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Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The United States has called on the United Nations Security Council to officially back its draft resolution aimed at bolstering President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, warning that Palestinians could suffer ‘grave consequences’ if it does not. The call came as Russia presented the council with its own ‘counter-proposal’ on Gaza, challenging Washington’s draft, according to a copy seen by the Reuters news agency. … The US mission formally circulated its draft resolution to the 15 UNSC members last week for negotiations on the wording and substance of the text.” (11/14/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/14/us-pushes-security-council-to-back-gaza-plan-as-russia-offers-counter-text
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“In a graphic posted to Truth Social on November 8, Donald Trump lists himself next to Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of two ‘great presidents,’ because FDR’s ‘New Deal’ introduced the 30-year home mortgage and Trump, apparently, wants to ‘go large’ on the idea. Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte confirmed on X that ‘we are indeed working on The 50 year Mortgage — a complete game changer.’ The Trump/Pulte proposal brings up two questions: First, is a 50-year mortgage a good idea? Second, why on earth does the federal government set mortgage terms?” (11/13/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20147
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich, Lori, and Riley discuss when it’s okay to start decorating for Christmas, why homeless people don’t migrate south for the winter, and the troll chimes in to tell us to pay taxes because we use the roads.” (11/13/25)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/the-anarchist-experience-554/
Source: Bloomberg
“Bitcoin fell further below the $100,000 mark as a bout of risk aversion sweeping across markets saw investors pull nearly $900 million from funds investing in the token. The largest digital-asset sank as much as 2.8% to below $96,000 on Friday before paring losses, leaving it more than 20% below a record high reached in early October. The crypto market remains under strain after $19 billion in liquidations on Oct. 10 in turn erased over $1 trillion from the total market value of all cryptocurrencies, CoinGecko data shows. The liquidations keep coming, with more than $1 billion worth of leveraged crypto bets wiped out in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass data.” (11/14/25)
https://archive.is/t0eCe
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“While the country’s attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a ‘domestic terrorist organization’ and directs federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings and those of its supporters. The gist of NSPM-7 appears to be the president’s view that the United States suffers from an enemy within our borders, an enemy that consists of Americans who hate Christianity, capitalism, and Americanism, and it is somehow the duty of the federal government to disrupt the free speech of these haters because their speech has a tendency to violence. Here is the backstory.” (11/13/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/11/12/can-the-president-disrupt-free-speech
Source: Reuters
“Chinese police on Thursday issued a wanted notice and offered a $35,000 reward for two Taiwanese social media influencers they accused of ‘separatism,’ what Taipei says is an effort by China to bring fear to Taiwanese. Beijing has accused dozens of people in democratically-governed Taiwan, which it [pretends is] Chinese territory, of ‘separatism,’ including elected lawmakers. Chinese law does not apply in Taiwan, which has its own judicial system. Taiwanese influencers Pa Chiung and Chen Po-yuan — a rapper better known by his stage name Mannam PYC — have long been engaged in publishing and ‘inciting separatist views,’ police in Quanzhou, the city facing Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait, said in a statement.” (11/13/25)
https://archive.is/mSHgU
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Rindala Alajaji
“Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away. It’s unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs. … This is actually happening. And it’s going to be a disaster for everyone.” (11/13/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
Source: CBS News
“The U.S. military conducted another strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Tuesday, a Pentagon official confirmed to CBS News. The attack targeted a vessel in the Caribbean Sea and killed four people on board. Since September, U.S. forces have destroyed at least 21 vessels in 20 strikes in international waters, killing at least 80 people. The Trump administration says the operations — the details of which remain sparse — are part of an anti-drug offensive. The Pentagon has not revealed more information about the most recent strike.” (11/13/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-20th-strike-alleged-drug-boat-killing-4-people-caribbean/
Source: Washington Post
by C Jarrett Dieterle
“Instead of trusting the market and discerning customers, states and cities are considering policies that could end up hurting both restaurants and diners. In New York state, Democratic lawmakers in Albany have pushed their own dynamic pricing bans for food, and Vermont legislators have sought to prohibit businesses from using electronic shelf labels or dynamic pricing. The way these bills are drafted largely exempts longtime restaurant industry traditions such as happy hour but it raises the question: Is it necessarily more problematic if a restaurant utilizes real-time, demand-based dynamic pricing versus more traditional forms of dynamic pricing?” (11/13/25)
https://archive.is/rW2hM
Source: Independent [UK]
“Ukrainian forces fired Flamingo missiles at Russian oil facilities in a fresh wave of overnight strikes, the military has said on Thursday. This included strikes on the Morskoy Neftyanoy oil terminal in occupied Crimea and an oil depot in occupied Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s General Staff said. The attack came as top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said the Russian army overran three settlements in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and Ukrainian units are locked in ‘grueling battles’ to repel the thrust.” (11/13/25)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-zelensky-pokrovsk-g7-latest-news-b2864236.html
