NATION
Payback: 90% of illegal immigrants in secret program flown to Florida and Texas
Are BlackRock Homes in New York Being Converted to House Illegal Migrants?
NY Squatters: “The Insanity…Continues with No End in Sight”
Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
Side Effects Of Transgender ‘Medicine’ Show It Isn’t Just Junk Science, It’s Malpractice
Fact-Checking Wind and Solar Claims: Climate Expert Makes Case for ‘Realism’
Did Trump Really Do That? Progressive Media Never Tells the Truth
Patents, Pharma, Government: The Unholy Alliance
In a more recent paper, economists Michele Boldrin and David Levine conclude that “The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity…there is strong evidence, instead, that patents have many negative consequences.” Other studies in fact indicate that the patent system imposes annually hundreds of billions of dollars of costs on the US economy alone, or more, from the lost and distorted innovation, higher prices resulting from reduced competition and huge payments made to attorneys in lawsuits and so on.
Sensing some of these increasingly obvious problems that result from the patent system, there has gradually emerged a loose consensus that there is something wrong with it. Now, it is often said that the patent system is “broken” and in need of drastic reform. But they do not want to abolish it. They want to tweak it. For example, even some ostensible supporters of the free market, who admit problems with the patent system, say things like this: “Copyright and patent protections have existed since the beginning of the republic, and if properly calibrated they can (as the Founders put it) promote the progress of science and the useful arts.” (Cato’s Tim Lee; my emphasis.)
WORLD
Earthquake rocks Taiwan, damaging buildings and leaving 4 dead (Mainstream)
Every NATO Country Already Has Troops In Ukraine, Estonia Says
Russia’s security head says the US shares blame for a concert hall attack that killed 144 (Mainstream)
Russia Mass Deporting Muslim Migrants Following Moscow Terror Attack
Dachshunds could face breeding ban in Germany – here’s why (Mainstream) Editorial Comment: Even though the regulations might be hard to enforce–in America, pit bull bans were ineffective because “pit bull” is not easy to define or classify–the spirit of the law is noble. In my view, people who deliberatly breed pugs and condemn the pup to a life of breathing problems and eye irritation because they think pus look “cute” are worse than the Michael Vicks of the world.
HEMISPHERE
“Canada’s media is (sic) captured…”
53,000 people flee Haiti capital in three weeks of gang violence —UN
Why Argentina Needs a 100%-Reserves Banking System
HEALTH
Top Virologist Warns ‘Massive Tsunami’ of ‘Death’ among Vaccinated Is ‘Imminent’
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