Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Peter C Gøtzsche

“It has been surprisingly difficult to get an answer to a simple and highly relevant question: Is aluminium in vaccines harmful? After having studied the best evidence we have, the randomised trials, in great detail, I conclude that the answer is yes. Like lead, aluminium is a highly neurotoxic metal. We will therefore expect vaccines containing aluminium adjuvants to cause neurological harms if the aluminium enters the nervous system in neurotoxic amounts.” (10/06/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/aluminium-in-vaccines-is-harmful/

Thomas L. Knapp

How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy

Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner

“After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the government began cracking down on hidden transfers of wealth. The purpose was to prevent money laundering that might finance terrorism. Some of this was codified in the USA PATRIOT Act. After the financial collapse of 2008, other safeguards were added. All this strengthened the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), with the side benefit of helping regulatory agencies track down other uses of concealed wealth, whether or not they are related to national security. But in the ensuing quarter-century, extreme wealth became ever more concentrated, and oligarchs became ever more crafty at hiding the true ownership of wealth through trusts and corporate forms that are utterly opaque to financial regulators, the IRS, and the national-security establishment, much less the public.” (10/07/25)

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-10-07-how-scott-bessent-enables-oligarchy/

Steve Trinward

TX: Man shot by cop after disarming shooter asks Fifth Circuit to restore suit

Source: Courthouse News Service

“A Texas man who was shot by a police officer after disarming a gunman who broke into his home is challenging a federal judge’s ruling that the officer’s actions were objectively reasonable. Jorge Martinez asked a U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel Monday to reverse the judge’s ruling and send the case back to the lower court for a trial. His attorney, David Flores, told the panel U.S. District Judge John Kazen wrongly discounted evidence Martinez had presented showing that Laredo Police Officer David Hinojosa should have been able to hear him saying he wasn’t the shooter as he exited the house holding the disarmed rifle. He pointed to testimony from Martinez’s neighbors, including one who was inside her home, that they could hear what he was shouting.” (10/06/25)

https://www.courthousenews.com/man-shot-by-police-after-disarming-shooter-asks-fifth-circuit-to-restore-suit/

Thomas L. Knapp

Gaza plan: Looks Like peace, acts like occupation

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Carol Daniel-Kasbari

“In Deir al-Balah, a mother told me her son now counts the seconds between blasts. Policy, to her, isn’t a debate; it’s whether trucks arrive and the night is quiet. Donald Trump’s 20-point plan promises ceasefire, hostages home, Israeli withdrawal, and reconstruction. It sounds complete. It isn’t. Without enforceable mechanics, maps, timelines, phased verification, and real local ownership; it risks being a short-lived show, not a durable peace.” (10/06/25)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/gaza-ceasefire-trump/

Thomas L. Knapp

Year-End Fundraiser Update

THANK YOU to subscribing contributors ACS and ERW, whose monthly payments totaling $7.50 yesterday bring our year-end fundraiser total (as of 6am Tuesday) to $147.50!

We’re now $2,603 away from the $5,501 finish line (no, my math isn’t bad — reader GL is “matching funds” for half of our goal).

Here’s some more math for you: We’re a reader-supported publication, and you’re a reader.

https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd

Over nearly 23 years of publishing Rational Review News Digest (and more than 30 years under other branding as Freedom News Daily and, before that, Libernet), we’ve never paywalled the libertarian movement’s longest-running daily news and commentary roundup and don’t plan to start. But toward the end of each year, we set a modest goal and ask our readers to return value to us for the value they find in our publication. Here’s where that happens:

https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd

Our longevity kind of speaks for itself, but having recently been asked “how long do you plan to keep doing this?” I’ll share my policy on that: Our annual “year-end fundraiser” generally represents a commitment to publish for AT LEAST one more year. We’re not vaporware that disappears after you buy it. Unless I die (I don’t plan to) or something equally dire, we’re here until AT LEAST the end of 2026.

BUT! We gotta eat. And if it makes any difference to your motivations (I’m not big on appealing to charity, but I do like making happy announcements), yesterday my wife’s offer on our first house after 13 years of renting was accepted. Pending inspection passage, we’ll be spending more on housing Real Soon Now. Just sayin’ …

https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd

Finally, the usual promise: Once we reach our goal, I won’t mention money to you for the rest of the year, and only seldom after that until NEXT October. So the quicker we wrap this up, the quicker I shut up!

https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd

Thanks for all you’ve done, are doing, and are hopefully about to do! Have a great day!

Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily

Thomas L. Knapp

Palestine: Majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign as peace Gaza peace talks continue

Source: Independent [UK]

“Israelis on Tuesday marked two years since Hamas’ October 7 incursion plunged the region into conflict, as onlookers waited for developments on fragile peace talks in Egypt. … Sixty-six per cent of Israelis now say the time has come to end the war, as sixty-four per cent said they wanted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take responsibility for October 7 and resign. Israel continued to pound Gaza with deadly airstrikes despite the US president’s order to stop. The IDF said on Tuesday a missile from Gaza landed in Israel.” (10/07/25)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-live-trump-netanyahu-october-7-attack-hamas-hostages-b2840648.html

Thomas L. Knapp

Nightfall

Source: The Honest Courtesan
by Maggie McNeill

“The way people of later times view a dark age is, due once again to the lack of reliable records, not at all the same as the way people living in such an age view it; the only people who are in a position to recognize that they’re living in such an age are those who understand what the term means in the first place. So it’s doubtful that the authoritarian rulers of countries like India and the United States recognize (or care) what they’re doing to future history; what’s important to this discussion is that they are using modern computer technology to do it. In the last century, it would’ve been impossible for a Trump, Modi, or Xi to eliminate every single instance of a fact or opinion they disliked …. when physical media are no longer the norm, universal censorship of a work enters the realm of the possible.” (10/06/25)

https://maggiemcneill.com/2025/10/06/nightfall/

Thomas L. Knapp