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Have you had it with "politics" and desire to live in a brilliantly better future? Are you curious about what can replace an age-old coercive organization trying to control you and your property, so that everyone can finally be respected?

A dangerous myth perpetuates our political plight in America: The belief that we are free. In fact, scores of unjust laws daily violate our individual rights. Being regulated and taxed to fund governmentally monopolized services, under threats of being fined, arrested, punished, or even killed, necessarily sacrifices our needs for freedom and justice.

In stark contrast we have the American spirit, which is about embracing liberty and realizing opportunities for creativity, win/win trade, and prosperity. Complete Liberty podcast explains not only the sundry ills of statism, but also the untold benefits of systems that respect and enable both freedom and responsibility. Let's leave domination systems in the dustbin of history.

Visit the website for the free books at www.completeliberty.com

Complete Liberty Podcast Wes Bertrand

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Have you had it with "politics" and desire to live in a brilliantly better future? Are you curious about what can replace an age-old coercive organization trying to control you and your property, so that everyone can finally be respected?

A dangerous myth perpetuates our political plight in America: The belief that we are free. In fact, scores of unjust laws daily violate our individual rights. Being regulated and taxed to fund governmentally monopolized services, under threats of being fined, arrested, punished, or even killed, necessarily sacrifices our needs for freedom and justice.

In stark contrast we have the American spirit, which is about embracing liberty and realizing opportunities for creativity, win/win trade, and prosperity. Complete Liberty podcast explains not only the sundry ills of statism, but also the untold benefits of systems that respect and enable both freedom and responsibility. Let's leave domination systems in the dustbin of history.

Visit the website for the free books at www.completeliberty.com

    Ongoing genocide, brutality of settler colonialism and empire, challenging indoctrination

    Ongoing genocide, brutality of settler colonialism and empire, challenging indoctrination

    Impunity in Gaza is a threat to the international order - Japan should defend the rules that it relies on for its own security
    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/05/20/japan/gaza-israel-impunity-international-order/
    https://archive.is/mqUMS#selection-1127.0-1131.68
    Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon/
    Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center By CNN's International Investigations and Visuals teams
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html
    Debating the Israel-Palestine Conflict with Saifedean Ammous and Yaron Brook (WiM458)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACl3oyAlhU
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
    https://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Empire-History-Greater/dp/1250251095/
    Tensions Run High at Columbia University - Walter Masterson - Star Wars prank
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYdvsBnVkjI
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine–American_War#American_atrocities
    https://www.phind.com/search?cache=enp1nixa3t1xj6y366p1mg30
    https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-us-president-vUnSsZdwQjKKi_4Z2r7xjA#0
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_New_Echota
    https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/21/516277507/the-other-wwii-american-internment-atrocity
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleut_Restitution_Act_of_1988
    Mehdi and Owen on ICC Israel Arrest Warrants, with Ilan Pappé and Diana Buttu
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niAdwDXX-sw
    The Anatomy Of Slavespeak by Frederick Mann
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070203065557/http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml
    Israel Targeting Gaza Health Workers, Doctors Tell Zeteo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPICOvrRTeM
    "Stop This War Right Now": U.S. Doctor Who Saved Sen. Duckworth's Life in Iraq, Now Trapped in Gaza
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYBdeDGJC68
    Gaza Besieged, Jews Divided, & a World in Pain: Gabor, Aaron, & Daniel Maté in Conversation
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxtxKyHntA
    Ep. 09 | Entrevista a Nurit Peled-Elhanan (in English)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt7xvfaBYsc
    Nurit Peled Elhanan Palestine in Israeli School Books
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygUfA2jR910
    School Sucks Podcast by Brett Veinotte
    https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/schoolsucks
    Animal Planet - The Grayzone live
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQJdP-ToxY
    Bad Hasbara 22: Hen Pecked
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwph7ihRS3w
    Praying for Armageddon | Marking the End Times with Dr. Mark Hitchcock
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLYm4NUb1vY
    Why evangelicals influence US foreign policy in the Middle East | EP1 | Witness Documentary
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhT7oyDlBIk
    WATCH: Republican Michelle Bachman Says She Wants To WIPE OUT Gaza
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2RmWKLWEL4
    Complete Liberty Podcast series: The nature of religion and its problems
    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2AICyfIf18i0d49Kfpyw0f
    also down the page here with other series:
    http://happinesscounseling.com/happiness-resources/
    How Israel And Its Allies Weaponize Antisemitism
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dVV8HjSpdA
    New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBnzzGmH7c
    https://www.israelismfilm.com
    The Psychology of Israeli Propaganda
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCQV_iUGRE
    How Israel Buys Support From Celebrities & Influencers w/Lee Camp
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma1autOZcPc
    Bassem Youssef UNFILTERED on Israel, Gaza, & the Future of American Media | The Don Lemon Show
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo4JIqW9tAs&t=3104s

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    Genocide protests amidst the fascism of USA-supported Zionism and its brutal costs

    Genocide protests amidst the fascism of USA-supported Zionism and its brutal costs

    the totally lost plot of orthodox, statist Objectivists, misguided by Ayn Rand's context-dropping of property rights amidst the fascistic nature of government
    https://www.change.org/p/open-letter-regarding-ut-campus-protests
    Ayn Rand on the 1968 Columbia student protest: 
    https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-student-rebellion-at-columbia-university/
    India Today Conclave 2024: Viral from Israel-Gaza War Stinging Comic Commentary By Egyptian Comedian - Bassem Youssef
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_04qco8OjkY
    Absolutely LOSING IT Over Netanyahu Calling College Kids N*zis - Secular Talk, Krystal Kyle & Friends
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7s5vAXmOLo
    Who Is REALLY behind the TikTok ban?
    https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1767942615910039761
    Joe Rogan Experience #2143 - Tulsi Gabbard
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQrNRtxvCJc
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/7gj18QladJrmTSqAAnFtEP
    Friends of Israel - The Grayzone live
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54IkTn5N2wk
    Under Israeli Pressure, Guinea Bissau Moves to Withdraw Flotilla Flags
    https://freedomflotilla.org/2024/04/27/press-conference-guinea-bissau-flags/
    20 Palestinians Reportedly MURDERED While Waiting For Food Aid - The Young Turks
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIkR2tcOnSk
    Nurit Peled: Palestinians do not exist in Israelis' consciousness. - Frank Barat
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBNpSvwnxHo
    A surgeon’s diary from Gaza: ‘Conditions are filthy. Everything is infected’ - A British doctor recounts the horrors he saw in Al-Aqsa hospital, the last hospital functioning in the central Gaza Strip
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/my-diary-10-days-gazan-hospital-conditions-filthy-infected/
    Israel’s Descent Into Madness & the Holocaust Comparison, w/ Tarik Cyril Amar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbppCU7uiJw
    What’s Next For Israel? | Alon Mizrahi Zarrar Khuhro | Dawn News English
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyhxb9bLjDY
    WALLED OFF: Abby Martin w/ Anwar Hadid & Vin Arfuso on Palestine Film
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj7Y_AFvgY4
    https://www.walledoff.org
    Israel Ramps Up Assault of Southern Gaza As Bombardment Surpasses 100 Days w/ Dr. Ramzy Baroud
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg2uE0RqwJI
    Israel Warns of War with Hezbollah amid Lebanon Border Clashes w/ Dr. Ramzy Baroud
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFpVx7cRMMI
    "The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand" by Nathaniel Branden
    http://www.starways.net/lisa/essays/benefits1.html
    Complete Liberty podcast series: The nature of religion and its problems
    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2AICyfIf18i0d49Kfpyw0f

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    Zionism resulting in apartheid and genocide, sacrificing safety and security for everyone

    Zionism resulting in apartheid and genocide, sacrificing safety and security for everyone

    LIVE: Vote for Gaza ceasefire passes in UN for first time since war began
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuGkWj-2xw&t=5770s
    #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
    https://lexfridman.com/bassem-youssef
    The Dark History of the Kibbutz | How "Socialist" Zionists colonized Palestine
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8NCCt2KSE
    #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy
    https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen
    Courageous, heroic work of Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham
    Israeli Director of "No Other Land" Slams Claims of Antisemitism over Apartheid Comment at Berlinale
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBSZERpYyB8
    ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
    https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
    #418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris
    https://lexfridman.com/israel-palestine-debate
    extra analysis:
    Norm Finkelstein DOGWALKS Destiny In Israel Debate
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzgxthLVuE
    What’s the root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0gVwoKNB34&t=4538s
    How Palestinians Become Legitimate Targets for Israeli Violence
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_TgPlEfQs
    The Great Misinterpretation: How Palestinians View Israel - Haviv Rettig Gur
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlK2mfYYm4U
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Laws
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogroms_in_the_Russian_Empire#1881–1882
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_emancipation
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky#Early_activism_and_militancy
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
    Gaza and the Power of Narratives with Ahmed Paul Keeler
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFwgtqkno0E&t=1333s
    Palestine is Still the Issue by John Pilger
    https://vimeo.com/17401477
    Joe Biden makes impassioned speech on apartheid in resurfaced 1986 footage
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_v00iGJCLY
    Debunking Zionist LIES With Noura Erakat & Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPAmvGN234&t=1669s
    http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/racism.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Israel
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Anti-Zionism_before_1948
    On 1948 | Ilan Pappe | Part I | 2018 interview
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipT1dHU1ya4&t=3522s
    Israel 'Worse Than Apartheid': South African Jewish Former ANC Politician Andrew Feinstein
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT_4_0ToGsM&t=2573s
    Israel’s War in Gaza Humanitarian Crisis And Prospects for Peace?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt9ids7WFYo&t=2384s
    Analysis | Inside Israel's Disturbing Denial of Starvation in Gaza - Haaretz | Israel News by Dahlia Scheindlin
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-26/ty-article/.premium/inside-israels-disturbing-denial-of-starvation-in-gaza/0000018e-7b41-d680-a1cf-ff47b4220000
    https://archive.is/vIO8M
    Gaza’s rescue workers are haunted by those they couldn’t save by Ruwaida Kamal Amer
    https://www.972mag.com/gaza-civil-defense-rescue-workers-rubble/
    Silencing the Messenger - How Power Creates and Entrenches Health Inequities
    https://rupamarya.substack.com/p/silencing-the-messenger
    Israel Gaza: Checking Israel's claim to have killed 10,000 Hamas fighters
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68387864
    #Infographic| Statistics on the Israeli Genocide in the Gaza Strip (07 October 2023-03 April 2024)
    https://twitter.com/EuroMedHR/status/1775469740154089778/photo/1

    • 3 hr 59 min
    Episode 243 - US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians, dehumanization and self-made monsters

    Episode 243 - US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians, dehumanization and self-made monsters

    Sky News report shows aftermath of Israeli air strike on Rafah
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sviTpOFvHYQ
    Journalist Abby Martin's documentary about the 2018-19 Gazan protest
    https://gazafightsforfreedom.com
    https://www.msf.org/great-march-return
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive#2023_Israel-Hamas_war
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine#2023
    https://sites.libsyn.com/407174/unregistered-268-max-blumenthal
    Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by David Livingstone Smith
    https://www.amazon.com/Making-Monsters-Uncanny-Power-Dehumanization/dp/0674545567/
    Real Horror: The Power and Peril of Dehumanization
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqg1AX_JM54
    https://davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/from-human-animals-to-bloodthirsty
    https://cgcinternational.co.in/dehumanization-humiliation-and-cruelty/
    Canadian Doctor Shot By IDF Describes Gaza’s Devastated Medical System | Dr Tarek Loubani | TMR
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-V6VN-TSeU&t=629s
    “The U.S. and Israel Stand Alone”: World Demands Ceasefire as Gaza Death Toll Tops 20,000 
    https://youtu.be/9s_R9XRbEnU?t=529
    Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFSyNdQf5uk
    Joe Biden's long history of pro-Israel statements
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Nrv5izaTs
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek#Modern_usage
    Randians Are Genocidal Collectivists by Fernando Chiocca
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/12/fernando-chiocca/randians-are-genocidal-collectivists/
    Opinion: I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation
    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/rafah-gaza-hospitals-surgery-israel-bombing-ground-offensive-children
    ‘Not seen since Vietnam’: Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza, analysis shows
    https://www.cnn.com/gaza-israel-big-bombs/index.html
    ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
    https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/
    https://radiolab.org/podcast/toy-soldiers
    “Oppenheimer” Ignores Birth of Nuclear-Industrial Complex — and Its Profiteers
    Nukes are big business, and beneficiaries have worked doggedly to limit any efforts to reduce or eliminate nuclear arms. by William D. Hartung
    https://truthout.org/articles/oppenheimer-ignores-birth-of-nuclear-industrial-complex-and-its-profiteers/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents
    “Pure evil” – Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDnZ1OYR9w
    Imagine Hamas Killed This 6-Year-Old Girl And Her Family. Just Imagine The Response. 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJZLUQwzWLI
    Bibi Ally's INSANE Defense of Starvation in Gaza
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdQacfCtZQ
    Breaking: Israel Unleashes Bombs During Superbowl; Declares Women & Kids Terrorists
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHR2XDUJYLk&t=656s
    Airstrikes Hit Rafah Crossing Ahead Of Israeli Troops' Ground Invasion, Killing 22
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNpNgVz9MeY&t=272s
    Steven Pinker's delusional thinking and gaslighting:
    https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1728083792168948056
    I've read all the "textbooks" (while writing the genocide chapter in Better Angels) and what Israel is doing may be criticized, but it is in no way "genocide"; this is a blood libel.
    Aaron Bushnell's Protest Reflects A Much Deeper Crisis In the US Military
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSPiEQ9_zzc

    • 3 hr 11 min
    Pandemic of statism, problematic relationships to power and technology, a future of shining integral cities

    Pandemic of statism, problematic relationships to power and technology, a future of shining integral cities

    https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/04/what-moderna-owes-the-world/
    https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-rapid-covid-tests-are-so-expensive-and-hard-to-find
    https://lexfridman.com/michael-mina-2/
    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/03/cdc-director-urges-kids-whove-had-a-prior-covid-infection-to-still-get-vaccinated.html
    https://jackmcintire.substack.com/p/i-went-back-to-harvard-and-got-mad
    https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/
    https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/945031391/poll-despite-record-turnout-80-million-americans-didnt-vote-heres-why
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/opinion/constitution-slavery-lincoln.html
    Housing Discrimination: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0J49_9lwc
    https://www.kurzweilai.net/book-the-social-singularity
    https://www.jimruttshow.com/max-borders/
    https://www.jimruttshow.com/max-borders-2/
    https://www.jimruttshow.com/max-borders-3/
    https://lexfridman.com/max-tegmark/
    https://lexfridman.com/max-tegmark-2/
    https://www.jimruttshow.com/ben-goertzel/
    https://www.jimruttshow.com/currents-ben-goertzel/
    https://integralcity.com/about/vision-mission-and-values/
    Carl Sagan's insightful book about science as a candle in the dark:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
    upcoming freedom conference...
    The Greater Reset 3: Integration
    Jan 26-30, 2022 - In-Person Events in Austin, TX and Morelia, Mexico
    https://thegreaterreset.org
    Bill Kristol and Scott Horton Debate U.S. Interventionism
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxdXqAkgOVs
    Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by David Livingstone Smith
    https://www.amazon.com/Making-Monsters-Uncanny-Power-Dehumanization/dp/0674545567/
    https://www.warwicks.com/event/smith-2021
    https://lexfridman.com/richard-wrangham/
    https://buyenov.com
    Nasal Spray for Virus/SARS-COV-2 Reduction
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-e_XYYHApA
    https://odysee.com/@DrMobeenSyed:1/nasal-spray-for-virus-sars-cov-2:1
    bumper music
    Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvKTPDg0IW0

    • 1 hr 32 min
    Free, prosperous markets instead of statist ones, a lasting future via self-awareness and principles

    Free, prosperous markets instead of statist ones, a lasting future via self-awareness and principles

    Opinion | Labor Day is a celebration of solidarity — and freedom - The Washington Post
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/05/labor-day-celebrates-solidarity-freedom/
    $549M in planes sold as scrap and a $176M road to nowhere: How the US wasted billions in Afghanistan | Daily Mail Online
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9909573/549M-planes-sold-scrap-176M-road-wasted-billions-Afghanistan.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(Quinn_novel)
    A Reality Reset Is Coming. By Deepak Chopra™ MD | by Deepak Chopra | Apr, 2021 | Medium
    https://deepakchopra.medium.com/a-reality-reset-is-coming-fb0bbb188a96
    https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/yaron-brook-on-ayn-rand-atlas-shrugged-and-objectivism/
    bumper music
    Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No.2
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phBThlPTBEg

    • 52 min

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39 Ratings

Magentawave ,

Wes, YOU are needed - please get MORE exposure!

This is an excellent podcast. I only wish Wes Bertrand would get out there more NOW because I feel he is the best and most articulate spokesperson for liberty at this time.

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One of the best!

I wish Wes lived closer to me so I can introduce him to my sister. The man has heart.

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Great source of life-changing information!

If it wasn't for Wes's podcast I probably would not have heard of Nonviolent Communication and my life would be nowhere near as good as it is now. I am grateful for that, as well as for all the other great thinkers (Nathaniel Branden, Alfie Kohn) I first heard about here, and for Wes's own insights and commentary. Thanks!

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