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Former WWE Superstar turned Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, Kane, may have once been a stooge for The Authority of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, but when it comes to a Democratic president, it's another story. Mayor Kane unleashed hellfire and brimstone on President Joe Biden, rival of Mayor Kane's fellow WWE Hall of Famer former president Donald Trump, over Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates. According to The Big Red Machine, Knox County Tennesee will not comply with the federal rules.

Mayor Kane tweeted:

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In the letter, Mayor Kane accuses Biden of violating the Constitution with the order. "Mr. President, if we as elected officials ignore, disregard, and contravene the laws which bind us, how can we expect our fellow citizens to respect and follow the laws which bind all of us as a society?" asked The Devil's Favorite Demon while vowing to ignore, disregard, and contravene Biden's executive order.Mayor Kane also went on to take President Biden to task for the war in Afghanistan, which makes sense, since the only time Kane thinks Americans should travel to the Middle East is when they're teaming with The Undertaker to battle Triple H and Shawn Michaels in front of the Saudi Royal Family.

Under the leadership of Mayor Kane, the only Libertarian political figure to receive the endorsements of both Senator Rand Paul and Bryan Danielson, Knox County is currently experiencing a coronavirus inspection spike higher than at any other time during the pandemic, which is no surprise, considering Mayor Kane opposes pretty much every effort to stem the disease's spread. Kane has previously complained about bans on large gatherings after it prevented him from speaking at an event known as the Juggalo Gathering for Libertarians. Kane was later forced to apologize to Knox County's own Board of Health after cutting a shoot promo on them over coronavirus safety protocols. Later, it was reported that 975 COVID-19 vaccines went missing under Mayor Kane's regime, though it was later found that the vaccines were accidentally thrown in the trash and not, as originally reported, stolen.

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WWE Mayor Kane Defies Authority, Will Not Comply with Vaccine Mandate - Bleeding Cool News

Call them the anti-ninjas.

Since June,three men with years of election experience have tried to get the attention of the Arizona Senate bysaying they have a way to check the work done by the Cyber Ninjas, the contractor hired to lead the review of Maricopa County's 2020 election results.

But they can't do it without help from the Senate. They would need some of the detailed data produced by the Ninjas as part of the audit andso far, Republican leaders have rebuffed the group's overtures.

On Thursday, the trio, who call themselves "the Audit Guys," renewed their challenge.

Using a method they had developed by obtaining the county's "cast vote" record through a public records request, they released the number of ballots contained in each of 24 boxes of returns without touching a single ballot.

They matched it up against the tally of those 24 boxesdone by high-speed paper-counting machines the Senate had commissioned.Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett shared those results with them in July. It was almost a perfect match:99.9%.

Then, they posted the number of votes on the ballots in those boxes won by Libertarian presidential candidate Jo Jorgenson last fall, again using the records they had compiled from the cast-vote file. In a post on their website, real-audits.org, the trio challenged the Senate to provide the Ninjas' findingsto see how the counts compare.

The goal, said Larry Moore, one of the three Audit Guys, is to get the Senate to release the Ninjas' count of the votes for not just Jorgenson, but also Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Moore is betting the numbers won't be anywhere near close.

They can use that to test out their methodologies," Moore said of the data the three menposted on Jorgenson's votes (a total of 342 votes from the 24 boxes of ballots for which they had data). "Were withholding the Biden and Trump votes because we want them (the Ninjas)to show their totals first.

Hours after the Audit Guys issued their latest challenge, the Senate announced it will release the audit report Sept. 24. Moore said he is skeptical the report will have the detail he needs to check the Ninjas'work.

Instead, he said he and his colleagues are relying on a public-records request they filed last month to obtain that data. Those details include the numbers Maricopa County used to identify each of the 1,691 boxes of ballots that were handed over to the Ninjas under a court subpoena, as well as the totals of ballot counts and vote counts that were recorded for each box.

Moore is the retired founder of the Clear Ballot Group, which created a method to independently audit voting systems. Theother "audit guys" are Benny White, a Tucson Republican who has done elections and voter-registration analysis for the Republican Party and TimHalvorsen, Clear Ballot's retired chief technology officer.

Senate President Karen Fann, R-Prescott, said Thursday that the Senate has received various offers to check the ballot count, but wouldn't consider opening up any of the Ninja's data until their report is finished.

Reach the reporter atmaryjo.pitzl@arizonarepublic.comand follow her on Twitter@maryjpitzl.

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On September 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, PA.Recently,The White HousesharedA Proclamation on Constitution Day and Citizenship Daysigned by President Biden in commemoration of this signing and the importance of the lesser-known holiday of Constitution Day.

Constitution Day(also known as Citizenship Day) has been celebrated annually since 2005. This day goes back to the late 1990s when Louise Leigh established a non-profit organization calledConstitution Day, Inc., hoping to promote a national holiday in recognition of the signing of the new Constitution in 1787. There is alonger historyleading up to the establishment of Constitution Day dating back to the 1930s, however.

In light of Constitution Day, Ithaca College will be hosting a Constitution Day ZOOM event on Thursday, September 30, 2021, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Please put this day and times on your calendars!ZOOM link will be shared soon.

This year's theme isExploring the Boundaries of Constitutionality from Multiple Perspectives(A Legal Studies Program Showcase).

A number of Legal Studies affiliated faculty will share work that crosses various constitutional, political and social inter-related factors in the U.S. and abroad.

AQ/Asession will follow at the end of the program in an open forum style setting co-moderated by two Ithaca College students.

For more on past Ithaca College Constitution Day programs and events, please see here.

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Carlos Figueroa.

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Scheduled Program (subject to change)

Greetings and Introductions:Prof.Carlos Figueroa (Politics/Legal Studies Coordinator)

On the history and current meaning of Constitution Day: Cathy Michaels (Reference Librarian, Legal Studies and Communication)

Student Co-Moderators:Serah Lawal (Legal Studies)& Carlos Abreu (Politics/History)

Panelists:

Prof. AMY ROTHCHILD, (LEGAL STUDIES): "Human Rights in Timor-Lestes Struggle for Independence from Indonesia"

This talk examines the shift in Timor-Lestes independence struggle from armed resistance and militant anticolonial rhetoric centered around the right to independence, toward nonviolent resistance and the human rights language of suffering victimhood. A main focus is on the relationship between the Timorese Resistance movements use of human rights discourses and practices and the Resistances goal of independence or self-determination. The talk uses the Timor case to reflect on larger questions concerning the historical and ideological relationship between the right to self-determination and human rights.

Prof. ANGELA RULFFES, (COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES/PRE-LAW ADVISOR): "How the US legal system mediates silencing"

The umbrella of the First Amendment provides one of the strongest speech protections in the world; however, that does not mean that there are no limitations on what people can say in the United States. For example, the phrase you cant yell fire in a crowded theater originated inSchenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), where Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that even the most rigorous of free speech protections cannot shield every type of expression. The Supreme Court has recognized certain speech categories that are unprotected, and these broad limitations on speech have helped pave the way for silencing in the United States through the use of the legal system. While some avenues of silencing are engrained in the explicit mechanisms of the law, such as filing a motion for an injunction, others are an implicit by-product of the process. For example, court decisions can lead to self-censorship because of fear of legal retribution. Review of prominent free speech issues and cases illustrates how the legal system mediates silencing.

Prof. CRAIG DUNCAN, (PHILOSOPHY):"The Fortunes of a Legal Order"

A libertarian strain of American political culture celebrates the free market and criticizes any government interferences with market outcomes as unjust.On this libertarian view, taxes that fund a social safety net (e.g. Social Security, unemployment insurance, public education, affordable health care, etc.) unjustly take money from hardworking people who earned it, and give that money to undeserving people.I criticize this view as simplistic.Well-off people who complain that it is wrong to tax them in order to fund a social safety net are overlooking a key fact, namely, they are overlooking the fact that their own prosperity is not wholly self-made.Instead, their prosperity is in part due to their unchosen good fortune of living in a prosperous society and in particular, to their good fortune of living in a society with a stable legal order, without which the personal fortunes of wealthy people would be impossible. This stable legal order is in turn the joint product of countless daily decisions made by millions of law-abiding residents, so that in truth a stable legal order is best understood as a collective project of We the People. A social safety net is a way of ensuring that the good fortune of a stable legal order is shared among all those people who collectively contribute to that stability, and who rather than being undeserving arethereby deserving of a fair share of their societys good fortune.

Prof. MICHAEL TROTTI, (HISTORY): "White Juries: Shifts in the Laws of the American South after the Civil War"

With the Constitutional Amendments after the Civil War, the white South was no longer able to have one written criminal code for whites, another for free blacks, and another for its enslaved population. Holding all political power after Reconstruction, what did white legislatures do? This talk lays out number of shifts in the laws that allow for racial distinctions even in the context of racially neutral statute language.

Prof. SCOTT THOMPSON, (COMMUNICATION STUDIES): "Constitutional Questions in Competitive Debate"

Intercollegiate debate is a great place to learn about the constitution, also a place where you can put your knowledge to the test. We frequently debate about government power - constitutional questions are central. This year we are debating about the war on terror, Presidential authority is central. Who decides if the US can be at war, and can the President authorize lethal drone strikes anywhere in the world? Previous topics have addressed novel aspects of the Constitution such as the relationship between the 3rd Amendment and cyber surveillance. Four years ago, the team did extensive research into the constitutionality of police chokeholds. 10th amendment concerns are always relevant.

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CONSTITUTION DAY 2021: Exploring the Boundaries of Constitutionality from Multiple Perspectives (A Legal Studies Program Showcase) - Ithaca College

The Guardian has a wonderful chronicle of the rise and fall of an experimental libertarian society built on a cruise ship armed with little more than crypto-mining rigs. Yes really. Did I mention one of the founders was Milton Friedman's grandson? Here's how the journey began

In 2017, Patri Friedman and the "seavangelist" Joe Quirk wrote a book, Seasteading, in which they described how a seasteading community could constantly rearrange itself according to the choices of those who owned the individual floating units. (Quirk now runs the Seasteading Institute; Friedman remains chair of the board.) "Democracy," the two men wrote, "would be upgraded to a system whereby the smallest minorities, including the individual, could vote with their houses."

In the decade following Friedman's talk, a variety of attempts to realise his seasteading vision were all thwarted. "Seavilization," to use his phrase, remained a fantasy. Then, in October 2020, it seemed his dream might finally come true, when three seasteading enthusiasts bought a 245-metre-long cruise ship called the Pacific Dawn. Grant Romundt, Rdiger Koch and Chad Elwartowski planned to sail the ship toPanama, where they were based, and park it permanently off the coastline as the centrepiece of a new society trading only in cryptocurrencies. In homage to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of bitcoin's mysterious inventor (or inventors), they renamed the ship the MS Satoshi. They hoped it would become home to people just like them: digital nomads, startup founders and early bitcoin adopters.

Surely a bunch of Silicon Valley Tech Bros could hack their way into disrupting the regulatory apparatus of the ocean to create a Libertarian Utopia, right?

Welp, much like that libertarian community in New Hampshire that was overrun by bears, it seems their focus of hyper-individualism meant overlooking a few key details. For example, you couldn't cook your own food in your unit, not even with a microwave you were forced to engage in commerce with the ship's restaurant. And then of course, there was the issue of what to do with all the waste, both human and otherwise. Which, maybe there'd a solution between "No food" and "What do we do with this poop?" but the founders neglected to consider things like fuel costs and crew costs, too.

What's even more absurd is that this cruise ship was merely intended as a stepping stone to achieve a society of SeaPods little independent Jetson-like pods that sit on a pole above the ocean, where (according to their website) you just sip wine and Bitcoin-mine all day, for freedom.

If these men were more diabolical, they could have probably pulled off something akin to the Scientology Sea Org but alas, they did not. If you're interested in learning more though, the Seasteading website is still up and offering information on other aspirational libertarian communities.

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world's first cryptocurrency cruise ship [Sophie Elmhirst / The Guardian]

Image: Rapid-fire / Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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Discover the hilariously epic failure of a crypto-fueled libertarian cruise - Boing Boing

Manifestos regularly promise not to raise income tax, VAT, or NICs because such acts are believed to be politically costly. Proposed tax hikes to major revenue sources make us question: what exactly am I getting for my money, given Im already paying a high rate? But raising the new health and social care levy from just 1.25pc to, say, 1.5pc or even 2pc of earnings? That at least sounds much less of a big deal and is likely to elicit strong support from the key beneficiaries: the elderly. In that sense, the levy relaxes the political constraint against tax hikes.

The revenue-raising potential of softly hypothecated taxes is exemplified at local level. Since 2016-17, councils have been able to charge an adult social care precept, which currently allows them to raise council tax by an extra 3pc in the nameof part-funding social care overtwo years. Its well used of 152authorities with adult social care responsibilities, 148 utilised some, or all, of their precept freedom this year, with 100 authorities opting for the full3pc addition.

So what has happened to overall council tax bills since the precept was invented? The average annual increase in Band D council tax payments was 0.8pc per year between 2010-11 and 2015-16, as central government sought to keep bills frozen. Since then, the average increase has leapt to 4.2pc per year. Yet council tax has, if anything, become a less salient political issue with the separate precept line present. Theres good reason to expect this new levy to be the thin end of the wedge and a catalyst for bigger government.

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Libertarian Tories will rue waving through social care tax trick - Telegraph.co.uk