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Several Democratic and Libertarian candidates attended part of the Indiana Democratic Partys 2022 Town Hall Series on Tuesday at the Fishers branch of the Hamilton East Public Library, 5 Municipal Drive. With over 150 people in attendance, it was a room packed with local citizens who wanted to hear and speak with candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Indiana Secretary of State, and the state legislature.

Democrats who organized this event told The Reporter they extended the invitation to both Libertarians and Republicans, and said the GOP declined to attend.

Candidates in attendance included:

There was no set theme for the town hall. Indiana Democrats told The Reporter they wanted to address the kitchen-table issues important to voters, and from issues like inflation and law enforcement funding to education and broadband, candidates and elected officials answered as many questions as possible during the 90-minute conversation.

In order to truly represent Hoosiers and restore balance to every level of government in Indiana, its imperative for voters from all walks of life to hear from the leaders of our political parties about the important issues of the day and also ask questions directly to the people who seek to serve us. Its my hope that through this town hall series, some decency and understanding can be restored in our political conversations even when we disagree, Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party Mike Schmuhl said. This is the seventh time the Indiana Democratic Party has embarked on a statewide tour, and with leaders like Tom McDermott and Destiny Wells headlining this effort, Democrats are eager to share our plans on how we will create a better future for Hoosier families in all 92 counties.

If you did not attend the Town Hall but would like to hear for yourself what was said, you can watch it at this link.

Tom McDermott

Democrat for U.S. Senate

U.S. Senate Candidate and Hammond, Ind. Mayor Tom McDermott said he was touring the state on Tuesday and was very pleased to cap off his day in Hamilton County.

When I walked into the library in Fishers with 150-plus people energized and excited it was a great day, McDermott said. I was excited to be there. It was a very good showing for Hamilton County and obviously Fishers is a beautiful city.

McDermott calls himself a frustrated American and a frustrated Hoosier who thinks the country could do better.

I think its become acceptable when we send people to Washington, D.C. for them to just represent a segment of the population, McDermott said. My goal as U.S. Senator is to represent all 6.6 million Hoosiers. I realize some of them feel differently about issues than I do, but I still want to represent them and do a good job for them.

He told The Reporter he believes the country is not doing well right now. One of his examples of that was the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion.

I have always been a supporter of the Supreme Court but seeing that half our population is losing their civil liberties right now with 50 years of precedent being tossed out with Roe v. Wade, is very sad, McDermott said.

Another issue McDermott said is important to him is gun control, especially in light of the rise of school shootings.

I have a lifetime permit to carry a gun in Indiana and I do carry my gun often, but that doesnt mean we cant pass laws to regulate the Second Amendment, McDermott said. If you look at the third word of the Second Amendment, A well regulated Militia, regulated means laws. The job of Congress is to pass laws and to deal with the Second Amendment. I dont want to take peoples guns. But I dont want bad guys with military-style assault weapons killing a bunch of kids either. Our politicians in Washington, D.C. are afraid to touch this issue.

McDermott said he is running because he believes Todd Young is not doing a good job representing his constituents.

Todd Young is talking about what a horrible president Joe Biden is because of inflation and the cost of gas. I take a different approach, McDermott said. Todd Young has been in Washington, D.C. for 12 years. Hes been a U.S. Senator for six years. What the heck as he done to make inflation lower? Whats he done to address the price of gas? Nothing. It has become acceptable for a U.S. Senator, one of the most powerful people in the United States, to point at a guy who just got to Washington, D.C. and say, its all your fault. Im not going to let him get away with it.

McDermott used his time as mayor of Hammond as an example of how he thinks leaders should address issues in their areas of influence.

You dont find me complaining about the city of Hammond because I have been in charge of the city of 18 years, McDermott said. If I complained about the crime rate in Hammond or the condition of the roads, Id be complaining about the job I did. But this guy is a U.S. Senator who has been there for 12 years and hes complaining about problems in Washington, D.C., like immigration and inflation. Thats his job and hes failed at it. Its time to fire Todd Young.

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Jocelyn Vare

Democrat for Indiana Senate District 31

Jocelyn Vare, an at-large member of the Fishers City Council and candidate for Indiana Senate District 31, told The Reporter, The 100-plus Hamilton County residents in attendance were well-informed and very disappointed with how the current statehouse supermajority is running Indiana. They are loudly challenging the supermajoritys out-of-touch priorities. If after this event anyone still believes that Hamilton County and especially Fishers the host city for this Town Hall are wholly and contentedly red, they are simply not listening to what voters are saying.

Destiny Wells

Democrat for Indiana Secretary of State

Democratic candidate for Indiana Secretary of State Destiny Wells told The Reporter she thought the turnout in Fishers was impressive.

It was a great turnout, Wells said. Weve seen this enthusiasm in some of the more urban, metropolitan areas. Ive been telling people we are not a red state, we are a purple state with a turnout problem, and that message is landing. Its getting people excited and now everybody has these issues that feel very personal to them. Its nice to see people show up and advocate for those issues.

Wells said she believes being a lawyer and a former military intelligence officer makes her uniquely qualified for this job.

In 2016, I got to Afghanistan two weeks before the election, and during that presidency and being overseas and feeling the turmoil that was staring to bubble up, I decided when I got home, I wanted to extend my service beyond the uniform, Wells told The Reporter. That started a series of events moving forward like taking a job as a deputy AG, even though it was under Curtis Hill, and getting more involved in the party.

She said part of the reason she is running for Secretary of State is because the Jan. 6 incidents made her want to help protect voters rights and the election system.

When Jan. 6 happened last year, one of my law school classmates stormed the Capitol, Wells said. One of the attorneys who has been at the forefront of the lawsuits we have seen trying to overturn the election. All of that just percolated, and when the Secretary of State race came open in Indiana and was coming up, and all this national conversation of subverting elections, I thought, What an office for me to pursue to do the most I can. Thats why Im running for Secretary of State.

She told The Reporter she sees GOP Candidate Diego Morales as a threat to democracy.

I know this race it going to be a really big deal, Wells said. I have been trying to get peoples attention to the threat. I see Diego as a threat as I would as an intelligence officer. I identify this movement as a threat to democracy. Once we open the can of worms here in Indiana of possibly subverting elections or very intentionally suppressing the vote, thats hard to undo.

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Cast: Gottfrid SvartholmFredrik NeijPeter Sunde

Geners: Documentary

Director: Simon Klose

Release Date: Feb 08, 2013

TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata a paranoid hacker libertarian get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywoods most hated pirates go through on a personal level.

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard never made it to Netflix, unfortunately. Still, Netflix holds a variety of shows one can watch for subscription plans that costs $9.99 per month for the basic plan, $15.49 monthly for the standard plan, and $19.99 a month for the premium plan.

They're not on Hulu, either! But prices for this streaming service currently start at $6.99 per month, or $69.99 for the whole year. For the ad-free version, it's $12.99 per month, $64.99 per month for Hulu + Live TV, or $70.99 for the ad-free Hulu + Live TV.

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Sorry, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard is not available on HBO Max. There is a lot of content from HBO Max for $14.99 a month, such a subscription is ad-free and it allows you to access all the titles in the library of HBO Max. The streaming platform announced an ad-supported version that costs a lot less at the price of $9.99 per month.

Unfortunately, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard is not available to stream for free on Amazon Prime Video. However, you can choose other shows and movies to watch from there as it has a wide variety of shows and movies that you can choose from for $14.99 a month.

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No dice. TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard isn't streaming on the Apple TV+ library at this time. You can watch plenty of other top-rated shows and movies like Mythic Quest, Tedd Lasso, and Wolfwalkers for a monthly cost of $4.99 from the Apple TV Plus library.

Unfortunately, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard is not available on Sky Go. Although you can access a vast library of other shows and movies on their service.

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Nick Offermans deadpan delivery as Ron Swanson, the head of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department in NBC's comedy/drama Parks And Recreation, truly defined his acting career. Although he has enjoyed many memorable roles since, it was his performance as the eccentric Ron Swanson that would forever be his calling card.

Ron Swanson is quite the unique character in television sitcoms. In some ways he is our hero Leslie Knopes prime antagonist, as he hates working for the public and despises government rules and regulations. He is a staunch libertarian, openly enjoys wasting tax payers money and his own political beliefs make him entirely unsuited for the public office job he holds.

Still, Ron Swanson is still the man and its impossible not to be captivated by his presence on screen. But how much attention were you paying across the over 100 episodes he appeared in?

Do you know which colour shirt Ron regularly enjoys wearing after he's had sex or what name his first two wives shared?

Take our quiz below and remember you can find the answers at the very end.

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Parks And Recreation: The Progressively Harder Ron Swanson Quiz - WhatCulture

This is an opinion editorial by Joe Moffett, a contributor at Bitcoin Magazine.

The Democrat and Republican parties have been wielding social movements as weapons in a culture war. Is it time the Libertarian Party wields the Bitcoin hammer in the battle against the Federal Reserve?

In the cypherpunk mailing list, Satoshi Nakamoto had a back-and-forth exchange with an unknown cryptographer:

You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography. Unknown cryptographer

Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.

Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own. Satoshi Nakamoto

Between Nakamotos emails, the Bitcoin white paper and the source code, there was probably nothing they said with a more aloof tone than this quote. I have to imagine they understood the economic ramifications that would come with developing such a system and this was likely why they remained anonymous. Then again, maybe they were blissfully unaware that there is no more dangerous enemy to the power of the state than economically free people.

Many early adopters of bitcoin were more likely software and tech gurus than they were economists or libertarians, but this comment by Nakamoto was profoundly libertarian. After all, if the government can wage war on poverty, drugs, crime and terror, why cant libertarians and Bitcoiners alike wage war on money printing? Its hard to overstate the phrasing here: [W]e can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom.

The Libertarian Party, under new management, recognizes just how important Bitcoin is in this battle. Angela McArdle, chair of the Libertarian National Committee, embraces the importance of bitcoins scarcity, self-sovereignty, and censorship resistance. On a phone interview, McArdle shared:

Inflation is being reported at 8.6%, but if you fill up the gas in your car, you know that it must be higher than that. No one knows the real rate of inflation, but what I do know is you cannot print more bitcoin. You can print dollars perpetually until its worthless like Venezuela, but you cant print more bitcoin.

Sure, the Libertarian Party is using the language, Declare your independence from the Fed, in a metaphorical way, but we can never forget that our country was founded on a very real Declaration of Independence that led to something very tangible.

We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual. The Libertarian Partys Statement of Principles

Today more than ever, the enforcement tool of the so-called omnipotent state and those in power is their monetary policy. The monopolization of fiat currency and the burden of taxes have become weapons of the state to empower Washington and disenfranchise the people. Libertarians and Austrian economists have been sounding the alarms for decades, but as Ron Paul has attributed to George Orwell, Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

At a certain point however, the truth comes out.

This inflation was either due to incompetence or deliberate debasing of the U.S. dollar, but Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, admitted that he doesnt understand basic economics. I would have preferred him to come out and admit he lied.

Our favorite Bitcoiner, Peter Gold Schiff, along with every Austrian economist, pointed out how inflation works when the money printer started in March 2020 (when Schiff comes to the same realization as Bitcoiners, we will welcome him with open arms),

So here we are, July Fourth is coming up and we, the people, are in a quandary. Our leaders lie, our media covers for them, our financial institutions are corrupt and consent of the governed sounds more like a brand slogan than the foundation of our government.

So what options do we have?

Fix the money, fix the world.

Bitcoin is the greatest peaceful revolution the world may ever know. Back to that seemingly innocuous Nakamoto quote, [W]e can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. The arms race they must be referring to is power political and economic of governments versus economic power in the hands of individuals. Maybe its time to turn Rosie the Riveter into Dolores the Diamond Hands.

Libertarians and Bitcoiners are allies in the fight for sound monetary policy. Speaking of a Bitcoiner and Libertarian alliance, McArdle said, Its important for us to build a parallel economy, so in the event the dollar collapses completely, or some kind of financial crash, we have something to shift over to laterally. The more people that have Bitcoin and understand it, the better.

Nakamoto had this revelation when they said, Its very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. Im better with code than with words though. Clearly, they werent wrong. Nakamotos creation spawned a movement without a speech or catchy slogan, just code and believers. Some of us libertarians may have been a bit late to bitcoin, myself included, but the troops are coming.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more King Henry in Henry V by William Shakespeare

The Libertarian Party is hosting a livestream event at 2:00PM EST on July 3, 2022. Join the call and declare your independence from the Fed.

Declare your independence from the Fed

Join the Libertarian Chair Angela McArdle and Vice Chair Joshua Smith July 3 at 2:00 PM EST with the Bitcoin experts Saifedean Ammous, Marty Bent, Stephan Livera, Jameson Lopp and Guy Swann.

Think about doing three things in preparation for Independence Day:

I want you to buy bitcoin.

This is a guest post by Joe Moffett. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc. or Bitcoin Magazine.

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We Need To Declare Our Independence From The Federal Reserve - Bitcoin Magazine

The strong right-wing offensive of recent years in Latin America failed to stabilise a new situation; social and cultural fascisms grew but did not (yet) achieve a new hegemony, and the democratic imposition that US president Joe Biden intended for the region was shipwrecked at the Los Angeles summit, while progressive proposals speak of a new wave in favour of the peoples.

By Aram Aharonian

Historically, the anti-establishment and anti-traditional parties discourse was a banner of the left, as it was marginalised from national power, but today it is also taken up by the libertarian ultra-right against the stagnant traditional parties of the vernacular right.

In the region, a new progressive wave is emerging in Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Honduras each with its own tonality -, now Colombia and perhaps Brazil with Lula, which could replace the late neoliberalism and initiate a new cycle with a greater role for the state and concern for the great majorities.

A trend that, as former Bolivian Vice-President lvaro Garca Linera points out, is a path that, like the waves of the sea, involves high and low tides, but one of progress towards a region in which democracy ceases to be the privilege of a few and becomes the constant feature of the social and political life of our America.

For the enthusiasts, the cycle that they wanted to see ended with the parliamentary coup against Dilma Roussef in May 2016, has become a first phase of what seems to be affirming itself as a trend in the region, the advance of a democratic proposal with social justice and national sovereignty.

The failure of the ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles exposed the US governments inability to demonstrate how to manage its backyard. It was a major diplomatic setback for the US and its president since several heads of state in the region ruled out participation. The result was widespread disappointment in a region whose economies have been severely affected by the pandemic and now also by the war in Ukraine.

The meeting focused on sharing responsibility for managing migration flows. Washington now wants migrant-sending countries to accept new rules of the game and cooperate in stemming the migrant surge. But Central America, whose majority of leaders did not attend the summit and which produces most of the hungry migrants, has been left out. It has no major commitments to make. Many believe it was the last Summit of the Americas.

During the last decade, the United States and the vernacular right managed to dismantle their own consolidated institutions to try, in this situation, to boost the integration process, as was the case when the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and the expanded Southern Common Market (Mercosur), including Venezuela, were still in place.

Today, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) clearly answers to Washington, as does the Organisation of American States (OAS). The latter coordinates the actions of US intelligence and security agencies, as an institution to broker its agenda with the rest of the Americas, which even promoted the suspension of Russia as an observer of the organisation until it withdraws troops from Ukraine.

Since the emergence of anti-neoliberal governments in Latin America, the region has become the epicentre of the great political struggles of the 21st century and, at the same time, a seesaw, where governments install themselves and are defeated, return and experience great instability, some reassert themselves, noted Brazilian sociologist Emir Sader.

Recently, Colombia has elected a centre-left government, and this has become the greatest hope for change for the forgotten, the despised by a white political elite. Today, the main challenge for Gustavo Petros government will be to convert this symbolic capital of representing change into concrete public policies, to make the progressive option credible, after the rapid disillusionment with the new Chilean government.

The main challenge, as the elected vice-president Francia Mrquez has repeated before the emboldened crowds of nobodies, will be to move from resistance to power. But to do so given the dependence on the United States and a right wing that never sleeps it will have to avoid endless ambushes and build a new popular hegemony, points out Carlos Fazio.

In Brazil, the ultra-right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro announced the name of retired army general Walter Braga Netto, former defence minister, as his running mate for the 2 October elections, when he will face the progressive former president Lula da Silva and his centrist running mate Geraldo Alckmin.

While for Lula democracy is the vital component of governability, for Bolsonaro the end of democracy is the fundamental presupposition not only for the kind of governance from the bayonets he advocates, but also the key to the continuity of the military power project and the plundering and privatisation of the country.

But we must keep an eye on the provocations that will continue to follow, such as the private visit, perhaps in return for favours, of the neoliberal Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle to his Colombian counterpart Ivn Duque, just days before he leaves the government. Anyone would think it was a provocation to the next president. At least the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry put a stop to Lacalles desire to decorate Duque.

It is worth remembering that the Colombian presidential plane landed in Montevideo on the morning of 1 March 2020. Ivn Duque and the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, along with their advisors, were on board. The Colombian president was one of the few Latin American presidents who accompanied Lacalle at his inauguration ceremony and now, two years and three months afterwards, the Uruguayan will return the gesture to his far-right friend by accepting an invitation to visit him in Cartagena.

Meanwhile, the appeal to the Armed Forces made by the Ecuadorian Minister of Defence made it clear that the policies that provoked genocide in Latin America are far from disappearing. In the speech made by Ecuadorian banker and President Guillermo Lasso in the repression of the social outbreak, the old trick of the National Security Doctrine from the times of Operation Condor was once again brought to the table.

For former Uruguayan president Jos Pepe Mujica, the regional left must communicate much more with the people and confront the lying narratives. He believes that progressivism is returning to power in some Latin American countries with less naivety but with problems that have worsened.

We are all calling for change, but we are not clear about what determines a change of era. The pandemic has undoubtedly deepened the new social dynamics, while we wonder how changes in the productive structure influence society, whether there is a redefinition of conflicts.

At a quick look, we must add the growth of confidence in religions (evangelists, Pentecostals), the disbelief in science (anti-vaccine, terraplanists), the deepening of holy wars (Zionists, Taliban, among others), the relegation of rationality in the face of the ultra-right and fascistic sensationalism of Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, the Spanish Vox, the libertarians who resurface like mushrooms with ample funding from the north, among others

And the great media operations for the imposition of collective imaginaries that facilitate the manipulation of the majorities, with the much-talked-about post-truth, fakenews, shitnews and a long etcetera, as well as the relative displacement of the great currents of ideas from the public-popular sphere.

But the self-styled libertarian far right has also gained notoriety in recent years. The more the capitalist crisis deepens, the more FORCE the more radical positions gain strength. There is nothing more unjust than social justice, the Argentinian histrion Javier Milei never tires of repeating, for whom taxing companies is theft and a crime against humanity to infringe on the property of the rich.

Another characteristic is the so-called Hispanism, which defends the Spanish conquest and the massacres perpetrated on the indigenous populations of Latin America, and is therefore against movements for indigenous rights and self-determination.

For libertarians, there should be no such thing as free public health and education. But they are not only in favour of privatising everything and ending any kind of subsidy to the working classes: many of their ideologues also defend the idea of monarchy, the conservative values of the most retrograde Christianity, and therefore oppose abortion and the rights of the LGBT community.

They also oppose multiculturalism and are therefore anti-immigrant and close to racist positions. In Europe they are all anti-Muslim and are in favour of keeping migrant refugees from wars and famine in the Middle East or Africa in concentration camps. And for all this they provide extensive funding for think tanks, cover NGOs, all on behalf of the Atlas Network and its American and Euro-Western financiers.

Fake news, manipulated videos, bots, an international network of ultra-liberal or libertarian think tanks (Atlas Network), this has been the campaign that Gustavo Petro has had to face in Colombia, as well as other progressive or left-wing candidates in their respective countries.

In addition to participating in the campaign against Petro in Colombia, these networks also massively retweet accounts from the Atlas Network such as Agustn Antonetti, Agustn Laje, Javier Milei, Jos Antonio Kast, lvaro Uribe, Mara Fernanda Cabal, Vicky Dvila, Andrs Pastrana and in Colombia the magazine Semana, Fico Gutirrez, the far-right candidate in the first round and Rodolfo Hernndez in the second round.

The Atlas network is active in each process to encourage its main influencers to write articles and videos: Agustn Laje, of the Fundacin Libre, or Juan Ramn Rallo, former director of the Fundacin Juan de Mariana; or Mario Vargas Llosa asking people to vote for Rodolfo Hernndez or Javier Milei visiting Colombia to seek the youth vote.

The libertarians are displacing the conservative parties that have become stagnant in so many years of formal democracy and dependence on Washington and the International Monetary Fund, while progressivism far from revolutionary proposals, participatory democracy or the electoral road to socialism is gaining ground in the region, which today shows a jigsaw puzzle that will be put together day by day, election after election, social outbreak after popular protest

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Change, does anything change: the progressive wave and the libertarian response? - PRESSENZA International News Agency