Lockdown Cruelty

The political class was drunk on tyranny during the pandemic. Here's your daily news digest for 6 March 2023.

Lockdown Cruelty
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The sinister cruelty of lockdown has been laid bare
We now know just how drunk on tyranny the political class was during the pandemic.

Australia

‘We have got the balance right’: PM gives Greens’ super demands short shrift
The prime minister quickly dismisses calls from the Greens to expand the scope of the government’s changes to superannuation tax concessions.
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Angus Taylor says Labor has breached trust with ‘reckless’ superannuation changes
Jim Chalmers has accused shadow treasurer of waging a ‘ridiculous scare campaign’ that doesn’t stand up to the facts

International

The corruption of California
Bribery is the only way to get things done
Visualized: The Most (and Least) Expensive Cities to Live In
From New York to Damascus, this infographic uses EIU cost of living data to rank the world’s most and least expensive cities to live in
Major Doctors’ Org Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth
The ACP says women should be able to get abortions, travel to get abortions, and take abortion drugs ‘without undue government interference.’

Business, Finance & Investment

Brace Yourself For Extreme Economic Turbulence
At this point, most Americans understand that something has seriously gone wrong, and this is pushing consumer confidence lower…
Interest Rates: The Silent Killer - LewRockwell
This article is about why interest rates and bond yields are rising and why they will continue to rise, threatening to undermine the entire western banking system. Rising bond yields are deferring the prospect of a central bank pivot away from fighting inflation to tackling a widely expected recessi…
The secret to stocks’ success so far in 2023? An unexpected $1 trillion liquidity boost by central banks.
Central banks have pumped around $1 trillion in liquidity into the market in 2023, belying a focus on plans by the Fed and others to shrink balance sheets.

Culture

Liberal Girls Are Depressed
Liberal Girls Are Depressed. By John Hinderaker. Consistent with many other surveys, conservatives have always been less depressed than liberals. Over the time period studied, however, depression f…
The green movement faces a painful confrontation with reality | The Spectator Australia
Environmentalism is the ruling ideology of our times. Forget neoliberalism. That peaked around 2000 and was definitively dethroned by the financial crisis in 2008, the same year Parliament passed the…
A Perversion of Faith - The American Conservative
The battle over religious liberty in Missouri reminds us how deeply our culture misunderstands nature and religion.

Crypto & Blockchain

This Analyst Reveals The Catalyst Of Crypto Prices Downturn | Bitcoinist.com
Mike McGlone, the senior macro strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, outlined the primary catalyst for the downturn of Bitcoin and Crypto prices. In his
The Psychology of Bitcoin Investment: The Fear, FOMO, and Greed Cycle
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Postscript

Biden’s “Great Economic Recovery” Narrative Is Built On Deception - Alt-Market.us
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group This past month a poll held…

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