In this episode Tommy looks at the idea of collectivism from the perspective of the markets, and how libertarians may better discuss the ideas of free markets with both the left and right.
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Fool’s Errand Now 1/2 Price!
So you’re stuck at home and want to learn about the war in Afghanistan? Well, I’ve cut the price of my book Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by half for ya. The Kindle version too. Daniel Ellsberg, Douglas Macgregor, Matthew Hoh, Daniel L. Davis, Patrick Cockburn, Gareth Porter and many others have endorsed it. You might like it too.
FDA: We Kill More People Than Even The Pentagon
This is Your Security Force
They don’t give a liquid shit about you or your family.
I posted a note in this space a week or so ago from my sister begging people to stop hoarding (that is, stockpiling more than they need) the highest quality N95 masks that healthcare workers need desperately. But this is the actual Surgeon General of the USA telling you to not bother wearing masks at all! LYING right to your face that they cannot protect you.
He should be forced from office immediately, along with the scum at the CDC and FDA who have worked so hard to prevent masks from being distributed and preventing doctors and independent companies from testing — for their own interests. While we’re at it, let’s just abolish the national government entirely. Who needs ’em?
Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9— U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) February 29, 2020
And now look! The MFer is still at it! (Unbelievable.)
1/3 Regarding masks:@WHO @CDCgov & my office have consistently recommended against the general public wearing masks as there is scant or conflicting evidence they benefit individual wearers in a meaningful way, but real concerns about pulling from the healthcare worker supply… pic.twitter.com/uvjT31ZGt7
— U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) March 28, 2020
Via the Great Jim Bovard: New York Times writer:
“Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired”
To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.
Ya think?
Update: How has Japan kept Coronavirus in check? MASKS.
Sanctions Are Inhumane – Now, And Always
Asli U. Bali and Aziz Rana at Boston Review on the brutality of sanctions and why they must end. The current covid-19 pandemic has exposed the brutality of the economic sanctions imposed on the world by the U.S. government. This current crisis reveals all of Trump’s personal deficiencies: his narcissism, xenophobia and brutal belief in “American Exceptionalism.” He has filled his administration with Christian and Jewish Zionists, China haters and nationalist imperialists that have used sanctions as a weapon to conduct their “civilization wars” against countries that don’t bow to pax Americana. Trump better get that wall finished because when the rest of the world comes to America they are going to slit our throats for what the government has done in our name.
Hat tip to Joshua Landis follow him on twitter
The Great Dave Smith on the Jimmy Dore Show
An Approach to Collective Problems
Libertarian political philosophy, as a practical matter, does not offer a prefabricated set of solutions to collective problems. Rather, it’s a liberty-based approach to ameliorating collective problems that begins by acknowledging (among other things) the dispersion, incompleteness, and tacit dimension of relevant knowledge. Thus, the approach favors decentralization, competition (in ideas and services), and choice about what trade-offs to make and with whom to cooperate. Perhaps ironically, to succeed, individualism requires and produces the collective intelligence that only markets embody.
Help For Small Business Owners
For any small business owner that needs to apply for a loan their is some good news. Secretary Mnuchin announced that the emergency small business funding mechanism will be administered through the Treasury FDIC system rather than the SBA. The contact point for the loans will be any FDIC bank so you should be able to go directly to a local bank and apply for emergency funding rather than having to go through the cumbersome SBA loan process.
Mnuchin describes how this will work here
Hat tip to Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse
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