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Ludwig von Mises explica por qué fracasa el socialismo

¿Por qué fracasa el socialismo? Fracasa porque es la negación misma de la idea del hombre economizador. Aboliendo la propiedad privada de los bienes de producción, el socialismo suprime el mercado para ellos y hace imposible que los precios de mercado surjan y que los costes de producción sean computados, lo que perjudica el mecanismo de pérdidas y ganancias. Ludwig von Mises llegó a Estados…

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By Ryan McMaken Mises.org

January 14, 2025

President Joe Biden awarded the so-called Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pope Francis on Saturday. The award, according to the White House, is allegedly reserved to “individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”

It’s unclear what the Pope Francis—who is well known for a kneejerk loathing of American Catholics—has ever contributed to American civilization or society. Indeed, Francis recently signaled his contempt for American victims of sexual abuse by appointing Robert McElroy as the next archbishop of Washington, DC. McElroy has spent most of his career as a longtime defender, ally, and confidant of known criminal pederast Theodore McCarrick and his toady Archbishop Donald Wuerl.

But, who can be surprised by such theater from the Biden White House? It is no different from any other administration of recent decades which dole out these awards to important fundraisers and political allies. In many other cases, presidents just hand out these awards to people the presidents would like to meet and would like to be photographed with. Many of these “great” Americans are just actors and pro athletes, people who do nothing of consequence beyond performing various entertainments on TV screens.

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some thoughts on austrian economics, empiricism, and price controls.

so i've been chewing over thiw quote from mises.org regarding the place of empiricism in austrian economics:

So then, statistics aren’t “eschewed”as such; rather, they are relegated to their proper place in the economic edifice. Just because the Austrian does not think that laws of economics are discovered by complex models, does not mean that statistics in general are never to be used. This would be like complaining that the laws of logic have never been “proven” by statistics. It is in the nature of logical laws that they are not determined by empirical investigation, but rather, are presupposed. So then, when we are accused of dismissing empirical evidence, we ought to point out that statistics by their very epistemological nature cannot disprove those things which are discovered by a priori thinking. Statistics are chock full of their own assumptions, correlations, temporal conditions, and more, which render them wholly insufficient to provide unbreakable laws of economic theory. Bring me a study that proves price controls don’t work and I will point you to another that proves minimum wages are the secret to a prosperous economy.

this is, obviously, extremely extremely stupid. if you find that different studies contradict each other, the way to proceed is to do more studies, gather more data, figure out what's going on. maybe one of the studies was simply incorrect, maybe both studies were critically flawed, maybe price controls work in one situation but not others, maybe price controls on labor are fundamentally different than price controls on commodities, etc. etc. etc.

the answer is not to retreat into navel-gazing circle-jerking and thought experiments rooted in a priori thinking.

also the idea that the laws of economics, inherently a social science relating to the actions of people, could ever be quite as iron-clad and unchangeable as the laws of logic, is nonsense. human behavior can and does change over time, and consequently the laws governing human behavior, including economics, can change over time, especially in response to changes in technology or our relation to resources, so the idea that we should be looking primarily to a priori thinking to discern the laws of economics is fundamentally broken on the face of it.

that said, the idea that statistics can't disprove things discovered through a priori thinking is also broken on the face of it. yes they can? a priori thinking is obviously completely capable of being incorrect, and if empirical evidence is repeatedly showing that the things you discovered through a priori thinking don't hold up, then that means your a priori thinking was wrong.

which all brings me back to price controls- for the record, the ancap/libertarian/austrian economics stance on price controls is that they're always catastrophic, always wreck economic havoc, etc. etc. etc. you can find various statements to that effect in the articles on the "price control" tag on mises.org.

anyways. china uses price controls extensively. every year. none of this has prevented china from seeing growing life expectancy, growing gdp, reduction in poverty, etc. etc. etc. china does not see the empty shelves due to shortages that austrian economics says they should.

this is not to say, of course, that price controls never cause shortages, obviously, famously price controls caused extensive gas shortages in the 70's, but if there are repeated, consistent examples of a country using price controls extensively without significant ill effect, then the "unbreakable rule" your a priori thinking "discovered" is simply not unbreakable, and it's worth looking into the evidence to see the how and the why of the exemptions to that rule. but of course austrian economists would rather retreat into the comforting certainty of their models rather than deal with the messiness and unpredictability of real life.

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Maybe should go through some of those fun mises.org posts as I sometimes do in honor of Milei's victory, we all can learn how libertarianism means you can't leave your house without being shot in a pandemic, how the first move of any libertarian government must be to lock everyone up in labor camps as receivers of stolen goods, and how as long as the police can beat a confession out of you in the end they can torture you with impunity.

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CROSSROADS: 'Hubris', Hamas, Israel, & The Collapse of The Fiat Global Order - By Theo Bishop

Source – mises.org “….Instead of trying to curb Gaza’s Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah…Israel’s experience echoes that of the U.S., which, during the Cold War, looked to Islamists as a…

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On Monday’s Episode of the Tucker Carlson Show, Carlson interviewed Catholic Bishop Robert Barron, largely to discuss topics related to the election of Pope Leo XIV. Most of the interview is unremarkable for our purposes here at mises.org, but at one point, the discussion touched on the problem of usury and the modern financial economy. Usury has long been a topic of confusion and imprecision among those interested in learning the history of Western political thought vis-à-vis market economics. It is often presumed that Christianity’s historical prohibition on usury would, if applied consistently, prohibit money lending in exchange for any compensation paid … Continue reading →

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“Epic lecture on Israel”

Original source: https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-israel-vs-hasbara-history

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Transcript:

Deepest gratitude to our beloved Lou Rockwell and to my and to my good friend Dr. Tom DeLorenzo for inviting me here. I'm thrilled to be with you. My topic is the real Israel versus Hasbara history. Hopefully some of you know what Hasbara is. When America's regime historians reflect on histories, tragedies, and travesties, they always praise Pax Americana.

That is the idea that American empire hegemony brought peace to the world. Conveniently, they leave out the horrors of it. Naturally, regime historians, the ones we are here to counter, speak a lot about Hitler. They hardly ever mention Hiroshima. Likewise, has Israel shaped its past, mixing some history with myth to render a myth history.

The propaganda sustaining Israel's counterfeit history is called Hasbaraa. which means explanation in Hebrew. Hasbara constructs serve to coat Israel's real crimes against humanity with ideological respectability, to give these some purity of purpose. Think of Hasbara as the steady supply of bogus artificial constructs to rape reality. Think of Hasbara, undeniably, compared to Hasbara,

American foreign policy has a certain narrative talent. The injustices of imperial power notwithstanding, people are persuaded by the strut of it. Less obvious is the appeal of Israeli Hasbara and the Jewish supremacy that goes with it and has seduced so many Christians into ignoring Christ's teachings. Christ commands care not for the oppressor and the predator,

but for the poor and the oppressed. Hasbara and official myth history aside, because of Gaza, you don't have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric.

Shortly after October 7, with the commencement in Gaza of Israel's Operation Swords of Iron, certain self-evident truths became crystal clear. By late October, Israel's actions within and without Gaza had shown the world the absolute depravity of Israel, state and civil society. Thanks. One such emerged reality is that Palestinians, not Israeli Jews, as Hasbarah teachers,

are the most imperiled people in the world, Israelis the most perilous. Another is that Israel, with overwhelming support from the Jewish-Israeli public, has gleefully engaged in methodical, indiscriminate, industrial-scale murder and ethnic cleansing ongoing. The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, were allowed to obliterate the fundamentals of physical, national, and economic life in Gaza,

turning it into an uninhabitable post-apocalyptic wasteland. The strip has been reduced to its subsoil particulate elements, only badly soiled. Gaza is now a mass grave along a small stretch of the Mediterranean Sea where living ghosts wander. Gaza's soil is soaked through with a mix of millions of tons of building debris,

the decaying bodies of tens of thousands of human beings, their pets, livestock, fauna and flora all gone, an inferno of garbage, open sewage, and the byproducts and contaminants of munitions like unexploded ordnance. Said a scholar of the architecture of occupation, Israel has stolen from Gaza's Palestinians the very ability to produce food or

receive it or use means of exchange to get it. Banking was dismantled. Believe it or not, but under years of medieval blockade, Gaza's farmers had, before October 7, fed a third of their people. Indeed, Israel has systemized the mass murder and displacement of innocent Palestinian civilians, targeting them and their habitat for total warfare.

Since war against civilians is a war on civilization, Israel, by extension, is the enemy of civilization. Our ally Israel is a country in which genocide, snuff films, extrajudicial assassinations, rape, robbery, torture and starvation of the Palestinians are de facto legal. Israel is thus a criminal entity and a threat to the comity of nations.

The indictment against Israel ought to have been hermetically sealed. Israel's ethnocide and democide in Gaza is in violation of most systems of ethics known to man over intellectual history. It is in violation of God's law, the Ten Commandments. These command not to covet, steal, or murder. It is in violation of libertarian law, the axiom of non-aggression.

It is in violation of natural justice, the laws of war, although genocide is not war, as well as humanitarian law. And it is in violation of the systems of law within which the above is subsumed, the natural and the positive law. Right and wrong are universal, not relative. The sixth commandment is neither opinion nor optional.

Thou shalt not murder or mass murder is called a commandment for a reason. There is no tribal privilege clause attached to it. Like Gentiles, Jews are enjoined against wanton murder. Yet Israelis now flout the sixth commandment with ugly audacity. Over the months, I have closely observed Israel as it pulverizes population centers across the Levant.

I've listened in Hebrew to Israeli Jewish public and political discourse. In Hebrew, the Jewish Israeli public personalities and the public express an impatient, snarling contempt for accusations of genocide. offering an unbroken stream of genocide justification, Hasbara. It's like Israeli Jews are yawning, waiting on the world to wake up to the fact that their lives do matter more,

and that any aberrant action taken to make them feel safe must be allowed. And it is allowed. Israel has played its genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza to a packed house to the world. Israeli Jews don't lack for facts, but most appear without the analytical and ethical faculties to examine their actions.

They lead the unexamined lives of self-anointed superior beings. societally majorities appear to project the sense that their sectarian supremacy transcends the universal moral order to which international law the natural law and the decalogue give expression The natural law is a system of ethics knowable through reason, revelation and experience, whichever floats your boat.

Because it's anchored in the very existential nature of man and reality, the natural law is the highest law known to man and is therefore deductively true and just. An example is the libertarian non-aggression axiom. For reasons obvious, there should be no difference between how classical liberals or anarchists understand the non-aggression axiom,

which is the organizing principle of libertarianism. Minarchist, anarchist, or statist, genocide is forbidden. The positive law, on the other hand, is the creation of the state. Legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. In teasing out right from wrong, we discriminate between acts that are criminal because the state has criminalized them,

as opposed to acts which are universally criminal. Most civilizing systems of ethics stipulate that no one has a right to kill a single innocent human being, let alone hundreds of thousands of members of a group. There again, Israel's sacking of Gaza is universally evil. Lest I be accused of arguing in circles around the definition of genocide,

I'll briefly mention genocide in the context of international versus the natural law. Israel has aced the genocide bar, namely the prohibitions in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention on destroying a group in whole or in part and or making life unbearable for that group. Men's rear intent in Western jurisprudence and judicial philosophy is a component of genocide.

If Palestinians were accorded equality before the law, any law, national or international, then by 2023's end, logically and perhaps legally, Israelis would have been seen as having both spoken their guilty minds and acted out their genocidal intent on the ground. Mass murder is never unintentional when you know it is inevitable and incidental to your mission.

If you know in advance that your actions will cause the deaths of thousands upon thousands of innocents, attached to your criminal actions is a guilty mind, man's rear. America shares in Israel's genocidal guilty mind. The US regime has been a worshipful partner in Israel's vice. It has supplied munitions for mass murder. It has provided diplomatic cover.

It has issued seven vetoes and abstentions in the UN Security Council to enable Israel's continued atrocities. For wanting to expel, arrest, protest or boycott Israelis, America has menaced countries, legal organs and American residents. America has helped Israeli Hasbara in asserting self-defense to justify collective punishment. and America has helped Israel to frame state terrorism as self-defense,

normalizing the structural violence that is the state of Israel. The genocide of Gazans was happily and willingly underwritten by the United States government, the American political class, and its Julius Streicher media, which even mid-murder describe Israelis as victims. On the matter of industrial-scale mass murder,

international law is not at odds with the natural law or the libertarian law. Such is the case of the Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It articulates mostly a set of negative rights. Their enforcement imposes no burden on anybody but the sadistic sociopathic serial killers under discussion.

Most libertarians would concede that the state now acts extra judicially and that any remnants of the natural law once embedded in the US Constitution have long since been buried beneath the rubble of legislation and statute. Let us say then that to the extent that law, local, international, tribal, upholds no more than natural rights, law is okay.

To the extent that law violates the rights to life, liberty and property, law is bad. To the extent state law agrees with a natural law, to that extent it's inoffensive. By extension, it matters not who upholds the rights of Palestinians to life and land just so long as someone does. It matters not which state,

which federal official or international organization or which platoon, Hezbollah or the Houthis, just so long as someone does. In America, federalism means divided sovereignty, which, if we are to take James Madison seriously, should make it difficult for states to begin executing their residents.

Why would it be a matter of respect for a country's sovereignty to allow Israel to systematically occupy and subjugate a population on the off chance that they eliminate some terrorists whom by now most consider resistance fighters. Most should. Make no mistake, in human rights law, there is a responsibility to protect a community that is being evicted and

eradicated. There's a right to resist, too, under the Hague regulations on belligerent occupation. Neither offends the natural law. Resistance fighters argue that they are heeding this calling, the responsibility to protect. Israel ought to have been forcibly stopped, its innocent victims protected. You don't placate a John Wayne Gacy and a Jeffrey Dahmer. You stop them.

But not as the axis of genocide sees it. The Arab societies are non-woke societies. The fact that Gaza, the West Bank, Syria and Yemen were and are largely traditional societies, not co-opted woke societies, has certainly helped the West justify their mistreatment. You see, the woke masters of the Western universe consider non-woke societies as without the

natural right of resistance. Their resistance we call terrorism. Given that nobody has effectively upheld the legal responsibility to protect Palestinians, all but the spirit of Gaza is gone. Consider the great Palestinian return to northern Gaza in January of 2025. The erasure of over 2,000 Gazan bloodlines, family trees gone, an epic event took place despite that erasure.

Processions of Palestinians in their thousands returned to their ruined homes in northern Gaza. You see, the land is central to Palestinian identity. What greater proof is there of the ancestral homesteader claims that Palestinians have to Palestine than this devotion, this resilience? Contrast this Palestinian rootedness and resilience with Israel's squirrelly northern and southern settler populations.

Israeli Jews have not returned to towns in Israel's north or south. Rather, their love of the land is predicated on its ethnic cleansing. Only if their army obliterates even the slightest danger posed by their indigenous neighbors will Israeli settlers return. For yet more of a contrast, look too at the repulsive levels of Israeli environmental destruction in Gaza.

This speaks, among many other things, to Israel's profound alienation from an ecosystem it shares and claims to care about. Israeli Jews have a greed for the land, not a love of it. Back to our nemesis, the state. What about the moral authority of a democratic state? Surely our ally Israel shares our democratic values, or so we elected.

Well, murder with majority approval is still murder, whomever the perpetrator. Whether it is committed by the decree of the one dictator or the will of the many, by actors within or without the state, by the designated good guys or by the bad guys, murder of innocence is always murder.

You would be correct to conclude, however, that this 21st century Holocaust is popular. Thumping majorities across Israel's public and private sectors have throughout justified, finessed, and fibbed about their army's AI high-tech driven depopulation and extermination orgy in Gaza. Eager to write the Palestinian obituary, as late in the genocide as February of 2025,

80% of Jewish Israelis signaled their support for Trump's plan for Gaza. Only 3% thought it immoral. Trump's plan is an extension and completion of Joe Biden's genocide, which included the internal displacement, depopulation, and large-scale extermination of the Strip and its people. First, Donald Trump has proposed to cover up Israel's crime of genocide,

removing the pitiful exhibits from the scene of the crime. Next, he planned to conclude Joe's genocide by scattering the survivors across the Middle East. Israel will have been rescued. Gazans will have ceased to exist as a nation. The liquidation and extermination campaign in the Gaza ghetto would have been completed. debating and committing genocidal violence, forcibly displacing millions,

starving a subjugated population. All this many of Trump backers called out of the box thinking. Who said crime doesn't pay? When the superpower inverts the moral order of the universe, the crime of all crime pays and then some. In any case, genocide has won a plebiscite in Israel. No surprise. Remember, the IDF is Israel.

It's a citizen army in which every Israeli must serve. It's the voice of the Jewish-Israeli Commonwealth. Israel's sons and daughters are the stars in the country's genocide constellation. We've watched them level Gaza, vaporize young men picking their way through rubble as though in a video game, mock their victims, snipe their kids, rape their men, rob their businesses,

rummage through the intimate effects of people dead and dispossessed, invade and explode entire residential buildings. True, all Israeli Jews are conscripted and must enlist in this army. However, the military draft does not compel a conscript to commit, chronicle and crow over what is institutionalized, legalized, serial killer type crime.

The pride and joy seen recorded and then transmitted to the world from thousands of IDF mobile phones over months has been voluntary, spontaneous, and organic to Israeli society's tenor and project. So please let us hear no Nuremberg defense. I was only following orders must not be tolerated in mitigation of the IDF.

The evidence is conclusive, IDF, shoot, loot, and bomb for fun. No doubt the Israeli state is genocidal, but by the numbers and by their statements, Israeli society is as sociopathic. From janitor to general, from soldiers to Supreme Court justices. As uncomfortable as this is for us, for the libertarian individualist, the facts are clear.

On the matter of the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, Israeli Jewish society does not stand apart from the Jewish state. Throughout, polled opinion in Israel was not split between Jewish Israelis for mass murder versus Israelis against mass murder and ethnic cleansing. No. The division in Israeli society has been between Jewish Israelis for current levels

of violence against Gazans versus those for greater or lesser industry in what were already industrial levels and methods of murder. By the Poles, nothing outside their self-righteous and self-obsessed selves mattered to a preponderance of Jewish Israelis. Israeli Jews by and large have become a sorority of Jewish supremacists,

and Palestinians have paid a terrible price for Israel's systemic societal sociopathy. Ask Israelis about Palestinian babies, shredded to bits, real beheadings, and they'll dish Hasbara. It's all in self-defense, and it's all the doing of a third party. Guess who made them do the genocide? Hamas. It's not me, says the criminal. Hamas ate my homework.

I mean my conscience. This is Israel's third party theory of culpability. Israel vomits it up, the West laps it up. The Hamas made me mass murder non sequitur exposes Israel's Hasbara for its irrationality. Since when do you blame a third party for your ongoing crimes in real time? Put it this way,

the state in which you live has no right to evict you from your home and bomb your neighborhood because its agents believe outlaws hide in your neighborhood. The crime of passion defense is bad enough. The third party theory of culpability must never bolster it. The crime of passion defense we associate with a single event,

not with sadistic serial killers loosed for months on end on millions of innocents across the Via Della Rosa that is Gaza. Yes, Israel has an historic passion, all right, but for methodical mass murder. See, the IDF is not a fighting force. It's an air force. Judged from its actions over time,

this air force's objectives are not to defeat a regular army, but to pound population centers into submission in Gaza, across the Levant, and beyond. What other country has not only had killer practices codified in law, but also named? The Dahiya doctrine is named after the southern suburbs of Beirut,

upon whose Shia civilians the Israeli Air Force has perfected its predation. Mowing the lawn, that's a term used across Israel to signal murder sprees periodical against Palestinian civilians to keep populations subdued. Fans of true crime TV, me, will remember the Highway I-5 serial killer. Imagine his killer craft being dubbed the I-5 doctrine and Wikipedia describing

this infamous serial killer murder of women as an originator of the I-5 doctrine. Without a doubt, public protest too in Israel has followed a strictly me-me solipsistic self-interest. There was little transcendent humanity whatsoever in Israeli hostage protests. Remember this. By the numbers and by their own words, most Israeli Jews were simply demanding a return of their hostages.

Said one Israeli pundit, Israelis want their hostages back, they don't want Gaza back. If the Israeli state is a criminal entity, what then can be said about the US? Israel's war on Gaza, the West Bank, and the Greater Levant is America's war. Like it or not, Gaza is our genocide. We hear disinterested mumblings about the national interest.

Don't talk to me about Gaza. It's of no national interest, the United States of America. I'm afraid it's too late for the national interest, dodge. The U.S. is an interventionist hegemon. It has aided, abetted, and partaken in, via reconnaissance, an extermination campaign in Gaza. Besides often being immoral, the national interest argument is a form of statism.

The premise of national interest political pragmatism leads to this perverse logic. If enabling the slaughter of Gazans and Iraqis happened to be in the American national interest, then those endeavors would have been justified in accordance with the national interest standards. In other words, if the US government considered genocide in the national interest, then genocide it is.

America should act on its divine rights as global judge, jury, and executioner. No, genocide is not a foreign policy matter. It is a moral matter. And the United States' energetic support for the Gaza Holocaust is a defining event in the annals of American foreign policy aberrations and in the national life.

While American foreign policy is a museum of horrors, Gaza is now the main exhibit. Why is Gaza qualitatively different from foreign policy deformities that went before? Here's why, in my opinion. So far, America's foreign policy has been largely focused on regime change program, where collateral damage is largely concealed but framed as incidental to a political program.

Again and again, the American masters of the universe have gone to war to make the world woke. Namely, make it over in America's image. As well as make the world safe for Israel, of course. Mass murder within the American foreign policy framework has generally been secondary to a program of warring to make the world woke.

Crudely put, be like us or we'll kill you. In Gaza, however, America's participated in mass murder for the sake of murder. In Gaza, Uncle Sam has finally achieved an official or formal inversion of all universal values. What the US has approved and assisted in Gaza is a prime time 21st century Holocaust.

In a sense, Israel has affected a radical ethical inversion in America. Sects of Christianity can no longer distinguish Satan from God, mutually exclusive categories. They favor apex edicts over the commandment of the Prince of Peace. but you are what you do. The Israeli state is genocidal,

not by virtue of its actions and the declared intent accompanying these actions, not because it has been denounced as genocidal by so-called anti-Semites and terrorist sympathizers. Said Jesus, therefore by their fruits you will know them. Another of Hasbara's aims is to frame IDF's ongoing extermination campaign against a population of cornered civilians in Gaza, the West Bank,

and East Jerusalem as byproducts of war, as incidental to a just war prosecuted by brave fighters. If it's portrayed as a war crime, genocide can be dismissed as no more than a case of, oops, bad things happen in the butcher shop of war. In Gaza, however, Israel has waged genocide, not war.

Dressing up a canned hunt as a war is pure Hasbara. Genocide is not a war. The genocide as war crime conceptualization provides cover and lends authority to criminals and criminality. You mitigate and minimize genocide when you call it a war crime. You see, genocide is not a war crime to which a set of mitigating and explanatory legal

defenses can attach. Genocide is a standalone, indefensible crime of all crimes for which there are no legal or moral defenses. There are no extenuating circumstances, historical, legal, or other for genocide. True, Israel's genocide has been disrupted by asymmetric warfare from non-state Palestinian resistance fighters. But there is an enormous power differential between occupier and occupied.

That the serial killers encounter organized regional resistance does not make genocide a war. So far, I've anatomized what Israel's state and society has done to the Gaza Strip and its people since October 7. But what have Gazans, the living and the martyred, accomplished a great deal? Outwardly captives,

Palestinians are truly liberated from the liberal political propaganda that grips the West. They have made us see Israel as an irreparably corrupt force, morally and militarily. The genocide of Gaza has very plainly invalidated Israel and validated the Palestinian cause. A moral, sentient human being need know nothing much about the history of the region to

arrive at this conclusion. Here's why. You've seen Israel for the contradiction it is. Israel astonishingly has engaged in the mother of all performative contradictions. Denying genocide while publicly committing genocide. Effectively asserting a birthright to do genocide. Israel demands to exist as a privileged, protected aberration, carrying out satanic deeds with universal blessings and absolution. Think about it.

Caught in the protracted, planful act of committing genocide, the guilty party Israel persists in claiming for itself the right to kill and deceive without being considered and treated as a killer and con artist. The chutzpah. To no avail, human action, as Mises taught us, is the undeniable key to man-made reality. Israel and the US have acted.

They've been exposed. Ethnicide, depopulation, and homicide are never justified and can never be exculpated. To assert that you are just and justified, as you carry out that which cannot be just or justified, This is to embody the most grotesque contradiction and to be less than human, less than coherent. At minimum,

Israel deserves the revulsion and isolation reserved for entities whose existence is a confidence trick and a fraud upon us all. The same ahistoric Hoppian argumentation, God bless Hopper, applied to invalidate Israel will serve here to validate the Palestinians' reality as they have been telling it over decades. Israel's televised genocide has corroborated the reality of the Palestinians,

their reason for rage, and their rights to resistance and recompense. Palestinians have been telling us for decades that they have been set upon by murderers and thieves. Palestinians have told us they are being killed and robbed as a matter of course. Their reality has been irrefutably affirmed since October 7. Now,

if supporters of Israel's genocide in Gaza deny this, they too would be fraudsters living a lie. The liar's life of lies we expose by compelling the denier of the Palestinian Holocaust to live his own lie. Deniers of the Palestinian reality, Ben Shapiro, Barry Weiss, Biden, Bibi, Blinken, Douglas Murray, Dennis Prager, would be parachuted into occupied Gaza.

Genocide would become their lived reality, not their rhetorical reality. running here and there as tanks advance on the denier, ducking and diving bombardments from above, as if you can escape the death radius of American-made 2,500-pound bombs. These Holocaust deniers would be recorded scratching for scraps, carrying jerrycans of contaminated drinking water back to nylon dwellings.

climbing over kilometers of decaying structures through ruins and twisted metal. Our camera will find these Holocaust deniers queuing with thousands to use a single functioning toilet, plumbing having been destroyed by the Israelis. The denier of the Palestinian Holocaust would be filmed up close, suffering dysentery, sepsis and starvation, intubated, amputated or C-sectioned without narcotics.

twisting on a hospital floor smeared by blood and waste, listening to the incessant whirring above of Israel's quadcopter killer drones. The Holocaust denier will therefore live this absolute truth, the ontological truth of Israel's final solution to its Palestinian problem. The nature of Palestinian reality is as they've been telling it. QED, proposition proven. In conclusion,

books are now being written more about Israeli and Jewish anguish than about the victims. Being Jewish after Gaza is one Israel's theocracy, Israel's moral and military degeneration, Israel's looming collapse. When did it begin? Right wing, left wing, why, why, why? Everyone is beating on breast about Israel.

An apt response are the words of a character from Southern literature. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. And neither should you worry about the perpetrators of genocide only to the extent that punishment is exacted upon Israel for what it has done to the Palestinians, that reparations and restitution are extracted from Israel in perpetuity for the Palestinians. Thank you.

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WAKE UP, AMERICA! Canada's Tariff Tyranny Exposed!

Prepare for the truth bomb! Canada's been pulling the wool over our eyes for DECADES, folks! They've got this so-called "supply management" system, which is nothing but a fancy name for BLOCKING American goods from their markets!

The Great Dairy Heist:

Milk: A whopping 270% tariff - that's right, 270%! They're literally milking us dry! Source: https://mises.org/wire/dairy-wars-protectionism-canada Cheese: 245% - they're gouging us on every slice, every bite! Butter: 298% - this isn't butter, it's highway robbery!

Chicken and Eggs - The Poultry Plot:

Poultry: They slap a 238% tariff on our chicken! It's a chicken tax, people! Source: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/trade-barriers-in-canada Eggs: 163% - They're egging us on with these tariffs, making it impossible for our farmers to compete! Source: https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/15395-canadas-egg-tariff-wall

The Grain Game:

Barley, Wheat, Sugar, Peanut Butter, Rice: From 94% to a staggering 295%! They're not just playing with our food; they're playing with our livelihoods! Source: https://www.producer.com/2024/01/the-impact-of-canadian-tariffs-on-u-s-agriculture/

Lumber and More:

Lumber: A 20% tariff - they're chopping down our trade deals! Source: https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/canadian-lumber-tariffs-hurt-both-canadian-and-american-consumers Shoes, Cocoa, Metals, Wool, Tobacco: Tariffs from 25% to over 100% - this is economic warfare! Source: https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=14343

The Political Betrayal:

The American dream is being sold down the river by these tariffs, and our so-called allies in Canada are laughing all the way to the bank! Source: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/unfair-trade-the-case-of-canadian-tariffs/

Call to Arms:

It's time to stand up for America, for our farmers, our workers, our future! We must demand fair trade, not this one-sided tariff terror! We've been too nice for too long, and what do we get in return? Stiffed!

The Final Stand:

We're not just talking about numbers here; we're talking about our sovereignty, our pride, our national honor! Canada needs to understand - you don't play games with the United States, the greatest nation on Earth!

Let's recalibrate the narrative, folks. This isn't just about tariffs; it's about reclaiming our place at the world's table. America first, last, and always!

This is a call to arms, a cry for justice in trade. Let's make America's voice heard loud and clear across the border!

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Liam Cosgrove, PERIODISTA freelance y Crack, Puto: mercenario por la DIGNIDAD.

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1843721851383755043   . https://mises.org/profile/liam-cosgrove. https://mises.org/profile/liam-cosgrove https://grabien.com/profile?id=162845 https://thegrayzone.com/author/liam-cosgrove/ . . https://twitter.com/cosgrove_iv     . .

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Small states

”States want to consolidate power, annex territories, increase their taxable population. What we want is the opposite of that. We want state unbuilding. State demolition.” Ryan McMaken Read more about secession: https://mises.org/wire/secession-and-small-states

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Davos Man Is at It Again: The 2022 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum | Mises Wire

https://mises.org/wire/davos-man-it-again-2022-annual-meeting-world-economic-forum

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Borrando la historia para impulsar la revolución socialista

Mises Wire•Wanjiru Njoya Read this in English Lenin y Trotsky llevan mucho tiempo muertos, pero sus esfuerzos por borrar la historia mediante revoluciones siguen vivos. Hoy en día, ese borrado se está produciendo en Europa Occidental y los Estados Unidos, donde los progresistas continúan la labor iniciada por los bolcheviques. Los monumentos públicos, las estatuas y el arte desempeñan un papel…

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By James Bovard

Mises.org

November 1, 2024

If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone tablet. Any American who casts doubt on Harris’s victory will be vilified like one of those January 6, 2021 protestors sent to prison for “parading without a permit” in the US Capitol. Actually, anyone who doubted the 2020 election results was being prominently denounced as “traitors” even before the Capitol Clash.

But is there any reason to expect the final vote count in next week’s presidential election to be more honest than any other number that the Biden-Harris administration jiggered in the last four years?

Biden, Harris, and their media allies endlessly assured Americans that the national crime rate had fallen sharply since Biden took office. That statistical scam was produced by the equivalent of disregarding all the votes in California and New York. FBI crime data simply excluded many of the nation’s largest cities until a revision earlier this month revealed that violent crime had risen nationwide.

Deceitful national crime data helped cover-up the disastrous impact of open border policies. The Biden-Harris administration did backflips to avoid disclosing the true size of the surge of illegal immigrants from early 2021 onwards. Kamala Harris did zombie-like face plants in recent interviews when elbowed for honest answers.

In the same way that another surge of unverified mail-in ballots may determine the 2024 election, Biden manipulated the number of illegal aliens by using his presidential parole power to entitle more than a million people from Haiti, Venezuela, Cubans, and other countries to legally enter and stay in America on his own decree. The Biden administration even provided a vast secretive program to fly favored foreign nationals into select airports late at night where their arrival would occur under the radar.

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Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

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Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4916388

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Commentary: https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/08/new-study-says-the-fed-is-captured-by-congress-and-white-house-not-the-megabanks-that-own-the-fed-banks-and-get-trillions-in-bailouts/

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Who owns the Fed: https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-federal-reserve-banks

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The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’” Anyone who resists any government command is apparently now a public enemy.

The trucker protest was spurred by the Canadian government’s sweeping covid vaccine mandate. Many truckers believe the risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefit and, more importantly, that they have the right to control their own bodies. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau declared on Monday, “There is no place in our country for threats, violence or hatred.” Except for the hatred Trudeau whips up by denouncing vaccine mandate opponents as “racist” and “misogynistic.” And except for the “threats” and “violence” used by government enforcement agents to compel submission to any pandemic decree issued by Trudeau or other politicians.

Since the start of this pandemic, many people who boasted of their trust in “science and data” also believed that absolute power would keep them safe. According to their scorecard, anyone who objected to government commands was the equivalent of a heretic who must be condemned if not banished from every place except the cemetery. North of the border, Quebec epitomizes this intolerance with its new edict prohibiting unvaccinated individuals from shopping at Costco or Walmart.

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Preventing politicians from obliterating freedom is now the worst form of tyranny. On Thanksgiving eve 2020, the Supreme Court struck down Governor Andrew Cuomo’s edict that limited religious gatherings in New York to ten or fewer people while permitting far more leeway for businesses to operate. The court declared that Cuomo’s rules were “far more restrictive than any Covid-related regulations that have previously come before the Court … and far more severe than has been shown to be required to prevent the spread of the virus.” An American Civil Liberties Union official fretted that “the freedom to worship … does not include a license to harm others or endanger public health.” Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe and Cornell professor Michael Dorf warned that the Supreme Court was becoming “a place like Gilead—the theocratic and misogynist country in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’”

Many progressives talk as if America faces a choice between reckless freedom and paternalism—i.e., submission to a benevolent elite. But regardless of Anthony Fauci’s boundless conceit, omniscient officials have yet to come to the rescue. Government agencies have blundered catastrophically since the start of the pandemic.

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Freedom is not a panacea for every challenge in life. But it is far superior to boundless submission to tinhorn dictators who know far less than they claim. Politicians like Trudeau and Biden, who fuel mass rage against any group that does not kowtow to officialdom, are sowing seeds of hatred that will proliferate long after the pandemic ends. In the long run, people have more to fear from politicians than from viruses.