NATION
BREAKING: Supreme Court Bans Racial Preferences in College Admissions
At $200B, COVID Aid was the Biggest Fraud in History
DOJ Rot Goes So Much Deeper Than Merrick Garland
Sundance Breaks Down Leaked Trump Recording Lawfare Ploy
The stuff Hunter Biden didn’t get indicted for
If You Don’t Believe Salena Zito Is A Snake And Hot Air Is RINO, Inc., Read This
Radical Decentralization Was the Key to the West’s Rise to Wealth and Freedom
Although modern EU centralizers are attempting it, at no point has European civilization ever fallen under the dominion of a single state as has been the case in China. Even during the early modern period, as some polities managed to form absolutist states, much of Europe—such as the highly dynamic areas in the Low Countries, Northern Italy, and the German cities—remained in flux and highly decentralized. The rise of the merchant classes, banking, and an urban middle class—which began as early as the Middle Ages and were so essential in building industrial Europe—thrived without large states.
After all, while a large polity with few internal borders can indeed lead to large markets with fewer transaction costs, concentrating power in one place brings big risks; a state that can facilitate trade across a large empire is also a state that can stifle trade through regulation, taxation, and even expropriation.
The former vast kingdoms and empires of Asia may have once been well positioned to foster the creation of a wealthy merchant class and middle class. But the fact is this didn’t happen. Those states instead focused on stifling threats to state power, centralizing political control of markets, and extorting the public through the imposition of fines and penalties on those who were disfavored by the ruling classes.
WORLD
Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region, officials say
EU Looks Into Blocking Out the Sun as Climate Efforts Falter Mainstream
Get Your One Health Token From the World Health Organization
Pothole damage from electric cars is double that of petrol, Telegraph data show. This link got me past their paywall. That might change.
Top French court upholds ban on wearing Hijab during soccer games
HEMISPHERE
Edmonton police officer reinstated after lengthy, unpaid suspension for supporting Freedom Convoy
14 SSPC Employees Kidnapped by Criminal Group in Chiapas
Honduras Anti-Gang Crackdown Targets Only One Source of Violence
HEALTH
Welcome to the World of Postmodern Medicine
MACRO
Think you know CBDCs? An A(CID) to Z(KP) test
Clif High’s Economic Projections Audio
Producers, Not Consumers, Are the Engine of Economic Growth
MICRO
Starbucks Union: Pride Weekend Strikes Shut Down 21 U.S. Stores
Bad Product Names You Won’t Believe! YT:
Why Don’t They Eat Billions of Animals in Australia? YT
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Fox News’s Jesse Watters trashed Obama voters, donated $500 to Obama
PARAHERESY
Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the World’s Greatest Secret | [WATCH OBJECTIVELY!] RUMBLE. Note: The editors do not know a reliable UFOlogist from a limited hangout. We can’t vouch for this documentary but it has a professional look to it and the subject matter is interesting.
CULTURE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
Remember when Robert Dinero agreed with
@RobertKennedyJr Twitter
MONDO
The Terrifying Speeds of the True Living Dinosaur YT Graphic And Chilling
EDITORIAL
A Hazy Shade Of Summer
It is not the best of times.
It is not the worst of times.
It is not the busiest of times.
It is not the most confusing of times–or maybe it is.
Suddenly I am drenched with contradictory information from multiple sources on three separate subjects. Just like that an app on my phone stops working.
Coincidence?
Conspiracy?
You decide.
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