David T. Beito

Policing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime | 60 Minutes In the U.S., most of what we say online, even if it’s hate filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, prosecutors and cops police the internet.

Scary stuff and the reporters at CBS seem to be cheerleaders for Germany's smug and Orwellian censorship regime.

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2014 borders and NATO membership (Swiss style neutrality is a more worthy goal) were always unrealistic. If any deal looks better than that which Boris Johnson helped to scuttle in 2022, I'll be surprised. The sad difference is that so many Ukrainians died needlessly in the interim.

Is USAID the New CIA? Agency Secretly Built Cuban Twitter Program to Fuel Anti-Castro Protests “U.S. Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' to Stir Unrest.” That is the name of an explosive new article by the Associated Press detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) created...

From 2014...when many on the left were quite comfortable accusing USAID of being in bed with the CIA.

www.democracynow.org/2014/4/4/is_...

Bernie admitted he got Pharma money but said it was from "workers." Which workers? What does that mean exactly?

YouTube video by The Fleapit The Day The Clown Cried (1972)- Reconstructed

Some powerful moments in a much-maligned project. This is about as close to a complete version that we have.

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California secession proponents get green light to take next steps toward ‘Calexit’ “People think if you’re a secessionist, you’re crazy,” Calexit leader Marcus Ruiz Evans told The Independent

“People think if you’re a secessionist, you’re crazy,” Ruiz Evans said on Saturday. “I hate Donald Trump,” he added. “I am full-blooded Mexican. The day he went on TV and said all Mexicans are rapists, I said, ‘He can go f*** himself.’ “

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Using sedition and domestic terrorism laws against rioters is overkill - Washington Examiner Opinion Using sedition and domestic terrorism laws against rioters is overkill By David Beito March 22, 2023 12:23 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion Using sedition and domestic terroris...

Anyone convicted of sedition needs a full pardon (not just a commutation) for that offense. Long before Eugene Debs went to prison under that malleable standard, it belonged in the same discredited category as blasphemy laws.
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Why Trump should keep his promise to free Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht In addition to many other things he has promised to do on his first day in office, Donald Trump has said he will free Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who

A life sentence for facilitating peaceful transactions among consenting adults is hard to fathom, let alone justify.

Insurance firms are sending firefighters to defend homes amid LA wildfires Private efforts to combat wildfires are not just for the superrich – many work for insurers seeking to minimize the policies they’d have to pay out

"Private efforts to combat wildfires are not just for the mansions of the superrich. In fact, many private companies that respond to wildfires now work for insurers..."

Before Taking Office, L.A.’s Mayor Said She Would Not Go Abroad Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles has been criticized for being out of the country when the wildfires broke out. Three years ago, she promised in an interview to cut back on her world travel and focus o...

Before taking office, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles had said she would not go abroad. She was overseas when wildfires erupted.

David T. Beito: Talk Radio Rides to the Rescue in Tuscaloosa In The Wall Street Journal, David T. Beito of the University of Alabama writes about how Clear Channel stations promoted

NPR is trying to avoid funding cuts by depicting its stations as unique conduits of information for communities hit by disasters. Perhaps the folks there need to read my article about how talk radio performed this role in Tuscaloosa:
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Biden Calls Meta’s Ending of Fact-Checking Program ‘Shameful’ Responding to a question from a reporter, the president said he believed Americans “want to tell the truth.”

“And you know,” he added, “when you have millions of people reading, going online, reading this stuff, it is — anyway, I think it’s — I think it’s really shameful.”

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Allow? Who stopped California from doing this?

Any serious journalist would make this the lead.

"humans could have taken some steps to potentially lessen the impact of Mother Nature’s wrath. Inconsistent vegetation management, aging infrastructure and homes, and a lack of planning likely contributed to fires."

Girls may have been hit hardest by pandemic learning loss It's no secret that months of pandemic-era lockdowns led to dramatic learning loss among American children. What has surprised researchers is exactly

It's no secret that months of pandemic-era lockdowns led to dramatic learning loss among American children. What has surprised researchers is exactly which students were most affected, especially in math.

Gabbard reverses course on key intel-gathering tool as nomination teeters Tulsi Gabbard is changing her tune on a key intelligence-gathering authority she once sought to repeal as her Senate confirmation hangs in the balance.

That "anti-establishment" appointee sure folded quickly.

"Don't politicize" is code terminology for "don't make Newsom accountable"

Better yet. Don't ban any of them.

Mark Zuckerberg makes shocking admission on Joe Rogan podcast Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that the Biden administration tried to force him to censor a meme about the Covid-19 pandemic in a surprise appearance on the popular podcast.

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Fellow members of the duopoly laughing at the sheeple?

Reminder: Insurance is not a savings account. It's a hedge against an unlikely scenario. A house located in a fire zone catching on fire is a likely scenario. Californians would stop building in fire zones if California legalized new affordable housing in cities and didn't cap fire insurance rates.

Canada did not have a central bank until 1934.

I was trying to get it in youtube (isn't it public domain?) but couldn't find anything, except stuff like abridged version and renditions by school theater departments, etc. What is going on at youtube?

No map of any kind of settlements appears in a google search under that name, Can you produce one?

Perhaps you need to complain to the Jerusalem Post for spreading fake information. More seriously, what newspaper or source would you accept as credible?

Here is a map from the Jerusalem Post. Do you question that source? If so, what paper in Israel do you find credible.

The settlers have made Israel-Palestine into a defacto single state as they are grow that fact is becoming even more intractable. They are widely scattered (see below). It is not realistic to expect that they (or state of Israel) will allow foreign countries just "step in" there.

Step in would mean removing over 500K settlers who are widely scattered throughout the West Bank. That is no longer feasible. They are not leaving and they are armed. The beauty of a Swiss system is there would no reason for them leave. The settlements a permanent reality. Time for realism.

"It won’t be a two state" and "a single state is not one of them." Okay, that rules two state and one state? What is your long-term sustainable alternative?

You said that you were against two state, now it seems that you are for it. Which is it?