WAR - What Is It Good For - TLF068

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War - what is it good for? Slaughtering people, and nothing more. What's in the News with stories on Federal Reserve Bitcoin, national cannabis legalization, ICE injustice, Stingray bans in NH, cops walk free - again, and filming cops. And, How to Live a LAVA Lifestyle on a town that lost all of their cops. This episode is brought to you by Tom Woods's Liberty Classroom, helping you to become a smarter and more informed libertarian than ever before, for just 24 cents a day.

WHAT’S RUSTLING MY JIMMIES

Just like the song says, war is good for nothing, yet we have found ourselves in a perpetual war in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Lybia, and Somalia. And this doesn't count our domestic wars against drugs, poverty, etc. We have been on a war footing for decades now, and it is only getting worse, not better.

Recall during the election between Trump and Clinton, so many people, even some libertarians, chose to vote for Trump because he would keep us out of World War III. I wonder what those folks think now that Trump is inching us closer and closer to a war with North Korea every day. Of course, I can't lay all of the blame on Trump, as Kim Jong-un has certainly been pushing buttons left and right, firing 14 missiles already in 2017, including one at the end of July that apparently has the ability to cover the entire land mass of the United States.

WHAT'S IN THE NEWS

In End the Fed news, a former Federal Reserve employee was sentenced Friday to 12 months probation and a $5,000 fine after pleading guilty in October to installing unauthorized software on a computer server at the U.S. central bank.

In cannabis news, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat from New Jersey, introduced a bill that could legalize marijuana nationwide, removing marijuana from the federal scheduling system completely.

In unfit to exist news, a US citizen who was held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for three years was denied compensation by an appeals court.

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In New Hampshire, It's like this, too news, New Hampshire is the latest state to ban the use of Stingrays to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications without a warrant in most situations became law without the governor’s signature. The new statute not only protects privacy in New Hampshire but will also hinder one aspect of the federal surveillance state.

In government investigates itself news, exposing the double standard between police and civilians, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that no criminal charges will be filed against the eight LAPD officers responsible for nearly killing an innocent woman and her daughter when they "accidentally" fired 107 bullets at them.

In film the police news, contradicting the rulings of six others federal courts, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals annihilated free speech rights in upholding a district court decision stating citizens do not have the right to film public officials — politicians, police, and others — in public.

HOW TO LIVE A LAVA LIFESTYLE

One way to choose to live free is to move. I've talked a lot about moving to New Hampshire, which is what my family decided to do to help achieve liberty in our lifetimes, but there are other places you can move as well to lower your coercion level. Case in point: Sand Point, Alaska, is an Aleutian island town of about 1,000 that swells by several hundred people during the summer commercial fishing and processing season. Until mid-July, it had a police force of three officers and a police chief.

The entire police force of Sand Point quit in July, leaving the town without any law enforcement presence.