Capital Record, episode 330
Source: National Review
“Is Business School Bad?” (10/27/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/is-business-school-bad/
Media Has Critical Role in Safeguarding Democracy [sic] This Election Season
Source: Common Dreams
by Hannah Fried
“We’re just days out from November 3, and already millions of Americans are heading to the polls or dropping off their mail-in ballots, while threats to their freedom to vote continue making front-page news. … while Trump’s efforts continue to fail to pass legal muster, there are two intertwined threats built into his continued public flirtation with election interference: anti-voter actions themselves, and the confusion and chaos created by floating these plans in public. The media ecosystem has a big role to play in mitigating that second threat.” [editor’s note: Of course, that’s not the role they should be playing in an alleged free society – SAT] [additional editor’s note: In an alleged free society, the role they should be playing is whatever role they damn well please. That’s what “free” means – TLK] (10/27/26)
Australia: Judge rejects prisoner’s human rights challenge to Vegemite ban
Source: ABC News
“A prisoner on Monday lost his challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite after he argued in court that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breached his human right to ‘enjoy his culture as an Australian.’ Andre McKechnie, 55, who is serving a life sentence for murder, took his battle for the salty, sticky, black-brown byproduct of brewing beer to the Supreme Court of the state of Victoria last year. … Justice Claire Harris accepted prison authorities’ refusal to allow McKechnie Vegemite ‘limited his cultural rights’ under the charter. But she found the ban was justified in meeting authorities’ goals of removing illicit drugs and alcohol from the prison system. … Prison officials testified at a trial in July that Vegemite had been banned throughout the state’s 12 prisons for the past 20 years because it could potentially impair sniffer dogs’ ability to detect narcotics and could be used to brew alcohol because of its yeast content.” (10/27/26)
The Climate Realism Show, episode 222
Source: Heartland Institute
“California’s Bullet Train: Speeding Into Absurdity.” (10/26/26)
The Agonistic Constitution
Source: Law & Liberty
by Johnathan O’Neill
“The separation of powers points to a deeper truth about American government.” (10/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-agonistic-constitution/
Autopilot Deficits
Source: Independent Institute
by Craig Eyermann
“Mandatory spending and surging debt interest drove federal outlays to record levels in fiscal year 2026.” (10/27/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/10/26/what-federal-government-spent-2026/
Sal and Mark, episode 23
Source: Free Talk Live
“Sal and Mark return with Joel Valenzuela on the Pirate Chain exploit, Dash’s new shielded asset pool, and why Dash’s privacy tech just hit a new watermark.” (10/27/26)
Brazil: Flávio Bolsonaro’s passports cancelled after he fails to surrender them
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Police in Brazil say they have cancelled the passports of the defeated right-wing presidential candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, after he failed to comply with an order to surrender the documents. On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro to hand his passports over to police within 24 hours as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering, which he denies. At the time, Bolsonaro said he had no plans to leave the country, and insisted that he would stay in Brazil to lead the opposition to his left-wing rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. However, the deadline has passed without the senator surrendering the passports, prompting speculation he may have left the country. Federal officers are checking border crossings to establish if Bolsonaro may have travelled to neighbouring Argentina, according to a police source consulted by BBC News Brasil.” (10/27/26)
How to Create the Most Destructive Financial Bubble in History: Unleash the Finance Quants
Source: Cobden Centre
by Kevin E Villani
“Private market discipline is dynamic: prices adjust continuously as participants update their perceptions. Public prudential regulation is static: fixed rules define the playing field, and market participants optimize within those rules, arbitraging every gap. Once public regulation and ownership crowd out private discipline, political overseers add conflicting social objectives that further distort incentives. The 2008 crash was not a failure of free markets but the catastrophic consequence of unleashing Wall Street finance quants on a socialized housing market.” (10/27/26)
Rogue British Agency
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Ofcom has a low batting average in collecting its extortionate fines. This is the UK agency enforcing the UK’s Online Safety Act. Ofcom’s mission includes forcing sundry websites to require all visitors to present proof of age — essentially, to ID themselves. The Act also lets Ofcom compel services that enable encrypted messaging to provide a way to tell whether anything illegal is being said or shown in the messages. That is, compel them to render the encryption pointless.” (10/26/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/10/26/rogue-british-agency/