“The bottom line is that no one – not the United States, not Israel, not the International Atomic Energy Agency – ever really believed Iran was developing nuclear weapons.”
“The ultimate goal of countries like Venezuela, Iran and Russia seems to be to create a parallel financial system under a new alliance of nations.”
Read more: https://moneyandmarkets.com/iran-russia-launching-cryptos/
“What the Venezuelan people are teaching Americans is that disarmament is a mistake that a nation can make only once.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/29/tyranny-and-gun-control-in-venezuela/
“Whether collectivists realize it or not, they voted to put those kids in cages separated from their families. They voted for Trump to inherit the Obama era powers.”
“The ACLU has sued over the practice of separating families at the border, though by the time that gets through the process, there will be much damage done to the children themselves, many if not most of whom came here seeking protection from violence in Central America. There’s also a strong argument that the policy violates international law and norms.”
“The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge.”
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“How did a person who should be in the criminal dock both in the US and in the International Criminal Court for running a torture prison get appointed the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency?”
Read more: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/05/19/64514/
Parents concerned about mass murders perpetrated in gun-free zones should ditch public schools for safer alternatives with better educational outcomes, writes Thomas Eckert.
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/it%E2%80%99s-time-focus-school-school-shooting
The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott which occurred in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1953, was the first large-scale boycott of a southern segregated bus system. The Baton Rouge Boycott inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott two years later. [..] The boycott was prompted partly by the 1950 decision by the Baton Rouge city council to support the financially strapped municipal bus company by revoking the licenses of nearly 40 competing black-owned companies.
Today, the Louisiana governor has barred companies expressing opposition to the Israeli government’s Gaza occupation policy from engaging in contracts with the state of Louisiana, becoming the 25th U.S. state to do so.
Then as now, what the State giveth, the State taketh away, so this sort of political correctness masquerading as commercial policy is not exactly new or surprising.
The real curiosity is that twenty-five U.S. states, now including the Democrat governor of a state with a microscopic Jewish population, would be so curiously eager to align their administrations with the territorial ambitions of a foreign government on the other side of the world.
Exactly what articulable public policy objective is being advanced by curtailing freedom of expression in this way? Well, perhaps the objective is not one of public policy, but to respond to a private pressure campaign. The effect, however, is to ensure that company owners that refuse to do business with the state of Israel are also placed at a disadvantage domestically: to be taxed just as heavily but to have fewer commercial opportunities.
If the courts do not curtail this practice (which almost certainly runs counter to the freedom of expression guarantees in state constitutions), one could certainly imagine this anti-boycott ‘tool’ being applied in a variety of ways to force merchants to perform services they would otherwise morally object to.
If it’s acceptable to extort merchants into fulfilling orders from a foreign government and to, say, bake gay wedding cakes, as is presently fashionable, perhaps forcing merchants to support Louisiana’s prison labor regime is a reasonable next step?
“Why the lie? Why keep saying that U.S. soldiers have died protecting our rights and freedoms? Because the truth is too embarrassing and too shameful.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/28/memorial-day-is-based-on-a-lie/