting as go-between for the government and the attackers, Tukur Mamu, told the BBC that 51 people were still captive. During the gruesome assault gunmen planted explosives on the rail line and shot at travellers. At least nine people died and the incident sparked outrage. The government blamed the attack on a jihadist group working in collaboration with local militia, known locally as bandits. Last month the gunmen released a heavily pregnant woman. In a video message circulating on social media, the woman said the abductors told her she had been freed on 'compassionate grounds.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61775212
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20) TX: Judge orders state to suspend harassment of trans children's families
Source: CNN
"A district court judge in Texas has ordered the state to suspend child abuse [sic] investigations [sic] against three families with transgender children who sued Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this week. The temporary restraining order also applies to any families who are members of the LGBTQ organization PFLAG. The judge said the investigations [sic] can cause 'immediate and irreparable injury,' including, 'gross invasions of privacy in the home and school, and the resulting trauma felt by parents, siblings, and other household members,' as well as negative impacts on grades and school activity, fear and anxiety and 'increased incidence of depression.'" (06/10/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/us/texas-judge-blocks-state-investigating-family-gender-affirming-care/index.html
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21) The Libertarian Solution
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
"'What's the libertarian solution to social or economic problem X? How about problem Y or Z?' No libertarian needs to wait long before hearing such questions. But strictly speaking, the libertarian philosophy offers no solutions to specific problems. That's not what it does. It is not itself a solution. Rather, it describes an institutional environment in which imaginative people are free and motivated to discover innovative solutions to individual and collective problems." (06/10/22)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/06/tgif-libertarian-solution.html
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22) January 6th Hearing: Don't Let Motives Obscure Facts
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
"The boilerplate Republican response to last Thursday's prime-time, televised hearing of the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol runs something like this: It wasn't really a 'hearing.' It was a campaign infomercial for the Democratic Party and the anti-Trump wing of the GOP. Its goal was partially to save the Democrats' bacon in the November midterms, and partially to protect the two Republican members of the committee from pro-Trump primary challengers, by leaning into the narrative of, essentially, an attempted coup d'etat by the disgraced former president. I'm inclined to agree with that assessment. If truth in advertising laws applied to Congress, the committee's name would use the word 'exploit' rather than 'investigate.' Politics being politics, it's always safest to assume ulterior motives. An intention to exploit the facts, however, does not change those facts." (06/12/22)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/16888
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23) Gun Control Equals Police Control: A Queer Argument for Bearing Arms
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
"These people are not here to protect us. They are here to control us, collect their protection money from our wallets, and protect their own ass. And these are the people who will be in charge of the Democrat's solution to this tragedy. This is the system that will be in charge of regulating the Second Amendment to Joe Biden's preferred specifications. That's right America, take a good hard look at Uvalde, Texas and drink it in because this is your gun control future. A future in which the only people available to stop a bad guy with a gun is a systemically racist mob of even worse guys with guns. This is precisely why I support defunding the police and defunding the police is precisely why I am against any form of gun control, because gun control always equals police control." (06/12/22)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2022/06/gun-control-equals-police-control-queer.html
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24) US Military Spending Is Undebatable Because It's Indefensible
Source: Antiwar.com
by David Swanson
"The reasons to reduce military spending include: the higher than ever risk of nuclear apocalypse, the immense environmental damage done by weaponry, the horrific human damage done by weaponry, the economic drain, the desperate need for global cooperation and spending on environment and health and welfare, and the promises of the 2020 Democratic Party platform. The reasons to increase military spending include: lots of election campaigns are funded by weapons dealers. So, of course, there's no debate. A debate that cannot be had must simply be declared over before it begins." (06/11/22)
https://original.antiwar.com/david_swanson/2022/06/10/us-military-spending-is-undebatable-because-indefensible/
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25) Should Governments Be Bribing Seniors to Volunteer?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Chris Baecker
"Donating time is a virtuous activity. Parishioners volunteer for church. Parents help with their kids' school functions. Citizens clean up parks. Some state and local governments have monetized this by offering volunteering seniors a break on their property taxes. While total elimination of this odious tax is the ultimate goal, any reduction of it in the interim will do. There are a few problems with such carve-outs though." (06/12/22)
https://fee.org/articles/should-governments-be-bribing-seniors-to-volunteer/
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26) The Predators and Their Prey
Source: Liberty
by Jo Ann Skousen
"It has been said that you can't cheat an honest person. That may be true. But you can certainly cheat a greedy one. That's the underlying message of three cautionary docuseries trending on Netflix right now: The Tinder Swindler, Bad Vegan, and Inventing Anna. All three are based on true stories, and all three offer fascinating case studies that could seemingly happen to anyone." (06/10/22)
https://libertyunbound.com/the-predators-and-their-prey/
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27) A case study in American propaganda
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Robert Wright
"Here's a joke I recently heard a Russian tell: A Russian is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, 'So what brings you to the US?' The Russian replies, 'I'm studying the American approach to propaganda.' The American says, 'What propaganda?' The Russian says, 'That's what I mean.' If you don't get the point, I can help. A few weeks before I heard this joke, I heard a Russian make the point explicitly: Yes, Russia's state-controlled media is full of propaganda, but at least most Russians are aware of that and take the prevailing narrative with a grain of salt; Americans, in contrast, seem unaware that their own prevailing narratives are slanted." (06/12/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/06/12/a-case-study-in-american-propaganda/
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28) The US Empire Acts Like A Textbook Manipulative Sociopath
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"One of the great sources of distress in people's lives is that we don't get to be the narrator of other people's stories about us. That we don't get to control what other people are thinking and saying about the things we do and the kind of person we are. We've all been there in some way at some point: 'If he really knew me he'd like me.' ... 'If they'd understood what I meant by that joke they wouldn't have gotten offended.' ... 'If she could see my heart and my intentions she'd understand why I did what I did.' ... It's pretty normal to feel misunderstood or mischaracterized by the people in our lives from time to time. But there are some people who take that experience to very unhealthy extremes and respond to it in very unhealthy ways." (06/10/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/06/12/the-us-empire-acts-like-a-textbook-manipulative-sociopath/
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29) Joe Biden's Submissive -- and Highly Revealing -- Embrace of Saudi Despots
Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
"Trump was not wildly deviating from U.S. policy by embracing Saudi tyrants but simply continuing long-standing U.S. policy of embracing all sorts of savage despots all over the world whenever doing so advanced U.S. interests. Indeed, what angered the permanent ruling class in Washington was not Trump's policy of embracing the ruling Saudi monarchs, but rather his honesty and candor about why he was doing so. ... The radical departure was Biden's pledge during the 2020 presidential campaign to turn the Saudis into 'pariahs' and to isolate them as punishment for their atrocities. But few people in Washington were alarmed by Biden's campaign vow because nobody believed that Joe Biden -- with his very long history of supporting the world's worst despots -- ever intended to follow through on his cynical campaign pledge." (06/12/22)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-submissive-and-highly
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30) Setting a Foundation: The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Mike Maharrey
"On June 12, 1776, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights. It is arguably the most important founding document that most people have never heard of. The Virginia Declaration of Rights laid the groundwork for both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Most significantly, the first three sections establish the philosophical framework that supports the entire U.S. system of government." (06/12/22)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/06/12/setting-a-foundation-the-virginia-declaration-of-rights/
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31) The Origin and Operation of the US Administrative State
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
"On July 2, 1881, only four months into the first term of President James A. Garfield, an angry attorney from Illinois named Charles J. Guiteau shot Garfield in the torso at a Baltimore, Maryland, train station. Guiteau had a motive. He was furious because he believed, due to his work for the campaign, that Garfield would give him a job in the new administration. But none was forthcoming. It was revenge. ... Congress immediately got to work figuring out how to prevent the next assassination. They had the theory that they needed to end the system of patronage in government so that way people wouldn't get mad and shoot the president. ... What Congress did not understand at the time was that they had fundamentally altered the American system of government." (06/11/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-origin-and-operation-of-the-us-administrative-state/
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32) Time for a Taxpayer Revolt: How Corporatist Politicians Make You Subsidize Big Corporations
Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
"It is time for an unusual but long overdue revolt by the 150 million tax-with-held taxpayers. I'm not speaking of rates of taxation that the rich and corporations largely avoid because of the gigantic tax escapes, which they grease through Congress. Today I'm hoping to get your dander up by showing how corporatist politicians make you pay for big corporations to come to their corporate welfare-friendly state and make profits. You've been required to subsidize these companies for them to make a profit and you get nothing in return -- silent partners pouring money indirectly into big-name corporations. They misleadingly call these subsidies 'incentives,' but they are really coerced entitlements." [editor's note: I wonder which stocks Nader is shorting this time? – TLK] (06/11/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/11/time-taxpayer-revolt-how-corporatist-politicians-make-you-subsidize-big
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33) Who's to blame for the rural crime wave?
Source: Washington Post
by Paul Waldman
"As the [Wall Street] Journal reports, the increase in crime, particularly homicides, that came with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 has not just been an urban phenomenon. Rural areas too have experienced more murders in recent years, leaving many communities reeling. ... I'd sincerely like to hear what Republicans think of the rural crime wave, both why it has happened and what might be done about it. My guess is that they wouldn't say it's a failure of political leadership. After all, in many if not most of the affected rural areas, every public official -- from the sheriff to the mayor to the county council all the way up to the House member, the senators and the governor -- is a conservative Republican. But when crime goes up in urban areas, Republicans point the finger at local and national Democrats, saying it must have been their policy choices that produced the crime." (06/10/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/10/blame-rural-crime-wave/
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34) Bolsonaro and Trump: Are Elections Important?
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
"In a constitutional democracy, elections are important, but not for the reasons that supporters of unlimited democracy think they are. Reflecting on this is useful in the context of the January 6 House Committee and of recent declarations by the president of Brazil, Jail Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro fears losing the upcoming election in Brazil and suggests that he could be the victim of electoral fraud as, he also suggests, Trump was .... In a constitutional democracy, elections are important for basically one reason: they allow a peaceful transfer of power." (06/11/22)
https://www.econlib.org/bolsonaro-trump-are-elections-important/
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35) Media & Dems running away from the assassination attempt on a justice story
Source: Fox News Forum
by Greg Gutfeld
"So you heard about the dude who tried to kill the Supreme Court justice. And no, he wasn't one of those terrorists at the school board meetings. Apparently, he was mad about Roe v. Wade and he saw killing Kavanaugh as just a really late, late, late-term abortion. I don't know what's upsetting to you. The creep was also very pro-gun control, so much so that he actually tried to shoot someone. It's like a recovering alcoholic celebrating his first full year of sobriety by doing shots of Jack. I mean, if anything, he's now the poster child for home defense." (06/10/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-media-democrats-running-assassination-attempt-justice-story
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36) A woke meltdown at the Washington Post
Source: spiked
by Jenny Holland
"Just over a week ago, Post reporter Sonmez took umbrage when a colleague, David Weigel, retweeted the following joke: 'Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual.' Admittedly, I too find this joke highly offensive. Because it is not funny, which should be the sole metric by which a joke is judged acceptable. [Felicia] Sonmez, on the other hand, saw the tweet as justification for starting a war in the newsroom. First she got into a public fight with Weigel and another fellow Post reporter, Jose Del Real, and then she took to the barricades using the newsroom's Slack messaging service. By last Friday, the national editor was trying to quell the Sonmez-led insurgency. ... It seems that this time, however, even the Post has had enough of its Mean Girl journalists." (06/11/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/11/a-woke-meltdown-at-the-washington-post/
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37) Our Irrational Iran Policy
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
"The hawkish obsession with Iran in this country is genuinely bizarre. The U.S. has fought major wars against some other states that are no longer vilified and distrusted to the extent that Iran is in our policy debates. The U.S. established normal relations with Vietnam twenty years after the fall of Saigon. The opening to China occurred less than twenty years after the armistice in Korea. Since the U.S. and Iran have never fought a war on that scale, it should be easier to pursue some form of detente with Iran than it was with the others, but as we all know there is no chance that any president could propose such a thing without being politically destroyed. This is completely irrational, but this is the reality." (06/10/22)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/our-irrational-iran-policy
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38) The GOP's Great Replacement: The truth behind the overturning of "Roe"
Source: The American Prospect
by Francesca Fiorentini
"It's a strange thing to be pregnant while abortion rights are being axed. It's like being sober on the brink of Prohibition, musing about how you're 'naturally drunk on life.' My pregnancy is wanted. Sure, my child will be born into late-stage capitalism's inferno, and sure, they'll have to become a Twitch streamer or OnlyFans creator in order to even afford trade school. But damn it, the kid will have been wanted. That will not always be the case with generations born in the coming dystopian dark ages ahead for American uteruses. Thanks to the hollow-hearted fuckleheads on the Supreme Court and in state legislatures across the country, many children will now be born out of coercion." (06/10/22)
https://prospect.org/politics/the-gops-great-replacement/
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39) Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
"The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The case symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. And it is another grim reminder that Americans cannot rely on politically approved lawyers wearing bat suits to save their freedoms." (06/10/22)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2022/06/10/supreme-court-tortures-the-constitution-again/
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40) That Was The Best Hearing Democrats Had To Offer?
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
"I watched that joke of a 'hearing' on Thursday, the one about January 6th and the 'threat to democracy' created by angry people with no focus or objective, some of whom chanted mean things. Needless to say, I was unmoved. Only 2 members spoke, Chair Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney, and neither of them really 'spoke' at all, they read. Their eyes were glued to the teleprompter the way someone who can't swim is glued to a raft in the deep end of a pool. There is more convicing line delivery in a 1970s porn movie than those 2 gave Thursday night. ... You'd think with the former president of ABC News running the show it would've felt like a movie of the week, but it was more like a public access zoning board meeting." (06/12/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/06/12/that-was-the-best-hearing-democrats-had-to-offer-n2608586
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41) The January 6 Hearings May Be Surprisingly Worthwhile
Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"Most congressional committee hearings seem set up to give each member a few minutes of public grandstanding and that's about it. They're polemical. They tell rather than show. But last night's (widely-televised and streamed) hearing of the House select committee on January 6 was different. In lengthy opening remarks, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney displayed a TV prosecutor's command of narrative, weaving together video footage and commentary from January 6, 2021, with post-hoc video testimony and tidbits from key Trump administration players and GOP lawmakers, plus statements from people who partook in storming the Capitol. ... In all the hoopla ... it's been easy to look at January 6 through slightly rose-colored glasses to dismiss grave pronunciations as just so much melodrama. Last night's hearing -- and hopefully those to come -- serves as a powerful antidote to this." (06/10/22)
https://reason.com/2022/06/10/the-january-6-hearings-may-be-surprisingly-worthwhile/
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42) The Problem With Inflation
Source: Dispatches from Heck
by Frank Clarke
"Inflation in one form or another has always been with us. Even during the 18th and 19th centuries, there was some inflation. Inflation, however, really 'got its legs' beginning in the 20th century. Two events gave it the boost it needed to become a household fixture: the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank, and the 16th Amendment (Income Tax). ... We are told by our politicians that this inflation is transitory, meaning it will subside within the planning future. (Janet Yellen is lately 'walking back' that pronouncement.) Even if it is, there's still a serious problem left unaddressed. The real problem is this: once inflation subsides, prices will still be high. Just because runaway inflation becomes less runaway, prices don't go down. They stay at the elevated state the last runaway inflation left them at. Things are still unaffordable; they're just not becoming more unaffordable." (06/10/22)
https://dispatchesfromheck.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-problem-with-inflation.html
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43) Prime-Time Hearing Paints Sobering Picture of Attempted Coup
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Maria Cardona
"The Jan. 6 Committee hearing Thursday night broke new and terrifying ground that started to show with pictures, videos, testimony, and an indisputable narrative how close we were to an American coup d'etat. They began to demonstrate how the occupation of the U.S. Capitol was not a spontaneous protest as some Republicans continue to claim, but a methodical and meticulous plan to ensure President Trump would hold on to power by any means necessary. It should give all Americans nightmares. It should also mobilize sensible voters -- if they care about democracy -- to kick Republicans who supported Trump's Big Lie out of office, and call upon the Department of Justice to hold Trump and his cohorts to account." (06/10/22)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/10/prime-time_hearing_paints_sobering_picture_of_attempted_coup_147730.html
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44) Here's What the Criminal Justice Reform Movement Can Learn From Chesa Boudin's Loss
Source: In These Times
by Janos Marton
"On June 7, San Francisco's progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin was officially recalled by voters. There is no sugarcoating it: This is a setback for the criminal justice reform movement .... But advocates shouldn't take the wrong lessons from the defeat. If we can be honest about the movement's shortcomings, we can learn from this loss and build a sturdier infrastructure to support criminal justice reform wins moving forward. Let's get a few things out of the way first: Blaming Boudin for all of San Francisco's problems, as many recall supporters did, is absurd. The claims from the opposition that he made San Francisco unsafe were baseless, without evidence, and often made by bad faith actors. The local and national media hits on Boudin were unrelenting. And a billionaire-funded Super PAC, whose largest contributor was a Republican donor, spent big to oust the left-wing DA." (06/10/22)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/criminal-justice-reform-chesa-boudin-san-francisco-recall
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45) The Long Road Back
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
"Decades of wrongheaded policies have eroded San Francisco's once much-vaunted charm. These policies include onerous burdens on building construction; lax attitudes toward homeless folks' tent cities and public excretory practices; and a green light for sundry criminal activities, including broad-daylight theft. ... By getting rid of Chesa Boudin -- and three pretty rotten school board members in another recent recall election -- San Franciscans have taken the first steps back to something like sanity. Which always makes next steps easier." (06/10/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/06/10/the-long-road-back/
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46) Adam Smith, Technology, and Liberty
Source: Independent Institute
by Philip Bunn
"Adam Smith is often called the father of capitalism. It is certainly true that Smith saw the good in a system of what he called 'natural liberty,' where people were free to dispose of their resources and skills as they see fit in a market system. But a certain popular caricature of capitalism might lead one to think that Smith was something he was not. In fact, Smith recognized the benefits of commercial society primarily in its tendency to raise the position of the least well off, the 'labouring poor,' whose wages and standard of living increase in a thriving, growing, wealthy, free, well-governed nation. His concerns are moral and humane, with concern for what sort of system tends to benefit all without great injustices and finds that commercial society often meets these requirements well." (06/10/22)
https://blog.independent.org/2022/06/10/adam-smith-technology-liberty/
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47) Proposed mass shooting "solutions" would mostly do nothing to prevent shootings
Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
"Recent travel has brought me in contact, of course, with the Transportation Security Administration. That experience brought to mind a Facebook meme that paraphrases a quotation attributed to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The TSA knows its screening measures do nothing. We know that they do nothing. TSA knows that we know they do nothing. Yet this 'security theater' persists. ... Democrats predicate their entire approach on drying up gun availability, but that's a pipedream in a country with 400 million firearms. We know that, too. Democrats also know that disarming law-abiding citizens will not protect anyone -- and likely will endanger others." (06/10/22)
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/06/10/proposed-mass-shooting-solutions-would-mostly-do-nothing-to-prevent-shootings/
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48) To Arm or Not to Arm Ukrainians?
Source: Cato Institute
by Jordan Cohen
"Do US weapons provide Washington with 'leverage' over its clients? A former high‐ranking diplomat certainly believes so, arguing that arms transfers give 'the United States leverage and influence.' Unfortunately, the only leverage US weapons sales provide is the type that recipient countries use to receive ever more arms, despite their risks. According to academic studies, foreign aid for influence and arms for influence attempts are unsuccessful." (06/10/22)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/arm-or-not-arm-ukrainians
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49) Concentration camps -- a brief review
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
"In history, we can find at least five types: Type 1. Forced migration camps Type 2. Internment and segregation camps Type 3. Retraining/reeducation camps Type 4. Extermination and 'neutralization' camps Type 5. Quarantine and 'treatment' camps There may be others, and some of these might make more sense to break into several types. But for this essay, let us use these and talk about Type 5. This is what Australia -- a once mostly free nation -- has used in the last two years." (06/10/22)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/06/10/concentration-camps-a-brief-review/
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50) Making Sense of Monetary Policy and the Future of Inflation
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by James L Caton
"High inflation rates have been making headlines since the beginning of the year. Inflation seems to have caught even investors by surprise. While I'm optimistic that inflation will fall over the next year, this belief is formed with the expectation that the stance of monetary policy should and will remain tight. The effective Federal Funds rate is currently 0.83 percent after spending nearly two years under 0.1 percent. The logic behind the increases in the federal funds rate, driven by simultaneous increases in the rate paid on reserves held at the Fed, is that higher interest rates indicate tighter monetary policy. This is an age-old wisdom inherited most plainly from Paul Volcker's tenure at the Fed. But monetary policy no longer works the way it did under Volcker and Greenspan." (06/10/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/making-sense-of-monetary-policy-and-the-future-of-inflation/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Free Talk Live, 06/12/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"New social credit app to reward Italian citizens for virtuous behavior :: In the absence of government, service persists :: Recycling :: Police arrested 31 men found inside a U-Haul truck :: Uterus-shaped 'Period Crunch' cereal :: Guns :: Birth control :: Recycling :: Show: 2022-06-12 Captain Kickass, Mark, Nikki." [Flash audio or MP3] (06/12/22)
https://freetalklive.com/archives?ppplayer=5c48425a5422918dc6f904bd1cb7e00f&ppepisode=266572b5592f7d61118cf2f96040f163
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52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 375
Source: The Anarchist Experience
"Rich and MC discuss whether or not cats are libertarian, where should low income housing be built, what's the standard for being libertarian, and how to mitigate the effects of inflation." [various formats] (06/11/22)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2022/06/11/the-anarchist-experience-375/
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53) The Chris Spangle Show, 06/10/22
Source: We Are Libertarians
"What Gun Laws Are Circulating Through Congress? with Gabriella Hoffman." [Flash audio] (06/10/22)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/what-gun-laws-are-circulating-through
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54) There's a Policy for That with Susan Pendergrass, 06/10/22
Source: Show-Me Institute
"St. Louis BOA Indictments And The Future Of Tax Subsidies With Patrick Tuohey And David Stokes." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/corporate-welfare/podcast-st-louis-boa-indictments-and-the-future-of-tax-subsidies-with-patrick-tuohey-and-david-stokes/
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55) Soho Forum Debate: Did Prescription Opioids Cause The Overdose Epidemic?
Source: Reason
"Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://reason.com/podcast/2022/06/10/did-prescription-opioids-cause-the-overdose-epidemic/
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56) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 06/10/22
Source: Freedom Works
"Kelley Valahos of The Quincy Institute on Biden foreign policy leads to higher gas prices." [MP3] (06/10/22)
http://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2022-06-10_zfw0612022.mp3
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57) Free Thoughts Podcast, 06/10/22
Source: Libertarianism.org
"A story of faithful foreign policy failure." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/why-did-america-invade-iraq
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58) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/10/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Don't Blame 'Corporate Profits' or Rising Wages For Inflation -- Blame The Fed!" [Flash video] (06/10/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/dont-blame-corporate-profits-or-rising-wages-for-inflation-blame-the-fed
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59) LiberatED Podcast, 06/10/22
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
"Welcome to America: How One Education Entrepreneur Is Transforming Refugee Education." [Flash audio] (06/10/22)
https://fee.org/articles/welcome-to-america-how-one-education-entrepreneur-is-transforming-refugee-education/
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60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/10/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"Caleb Franz from the Profiles In Liberty podcast drops by for his regular segment. Today Caleb gives us the lowdown on Richard Henry Lee's resolution which paved the way for the Declaration of Independence." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://anchor.fm/bryan-hyde/episodes/2022-June-10-The-Bryan-Hyde-Show-e1jp9bh
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Bitcoin drops 12%, falling below $24,000
2) Ukraine war: Russian troops destroy bridge linking Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk
3) Biden "not yet decided" on whether to publicly fellate Saudi terror kingpin MbS
4) Iranian, Venezuelan regimes sign 20-year cooperation agreement
5) UK: Rwanda deportation ruling appealed as prince sparks row
6) Palestine: Israeli Court Gives IDF Invaders/Occupiers OK to Steal More Land
7) MA: Fed-up gas station owner stops selling fuel
8) AK: Quitter/vexatious litigator Palin among early frontrunners in special US House primary
9) "Bipartisan" Senate Deal on Guns Deemed "Pathetically Weak" by Gun-Grabbers
10) PA: Mothers file federal lawsuit to stop gender lessons at elementary school
11) India: Regime destroys houses of several Muslim figures after religious riots
12) ID: 31 Patriot Front members arrested near pride event
13) Andrew Giuliani barred from in-person debate over vax proof
14) Tanzania: Regime signs natural gas deal with Equinor and Shell
15) France: Projections show Macron's centrists to keep a majority
16) Giuliani faces disciplinary case from DC Bar for election fraud lies
17) VA: Youngkin hosts state pride events, angering some LGBT groups
18) Bolivia: Anez sentenced to ten years in prison
19) Nigeria: Gunmen free 11 hostages from train attack
20) TX: Judge orders state to suspend harassment of trans children's families
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Libertarian Solution
22) January 6th Hearing: Don't Let Motives Obscure Facts
23) Gun Control Equals Police Control: A Queer Argument for Bearing Arms
24) US Military Spending Is Undebatable Because It's Indefensible
25) Should Governments Be Bribing Seniors to Volunteer?
26) The Predators and Their Prey
27) A case study in American propaganda
28) The US Empire Acts Like A Textbook Manipulative Sociopath
29) Joe Biden's Submissive -- and Highly Revealing -- Embrace of Saudi Despots
30) Setting a Foundation: The Virginia Declaration of Rights
31) The Origin and Operation of the US Administrative State
32) Time for a Taxpayer Revolt: How Corporatist Politicians Make You Subsidize Big Corporations
33) Who's to blame for the rural crime wave?
34) Bolsonaro and Trump: Are Elections Important?
35) Media & Dems running away from the assassination attempt on a justice story
36) A woke meltdown at the Washington Post
37) Our Irrational Iran Policy
38) The GOP's Great Replacement: The truth behind the overturning of "Roe"
39) Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again
40) That Was The Best Hearing Democrats Had To Offer?
41) The January 6 Hearings May Be Surprisingly Worthwhile
42) The Problem With Inflation
43) Prime-Time Hearing Paints Sobering Picture of Attempted Coup
44) Here's What the Criminal Justice Reform Movement Can Learn From Chesa Boudin's Loss
45) The Long Road Back
46) Adam Smith, Technology, and Liberty
47) Proposed mass shooting "solutions" would mostly do nothing to prevent shootings
48) To Arm or Not to Arm Ukrainians?
49) Concentration camps -- a brief review
50) Making Sense of Monetary Policy and the Future of Inflation
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Talk Live, 06/12/22
52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 375
53) The Chris Spangle Show, 06/10/22
54) There's a Policy for That with Susan Pendergrass, 06/10/22
55) Soho Forum Debate: Did Prescription Opioids Cause The Overdose Epidemic?
56) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 06/10/22
57) Free Thoughts Podcast, 06/10/22
58) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/10/22
59) LiberatED Podcast, 06/10/22
60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/10/22
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1) Bitcoin drops 12%, falling below $24,000
Source: CNBC
"Bitcoin tumbled below $24,000 on Monday, hitting its lowest level since December 2020, as investors dump crypto amid a broader sell-off in risk assets. Meanwhile, a crypto lending company called Celsius has paused withdrawals for its customers, sparking fears of contagion into the broader market. The world's largest cryptocurrency bitcoin briefly dropped below the $24,000 mark around 05:00 a.m. ET, according to CoinDesk data, before jumping back above that level shortly after." (06/13/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/13/bitcoin-btc-falls-as-market-focuses-on-celsius-issue-fed-rate-hike.html
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2) Ukraine war: Russian troops destroy bridge linking Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk
Source: The West Australian [Australia]
"Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians, local officials said. ... Ukrainian and Russian forces were still fighting street-by-street there on Sunday, the governor of Luhansk province, Serhiy Gaidai, said. Russian forces have taken most of the city but Ukrainian troops remain in control of an industrial area and chemical plant where hundreds of civilians are sheltering. But the Russians had destroyed a bridge over the Siverskyi Donets River linking Sievierodonetsk with its twin city of Lysychansk, Gaidai said. That leaves just one of three bridges still standing, and reduces the number of routes that could be used to evacuate civilians or for Ukrainian troops to withdraw to positions on the western side of the river." (06/12/22)
https://thewest.com.au/news/conflict/russia-destroy-ukraine-citys-escape-route-c-7142082
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3) Biden "not yet decided" on whether to publicly fellate Saudi terror kingpin MbS
Source: Reuters
"U.S. President Joe Biden said he had 'not yet' decided if he will travel to Saudi Arabia, a week after he opened the door to a possible trip. Sources have said Biden was planning a trip to Saudi Arabia, along with a trip to Europe and Israel in late June. The White House has said the president feels that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a 'pariah' for his role in the killing of a political opponent, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Turkey in 2018. ... Asked by a reporter later in Albuquerque, New Mexico, if he would use a possible trip to the Middle East to secure a deal to improve Saudi-Israeli relations, Biden said: 'We'll see.'" (06/11/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-he-has-not-yet-decided-saudi-trip-2022-06-11/
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4) Iranian, Venezuelan regimes sign 20-year cooperation agreement
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
"Venezuela signed a 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran Saturday, a day after President Nicolas Maduro praised the Islamic Republic for sending badly needed fuel to his country. The accord comes as the two countries, among the world's top oil producers, grapple with US sanctions that are crippling their exports. Maduro said, alongside Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, that the cooperation would include the energy and financial sectors as well as a collaboration on 'defense projects.' ... Maduro is on a Eurasia tour after President Joe Biden chose not to invite him to the Summit of the Americas. Before arriving in Iran, he was in Algeria and Turkey." (06/11/22)
https://www.dw.com/en/sanctions-hit-iran-and-venezuela-sign-20-year-cooperation-agreement/a-62100737
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5) UK: Rwanda deportation ruling appealed as prince sparks row
Source: Associated Press
"Opponents of the British government's plan to deport migrants to Rwanda are preparing for an appeals court hearing Monday amid the political backlash following reports that Prince Charles had privately described the policy as 'appalling.' A coalition of groups including immigration rights advocates and public employee unions will ask the Court of Appeal in London to reverse a lower court ruling allowing the first deportation flight to go ahead as scheduled on Tuesday. ... Charles's comments are problematic because he is the heir to the throne and the British monarch is supposed to remain above the political fray." (06/12/22)
https://apnews.com/article/boris-johnson-entertainment-rwanda-london-227d203a192be78fe4258fd7f5439250
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6) Palestine: Israeli Court Gives IDF Invaders/Occupiers OK to Steal More Land
Source: Asharq al-Awsat [UK]
"Some 1,200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank region of Masafer Yatta face the risk of forced removal to make way for an army firing zone after a decades-long legal battle that ended last month in Israel's highest court. The ruling opened the way for one of the largest displacements since Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Middle East war. But residents are refusing to leave, hoping their resilience and international pressure will keep Israel from carrying out the evictions." (06/12/22)
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3698421/largest-palestinian-displacement-decades-looms-after-israeli-court-ruling
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7) MA: Fed-up gas station owner stops selling fuel
Source: SFGate
"A Massachusetts gas station owner fed up with what he considers attempts by oil companies to fleece customers with outrageously high prices at the pump has stopped selling gas as a protest. Reynold Gladu, who has run Ren's Mobil Service in downtown Amherst for nearly 50 years, drained his tanks earlier this month and has no current plans to refill them. 'I don't want to be part of it anymore,' Gladu told The Daily Hampshire Gazette for a story published Tuesday. 'This is the biggest ripoff that ever has happened to people in my lifetime.'" [editor's note: Looks like he could use an economics lesson, on how expected future prices drive the cost of oil, and how stupid government policies fuel both pessimism for investors and price spikes – SAT] (06/12/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fed-up-Massachusetts-gas-station-owner-stops-17228353.php
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8) AK: Quitter/vexatious litigator Palin among early frontrunners in special US House primary
Source: Anchorage Daily News
"Early results in Alaska's 48-candidate special primary election for U.S. House Saturday showed Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III taking the lead, followed by independent Al Gross. Democratic former state Rep. Mary Peltola, in her first statewide campaign, was in fourth. Palin, in her first campaign since resigning as Alaska governor in 2009, was the clear leader with 30%. Begich, a businessman and investor who launched his campaign before the March death of longtime Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young -- which prompted Saturday's special election -- was in second with 19%. ... The results, representing 108,981 of the nearly 140,000 ballots cast through Saturday, are not a definitive statement on which four candidates will advance. Officials said counting was finished for Saturday night, but several more tallies are scheduled over the next two weeks, and additional ballots can still arrive and be counted as long as they were postmarked by Saturday." (06/11/22)
https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/06/11/palin-begich-gross-and-peltola-are-early-frontrunners-in-alaskas-special-us-house-primary/
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9) "Bipartisan" Senate Deal on Guns Deemed "Pathetically Weak" by Gun-Grabbers
Source: Common Dreams
"A group of 20 US senators announced a deal Sunday on an outline of a bill designed to give the appearance that they are taking meaningful action. But gun safety advocates were quick to point out that the deal mostly ignored guns -- and rather focused on those areas that the NRA and their Republican supporters prefer the debate to be: mental health and hardening of schools. 'Today, we are announcing a commonsense, bipartisan proposal to protect America's children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country. Families are scared, and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore their sense of safety and security in their communities,' the group said in a statement on Sunday. 'We look forward to earning broad, bipartisan support and passing our commonsense proposal into law.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/12/bipartisan-senate-deal-guns-deemed-pathetically-weak
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10) PA: Mothers file federal lawsuit to stop gender lessons at elementary school
Source: Fox News
"Three Pennsylvania parents filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging that their children's first-grade teacher violated district policy, state law and the Constitution by teaching children about gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning. The suit, filed by mothers Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn and Gretchen Melton against the Mount Lebanon School District, seeks a court order to stop the gender-related instruction at Jefferson Elementary School in Pittsburgh, or else provide parents the option to opt their children out of it. It also seeks a jury trial in federal court to decide compensating and punitive financial damages [sic]." (06/12/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mothers-file-lawsuit-transgender-school
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11) India: Regime destroys houses of several Muslim figures after religious riots
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Security forces in India have demolished the homes of several Muslim figures allegedly linked to riots triggered by derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. The property owners in Uttar Pradesh were told to vacate their homes beforehand. Muslims have been protesting after anti-Islamic comments made by two leading members of the governing BJP. Police have arrested more than 300 people in connection with the unrest. The remarks were made by BJP spokeswoman Nupur Sharma during a TV debate in May. The BBC is not repeating Ms Sharma's remarks as they are offensive in nature. The comments incensed Indian Muslims and outraged more than a dozen Islamic nations. The head of the party's Delhi media unit, Naveen Kumar Jindal, was also expelled for sharing a screenshot of her offensive comment in a tweet. Their comments (especially Ms Sharma's) led to protests in some states." (06/12/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61777306
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12) ID: 31 Patriot Front members arrested near pride event
Source: Politico
"Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear. The men were standing inside the truck wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and beige hats with white balaclavas covering their faces when Coeur d'Alene police stopped the U-Haul and began arresting them on the side of the road. 'They came to riot downtown,' Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White said at a news conference. All 31 were charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanor, White said. The men were going through the booking process Saturday afternoon and are scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, he said. Based on evidence collected and documents, authorities found that the group was planning to riot in several areas of downtown, not just the park, White said." (06/11/22)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/11/patriot-front-members-arrested-idaho-00039000
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13) Andrew Giuliani barred from in-person debate over vax proof
Source: US News & World Report
"Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani said he has been barred from participating in-person in an upcoming primary debate because he has refused to submit proof he's been vaccinated against COVID-19. At a news conference Sunday outside the offices of CBS-TV, which is televising the debate Monday night ... Giuliani said he has chosen not to be vaccinated but that he told debate organizers he would take multiple tests leading up to and on the day of the debate. Andrew Giuliani said he was told initially that he only needed to take a test on the day of the debate, then was told he had to show proof of vaccination. 'I told them I would not do that,' he said. 'I don't think that's something that even someone who has chosen to get the shot should have to do, from a constitutional standpoint.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2022-06-12/andrew-giuliani-says-hes-banned-from-debate-over-vax-proof
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14) Tanzania: Regime signs natural gas deal with Equinor and Shell
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
"Tanzania has signed a framework agreement with Norway's Equinor and Britain's Shell that will bring them closer to starting construction on a $30bn project to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). The deal announced on Saturday foresees a final investment decision by 2025, and a start of operations by 2029-2030 at a liquefied natural gas plant to be built in Tanzania's southern coastal town of Lindi. It marks a significant step forward in Tanzania's efforts to jumpstart the export of part of the vast gas deposits off its coast, estimated at more than 57 trillion cubic feet (1,630 billion cubic metres)." (06/11/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/11/tanzania-signs-natural-gas-deal-with-equinor-and-shell
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15) France: Projections show Macron's centrists to keep a majority
Source: SFGate
"French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance is expected to keep its parliamentary majority after the first round of voting, according to projections Sunday. Projections based on partial election results showed that at the national level, Macron's party and its allies got about 25-26% of the vote. That made them neck-in-neck with a new leftist coalition composed of hard-left, Socialists and Green party supporters. Yet Macron's candidates are projected to win in a greater number of districts than their leftist rivals, giving the president a majority. More than 6,000 candidates, ranging from 18 to 92, were running Sunday for 577 seats in France's National Assembly in the first round of the election. The two-round voting system is complex and not proportionate to the nationwide support for a party." (06/12/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/France-holds-parliamentary-election-in-vital-test-17236087.php
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16) Giuliani faces disciplinary case from DC Bar for election fraud lies
Source: United Press International
"Rudy Giuliani will face a disciplinary case before the disciplinary office of the District of Columbia bar for his repeated lies about election fraud as an attorney for former President Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election. The D.C. Bar in a filing said that Giuliani violated the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, putting his career as a lawyer further into question after he was suspended from practicing law by the D.C. Court of Appeals last July and by the state of New York the month last June." (06/10/22)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/06/10/rudy-giuliani-faces-disciplinary-case-dc-bar-election-fraud-lies/7891654919481/
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17) VA: Youngkin hosts state pride events, angering some LGBT groups
Source: Fox News
"Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, hosted a series of Pride month events, angering several more liberal LGBTQ groups. Youngkin, a former private equity CEO who ran on a conservative platform, namely supporting parental rights [sic] for school children, hosted a private Pride reception at the state Capitol in Richmond. All except one member of the Virginia LGBTQ+ Advisory Board boycotted the event, while the Washington Post reported that the group of openly gay, lesbian and transgender state legislators were not invited. The one member of LGBTQ+ Advisory Board who chose to attend, Michael Berlucchi, a Republican city councilman from Virginia Beach, told WRC-TV of Youngkin's reception that, 'this demonstration of outreach, of genuine communication is reflective of why he was elected.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/youngkin-pride-events-angering-lgbtq-groups
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18) Bolivia: Anez sentenced to ten years in prison
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [Canadian state media]
"Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday on charges linked to her assumption of office in 2019 amid violent protests that led to the resignation and exile of her predecessor, Evo Morales. Anez was convicted of dereliction of duty and acting against the constitution when she proclaimed herself president in what Morales and his party have called a coup. Anez's supporters deny it was a coup, saying Morales's alleged abuse of power triggered a legitimate uprising in the streets." (06/10/22)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bolivia-sentence-anez-1.6485645
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19) Nigeria: Gunmen free 11 hostages from train attack
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"Kidnappers who had detained some victims of the March attack on the Abuja to Kaduna train in northern Nigeria have released 11 hostages. The spokesman to the cleric acting as go-between for the government and the attackers, Tukur Mamu, told the BBC that 51 people were still captive. During the gruesome assault gunmen planted explosives on the rail line and shot at travellers. At least nine people died and the incident sparked outrage. The government blamed the attack on a jihadist group working in collaboration with local militia, known locally as bandits. Last month the gunmen released a heavily pregnant woman. In a video message circulating on social media, the woman said the abductors told her she had been freed on 'compassionate grounds.'" (06/12/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61775212
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20) TX: Judge orders state to suspend harassment of trans children's families
Source: CNN
"A district court judge in Texas has ordered the state to suspend child abuse [sic] investigations [sic] against three families with transgender children who sued Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this week. The temporary restraining order also applies to any families who are members of the LGBTQ organization PFLAG. The judge said the investigations [sic] can cause 'immediate and irreparable injury,' including, 'gross invasions of privacy in the home and school, and the resulting trauma felt by parents, siblings, and other household members,' as well as negative impacts on grades and school activity, fear and anxiety and 'increased incidence of depression.'" (06/10/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/us/texas-judge-blocks-state-investigating-family-gender-affirming-care/index.html
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21) The Libertarian Solution
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
"'What's the libertarian solution to social or economic problem X? How about problem Y or Z?' No libertarian needs to wait long before hearing such questions. But strictly speaking, the libertarian philosophy offers no solutions to specific problems. That's not what it does. It is not itself a solution. Rather, it describes an institutional environment in which imaginative people are free and motivated to discover innovative solutions to individual and collective problems." (06/10/22)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/06/tgif-libertarian-solution.html
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22) January 6th Hearing: Don't Let Motives Obscure Facts
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
"The boilerplate Republican response to last Thursday's prime-time, televised hearing of the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol runs something like this: It wasn't really a 'hearing.' It was a campaign infomercial for the Democratic Party and the anti-Trump wing of the GOP. Its goal was partially to save the Democrats' bacon in the November midterms, and partially to protect the two Republican members of the committee from pro-Trump primary challengers, by leaning into the narrative of, essentially, an attempted coup d'etat by the disgraced former president. I'm inclined to agree with that assessment. If truth in advertising laws applied to Congress, the committee's name would use the word 'exploit' rather than 'investigate.' Politics being politics, it's always safest to assume ulterior motives. An intention to exploit the facts, however, does not change those facts." (06/12/22)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/16888
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23) Gun Control Equals Police Control: A Queer Argument for Bearing Arms
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
"These people are not here to protect us. They are here to control us, collect their protection money from our wallets, and protect their own ass. And these are the people who will be in charge of the Democrat's solution to this tragedy. This is the system that will be in charge of regulating the Second Amendment to Joe Biden's preferred specifications. That's right America, take a good hard look at Uvalde, Texas and drink it in because this is your gun control future. A future in which the only people available to stop a bad guy with a gun is a systemically racist mob of even worse guys with guns. This is precisely why I support defunding the police and defunding the police is precisely why I am against any form of gun control, because gun control always equals police control." (06/12/22)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2022/06/gun-control-equals-police-control-queer.html
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24) US Military Spending Is Undebatable Because It's Indefensible
Source: Antiwar.com
by David Swanson
"The reasons to reduce military spending include: the higher than ever risk of nuclear apocalypse, the immense environmental damage done by weaponry, the horrific human damage done by weaponry, the economic drain, the desperate need for global cooperation and spending on environment and health and welfare, and the promises of the 2020 Democratic Party platform. The reasons to increase military spending include: lots of election campaigns are funded by weapons dealers. So, of course, there's no debate. A debate that cannot be had must simply be declared over before it begins." (06/11/22)
https://original.antiwar.com/david_swanson/2022/06/10/us-military-spending-is-undebatable-because-indefensible/
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25) Should Governments Be Bribing Seniors to Volunteer?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Chris Baecker
"Donating time is a virtuous activity. Parishioners volunteer for church. Parents help with their kids' school functions. Citizens clean up parks. Some state and local governments have monetized this by offering volunteering seniors a break on their property taxes. While total elimination of this odious tax is the ultimate goal, any reduction of it in the interim will do. There are a few problems with such carve-outs though." (06/12/22)
https://fee.org/articles/should-governments-be-bribing-seniors-to-volunteer/
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26) The Predators and Their Prey
Source: Liberty
by Jo Ann Skousen
"It has been said that you can't cheat an honest person. That may be true. But you can certainly cheat a greedy one. That's the underlying message of three cautionary docuseries trending on Netflix right now: The Tinder Swindler, Bad Vegan, and Inventing Anna. All three are based on true stories, and all three offer fascinating case studies that could seemingly happen to anyone." (06/10/22)
https://libertyunbound.com/the-predators-and-their-prey/
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27) A case study in American propaganda
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Robert Wright
"Here's a joke I recently heard a Russian tell: A Russian is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, 'So what brings you to the US?' The Russian replies, 'I'm studying the American approach to propaganda.' The American says, 'What propaganda?' The Russian says, 'That's what I mean.' If you don't get the point, I can help. A few weeks before I heard this joke, I heard a Russian make the point explicitly: Yes, Russia's state-controlled media is full of propaganda, but at least most Russians are aware of that and take the prevailing narrative with a grain of salt; Americans, in contrast, seem unaware that their own prevailing narratives are slanted." (06/12/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/06/12/a-case-study-in-american-propaganda/
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28) The US Empire Acts Like A Textbook Manipulative Sociopath
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
"One of the great sources of distress in people's lives is that we don't get to be the narrator of other people's stories about us. That we don't get to control what other people are thinking and saying about the things we do and the kind of person we are. We've all been there in some way at some point: 'If he really knew me he'd like me.' ... 'If they'd understood what I meant by that joke they wouldn't have gotten offended.' ... 'If she could see my heart and my intentions she'd understand why I did what I did.' ... It's pretty normal to feel misunderstood or mischaracterized by the people in our lives from time to time. But there are some people who take that experience to very unhealthy extremes and respond to it in very unhealthy ways." (06/10/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/06/12/the-us-empire-acts-like-a-textbook-manipulative-sociopath/
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29) Joe Biden's Submissive -- and Highly Revealing -- Embrace of Saudi Despots
Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
"Trump was not wildly deviating from U.S. policy by embracing Saudi tyrants but simply continuing long-standing U.S. policy of embracing all sorts of savage despots all over the world whenever doing so advanced U.S. interests. Indeed, what angered the permanent ruling class in Washington was not Trump's policy of embracing the ruling Saudi monarchs, but rather his honesty and candor about why he was doing so. ... The radical departure was Biden's pledge during the 2020 presidential campaign to turn the Saudis into 'pariahs' and to isolate them as punishment for their atrocities. But few people in Washington were alarmed by Biden's campaign vow because nobody believed that Joe Biden -- with his very long history of supporting the world's worst despots -- ever intended to follow through on his cynical campaign pledge." (06/12/22)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-submissive-and-highly
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30) Setting a Foundation: The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Mike Maharrey
"On June 12, 1776, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights. It is arguably the most important founding document that most people have never heard of. The Virginia Declaration of Rights laid the groundwork for both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Most significantly, the first three sections establish the philosophical framework that supports the entire U.S. system of government." (06/12/22)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/06/12/setting-a-foundation-the-virginia-declaration-of-rights/
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31) The Origin and Operation of the US Administrative State
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
"On July 2, 1881, only four months into the first term of President James A. Garfield, an angry attorney from Illinois named Charles J. Guiteau shot Garfield in the torso at a Baltimore, Maryland, train station. Guiteau had a motive. He was furious because he believed, due to his work for the campaign, that Garfield would give him a job in the new administration. But none was forthcoming. It was revenge. ... Congress immediately got to work figuring out how to prevent the next assassination. They had the theory that they needed to end the system of patronage in government so that way people wouldn't get mad and shoot the president. ... What Congress did not understand at the time was that they had fundamentally altered the American system of government." (06/11/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-origin-and-operation-of-the-us-administrative-state/
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32) Time for a Taxpayer Revolt: How Corporatist Politicians Make You Subsidize Big Corporations
Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
"It is time for an unusual but long overdue revolt by the 150 million tax-with-held taxpayers. I'm not speaking of rates of taxation that the rich and corporations largely avoid because of the gigantic tax escapes, which they grease through Congress. Today I'm hoping to get your dander up by showing how corporatist politicians make you pay for big corporations to come to their corporate welfare-friendly state and make profits. You've been required to subsidize these companies for them to make a profit and you get nothing in return -- silent partners pouring money indirectly into big-name corporations. They misleadingly call these subsidies 'incentives,' but they are really coerced entitlements." [editor's note: I wonder which stocks Nader is shorting this time? – TLK] (06/11/22)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/11/time-taxpayer-revolt-how-corporatist-politicians-make-you-subsidize-big
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33) Who's to blame for the rural crime wave?
Source: Washington Post
by Paul Waldman
"As the [Wall Street] Journal reports, the increase in crime, particularly homicides, that came with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 has not just been an urban phenomenon. Rural areas too have experienced more murders in recent years, leaving many communities reeling. ... I'd sincerely like to hear what Republicans think of the rural crime wave, both why it has happened and what might be done about it. My guess is that they wouldn't say it's a failure of political leadership. After all, in many if not most of the affected rural areas, every public official -- from the sheriff to the mayor to the county council all the way up to the House member, the senators and the governor -- is a conservative Republican. But when crime goes up in urban areas, Republicans point the finger at local and national Democrats, saying it must have been their policy choices that produced the crime." (06/10/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/10/blame-rural-crime-wave/
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34) Bolsonaro and Trump: Are Elections Important?
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
"In a constitutional democracy, elections are important, but not for the reasons that supporters of unlimited democracy think they are. Reflecting on this is useful in the context of the January 6 House Committee and of recent declarations by the president of Brazil, Jail Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro fears losing the upcoming election in Brazil and suggests that he could be the victim of electoral fraud as, he also suggests, Trump was .... In a constitutional democracy, elections are important for basically one reason: they allow a peaceful transfer of power." (06/11/22)
https://www.econlib.org/bolsonaro-trump-are-elections-important/
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35) Media & Dems running away from the assassination attempt on a justice story
Source: Fox News Forum
by Greg Gutfeld
"So you heard about the dude who tried to kill the Supreme Court justice. And no, he wasn't one of those terrorists at the school board meetings. Apparently, he was mad about Roe v. Wade and he saw killing Kavanaugh as just a really late, late, late-term abortion. I don't know what's upsetting to you. The creep was also very pro-gun control, so much so that he actually tried to shoot someone. It's like a recovering alcoholic celebrating his first full year of sobriety by doing shots of Jack. I mean, if anything, he's now the poster child for home defense." (06/10/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-media-democrats-running-assassination-attempt-justice-story
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36) A woke meltdown at the Washington Post
Source: spiked
by Jenny Holland
"Just over a week ago, Post reporter Sonmez took umbrage when a colleague, David Weigel, retweeted the following joke: 'Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual.' Admittedly, I too find this joke highly offensive. Because it is not funny, which should be the sole metric by which a joke is judged acceptable. [Felicia] Sonmez, on the other hand, saw the tweet as justification for starting a war in the newsroom. First she got into a public fight with Weigel and another fellow Post reporter, Jose Del Real, and then she took to the barricades using the newsroom's Slack messaging service. By last Friday, the national editor was trying to quell the Sonmez-led insurgency. ... It seems that this time, however, even the Post has had enough of its Mean Girl journalists." (06/11/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/11/a-woke-meltdown-at-the-washington-post/
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37) Our Irrational Iran Policy
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
"The hawkish obsession with Iran in this country is genuinely bizarre. The U.S. has fought major wars against some other states that are no longer vilified and distrusted to the extent that Iran is in our policy debates. The U.S. established normal relations with Vietnam twenty years after the fall of Saigon. The opening to China occurred less than twenty years after the armistice in Korea. Since the U.S. and Iran have never fought a war on that scale, it should be easier to pursue some form of detente with Iran than it was with the others, but as we all know there is no chance that any president could propose such a thing without being politically destroyed. This is completely irrational, but this is the reality." (06/10/22)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/our-irrational-iran-policy
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38) The GOP's Great Replacement: The truth behind the overturning of "Roe"
Source: The American Prospect
by Francesca Fiorentini
"It's a strange thing to be pregnant while abortion rights are being axed. It's like being sober on the brink of Prohibition, musing about how you're 'naturally drunk on life.' My pregnancy is wanted. Sure, my child will be born into late-stage capitalism's inferno, and sure, they'll have to become a Twitch streamer or OnlyFans creator in order to even afford trade school. But damn it, the kid will have been wanted. That will not always be the case with generations born in the coming dystopian dark ages ahead for American uteruses. Thanks to the hollow-hearted fuckleheads on the Supreme Court and in state legislatures across the country, many children will now be born out of coercion." (06/10/22)
https://prospect.org/politics/the-gops-great-replacement/
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39) Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
"The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The case symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. And it is another grim reminder that Americans cannot rely on politically approved lawyers wearing bat suits to save their freedoms." (06/10/22)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2022/06/10/supreme-court-tortures-the-constitution-again/
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40) That Was The Best Hearing Democrats Had To Offer?
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
"I watched that joke of a 'hearing' on Thursday, the one about January 6th and the 'threat to democracy' created by angry people with no focus or objective, some of whom chanted mean things. Needless to say, I was unmoved. Only 2 members spoke, Chair Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney, and neither of them really 'spoke' at all, they read. Their eyes were glued to the teleprompter the way someone who can't swim is glued to a raft in the deep end of a pool. There is more convicing line delivery in a 1970s porn movie than those 2 gave Thursday night. ... You'd think with the former president of ABC News running the show it would've felt like a movie of the week, but it was more like a public access zoning board meeting." (06/12/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/06/12/that-was-the-best-hearing-democrats-had-to-offer-n2608586
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41) The January 6 Hearings May Be Surprisingly Worthwhile
Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"Most congressional committee hearings seem set up to give each member a few minutes of public grandstanding and that's about it. They're polemical. They tell rather than show. But last night's (widely-televised and streamed) hearing of the House select committee on January 6 was different. In lengthy opening remarks, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney displayed a TV prosecutor's command of narrative, weaving together video footage and commentary from January 6, 2021, with post-hoc video testimony and tidbits from key Trump administration players and GOP lawmakers, plus statements from people who partook in storming the Capitol. ... In all the hoopla ... it's been easy to look at January 6 through slightly rose-colored glasses to dismiss grave pronunciations as just so much melodrama. Last night's hearing -- and hopefully those to come -- serves as a powerful antidote to this." (06/10/22)
https://reason.com/2022/06/10/the-january-6-hearings-may-be-surprisingly-worthwhile/
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42) The Problem With Inflation
Source: Dispatches from Heck
by Frank Clarke
"Inflation in one form or another has always been with us. Even during the 18th and 19th centuries, there was some inflation. Inflation, however, really 'got its legs' beginning in the 20th century. Two events gave it the boost it needed to become a household fixture: the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank, and the 16th Amendment (Income Tax). ... We are told by our politicians that this inflation is transitory, meaning it will subside within the planning future. (Janet Yellen is lately 'walking back' that pronouncement.) Even if it is, there's still a serious problem left unaddressed. The real problem is this: once inflation subsides, prices will still be high. Just because runaway inflation becomes less runaway, prices don't go down. They stay at the elevated state the last runaway inflation left them at. Things are still unaffordable; they're just not becoming more unaffordable." (06/10/22)
https://dispatchesfromheck.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-problem-with-inflation.html
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43) Prime-Time Hearing Paints Sobering Picture of Attempted Coup
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Maria Cardona
"The Jan. 6 Committee hearing Thursday night broke new and terrifying ground that started to show with pictures, videos, testimony, and an indisputable narrative how close we were to an American coup d'etat. They began to demonstrate how the occupation of the U.S. Capitol was not a spontaneous protest as some Republicans continue to claim, but a methodical and meticulous plan to ensure President Trump would hold on to power by any means necessary. It should give all Americans nightmares. It should also mobilize sensible voters -- if they care about democracy -- to kick Republicans who supported Trump's Big Lie out of office, and call upon the Department of Justice to hold Trump and his cohorts to account." (06/10/22)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/10/prime-time_hearing_paints_sobering_picture_of_attempted_coup_147730.html
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44) Here's What the Criminal Justice Reform Movement Can Learn From Chesa Boudin's Loss
Source: In These Times
by Janos Marton
"On June 7, San Francisco's progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin was officially recalled by voters. There is no sugarcoating it: This is a setback for the criminal justice reform movement .... But advocates shouldn't take the wrong lessons from the defeat. If we can be honest about the movement's shortcomings, we can learn from this loss and build a sturdier infrastructure to support criminal justice reform wins moving forward. Let's get a few things out of the way first: Blaming Boudin for all of San Francisco's problems, as many recall supporters did, is absurd. The claims from the opposition that he made San Francisco unsafe were baseless, without evidence, and often made by bad faith actors. The local and national media hits on Boudin were unrelenting. And a billionaire-funded Super PAC, whose largest contributor was a Republican donor, spent big to oust the left-wing DA." (06/10/22)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/criminal-justice-reform-chesa-boudin-san-francisco-recall
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45) The Long Road Back
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
"Decades of wrongheaded policies have eroded San Francisco's once much-vaunted charm. These policies include onerous burdens on building construction; lax attitudes toward homeless folks' tent cities and public excretory practices; and a green light for sundry criminal activities, including broad-daylight theft. ... By getting rid of Chesa Boudin -- and three pretty rotten school board members in another recent recall election -- San Franciscans have taken the first steps back to something like sanity. Which always makes next steps easier." (06/10/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/06/10/the-long-road-back/
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46) Adam Smith, Technology, and Liberty
Source: Independent Institute
by Philip Bunn
"Adam Smith is often called the father of capitalism. It is certainly true that Smith saw the good in a system of what he called 'natural liberty,' where people were free to dispose of their resources and skills as they see fit in a market system. But a certain popular caricature of capitalism might lead one to think that Smith was something he was not. In fact, Smith recognized the benefits of commercial society primarily in its tendency to raise the position of the least well off, the 'labouring poor,' whose wages and standard of living increase in a thriving, growing, wealthy, free, well-governed nation. His concerns are moral and humane, with concern for what sort of system tends to benefit all without great injustices and finds that commercial society often meets these requirements well." (06/10/22)
https://blog.independent.org/2022/06/10/adam-smith-technology-liberty/
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47) Proposed mass shooting "solutions" would mostly do nothing to prevent shootings
Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
"Recent travel has brought me in contact, of course, with the Transportation Security Administration. That experience brought to mind a Facebook meme that paraphrases a quotation attributed to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The TSA knows its screening measures do nothing. We know that they do nothing. TSA knows that we know they do nothing. Yet this 'security theater' persists. ... Democrats predicate their entire approach on drying up gun availability, but that's a pipedream in a country with 400 million firearms. We know that, too. Democrats also know that disarming law-abiding citizens will not protect anyone -- and likely will endanger others." (06/10/22)
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/06/10/proposed-mass-shooting-solutions-would-mostly-do-nothing-to-prevent-shootings/
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48) To Arm or Not to Arm Ukrainians?
Source: Cato Institute
by Jordan Cohen
"Do US weapons provide Washington with 'leverage' over its clients? A former high‐ranking diplomat certainly believes so, arguing that arms transfers give 'the United States leverage and influence.' Unfortunately, the only leverage US weapons sales provide is the type that recipient countries use to receive ever more arms, despite their risks. According to academic studies, foreign aid for influence and arms for influence attempts are unsuccessful." (06/10/22)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/arm-or-not-arm-ukrainians
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49) Concentration camps -- a brief review
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
"In history, we can find at least five types: Type 1. Forced migration camps Type 2. Internment and segregation camps Type 3. Retraining/reeducation camps Type 4. Extermination and 'neutralization' camps Type 5. Quarantine and 'treatment' camps There may be others, and some of these might make more sense to break into several types. But for this essay, let us use these and talk about Type 5. This is what Australia -- a once mostly free nation -- has used in the last two years." (06/10/22)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/06/10/concentration-camps-a-brief-review/
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50) Making Sense of Monetary Policy and the Future of Inflation
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by James L Caton
"High inflation rates have been making headlines since the beginning of the year. Inflation seems to have caught even investors by surprise. While I'm optimistic that inflation will fall over the next year, this belief is formed with the expectation that the stance of monetary policy should and will remain tight. The effective Federal Funds rate is currently 0.83 percent after spending nearly two years under 0.1 percent. The logic behind the increases in the federal funds rate, driven by simultaneous increases in the rate paid on reserves held at the Fed, is that higher interest rates indicate tighter monetary policy. This is an age-old wisdom inherited most plainly from Paul Volcker's tenure at the Fed. But monetary policy no longer works the way it did under Volcker and Greenspan." (06/10/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/making-sense-of-monetary-policy-and-the-future-of-inflation/
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51) Free Talk Live, 06/12/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"New social credit app to reward Italian citizens for virtuous behavior :: In the absence of government, service persists :: Recycling :: Police arrested 31 men found inside a U-Haul truck :: Uterus-shaped 'Period Crunch' cereal :: Guns :: Birth control :: Recycling :: Show: 2022-06-12 Captain Kickass, Mark, Nikki." [Flash audio or MP3] (06/12/22)
https://freetalklive.com/archives?ppplayer=5c48425a5422918dc6f904bd1cb7e00f&ppepisode=266572b5592f7d61118cf2f96040f163
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52) The Anarchist Experience, episode 375
Source: The Anarchist Experience
"Rich and MC discuss whether or not cats are libertarian, where should low income housing be built, what's the standard for being libertarian, and how to mitigate the effects of inflation." [various formats] (06/11/22)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2022/06/11/the-anarchist-experience-375/
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53) The Chris Spangle Show, 06/10/22
Source: We Are Libertarians
"What Gun Laws Are Circulating Through Congress? with Gabriella Hoffman." [Flash audio] (06/10/22)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/what-gun-laws-are-circulating-through
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54) There's a Policy for That with Susan Pendergrass, 06/10/22
Source: Show-Me Institute
"St. Louis BOA Indictments And The Future Of Tax Subsidies With Patrick Tuohey And David Stokes." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/corporate-welfare/podcast-st-louis-boa-indictments-and-the-future-of-tax-subsidies-with-patrick-tuohey-and-david-stokes/
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55) Soho Forum Debate: Did Prescription Opioids Cause The Overdose Epidemic?
Source: Reason
"Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://reason.com/podcast/2022/06/10/did-prescription-opioids-cause-the-overdose-epidemic/
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56) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 06/10/22
Source: Freedom Works
"Kelley Valahos of The Quincy Institute on Biden foreign policy leads to higher gas prices." [MP3] (06/10/22)
http://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2022-06-10_zfw0612022.mp3
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57) Free Thoughts Podcast, 06/10/22
Source: Libertarianism.org
"A story of faithful foreign policy failure." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/why-did-america-invade-iraq
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58) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/10/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Don't Blame 'Corporate Profits' or Rising Wages For Inflation -- Blame The Fed!" [Flash video] (06/10/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/dont-blame-corporate-profits-or-rising-wages-for-inflation-blame-the-fed
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59) LiberatED Podcast, 06/10/22
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
"Welcome to America: How One Education Entrepreneur Is Transforming Refugee Education." [Flash audio] (06/10/22)
https://fee.org/articles/welcome-to-america-how-one-education-entrepreneur-is-transforming-refugee-education/
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60) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/10/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
"Caleb Franz from the Profiles In Liberty podcast drops by for his regular segment. Today Caleb gives us the lowdown on Richard Henry Lee's resolution which paved the way for the Declaration of Independence." [various formats] (06/10/22)
https://anchor.fm/bryan-hyde/episodes/2022-June-10-The-Bryan-Hyde-Show-e1jp9bh
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