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My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship.The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises.When one remembers that the word “Nazi” was an abbreviation for “der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei — in English translation: the National Socialist German Workers’ Party — Mises’s identification might not appear all...

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, announced new immigration enforcement guidelines for dealing with those who have illegally entered the country, saying “given the flood of border-crossers, the president has determined that it is impractical to try to enforce the laws as written. There are just too many lawbreakers. He has authorized us to focus on deporting those who pose a security threat. The rest will be dispersed around the country on their own recognizance until they decide to appear in court for their cases to be heard.” The chief security threats mentioned by the Secretary were...

YouTube this week hit Right Side Broadcasting Network with a punitive “strike,” preventing us from uploading videos or live-streaming for seven days. “Your content was removed due to a violation of our Community Guidelines,” reads YouTube’s notice issued on Friday. “Your channel now has 1 strike. You won’t be able to do things like upload, post, or live stream for 1 week.” “A second strike will prevent you from publishing content for 2 weeks,” YouTube warned. A dreaded third strike within 90 days would mean permanent deletion of RSBN’s channel. RSBN was previously punished for similarly vague alleged violations of...

Reported Cases: The current 7-day moving average of daily new cases (106,395 per day) decreased 13.3% compared with the previous 7-day moving average (122,659). The national proportion of cases attributed to the Delta variant is estimated to be greater than 99%. Nowcast estimates indicate that Delta will continue to be the predominant variant circulating in all 10 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regions. The percentage of COVID-19 NAATs (nucleic acid amplification tests) that are positive (percent positivity) (6.6%) has decreased from the previous week (7.4%) - a relative drop of 11.1%. Vaccination: The 7-day average number of...

Over the past year, school board meetings have become increasingly contentious events, as more and more outraged parents use their constitutionally protected rights to speak out against tyrannical covid mandates and the poisonous, anti-American critical race theory that is being taught to their children. Instead of listening to the parents who pay their salaries, the woke school boards are responding by lobbying our dictator-in-chief to classify unruly parents who demand accountability as domestic terrorists. The growing backlash at these meetings has prompted the National School Boards Association to send a letter to Biden on Wednesday that begs him to use...

Navy SEALs have been informed by their superiors that they won’t be deployed if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine, even if they’re granted a religious or medical exemption, according to lawyers representing the elite special operations troops and a document seen by The Epoch Times.“What they’ve been told is if they apply for a religious accommodation, they will no longer be deployable,” R. Davis Younts, who is representing seven SEALs and is in talks to take on approximately 20 others, told The Epoch Times.

“Let me start big. The mission of the Claremont Institute is to save Western civilization,” says Ryan Williams, the organization’s president, looking at the camera, in a crisp navy suit. “We’ve always aimed high.” A trumpet blares. America’s founding documents flash across the screen. Welcome to the intellectual home of America’s Trumpist right. As Donald Trump rose to power, the Claremont universe—which sponsors fellowships and publications, including the Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind—rose with him, publishing essays that seemed to capture why the president appealed to so many Americans and attempting to map a political philosophy onto...

On Thursday, Senator and doctor Rand Paul handed it to Attorney and HHS Secretary Becerra. The Washington Examiner shared: s the Department of Health and Human Services under the Biden administration ignoring what politicians refer to as “the science” when it comes to natural immunity from the coronavirus? That, among other questions, is what Sen. Rand Paul , a Kentucky Republican, asked HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing Thursday. The senator interrogated Becerra on his qualifications to be making scientific decisions for the United States regarding the coronavirus . Paul referred to...

A Stunt Gone WrongOn page four we see that former Royal Air Force parachute instructor-turned daredevil George Hopkins is stuck on top of Devil's Tower. Hopkins landed, but his sledgehammer, his anchor, and the rope all missed. Landing on top of the monument was impressive considering that parachute techniques and equipment were relatively primitive. But you have to wonder where they went wrong with the gear. The top of Devil's Tower is roughly an acre, which wouldn't be too difficult to hit, unless they didn't take into account the "negative lead" required when dropping from a moving platform since your...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received a booster dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine Friday. The congresswoman revealed the news in an Instagram story that same evening. [cut] The congresswoman also shared a smiling photo of herself highlighting a bandaid over where she received the injection. [cut] The coronavirus booster has proved popular among Washington’s gerontocratic class with President Biden, 78, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 79, both taking the extra jab in recent days. It’s unclear why AOC — who is 31 years old and not known to be in a high-risk group — wanted the vaccine booster. A rep...

UPDATE: Court Denies Bail to Jeremy Brown Until Next Tuesday – Former Green Beret Was Arrested Thursday After He Earlier Refused FBI Request to Be Informant Plant at Jan. 6 Rallies On Thursday afternoon at 3:45 PM Eastern, the FBI raided retired Army Ranger Jeremy Brown’s home and arrested Jeremy. The charge was trespassing. We were notified this morning by his family and an attorney. The FBI searched their house, RV, and trailer. And then they arrested Jeremy and took him away. His family contacted The Gateway Pundit this morning. ** You can support Jeremy Brown’s fundraising effort here. TRENDING:...

Las Vegas police have arrested a couple in a carjacking and shooting in central Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon that left a woman gravely wounded. Edchela Robinson, 20, of Phoenix, and her boyfriend, Jaylynn Brown, 17, of Las Vegas, were each charged with attempted murder and multiple other felonies in the attack at an apartment complex on the 6200 block of West Tropicana Avenue, near South Jones Boulevard. Las Vegas police said in arrest reports for the couple that a female motorist was sitting in her car at the apartments, talking on her cell phone at 2:57 p.m. when she...

Paris-Roubaix is set to be run in a downpour for the first time since 2002. Supporters are thrilled. Riders are terrified. But for the past few weeks, Doulcier has been rooting for chaos, along with nearly every other cycling fan. That’s because Paris-Roubaix is set to be run in the rain this weekend for the first time since 2002. And while it might seem strange for supporters of an outdoor sport to pray for abject weather—unless you live in Green Bay during the playoffs—cycling fans see something epic in the added peril of riding bicycles on cobbles in the mud....

The world is a depressing place today. So much so that I have become so wrapped up in the idiocy, idolatry and corruption we are cursed with that I tend to forget how blessed I am to live in the USA despite the evil that surrounds me. I went for a walk early this morning near the Port of LA with at least 50 container ships anchored off the coast and felt depressed and hopeless seeing that, but then watched the sunrise. It reminded me that life itself is a blessing and there will always be a new day full...

By now, you have probably heard about President Biden’s $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” bill and all the empty promises in it. The truth is that it will do nothing to build our country up. Instead, this is a blank check to take our country into socialism. This bill will change every American’s way of life. It’s filled with radical policy changes that will raise costs on all goods, put the federal government in charge of educating your kids, prioritize climate policy over national security, breach every American’s privacy, and saddle future generations with debt. In an attempt to eliminate...

~Increasingly, America's two parties agree on almost everything that matters. It was the Uniparty, for example, that agreed to offshore American manufacturing and make China the dominant global power. Everything mass is made in China, everything boutique (Italian shoes, French cheese, English shirts, drinkable beer) is made in Europe, and Americans don't get a piece of either action. Think of the supply-chain disruptions of the last year and a half - the new automobiles sitting unsold at the plant for want of Chinese microchips - and you realize that Beijing no longer even needs to pull off the old EMP...

NEWYORK -The United Nations Security Council will privately discuss on Friday a decision by Ethiopia to expel seven senior U.N. officials, diplomats said, as malnutrition rates rise and famine looms in the country’s war-torn northern region of Tigray. The United States, Britain, Ireland, Estonia, France and Norway, plan to raise the issue during a closed-door meeting of the 15-member body, but diplomats say any strong action is unlikely as Russia and China have long made clear they believe the conflict is an internal affair for Ethiopia. The expulsions of the U.N. staff were announced by Ethiopia on Thursday, two days...

Numbers released this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation paint a stark picture of the last year: A nearly 30% rise in the homicide rate across the country, with New York also recording an increase. The increase drove an overall increase in the violent crime rate — including assault, robbery and rape — by around 5%. Property crimes, meanwhile, continued to decline, falling by 8% since 2019. But the FBI numbers do not dive into why the murders spiked last year, coming amid a pandemic that disrupted nearly every facet of life. Republican lawmakers who have opposed changes to...

Thanks go to Tony Heller, who first collected many of these news clips and posted them on RealClimateScience. SUMMARY Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true. What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science. More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science. While such predictions have been and...

(AP) – CLAIM: President Joe Biden has called for a “driving tax” that is estimated to be 8 cents per mile. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The administration has not proposed that tax. A provision in Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill before Congress would establish a national study to assess how such a tax could be implemented. It would not actually enact that tax, nor it does not outline a rate of 8 cents per mile. THE FACTS: As members of Congress mull a bipartisan, $1 trillion infrastructure bill that was approved by the Senate in August, social media users are misrepresenting...