”When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

BIRTHDAYS:

1660 Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer (Tigrane), born in Palermo, Sicily, Viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire. Toccata VII primo tono, and “Exultate Deo”, and Exaltabo te, Domine

1695 Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

1860 Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, lawyer, writer, playwright and political activist who was the father of modern political Zionism.

1890 E. E. Smith, American food engineer and sci-fi author.

1947 James Dyson, British inventor, industrial designer, and entrepreneur (bagless vacuum cleaner; bladeless fan)

MISCELLANEOUS:

NO MORE DELAYS, PLEASE. Why space needs nuclear now

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)