Source: Engadget
“A federal judge has expanded on the remedies decided for the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, ruling in favor of putting a one-year limit on the contracts that make Google’s search and AI services the default on devices, Bloomberg reports. Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling on Friday means Google will have to renegotiate these contacts every year, which would create a fairer playing field for its competitors. The new details come after Mehta ruled in September that Google would not have to sell off Chrome, as the DOJ proposed at the end of 2024.” (12/06/25)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/judge-puts-a-one-year-limit-on-googles-contracts-for-default-search-placement-215549614.html
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Gun Censorship w/ Armanet’s Ibrahim Pataudi.” (12/06/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tlpp-gun-censorship-w-armanets-ibrahim-pataudi
Source: Niskanen Center
by Rachel Levine
“The U.S. must rapidly expand its high-voltage transmission system to keep electricity affordable and reliable over the coming decade. After years of nearly stagnant development, any interest in transmission buildout among grid operators is encouraging. Yet, even amid this renewed momentum, utilities nationwide continue to embrace alternating current transmission, a 19th century innovation, instead of embracing modern and commercially viable high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology.” [editor’s note: “Grids” themselves are yesterday’s technology. Tomorrow’s technology is decentralized local generation, not “improved” long-distance transmission – TLK] (12/05/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/why-are-utilities-building-tomorrows-grid-with-yesterdays-technology
Source: SFGate
“At least 25 people, including tourists, were killed in a fire at a popular nightclub in India’s Goa state, the state’s chief minister said Sunday. The blaze occurred just past midnight in Arpora in North Goa, a party hub. Goa’s chief minister Pramod Sawant said most of the dead were the club’s kitchen workers, as well as three to four tourists. Six were injured and are in stable condition, he said. The fire occurred due to a gas cylinder blast and has been extinguished, the Press Trust of India news agency reported, quoting local police. All the bodies have been recovered. It said at least 100 people were on the club’s dance floor when the fire broke out and several rushed to the kitchen below in the chaos and got trapped along with staff.” (12/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/a-fire-at-a-popular-nightclub-in-india-s-goa-21228016.php
Source: CounterPunch
by David Schultz
“Philosophers from Immanuel Kant to George Santayana warned that history repeats itself because we fail to heed its lessons. So it is with the Trump administration and its plan for regime change in Venezuela. Even if it succeeds in ousting Nicolás Maduro, the result will almost certainly mirror the failures of Afghanistan and Iraq under the Bush and Biden administrations.” (12/05/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/venezuela-history-and-the-futile-quest-for-regime-change/
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit and agreed to diversify mutual economic ties, as the United States presses India to revise its decades-old partnership with Russia. The 23rd Russia-India Summit comes at a pivotal moment as the U.S. pushes for a Ukraine peace deal while seeking global cooperation. It will test New Delhi’s efforts to balance relations with Moscow and Washington as the nearly four-year war in Ukraine grinds on.” (12/05/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/05/india-russia-summit/
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World.” (12/05/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2715-not-stolen-the-truth-about-european-colonialism-in-the-new-world/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Mihai Macovei
“Europe became prosperous through a burst of innovation and capital accumulation during the eighteenth-century industrial revolution that allowed individual freedom to replace feudalistic rents and privileges. A new industrial revolution based on digitalization, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and automation is in the making, but the reputed analyst Wolfgang Münchau claims that Europe is about to miss it. In his view, Europe has forgotten how to innovate, because it may still have the aptitude, but it has lost the right attitude to foster creative destruction. Münchau and other analysts put down this failure on European government’s inability to pick winners like China or capitalize on military investment like the US, in order to promote cutting-edge technologies and research. In our view this is wrong – Europe does not need more and better targeted government intervention, but considerably less.” (12/05/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/europes-innovation-drowned-sea-government-intervention
Source: American Greatness
by Cynical Publius
“I have had enough. I can no longer sit still while the Deep State does its very best to smear Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and have him removed from his post via lies, rumors, propaganda, and innuendo. It feels exactly like version 2.0 of the ‘Trump/Russia Collusion’ disinformation campaign, and it needs to be called out for what it is. Enough. I am here to defend the best Secretary of War/Defense since Caspar Weinberger. What we have seen in the last few weeks is clearly an orchestrated, carefully constructed character assassination campaign against Hegseth. The campaign began in the early days of November when the leaders of the Sedition 6 introduced legislation known as the ‘No Troops in Our Streets Act,’ legislation clearly designed to undermine the roles of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth in the military chain of command.” [editor’s note: I learned some Latin today — “Publius,” in English, obviously means “idiot” – TLK] (12/05/25)
https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/05/the-war-on-pete-hegseth/
Source: ABC News
“The U.S. Department of Transportation announced it will waive the remaining $11 million in fines Southwest Airlines owed as part of a record $140 million penalty over its operational meltdown during holiday travel in 2022. ‘In lieu of a payment of an $11 million civil penalty to the government, this order provides Southwest with an $11 million credit for significantly improving its on-time performance and completion factor through its $112.4 million investment in its Network Operations Control (NOC),’ the DOT said in an updated order this week. The DOT said waiving the installment will incentivize airlines to make investments towards improving their operations and resiliency that directly benefits customers.” (12/06/25)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/11m-southwest-airlines-fine-waived-by-dot/ar-AA1RRdQi?ocid=BingNewsBrowse
