OMG! Did You Hear Kamala Is For ‘Wage And Price Controls’?

History Repeating Itself? Remembering Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls

OMG. Did you hear Kamala wants Wage and Price Controls?

CATO Institute–Forty years ago this week, President Richard Nixon showed us just how dangerous unchecked executive power can be to the free-enterprise system.

On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

After a 90-day freeze, increases would have to be approved by a “Pay Board” and a “Price Commission,” with an eye toward eventually lifting controls — conveniently, after the 1972 election.

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‘Effing Brits – Europe Is Lost

UK government ‘scouring social media‘ to arrest people for sharing ‘harmful’ riot footage regardless of intent

FoxNews–The British government is cracking down on people who share social media posts about the U.K. riots that it judges are “likely to start racial hatred.”

Riots have broken out across the U.K. in recent days over false rumors spread online that an asylum seeker was responsible for a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded. The murders, allegedly committed by a now 18-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents, sparked a series of violent protests that tapped into broader concerns about the scale of immigration in the U.K.

Footage of the violent clashes involving anti-immigration protesters and the groups of counter-protesters, some of whom have been seen waving Palestinian flags, has gone viral on social media, and the government is warning that sharing such content may have serious consequences.