Source: Free Talk Live
“Alu calls in about utilitarian arguments for government :: Roger Ver’s case :: How many people caught the welfare bug during covid? :: Welfare will eventually cause productive people to revolt :: Philosophical side of AI :: AIs that wont answer questions because woke :: How can we pull AI in a more libertarian direction? :: Mainstream media’s control over people’s minds :: Unschooling :: Ian Freeman’s case :: Free will :: Ian’s plea deal offer that he didn’t take :: Riley’s 420 rally :: Blind people being affected by DOGE cuts :: Taxation is mind control :: Against IP laws :: Sarah’s impressive complaining :: Should we still be mad about things that happened to our ancestors? :: Holocaust denial :: Trump seeking third term :: 3/30/2025 :: HOSTS :: Bonnie, Mark, Penguin.” (03/30/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/2025-03-30a
Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk
“The notion that America could annex the sovereign territory of Denmark, a longstanding ally and a founding member of NATO, is so absurd that most people have so far refused to take it seriously. And it is certainly true that Trump loves to troll his political opponents, beckoning them into the trap of denouncing his half-joking pronouncement in overly moraline terms. But over the last days and weeks, the Trump administration has signaled in every way possible that it really does mean to expand American control over the Arctic island. And while a forcible American annexation of Greenland would have disastrous consequences — both for America and for the world — the prospect of such an action is now far less remote than has widely been assumed. It is time to take seriously the possibility of an American annexation of Greenland.” (03/30/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/they-really-just-might-invade-greenland
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The Red Cross federation voiced outrage on Sunday after eight medical colleagues were killed while on duty in the Gaza Strip. … The IFRC said the bodies were retrieved after ‘seven days of silence’ and of having access denied to the area of Rafah where they were last seen. It said it was the single most deadly attack on its colleagues anywhere in the world since 2017. Israel’s military admitted on Saturday it had fired on ambulances in the Gaza Strip after identifying them as ‘suspicious vehicles,’ with Hamas condemning it as a war crime. … The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said earlier on Sunday it had recovered the bodies of the medics, killed a week ago, and that they were found along with those of six members of Gaza’s civil defence agency and one UN agency employee. One Red Crescent ambulance officer remains missing.” (03/31/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/gaza-red-cross-red-crescent-medic-deaths-response-israel-hamas-palestine
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The US launched 65 airstrikes in 24 hours in Yemen, and then Trump’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard tweeted, ‘President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.’ These freaks have no connection with reality. … I saw a video the other day of a father cradling the decapitated head of his son from an airstrike in Gaza, and I’m told I’m a terrorist supporter if I criticize the people who decapitated him. … The word ‘terrorist’ is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control. Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists. Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists. Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism.” (03/30/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/03/30/the-president-of-peace-just-bombed-yemen-65-times-in-24-hours/
Source: Unattended Baggage
“It all makes more sense when you’re slightly drunk.” (03/29/25)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-287-hour-1-it-all-makes-more
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was ‘pissed off’ at Russian President Vladimir Putin and will impose secondary tariffs of 25% to 50% on buyers of Russian oil if he feels Moscow is blocking his efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Trump told NBC News he was very angry after Putin last week criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s leadership, the television network reported, citing a telephone interview early on Sunday. … ‘If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault … I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,’ Trump said. ‘That would be, that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,’ Trump said. ‘There will be a 25% tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.'” (03/31/25)
https://archive.is/SUxd4
Source: The Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Every time Trump issues, or federal agencies attempt to implement, an unconstitutional executive order — one or both of which happen on a near-daily basis — journalists and pundits want to know: First, will the courts order a halt to the executive branch’s latest roughshod running over of the US Constitution? Second, if the courts do so rule, will the administration comply with those rulings? I find that line of questioning rather odd, since history’s already answered it for us many times over the Constitution’s 230-odd years of supposed rule. The answer to both questions is ‘maybe, maybe not.'” (03/30/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19458
Source: Bitcoin.com
“California’s Assembly has initiated legislative action on cryptocurrency governance with the filing of AB-1052, referred to as the ‘Bitcoin Rights’ bill. Introduced by Assemblymember Juan Carrillo Valencia, who presides over the Banking and Finance Committee, the measure targets legal recognition for digital asset self-custody. Public confirmation of the bill’s introduction came on March 29 through a statement posted by the nonprofit Satoshi Action Fund on the social media platform X. … The bill, AB-1052, outlines several provisions intended to strengthen protections for digital asset users. It explicitly affirms the right to self-custody bitcoin and other digital assets, while barring public agencies from imposing taxes or restrictions solely based on asset use in payments. A separate section of the bill establishes a legal process for handling unclaimed digital property, ensuring such assets are secured by licensed custodians instead of being left in administrative uncertainty.” (03/30/25)
https://news.bitcoin.com/california-unleashes-bitcoin-rights-bill-protecting-self-custody-for-40m-americans/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Will Ogilvie Vega de Seoane
“Alexis de Tocqueville didn’t journey across the United States to write a travelogue — he set out to craft a mirror. He wasn’t interested in landscapes or monuments. He wanted to understand democracy not as an abstract theory but as a living, breathing reality. He wanted to see its people — their passions, their dreams, the way they lived, worked, and shaped their own future. But more than all of that, he wanted them to see themselves. His concern wasn’t that democracy would collapse overnight in a violent coup. Nor did he fear the rise of radical ideologies, from the left or the right, as much as something far more insidious: the slow suffocation of freedom under layers of bureaucracy, endless rules, the tyranny of the majority, and growing public apathy. He saw it coming. And, in many ways, we’re living it today.” (03/28/25)
https://fee.org/articles/tocquevilles-mirror/
Source: US News & World Report
“A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that was targeted for mass firings before the court’s intervention. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed to issue a preliminary injunction that maintains the agency’s existence until she rules on the merits of a lawsuit seeking to preserve the agency. The judge said the court ‘can and must act’ to save the agency from being shuttered. Jackson ruled that, without a court order, President Donald Trump’s administration would move quickly to shut down the agency that Congress created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.” (03/28/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-03-28/federal-judge-blocks-trump-from-dismantling-consumer-financial-protection-bureau
