August 13, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: You're only one person, and the machine is so very powerful and so very deeply dug in, so all you can do is one person's best in each moment. Seize every opportunity you can find to spread awareness and throw sand in the gears of the machine, and rest assured that you've done all you can.

fromReason: Mandates, instead of incentives, were always going to drive people away. After all, mandates are only required when persuasion has no chance.

fromFoxNews: "California has not had sufficient security measures in place to prevent this level of fraud."

fromEpochTimes: "It isn’t due to modest warming, but rather to decades of federal and state mismanagement of publicly owned forests throughout the Western United States, leaving those forests in tinderbox conditions."

fromRealClearPolitics: The two meta-problems—the breakdown of order and erosion of public confidence — are deeply intertwined because we count on our leaders and institutions to give us reliable information, provide a stable environment (so each of us can go about our lives), and abide by the same rules we all do.

August 12, 2021                                             

fromDailyMail: It gives Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg the ability to award grants to local and regional entities 'to carry out pilot projects' of the VMT tax. The DOT would calculate drivers' payments quarterly.

fromDailyWire: “We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again.”

fromAmericanThinker: Mike Lindell has organized a Cyber Symposium that he claims will prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and he’s giving $5 million to anyone who can disprove his data. Lindell plans to unveil computer data in front of politicians, cyber experts, and reporters.

fromReason: Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                  Police State America

fromZeroHedge: The record number of job openings stands out in stark contrast to Americans who are still collecting various pandemic emergency unemployment claims, which in the latest week was just above 11 million.

fromNYPost: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its latest climate report, and reactions from politicians and media pundits could not have been more predictable.

August 11, 2021                                             

fromReason: They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.

fromReason: As early as 2026, new cars will have to come equipped with "advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology."

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: The real-world data - from Israel, the United States, and everywhere else - are clear. Vaccine protection from infection fades within months against both the original coronavirus and the Delta variant. 

fromTheHill: Thirty-one percent of registered voters in the Aug. 2-3 survey named inflation as what concerns them the most when thinking about the future of the economy. This was followed by the national debt, at 22 percent, and unemployment and income inequality, at 15 percent each.

fromVisualCapitalist: A great way to grasp issues is to see them.

fromMises: Far from being in a position of overwhelming strength, China and its Communist leadership face imminent multifront domestic crises that will threaten the existence not only of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but the existence of the Chinese state as a unified whole.

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