Human existence begins when the lack of fixation of action by instincts exceeds a certain point; when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character, when the way to act is no longer fixed by heredtiarily given mechanisms. In other works, human existence and freedom are from the beginning inseparable.
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (1941), Chapter Two: “The Emergence of the Individual and the Ambiguity of Freedom.”
On August 22, 1952, France closed its penal colony on Devil’s Island.
At first a leper colony, it had been transformed by the end of the 19th century into a prison tasked primarily with housing enemies of the French state.
He has a point. For example, the official House committee staff carefully stated that they had “identified over $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates.” But Committee Chairman Comer turned that into: “The Biden family received over $20 million from our enemies around the world.”
The whole $20M+ didn’t go to the Biden Crime Family. Kessler’s analysis puts that number at merely $7.5 million.
I guess this is why gang members sometimes turn on each other.
But Kessler — like so many other mainstream media mouthpieces — gets something very, very wrong.
“No evidence has emerged that any of these funds can be traced to Joe Biden himself,” the fact-checker asserts before delving into the specifics of his checked facts. Near the close, Kessler reiterates: “No money has been traced to Joe Biden.”
That’s just not true.
In a text that was discovered on the infamous Hunter laptop (now verified even by big media behemoths), Hunter Biden tells his daughter that his father (now President Biden for those following closely at home) makes Hunter kick back roughly 50 percent of his income.
A statement made in confidence to a loved one is commonly referred to as evidence. Strong evidence.
There are additional communications and invoices showing Hunter paid bills for “the Big Guy,” including home repairs and improvements costing thousands of dollars.
No matter how hard “fact checkers” ignore the evidence, it is still there.
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Ludwig Edler von Mises, Nation, State and Economy (1919; 1983, Leland B. Yeager, trans.), p. 186.
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner led slaves and freed black Americans in a rebellion that was quickly suppressed.
Paul focuses on the realpolitik and deeper lack of meaning in a popular statement of America First sentiment.
We fear those in power who think and act least like us and therefore scrutinize their every decision.
Brion McClanahan, Nine Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her (2016), introduction. Image from a recent podcast video.
On August 20, 1991, Estonia issued a decision to re-establish independence on the basis of historical continuity of the Baltic country’s pre-World War II statehood, sloughing off Soviet rule since 1940.
On August 20, 1935, Ron Paul was born. Paul is now famous for his heroic congressional record, his several presidential campaigns, and for books such as End the Fed and Liberty Defined.
Paul focuses on the implications of a policy statement:
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748).