Source: Reason
“The Good Eats host talks about the virtues of Cap’n Crunch, why fusion cooking isn’t cultural appropriation, and how Martha Stewart’s perfectionism ruined dinner parties.” (03/05/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/03/05/alton-brown-a-tv-chef-offers-food-for-thought/
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“South Korea’s air force has apologised after one of its fighter jets accidentally [sic] dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise on Thursday, injuring 15 civilians and damaging several buildings. ‘Eight MK-82 general purpose bombs were abnormally released from an air force KF-16 aircraft, landing outside the designated firing range,’ the air force said, adding that the bombs weighed about 225kg each. … As the air force announced an investigation, South Korean media reported that the bombs had been dropped in error after a pilot inputted incorrect coordinates.” (03/06/25)
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Has your democracy been lost yet? Has someone stolen it? Silly questions for a silly era asked of silly people who worship mob rule as long as they are on the majority side. They have no problem ignoring the will of those who disagree with them; they only wring their hands when they end up on the losing side. America was never supposed to be a democracy. It was set up as a republic, limited in scope by a constitution that defined exactly what government is allowed to do to the population, regardless of what the majority wants. This failed. Republics, including those defined and limited by a constitution, turn into democracies because people, in overwhelming numbers, want to violate the rights of others and vote themselves goodies paid for with taxes.” (03/05/25)
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter. The move follows the decision on Monday by the Trump administration to suspend military aid deliveries to Ukraine and comes after a dramatic breakdown in relations between the US president and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. US intelligence co-operation has been essential for Ukraine’s ability to identify and strike Russian military targets. Three officials familiar with the decision confirmed that Washington had frozen intelligence channels with Kyiv.” (03/05/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“President Trump has made a post on Truth Social saying federal funding will be cut to universities which allow ‘illegal protests’ on their campuses, obliquely referring to pro-Palestine demonstrations against Israel’s genocidal atrocities. ‘All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,’ Trump said. ‘Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!’ Elise Stefanik, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the UN, made it clear that this was the Trump administration taking a position on ‘anti-Israel hate.’ ‘Antisemitism and anti-Israel hate will not be tolerated on American campuses,’ tweeted Stefanik with a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post.” (03/05/25)
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“US President Donald Trump said he would temporarily spare [American car buyers] from a new 25% import tax imposed on Canada and Mexico, just a day after the tariffs came into effect. The announcement by the White House came even as Trump continued to blast Canada for not doing enough to stop drugs from entering the US. ‘Nothing has convinced me that it has stopped,’ Trump wrote on social media after a phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the economic disruption caused by new trade tariffs. News of the relief helped to boost US shares, which closed higher after two days of declines that had wiped out gains the S&P 500 had seen since the presidential election in November. The tariff exemption is for cars made in North America that comply with the continent’s existing free trade agreement.” (03/05/25)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“After Zelensky kicked things off by using a rhetorical question to challenge Vance on his appeal to the need for diplomacy, Vance fired back by calling Zelensky out for ‘forcing conscripts to the front lines because [he] has manpower problems.’ As far as I can tell, that was the first time a senior American government official has made any negative comment about the Ukrainian government’s use of conscripts in its war with Russia. Which is appalling, because abducting people and sending them to fight and die in a military campaign they clearly don’t believe in enough to join voluntarily is one of the worst, most tyrannical things a government can do. And Ukraine has been doing it with the enthusiastic support of American officials for years.” (03/05/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/other-thing-zelensky-got-called-out
Source: CNN
“A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen. However, the court did not immediately say when the money must be released, allowing the White House to continue to dispute the issue in lower courts. The ruling was 5-4. The order was unsigned but four conservative justices dissented – Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. That put five justices in the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.” (03/05/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/supreme-court-usaid-foreign-aid/index.html
Source: The Bulwark
by Adrian Carrasquillo
“Undocumented immigrants contribute billions to Social Security and other programs. That money might fall off because of Trump’s crackdown.” (03/05/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-irs-data-tracking-immigrants-social-security
Source: CNBC
“A sharp drop in mortgage interest rates finally lit a fire under loan demand. Both current homeowners and potential homebuyers jumped back into the market, after a lackluster showing for this year so far. Total mortgage application volume jumped 20.4% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. This was not only the first increase in three weeks, but it is an outsized weekly move.” (03/05/25)