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The State Protects Itself While Crime against Ordinary People Surges

2023-08-25

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2023-08-25

The regime has increasingly been consumed with paranoia over threats to itself—propagandistically termed "threats to democracy"—while real crime against private citizens is clearly not a priority at all.  Original Article: "The State Protects Itself While Crime against Ordinary People Surges"

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China’s Maneuvering and the New Balance of Power

2023-08-25

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2023-08-25

China is taking bold actions and creating a new paradigm on the world stage. For about a decade, Beijing has been responsible for developing new trade networks; the famous Belt and Road Initiative has been analyzed extensively. Their trade networks are growing ever deeper, with new agreements to trade in renminbi as opposed to dollars. China is developing powerful alternative institutions to those of the West, such as the Shanghai Cooperation...

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How the Soviets Used Common Criminals to Destroy the Regime’s Enemies

2023-08-24

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2023-08-24

As violent crime rates rise and unsolved homicides become more common, Many ordinary voters have noticed that the regime doesn't seem especially interested in investigating and prosecuting actual dangerous criminals. At the same time, the regime appears increasingly paranoid about "antidemocratic" activities and other alleged threats to the state. Gangs of thieves cleaning out the inventory of small businesses? The ruling elite isn't...

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The Simplicity and Significance of Mutual Economic Exchange

2023-08-24

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2023-08-24

The simplest action of economics—beneficially mutual voluntary exchange—is also its most profound. People serve each other while improving their own lot in life. Original Article: "The Simplicity and Significance of Mutual Economic Exchange"

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The Original Oracle of Omaha: Howard Homan Buffett

2023-08-24

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2023-08-24

Warren Buffett, renowned as the “Oracle of Omaha,” emerges as a towering figure among the most celebrated and accomplished financiers in modern times. Throughout his illustrious career spanning numerous decades, he has accumulated unrivaled wealth, garnering an esteemed reputation in the financial realm. Presently, he holds the prestigious positions of chairman and CEO at Berkshire Hathaway, a conglomerate that mirrors his astute discernment of...

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The USDA’s War on Small Farms

2023-08-24

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2023-08-24

Most students in America are introduced to the writings of Upton Sinclair. While they aren’t shown his incredible cover-up of the Holodomor or his other Soviet apologisms, they are presented with his most famous work: The Jungle. This work tells the tale of Sinclair’s investigation into the wretched working conditions of the meat-packers of its age. Between lost limbs and failed inspections, Sinclair writes about the meat being contaminated and...

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Regime Paranoia and the Crackdown on Dissent

2023-08-24

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2023-08-24

Ryan and Tho examine how the US regime is in the midst of its latest panic over public faith in the state's legitimacy. This is why we keep hearing about misinformation, insurrection and "threats to democracy."  Recommended Reading "'Antidemocratic' Just Means 'Something the Regime Doesn't Like.'" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_148_A "Seditious Conspiracy Is Not a Real Crime" by Ryan...

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Statism and the Unmaking of Reality

2023-08-24

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2023-08-24

Murray Rothbard wrote that egalitarianism was a war against nature. Statism has become a war against reality. Original Article: "Statism and the Unmaking of Reality"

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Why Governments Love Political “Crimes” Like Treason and Sedition

2023-08-24

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2023-08-24

The only real crimes are those that constitute violence against actual, specific persons and property. These are crimes such as theft, assault, rape, homicide, and fraud. States and civil governments of all types have long justified their existence on the grounds that they punish perpetrators of these crimes and thus provide "public safety." (The fact that states themselves often commit these crimes—i.e., through torture, police...

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Speaker Panel with Q&A

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023. Special thanks to Joe and Tracy Matarese for making this event possible.

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President Biden’s SAVE College Debt Repayment Plan Puts the Motivations in the Wrong Places

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Imagine fathers at the little league baseball fence. The first brags, “My son is batting 200!” You should be thinking, “That’s not very good.” The second intones, “Oh yea, well my son is batting 175!” “Hold it,” you’re thinking, “this is going backwards.” And your suspicions are confirmed when the third yells out, even louder, “Here comes my son, batting 150!”  As all three dads high-five each other, you look at the name on the uniforms and it...

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2SLGBTQ+IA and the Law

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

The activists went from "We want to be left alone to live our lives" to "we want to control your lives too." Now the movement has state power on its side and bullies all opponents.  Original Article: "2SLGBTQ+IA and the Law"

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Bidenomics: A Boom That Awaits an Inevitable Bust

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Joe Biden recently claimed on Twitter that “Bidenomics” has increased the real wages of low-income workers. A counterclaim was made through Twitter’s Community Notes that wages adjusted for inflation were actually lower at the time of Biden’s claim. But data without theory is unsatisfying, so it is worth asking if conditions of the last few years have been conducive to higher real wages, especially for lower earners. The Boom First, we need to...

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The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023. Special thanks to Joe and Tracy Matarese for making this event possible. The-New-Abnormal:2 [embedded content]

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Modern Medicine’s Great Controversy

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023. Special thanks to Joe and Tracy Matarese for making this event possible. Modern Medicine’s Great Controversy | Peter McCullough, MD Video of Modern Medicine’s Great Controversy | Peter McCullough, MD

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Welcome

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023. Special thanks to Joe and Tracy Matarese for making this event possible.

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Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Some are claiming that AI can make socialism workable, but even AI cannot take the place of entrepreneurial economic calculation. Original Article: "Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy"

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The Killing and Destruction Must Stop: It Is Time to End the Ukraine War

2023-08-23

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2023-08-23

Earlier this month, CNN published the results of a poll that found that most Americans oppose sending more money and military aid to the Ukrainian government. A closer look reveals that Republican voters are behind the results. Around seven in ten Republicans oppose sending more support to Ukraine. The poll results have prompted an effort among establishment Republicans and neoconservatives to bring the party’s voters back in line. Days after CNN...

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The Fed Is Losing Tens of Billions: How Are Individual Federal Reserve Banks Doing?

2023-08-22

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2023-08-22

The Federal Reserve System as of the end of July 2023 has accumulated operating losses of $83 billion and, with proper, generally accepted accounting principles applied, its consolidated retained earnings are negative $76 billion, and its total capital negative $40 billion. But the System is made up of 12 individual Federal Reserve Banks (FRBs).1 Each is a separate corporation with its own shareholders, board of directors, management and financial...

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The Government Wants to Turn Blockchain Firms into Servants of the State

2023-08-22

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2023-08-22

Federal prosecutors and other law enforcement agents are turning blockchain firms into government subsidiaries. The real goal is to criminalize what really are lawful, private exchanges. Original Article: "The Government Wants to Turn Blockchain Firms into Servants of the State"

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