US News Steve Bannon has been arrested for defrauding donors to the “We Build the Wall” fundraiser. [Link] The US will use funds frozen by sanctions on Venezuela to fund the regime change effort against Maduro. [Link] UN Trump says the US will push for snapback sanctions against Iran at the UN. [Link] The UK, France and Germany say they cannot support the US efforts to reimpose sanctions on Iran. [Link] Afghanistan The Afghan Army is preparing to fire on the Pakistani Army if it crosses the border. [Link] Trump says he would retaliate if other countries are proven to have paid the...
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News Roundup 2/14/20
US News Space Force General Jay Raymond is currently the only soldier in the new branch. Over the next year, 6,000 members of the Air Force will transfer to the Space Force. In 2021, 100 members of the Army will transfer. The Space Force currently has 16,000 people working for it. [Link] Trump plans to move $3.8 billion from the Pentagon to build the wall. The money will come from the National Guard and weapons projects. [Link] The Senate passed a resolution preventing Trump from waging war against Iran without Congressional authorization. [Link] AFRICOM confirms it will reduce US forces...
News Roundup 3/4/19
US News Amazon removes ‘anti-vax’ content from Prime Video. [Link] Trump says he will sign an executive order that requires colleges to protect free speech to get federal research grants. [Link] The Supreme Court blocks the execution of a man whose dementia prevents him from understanding the reason he is being punished. The man spent 33 years in solitary confinement. [Link] The Post Office is using the Mail Cover Program to scan the front and back of envelopes. The Post Office makes the scans available to federal law enforcement without a warrant. [Link] Immigration Senator Rand Paul...
Stealing Land to Build Trump’s Wall
As I have repeatedly emphasized over the years, a system of immigration controls inevitably involves immigration enforcement measures. That is, when we talk about immigration controls, we are not simply referring to a sign at the border that says: “Do not enter without the official permission of the U.S. government.” No immigrant would pay any attention to such a sign. Thus, to enforce the immigration-control system, the federal government increasingly enacts immigration-enforcement measures, which inevitably involve a violation of the libertarian non-aggression principle. They stop...
“Build the Wall” With Slave Labor, Urges Massachusetts Sheriff
“Liberty, if I understand it at all, is a general principle, and the clear right of the subjects within the realm, or of none,” declared British statesman Edmund Burke in an April 3, 1777 message to the Sheriffs of Bristol. “Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery. But, unfortunately, it is the kind of slavery the most easily admitted in times of civil discord: for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies.” The tyrannical measures that had provoked the American rebellion, wrote Burke, threatened liberty...
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