Don't Newsletter on Me (11/30/20)
Articles from The Mises Institute, The American Conservative, AIER, FFF, FEE, Reason, Glenn Greenwald, Spiked Online, Tom Woods, The Separatist Newsletter, and Courthouse News.
These are in no particular order.
A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead are arrested and sentenced to death by firing squad, one by one.
While they wait to be executed they come up with a plan. Right before they are to be shot, each one will yell that some natural disaster or emergency is happening to distract the soldiers and they would be able to escape.
The brunette is first. As she hears the captain counting down to 0 she yells "TORNADO!" As the soldiers duck for cover, she scales the wall of the prison and escapes to freedom.
The redhead is next. As she hears the captain counting down to 0 she yells "EARTHQUAKE!" As the soldiers duck for cover, she scales the wall of the prison and escapes to freedom.
Last is the blonde. As she hears the captain counting down to 0 she yells "FIRE!"
Are blonde jokes still okay in 2020? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner
The Mises Institute
Historically, not everyone has been pleased by such things. In the Soviet Union, for example, there were concerted efforts to abolish the very concept of the domestic space and notions of "hearth and home" by consigning citizens to communal kitchens and communal living spaces. The goal was to abolish the “bourgeois” family which was so often grouped around a private kitchen.
What If We Aren’t Living In The End Times?
The American Conservative
What if “no Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” comes true and things become so tolerant and peaceful and full of fair-trade hemp harmony that it’s all kind of…mind-blowingly boring?
What if you aren’t a vital operator in a story of the final battle between good and evil but are actually just a person struggling through the ups and downs of life like everyone has for…all of human history?
Important Factors Driving Bitcoin’s Drastic Growth in 2020
The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
It is undeniable that the monetary limits of fiat currency are being tested around the world as governments print trillions of dollars for stimulus packages in reaction to Covid-19. The World Resources Institute writes:
“In response to the massive economic contraction stemming from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some central banks — including those of the United States, European Union, Japan and other major economies — are engaging in “quantitative easing” (QE) programs on an unprecedented scale.”
The United States alone has printed trillions of dollars and has far outspent what it has brought in with tax dollars, creating an unprecedented level of debt.
Report Claims CIA Controlled Second Swiss Encryption Firm
Courthouse News
He called for a parliamentary inquiry after an SRF investigation broadcast on Wednesday found that a second Swiss encryption firm had been part of a spectacular espionage scheme orchestrated by U.S. and German intelligence services.
A first investigation had revealed back in February an elaborate, decades-long set-up, in which the CIA and its German counterpart creamed off the top-secret communications of governments through their hidden control of a Swiss encryption company called Crypto.
The Cunning Plot to Kill Kennedy
The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF)
Yet, the exact opposite occurred in the Kennedy assassination. The entire effort immediately became to pin the crime solely on a communist ex-U.S. Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald and to shut down any aggressive investigation into whether others were involved in the crime.
What’s up with that?
More Cops Say They Won't Enforce Coronavirus Curfews
Reason
"The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office will not be determining—including entering any home or business—compliance with, or enforcing compliance of, any health or emergency orders related to curfews, staying at home, Thanksgiving or other social gatherings inside or outside the home, maximum occupancy, or mask mandates," said Sheriff Scott Jones in a statement.
Lockdowns Stunt Women’s Progress
The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
Yet one hundred years after the 19th Amendment, women’s economic freedom is now damaged by lockdowns, which restrain their ability to fully participate in the economy. Once lockdowns descended upon the US in April, the unemployment rate for women soared to 16.2% — higher than both the overall unemployment rate of 14.7% and men’s unemployment rate of 13.5%.
Why Conservatives Can't Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
What Haidt found is that both conservatives and liberals recognize the Harm/Care and Fairness/Reciprocity values. Liberal-minded people, however, tend to reject the three remaining foundational values—Loyalty/betrayal, Authority/subversion, and Sanctity/degradation—while conservatives accept them. It’s an extraordinary difference, and it helps explain why many liberals and conservatives in America think “the other side” is bonkers.
Dear Biden Supporters, It's Not Too Late to Secede
The Mises Institute
Before celebrating Biden’s win in this year’s election, it’s important to reflect back on the past four years. Remember your frustration, your anger, your fear of someone you believed was unhinged and dangerous being in control of all of the immense powers that are now vested with the federal government of the United States of America. Now ask yourselves this: Do you want that to happen again?
What Progressives Just Don’t See
The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF)
In a larger sense, they want government to take what is sometimes called a “national pie” and distribute it in a way that is deemed to be equitable, especially by giving much of the pie to the poor.
There is one great big fatal flaw in the progressive mindset, however, one that, for some reason, they are unable to see. That flaw is the assumption that a pie exists to distribute. Leftists just assume a large amount of wealth in a nation and then come up with equitable ways to divide it up and distribute it.
Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress “Hyper-Partisan Sites” in Favor of “Mainstream News” (The NYT) is a Fraud
Glenn Greenwald
Due in part to a self-interested desire to re-establish their monopoly on discourse by crushing any independent or dissenting voices, and in part by a censorious and arrogant mindset which convinces them that only those of their worldview and pedigree have a right to be heard, they largely devote themselves to complaining that Facebook, Google and Twitter are not suppressing enough speech. It is hall-monitor tattletale whining masquerading as journalism: petulantly complaining that tech platforms are permitting speech that, in their view, ought instead be silenced.
The Impossibility of "Taxation with Representation"
The Mises Institute
In addition to the exclusion of some members of the social group, the decisions made by the numerical majority of the group are seen as the decisions of the entire group. It becomes almost impossible to have a unanimous outcome in an election when millions of citizens make their way to the polling stations. Those who are in the minority will therefore never be represented, yet still must pay taxes like everyone else. Both rules are unavoidable, but they do shine a light at the flaws of the democratic system.
Ike, JFK, and Truman: Conspiracy Theorists?
The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF)
Were Ike, Kennedy, and Truman “conspiracy theorists” for pointing out the dangers that the national-security establishment posed to a democratically elected president and to American democracy? On the contrary, they were three individuals who were trying to apprise Americans of the very real danger that this aberrant form of governmental structure poses to democracy.
Jordan Peterson: how the left manufactured a folk devil
Spiked Online
Peterson’s key thesis is that life is unbearable without a sense of purpose, and that this can largely be achieved through personal responsibility and taking charge of one’s life.
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He maintains that science and technology have improved our lives, but do not satisfy our need for meaning.
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We need to consider how anyone above the age of 16 believes that throwing insults is an effective form of rebuttal. This isn’t simply about Jordan Peterson; this is about the kind of hysteria he inspires in an infantile society.
How Big Government Stacked the Deck Against Small Business
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
Small businesses have been pummeled by excessive and insane governmental lockdowns of the economy. Experts warn that one third of small businesses could ultimately shut down for good, and hundreds of thousands have already done just that.
Meanwhile, Amazon’s sales increased 40 percent in the second quarter alone, while their stock price increased 97 percent. Apple hit a $2 trillion market cap, the first publicly traded company to do so, and reported nearly $60 billion in revenue. Since the pandemic began, Facebook’s stock rocketed up 85 percent, Google’s by 50 percent, Netflix by 63 percent, and Microsoft by 57 percent. All saw their revenues greatly increase compared to last year’s numbers as well.
A Long-Forgotten CIA Document From WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on Today's U.S. Politics and Wars
Glenn Greenwald
What made this document so fascinating, so revealing, is the CIA’s discussion of how to manipulate public opinion to ensure it remains at least tolerant if not supportive of Endless War and, specifically, the vital role President Obama played for the CIA in packaging and selling U.S. wars around the world. In this classified analysis, one learns a great deal about how the “military industrial complex,” also known as the “Blob” or “Deep State,” reasons; how the Agency exploits humanitarian impulses to ensure continuation of its wars; and what the real function is of the U.S. President when it comes to foreign policy.
Why don't you move to Somalia -- let's smash this once and for all
Tom Woods
"If you want to live in your libertarian paradise, you should move to Somalia."
Whenever I see this, I know I am not dealing with the sharpest knife in the drawer, as they say.
Forcing the Hand of Gratitude
The Separatist Newsletter
What you don’t hear as much, however, is people expressing gratitude over the crises they’ve faced. To name some examples, you don’t often see people claiming to be thankful for losing their job, getting a divorce, or experiencing a health crisis. Because why would they? These are all awful things to have to experience; ones we wouldn’t wish upon others.
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