THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. “Government money,” of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.”

— Albert Jay Nock

BIRTHDAYS:

1698 Nicola Logroscino, Italian composer, born in Bitonto, Bari, Kingdom of Naples. Concerto per flauto e archi

1737 Vincenzo Manfredini, Italian harpsichordist, composer, and music theorist, born in Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Preludio f-moll, and Quis sicut Dominus, and Concerto pastorale per il Santissimo Natale

1811 Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, and teacher of the Romantic period. Liebestraum No. 3, and La Campanella, and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

1970 Javier Milei, Argentine economist and politician (President of Argentina)

MISCELLANEOUS:

I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING, SO TO SPEAK. Reflect Orbit $20 Million Startup Plans 4000 Space Mirrors

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO ACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration