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Congress Skips Epstein Files Vote For Trip To Israel – today on the Liberty Report:

Posted by M. C. on August 8, 2025

They are in control

by Daniel McAdams

Dozens of Members of the US House are on their way to Israel on an AIPAC-paid trip after Speaker Johnson – also in Israel – called August recess early to avoid a vote on Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to release the Epstein files. Priorities?

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Envy

Posted by M. C. on August 7, 2025

From Wiki and Thomas Sowell

“According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the struggle aroused by envy has three stages:

  1. During the first stage, the envious person attempts to lower another person’s reputation
  2. In the middle stage, the envious person receives either “joy at another’s misfortune” (if he succeeds in defaming the other person) or “grief at another’s prosperity” (if he fails)
  3. the third stage is hatred because “sorrow causes hatred”[38]

Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness, bringing sorrow to committers of envy, while giving them the urge to inflict pain upon others.[39]

That guy from 800 years ago was spot on.

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Young Man with the COOLEST Vintage System, Part One

Posted by M. C. on August 6, 2025

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Johnny’s Problem

Posted by M. C. on August 6, 2025

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The Hot Club. If I were Going to New York I would Stop Here

Posted by M. C. on August 4, 2025

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It’s Free Stuff For The Other Guy

Posted by M. C. on August 4, 2025

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Oz and Government Funded Jobs

Posted by M. C. on August 4, 2025

Australian Conservative Libertarian Group

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82% of all jobs created in Australia in the last 2 years are govt funded with the private sector adding on 53,000.

Those numbers should terrify all of us. The govt has smothered the private sector and hollowed it out.

Expect productivity and living standards to continue to decline. This sort of economic imbalance leads to nowhere good.

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Footage Of Anti Illegal Immigrant Protests Is Now Being Blocked In The UK

Posted by M. C. on August 4, 2025

So there’s a whole new “elite” unit monitoring spicy tweets, but criminals are just roaming free to do as they please.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage urged last week that owing to rampant crime and the unwillingness to deal with it, the country is on the verge of societal collapse.

Making things safe for government…Bottom line is, after decades, PC and child groomers are still winning in the UK.

Tyler Durden's Photo

by Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/footage-anti-illegal-immigrant-protests-now-being-blocked-uk

The development comes as the so called Online Safety Act law came into force for social media companies on Friday.

The law was passed by the previous Conservative government, just one of the many disastrous policies they embraced that led to the leftist Labour Party coming back into power with a massive majority last year.

British users of X shared screenshots of messages that popped up while they attempted to view footage from the protests, which started in Epping after a migrant sexually assaulted a teenage girl and have since spread around the country.

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Power To The People

Posted by M. C. on August 3, 2025

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean – power over people, power to the State.

Margaret Thatcher

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Sorry Bernie Bros But Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist

Posted by M. C. on August 3, 2025

In case you have read anything about “socialist” Norway leveraging their oil

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2018/07/08/sorry-bernie-bros-but-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist/

ByJeffrey Dorfman,

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, self-proclaimed democratic socialist and Democratic Nominee for New York's... [+] 14th Congressional District, appears on 'Meet the Press,' July 1, 2018. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, self-proclaimed democratic socialist and Democratic Nominee for New York’s 14th Congressional District, appears on ‘Meet the Press,’ July 1, 2018. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)

As the American left embraces a platform that continues to look more and more like a socialist’s dream, it is common for those on the right to counter with the example of Venezuela as the nightmare of socialism in reality. A common response from the left is that socialism (or democratic socialism) works just fine in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. It is certainly true that Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark are notable economic successes. What is false is that these countries are particularly socialist.

The myth of Nordic socialism is partially created by a confusion between socialism, meaning government exerting control or ownership of businesses, and the welfare state in the form of government-provided social safety net programs. However, the left’s embrace of socialism is not merely a case of redefining a word. Simply look at the long-running affinity of leftists with socialist dictators in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela for proof many on the left long for real socialism.

To the extent that the left wants to point to an example of successful socialism, not just generous welfare states, the Nordic countries are actually a poor case to cite. Regardless of the perception, in reality the Nordic countries practice mostly free market economics paired with high taxes exchanged for generous government entitlement programs.

First, it is worth noting that the Nordic counties were economic successes before they built their welfare states. Those productive economies, generating good incomes for their workers, allowed the governments to raise the tax revenue needed to pay for the social benefits. It was not the government benefits that created wealth, but wealth that allowed the luxury of such generous government programs.

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