Sinaloa, Mexico sees 19 homicides in only 5 days
Seven killings in just one day. There were 12 more in just four days. That’s life – and death – in the cartel-controlled state of Sinaloa, Mexico. It is just the latest gangland violence there that has transformed this locale into a shooting gallery.
The Sinaloa prosecutor’s office can barely keep up with the murders but on Friday said the latest group of bodies were all found in different locations. Two people were found dead in the capital of Culiacan, and five in the municipality of Concordia – both sites are known as places “where violent events have occurred between criminal groups,” according to Reuters.
Sinaloa, on the Pacific Coast, is the headquarters of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, an organized crime unit that deals in murder and every kind of trafficking. It was once headed by the infamous Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is now living rent-free in a US prison. When police arrested another noted cartel figure, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, in July, anticipation grew over the inevitable turf war.
Soon the kidnappings, assassinations and counter-assassinations began. In Culiacan, the town looks deserted because businesses have all shut their doors and public transport runs very infrequently. Even Mexico’s Independence day has been canceled.
The Sinaloa cartel has been using drones to drop bombs near the Arizona border to attack a rival gang while a drug kingpin connected to the Sinaloa cartel was recently arrested in Oregon. Mexican drug cartels, long identified for their iron grip on the drug trade and human trafficking, have invaded every sector of the Mexican economy.This Story originally came from humanevents.com
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Missiles launched by Lebanese Houthis strikes Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Iranian-backed Houthis would pay a “heavy price” for hitting central Israel with an advanced missile. It is the deepest the military group has penetrated inside Israel, Reuters reported. Israel previously struck Houthi positions in July.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said they had used a new hypersonic ballistic missile that traveled 2,040 km (1270 miles) in just under 12 minutes. An Israeli military official claimed that the missile had been intercepted but had only been broken in-flight and not destroyed. As air raid sirens wailed, the missile hit land at 6:35 a.m. Israeli time.
Missile fragments could be found in local farms and by a railway station. No one was seriously injured in the explosion, although nine people sustained very minor injuries. Retuters reported seeing smoke arising from “an open field.”
At a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the Houthis must have assumed that Israel would retaliate and force the Houthis into paying a “heavy price” for their attack on Israel. A Ukrainian cargo ship destroyed a Houthi drone over the Red Sea.
“Whoever needs a reminder of that is invited to visit the Hodeida port,” Netanyahu said, in reference to Israel’s airstrike that killed six and injured 80 in July after a Houthi drone reached as far as Tel Aviv and killed one man. The Houthis continue to fire missiles at Israel because they say they are fighting for the Palestinians who have been killed in the Gaza war that began with a Hamas attack on Israel almost a year ago.
Houthi spokesperson Yahya Sarea said that Israel should not think this last missile strike was a one shot effort but that more drones and missiles will be coming “as we approach the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 operation, including responding to its aggression on the city of Hodeidah.”
The deputy head of the Houthis’ media office, Nasruddin Amer, said in a post on X on Sunday that the missile hit its target in Israel after “20 missiles failed to intercept” it, saying it is only the “beginning.”
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“Attention Seeking” EU Commissioner Thierry Breton Resigns After Musk-Trump Censorship Dust-Up
One month after the EU disavowed comments by commissioner Thierry Breton after he threatened to punish Elon Musk’s X platform for a lack of censorship, he’s out…
In a Monday letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Breton explains that despite French President Emmanuel Macron designating him France’s official candidate to the College of Commissioners, “you” (von der Leyen) “asked France to withdraw my name – for personal reasons that in no instance you have discussed directly with me.”
In short, you can’t fire me, I quit!
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues in the College, Commission services, MEPs, Member States, and my team.
Together, we have worked tirelessly to advance an ambitious EU agenda.
It has been an honour & privilege to serve the common European interest🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/wQ4eeHUnYu
— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) September 16, 2024
Breton was roundly chastised by the EU for suggesting that he would punish X if they don’t immediately crack down on “content that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation,” on the same day that Elon Musk and Donald Trump had an unfiltered discussion on the platform.
Musk responded appropriately:
To be honest, I really wanted to respond with this Tropic Thunder meme, but I would NEVER do something so rude & irresponsible! https://t.co/jL0GDW5QUx pic.twitter.com/XhUxCSGFNP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2024
Brussels accused Breton of going rogue with the letter to Musk – saying he never sought approval from European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to send the letter.
“The timing and the wording of the letter were neither co-ordinated or agreed with the president nor with the [commissioners],” the Commission said in an August statement reported by the Financial Times.
“Thierry has his own mind and way of working and thinking,” said one EU official who asked not to be named.
Politico Europe also reported that four separate EU officials said that Breton’s threat to Musk caught many off guard within the Commission.
“The EU is not in the business of electoral interference,” said one of those officials. “DSA implementation is too important to be misused by an attention-seeking politician in search of his next big job.”
As journalist Hans Mahncke notes, he was fired:
The letter says he was fired. https://t.co/ReIxjnAd0p
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) September 16, 2024
Breton attempted to joke about the situation:
Fantastic news, champ. The world is celebrating. Enjoy your retirement — you won’t be missed! https://t.co/Kb5PG5oeZ4
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 16, 2024
Bye Felicia!
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You say Trump lost the debate? Think again!
by Dr. Steve LaTulippe, America Outloud:
I’ve had about all I can take from conservatives lambasting Donald Trump for his alleged “terrible performance” during the ABC snare event. First of all, let’s define win and lose. If it’s just entertainment and amusement you want, okay, I see where you’re coming from. Kamala may have won the game. But if it’s truth and substance you’re after, Kamala did not win the debate!
After listening to the many arguments, positive and negative, from both sides of the aisle, my ire grew to the point that I had to speak up. Call it a Christian rebel’s stance if you like, but I must declare that the sum-total effect of that ABC charade was another battle won in the war to save America. Here’s my reasoning.
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First, recognize the staged setup. Moderators didn’t moderate. They debated. They repeatedly interrupted Trump, taking away his precious time to convey his message. They soft-stepped Kamala and even kept her mic hot a few times — another distraction. They repeatedly false fact-checked Trump with debunked lies, stealing yet more of his speaking time. According to a whistleblower, Kamala did have the debate questions ahead of time, or she possibly was just given the “correct” answers so she could put on a good clown act with her limited mental processing capacity.
Second, Kamala insulted and ridiculed Trump the entire time — exactly what she preemptively accused him of, while Trump listened to his conservative critics and obligingly contained his usual offensive parlance. Her plastic grin was also a continuous and irritating diversion for viewers. (Didn’t it just grate on your nerves?) Kamala wreaked of malicious insincerity, and she shined in her ridicule of Trump using lies and twisted truths to avoid addressing any of the real issues now threatening America’s downfall. Not once did her ABC co-conspirators challenge her in any way.
And finally, I’ll have to express my own empathy for Trump as a further explanation for his reticence. I’m convinced that Trump quickly and accurately assessed the situation, realizing that bear traps enclosed him in every direction. Kamala’s unchecked and repeated lies and insults protected her from due criticism on the grave “mistakes” she made as VP. And who wasn’t caught off guard by Kamala’s organized smooth talk? Impossible. That wasn’t the real Kamala. How did it happen? She’s already again serving her usual “word salad” menu to listeners.
The other two opponents, David Muir and Linsey Davis debated, backlashed, and stole time from Trump. They gave Harris a magic carpet ride. It was a booby trap!
Despite the trick, the assault against Trump boomeranged on the leftist goons again. Most polls declared Trump winner. Viewers could readily see the mockery, lies, distractions, and biases that some say gave Harris the victory. But that’s only because we have become an amusement-dependent society. If you listen to each debater’s words, The Donald still managed to assert the facts and challenge his enemies. He exposed her drastic intentional failures under puppet Joe that has brought so much pain to good American people.
I suspect some of us are quick to criticize our own champion of liberty because we’ve grown accustomed to him prevailing over every form of evil launched against him. But if any guilt is to be heaped on anyone, why not shovel it on the heads of those who insist on Trump stifling his own style and calling the spade what it is, but in a weak, gentlemanly, polished, politically correct, docile way. Perhaps it is we who should learn a lesson from this debate, and let Trump be Trump!
Regardless of his perceived (by some) atypical tranquil performance, President Trump’s message was rock solid and needed repeating. He did get the words out. We must stop the border invasion, stop drug and child sex trafficking, fix the economy, restore a strong foreign policy, and kill the deep state tyranny that is now ruining our country! Yes, President Trump said this during the debate. Despite all the abuse!
Let’s get it right. The debate was rigged. They violated their own rules. Kamala was unfairly coached and probably ear-bugged. If not the questions, they surely gave her the debate answers. Muir and Davis of ABC publicly disgraced themselves by their evil tactics. They were not moderators by any stretch of the imagination. They fought TRUMP and defended Kamala’s fraud lines all the way. Meanwhile, President Trump held his own, fighting more unrestricted warfare singlehandedly in the lion’s den. And then we criticize him? Lord, have mercy on us!
For those of you who might suggest Trump is wearing down, how do you explain his almost daily non-stop schedule as he travels everywhere across the country to speak a message of strength and hope to Americans? How does he still pack in crowds at every rally, and with a fervor that’s hard to describe unless you’re there? His energized gatherings surpass those of any rock concert.
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The Blank Slate and Totalitarian Creep
by Robert Weissberg, American Thinker:
The most career-destroying, toxic heresy in today’s hypersensitive world is attributing highly valued traits such as intelligence to a person’s genes and then saying that these and other biologically hard-wired traits were unevenly distributed across population groups.
To say, for example, that the Chinese disproportionately succeed academically due to their genes, not unearned privilege, luck, or any other environmental factor, violates this taboo.
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The opposite is the blank slate theory of human nature. Here everything is environmentally determined and according to Steven Pinker, the blank slate view of human nature dominates today’s intellectual life.
Those rejecting this blank slate ideology will be punished regardless of evidence or expertise. James Watson, the Nobel Prize winning co-discover of DNA was fired from his position and widely excoriated for speculating sub-Saharan African economic dysfunction might reflect their lower and genetically determined IQs.
Meanwhile, countless scientists anxious to remain employed will twist themselves into knots to avoid even hinting of biological differences across population groups to explain unequal outcomes in educational attainment, crime, health and elsewhere.
In principle, this taboo is entirely amenable to scientific inquiry. We are not in the 15th century where contrarian views on impossible-to-prove religious dogma such as free will vs. determinism, might get you burned at the stake. In fact, thousands of scientists do study the role genes play and publish their findings, though nearly all of this research focuses on plants and animals, not humans.
Why the fear of documenting the impact of genetics on human behavior?
Ironically, biological explanations have historically dominated. Victorians frequently explained the criminality of the poor by their defective genes while innumeracy among women resulted from their smaller brains.
Plausibly, banishing genetic explanations reduces unfair discrimination, so, for example, if women were thought be genetically inclined to being innumerate, they would be excluded from jobs requiring math.
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NewsWare’s Trade Talk: Monday, September 16 | NewsWare‘s Trade Talk
S&P Futures are slightly lower this morning. Big week ahead for Central Bank meetings from the FOMC, BOE & the BOJ. Markets are expecting a dovish narrative from the Fed on Wednesday. CRM’s Dreamforce conference starts tomorrow. MSFT is expected to speak today at 11:00 on a Copilot announcement. A Federal appeal court will consider whether the U.S. government has the rights to force TikTok to sever ties with China. In Europe, markets are displaying muted losses, healthcare and luxury stocks are positive. and oil prices higher but off the morning highs. China demand remains underwhelming.
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Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight Public Advisory
ZCZC MIATCPAT3 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM BULLETIN Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight Intermediate Advisory Number 3A NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL082024 800 AM EDT Mon Sep 16 2024 ...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS SPREADING ONSHORE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... SUMMARY OF 800 AM EDT...1200 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...32.7N 78.2W ABOUT 85 MI...140 KM S OF CAPE FEAR NORTH CAROLINA ABOUT 100 MI...160 KM E OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...50 MPH...85 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 325 DEGREES AT 3 MPH...6 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1005 MB...29.68 INCHES WATCHES AND WARNINGS -------------------- CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY: None. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT: A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for... * Edisto Beach, South Carolina northward to Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area, in this case within the next 12 hours. For storm information specific to your area, including possible inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your local National Weather Service forecast office. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK ---------------------- At 800 AM EDT (1200 UTC), the disturbance was centered near latitude 32.7 North, longitude 78.2 West. The system is moving toward the northwest near 3 mph (6 km/h). A faster motion toward the northwest or north-northwest is expected today and Tuesday, followed by a gradual turn toward the north by Wednesday. On the forecast track, the low will reach the coast of South Carolina this afternoon and then move inland across the Carolinas tonight through Wednesday. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph (85 km/h) with higher gusts. Little change in strength is expected before the system reaches the coast, and the low still has a chance of becoming a tropical or subtropical storm. Weakening is forecast after the system moves inland, and it is likely to dissipate over the Carolinas by late Wednesday. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...medium...60 percent. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles (280 km) from the center. Doppler radar data and surface observations indicate strong winds are nearing the coast and will spread onshore during the next few hours. NOAA buoy 41013 at Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina recently reported a sustained wind of 47 mph (76 km/h) and a gust of 56 mph (91 km/h). NOAA buoy 41037 offshore of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina recently reported a sustained wind of 38 mph (61 km/h) and a gust of 54 mph (87 km/h). The estimated minimum central pressure is 1005 mb (29.68 inches). HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND ---------------------- Key messages for Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight can be found in the Tropical Cyclone Discussion under AWIPS header MIATCDAT3 and WMO header WTNT43 KNHC. WIND: Tropical storm conditions are expected within the warning area through late this afternoon or evening. STORM SURGE: The combination of a storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline. The water could reach the following heights above ground somewhere in the indicated areas if the peak surge occurs at the time of high tide... South Santee River, SC to Oregon Inlet, NC... 1-3 ft Neuse and Bay Rivers, NC... 1-3 ft Pamlico and Pungo Rivers, NC... 1-3 ft The deepest water will occur along the immediate coast near and to the east of the landfall location, where the surge will be accompanied by large and dangerous waves. Surge-related flooding depends on the relative timing of the surge and the tidal cycle, and can vary greatly over short distances. For information specific to your area, please see products issued by your local National Weather Service forecast office. For a complete depiction of areas at risk of storm surge inundation, please see the National Weather Service Peak Storm Surge Graphic, available at hurricanes.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?peakSurge. RAINFALL: Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight will bring 4 to 8 inches of rainfall, with isolated totals near 10 inches, across portions of northeast South Carolina into southeast North Carolina today into tonight. Across the remainder of North Carolina, 2 to 4 inches of rainfall, with isolated totals near 6 inches, are expected through Tuesday. Over much of Virginia, 1 to 3 inches of rainfall, with locally higher amounts, are expected tonight through Wednesday. This rainfall could lead to a risk of flash and urban flooding and minor river flooding. For a complete depiction of forecast rainfall associated with Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight, please see the National Weather Service Storm Total Rainfall Graphic, available at hurricanes.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?rainqpf and the Flash Flood Risk graphic at hurricanes.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?ero. TORNADOES: A couple of tornadoes may occur through this evening across the eastern Carolinas. SURF: Swells are forecast to affect portions of the coast of the southeastern United States during the next couple of days. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Please consult products from your local weather office. NEXT ADVISORY ------------- Next complete advisory at 1100 AM EDT. $$ Forecaster Reinhart NNNN
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Understanding the Real Costs of Slavery: It’s Not Cheap labor
Slavery has existed throughout history in all places and cultures. It was not introduced by the political state yet, as with many things, slavery could not have had the scope or extent that it did in human history absent the coercive apparatus of the political state. Through cronyism, slaveholders consistently had to seek assistance from the legal system in order to socialize and enforce slavery. The enforcement costs for keeping slaves slaves would have been too high for the minority slaveholding elite to maintain slavery, beyond their own strength or what they could afford to hire.
Lord Mansfield, a British judge, argued the following in a case called Somerset v Stewart (1772), which involved his refusal to forcibly send an enslaved person on English soil over to Jamaica to be sold,
The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political; but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory: it’s so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. (emphasis added)
Positive law, according to Mansfield, was the only thing that could be said to maintain slavery. Slavery, of course, would still exist to an extent without positive law enforcing it, but it is much-weakened without the force of positive law from the state (at taxpayer expense). Besides examining the policies that socialized, enforced, and maintained slavery, we can also—with the help of Mises—come to understand the praxeology involved in slavery and why slaveholders are prone to seek the help of the state.
Slavery and Praxeology
As with economics, it can be helpful to resort to the “Crusoe” economy or society—the economy of one—then adding other people and dynamics from there. Alone on an island, one man has to act and make choices with scarce resources in order to survive and possibly better his condition. If he discovers an animal, like an ox, he may decide to sacrifice time, energy, and resources to train the ox to be more productive than on his own. Of course, no slavery is possible at this point.
If there were only two people on this island, man A may attempt to enslave man B, with a similar goal as with controlling the ox in the first example. To do so similarly requires sacrifice of time, energy, and resources. Even if A succeeds in physically overpowering or threatening B into providing labor for him, it comes with initial expense and continuing enforcement costs. Already we can observe that slavery is costly for the slaveholder to maintain. This necessarily limits the extent of slavery. Mises writes,
People have tried to look upon fellow men as they look upon animals and to deal with them accordingly. They have used whips to compel galley slaves and barge haulers to work like capstan-horses. However, experience has shown that these methods of unbridled brutalization render very unsatisfactory results. Even the crudest and dullest people achieve more when working of their own accord than under the fear of the whip.
Man A—trying to at least derive animal-level production through enslaving B—incurs costs, whether he punishes/threatens, rewards, or both. Use of threat of force does not likely yield the highest quantity or quality of production. Man B—whether avoiding punishment or trying to earn reward—has no incentive to labor since he (mostly) does not benefit from his own labor. B can inhibit production for A—intentionally or unintentionally—through weakness, incompetence, fighting, running away, etc. All these costs A must incur for B’s forced production and—barring a simple love of cruelty—the benefit of B’s production must be greater than the costs of enslaving B.
Among primitive man, Mises explains the next step in the process of the praxeology of ancient slavery,
Primitive man makes no distinction between his property in women, children, and slaves on the one hand and his property in cattle and inanimate things on the other. But as soon as he begins to expect from his slaves services other than such as can also be rendered by draft and pack animals, he is forced to loosen their chains. He must try to substitute the incentive of self-interest for the incentive of mere fear; he must try to bind the slave to himself by human feelings. If the slave is no longer prevented from fleeing exclusively by being chained and watched and no longer forced to work exclusively under the threat of being whipped, the relation between master and slave is transformed into a social nexus.
Praxeologically, we see that there are semi-prohibitive costs to slavery that limit it—acquisition costs, subsistence costs, maintenance costs, management costs, and enforcement costs. To coerce someone into slavery comes with costs that might not be worth it relative to the results of the possible additional production from slavery. This puts negative pressure on slavery as an institution and encourages voluntary production and trade. Concerning this, Mises explains,
The abolition of slavery and serfdom is to be attributed neither to the teachings of theologians and moralists nor to weakness or generosity on the part of the masters…. Servile labor disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labor; its unprofitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
To put this into historical perspective, especially given the commonplace belief that slavery was “cheap labor,” it has been estimated that, in northern India, an Indian agricultural day laborer around 1850 could be hired for about $15.80 per year (with 300 working days). This was “about one-quarter to one half of the annual cost of food, housing, medical care, and clothing provided to American slaves.” Estimates concerning the annual maintenance of slaves around 1850 range from $30 to $61. The rental rate of slaves annually was estimated (ca. 1850) to be $168 to hire, plus $30 maintenance, for a yearly cost of $198 in the Lower South—about 10 times the cost of the cheapest free labor in India!
Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, in their “Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism,” argue, after presenting the above estimates, “Recognizing the high cost of slave labor affects our understanding of the sources of America’s comparative advantage in cotton production: it most certainly was not cheap labor.”
It is a fallacy to assume that because slave labor was unpaid that it was, therefore, cheap or inexpensive. America was land-abundant and labor-scarce, therefore, the normal expectation would be for the price of labor to rise, even in the case of slavery. When purchasing slave labor—by outright purchase or rental—involved upfront costs and ongoing costs. The goal of slave labor, by simple cost-benefit analysis, is to reap a gain in benefits that is higher than the costs. Mises explains the cost-benefit consideration regarding unpaid labor,
The price paid for the purchase of a slave is determined by the net yield expected from his employment (both as a worker and as a progenitor of other slaves) just as the price paid for a cow is determined by the net yield expected from its utilization. The owner of a slave does not pocket a specific revenue. For him there is no “exploitation” boon derived from the fact that the slave’s work is not remunerated and that the potential market price of the services he renders is possibly greater than the cost of feeding, sheltering, and guarding him.
Mises elaborates that the price at which a slaveholder buys a slave takes into account the overall expected production yield from the use of the slave versus the yield without a slave. The price for purchase of slave labor is paid upfront, but then there are ongoing costs—feeding, sheltering, guarding, etc. All these costs disincentivize slavery. Therefore, just because a slave is unpaid does not mean that he is employed for “free” or that slavery is cheap labor.
Furthermore, if a slave escapes, then the slaveholder might incur further expenses in catching him or having him caught. To decide that it would be worth it to devote resources to catch a slave, it implies that the diverted effort and resources must be worth the additional production by the slave if caught. For any slave-hunting business to exist, the slaveholder must be willing to pay more than the initial and ongoing costs on slave labor and the slave’s production, if caught, must exceed the expenses. Otherwise, slavery would hardly be worth it on a free market. Slavery could not compete with free labor on the free market. It was only the state apparatus that could socialize, subsidize, and expand slavery for the profit of some at the expense of the non-slaveholding population. Argues Mises,
Now, at no time and at no place was it possible for enterprises employing servile labor to compete on the market with enterprises employing free labor. Servile labor could always be utilized only where it did not have to meet the competition of free labor.
Slavery, praxeologically and historically, was neither cheap to implement or maintain. In fact, so costly was the system that it required socialization and subsidization via the state apparatus (at taxpayer expense). Free markets, even despite man’s penchant for cruelty, domination, and oppression, puts pressures on slavery and incentivizes voluntary cooperation as cheaper and more productive.
Originally Posted at https://mises.org/
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Four injured in school hammer attack in Russia
A teenage student wounded four people with a hammer on Monday at a school in the southern Russian city of Chelyabinsk, near the border with Kazakhstan, local authorities said.
The 13-year-old boy attacked teachers and fellow students before he was stopped, province governor Aleksey Teksler wrote on X.
Two 13-year-old girls, one boy and a teacher were injured and admitted to hospital, the local health ministry said.
The suspect was also carrying a knife and a gun, according to a police source cited by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
His motives were not immediately clear.
“How could a student get into the school with a hammer and why didn’t security guards respond?” Teksler asked on X.
He said he had ordered security protocols to be reviewed at every school in the region.
A probe has been launched into “planned murder” and “neglect”, said the Investigative Committee of Russia, which is responsible for the country’s biggest investigations.
The attack took place at school number 68 in Chelyabinsk, Teksler said.
Armed school attacks in Russia, once a rarity, have risen in recent years.
President Vladimir Putin has called them an import from the United States and blamed globalisation.
He has tightened gun ownership law.
A 14-year-old girl opened fire at a school in the southwestern city of Bryansk in December 2023, killing a classmate before taking her own life.
A separate shooting in Ijevsk in central Russia in September 2022 left 18 dead.
Nine people were killed by a 21-year-old attacker at a school in Kazan in the Russian republic of Tatarstan in 2021.
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Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight Forecast Discussion
830 WTNT43 KNHC 160845 TCDAT3 Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight Discussion Number 3 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL082024 500 AM EDT Mon Sep 16 2024 The structure of the area of low pressure off the coast of South Carolina has seemingly become less organized during the past few hours. Proxy-visible satellite imagery indicates that the low-level circulation is elongated from northeast to southwest, and the center has not become well defined. The associated deep convection has a generally linear orientation and has been displaced farther to the north and east of the center due to strong upper-level winds. Lastly, an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft still measured a 2-3 degree Celsius temperature difference at 850 mb from north to south, indicating that the frontal boundary is diffuse but not totally gone. Therefore, the low is still not a tropical or subtropical cyclone. That said, the plane measured a peak wind of 54 kt at 6000 ft in the convection well northeast of the center, suggesting that the current intensity is about 45 kt. The low is drifting northwestward (325 degrees) at 3 kt, gradually approaching the South Carolina coast. A faster motion toward the northwest is expected to occur today as the low moves between mid-level high pressure over the northeastern U.S. and a trough over the southeastern U.S. The NHC track forecast shows the low crossing the coast later this afternoon, which is shown by most of the track models. The GFS remains the notable outlier since it initialized the low too far to the northwest and consequently has it crossing the coast around sunrise. After moving inland, the low is expected to continue moving slowly northwestward and then northward over the Carolinas through Wednesday. The new track forecast has been nudged westward from the previous forecast, although there is a modest amount of uncertainty given the ill-defined nature of the center. The chances of the system becoming a tropical or subtropical cyclone may be starting to decrease given the current structure, and since it only has another 12 hours or so before moving inland. Most of the intensity guidance also suggests that the maximum winds should gradually decrease as the low approaches the coast, although tropical-storm-force winds are still expected to occur within the warning areas today. Further weakening is forecast after the system moves inland, and it will likely dissipate over the Carolinas by late Wednesday. Key Messages: 1. Tropical storm conditions are expected along portions of the coasts of South Carolina and North Carolina within the Tropical Storm Warning area through this evening. 2. The system will bring the potential for locally considerable flash and urban flooding and minor river flooding across southeast North Carolina and northeast South Carolina through tonight. There is also a risk of isolated flash and urban flooding across much of the Mid-Atlantic region through Wednesday. 3. Coastal flooding and high surf are likely along portions of the southeastern U.S. coast over the next day or two. FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS INIT 16/0900Z 32.4N 78.3W 45 KT 50 MPH...POTENTIAL TROP CYCLONE 12H 16/1800Z 33.0N 79.0W 40 KT 45 MPH...TROPICAL CYCLONE 24H 17/0600Z 33.7N 79.8W 30 KT 35 MPH...INLAND 36H 17/1800Z 34.5N 80.6W 20 KT 25 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 48H 18/0600Z 35.2N 81.0W 15 KT 15 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 60H 18/1800Z 35.7N 81.1W 15 KT 15 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 72H 19/0600Z...DISSIPATED $$ Forecaster Berg
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