Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold
“Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.” (10/07/26)
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“France has temporarily banned police from using stun grenades at student-led protests, the interior minister said, amid growing accusations of police brutality following several days of student demonstrations nationwide. The announcement on Wednesday came a day after hundreds of thousands of students and supporters marched across France to demand more funding for education and better conditions in high schools, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to convene an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and other key ministers to try to defuse the crisis.” (10/07/26)
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Will AI Make Humans Obsolete? | Robert Wright & Garrison Lovely.” (10/06/26)
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“Republicans and Democrats tend to claim a mandate from voters whenever they’re handed a majority. Apparently, winning enough seats to organize a chamber means voters have signed off on the party’s entire agenda. That’s a convenient way to read an election, especially when the majority is narrow, and voters may simply be fed up with the other party. A voter who wants someone to put a leash on Trump hasn’t necessarily endorsed a bigger federal government, higher taxes, or every idea circulating through Democratic congressional offices.” (10/06/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/democrats-need-to-understand-that
Source: Law & Liberty
by Cheryl Miller
“In his preface to the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of God and Man at Yale, William F. Buckley offered this self-assessment of his first book: ‘Some of the predictions made in it have already been realized. Some of the questions are still open. Some of the arguments appear antiquarian; others fresh, even urgent.’ Fifty years later, that assessment still holds up.” (10/07/26)
Source: SFGate
“San Francisco on Tuesday became the first county in the Bay Area to enact a temporary moratorium on the construction of new data centers. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at its regular meeting to approve a 45-day urgency ordinance that took effect immediately. The moratorium calls for a halt to the approval of permit applications to expand an existing data center or build a new one, which house the computing hardware and infrastructure needed to power newly developed artificial intelligence tools.” (10/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-supes-pass-temporary-moratorium-on-data-22466301.php
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Why Democrats and Republicans have hope in the Midwest.” (10/06/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/nx-s1-5992624/why-democrats-and-republicans-have-hope-in-the-midwest
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“For several years now, reports Reclaim the Net, lawmakers have been trying to pass legislation to require Americans to provide ID to do many of things on the Internet we can now do anonymously. In 2024, the bill — with the cuddly name of Kids Online Safety Act, it prompts us to ask, what brute would want kids to be unsafe online? — passed in the Senate but failed in the House. The Hill reports that ‘concerns over censorship and freedom of speech prevented it from ever hitting the House floor.’ The Senate bill doesn’t mandate age verification directly. But it does require the FTC … to determine ‘whether a reasonable and prudent person under the circumstances would have known that the user is a minor.’ How could platforms avoid liability for sure without imposing some kind of ID verification on all users?” (10/06/26)
Source: NBC Montana
“A former CIA officer has pleaded guilty in an Alexandria federal court to stealing nearly $194 million, including more than $40 million in gold bars. David J. Rush, 49, entered the plea on Tuesday as part of a plea agreement. Under the deal, Rush could face up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced. ‘By his own admission, David Rush defrauded the government of hundreds of millions of dollars, and then misused those funds for extravagant purchases,’ said FBI Director Kash Patel in a statement.” [editor’s note: In other words, he did to them what they do to everyone else – TLK] (10/06/26)
https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/ex-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-in-theft-of-40m-in-gold-bars
Source: Free the People
“Economist and historian Lawrence W. (‘Larry’) Reed, President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education, discusses the story behind his book ‘Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith, and Courage Forged America.'” (10/06/26)