Wed, 2 July 2008 An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism by Brain Police http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx Voting as an lack of consumer choice Representatives don't represent you Supposed "checks and balances" Small government isn't beautiful; government itself is ugly to the bone Mississippi Drug War Blues, The Case of Cory Maye by Drew Carey http://www.reason.tv/video/show/403.html The folly of working for the State in order to get rid of the State False--and forced--"agency" Watered-down libertarianism, and its political rejection World's Smallest Political Quiz, and its erroneous divisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Smallest_Political_Quiz Agorism and the informal (gray and black) market economy http://agorism.info/counter-economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_economy Freedom Quotient--that is, Liberation Factor minus Enslavement Factor Economic Means to Freedom - Part X by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/economic/eco_10.html Participating in politics is illogical from the get-go Libertarianism as abolitionist in principle, not reformist The psychology of jailers and other perpetrators of heinousness The fallacy of "voting as an act of self-defense" and acquiescence to plunder--going behind the magic curtain The Nature Of Present Government (quoting Lysander Spooner on knaves, dupes, and the rest, and on taking responsibility for your political plunder) http://www.logicallearning.net/libnatureofgover.html Societal Structures Posturing As Proper: Democracies And Republics (quoting Benjamin Tucker on majority rule as evil and ballots as bullets) http://www.logicallearning.net/libdemocraciesan.html Some solutions: Economic disengagement from statism (agorism); education (www.tolfa.us); Hoppe's anti-intellectual intellectuals (delegitimizers of statism); civil disobedience Secular humanists faith in statism Religion and Libertarianism by Walter Block http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block103.html Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Ayn Rand http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mysticism.html "Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html The church prepares the "flock" for the dictator FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/fcc-wants-a-magic-po.html bumper music "Get Up Stand Up" from Songs Of Freedom (Disc 2) by Bob Marley and the Wailers http://www.bamstores.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3017162 Direct download: Episode_23_-_Libertarian_anarchism_versus_Libertarian_statism_voting_as_corrupt_faith_and_force.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 27 June 2008 Legalize Every Drug by John Stossel http://www.nysun.com/opinion/legalize-every-drug/80204/ Myths, lies, and downright stupidity of fear-ridden control freaks, so-called drug "warriors" The liberty to make bad choices too Trying to make a contradiction exist (government) Why Have Governments? by Peter Namtvedt http://www.reasontofreedom.com/why_have_governments.html "...a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke..." Fearing choices and obeying authoriteye Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster by Jen Phillips (interview with survival researcher Amanda Ripley) http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/06/five-ways-to-survive-disaster.html Government as perennial go-to organization during crisis! Government-issued "crutches" Information flow restricted by governmental "officials" An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx Problematic concepts that one accepts as valid, e.g., sacrifice Regardless of who you vote for, you're not getting what you want Note to statists: Don't hit people and don't take their stuff Libertarian voting...and then a miracle happens... Nathaniel Branden's powerful sentence completion exercises http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38 Liberty to me means-- Message to Ron Paul revolutionary candidates: The institutional framework of the State is for the purposes of statism Coffee is actually okay (a long-term study reveals) The One Minute Case For Individual Rights http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/individual-rights/ bumper music "Whiskey Lullaby" by Alison Krauss Feat and Brad Paisley from A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection album http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=6962 Direct download: Episode_22_-_War_on_human_choice_government_as_serious_health_hazard_anti-politics.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:05 AM Comments[0] |
Sat, 21 June 2008 Rape by government; the nature of unsolicited "services" Cooperation versus coercion Imagine defending the statist position Roping us into a collectivistic nation My first introduction to libertarianism and its central flaw: Libertarianism in One Lesson by David Bergland http://www.theadvocates.org/onelesson-interview.html Capitalism fosters good will; government fosters ill will The Facts Of Reality: Logic And History In Objectivist Debates About Government by Professor Nicholas Dykes http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/philn/philn079.htm The public relations scheme of statism (our protector and provider) Can you be expected to obey unjust government? Casting off the 'Santa Claus' of the State Ayn Rand's contradiction of government - the coercive monopoly of the State Competing justice agencies based on the principle of individual rights Laissez-faire, A More Enlightened View Of Capitalism—And Its Contradictions http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html Preemptive initiation of force doctrine (i.e., imposing government on society) Dealing with parking ticket Nazis and their irrational laws The ultimate conflict of interest - government (the accuser) judging the case! Thoreau: To follow unjust law makes one an agent of injustice Dave Ridley, the Outlaw Puppeteer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9jx-VsHVo bumper music "Don't Tread On Me" by Damn Yankees http://lockgen.com/damnyankees/damn.php (fan site) Direct download: Episode_21_-_Unsolicited_services_of_statism_theory_of_statist_mind_Objectivisms_political_contradiction_unjust_law.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:40 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 12 June 2008 Without responsibility there is chaos, i.e., government A thread on the truther message board http://9-11.meetup.com/279/messages/boards/thread/4766129/0 Anarchy is personal responsibility Rationalizations for State-run stuff, e.g., "education" Free riders and unfree "services" Turning the tables on the craziness Learner-driven education http://www.logicallearning.net/learnerdrivened.html Ending thuggery in education and coerced payment for it The Comprachicos by Ayn Rand Government school "socialization" leads to gang warfare The rapist in one's living room Everyday Anarchy Part 3 of 7 by Stefan Molyneux http://www.strike-the-root.com/81/molyneux/molyneux4.html Why people CAN handle complete liberty Why we must battle moral premises (or rather, immoral ones) bumper music "One" from Inquisition Symphony by Apocalyptica http://www.apocalyptica.com/ Direct download: Episode_20_-_In_the_midst_of_statists_public_education_fearful_defenses.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:47 AM Comments[0] |
Tue, 3 June 2008 Government is disorder; no government is order (and sanity) This brilliant essay sums it up--from both an empirical/legal point of view as well as a logical one "The Obviousness of Anarchy" by John Hasnas http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/hasnasj/?action=viewpublications&PageTemplateID=109 bumper music "You Look Good To Me" by the Oscar Peterson Trio from We Get Requests album http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/releases/default.aspx?pid=10113&aid=2867 Direct download: Episode_19_-_The_Obviousness_of_Anarchy.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:49 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 Meaning of complete liberty L. Neil Smith's inspirational discussion of the future of freedom The race to the bottom with governments Unanimous consent and the utopian vision by L. Neil Smith http://www.lneilsmith.org/utopian.html Immense economic benefits of freedom--nearly everything becomes affordable "All my life I always really wanted..." Is respect for individual rights utopian? The contradictory "we" and illogical "public property" A New Covenant by L. Neil Smith http://www.lneilsmith.org/new-cov.html Liberty - The Liberty Poll Results - 20th Anniversary http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2008_06/poll.html Analyzing the questions and answers... The Facts Of Reality: Logic And History In Objectivist Debates About Government by Professor Nicholas Dykes http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/philn/philn079.htm Minarchism's inherent contradictions and thus rights violations Does your 'right to life' trump the property rights of others? Run 151 miles in the desert? No sweat by Amy Turner http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3725024.ece bumper music "Get Better" by Sandy Chambers with KMC http://www.myspace.com/sandychambersofficial Direct download: Episode_18_-_Life-changing_freedom_libertopia_Liberty_poll_rights_issues.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:46 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 19 May 2008 Living in The Matrix and seeing the ethical/political code A prison for your mind http://tinyurl.com/lje25 Ron Paul at Duke and The American Form of Government http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-5335883552107085649&hl=en The political spectrum revised, in The American Form of Government http://youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE Fears that stuff and then knock down the straw man of "Anarchy" Agorism.info - real anarchy Limited Government slavespeak: The proper amount of aggression makes everyone freer! "Law" and "the proper amount of government" as despotism and slavery "Social contract/compact"? Rather, wrongdoers should leave, not free marketeers Sausage making at its worst Those who favor using force against you Constitutional nonsense and self-sacrifice LP Party platform debate and minarchism/anarchism turmoil The Dallas Accord Is Dead by Less Antman http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/antman1.html Governmentally fostered vermin: biting bedbugs and crazy rasberry ants Vancouver's Bedbug Plague by Christopher Pollon http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/05/15/BedBugs/ Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics by Linda Stewart Ball, AP Writer http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_re_us/texas_ants Market remedies to infestations (both political and insect) bumper music "All In My Head" (Decoder & Substance Mix) by Kosheen http://www.kosheen.com/ Direct download: Episode_17_-_Mental_prison_limited_slavery_pseudo-anarchy_Constitutional_nonsense_LP_accord.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:38 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 11 May 2008 Congress Passes Bill Barring Genetic Discrimination http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bill-bars-genetic-discrimination The chronic ills health care reform Free market health insurance Violence and obedience being seen as beneficial Living in the Matrix and seeing the authoritarian code Fear arguments Subtle messages of parenting Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation http://www.alfiekohn.org/ Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/03/1236214 Life on Castro's plantation - and on ours... Iron Man's statist theme Little Brother by Cory Doctorow http://www.randomhouse.com/audio/littlebrotheraudiobook/ Hacking the System Rule-of-law Anarchism: A Strategy for Destroying the State's Legitimacy by Kevin S. Van Horn http://freeamerica.ws/BBB1/rule-of-law-anarchism.html The giant legal conflict of interest - government courts Michael van Notten and the four different meanings of law Customary law in a free society - mechanics of voluntarism The State as outlaw against individuals Undermining the State's false authority and creating a stateless system of natural and customary law with non-violent enforcement Unjust law and police violence 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/198_methods.pdf Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/27/death-of-the-sitcom.html Post-podcast segment - collateral damage and other statist insanities Killing Enemies Without Trial by Jacob Hornberger http://counterpunch.org/hornberger05062008.html Inverting the media's statist messages bumper music "Washington Bullets" by The Clash Direct download: Episode_16_-_Sickness_and_statism_Self-motivation_Cuba_rule-of-law_anarchism_unjust_law_and_collateral_damage.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 3 May 2008 Anarchy in your head - the Anarchy Boogey-man and people's fears http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/04/04/iron-fist-to-the-rescue/ Climate change alarmism - Is the sky falling? There Is A Problem With Global Warming... It Stopped In 1998 by Bob Carter http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml Putting things into perspective and examining fears of the free market and love of coercive control Climate and the Carboniferous Period http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh by Phil Chapman http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html Apparently, we're overdue for another ice age... Environmental grains of truth by an Objectivist... The Danger of Environmentalism by Michael S. Berliner http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?a532a6cc-17b3-424f-af03-6fbcc88a699f New solar technology...cool stuff No government in early America! Seriously! What it's going to take for Americans to make this to happen again... The Origins of Individualist Anarchism in the US by Murray N. Rothbard http://www.mises.org/story/2014 Andromeda headed our way in 2 billion years...prepare yourself for Milkomeda Hubble Photographs Dozens of Colliding Galaxies http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080424-colliding-galaxies.html bumper music "What On Earth" by bodymindsoul http://www.myspace.com/chrishaspeckmusic Direct download: Episode_15_-_Fear_of_consistent_ethics_climate_change_and_environmentalism_happily_stateless_Quakers.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:16 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 25 April 2008 79% - Say Tax Cheating is Wrong - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20080411/ts_pew/79saytaxcheatingiswrong Moral corruption of taxes The moral and the practical false dichotomy Taxation with representation is still tyranny by Mary Ruwart http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1269 Feeding (and collaborating with) the beast... Don't vote: it just encourages the bastards Teaching subservience by Larkin Rose http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/14239 "Training the peasant larvae" Mark Twain's smarts Refusing governmental schools as the antidote Free Tibet? Hell, free America! by Mark Morford http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/16/notes041608.DTL& Celebrating Jefferson's birthday a crime? So About That Tree of Liberty… http://www.theagitator.com/2008/04/13/so-about-that-tree-of-liberty/ Issue of standing...adventures in legal land Standing Cross-Reference by Marc Stevens http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/52/27/ Amerikan Communism For the love of dogs Physicist off his rocker--or not? Teleportation and forcefields possible within decades, says Professor Michio Kaku http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/02/eakaku102.xml bumper music "Enemy" by Days of the New (Days Of The New II album) http://www.daysofthenew.com/ Direct download: Episode_14_-_Taxation_is_immoral_and_unjust_unhealthy_and_healthy_education_national_tyranny_legal_standing.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:37 PM Comments[0] |
