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Pete wanted to do an episode on classic voluntaryism so he invited Rodger Paxton to come on the show. Rodger is the host of the wildly popular LAVA Flow Podcast as well as his new podcast, Essential Libertarianism. On Essential Libertarianism, Rodger reads selected readings from voluntaryist.com that were, for lack of a better term, forgotten about. He seeks to revive the non-political voluntaryist position.

Rodger is the founder of the Pax Libertas Podcasting network.

What would it be like if we paid for food like we do healthcare? What's in the News with stories on Happy Birthday #bitcoin, Cody Wilson update, shut down news, government spying, and warmongers. And, an Ask Me Anything where I answer questions on what's wrong with the LP, crypto predictions, and crypto anonymity. This episode is brought to you by ZenCash, now known as Horizen, a cryptocurrency that infuses privacy, anonymity, and security, done right. Also, brought to you by SmartCash, an easy to use, fast, and secure cryptocurrency that supports everyday use for everyday transactions.

In my normal perusing of the interwebs for content for this show, I came across an article at Fee.org by the Foundation for Economic Education. This article is titled "Imagine if We Paid for Food like We Do Healthcare." It was written by Dr. Ryan Nuehofel. Damn, guys, this is a really good article. So good that I don't want my listeners to miss this one!

So, I'm going to do something I normally don't do. As a matter of a fact, I don't think I've ever done it in 117 episodes of The LAVA Flow and almost 60 LAVA spurts, I am going to take this article basically verbatim and read it here. So, here we go!

In Happy Birthday news, on January 3rd, Bitcoin reached its 10th birthday, marking 10 years since the creation of the genesis block on the Bitcoin blockchain.

In a Cody Wilson update, Texas has indicted Cody Wilson on multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor. 

In shutdown news, private companies have been paying to keep Yellowstone National Park clean during the shutdown. 

In wasted taxpayer dollars news, San Bernardino County has agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to three former middle-schoolers to settle a lawsuit stemming from a 2013 arrest a federal court ruled unconstitutional. 

In government spying news, the ACLU has sued the U.S. government, saying it needs more information about surveillance of Americans’ phone and financial records to guide the public debate over what will happen when the law that regulates the scrutiny expires next year. 

In war mongers news, US Strategic Command, the unified military force that controls the launch of nuclear weapons, tweeted an unusual New Year's Eve message on Monday featuring B-2 bombers dropping 30,000-pound conventional weapons at a test range. 

This is perhaps my favorite segment on this show because I love hearing from my listeners and supporters.

I answer questions on what's wrong with the LP, crypto predictions, and crypto anonymity. 

Three St. Louis cops eat their own and will hopefully face justice for it. Don't hold your breath, though. What's in the News with stories on cryptocurrency to pay taxes, police abuse, legal kidnapping twice, government idiocy, and government murdering children. Plus, and Ask ME Anything segment where I answer questions on a write-in campaign for me for office, my diet, what does it mean when I say "keep striking the root," and voting on referendums. This episode is brought to you by ZenCash, now known as Horizen, a cryptocurrency that infuses privacy, anonymity, and security, done right. Also, brought to you by SmartCash, an easy to use, fast, and secure cryptocurrency that supports everyday use for everyday transactions.

First, a quick update on a story we covered on this show quite extensively. Former Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed Botham Jean in his own apartment after she mistook his apartment for hers, has been indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter.

And, in a disturbing case of eating their own, three St. Louis police officers have been indicted on federal charges and suspended without pay for beating the shit out of one of their own undercover officers. 

Dustin Boone, Bailey Colletta, Randy Hays, and Christopher Myers were indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Charges include suspicion of lying to the FBI and the use of excessive force related to the assault of an undercover St. Louis police officer during a 2017 protest following the Jason Stockley court ruling.

In cryptocurrency news, Ohio is the first state to accept bitcoin for paying business taxes. It's just for businesses right now, but it's a start.

In police abuse news. a Facebook video posted first to LiveLeak has gone viral after it was posted on social media. The video shows a Black middle school student being violently assaulted by two White school resource officers in what appears to be an unprovoked attack.

In legal kidnapping news, a Georgia woman, Dashe Fincher, is suing after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation found that the blue substance in her car that led to her spending three months in jail was not methamphetamine — it was cotton candy. 

Another story of legal kidnapping follows a woman named Precious Jones. She was given a ticket for going 120 MPH in Missouri. She missed her court date in August of 2017 because, she said, "It slipped her mind."

In government idiocy news, a couple was forced to prove that New Mexico is a state while applying for a marriage license in the nation's capital. 

In government murdering children news, officials in Afghanistan’s Helmand province and international media are reporting at least 30 civilians, including 16 children, were killed in the latest US air strike targeting Taliban militants.

It's been a bit since I've done an Ask Me Anything segment, so I figured it was a good time to do so. Remember, if you have a question for me, you can ask it in the posts I put in the Pax Libertas Productions Podcast Fans Facebook group or by emailing [email protected]. If you're a Patron, your questions are always moved to the top of the pile for me to answer, and you can ask your question either in the Patreon website or in the Super Secret LAVA Flow Supporters Facebook group. I have a pretty large queue of questions, so I won't be able to get to them all this week. But, as always, I promise I will eventually get to your question!

Julian Assange has been charged in the US. Let's take a look at why this is happening. What's in the News with stories on government waste times two, feeding the homeless, sterilizing women, secession news, and Big Brother. And Yet Another Bad Cop on a cop killing a security guard doing his job. This episode is brought to you by ZenCash, now known as Horizen, a cryptocurrency that infuses privacy, anonymity, and security, done right. Also, brought to you by SmartCash, an easy to use, fast, and secure cryptocurrency that supports everyday use for everyday transactions.

This story broke as an accident, albeit an accident caused by government incompetence, but it is apparent now that the United States Justice Department is filing criminal charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange

The disclosure came in a filing in a case unrelated to Assange. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer, urging a judge to keep the matter sealed, wrote, "due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged." Later, Dwyer wrote the charges would "need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested."

Dwyer is also assigned to the WikiLeaks case. People familiar with the matter said what Dwyer was disclosing was true, but unintentional. On Thursday evening, Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University who is known for scrubbing court filings, posted about the apparent error on Twitter — which first brought it to the attention of reporters. Some people believe this was a simple copy and paste error and that the Assange indictment was used as a template for the unrelated case.

In government waste news, the US Postal Service lost $3.9 billion last year, while UPS and FedEx are doing well.

In who would feed the homeless news, a coordinated wave of Kansas City Health Department inspectors simultaneously shut down large picnics across the city Sunday that were serving food to homeless and hungry people. 

In socialist Canada news, indigenous women were being kept from seeing their newborn babies until they agree to sterilization. 

In more government waste news, a new report from Brown University is aiming to provide a close estimate of the cost of the overall cost to the US government of its myriad post-9/11 wars and assorted global wars on terror. The estimate is that $5.933 trillion has been spent through fiscal year 2019. 

In secession news, a Spanish audit office has ordered former Catalan leader Artur Mas and nine others to repay 4.9 million euros (5.6 million dollars) of public money spent on a non-binding independence ballot in 2014. 

In Big Brother news, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights around the country, federal contracting documents reveal. 

When police arrived after reports of a shooting over the weekend at a bar outside Chicago, witnesses say Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old security guard who worked there, had already subdued the alleged assailant in the parking lot, pinning him to the ground.

Adam Harris, who was at Manny's Blue Bar in Robbins at the time of the incident on Sunday, told WGN-TV that Roberson was holding "somebody on the ground with his knee in his back, with his gun in his back" when officers from neighboring Midlothian got there early Sunday.

Midlothian Police Chief Daniel Delaney said that's when one of his officers "encountered a subject with a gun" and shot him, according to a statement given to the media. But the "subject" was Roberson, not the suspect in the bar shooting.

Ashe Oro had me on his show, Liberty Entrepreneurs, to talk about the Free State Project.