August 16, 2021
fromAlt-Market: “The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.”
fromWolfStreet: Now it’s new vehicles, restaurants, energy. Game of Whac-A-Mole as some price spikes slow while others begin. But it’s a lot worse than it seems.
fromWolfStreet: Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or the Tea Party movement over a decade ago.
fromBrownstoneInstitute: Free people produce crucial information. If it proves true that a failure to vaccinate is the path to hospitalization and death, broad societal vaccination will soon enough be a reasonable aim.
The NSA's inspector general opens investigation into allegations of illegal spying on Tucker Carlson
fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The NSA's independent investigator, Robert Storch, is a long-time D.C. bureaucrat, making it unlikely he'd formally investigate frivolous allegations of "unmasking."
fromJonathanTurley: Now, they refuse to report a major new development with the release of a videotape that purportedly shows Biden claiming that one of his laptops was stolen by Russians for blackmail purposes