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Freedom, Liberty and the sovereign right to self-defense are the small, unimportant ideas that occupy Laura DiBenedetto's day.  We are delighted she visited us in the Messy Times studios for an Election Day discussion covering many things ranging from the insane #Amnesty the Leftists so desperately want, after their destruction of children and damage to society over their manufactured Wuhan Panic, to the dangers posed to free people by an arrogant set of globalist elites.   

Tune in for a robust discussion the censors - including those anti-First Amendment weasels at LinkedIn who banned both Laura (temporarily) over an article critiquing this Amnesty nonsense and your Glitteringly Enlightentaining Host (permanently) after he called them out for publishing rampant Jew Hatred - have not yet found a way to ban, although I'm sure they are working on it.  

You can find more of her writings on https://lauradibenedetto.com/   

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Hard on the heels of the ludicrous, offensive and insane article written by a professor at Brown University that we should "all" grant each other "Amnesty" for all the bad things "we" said to each other during the Wuhan Hysteria, Emily wrote one of the best rebuttals to that absurdity.  I am delighted to welcome her to the Messy Times studios to discuss why the Left ruined the country, destroyed children's lives and are now trying to get us all to forget their horrendous perfidy.  

Those of us who in February 2020 were CORRECT in our assessments of the relative risks posed by the Wuhan Virus and spent the last 2+ years fighting absurd school shutdowns, business lockdowns, kabuki mask theatre and the utter corruption of the medical establishment don't need Amnesty.  We were and are right.    The awful people who did this to America's children need to be brought to justice.  We're looking for Accountability while they are desperate for Amnesty which they are not going to get.  

For more of Emily's work, I invite you to join #TeamReality! Check out her phenomenally smart writing at Relamination: https://emilyburns.substack.com/ and her Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/Emily_Burns_V  

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This podcast was begun in the midst of the Wuhan Panic, its main topic being how insanely, blatantly and perniciously were public officials lying to us about nearly every aspect of this disease. We have since moved on to a range of other fascinating topics and guests, but we are especially delighted to have Dr. Harvey Risch join us in the studios to discuss his direct experience with the madness and politicization surrounding a bad seasonal flu, which resulted in appalling damage to the children of this nation (who themselves were and are more likely to die in a car crash than from the Wuhan Flu) and all the rest of society.   

His significant experience as an epidemiologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago in the mathematical modeling of infectious epidemics (https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/harvey_risch/) led him to a range of rational conclusions during the entire timespan of the government-cause Wuhan Insanity, conclusions which were ignored and attacked by #Fauci, the #CDC and Big Pharma's other lackeys. 

We dive into the enormous financial incentives Big Pharma and the government have for dismissing a treatment, Hydroxychloroquine, which has been used safely for 60 years and costs 40 cents a dose to push very expensive "vaccines" which were rushed into production and often mandated despite their inefficacy at preventing viral spread and without regard to the normal processes of ensuring appropriateness for a given patient and without informed consent.   

Tune in and judge for yourself. Harvey provides plenty of references to follow up on to do your own research - something, you'll note, that the establishment voices who spend their time suffocating opposing viewpoints and cancelling those opposed to things like a mandatary "vaccine" which turns out to be transitory in impact and have no value in mitigating transmission never bother to do. They just sling accusations and engage in name-calling and ad hominem attacks.

Bret Stephens came by the Messy Times studios for a wide-ranging yet unified theoretical conversation.  Wide-ranging because we cover a range of topics from current themes in American censorship, the restriction of "accepted" thought in the public square, January 6th: The Musical! and the enduring uniqueness of the American Project.  Unified theoretically because despite holding some opinions in common and some at odds, the proper way to cope in a free society is not to censor speech or refuse to engage but to debate actively.  

Free societies thrive when gadflies buzz around the edges of the public square, relatively unmolested.  It is why Messy Times stands for absolutely free speech and why every major social advancement in free nations has originated from unexpected and often very annoying (initially) voices questioning the status quo. 

Aside from being a fellow alumnus of the University of Chicago, Bret is a Pulitzer Prize winner, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post before spending more than a decade as an Opinion Columnist for the Wall Street Journal and since 2017 has been the lone conservative voice at the New York Times. He is the author of America in Retreat; the New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder (2014), is the Editor-in-Chief of SAPIR, and is working on a new book you can get a tantalizing glimpse of during our discussion. 

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We're delighted to have Craig Wright of nChain back in the studios for some more organic Socratic give and take.  Extending beyond the nuances of Intellectual Property, how patents do or do not work and infusing the vicious political fights of our times are the ghosts of thinkers past. It's not just the battles over #Bitcoin as #BTC or #BSV.  When you hear people screaming in the public square about what's "fair" or how/if government should intervene in the markets to make things "equal," you're hearing the echoes of religious thinkers extending back 1,000 years to the Dark Ages of Europe.  

Purely atheistic thinkers focus on the division of material goods, as there is no higher moral consideration at hand.  Those coming from a religious tradition often have clearly developed philosophies on what constitutes "proper" economic activity, including whether usury is a sin, what level or type of interest would constitute usury, whether all lending should be forbidden or just whether lending be made more equity-like in its shared risks.  Many people fighting their corner are not even aware of the intellectual traditions that spawned their deepest if inchoate convictions.  

Join Craig and Christopher while they kick around the great moral economic fights that inform our times.  It's the most fun you can have without a passel of drunk llamas covered in coca leaves and fresh limes.  

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Harvey Silverglate visits the Messy Times studios only to discover there is no daylight between us.  Your Enlightentaining Host suspected that would be the case, having read and loved Harvey's brilliant book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.  During a wide-ranging conversation between two free speech absolutists, we touch on a few topics of little controversy. Abolish the FBI. Plea Bargaining is Extortion. Harvard is Broken.  

The Harvard Corporation runs the University, including the rampant runaway Leftist nonsense which has spread throughout higher education in America, leading to among other things, the erosion of our educational rankings internationally.  The Speech Codes and kangaroo courts at Harvard mirror the same neo-Marxist nonsense found at hundreds of colleges across the land.  

As an alumnus of Harvard Law School, who grew up with the mantra "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me," he is appalled by the Maoist censorship madness run amok on his former campus.  He is running as a write-in candidate for the Harvard Board of Overseers, with a very simple, compelling and clear agenda.  

As for the FBI, it's an insanely corrupt institution from its inception and should be abolished immediately.  We have all witnessed the recent travesties under Comey and Wray.  Tune in to hear a defense attorney's view of this viper's nest.  The FBI has never written an accurate Form 302 which is THEIR written recollection of what YOU are supposed to have said during an interview, during which YOU are not allowed to record anything.  J. Edgar Hoover is alive and well and the FBI needs to be relegated to the history books as a cautionary tale about the dangers of centralized power in a republic.

Lastly, and in keeping with the proper application of Justice in this country, every single defendant is entitled to a real trial, where the State must either prove its case or drop the matter.  Plea bargaining is extortion, does enormous societal damage and should be outlawed instantly.   

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More on Harvey and his books: https://www.harveysilverglate.com/about-harvey 

#Bitcoin started as a libertarian revolt against central bank fiat currencies and value-detractive rent-seeking from credit card companies and banks for online payments processing.  Somewhere along the way, as BTC HODLers accumulated large amounts of theoretical wealth, in large part due to extremely low interest rates from The Federal Reserve, the tone shifted from opposition to begging for help to keep the BTC priced fluffed up. So much for revolution and decentralization as a core principle.

Join us as we dive into some of the myriad factors whipsawing equity, bond and foreign exchange markets, both fundamental and wholly illusory.   

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#Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr visits the Messy Times studios fresh off his trip to Norway. He was visiting the oil-rich Scandinavian paradise to report on the defamation case against a Norwegian schoolteacher who likes to spend his time online hurling adolescent insults at people he has taken a dislike to, in this case, the Chief Scientist of nChain, Craig Wright.   

So far as I care to bother to discern, this guy Magnus Granath goes by the online moniker HODLONAUT and has spent years sending public and private messages harassing Mr Wright because Granath - the juvenile keyboard warrior trying to hide behind online anonymity - somehow had his ire raised by Mr Wright's authorship of the original Bitcoin White Paper.   

Join us as we delve into the bizarre quasi-religious Bitcoin Wars (Squabbles? Skirmishes?) that continue to simmer unnoticed by 99.9999% of the planet's inhabitants but have an impact shaping cryptocurrency markets.   

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With 30 days before the American midterm elections, Heshy and our Glittering Host dive into the imponderable mysteries around Voter Apathy.  The Political Class has managed to be universally reviled AND to keep themselves in power.  How is this possible?  How can 80% of New Yorkers hate the crime and decay of their city but only 11% of registered voters bother to go to the polls?  Get involved, people, it's only your government if you bother to get involved in voting these clowns out of office to be replaced by responsible, respectable people who will actually act in your interests.  Go vote; they HATE IT when you do that.

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Ed Martin came by the Messy Times studios to talk about his role as the President of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and the important work that Phyllis began decades ago which the Eagles continue in her name and spirit.

Grab a soothing caffeinated beverage, settle back and have a listen to what reasoned discussion about principles-driven policy sounds like.  It'll be startling to those accustomed to the hysterical lies of the popular media, so if you feel a sense of dissonance or intellectual discomfort, that's just the unfamiliarity of hearing honest people discuss rational ideals of republican governance.

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