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By Mark Anderson
21st Century Wire
“I went into that place a free man and I intended to leave it as a free man.”

Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial ​(​instead of dismissing charges​)​ in the Bundy Ranch case saying US prosecutors willfully withheld critical evidence from the defense. Prosecutors maintained the FBI was not involved in the standoff and that no video surveillance or sniper teams were used. They charged defendants with making false claims about snipers and videos in order to incite militia ​groups to their defense. All of Bundy's claims were true, and the government was lying. Judge Navarro will decide if all charges will be dismissed at a hearing on Jan. 8.

LONG SHADOW: The wake of the recent mass tragedy in Las Vegas has overtaken various current events, including the Bundy Trial (Image: Mandalay Bay Hotel & Resort)
By Mark Anderson
The TRUTH HOUND
LAS VEGAS—Although the ongoing Bundy trial in the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada has had its share of dramatic changes, that’s especially true lately.

In Ghana, a for-profit firm called LandMapp is “unlocking land’s value” by helping to secure farmer’s unofficial land rights. At a relatively low cost, the company maps a farmer's land boundary with GPS and provides documentation of the land holdings. With this verified information, farmers can get easier access to credit and are better able to contract with commodity firms. 

After the end of Apartheid in 1994, nobody would have guessed that South Africa would be making many of the same mistakes as the Apartheid regime only two decades later, from censoring speech to violating agricultural property rights. In our process of transformation, we were supposed to move away from the Apartheid mentality.

What’s the single greatest invention in human history? I would argue that the answer is private property. If you understand why, then you should also have a profound appreciation for another great invention in human history: the blockchain. They are mutually reinforcing. In fact, humanity has never had a better tool for keeping up with private property claims under complex, globalized, digital economic structures.

Congestion naturally checks immigration. Word gets back to the immigrants’ home country that there are no more rooms available in that town and no more jobs at the farms. The flow of immigrants will naturally stop.

90% of the globe’s fisheries are either fully fished or overexploited. Command-and-control regulations are essentially useless for protecting sensitive species, but this simple market-based strategy is reducing the negative environmental effects of overfishing.

The US has declined incredibly over the past decade- and-a-half on the Human Freedom Index.
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