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PayPal Releases Funds Seized From Independent Media Orgs

by Will Porter | May 5, 2022 | News Roundup

PayPal has reversed course after freezing thousands of dollars belonging to alternative media outlets Consortium News and MintPress News, agreeing to return money to both sites after seizing it without explanation last week.

News Roundup 5/3/2022

by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2022 | News Roundup

US News A judge grants qualified immunity to police officers who arrested and held a man for operating a parody Facebook account. [Link] The FBI conducted nearly 2 million warrantless searches using Russian cyber threats as an excuse. [Link] Lawmakers will likely...

News Roundup 5/1/2022

by Kyle Anzalone | May 1, 2022 | News Roundup

US News Paypal bans Consortium News The FBI conducted millions of warrantless data searches last year. [Link] The FDA moves forward with a proposal to ban menthol cigarettes. [Link] The Biden administration creates a disinformation board. [Link] The Coast Guard...

COI #269: The White House Launches New Attack on Free Speech

by Kyle Anzalone | May 1, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest

On COI #269, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news on Ukraine and free speech. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...

Russian Cyber Attacks Fail to Materialize After Biden Warned ‘It’s Coming’

by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 29, 2022 | News Roundup

One month after President Joe Biden warned Americans to prepare for cyberattacks from Russia, a US official said that Washington still has yet to detect any.

4/22/22 Mitchell Plitnick on Israel, Iran and a Cold War in the Middle East

by Scott Horton | Apr 29, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews Mitchel Plitnick about Israeli politics and the Iran Nuclear Deal. Plitnick begins by filling us in on the political situation in Israel, where a new coalition government is working to agree upon a budget by the Fall of 2023. If...

US Will ‘Strongly Support’ NATO Membership for Finland, Sweden

by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 29, 2022 | News Roundup

The United States will welcome Helsinki and Stockholm into the NATO alliance with open arms, Washington’s top diplomat told lawmakers. Russia has warned of steep consequences should the Western military bloc further expand to 32 members.

COI #268: Is Ukraine a Western/Russia Proxy War?

by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest

On COI #268, Kyle Anzalone discusses news from Ukraine, Korea, China, and Afghanistan. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...

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New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform

With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...

USC Bows Down to Pro-Israel Terrorists, Cancels Muslim-American’s Valedictorian Speech

No one hates Americans' sacred right of free speech more than Israel's American fifth column. No one is a bigger group of cowards than the USC Trojans. Always have been a bunch of sniveling little weaklings.

A War of Unyielding Horror

That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.

Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom

The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...

More on Immigration and Public Property

Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...

The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...