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We Must End the TSA 'License to Loot' | The Libertarian Institute
We Must End the TSA 'License to Loot' | The Libertarian Institute
 By James Bovard > For more than a decade, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with [$100 or more](https://libertarianinstitute.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aae39e31b9f819f1e2384ca07&id=266a243042&e=4d47a68367) in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. > More than 10,000 travelers have been stripped of their money by TSA agents since 2014. But the feds almost never bother filing criminal charges against the victims of asset forfeiture. TSA considers itself generous when it “permits the passenger to continue on to their destination”—after taking away their money. > Since 2019, the Institute for Justice, a non-profit constitutional law firm, has been fighting this TSA abuse. Their class action lawsuit was finally argued in federal court in Pittsburgh in February but no decision has been announced.
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We Must End the TSA 'License to Loot' | The Libertarian Institute \ stacker news
By James Bovard For more than a decade, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoin...
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Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand | The Libertarian Institute
Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand | The Libertarian Institute
 By Matt Wolfson > American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of “the uniparty” and the media its notion of “partisanship.” Through the “partisan” lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the “big five” weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful “progressive” or “Left” nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations. > But the “uniparty” theory of the case shared by many politically disenfranchised Americans is a more accurate read of our political reality. Indeed, Democrats are as in hock to corporate and military interests as Republicans, and the newer “New Democratic” Party they are promising as a replacement to Donald Trump is his mirror image—there to serve the same interests under a different and deceptive cultural guise. Tracing the development of the modern Democrats from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and how that development shapes them today, shows that every sector of the party—from “neoliberals” to “progressives” to the Left—is de facto arbitered by military corporate interests which determine its policies and propaganda.
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Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand | The Libertarian Institute \ stacker news
By Matt Wolfson American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. ...
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The Ox That's Breaking Your Fantasy Map ABOUT THIS VIDEO > Stop inventing your politics and start discovering them through the lens of medieval logistics. In this deep dive into worldbuilding, we move past the aesthetics of banners and bloodlines to look at the cold, hard math that built the feudal system: The Supply Chain. > Feudalism is just logistics wearing a crown. > Most worldbuilders place castles based on "vibes," but historical power was a solution to the Oxen Paradox. If an ox eats 10% of its cargo every fifty miles, your kingdom isn't defined by the King’s will—it’s defined by how far a sack of grain can travel before it’s worthless. > In this video, you will learn how to: > Read your terrain: Identify the four critical nodes—Chokepoints, Junctions, Surplus Zones, and Landlocked Specialists—that dictate where every barony must exist. > Utilize the Three-Day Rule: Understand the physics of the "Caloric Battery" and why river access provides a 4,000% energy subsidy to power. > Create Structural Conflict: Learn why Upstream "Source Lords" are naturally rebellious while Downstream "Gatekeeper Lords" are desperate diplomats. > Whether you are writing a low-fantasy epic or designing a complex TTRPG setting, this framework will help you move away from "costume humans" and toward a world that feels inevitable because it is rooted in causality. > Give your lords a job description, or delete them. I love this sort of thing. Geography is destiny.
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The Ox That's Breaking Your Fantasy Map \ stacker news
ABOUT THIS VIDEO Stop inventing your politics and start discovering them through the lens of medieval logistics. In this deep dive into worldbuildi...
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Lasers Revealed A Lost World Under The Amazon > The Amazon was one of the least explored frontiers on Earth… until now. Scientists are scanning the rainforest with advanced LiDAR technology to reveal lost structures hidden below the canopy for centuries. Could they finally uncover the legendary lost city of El Dorado?
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The Amazon was one of the least explored frontiers on Earth… until now. Scientists are scanning the rainforest with advanced LiDAR technology to ...
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“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism https://mises.org/mises-wire/creating-nation-declaration-independence-and-nation-anachronism By Joshua Mawhorter > Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later nationalist understanding backward onto the founding era.
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“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism \ stacker news
By Joshua Mawhorter Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachro...
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There Is No Reprieve in the Fed’s War on Savings https://mises.org/mises-wire/there-no-reprieve-feds-war-savings By Attila Rebak > The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon.
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By Attila Rebak The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and ...
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Who Owns the Airwaves and the Sea? https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-owns-airwaves-and-sea By Thiago V. S. Coelho > For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both.
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Who Owns the Airwaves and the Sea? \ stacker news
By Thiago V. S. Coelho For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by governme...
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Would Oil Bring a Resource Curse in Jamaica? https://mises.org/mises-wire/would-oil-bring-resource-curse-jamaica By Lipton Matthews > The possibility that there may be offshore oil deposits in Jamaica has brought some to say that finding oil would actually be harmful to the nation’s economy and social fabric. Jamaican Lipton Matthews takes issue with that claim.
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Would Oil Bring a Resource Curse in Jamaica? \ stacker news
By Lipton Matthews The possibility that there may be offshore oil deposits in Jamaica has brought some to say that finding oil would actually be ha...
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The Big Apple’s Woes Are Not Just the Result of One Election https://mises.org/mises-wire/big-apples-woes-are-not-just-result-one-election By Gregory Bresiger > Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for many years, and Mamdani promises to make things even worse.
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The Big Apple’s Woes Are Not Just the Result of One Election \ stacker news
By Gregory Bresiger Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for man...
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The Wicked Witch of Eccles Hates Sound Money https://mises.org/mises-wire/wicked-witch-eccles-hates-sound-money By George Ford Smith > The Federal Reserve might be experiencing a change of leadership, but the process of currency debasement that began more than a century ago continues.
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The Wicked Witch of Eccles Hates Sound Money \ stacker news
By George Ford Smith The Federal Reserve might be experiencing a change of leadership, but the process of currency debasement that began more than ...
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After 75 Years, Human Action Is Still the Standard for Understanding Economics https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/after-75-years-human-action-still-standard-understanding-economics > David Gordon reviews *The Influence and Significance of* Human Action *After 75 Years* edited by Joseph T. Salerno. He recommends this new book and *Human Action*.
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After 75 Years, Human Action Is Still the Standard for Understanding Economics \ stacker news
David Gordon reviews The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years edited by Joseph T. Salerno. He recommends this new book and Hum...
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Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 84: Choose your own Adventure • Listen on Fountain
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Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 84: Choose your own Adventure • Listen on Fountain
Undisciplined and GrayRuby are joined by a guest. They can hear the guest but you can't. What did the guest say? It's up to you!Come say hi. https:...
 > Undisciplined and GrayRuby are joined by a guest. They can hear the guest but you can't. What did the guest say? It's up to you! Apparently we only have to endure one tech failure per episode. At least the episode is up on time and we got our AI editing tools back.
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Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 84: Choose your own Adventure • Listen on Fountain \ stacker news
Undisciplined and GrayRuby are joined by a guest. They can hear the guest but you can't. What did the guest say? It's up to you! Apparently we only...
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Will Congress Expose Israel's 60-Year Nuclear Secret? -The Libertarian Institute
Will Congress Expose Israel's 60-Year Nuclear Secret? | The Libertarian Institute
 By Jose Nino > Israel has maintained a deliberate posture known as nuclear opacity—in Hebrew,[ amimut](https://libertarianinstitute.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aae39e31b9f819f1e2384ca07&id=378f3bc681&e=4d47a68367)—for nearly six decades. The policy was formally codified in 1969 in a secret accord between Prime Minister Golda Meir and President Richard Nixon, and has remained in place ever since.[ As *Foreign Affairs* summarized](
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Bringing Israel's Bomb Out of the Basement
For decades, Israel has maintained an "opaque" nuclear posture -- neither confirming nor denying that it possesses nuclear weapons. The time has co...
 it combines secrecy, signaling, and denial: officials are prohibited “both by law and by custom” from discussing nuclear activities; Israel implies capability without confirming it; and the government neither confirms nor denies possession. > The canonical formula, first given by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1966 and repeated ever since by [Aviezer Pazner](https://libertarianinstitute.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aae39e31b9f819f1e2384ca07&id=db5dfab40e&e=4d47a68367), is that Israel “will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East.” The goal, as scholar Avner Cohen has [documented](
Wrestling With Nuclear Opacity | Arms Control Association
 is to allow Israel to “live in the best of all possible worlds by having the bomb but without having to deal with many of the negative consequences that such possession entails”—namely international sanctions, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations, and a formal nuclear arms race in the region.
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Will Congress Expose Israel's 60-Year Nuclear Secret? -The Libertarian Institute \ stacker news
By Jose Nino Israel has maintained a deliberate posture known as nuclear opacity—in Hebrew, amimut—for nearly six decades. The policy was forma...
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Why Does America Keep Testing Failed 'Decapitation' Strategies?
Why Does America Keep Testing Failed 'Decapitation' Strategies? | The Libertarian Institute
 By Jose Nino > The United States has long operated under a seductive strategic fantasy. Remove the leader of an adversary organization, whether a drug cartel, a terrorist group, or a sovereign state, and that organization will collapse, enabling American interests to fill the resulting vacuum. > However, decades of academic literature, hard empirical data from Mexico’s drug war, and the lived consequences of America’s post 9/11 targeted killing campaigns all tell a damning story many in the DC ruling class refuse to acknowledge. Decapitation strategies are, at best, tactically satisfying and strategically hollow. At worst, they escalate violence, radicalize successors, and produce precisely the instability they were designed to prevent. > The ongoing U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran represents the most ambitious test of this doctrine in history. The results so far are deeply troubling.
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Why Does America Keep Testing Failed 'Decapitation' Strategies? \ stacker news
By Jose Nino The United States has long operated under a seductive strategic fantasy. Remove the leader of an adversary organization, whether a dru...
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Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 82: Playing Under Protest and No Losers Allowed
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Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 82: Playing Under Protest and No Losers Allowed • Listen on Fountain
Undisciplined and GrayRuby talk the territory, NBA and NHL playoffs, MLB, NFL and more. Come say hi. https://stacker.news/~Stacker_Sports/new
 It finally found its way to Fountain! It's been so long since we recorded this that I need to listen back through to remember what we talked about. Happy listening!
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Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 82: Playing Under Protest and No Losers Allowed \ stacker news
It finally found its way to Fountain! It's been so long since we recorded this that I need to listen back through to remember what we talked about....
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