Covid The CDC says people who test positive for covid but do not have symptoms only need to quarantine for five days. The CDC then recommends five days of mask-wearing. The World Bank says nearly 100 million people fell into poverty during the covid pandemic. [Link]...
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Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Bomb Sniffing Dogs w/Bird
by Tommy Salmons | Jul 11, 2021 | Year Zero
Bird joined Bea and I on our show I Done Told You. We talk about airport employees, bomb sniffing dogs, and NYC. If you want more I Done Told You become a patron. Bird Twitter Timeline Earth 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course Donate Patreon...
Episode 394: A Critical Examination of the ‘Self-Help’ Industry w/ Antony Sammeroff
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 25, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
60 Minutes Strong Language Pete invited Antony Sammeroff to return to the show to do an overview of the "self-help" industry. Antony is a therapist by trade and wanted to discuss the failing he sees with the gurus who sell guides in airport book shops and host...
Iranian Plane Crash
by Scott Horton | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
As Tom Woods pointed out in this great speech 10 years ago, when there’s an earthquake, hurricane, plane crash or other major disaster in Iran, we all feel terrible and grieve for the loss of life and donate to charity over it and the rest. But then we’re supposed to...
Use of Facial Recognition in Airports Draws Anger
by Steven Woskow | Apr 27, 2019 | Blog
Eoin Higgins at Common Dreams: We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection," said Farrell. "They're identifying the traveler." "It's actually the U.S. government that's implementing the biometric...
Mean Old Racist Cindy McCain
by Scott Horton | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
This never would have happened if Mrs. McCain been prosecuted for stealing pills like a poor person would have been and locked in a cage like an animal where she belongs. Now look at her, all up in other people's business trying to cause some trouble and get some...
My Daughter Molested by TSA; Me Nearly Arrested for Objecting
by Dan McAdams | Aug 21, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
As I begin writing this, my innocent 13 year old little girl is in tears sitting in the terminal at Reagan International Airport. Somewhere back at the TSA checkpoint there is a middle aged woman who has just, in clear view of law enforcement, committed a sexual crime...
TSA and Border Patrol stole his life savings but never charged him with a crime
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | Jun 1, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
His American dream was helping his family in Albania. It ended when he walked through security at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. A U.S. citizen for more than a decade, Rustem Kazazi was flying back to Europe to help his Albanian family repair their home and...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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