The video explicates an example of New York Times propaganda. It does so by comparing an NYT report to a report on the same subject by one of the most prestigious think tanks in the USA.

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Source: Mises Institute.

The Alex Jones verdict is fundamentally wrong.

In a free society, a private citizen saying things that other people are free to ignore is not punishable by law. In a society which does not respect free speech, however, merely saying words is apparently grounds of levying fines of hundreds of millions of dollars.

One might even say the verdict is morally wrong, but perhaps it is enough to question the legitimacy of defamation as a legal theory.

Eels.

A conversation in common sense.

Source: Fox News.

“The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is expected to announce later this week that the COVID-19 vaccine will be added to the list of required childhood vaccines.” As the story notes, there is no science to recommend the addition. On the contrary there is some science to recommend against it. Under these circumstances the proposed vaccine mandate would be exceptionally reckless.

Source: A Son of the New American Revolution.

Curiosities occur in war. Some may recall that Iran captured at U.S. drone back in 2011 during the Obama administration. The capture was significant for at least two technical reasons: (1) the advanced surveillance technology the unmanned aircraft carried, and (2) the airframe’s stealthy flying-wing design.

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Source: Wall Street Journal (free link).

The writer warns that the U.S. military industrial complex is not prepared to either deter or conduct a major war. The basic problem is that our weapons and ammunition are in short supply and our industry cannot produce the inventories we will need.

The warning sounds valid to me, but I wonder if the message will sink in where it should.

For me it is shocking to realize that my country — once the military-industrial wonder of the world — can’t even provide sustainment for a dinky little war like the one in Ukraine.

Source: A Son of the American Revolution.

The military analysts I follow think Russia may be planning a big offensive in early to mid November. The source article covers some of the reasons for thinking so. Not mentioned, but widely acknowledged is that Ukraine’s offensive that made so much news last month has dead ended.

Source: Mises Institute.

I like this brief essay because it supports my belief that no such thing as “supply and demand” exists.

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Source: The American Conservative.

The writer makes a fair point: “Are autocracy and democracy in a climactic ideological crusade to determine the destiny of mankind? For if that is the future, it is surely not America’s past.”

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