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How Brittney Griner’s Plight Exposes the Hypocrisy of America’s Carceral State
Post Date: 2022-12-15 19:29:41 by Charles_Byrd
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On Thursday morning, from the White House lawn, President Joe Biden announced Brittney Griner would be coming home, proclaiming “I’m proud that today we have made one more family whole again.” But among the millions of families made incomplete by the American carceral state, many won’t share his pride in the United States. Griner’s release was garnered through a “prisoner swap” in which Biden freed and sent convicted arms Viktor Bout dealer to Russia. Her arrival back to her home country ends a nine-month-long ordeal that began when the basketball star, in Russia to play in one of the country’s basketball leagues, was detained at a Russian airport ...
Watchdog estimates civilian death toll from Ukrainian attacks on Donbass
Post Date: 2022-12-15 19:26:32 by Charles_Byrd
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Weapons supplied to Ukraine by NATO countries have allowed Kiev's military to significantly ramp-up attacks on civilian targets in Donbass, a local watchdog has said. The group claims that over 4,500 civilians have been killed and 4,000 injured since Ukrainian forces escalated shelling in mid-February. Click for Full Text!
Anti-war coalition presses US Congress to repeal 2002 Iraq war authorisation
Post Date: 2022-12-15 19:23:44 by Charles_Byrd
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A coalition of anti-war groups and rights organisations have signed a letter urging congressional leadership to put forth a measure to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for Iraq. The letter, sent to senators Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Patrick Leahy, as well as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy, among others, urged the lawmakers to take action on what it referred to as a "long overdue repeal". Click for Full Text!
Yoel RoTh’s SecreT TwiTTer AccounT Revealed ... Former ‘Head of TwiTTer InTegriTy’ --- Was PosTing PhoTos of His Gay Hookups
Post Date: 2022-12-15 15:12:45 by BorisY
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Yoel Roth’s Secret Twitter Account Revealed – Former ‘Head of Twitter Integrity’ Was Posting Photos of His Gay Hookups By Jim Hoft December 15, 2022 Yoel Roth is the former head of Twitter site integrity and top censor for the social media giant. Roth held the position until he left the company in early November. Since then it has become apparent that Yoel Roth was behind much of the censorship of conservatives on the platform. Earlier this month a Twitter Files report was released by journalist Matt Tiabbi. The latest drop included information on Roth and federal officials plotting against conservatives and blacklisting conservatives including President ...
Son of Alleged Pelosi ATTacker Breaks Silence ... 'For All We Know --- He Was Some Sort of Sex Slave'
Post Date: 2022-12-15 14:41:49 by BorisY
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Son of Alleged Pelosi Attacker Breaks Silence: 'For All We Know He Was Some Sort of Sex Slave' By Richard Moorhead December 14, 2022 The son of a man charged with the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi is speaking out. Nebosvod “Sky” Gonzalez described his father David DePape as a man traumatized from a lifetime of abuse, speaking in an interview with the Daily Mail published Wednesday. ‘There is almost no person on this planet that has gone through so much suffering,” Gonalez said of DePape. The 19-year-old doubts prosecutors’ charges against DePape, expressing his uncertainty that his father ever even attacked the husband of House Speaker ...
Diseases That Studies Linked to E-Cigarettes Generally Were Diagnosed Before Subjects Began Vaping
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:42:30 by Charles_Byrd
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In recent years, a bunch of studies have reported correlations between nicotine vaping and various smoking-related diseases, seemingly undermining the case for e-cigarettes as a harm-reducing alternative to combusted tobacco. But as a new analysis in the journal Internal and Emergency Medicine notes, those studies paid no attention to the question of whether the diseases were diagnosed before or after the subjects began vaping—a glaring omission when you are trying to figure out whether the associations indicate cause-and-effect relationships. Sometimes information on the timing of diagnoses was not included in the survey data on which researchers relied. But the Population Assessment ...
Winnie the pooh game created by AI
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:40:57 by A K A Stone
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Winnie the Pooh: Honey Quest Objective: To collect as much honey as possible and bring it back to the honey pot in the shortest amount of time. Setup: The game board is a map of the Hundred Acre Wood, with various locations and paths marked. Each player has a game piece in the form of a Winnie the Pooh figure. The honey pot is placed in a designated location on the game board. A deck of cards is shuffled and placed face down next to the game board. Gameplay: Players take turns rolling a die to determine the number of spaces they can move their game piece. When a player lands on a space with a honey pot icon, they draw a card from the deck. The card will tell them how much honey they can ...
Cannabis and the War on Drugs - Spike on WBAL with Torrey and Dan - 12/14/22
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:40:35 by Charles_Byrd
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The war on drugs should have been ended the day after it started. Click for Full Text!
Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:37:15 by Charles_Byrd
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Irecently read Highway Heist, a provocative book by economist James T. Bennett. Professor Bennett’s specialty is in applying free market thinking to subjects that most people believe require government involvement, and this book gets one to wondering how much better things might be if the U.S. had stuck with its initial, constitutional decision that the federal government should stay out of the road business. Bennett’s history is fascinating, beginning with a bit of carelessness at the Constitutional Convention. As the proceedings were coming to their close, Elbridge Gerry suggested an addition to Article I, Section 8 (which sets forth the spending powers of Congress). The draft ...
Zelensky Asks G7 For Natural Gas, Longer-Range Weapons
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:35:31 by Charles_Byrd
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday addressed the Group of 7 and asked for natural gas and more advanced weaponry, including fighter jets, tanks, and long-range missiles. After the meeting, G7 leaders released a joint statement reaffirming they will support Ukraine for “as long as it takes.” So far, the US has held off giving Ukraine the longer-range weapons Zelensky seeks, but The Times reported Friday that the US is more likely to provide such arms as it now tacitly supports Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russian territory, which risks a major escalation of the war. Click for Full Text!
EU to Tax Imports That Contribute to “Carbonization”
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:32:55 by Charles_Byrd
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Negotiators in Brussels worked well into the night on Tuesday in order to codify a new carbon-dioxide emissions tariff on imported goods that climate alarmists contend are heating the planet. Among the goods set to be targeted for the new “carbon tax” are iron, steel, cement, fertilizers, aluminum and electricity. Dubbed the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the new taxation mechanism was hailed as “the first of its kind” by the European Parliament. The EU is seeking to make the “polluter pay” for emissions they create when making their products for European consumption. Click for Full Text!
Brickbat: Close Enough for Police Work
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:17:00 by Charles_Byrd
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The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ruby Johnson, 77, whose home was raided by a Denver SWAT team looking for stolen items after her house was pinged as the location of a stolen iPhone by the "Find My" app. According to a copy of the affidavit police used to obtain the warrant, the iPhone's owner told officers the app indicated Johnson's home as its location. Click for Full Text!
The tyranny of the majority
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:05:47 by Charles_Byrd
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"Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?" — Rev. Mather Blyes, 1706-1788 Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle — Cotton Mather, addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can survive in a democracy. Click for Full Text!
Ukraine Says It Needs $1 Billion to Quickly Repair Energy Infrastructure
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:02:35 by Charles_Byrd
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As Russian missile strikes have decimated Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Monday that Kyiv needs $1 billion to restore its power grid and heating systems. “The approximate cost of urgent help for the power sector stands at $500 million,” Shmyahl told the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to Reuters. “The approximate cost of urgent help for the centralized heating sector stands at a further $500 million.” Click for Full Text!
Father Time vs. Central Bankers
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:01:07 by Charles_Byrd
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An excellent new book from Edward Chancellor, The Price of Time, sets out to explain both the theory and history of interest rates across five millennia and countless cultures. The theory is frequently bungled by economists; the history is frequently glossed over by historians. But thankfully Mr. Chancellor is up to the task. He is an excellent and engaging writer, owing presumably to his long career as a financial journalist. We need more books like this. Economists tend not to ask basic questions like, "What are interest rates, where do they come from, and what purpose do they serve?" But they should. No less than Richard Cantillon and Eugen von Böhm- Bawerk, both quoted ...
John Tamny: the FTX Collapse, Crypto, and Money Confusion
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:58:27 by Charles_Byrd
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The collapse of the crypto giant FTX by no means indicates the failure of the cryptocurrency market—but rather serves as a strong signal of crypto’s staying power. In this interview with The New American, John Tamny of RealClearMarkets.com explains why the crypto currency has a powerful potential, and why he is not concerned with the prospects of the central bank digital currencies (CBDC) pursued by the Biden administration. Click for Full Text!
China Dispatches Unprecedented Number of Bombers to Taiwan Defense Zone
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:32:35 by Charles_Byrd
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China dispatched an unprecedented 18 nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan’s air- defense zone, according to Taipei on Tuesday, just days after Beijing forbade more Taiwanese imports in the latest episode of worsening relations. China views self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, to be reunified with the mainland by force if necessary. Click for Full Text!
Former American Pilot Accused of Illegally Training Chinese Aviators to Land on Aircraft Carriers
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:30:22 by Charles_Byrd
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Former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan has been arrested in Australia, where he is now a naturalized citizen, after being accused of breaching U.S. arms-control law by training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, an indictment unsealed by a U.S. court said. “An individual was arrested on 21 October 2022 pursuant to a request from the United States of America for their provisional arrest,” a spokesman for the Australian attorney general’s office declared in a written statement to Reuters. “As the matter is before the courts, it would not be appropriate to comment further.” Click for Full Text!
Why In the World Is the FTC Trying to Block Microsoft From Buying Call of Duty?
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:27:05 by Charles_Byrd
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In 2001, Sony acquired video game studio Naughty Dog, which would go on to produce some of the most popular and critically acclaimed video games of the last two decades. The Uncharted series, which began in 2007 with Drake's Fortune, has spawned four main games, a handful of spinoff entries, and a big budget movie staring Mark Wahlberg. The Last of Us and its 2020 sequel rank among the most acclaimed video games in history; next year, a big-budget, prestige TV adaptation of the first game will air on HBO. Both game franchises are and have always been what the gaming industry refers to as "console exclusives," meaning only one line of video game consoles supports them—the ...
Even States That Have Already Decriminalized Marijuana Use See Fewer Possession Arrests After Legalization
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:25:30 by Charles_Byrd
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President Joe Biden and many other politicians who continue to resist marijuana legalization instead advocate decriminalization of simple possession. By replacing criminal penalties with civil fines, they argue, legislators can reduce possession arrests without taking the further step of allowing recreational use. But according to a new JAMA Open Network study, states see substantial reductions in marijuana arrests after they legalize recreational use even when they have already decriminalized possession of small amounts. University of California, San Diego, researchers Christian Gunadi and Yuyan Shi analyzed FBI data on marijuana possession arrests from 2010 to 2019 in 31 states, ...
Funding Education Opportunity: Midterm school choice success, new K-12 open enrollment report, and more
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:23:00 by Charles_Byrd
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While the midterm elections will likely leave Congress in political gridlock, candidates from both major political parties supporting school choice policies won impressive victories. On the Republican side, with the exception of Arizona, every state in which the GOP held a trifecta—governor and both legislative chambers—going into the election and had “enacted large, new school-choice programs or significantly expanded existing ones in the past two years kept that trifecta,” noted The Heritage Foundation’s Jason Bedrick and Lindsey Burke. The midterms helped illustrate school choice can be a winning policy issue for candidates. Voters in Florida’s Miami-Dade ...
Bernie Sanders and the Genocide in Yemen - Spike on WBAL with Torrey and Dan - 12/14/22
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:20:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Why is the US supporting the genocide in Yemen? Why is Bernie Sanders withdrawing the support for his bill? Click for Full Text!
The Link between Productivity and Wages Is Strong
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:08:06 by Charles_Byrd
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AEI economist Michael Strain has a new paper showing that, contrary to common belief, the link between productivity and wages is still very strong. Very much worth reading, the paper contains interesting discussions of how we should think about wages, which workers should or shouldn’t be included when measuring the relationship between productivity and pay, whether for “pay” we should use wages or total compensation, and so on. Click for Full Text!
Dr. Paul Joins Kudlow to Discuss Government Overspending - December 14, 2022
Post Date: 2022-12-14 20:06:15 by Charles_Byrd
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Thermonuclear Endgame Creeps Forward
Post Date: 2022-12-14 19:55:32 by Charles_Byrd
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It looks like things are about to get a lot more serious in Ukraine. Click for Full Text!
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