“This is not a war” – Former Green Beret Discusses Combat Operations in West Bank/Gaza
IDF killing civilians and lying about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy-1yz87Yus
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Rogan Sucks Up Rich Guy’s BS Like It’s Dumb Juice
False information accepted as true by Joe Rogan about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3iloKjpxA
Why didn’t Mao Conquer Taiwan? (Short Animated Documentary)
Mao wanted to take Taiwan, but the government there had more naval and air power, and the U.S. threatened to intervene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYiEXwti1_U
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT4lxJKj0I0
This Is A Huge Problem
A lot of the public were Googling if Biden dropped out right before the election. Maybe a primary would have helped informed the public about Democratic candidates’ positions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0qV-mFhn2A
Did Native Americans Really Live in Balance with Nature?
Indians had a greater connection to the land than the Europeans, and better conserved it, but Indians were not pristine nature lovers living in harmony with nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLizvrhbOU
A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research
“”The DEA’s attempt to classify DOI, a compound of great significance to both psychedelic and fundamental serotonin research, as a Schedule I substance exemplifies an administrative agency overstepping its bounds,” Rush says. “The government admits DOI is not being diverted for use outside of scientific research yet insists on placing this substance in such a restricted class that it will disrupt virtually all current research.”
SSDP describes the two compounds as “essential research chemicals in pre-clinical psychiatry and neurobiology,” noting that their unscheduled status has made them accessible as tools for studying serotonin receptors. It says DOI, in particular, has been “a cornerstone in neuroscience research” due to its selectivity for the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor, crucial for understanding the therapeutic effects of psychedelics. Scientists have used DOI to “map the localization of an important serotonin receptor in the brain critical in learning, memory, and psychiatric disease,” SSDP notes, and DOI studies “have shown encouraging results in managing pain and reducing opioid cravings.””
https://reason.com/2024/11/09/a-psychedelic-ban-would-disrupt-important-research/
Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career?
“A recent study showed women experience a short-term “motherhood penalty” but their earnings rebound within a decade.”
Still a big impact on wealth though.
https://reason.com/2024/11/12/theres-more-to-the-motherhood-penalty/
California Voters Opt for Orderly Urbanism on Election Day
“The biggest housing issue on the California ballot was rent control. Proposition 33 would have repealed all state-level limits on local rent control policies, thus giving cities and counties a free hand to regulate rents however they pleased.
The measure went down in flames on Election Day, with roughly 60 percent of voters casting a “no” ballot.
That result is good news for the availability of rental housing in California, given rent control’s well-documented history of reducing rental housing supply and quality.
It is nevertheless a somewhat surprising result. California has a much higher proportion of renters than most other states and polls consistently find that rent control is supported by a wide majority of respondents. Dozens of cities already have rent control policies on the books.”
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“Prop. 36 asked California voters if they wanted to increase legal penalties for certain drug and theft crimes. With roughly 70 percent of ballots counted, some 70 percent of voters said yes they do. Prop. 36 has earned majority support in every single county in the state.”
https://reason.com/2024/11/12/california-voters-opt-for-orderly-urbanism-on-election-day/
Russian Court Denies Appeal of U.S. Citizen Sentenced to 12 Years for Donating $51 to Pro-Ukraine Charity
“A Russian court on Monday denied relief to a U.S. citizen serving 12 years in a penal colony for treason in connection with a $51.80 donation she made, while in the U.S., to a pro-Ukraine charity.
Ksenia Karelina, who is also a Russian citizen, was arrested in January during a trip to visit her 90-year-old grandmother and other family members in Yekaterinburg, Russia. She immigrated to the U.S. in 2012 and became a citizen in 2021.
Trouble for Karelina, 33, began shortly after landing in Russia, where the Federal Security Service (FSB) flagged her after learning she had a U.S. passport. The agency interrogated her, took her cell phone—on which the FSB discovered her 2022 donation to Razom, a charity dedicated to “actively contributing to the establishment of a secure, prosperous, and democratic Ukraine”—and ultimately arrested her for “petty hooliganism,” which was later ratcheted up to treason. Her prosecution is part of a larger Russian crackdown on alleged treason that is unprecedented even by the country’s illiberal standards.”
https://reason.com/2024/11/13/russian-court-denies-appeal-of-u-s-citizen-sentenced-to-12-years-for-donating-51-to-pro-ukraine-charity/