Hey, everyone …
Yesterday was a “zero-dollar day” in our year-end fundraiser. Our total (as of 5:30am Eastern on Tuesday, October 29) remains at $1,100. Please cap our “zero-dollar day” streak at one, via:
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Our goal is $5,351 (nothing special about that number except that I wanted to set the goal somewhere between $5,300 and $5,400 and like prime numbers).
$1,100 is right at 40% of $5,351.
Yes, really — because $1,100 is right at 40% of $2,675.50, the amount we have to raise before supporter GL “matches funds” for the rest.
Every day, we deliver the freedom movement’s daily newspaper to you via your inbox, your social media accounts, and/or your web browser.
Once a year, we ask our daily readers for, ON AVERAGE, $1.
But only 5-10% of you actually pony up.
I’m not complaining — that’s just how it goes with a publication that relies on optional reader support instead of charging up front.
But pretty please with sugar on top, consider being among that 5-10%, and return some value to us for the value you perceive yourself as receiving from us at:
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Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: CBS News
“An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in northern Gaza killed at least 34 people early Tuesday, more than half of them women and children, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said. The ministry’s emergency service said another 20 people were wounded in the strike in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, near the Israeli border. The Reuters news agency, citing a Gaza health ministry official, put the number of dead at 60 or higher, with dozens more wounded. And Reuters reported that the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said many people were believed to still be trapped under rubble.” (10/29/24)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-strike-northern-gaza-dozens-dead-beit-lahiya/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“A distressing number of my relatives, friends, and acquaintances have found themselves reduced to making a ‘choice’ between the ‘lesser of two evils’ in most elections. That ugly situation seems to be especially true regarding U.S. presidential elections, and the current contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris continues the distressing pattern. I have long believed that U.S. foreign policy, especially issues of war and peace, should be the most important consideration when choosing a president. Close behind ought to be respect for civil liberties. Measured according to those standards, both Trump and Harris have dreadful track records.” (10/28/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2024/10/27/trump-harris-and-the-lesser-of-two-evils/
Source: Reason
“How Trump and Harris Meaningfully Differ.” (10/28/24)
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/10/28/how-trump-and-harris-meaningfully-differ/
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“Bitcoin rose past $71,000 for the first time since June, bolstered by inflows into dedicated exchange-traded funds as well as speculation about the potential outcome of next week’s US election. The largest digital asset climbed as much as 2.7% before paring some of the move to change hands at $70,870 as of 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday in London. Smaller tokens such as second-ranked Ether and meme-crowd favorite Dogecoin also pushed higher.” (10/29/24)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-tops-70-000-first-234218577.html
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Are you voting for the presidential candidate known in some circles as Comrade Kamala? For her opponent who is allegedly simultaneously channeling Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini? For Chase Oliver or another third party candidate? Or maybe you’ve had enough with low-payoff gestures and you’re taking a pass on the political drama as a nonvoter. In any case, you’re likely trying to making the best of a situation in which candidates vie to be less unpopular and options are more than a little unpalatable. There’s also a good chance that, despite your sincere efforts to choose the least-bad option, you’ve received a ration of shit from true believers who insist voting differently than them makes you just evil. Unfortunately, many people let politics taint their lives in weird ways and damage relationships. In truth, a lot of Americans need to chill the fuck out.” (10/28/24)
https://reason.com/2024/10/28/this-political-season-americans-need-to-chill-out/
Source: Washington Post
“NATO chief Mark Rutte said Monday that North Korean soldiers have been deployed to Kursk, the Russian region where Ukrainian forces seized territory in a surprise attack over the summer. The United States said last week that at least 3,000 North Korean personnel were undergoing combat training in Russia, though it was not yet clear if they would join the war. The U.S. announcement, which officials said was based on newly declassified intelligence, followed similar disclosures from Kyiv and Seoul. [Vladimir] Putin appeared to obliquely acknowledge the presence of North Korean troops in Russia last week and cited the article on mutual defense in the two countries’ new security treaty. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday said condemnations from Western leaders about Russian-North Korean cooperation were ‘an attempt in retrospect’ to justify their own military support to Ukraine.” (10/28/24)
https://archive.is/6m5ZD
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“In a national-security state, fear is the coin of the realm. The United States is no exception. In order to justify its continued existence and its ever-growing power and tax-funded largess, the U.S. national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — must keep the American people afraid, tense, agitated, and nervous. That necessarily means presenting us with a constant array of official ‘enemies,’ ‘adversaries,’ ‘competitors,’ or ‘opponents’ who are coming to get us. … no one is coming to get us. And no one ever was. Not the Reds. Not the Russians. Not the Chinese. Not the Cubans. Not Saddam. Not the terrorists. Not the Muslims. And no, not the Russians again. No one!” (10/28/24)
https://www.fff.org/2024/10/28/no-one-is-coming-to-get-us/
Source: CNBC
“The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Elon Musk and his political action committee from awarding $1 million to registered voters in swing states, accusing them of ‘running an illegal lottery.’ The lawsuit by DA Larry Krasner, which accuses Musk and his America PAC of trying to influence voters in the presidential election, comes days after the U.S. Department of Justice warned America PAC that its $1 million daily sweepstakes might violate federal election law.” (10/28/24)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/28/philadelphia-da-sues-elon-musk-pac-to-stop-1-million-lottery-for-voters.html
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold
“To paraphrase Jonathan Swift, when a bad idea appears in the world, you may know it by this sign, that its proponents will endeavor to silence the expression of alternative ideas. Twentieth-century communism and fascism demonstrate this principle at work, as does twenty-first century cancel culture. Proponents of good ideas, on the other hand, welcome freedom of speech because they feel no threat from a decentralized search for truth.” (10/28/24)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/censorship-attacks-the-pursuit-of-truth/
Source: SFGate
“Police said Monday that a ‘suspect vehicle’ has been identified in connection with incendiary devices that set fires to ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state. Surveillance images captured a Volvo stopping at a drop box in Portland, Oregon, just before security personnel nearby discovered a fire inside the box on Monday, Portland Police Bureau spokesman Mike Benner told a news conference. That fire damaged three ballots inside, while officials say a fire at a drop box in nearby Vancouver, Washington, early Monday destroyed hundreds of ballots. The devices were attached to the outside of the boxes, police said. Authorities said at a news conference in Portland that enough material from the incendiary devices was recovered to show that the two fires Monday were connected — and that they were also connected to an Oct. 8 incident, when an incendiary device was placed at a different ballot drop box in Vancouver.” (10/28/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/hundreds-of-ballots-are-destroyed-after-fires-are-19868560.php
