In the news, Saturday, July 31, 2021

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from Mises Institute
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Good Economic Theory Is Always Grounded in the Real World

In his "Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics" (Mises Daily, June 17, 2006), David Gordon writes that Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk  maintained that concepts employed in economics must originate from reality—they need to be traced to their ultimate source in the real world. If one cannot trace it, the concept should be rejected as meaningless. Yet, assumptions employed by economists in their models often appear to be detached from the real world altogether. For example, in order to explain the economic crisis in Japan, well-known economist Paul Krugman employed a model that assumes that people are identical and live forever and that output is given. Whilst admitting that these assumptions are not realistic, Krugman nonetheless holds that somehow his model could be useful in offering solutions to the economic crisis in Japan.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Yahoo News

LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website owned by Verizon Media

Trash, fires and soaring home prices: Idaho copes with city dwellers fleeing COVID

Bill Rauer, executive director of the Idaho Building Contractors Association, was shocked when in the midst of the pandemic he started hearing about people from out of state showing up on the doorsteps of local homeowners and offering $50,000 to $150,000 over market price for their homes. “When the pandemic hit, it just seemed like everyone who was contemplating going to Idaho thought, ‘That’s it, we’re going,’” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.” Last year, Idaho’s population took the top spot for year-to-year growth, with an increase of 2.1 percent, and second place for the fastest-growing state in the country over the past decade, with an increase of 17.3 percent, according to U.S. census data. But Idaho’s popularity soared even more during the COVID-19 pandemic. The meteoric rise in its appeal, and the growing pains locals are now facing, are an example of the aftermath of the urban-to-rural exodus in evidence throughout the country.

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In the news, Friday, July 30, 2021

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from The Christian Post

RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American nondenominational Evangelical Christian newspaper in Washington, D.C.

'Antiracists are the new racists': Black civil rights veteran Bob Woodson slams CRT

Distinguished African American civil rights activist Bob Woodson recently expressed his opposition to critical race theory, arguing that the ideology in question is "racist" in nature. In an interview with conservative Christian author and radio host Eric Metaxas posted online Wednesday, Woodson discussed his issues with CRT and its proponents. Woodson ... said that the "so-called antiracists are the new racists." “Let’s be very clear,” said Woodson. “They are propagating a theory that harkens back to the days of racism, where they are saying that we should not be judged by the content of our character, but by the color of our skin.” He said that the arguments of CRT were an "esoteric debate on campuses for many years." "But then after the George Floyd and other incidents, the radical left has migrated it into the public domain and using it now as an instrument to attack American whites, attack democracy," he added. "It’s being used as a pervasive strategy to really undermine the values and principles of the nation.”

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from High Country News

How yellowcake shaped the West

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.

The Nuclear West dates back to 1898, long before anyone had thought of nuclear power or nuclear bombs, when Marie Curie discovered radium in unrefined pitchblende. Radium is a radioactive “daughter” of uranium that was once seen as a sort of miracle substance, so much so that just one gram of the stuff could fetch upwards of $100,000. Paint it on watch numbers or even clothing, and they’d glow in the dark. It purportedly could cure cancer and impotence and give those who used it an “all-around healthy glow,” as one advertisement put it. During the early 1900s, it was added to medicines, cosmetics and sometimes even food. The Denver-based Radio-Active Chemical Company added radium to fertilizers. The Nutex Company made radium condoms. Makers of the Radiendocrinator instructed men (and only men) to wear “the adapter like any ‘athletic strap.’ This puts the instrument under the scrotum as it should be. Wear at night. Radiate as directed.”

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from HumanProgress.org

Education Website

Light Has Burst Forth in Astonishing Abundance

Economics professor Deirdre McCloskey has said the Great Enrichment from 1800 to the present increased per capita incomes by 3,000 percent. She is being conservative. An index of 26 basic commodities found that abundance increased by 5,762 percent. Measured in time prices, which are the hours and minutes it takes to earn enough money to buy something, many prices have dropped by 99 percent. A 99 percent decrease means the time it took to earn the money to buy one item will now get you 100, or 9,900 percent more. From 1850 to 2018, the abundance of rye, tea, and rice increased 9,840 percent, 10,552 percent, and 11,049 percent, respectively, for blue-collar workers. Nickel abundance increased 18,046 percent, and sugar increased 22,583 percent. The one commodity that has exceeded them all in increasing abundance appears to be light. Nobel prize-winning economist William Nordhaus reported that earning enough money to buy one hour of light in 1830 required around three hours of labor. Today with advanced LED technology, one hour of light costs less than 0.16 seconds. This represents a 6,749,900 percent increase in personal light abundance.

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Grocery pioneer Chuck Yoke passes away at 92

Northwest Grocery Pioneer Chuck Yoke has passed away at the age of 92. Yoke, a native of Eastern Washington, turned his parents’ single Deer Park Grocery store into one of the northwest’s premier supermarket chains. 

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from Mises Institute
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We’re in the Middle of a Long War with the State

The term “the state” is a term that gets thrown around a lot with various meanings. Even excluding the confusing American terminology in which the United States is composed of “states,” we’re still left with many other meanings. For example, in the international relations literature, most independent countries are generally referred to as states. Historically, governments and polities of all types have been referred to as states. Moreover, the audience here will certainly be familiar with the term in the context of opposing the state. In libertarian circles, we often hear—although perhaps not often enough—about the need to fight the state, smash the state, abolish the state, etc. Certainly, one doesn’t have to spend an enormous amount of time reading Murray Rothbard to be familiar with this position. But often, when the “smash the state” position is invoked—especially among those less familiar with the state as an institution—further investigation often reveals a dangerous lack of precision about what exactly the state is.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review

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In the news, Thursday, July 29, 2021

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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

What Would Bismarck Think?

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), dubbed the “Iron Chancellor,” was one of modern history’s masters of Realpolitik. As Prussia’s minister-president, he executed the “blood and iron” war policies that resulted in 1871 in Germany’s long-desired unification. As the new German Empire’s first chancellor, he maintained a balance of power at home and abroad. In 1890, he was fired by the new Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who yearned for a more aggressive foreign policy, which in turn led to the First World War. Bismarck died on July 30, 1898, 123 years ago Friday. If he were alive today, what would he think of the Eastern Mediterranean’s balance of power?

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from HumanProgress.org

Education Website

Wealth and Technology Can Overcome Nature’s Wrath

The rising sea could become a problem for many, but for the Dutch, it is merely an old and well-known enemy. Trapped between some of Europe’s largest rivers and the violent North Sea waves, the people living in the Netherlands prevent floods for a living – literally. Holland is a flat, low-lying country on the edge of a stormy sea. To make matters worse, between 20 and 40 percent of its land area is at, or below, sea level. Yet, as the Dutch have shown for centuries, it is possible to live below the water level with appropriate water management and technology. ... Fortifying our societies against the climate is a constant challenge. But like the Dutch war against the waves, fortification against nature’s whims is a technical problem that requires engineering and adaptation, not fearmongering.

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from The Inlander
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA

As vaccination rates lag in rural northeast Washington, health officials fear COVID 'onslaught'

Sam Artzis is exhausted. As both an emergency room doctor and the public health officer in rural northeast Washington, he's spent more than a year trying to convince people to take COVID-19 seriously. But now more than ever, he fears there's a "perfect storm" brewing that will devastate his community. In the Northeast Tri County Health District — where Artzis is health officer — just over one-third of people 16 and older have initiated vaccination. Yet the more contagious Delta variant has arrived as the dominant strain there, and people are attending large indoor gatherings more now that the state has lifted restrictions. It's a recipe for "the next onslaught" of preventable disease, death and economic fallout, he says.

Email: Lawyer told Spokane Board of Health that Clark fired health officer full week before board vote

For months, concerned citizens and the state Board of Health have looked into the question of whether Spokane Regional Health District Administrator Amelia Clark improperly fired health officer Dr. Bob Lutz in a conversation on Oct. 29, 2020. As administrator, Clark could ask the local board of health to fire Lutz, but that had to take place during a public meeting with a public vote, which didn't happen until a week later. But an email obtained by the Inlander from SRHD Board of Health attorney Michelle Fossum to health board members confirms that at 5:40 pm on Oct. 29, Fossum told the board "Please be advised that Amelia has terminated Dr. Lutz's employment. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to her or to me, but do not 'reply all' to this email."

We have the know-how — and money — to tackle Spokane's housing crisis

Ben Stuckart: What does a housing crisis look like? Recently, the head of a local lab at a large medical facility and one of our region's largest employers contacted me to let me know that his employees are all seeing rent increases of over 30 percent in the next 60 days. He is worried that none of his full-time employees can afford to live in Spokane. Markets work like this: When there is no supply, prices increase. There are simply no other options for the employees at this facility. The people who check our groceries, draw our blood and flip our burgers ought to be able to afford to live inside the city limits. What does housing mean? We have the rental market (which are mostly apartments), home ownership and low-income housing. Low-income housing is defined as apartments or homes that were built with government subsidy and can accept housing vouchers. The other two are considered market rate. Housing discussions should include all three. Is there really a housing crisis? As of last week, nationwide data showed Spokane saw the largest rent increases in the country over the last year. Market-rate apartment rents have risen almost 30 percent and market-rate home prices have risen by 29 percent during that time, but wages have not kept pace. Low-income housing is becoming impossible to find. If you lose your job and apartment, the average time to get into low-income housing is three years.

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from MedPage Today

What's the Evidence Guiding CDC's Latest Mask Policy?

— We can't "follow the science" if there's no relevant science to follow

Throughout the pandemic, we learned a lot about which drugs help and which don't. Steroids are of indisputable benefit when given to hospitalized patients who require oxygen or mechanical ventilation. Hydroxychloroquine does not work in a similar situation. Many things we thought might help, were found to offer no net benefit. We are much better off from having this knowledge. Randomized trials were the scientific tool that allowed us to separate drugs that save lives from those that have no effect or even contribute to iatrogenic injury. Randomizing patients was the secret sauce to improving the care of people diagnosed with COVID-19, and I suspect future scientists will look back with admiration at the pandemic heroes: the trialists of RECOVERY and SOLIDARITY and other major randomized efforts. When it comes to non-pharmacologic interventions such as mandatory business closures, mask mandates, and countless other interventions, the shocking conclusion of the last 18 months is this: We have learned next to nothing. ... Anyone who considers themselves a scientist should be embarrassed by our collective failure to generate knowledge, and this failure is once again looming large. The CDC is again recommending vaccinated people to wear cloth masks in indoor public spaces, at least in locations where COVID is surging. The CDC director calls this "following the science," but it is not. It is following the TV pundits.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Sue Lani Madsen: Following Seattle money to Spokane

Running a successful political campaign at any level requires money. Preferably local money, but it’s not surprising to find statewide and national organizations interested in the council races in Washington’s second largest city. One organization has perfected a method of disguising its support as ordinary individual donations. The group calls it a “moneybomb.” Its successful July 9 bombing run dropped over $20,000 from Seattle metro area donors strategically into two Spokane City Council races.

‘No Ordinary Man’ an inspiring, reflective documentary about Spokane’s Billy Tipton

Spokane resident Billy Tipton Jr. never knew how much of an icon his father was. That is, until filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt, along with writer Amos Mac, showed him a collection of interviews of trans artists and activists contemplating what they would say and ask Billy Tipton if he were still alive today.

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from Vox

LEFT BIAS, HIGH, Media/News Company based in Washington, D.C. 

Biden is turning back Haitian migrants at sea, echoing a shameful chapter in US history

Under previous administrations, Haitians have been detained indefinitely and sent back to dangerous conditions.

The US could soon be facing dual migrant crises stemming from unrest in Haiti and Cuba. In response, the Biden administration has preemptively warned migrants not to try to come to the US by boat. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently confirmed that any migrants intercepted by the US Coast Guard off US shores will not be allowed to enter the country — they will be turned back or, if they express fear of returning to their home countries, repatriated to a third country. “The time is never right to attempt migration by sea,” Mayorkas said in a press conference earlier this month. “To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.” The policy isn’t new. Past administrations, both Republican and Democratic, have employed this interdiction approach to prevent Caribbean migrants from reaching US shores. But although it was always done under the pretense of protecting migrants from the very real dangers of that journey, it resulted in many Haitians being returned to certain peril in their home country over the years and, under the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, languishing in what one federal judge called a “prison camp” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held after being intercepted at sea.

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In the news, Wednesday, July 28, 2021

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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)

Gov. Inslee: Even the vaccinated should wear masks while indoors

Amid a resurgence in COVID in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee held a news conference Wednesday and said mask-wearing will be required in K-12 schools this fall and urged fully vaccinated people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces where the chance of transmission is substantial or high. Inslee's announcements come as the delta variant becomes the dominant COVID strain in Washington state, infections are increasing in a "fifth wave" and vaccination rates are flatlining.

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from Mises Institute
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The Jan. 6th Show Trials Threaten All of Us
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should be terrified of a court system so beholden to politics instead of justice.

European Unification as the New Frontier of Collectivism

In Europe, one of the most important contemporary debates concerns unification and the project to create a centralized state with a single currency, a democratic parliament, and a monopolistic government. In this context, the current crisis of the European Monetary Unit (EMU) becomes a good argument in favor of an even-more-accelerated path toward the transfer of powers from the old nation-states to Brussels and Strasbourg. According to many economists and political scientists, the poor performance of the European single currency is the consequence of a lack of institutional unity. Hoping for a reversal in the declining power of Western socialist ideals, they call for more political centralization and economic planning. These discussions are plagued by certain superstitions, so, in the first part of this article, I will try to show the irrationality of unifying this continent, as well as how this plan is an absurd treason of the best European liberal traditions.

Shrinkflation, Inflation’s Sneaky Cousin, Is on the Rise

Inflation has been on the rise for the past year and in the last few months it has accelerated. In June 2021, inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), hit the highest level since 2008. By inflation, economists refer to the increase in the general level of prices, which means that prices on average are increasing. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has a basket of goods and services that it tracks and uses to create a measure of the CPI. While inflation is the topic of the day in the news media and everyday conversations, many have not heard about its sneaky cousin, shrinkflation. The term shrinkflation, is credited to British economist Pippa Malmgren, and refers to the shrinking weight of the products while the price for the package remains the same. This is in effect another form of inflation, since the per unit price of goods increases when products shrink.

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from PJ Media

News & Media Website

Biden's COVID and Border Policies Collide With a Discovery at a Texas Whataburger

How widespread is the practice of the Biden government handing COVID-positive people off to a charity that’s clearly not managing them properly? We have literally no way of knowing how widespread this issue is, because the government isn’t telling anyone, and it’s apparently paying Catholic Charities to shut up about it. Roughly a million people of unknown origin have crossed into the United States illegally just since Joe Biden was sworn in. He isn’t even bothering to manage the situation with anything approaching effectiveness.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from The Washington Examiner

RIGHT BIAS,  MIXED, News & Media Website in Washington, DC

Biden holds undisclosed White House meeting with leader of Belarusian opposition party

President Joe Biden met in secret with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader of Belarus's democratic opposition party, at the White House on Wednesday. White House officials did not answer questions by press time on why the meeting was not previously disclosed on the president's daily guidance, as is customary for meetings with international dignitaries. The meeting was only made public after Biden's "POTUS" account tweeted a photo of the two leaders.

The CDC's idiotic mask reversal is based on disinformation

n Washington, D.C., where 3 in 5 adults and 3 in 4 seniors are fully vaccinated, just four of the 375,000 people vaccinated died from coronavirus, all of whom were elderly or had serious medical conditions. We have the empirical evidence: The vaccines work. Not only is the threshold of effective herd immunity for the fully vaccinated much lower than some experts initially feared, but this level of vaccination also allows us to return to the pre-pandemic normal — masks and social distancing fully discarded.

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from The Washington Post

Newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Something strange is happening in Britain. Covid cases are plummeting instead of soaring.

This is a puzzler. Coronavirus cases are plummeting in Britain. They were supposed to soar. Scientists aren't sure why they haven't. The daily number of new infections recorded in the country fell for seven days in a row before a slight uptick Wednesday, when the country reported 27,734 cases. That’s still almost half of where the caseload was a week ago. The trajectory of the virus in Britain is something the world is watching closely and anxiously, as a test of how the delta variant behaves in a society with relatively high vaccination rates. And now people are asking if this could be the first real-world evidence that the pandemic in Britain is sputtering out — after three national lockdowns and almost 130,000 deaths.

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In the news, Tuesday, July 27, 2021

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from The American Spectator

CRT and the Threat to the American Family

In a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper that aired in June, Barack Obama weighed in on perceived GOP anxieties. Instead of worrying about the economy and climate change, worries he thought appropriate for Republicans, “Lo and behold,” he told Cooper, “the single most important issue to them apparently right now is critical race theory. Who knew that that was the threat to our republic?” I would argue that critical race theory, CRT for short, is not only a threat to the republic but also a threat to our families. Obama has already shown the damage that race can inflict on family, starting with this own. In March 2008, with his campaign floundering after the toxic Rev. Wright tapes surfaced, Obama played the CRT card to salvage his candidacy. During a critical speech in Philadelphia, Obama reminded his audience that “so many of the disparities that exist between the African-American community and the larger American community today can be traced directly to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.” This was pure CRT. The fact that none of Obama’s relatives descended from slaves went unmentioned.

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from Mises Institute
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MARK SPITZNAGEL: AT WHAT PRICE SAFETY?

From public policy to private investing, it is the central question of our time: how high a price should we pay to keep ourselves safe from harm? And this begs even more fundamental questions: should risk mitigation come at a cost at all, or should it rather come with rewards? That is, shouldn’t risk mitigation be “cost-effective”? And if not, what is it good for? ... The fact is, safety from risk can be exceedingly costly. As a cure, it is often worse than the disease. And what’s worse, the costs are often hidden; they are errors of omission (the great shots that could have been), even as they mitigate errors of commission (the bad shots). The latter are the errors we easily notice; ignoring the former for the latter is a costly fallacy.

Why Progressives Will Never Accept Market-Based Medical Care

A recent article on this page highlighted a stunning situation in which a surgery clinic in Oklahoma City was able to offer outpatient procedures at less than one-tenth of what local hospitals were charging to third-party payment systems such as insurance companies and Medicare. This was a significant article in many ways, in that it presented what truly is a shocking picture of what really happens in the medical care systems in this country. At the same time, I was not surprised that Dr. G. Keith Smith’s clinic was able both to offer high-quality services at prices that are within the reach of most Americans and do it in an economical and convenient manner. After all, a free market economy has done the same with nearly all other privately offered goods and services for centuries and medical care should be no exception.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review

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In the news, Monday, July 26, 2021

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from BBC News (UK)

Canterbury Cathedral stained glass is among world's oldest

New research indicates that some stained glass windows from Canterbury Cathedral may be among the oldest in the world. The panels, depicting the Ancestors of Christ, have been re-dated using a new, non-destructive technique. The analysis indicates that some of them may date back to the mid-1100s. The windows would therefore have been in place when the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, was killed at the cathedral in 1170.

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from Front Porch Republic

“Magically Turning White”: A Family Story of Slavery, Racism, and Redemption
By Mark Clavier: Brecon, Wales. On 15 November 1772, a freeborn Martinican “mulatress” named Marianne delivered a healthy son, whom she called Jean-Pierre. Little else is known about her except that she was the widowed daughter of Elizabeth, who had once been enslaved. When Jean-Pierre was baptized in his local Catholic church, he wasn’t given his own father’s surname but that of Marianne’s late husband. He was illegitimate and, consequently, carried and passed down to his sons the family name of a man he never knew and to whom he wasn’t related. That name was Clavier. Jean-Pierre was my great, great, great, great grandfather.

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from IndieWire

Lucasfilm Hired the YouTuber Who Used Deepfakes to Tweak Luke Skywalker ‘Mandalorian’ VFX

YouTube is full of deepfake videos that attempt to improve on polarizing visual effects in movies, but rarely do these videos lead to actual studio jobs. A popular deepfake YouTuber who goes by the name “Shamook” announced this month in the comments section of one of his videos that he joined the team over at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic. IndieWire has now confirmed the hiring with Lucasfilm. The news is notable as one of Shamook’s most viral videos is a deepfake that improves the VFX used in “The Mandalorian” Season 2 finale to de-age Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker. The video has nearly 2 million views on YouTube.

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from Mises Institute
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Canada's Left Is Pushing Some Albertans To See the Benefits of Secession

Talks of separatism are not just limited to the United States. When Canada is brought up in political discourse, it’s usually done to juxtapose its relative stability to the US. Often portrayed as the tamer, more socially stable version of the US, Canada has become a darling of American progressives. Even some American celebrities, caught up in the hysteria of former president Donald Trump’s successful 2016 run, hinted at moving to Canada. Conventional views of foreign countries can be quite misleading, however. The last few weeks have been rather dicey in Canada. The controversy kicked off after the discovery of the supposed mass graves of First Nations near the former sites of four Canadian Indian residential schools in the provinces of Manitoba, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. Although there is growing evidence that these discoveries do not point to a genocidal act inflicted on Canada’s indigenous population, the radical Left went about its usual routine by instantly pouncing on the discoveries and using them as a pretext to burn down churches and topple monuments of famous historical figures across Canada.

Secession and the Production of Defense

Jörg Guido Hülsmann examines the economics of guerrilla warfare and how secessionist movements can succeed against a larger state.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review

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In the news, Sunday, July 25, 2021

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

New technology propels efforts to fight Western wildfires

As drought- and wind-driven wildfires have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years, firefighters have tried to become smarter in how they prepare. They’re using new technology and better positioning of resources in a bid to keep small blazes from erupting into mega-fires like the ones that torched a record 4% of California last year, or the nation’s biggest wildfire this year that has charred a section of Oregon half the size of Rhode Island. There have been 730 more wildfires in California so far this year than last, an increase of about 16%. But nearly triple the area has burned – 470 square miles.

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from The Guardian (UK)

LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK

US set for punishing temperatures as huge ‘heat dome’ to settle over country

The most extensive heatwave of a scorching summer is set to descend upon much of America in the coming week, further roasting areas already gripped by severe drought, plunging reservoirs and wildfires. A massive “heat dome” of excessive heat will settle across the heart of the contiguous US from Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast, bringing elevated temperatures to the Great Plains, the Great Lakes, the northern reaches of the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific north-west and California.

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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED

Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die
I was a small child when I first heard Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, spoken of. This was in the early 1960s, when I began to accompany my father on road trips he took with our family once or twice a year to Lisbon to visit and monitor the operation of the Portuguese branch office of our family’s life insurance business.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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