Hong Kong Clashes as Cops Remove Protesters’ Barricades

The situation in Hong Kong is
heating up today. Pro-democracy protesters are struggling with both
the police and violent bands of masked men.

AFP
reports
on law enforcement dismantling barricades set up by
demonstrators in the city’s financial district:

“There was no warning in advance whatsoever. It was nasty,”
[said] student protester Lanny Li.

Li said the occupied area is shrinking making it more
vulnerable.

“This is the last line of defense for the people near the
government offices,” said Cherry Yuen as she sat in front of metal
barriers 50 meters from police lines.

“The police just want to trick us again. We won’t move and I’m
ready to get arrested.”

“The police refuse to communicate with us, they just do what
they want,” said Wong King-wa, 25.


According
to The New York Times, “More than 50
protesters rallied and prevented officers from taking down
barricades.”

Protesters want Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s chief executive, to
step down and for mainland China to allow the people of Hong Kong
to vote for their representatives. Leung has promised talks with
the protesters, but has since cancelled them. He
insists
that the protests are “out of control” but have “almost
zero chance” of changing China’s control over Hong Kong’s
leadership.

Protest leaders issued a joint statement
countering
that “in fact, it is our government that is out of
control—a government that fires tear-gas at unarmed citizens and
unilaterally terminated dialogue with the students.”

But, the government isn’t the only problem for protesters today.
After the police cleared some barricades, people opposed to the
students’ demonstrations began attacking.

The Economist
reports
that “masked men” and “a cavalcade of taxi drivers,
angered by loss of business, drove up to the barricades and honked
their horns, accusing student protesters of ‘chilling out in tents’
while the working class struggle to make a living.”

“Hundreds of people opposed to the pro-democracy demonstrations
here attacked the protesters’ main camp on Monday, trying to tear
down street barricades,” says the Times.

By contrast, the pro-democracy students’ civil disobedience has
been, well, pretty civil: They clean up messes, recycle, and
stay
off fresh-cut public grass
. Although their numbers waned last
week, they surged again on Friday, and are in the “tens
of thousands
.” 

AFP got some footage of today’s scuffles:

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3 Striking Signs of Growing Pot Tolerance

As public support for legalizing marijuana
rises
and Americans get used to the reality that two states
have already taken that step, signs of pot tolerance are
mutiplying. Here are three recent ones that are pretty remarkable
in light of marijuana’s long history as a taboo substance:

1. Last month Pat Roberts, the 78-year-old
Republican senator from Kansas, was asked about marijuana
legalization during a debate with Greg Orman, the independent
candidate who is
beating
 him in recent polls. Here is
Roberts’ reply
:

That’s not a federal issue. That’s a state issue. If you want to
get a Rocky Mountain high, go west. That should be for the Kansas
legislature and the governor to decide, not federally.

Roberts, who has been a member of Congress since the beginning
of the Reagan administration, is not advocating legalization. But
his willingness to let states go their own way on this issue is
striking coming from a Republican senator with an American
Conservative Union rating
of 86, especially since he is fighting for re-election in state
that is not known for its pot friendliness.

2. A few weeks after Roberts endorsed
marijuana federalism, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that
marijuana does not belong on Schedule I of the Controlled
Substances Act, which is supposedly reserved for drugs with a “high
potential for abuse” that have “no currently accepted medical use”
and are so dangerous that they cannot be used safely, even under a
doctor’s supervision. Here is the relevant exchange from Holder’s

interview
with Katie Couric of Yahoo News:

Couric: At the federal level, marijuana is
still classified in the same category as heroin. In your view,
should that change?

Holder:  I think it’s certainly a question
that we need to ask ourselves—whether or not marijuana is as
serious a drug as is heroin, especially given what we’ve seen
recently with regard to heroin, the progression of people using
opioids to heroin use, the spread and the destruction that heroin
has perpetrated all around our country, and to see, by contrast,
what the impact is of marijuana use. Now, it can be destructive,
you know, if used in certain ways. But the question of whether or
not they should be in the same category is something that I think
we need to ask ourselves, and use science as the basis for making
that determination.

Since Holder, as attorney general, has the
power
 to reclassify marijuana without new legislation from
Congress, it would have been nice if he had talked about this a
little more before he was
on his way out the door
. Still, his willingness to question
marijuana’s Schedule I status—something no sitting attorney general
has ever done before, as far as I know—reflects a dramatic change
in the climate of public opinion. Contrast Holder’s remarks with
the more traditional position taken by Michele Leonhart, the head
of the Drug Enforcement Administration, who adamantly
refuses
to concede that marijuana might be less dangerous than
other drugs.

3. Last week on Everyday, the
mid-morning show on KDVR, the Fox affiliate in Denver,
co-hosts Chris Parente and Kathy J. were discussing
the best bargains at Trader Joe’s with “money maven” Sandra Hanna
when they casually touched on the hazards of shopping while
stoned:

Hanna: Now, when you’re in the cheese
aisle—

Parente: Which Chris Kattan said you should do
stoned.

Kathy J.: Do stoned. Get stoned and go in the
cheese aisle. Apparently, it’s awesome.

Hanna: It’s not a Smart Cookie move to go
shopping stoned ever. That’s a general rule of thumb.

Parente: You’ll spend a lot of money.

Hanna: A lot of money. 

In some ways, this jokey exchange is especially revealing,
reflecting the sort of cultural shift that occurs when an
intoxicant moves from illicit to licit. It seems likely that local
TV hosts in Denver would be less inclined to allude to their own
experiences with marijuana on the air if Colorado voters had not
approved Amendment 64.

[Thanks to Tom Angell, Paul Armentano, and Robert Woolley for
the links.]

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Ebola and Russia in focus

We have recently witnessed many ‘firsts’ such as one of the largest storms in the Pacific, the most severe acute health risk in modern times, and a global financial system on the brink of collapse.  The IMF is warning of ‘runs’ – and meanwhile, Russia is developing it’s new ROSSWIFT system.

It has been reported that the black plague that killed millions in Europe was at least similar to the Ebola now threatening the world:

Most assume that Black Death quickly ravaged the fourteenth century western world was a bacterial bubonic plague epidemic caused by flea bites and spread by rats.  But the Black Death killed a high proportion of Scandinavians — and where they lived was too cold for fleas to survive. A modern work gives us a clue into this mystery. The “Biology of Plagues” published by Cambridge University Press analyzed 2,500 years of plagues and concluded that the Black Death was caused by a viral hemorrhagic fever pandemic similar to Ebola.  If this view is correct, the future medical and economic impacts from Ebola have been vastly underestimated.  

But during medieval times, castles closed their walls and people didn’t venture out.  In a modern world of just in time inventory, global airline travel, and healthcare systems being proven to be ineffective, this could exceed any projections.  The World Bank has estimated the economic cost of Ebola could reach $32 Billion by the end of next year.  But this is the same group that forecast a global recovery, and failed to see a looming sub-prime fueled credit crisis that brought down some of Wall Street’s largest banks and caused trillions in economic devastation.

In parallel, information is being released on how the CIA controls the media:

If this peaked your curiosity, read about Operation Mockingbird.

If this isn’t enough to question the ‘as seen on TV’ myth, consider that the CDC in conjunction with the DOD owns a patent on this strain of Ebola:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as “EboBun.” It’s patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010. You can view it here. (Thanks to Natural News readers who found this and brought it to our attention.)  Patent applicants are clearly described on the patent as including:

The Government Of The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health & Human Services, Center For Disease Control.

The patent summary says, “The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”; Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America) on November 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291.”

It goes on to state, “The present invention is based upon the isolation and identification of a new human Ebola virus species, EboBun. EboBun was isolated from the patients suffering from hemorrhagic fever in a recent outbreak in Uganda.”

Savvy investors are mostly aware how the markets are manipulated, either through the PPT, large phantom flash orders on interest rate derivatives, naked short positions on metal futures, and so on.  But in the case of being misled in the markets, the worst that can happen to you is you lose money (unless you are one of the poor souls who work for a large bank doing these deeds in which case you might find yourself stabbed in the back 10 times).

But Ebola affects both real actors in the economy (people) and also business vectors, such as import/export, business travel, and a potentially rapidly declining consumer base.  Also consider how will Ebola affect the spending patterns of businesses and consumers?

Apocalyptic scenes of frantic people buying all overpriced supplies is common to those who have lived in Florida through more than one hurricane season; price gouging, fights over last remaining items, shops being closed and prolonged loss of electricity are only some of the highlights of such an experience.  But an Ebola outbreak, in any form, can mean a real lockdown of entire parts of society.

On the other side of the world, Russia is developing their own Ebola vaccine, a new ROSSWIFT payment system which will even include the isolated Iran, and has shut down the previously most popular McDonald’s in the world in Moscow’s busy Pushkin Square.  The British journalist has the gaul (or the orders from the CIA as explained by this whistle blower) to suggest that the Russian economy will suffer by closing the golden arches.  McDonald’s (MCD) has more than 400 locations in Russia and employees mostly Russian workers.  Is this to suggest that McDonald’s is somehow the linchpin supporting the domestic Russian economy, or that Russia is incapable of making their own fast food chain (such as Teremok). Or does this guy think that like most Americans, Russians do not know how to cook for themselves?  Let’s have a look inside this symbol of Capitalism:

 

I guess Russians will have to suffer with their inferior Teremok, that by the way offers caviar, blintzes, and a tasty slightly alcoholic beverage “Kvass” (1.2% alcohol, not classified as alcoholic beverage in Russia).  Maybe Russians will start to question why they have been eating BigMac’s filled with hormoes and genetically modified ingredients since 1990, which are clearly superior to Borscht, Medovukha, and caviar filled pancakes.

But unfortunately for US based investors, it will be forbidden to invest in Russia’s post-sanction boom.  Similar to the Forex firewall built around the US regulatory jurisdiction, US companies will be forbidden to invest in Russia and participate in such a boom.  Already Exxon is not happy about missing out on a joint Rosneft project in the Arctic, which can yield 100 billion barrels of oil.

Let’s hope.. that hope can fuel our cars and trucks.. and hope for our German friends that hope can fuel their homes this winter..




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Is The Bank Of England Giving The Market A Hint Of What’s To Come?

Despite Bank of England’s Mark Carney confident overtones that policy-makers must focus on economic developments rather than worry about potential market volatility as they consider exiting stimulus, it appears the esteemed central bank is communicating ‘forward guidance’ on its money-printing expectations over the next decade… BANK OF ENGLAND SIGNS 10-YEAR BANKNOTE PRINTING CONTRACT WITH DE LA RUE… starting in April 2015 (when US rate hikes might start?)

 

Carney warns:

“We have to accept that as this process moves forward, as some economies emerge from a period of exceptional unconventional stimulus, there will be greater volatility,” Carney said in an interview on CNBC today.

 

“That in and of itself should not influence the path of normalization of monetary policy.”

And then…

Bank of England enters new 10-yr contract with De La Rue to print its banknotes.

 

De La Rue was preferred bidder. BOE says it “completed assurance activity on De La Rue’s bid and finalised the contract”

 

Printing under the new contract will begin April 2015

*  *  *
It seems that instead of being recession-proof, money-printers are the perfect hedge for a new normal of lower for longer rates and “we’re ready to print if stocks ever drop 10%” 3rd mandate followers – no matter what the bankers say.




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Do Libertarian Party Candidates Always Pull From Republicans?

Do
Libertarian Party candidates always pull votes from Republicans?
That’s the widespread perception among media elites. And it matters
in at least a handful of races in which the LP candidate is more
than covering the spread between the Dem and the Rep.

Here’s Chuck Todd talking about this on yesterday’s Meet The
Press:

[P]izza deliveryman turned libertarian candidate for the U.S.
Senate in North Carolina, Sean Haugh [has] got 7% of the vote in a
recent poll. Enough to possibly swing the election, siphoning votes
from Republican Thom Tillis and helping the incumbent here,
Democrat Kay Hagan. It’s actually the same story right now in
Florida, that gubernatorial race with the Libertarian Adrian
Wyllie, who’s suddenly getting double-digit support in recent polls
because people are so fed up with the negativity.

And if that happens, look at what it does to this race if this
guy stays in double digits. It really hurts the incumbent
Republican here, Rick Scott. Here’s the bottom line, folks. This is
what we’re learning. It’s an angry electorate out there, they’re
mad at both parties.


More here.

It’s easy to understand why observers presume the LP pulls from
the GOP: For a long time, both parties talked a lot about reducing
government spending and lowering taxes (not that Republicans did
that once in power). The rhetoric was similar.

But
that was then and this is now. In the 2013 race for governor of
Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli
by 2 percentage points, 48 percent to 46 percent. Libertarian
Robert Sarvis pulled almost 7 percent. Exit polls showed that
Sarvis actually gave Cuccinelli
a fighting chance
: “An exit poll of Sarvis voters showed that
they would have voted for McAuliffe by a two-to-one margin over
Cucinelli.”

In the special election held in Florida’s 13th congressional
district, Republican David Jolly squeaked by Democrat Alex Sink by
2 percentage points. Libertarian Lucas Overby pulled almost 5
percent and while there are no exit polls to turn to, there are
good reasons to think that Overby helped put the kibosh on
Sink:

When you look at Lucas Overby’s positions, it’s easy to see
him pulling as many or more votes from a Democrat. He is fully
supportive of cutting spending and for gun rights, but he is
equally outspoken in terms of non-interventionist foreign policy,
in favor of gay marriage, and, as mentioned, drug legalization.
There’s every reason to believe that he may well have “taken” more
votes from Sink than from Jolly.

In the 2012 presidential race, Republican muckety-mucks were
worried that Libertarian Gary Johnson could
be the spoiler
. They needn’t to have worried for two reasons.
First, Mitt Romney was no damn good. And second, however you want
to apportion Johnson 1 million votes between Obama and Mittens,

they don’t change the outcome
.

As Matt
Welch wrote about the
2012 election cycle
, out of “482 electoral outcomes only one
[Republican loss] can be plausibly argued to have been affected by
an LP candidate.” That was “Democrat John Tierney’s 48.2%-47.2% win
over Republican Rich Tisei in a Massachusetts 6th district race
where Libertarian Daniel Fishman received 4.6% of the vote.”

So as we slide toward the midterms and pundits start yapping
about how Libertarian spoilers are always taking votes from
Republicans, it’s worth asking for some hard evidence.

Because it wasn’t true in 2012 or 2013. And it’s probably less
true now than ever. Republicans and Democrats have totally stacked
elections so they always win. They can at least take responsibility
for when they lose.

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Hypocrisy Alert: John McCain Wants An Ebola Czar

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took a break from
lampooning
the ISIS campaign yesterday to demand
an Ebola czar
 for the crisis that
kinda sorta isn’t
:

From spending time in Arizona, my constituents are not
comforted. There has to be more reassurance given to them. I would
say that we don’t know exactly who’s in charge. There has to be
some kind of czar.

Does McCain suffer from amnesia, myopia, or just good
old-fashioned hypocrisy? Once upon a time, he was less enthusiastic
about the Obama administration’s habit of appointing czars. In 2009
he tweeted that
“Obama has more czars than the Romanovs—who ruled Russia for 3
centuries. Romanovs 18, cyberczar makes 20.”

But perhaps because he thinks—incorrectly—that
the world is now “more
dangerous and more unstable
” under the Obama administration,
McCain is far more sanguine about appointing officials to handle
everything
under the Sun Czar.

He isn’t alone in his blustering. Other Republicans, such as
Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), have also

come out in favor
of putting an unelected appointee in charge
of the crisis.

McCain has
never
seen a war he didn’t like. He also hasn’t seen an issue
that couldn’t be construed as a national security threat.
Seriously, where’s the risk
assessment czar
 when you need one?

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What Hitler and the Nazis copied from America

Nazi salute Indoctrination What Hitler and the Nazis copied from America

October 13, 2014
Santiago, Chile

A man in a uniform dashes up to you with a badge pinned to his chest and says “that man over there is a thief! Quick, help me get him!” What do you do?

You would probably run and tackle the guy down, right?

To get to the rational part of your brain that tells you to hold on, since you don’t even know if the man in a uniform is actually a cop, or if the alleged thief actually did anything wrong, you have to first overcome a whole life of indoctrination telling you that when someone in a uniform tells you to do something, you do it.

Some are able to reach that rational part of their brains, but most are not.

Experiment after experiment has shown us the level of blind obedience that people have to anyone in a uniform—replacing any morality or common sense they might have had in order to comply.

Here in this video you can see some of the terrifying and silly things people do when instructed to do so by someone in a uniform. Mind you this isn’t even necessarily a person of authority, it’s merely someone dressed as one.

That’s what’s scary. Because people will willingly hurt other people for no other reason than the fact that someone appears to be an authority figure.

This kind of obedience is no accident. It starts off as an intentional process from childhood.

In school you were taught to sit down, shut up, and do whatever your teacher said.

The lesson from day number one was to take orders without thinking about them.

If you grew up in the United States, you likely started your day off with your hand over your heart proclaiming your fealty to your nation—whatever that was—and the piece of tri-colored cloth by which it was represented.

Before you could understand what any of the words in the Pledge of Allegiance meant, you knew them by heart.

That was exactly the point.

Which is why on October 12, 1892 the Pledge of Allegiance was made compulsory for all students in public schools.

Aiming to instill patriotism and obedience in children early on, Francis Bellamy, the socialist minister who penned the Pledge, made sure to keep it brief and with good cadence so it would be easily memorized.

Children across the nation recite it every morning:

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Even into adulthood, once you could begin to understand the meaning of the words you were saying, there was to be no room for debate.

“Liberty and justice for all”? Who could possibly claim to object to that? Which is exactly what Bellamy wanted.

But in reality, how many people even as adults actually think about what those words mean.

The original Pledge was accompanied by ‘the Bellamy salute’, which was dropped during WWII because the Nazis started using it (they copied the United States’ tactics to instill national pride and obedience).

The Nazi salute and the indoctrination of children? Yep, that was the US’s idea first.

 What Hitler and the Nazis copied from America

Thus, the same blind obedience given to those in uniforms is also given to actions commanded under the name of the American flag.

Just the same, this can lead some to forget all morality and common sense to willingly harm other human beings, whether they be across the planet or within the country itself.

With enough indoctrination, all it takes is a piece of cloth and a few words.

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Chinese Car Sales Grow At Slowest Pace In 19 Months

As Italy’s Chrysler (yes, it belongs to Fiat now) resumes trading on the NYSE five years after it filed for bankruptcy, in a completely illiquid tape, on the day after the biggest weekly market rout in years, trading briefly above its $9 opening price before sliding just under…

… the real automotive news of the day comes neither from NY, nor Mahwah, NJ where the NYSE is located, nor from Italy, but from China – the place where all automakers have thrown their Hail Mary passes in the past year.

Alas the news is anything but good.

According to Bloomberg, China’s vehicle sales grew at the slowest pace in 19 months in September as demand for trucks and buses slumped with the weaker economy. Total vehicle sales, which include passenger and commercial vehicles, rose 2.5 percent from a year earlier to 1.98 million units, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said today. That was the slowest pace since February 2013.

Demand is slowing in the world’s largest auto market as the economy slows with declines in gauges for services and industrial production. The state-backed auto association cut its forecast for full-year vehicle sales in July as the economy showed little signs of improvement and more cities consider purchase restrictions.

 

The overall economic climate is a bit chilly so the individual sector is also impacted,” Dong Yang, the association’s secretary general, said at a briefing in Beijing today. “Even though the growth in August and September seems a bit slower, it is still in the normal range.”

 

Passenger-car sales in China rose 6.4 percent last month to 1.7 million units. Sales of commercial vehicles such as trucks and buses fell 16 percent, according to association data.

 

In July, the group lowered its projection for China vehicle sales growth to 8.3 percent, from a 10 percent prediction in January. Economists forecast China’s expansion this year will moderate to 7.3 percent, the slowest since 1990, and to 7 percent in 2015.

So how do US makers spin the tumble in demand? “Among foreign automakers, General Motors Co. which counts China as its largest market, said earlier this month that its sales in the country rose 15 percent in September. Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest carmaker, increased sales by 26 percent to 91,100 vehicles, while Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. deliveries slumped 20 percent and 23 percent respectively during the month.”

In other words, the wave of negative earnings preannouncement from the car makets is imminent.




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Dallas Nurse Caught Ebola Because CDC Protocols Are Inadequate

Building Safer Protocols Isn’t Rocket Science … It’s Just Common Sense

A nurse in Dallas has caught Ebola even though she was wearing full protective gear.

The Centers for Disease Control says she must have broken protocol, or else she couldn’t have caught it.  Maybe she did … or maybe CDC assumptions are overly-optimistic.

But the whole point of protocols for dealing with life-and-death situations is to have backup systems, redundancy and a margin of error in case something goes wrong.

In other words, if a mistake could be fatal, you don’t just hope that there’s no human error or natural accident.  You build safety systems in so that – if something goes wrong – no one dies.

Safe Removal of Protective Suits

CDC head Frieden said today that removal of protective clothing is one of the easiest ways to get exposed to Ebola, if done incorrectly.

He also said that it is “not easy to do right.”

Yes …and the protocol should reflect those facts.

Specifically, the CDC protocol should require:

(1) Spraying of bleach or other disinfectant or uv light on the healhcare worker’s protective clothing before it is removed

(2) A buddy system, where an infectious disease specialist helps the healthcare worker take off their protective clothing without exposing themselves in the process

Respirators

Even the CDC now admits that Ebola can be spread if a carrier coughs or sneezes into the face of a healthcare worker.

And numerous scientists say that Ebola can be spread via aerosols created by vomit or the flushing of a toilet.

As such, CDC protocols must require frontline healthcare workers treating Ebola patients to wear respirators.

Phone Screening

Doctors should not have to guess whether patients have just come from Ebola hotzone countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea.

Receptionists at doctor’s offices and hospitals around the country must ask the patient on the phone – before they come in – whether they’ve recently traveled there.

If the answer is yes, extra caution should be used to examine the patient … or they should be sent to specialist facilities which know how to spot and handle potential Ebola patients.

Postscript:  We think a travel ban from hotzone countries should be enacted. But if we're not going to do that, let's at least have a real screening test …

30-Minute Test

A majority of Americans support banning all flights to the United States from countries experiencing an Ebola outbreak.

Screening people at West African airports with a thermometer can’t work, and is just for show.

But Japanese scientists have developed a test which can determine if someone has Ebola within 30 minutes. And the test is cheaper than the one currently being used in West Africa.

So – if we’re going to continue to allow folks from West Africa to fly into our country – why don’t we demand that they get tested for real?

A health agency like the World Health Organization, UN or Centers for Disease Control should buy the international airports in the hotzone countries one of the Japanese testing kits.

Then all travelers should be tested while they’re waiting for their flights.

Make sense?




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What is the Government’s Proper Role in Fighting Ebloa in a Libertarian World?

Newsweek interviewed a bunch of libertarians, including moi,
about what role the government could legitimately play in
addressing the Ebola “crisis” and was surprised by the responses.
Why? Because, contra popular myths, not Ebolaone said that it should just stand back and let
the disease run amuck. Notes the story:

The[ir] answer is more nuanced than one might expect: Most
Libertarians interviewed by Newsweek agreed government
should intervene to protect public health in exceptional
circumstances, but said intervention would have to be very careful
and limited—and, perhaps, that it is better executed by the private
sector.

Shikha Dalmia, a senior analyst at Reason Foundation, the Libertarian
think tank that publishes Reason magazine, explains to
Newsweek the starting point of most Libertarian belief is
a limited government that provides “essential” functions, such as
national defense. But in certain circumstances—if a person had a
deadly communicable disease and refused to isolate himself, for
example—governmental intervention could be considered
essential…

Read the whole thing here.

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