Tue, 25 November 2008 Bureaucrats Never Have a Case by Administrator (aka Marc
Stevens) http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/20/27/ Statism is based on the illogical premise that you don't own your own life A "complaint" shouldn't be confused with a "case" The Stockholm Syndrome, writ large http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome IF IT’S NATURAL TO BE FREE, WHAT’S STOPPING US? http://completeliberty.com/chapter9.php "Citizens" and "States" don't really exist; they're unjust legal fictions The words on paper crafted by bureaucrats are necessarily open to vast interpretation, and many of words spell injustice The Constitution’s Problems: Article I Section 8...Sadly, A Template For Disaster http://completeliberty.com/chapter2.php#47 Once you allow taxation, you open society up to unending tyranny, saying in effect that extortion is good and proper and useful The two absolutely essential elements of legal standing: 1) violation of a legal right and 2) personal injury The unjust laws of the Nanny State create "criminals" out of everyone and generating constant "revenue" for the terrocrats The problem with our society today is not strictly the authoritarian sociopaths in the insane institution of government; it's all the people who are either tuned out or tacitly or directly support violent ideologies; mostly slave-on-slave violence keeps us enslaved Why does society need the monstrous contradiction of government, the preeminent violator of individual rights? Such a meme only promotes low self-esteem and perpetual enslavement "Tax cases" are an indication of how truly sick and twisted our culture is--governmental employees are putting people in cages who've violated no one's rights! Statists allege (but never prove) that the "State" has a legal right to "tax revenue" (your money) and governmental employees are "injured" when they don't get their extorted money "No attempt is made to put such allegations in an 'indictment' because it’s impossible to establish factually how an obligation to file a 'tax return' was created. To prove an obligation or legal right was created, there must be a connection between the people asserting the right and the person who allegedly has this obligation. Statists immediately point out the 'constitution.' And that is the point where they lose; and lose big time." Basically, people in government seek to deprive individuals of self-ownership and property rights simply by virtue of their geographical location, essentially claiming that we are born enslaved It's monstrously contradictory to claim the "right" to deprive innocent others of their rights to self and property The Constitution binds or obligates no one and created nothing; no one today has signed or agreed to it as a contract, except perhaps some brainwashed governmental employees, those who really need to unbrainwash themselves by reading the following: No Treason. No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority. (1870).* http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm#no6 "The State" can't be a valid plaintiff; it's at best a fictional third party; "The State" has no standing in any case, not even regarding real crimes such as murder "There is no such thing as a legitimate government, so nothing they do is legitimate regardless of the endless red herrings statists throw up." "Government is men and women providing services on a compulsory basis; pay or get shot. To be legitimate they would have to drop their guns and provide their services on a voluntary basis. However, the moment they do so, they cease to be a government." Either you're for voluntary social interaction (complete liberty) or you're for anti-social human interaction (statism) "...statism and it’s supporting theology are not here to promote freedom or protect 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness'; it’s mind control to divert our attention away from the actions of anti-social individuals who are so desperate to 'protect' us they are willing to kill us and steal our property." The libertarian movement is crippled by the unwillingness to differentiate those who want a voluntary society and those who do not; any libertarian who promotes "limited" government or any form of statism whatsoever is engaging in this monstrous moral contradiction in society All governmental courts operate outside the bounds of natural and objective law, i.e., a voluntarily funded and provided legal system; statist courts, regardless of their rhetoric (used for public relations), are necessarily invalid Prosecution of alleged rights-violators must involve restitution and reparations; the ingenuity of justice service entrepreneurs will probably entail many elements of the insurance model As we transition to complete liberty, the need for rights-protection services becomes less and less; the threat against our lives and property will be extremely remote in a society of complete liberty, because the biggest violators of rights (governments) will be absent The only way to clarity in these matters is to reassess the nature of one's volitional capacity and one's fears of others, which entails addressing the moral corruption and authoritarianism in family life; "Do this because I said so" is the same as "Obey this law (because we wrote it down)" Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet? Let’s Check Marx and Engels’s List by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2366 The Timeless Allure Of Communism http://completeliberty.com/chapter1.php#15 Government needs to make slaves out of adults (property tax payers) to indoctrinate future tax payers (kids in schools of government) "Remember the government's motto: you've got money, and we want it." "Therefore, in the present distressing circumstances, we may be warranted in asking: is our politico-economic system finally going smash in a frenzy of monetary inflation, bailouts, and government takeovers? We’ll know the answer pretty soon." So, what can we do? Focus on passing moral judgment; point out to others the coercion at the base of society (the gun in the room: http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux29.html); and, get people out of your life who behave in morally corrupt ways and advocate coercion Ultimately, it's either statism or voluntarism; mutual respect of persons and property is the ideal bumper music "Gimmee_Dada Orwell-REMIX" by Roger Grant and Dada Orwell (aka Dave Ridley) http://www.politicalgraffiti.com/nhfree/music/Gimmee_Dada_Orwell-REMIX.mp3 Direct download: Episode_43_-_Legal_standing_invalid_courts_versus_valid_justice_services_the_state_of_the_American_State_spreading_complete_liberty_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:59 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 19 November 2008 Free Talk Live Host Sentenced To 93 Days In Jail http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/024015.html Ian Freeman arrested and jailed for 93 days RAW FOOTAGE (by http://www.candid-world.com/ ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcT-3niVes Those who posture as "authorities" who enact "justice" "Judges" as authoritarian sociopaths who have no standing and whose paychecks are derived from extortion (taxation) Rising for the Judge, Bowing to the State by Manuel Lora http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora57.html http://freekeene.com for full details Properly holding in contempt those working in statist courts Authoritarian sociopaths who become their victims' servants (reflecting subconscious guilt, no less) The power of the Web to expose terracrats http://jailedactivist.info/bureaucrats/city-officials/mikaela-l-engert/ Does anyone in government understand (or want to understand) individual rights and how they're violated? The court as elementary schoolroom full of bullies... Authoritarian/obedience memes that arise from having one's will dominated as a child Progressives, truthers, and peaceniks who've been waiting to take their turn with the coercive tools of government (to rewards friends and punish enemies) Emotional regurgitation of propaganda, rather than using logic and objectivity to discern truth and moral principles The vast quantitative and qualitative differences between voluntary trade and regulated trade Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs by David Gutierrez http://www.truthout.org/111208HA The more regulated the industry, the more the corruption, immorality, and other bad effects Why do we need the FDA, or any other authoritarian sociopathic groups of individuals?! Zeitgeist Addendum critique (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 Resource based economy by Jacque Fresco http://www.thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm Zeitgeist Addendum: The Review by Stefan Molyneux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1JcUBx2dxU The alleged ills of the profit motive and selfishness The supermarket as a microcosm of capitalism's delivery of abundance to everyone--all via the profit motive and selfishness Obama's cabinet members as K-Street lobbyists and tax-fed parasites; Obama's grand fantasies of statism will acceleration economic decline Throughout history, the doctrine of sacrifice has predominated http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html Under capitalism, profits equal helping others http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html Enlightened, rational selfishness as the primary healthy goal Government directly fosters all the irrational selfishness we see in society Money and barter, and those who want to wish them away... Defining money as a naturally arising, handy, and universally recognized medium of exchange A reason-based society rather than a coercion-based society The one-way street of morality, based on the doctrine of sacrifice, is killing our civilization The abundance of violence in society is preventing us from evolving We need to apply the libertarian non-initiation of force principle to every individual and institution--no double standards The Venus Project as a parody of a socialist manifesto... Religious theme of attacking money - The Camel and the Needle's Eye by Robert Sheaffer http://www.debunker.com/texts/needleye.html Selling things in abundance! - Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water by Trevor Datson http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0304-04.htm The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Lincoln Simon http://tinyurl.com/kdpj9 Understanding the nature of resources as the result of creativity, ingenuity, and free trade Making sacrifices for others and for the central planner... Money as a commodity that creates efficiency and more capital investment Freedom as the main ingredient to respecting everyone's choices; everyone is self-governing and self-regulating The blank out of money in Star Trek as template for the Venus Project? The main question to ask anyone posturing as a central planner: At whose expense? The future and beyond by Jacque Fresco http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/essay.htm Do people really miss the USSR that much! The insanity of criticizing capitalism (which doesn't presently exist, btw) as well as the free enterprise sector The Venus Project as trying to give people a confused and conflicted red/blue pill combo As long as you give authoritarian sociopaths some semblance of legitimacy, they will never give up their power and control Does attaining complete liberty mean practicing CD and being thrown in jail? The fully communized "justice" system in America provides injustice as a way of life Never failing to pass moral judgment and exposing the gun in the room (the coercion of government) http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/moraljudgment.html bumper music "Jailbreak" by AC/DC http://www.acdc.com/ Direct download: Episode_42_-_Communized_courts_desiring_statist_coercion_Zeitgeist_Addendum_critique_promoting_a_reason-based_society_selfishly_and_greedily.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:36 AM Comments[0] |
Tue, 11 November 2008 The Attack on Libertarianism by Aaron David Ward http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/ward-aaron4.html The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that its ideology makes no sense by Jacob Weisberg http://www.slate.com/id/2202489/ The three variants of libertarianism (classical liberalism, laissez-faire capitalism, and anarcho-capitalism), only one of which is logical (market anarchism and voluntarism, i.e., anarcho-capitalism, i.e., complete liberty) Capitalism And Current Political Views: http://www.logicallearning.net/libcapitalismpol.html Either you advocate statism or you don't; there's no wiggle room for a night-watchman State that allegedly would respect rights Libertarianism isn't on the continuum of statism, so it's neither left nor right The nature of human autonomy and the nature of reality We must show respect for each other; logic demands it; each person is deserving of respect and happiness The initiation of force is anti-reason and anti-life If you do not define your terms properly, it will lead you down contradictory paths http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/definitions.html We don't have "self-regulating financial markets," by any stretch of the imagination A communized fiat currency and a host of regulatory "agencies" are the main economic problems, not "unregulated credit market derivatives" Modern intellectuals' denial of individuals and focus on politics in midstream (out-of-context analysis) Alan Greenspan's betrayal of his own earlier views: Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan (1966) http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north204.html Our present fiat currency (dollars) would disappear quickly in a free market, and be replace by gold and silver (or any other tangible commodity that can't be dramatically inflated and devalued) Regulation always compounds the political problem (whatever it is) and it obscures the real nature of the injustice (coercion) as well as the solution (get rid of the institution of government) Cato and Reason "libertarian" think tanks as apologists for statism; neither strikes at the root of the problem (government itself) The analytic/synthetic dichotomy in modern philosophy http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/analytic.html The arbitrary division of rationalism and empiricism http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalismvsempiricism.html http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreewill.html The basic metaphysical/epistemological issue is how well do one's concepts adhere to the facts of reality The concepts of libertarianism adhere perfectly to the facts of reality, because they are in accordance with a non-contradictory (logical) view of human nature; any other interpretation, any version of statism, would be contradictory Those who believe in "government" are supporting the bully mentality writ large, institutionalized disrespect of persons and their property Those who believe in "government" deny the irrefutable principles of property rights and self-ownership What we need are new intellectuals, able to think logically and objectively, especially in relation to challenging the meme of government (which Ayn Rand failed to do, though ironically she did denounce statism) http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/intellectuals.html Brief clip of Ayn Rand on the New Intellectuals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKGZMwaIG8 Freedom—An Intellectual Issue: http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomintell.html Roundtable discussion!... Ridiculous laws and the practice of civil disobedience--where do you draw the line in terms of kowtowing to "authority"? If you're not willing to expose the coercive entities of the State, then you're granting them legitimacy Propaganda is used to promote the myth that those in government (authoritarian sociopaths) are our "protectors" and "providers" Using the Internet to reverse the statist propaganda; San Diego Free Press, perhaps Can you really change others? You can't delegate to others any rights that you yourself don't possess Most people worship government like they worship god; even most atheists worship government, regardless of it being a coercive monopoly that infringes on individual rights Once you plant the seed of authoritarian sociopathy (i.e., government), it will grow into an uncontrollable weed We don't need to be robbed in order to be protected! The sundry collectivistic and fascistic ills of HOA's, which aren't free market phenomena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowners%27_association One man's story about his encounters with HOA Nazis: http://www.parkingenforcementforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3 In order to transition to a free market, people need to deal with their fears about conflicts with others Objectivist's failure to understand and thus criticize corporations and corporatism Does child-rearing advice from someone who doesn't have any children have validity? Yes, because we were all children once, and we all know the nature of being respected and disrespected "Authority" figures believe they are behaving rationally, so they can live with themselves; the thinly veiled rationalizations of authoritarianism in parenting Honoring the feelings of little people; some great video clips by psychologist Haim Ginott: http://www.betweenparentandchild.com/index.php?s=content&p=free_parenting_video_clips No one likes to be disrespected "Getting kids to do things"; the nature of brutalizing behavior that parents are prone to indulge in, which denies self-responsibility and autonomy Operant conditioning (rewards and punishments) begets more of itself, and it sets up an inhuman living environment Some great empirical analysis on this issue: http://www.alfiekohn.org/books.htm Seeing children as irresponsible, naughty, irrational, deficient, or flawed, is no different than the religious doctrine of Original Sin--and it excuses authoritarian sociopathy, i.e., pervasive disrespect The flawed medical school model, as noted by Harvard business prof Clayton Christensen: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3798.html Good parenting is really about self-trust, a healthy relationship to one's own mind, and cultivating self-esteem, so that one nurtures it in others (especially children) The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=35 Central planners of all guises always seem to know "what's best for you" The so-called "age of reason" (seven for Catholicism, btw) is no guide in understanding how to treat children appropriately Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNELNq4XJKs Two books addressing the moral corruption in families and thus in society - On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion & Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love by Stefan Molyneux http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/ One must respect the will of the child, while offering rational guidance and education, in order to make the world a significantly better place bumper music "Fortunate Son" from Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits (and Willy & The Poor Boys) album by Creedence Clearwater Revival http://www.johnfogerty.com/albums.html ; fan site: http://www.creedence-online.net/all_in_one/ Direct download: Episode_41_-_Defining_libertarianism_thinking_logically_and_objectively_about_authoritarianism_the_nature_of_children.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:30 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 November 2008 Front Page Article in Keene Sentinel on Free Staters http://freekeene.com/2008/08/31/front-page-article-in-keene-sentinel-on-free-staters/ Free State project is moving slowly: Like-minded people are still coming to the Granite State By PHILLIP BANTZ The nature of the FSP motto...to get rid of, or not to get rid of, government? The proper goal should be: To get rid of the powerful meme of government in the general populace Is the power of the government in the people's hands? The nature of the "idea of freedom" in California; reinventing yourself and your life, washing away useless traditions Versus California's status quo political oppression that people don't think about (which pretty much exists everywhere) Government rations things by having you stand in line Special guest: "The Governator" ;) Main question to him: Why didn't you let the government of California go bankrupt and thus disappear? The market creates and rewards independent, self-sufficient people Non-cooperative activists in Keene, NH challenging the "authority" of the governmental thugs The greatness of civil disobedience is that it reveals the way of life of governmental employees (coercion) Sam Dodson's great handiwork: The Obscured Truth Network - http://www.youtube.com/obscuredtruth Governmental-issued "ID" is a typically unnoticed form of tyranny The fear of liberty in a NH resident is typical in America; status quo, all the way! Excuses for not being an activist for liberty: Don't want to be bothered; it's too difficult; I'm afraid; I can't do it! Corrupt form of morality allows for political disrespect on a daily basis; "knuckling under for the common good" "Good" slaves attack other slaves seeking freedom What other people decided years, decades, and centuries ago has NOTHING to do with your individual rights in the present The NH constitution's "common good" nonsense In Search Of The Governed’s Consent http://completeliberty.com/chapter10.php "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." AR http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/minorityrights.html The culture of government; coercion and brainwashing The Zimbabwe catastrophe, caused by government of course; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe Expanding the U.S. government's military empire into Africa... http://www.africom.mil/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command Beware slavespeak: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml Magnetic field 'aids coma victim' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7669056.stm Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation might be the cure for the terracrats in government... The tremendous ills of coercive funding of scientific research (i.e., via taxation) Basing your life on research money from government gives you little motivation to solve disease-related problems, unlike market-based research, which is currently hamstrung by authoritarian/obedience memes related to coercive organizations such as the FDA and protectionist rackets such as the AMA Basically, it's time WAKE UP! You don't have to go through a windshield to be in a coma bumper music "A Great Day for Freedom" from The Division Bell album by Pink Floyd http://www.pinkfloyd.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfri5tMXfc4 Direct download: Episode_40_-_Activism_for_liberty_the_idea_and_feeling_of_freedom_challenging_the_status_quo_wrongheaded_research_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:57 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 26 October 2008 Economics of Police Brutality by Art Carden http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=174 All of the world's problems could be solved is we had clearly defined ownership The contradiction of "public property" and the unaddressed fears of ownership WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT (AFTER A BIT OF INSPECTION) http://completeliberty.com/chapter3.php Psychology of Ownership http://www.logicallearning.net/libpsychologyofo.html Competition is a civilizing force; externalities explained (they're all around us) The Obviousness of Anarchy by John Hasnas http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf Riding shotgun with a cop; the-end-justifies-the-means argument to provide "security" Part 1: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/21/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-15/ Part 2: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/22/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-25/ Part 3: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/23/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-35/ Part 4: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/24/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-45/ Part 5: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/25/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-55/ Security comes with respect for individuals rights, not violation of them 'Competing' police forces follows from a privatized system (no "public property") The ills of socialized/communized "services"--denying individuals self-responsibility Crime is the Health of The State, The Kaptain's Log by Kapt Kanada, aka Manuel Miles http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle446-20071202-09.html Statists practices of the fine arts of theft, rape, murder, arson, and duplicity The Statist "justice" system grows with the creation of more unjust laws, i.e., those that infringe on individual rights Government people protecting their own, essentially ensuring their own security, not yours The practice of coercing you in order to "help" you; the immense propaganda needed to keep the sham going Ayn Rand's contradictions about government and objective laws http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anarchism.html Anarchy simply means "no rulers"--no tyrants allowed The government is a naive floating abstraction; the meme of government isn't much different than the meme of God, except that government translates directly into violence Projecting one's fears onto the marketplace, creating gangs of armed thugs in one's mind to somehow maintain the meme of government (which is a giant gang of armed thugs, btw) More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime And Gun-Control Laws by John R. Lott Jr. http://tinyurl.com/elg5u For a rights-respecting person, the freedom to defend yourself is absolute Peaceful coexistence is impossible with the gang called government Defining one's terms: "competing governments" as contradictory A coercive monopoly in the realm of justice essentially ruins society Rand's (and big "O"bjectivists') strain of authoritarian sociopathy Basically, people's fear of conflict with other people enslaves them and perpetuates government A coercive monopoly of "justice" services, i.e., government (even one funded voluntarily) will always provide unjust and incompetent and expensive "services" One case in point: Laws against private electricity production commerce; Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators: Jock Gill - On Energy, IT, Markets and Society http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3825.html My experiences with the local mafia with a flag--parking ticket Nazis--who look to make criminals out of rights-respecting individuals The brilliance of Ayn Rand was that she taught individuals to think independently and to use logic according to the main metaphysical laws (identity, causality, and non-contradiction) Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger http://scholar.google.com.mx/books?id=_znYGPoNe2wC&dq=subject:%22Objectivism+(Philosophy)%22&lr=&as_brr=0&hl=en&rview=1&pgis=1 Objectively speaking, the coercive monopoly of government is a authoritarian mythology that contradicts the virtue of justice The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts by Harry Binswanger http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CB02B Seeing "police" for what they are: individuals who join a gang that violates individual rights and only pays lip service to the virtue of justice (enough to hoodwink those they rule over and maintain their coercive monopoly) Central planning is authoritarian sociopathy writ large--in which fears and love of domination deny freedom of choice The most vile form of mysticism: the murderous meme of government, which has no "procedural safeguards" Government as the preeminent violator of individual rights: denying people's capacity to choose a real upholder of justice So naturally, real upholders of justice will be seen as threats to government Understanding individual rights is simple: Don't hit people, don't take their stuff, and honor your promises (though no involuntary servitude is valid) "Our Enemy, The Party" by SEKIII posted by Wally Conger http://wconger.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-enemy-party.html The ills of "partyarchy," i.e., vote-chasing and power-seeking; the absurd oxymoron of politician libertarianism "The hopeless utopia of minarchy" Distinction between politics and ethics, objectively speaking http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/morality.html Seeking freedom via the State is wrong; to be consistent, one must favor not only abolition over gradualism but also market over power as the means to achieve freedom SEKIII: "The State loses by each free transaction committed in defiance or evasion of its laws, regulations and taxes; the State gains by every compliance with, acceptance of, and payment to its institutions. Thus does agorism create anarchy and partyarchy preserve the State." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-economics Objectivists will always lose their argument for government to their more statist comrades Coffee and chocolate are the key to long life by Richard Gray, Science Correspondent http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3223650/Coffee-and-chocolate-are-the-key-to-long-life.html bumper music "Letter From The Government" by Brother Ali http://www.brotherali.com/ http://www.myspace.com/brotherali Direct download: Episode_39_-_Police_injustice_the_mystical_meme_of_Objectivist_government_absurd_partyarchy_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:44 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 21 October 2008 Using the guns of government--for the "good" of whom? Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_60_million_people_youd The endless rationalizations for unjustifiable statist coercion So-called informed voters as the most corrupt The contrary definitions of the word anarchy Who gets to enforce their views on others? Voters, of course Contrary to a democracy and even a Constitutional republic, in a just society there are no irreconcilable conflicts between individuals "Conflicts" of Men's Interests by Ayn Rand (audio) http://atlasshrugged.com/ayn-rand-works/ar-conflicts.html Local governments as biggest meddlers in our lives, who coercively monopolize whole swaths of the economy and extort money from individuals The fallacy of the night-watchman State Cognitive dissonance people retain between the nature of the market and government Ominous parallels from Nazi Germany; collectivism and kowtowing to authority The moral corruption in seeking a "license," getting approval from an unjust organization of people Regulatory madness under the guise of "protection" of consumers; selling the regulatory racket... How can someone claim to possess the authority to override your life and property? "Because I say so!" Parental mistreatment of children's wills, inducing fears and destroying their semblance of rationality with mythologies The article we didn't cover, for obvious reasons: The Case for Obama by Bruce Ramsey http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=24 None of the Above by Doug Casey http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=26 Five reasons why you shouldn't vote: 1) it's unethical 2) it compromises your privacy 3) it's a degrading experience (begging for your freedom) 4) it just encourages the bastards 5) your vote only counts in the sense that it makes you complicit in the crimes inevitably committed by its recipient; and, of course, voting booths are merely suggestion boxes for slaves A libertarian political party is contradictory; ballots can't be cast to determine and uphold principles An encounter with SEK3, who wrote: http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf Why don't we vote for whether or not extortion is permissible in society! if you could really change things through voting, it would be illegal; the coercive funding of government is the crux of the issue The end of "public property" spells the end of government, which is why people always bring up "the roads" argument--they sense the demise of mommy/daddy government if the roads are privatized The authoritarian triad of family, church, and state Give me Libertarianism by D. Allen Kerr http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081015-NEWS-81015016 Live and let live; don't hit people and don't take their stuff Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence by David Kelly http://theobjectivistcenter.org/showcontent.aspx?ct=38&h=51 Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism by David Kelly http://books.google.com/books?id=C6x38zJL3ccC&dq=truth+and+toleration&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 (The rebuttal: FACT AND VALUE by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D. http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_fv) Viable Values by Tara Smith http://books.google.com/books?id=v4U9Toa7CeQC&dq=viable+values&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 The fear of anarchy and our ambivalence towards it (and thus towards freedom) Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AidXSubb-2U http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/03/21/the-anarchy-boogey-man/ http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/04/18/lack-of-faith-is-a-virtue/ Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; extremism as smear word and anti-concept http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anticoncepts.html Free Talk Live (http://freetalklive.com) promoting the good memes of anarchism under the pragmatic watch of the FCC All humans are created equal; therefore, no one can rule over an equal 20/20 - Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics by John Stossel - Pt. 1 of 6 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Phs6CwnutoY http://abcnews.go.com/2020/stossel http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerindex?id=6062018 20/20 - Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics - Pt. 6 of 6 (not present on abc.com) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVLr8Y18e0 (Check out the terracrat's despicable response to Stossel's sarcasm about why government just doesn't subsidize everything if it's so damn good; approximately 7'15" into the clip Pt. 5 of 6: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rTI9r4pUYh4) The immoral premise of statist "education": coercion is necessary to provide a service--the end justifies the irrational means Spontaneous order of markets, i.e., individuals making their own choices based on their own context, needs and knowledge Government fails, not only empirically, but also ethically L. Neil Smith's inspiring words, once again, beseeching people to get government out of the way of their own potential for immense prosperity Unanimous consent and the utopian vision by L. Neil Smith http://www.lneilsmith.org/utopian.html Strip the veneer of legitimacy from governmental employees, and you reveal simply a group of violent thugs Freeing your personal life is key to freeing society; lifting the black cloud of oppression from your life The governmental gang as the root cause of other gangs Childhood acceptance of the argument "Because I said so!" leads to cognitive and moral dissonance (bad things must be ok because good people do them) We always have the choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing--and to pretend we're not aware of it Security can't be provided by those who extort money from you! Pain caused by denial of the truth; "owning" one's pain and letting go of it; being optimistic and curious bumper music "A New Philosophy" by Zen Mechanics http://www.myspace.com/zenmechanics Direct download: Episode_38_-_Voting_politics_coercion_versus_a_free_life_of_optimism_and_curiosity.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:55 PM Comments[2] |
Sun, 12 October 2008 Freedom is always an inside job A New Beginning for e-gold? http://blog.e-gold.com/2008/07/a-new-beginning.html Kowtowing to the fascists in order to run a business Fed pot calling the e-gold kettle black: The U.S. government is the biggest money launderer in the history of humankind! The governmental "officials" are the REAL criminals Money laundering as primarily a phenomenon of the "war on drugs," i.e., the war on people Fed's modus operandi: printing "money" out of thin air and monopolizing the universal medium of exchange (e.g., via legal tender laws) Another hard money business, http://goldmoney.com, and issues with the Liberty Dollar http://www.libertydollar.org/ - latest news, btw: http://www.libertydollar.org/news-stories/pdfs/1222573426.pdf Perceived value of fiat currency...courtesy of governmental coercion, of course Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury--the biggest counterfeiters around The dynamic economy that governmental goons have deprived you of over the years Devaluation of fiat currency makes you more and more poor Trading dollars for real money as good monetary, political, and psychological action Paper receipts redeemable for metal money versus non-redeemable paper dollars The abandonment of the semi-free market gold standard and the sinister master stroke of pricing oil in dollars Info tech productivity effects as great counterweight to governmental insanity Governmental (communized) roads and bridges are NOTHING compared to governmental currency (communized "money system") Fractional reserve banking as financial alchemy and the ultimate Ponzi scheme Money as metal, and fiat currency as mere paper backed by guns (dominating the world today) All fiat currencies have failed throughout history Those "in charge" know less than nothing; they only know a lot of what isn't so; Keynesian economics is illogical and immoral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics Spotlight on Keynesian Economics by Murray N. Rothbard http://mises.org/story/2950 Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian Economics Edited by Mark Skousen http://www.mises.org/books/dissent.pdf The Critics of Keynesian Economics Edited with an Introduction and new Preface by Henry Hazlitt http://www.mises.org/books/critics.pdf "The business cycle" as the result of nonsensical ideas Business Cycle Primer by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=606 So, those who cause recessions, depressions, etc., are the worst type of fascists, because they seek to control the very lifeblood of an economy--money We must look to the free enterprise sector to utilize sound money; e.g., Shire Silver (http://shiresilver.com/) The end of fractional reserve banking would make honest people out of present banksters The end of the State spells the end of the deceptive and corrupt corporate system too What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard http://mises.org/money.asp We would have so much more wealth in a free market economy; everything becomes more affordable, every year things become cheaper Stop Worrying about the Election by Isaac M. Morehouse http://mises.org/story/3129 Don't become accustomed to bondage - Keep the spirit of freedom alive! The biggest enslavement is of your own mind; A Prison for Your Mind http://tinyurl.com/lje25 The Shawshank Redemption - Final Scene - Movie Ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TjyR_3mUsM Being ungovernable (like the early Quakers in Pennsylvania and the freedom fighters in communist Poland) and generating freedom-based hope and a positive sense of life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke Cool Hand Luke - "Failure to communicate" scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o If we didn't have regulation, or violence against creativity, we'd see more things like http://www.iconaircraft.com/ Freeing your mind by coming to terms with your own fears about others being free... What do you do every day to promote (or detract from) freedom in your life? bumper music "Money (That's What I Want)" by The Flying Lizards http://www.myspace.com/flyinglizards Direct download: Episode_37_-_Governmental_gangsters_and_banksters_financial_alchemy_versus_real_money_freeing_your_mind_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:47 AM Comments[0] |
Sun, 5 October 2008 Reflections on the Origin and the Stability of the State by
Hans-Hermann Hoppe http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe18.html The Hobbesian State remains in a perpetual state of nature Who governs the governors? It's turtles all the way down... The State itself isn't bound by any outside enforcer, so no external 3rd party exists to hold it accountable; the State is in a state of anarchy! The State as the mafia with a flag, the organization of authoritarian sociopaths who live off productive people The procedures of government are just public relations bs The basic structure of all government comes from the desperation of the authoritarian sociopathic personality within any given community realizing that they have nothing of value (no product or service) to offer their neighbors in voluntarily trade Those in government love the idea of forcing others to provide for them The mainstream media's complicity, and government schools' as indoctrination camps supplemental reading: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm The gravity well of governmental coercion and corruption You don't need to steal to provide a product of service Fear of productiveness and the hatred of the good for being the good http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/envyhatredofthegoodforbeingthegood.html The cover-up: collectivistic and altruistic propaganda, and the ethics of sacrifice http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html Governmental employees true motives are the opposite of their rhetoric If you have to deal with a governmental bureaucrat, ask them this pointed question: Other than the threat of physical violence, what is the nature of the relationship between you (and your violent organization) and me? Making coercive thugs pay a spiritual price, just by asking some simple questions and making some simple ethical observations The State is a legal fiction; thus, there can be no crimes against the State An alternative pledge of allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the logic of my own life and my own well-being and to my own happiness for which it stands, one mind independent, purposeful, with liberty and justice for me Neither bullets nor ballot: Violence, including the vote, cannot bring liberty by Wendy McElroy http://www.wendymcelroy.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.165 "Benjamin Tucker maintained that one could no more attack government by electing politicians than one could prevent crime by becoming a criminal" No one has the right to a position of power over others; something Ron Paul Revolutionaries need to integrate Most people are conflicted philosophically, so their integrity suffers Essentially, voting is violence "Anarchism analyzes the State as an institution whose purpose is to violate rights in order to secure benefits to a privileged class...Thus, the political anarchist must explain why he aspires to an office he proclaims inherently unjust" The contradictory ideas and behavior of most Free State Project members (http://freestateproject.org) Rationalizing taking governmental jobs... Another question for governmental employees: If what you're doing is so valuable to the community, why don't you offer it on a voluntary basis? Exposing a contradictory code of ethics Various Free Staters' bad plan of joining the mafia and convincing their fellow coercers that putting down the guns will be a good thing Exposing the psychological, emotional, landscape... Transitioning mentally to the ethics of complete liberty; the growing snowball of awareness Making people aware of their fear of good ideas Message to Free Staters: Joining a criminal gang in order to get rid of criminality won't achieve freedom Freeing your personal life from statist mentalities, and then strategizing a plan to free your political life from statist mentalities Getting personal with those who seek to rule over you Signs of Autumn by B.R. Merrick http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/merrick/merrick5.html The violence of elections taken to its logical conclusion--guns pointed at you One reason that political anarchism (or any form of minarchism) will never work: Productive and respectful people will never want to get involved with the insanity and evil of politics Ron Paul's contradictions You "win" in politics by being a very crafty, deceiving, equivocating coercer--Obama as icon for this sociopathy bumper music "Bomb the World" from Everyone Deserves Music album by Michael Franti http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/listen.php Direct download: Episode_36_-_Political_parasites_living_the_morality_of_freedom_and_challenging_authoritarian_sociopaths_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:30 AM Comments[0] |
Sun, 28 September 2008 Class and equality under statism versus a free market The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods http://www.mises.org/store/The-Politically-Incorrect-Guide-to-American-History-P247C0.aspx?AFID=14 http://books.google.com/books?id=ltSIOnW6XLsC A video talk about the book: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=184310-1 How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo http://tinyurl.com/4r37q6 Book's review: How Capitalism Saved America by Laurence M. Vance http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance90.html The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein http://www.andrewbernstein.net/books/capman.htm "Equality," like freedom, is an inside job The bloody credo of communism--ability required to feed "need" Rising prosperous economic tide of true capitalism lifts all boats Nature of "abusive" corporations; The Semi-Good, The Bad, And The Ugly http://completeliberty.com/chapter4.php#80 The free market never fails, but force and faith must always Forcing "equality" on people is anti-mind and anti-life; it represents the evil doctrine of sacrifice Coercive monopolies only exist because of the legitimacy granted to them by most people The Importance of Agorist Class Theory by Niccolo Adami http://catholicmarketanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/05/importance-of-agorist-class-theory.html The entrepreneurial class versus the parasitic class Problems with the idea of classes; http://completeliberty.com/chapter1.php#15 SEK3's essence of agorist class theory; http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf Should agorists ban together as comrades? Religion as fosterer of conflicts between groups Pemes, or political memes, that are enslaving us #TL074: PEME-THEORY - BASIC, INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED By Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl074.shtml Challenging those, first and foremost in your personal life, who advocate statist aggression Voting Decisions Made Easy by Hal O'Boyle http://www.haloboyle.com/2004/03/voting_decision.html to "...those who refuse to shuffle off to the voting booth like Eloi in the thrall of the Morlocks' dinner siren." ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock - ominous parallels... "Representatives" don't represent you--no valid contract of agency The insanity of gun control laws, especially in Mexico War on drugs is war on individual rights, creating rampant crime both here and in Mexico What would happen if they held an election, and nobody voted? Evidence that people don't see themselves as slaves anymore! No such thing as a "Republic," and "Democracy" is a farce Only the voluntary marketplace is legitimate, i.e., a society of rights-respecting individuals What is Legitimacy? by Bill Orton, aka Hogeye Bill http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/library/aa/p004.html Autonomy and self-ownership versus being ruled by other individuals (and governmental memes) Sacrifice is really the corrupt ethical doctrine we must confront Police State Mission-Creep by Scott McPherson http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/mcpherson10.html statist "strength in numbers" thuggery We aren't "customers" of the "business" of government 'Sensational' fossil illuminates birth of dinosaurs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/08/22/scifossil122.xml bumper music "Freedom Now" from album Crossroads by Tracy Chapman http://www.myspace.com/tracychapmanfolk http://www.tracychapman.com/ Direct download: Episode_35_-_Class_equality_and_agorism_voting_nonsense_personal_pemes_autonomy_and_legitimacy_police_statism_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:04 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 19 September 2008 The need for courage, integrity, and certainty, to resolve the personal
side of ethical and political contradictions in our relationships Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1) by Stefan Molyneux http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/ Implications of the "against me" argument 927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_927_Ron_Paul_Politics_and_Personal_Freedom.mp3 http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/47/ The political contradiction of Objectivism's politics, which hinges on a collectivistic notion of a coercive monopoly; a couple extensive refutations: 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 Laissez-faire, A More Enlightened View Of Capitalism—And Its Contradictions http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html Disproving the State: Four arguments against government by Stefan Molyneux http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux4.html Separating the messages from the messengers in the early Objectivist movement The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/books/other/passion.html I read my paper titled: Who is Nathaniel Branden? Psychologist/Psychotherapist: http://www.nathanielbranden.com His books, in order of most recent: Self-Esteem at Work (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises) A Woman’s Self-Esteem (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises) Self-Esteem Every Day (collection of thoughts on self-esteem) The Art of Living Consciously (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises) Taking Responsibility (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises) The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises) The Art of Self-Discovery (psychotherapeutic workbook; my favorite:) The Power of Self-Esteem (shorter book on the topic) My Years with Ayn Rand (revised edition of Judgment Day) How to Raise Your Self-Esteem (psychotherapeutic workbook) Honoring the Self (treatise) If You Could Hear What I Cannot Say (psychotherapeutic workbook for relationships) What Love Asks of Us (with Devers Branden) (question and answer book) The Psychology of Romantic Love (treatise) The Disowned Self (treatise) Breaking Free (compilation of vignettes from therapy) The Psychology of Self-Esteem (seminal work on the subject) Who is Ayn Rand? (deals primarily with Rand's novel moral code) Overview of his biocentric psychology, in relation to objective philosophy Volition as essential component in self-esteem and value-judgments Emotions as indicators of "for me" or "against me" The nature of the subconscious and automatization Comprehensive framework of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, from metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, to politics and esthetics Branden's revolutionary refinement of the concept of self-esteem, which can be seen as an integrated sum of self-confidence and self-respect; choice quotation from The Psychology of Self-Esteem: "To understand a man psychologically, one must understand the nature and degree of his self-esteem, and the standards by which he judges himself" Man's mental health depends on being able to deal with reality--in particular, his internal reality--in an unblocked fashion The Pillars of self-esteem: The practice of living consciously The practice of self-acceptance The practice of self-responsibility The practice of self-assertiveness The practice of living purposefully The practice of personal integrity Branden's humanistic focus on the methods by which to acquire and maintain self-esteem stands as the ultimate tribute to the human soul The respective roles of philosophy and psychology; inspecting the problematic modern dichotomy The nature of psychotherapy and its challenges, both inside and out To choose to change, even when change is often frightening As Branden has noted, we need not be prisoners to yesterday's thinking and decisions bumper music "Piano Concerto in A Minor, 1st Movement, Allegro Molto Moderato" by Edward Grieg Pianist Pawel Mazurkiewicz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0WaXEf0xM Pianist Arthur Rubinstein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxzpy1b1_BY Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes (best sound, imo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_DT4DRxVA Comments[0] |
Mon, 15 September 2008 How – Actually – Does the State Work? 'Do As You Are Told, Or We Will
Kill You' by Jeff Knaebel http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel19.html Methods of domination... People who really value liberty are not so organized The ridiculous sporting event of politics, where winning equals everyone losing The free state project http://www.freestateproject.org Direct, raw violence perpetrated by individuals "working" for government Is democracy relative? Any initiation of force is wrong, absolutely Unjust laws...ad naseum The floating abstraction of "the public"; trying to hide government's true aims through the use of euphemisms Molding the minds of youth via "public education," i.e., extortion-funded governmental education Arguments against the notion that taxation is extortion and aggression, which are of course illogical Sick dependency created by those in government The monstrous ethical contradiction of using force as the means to (attempt to) achieve benevolent ends Stossel in America - ABC 20/20 Freeloaders - Creating Dependency Segment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4teq7aKTNJ4 http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2007/01/03/is_this_any_way_to_help_the_homeless Violence is not a way to "help" people Should we fear employees of the State (those in power) or, rather, our fellow slaves? The Next Thing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_paOt6_ZI 948 The Next Thing (Part 2) http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/25/ the backstory: Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1) http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/ Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm Inculcating obedience through nonsense statements such as, "As long as you comply, it's not force" Ruling through fear; http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler Conflating America with American government The popular values of equality, universal health care, and no child left behind can never be realized through force, and government is the biggest hindrance to realizing such values The initiation of force is the invalid means to achieve one's ends Only the free market can foster popular values, and then some! Obviously, the more government intervention, the worse the results Lessons From Tennessee's Failed Health Care Reform by Merrill Matthews, Jr. (beware the author's slavespeak) http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/BG1357ES.cfm The unpeaceful nature of Sweden, and other liberally praised authoritarian domains Sweden, Banana Republic by Per Bylund http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund12.html Per Bylund Archives: http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund-arch.html The argument from morality in relation to the welfare state The congressional umbilical cord to the military/industrial complex How The Military/Industrial Complex Works: You Scratch My back, Bombs Away! http://completeliberty.com/chapter2.php#45 Government "servants" that impose "services" on us, versus the beauty of services provided by businesses Government, by definition, is incapable of providing what we want; what we want are voluntarily chosen services (i.e., not to be forced) Speaking of which, my own new service :) http://www.happinesscounseling.com Ayn Rand had it right: happiness is our highest moral purpose http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/happiness.html The psychological payoff for avoiding the immoral essence of governmental "services" Worry as future related guilt, and our various means of dealing with it President as good domineering parent; Kings ordained by "God" and "the people" Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans Hermane Hoppe http://www.hanshoppe.com/publications.php#democracy http://tinyurl.com/4zt79u (searchable text from google books) http://www.mises.org/store/Democracy-The-God-That-Failed-P240C0.aspx Ah, government is beyond failure, because its employees perform magic tricks and miracles using the golden (blood drenched) gun of taxation and regulation and fiat currency! Apathy created by governmental "schooling," childhood indoctrination in obedience to authority, and the mainstream media of distractions and lack of logical analysis Obama's "hope" and "change" through coercion: put the following site-specific searches in google to see the essence of what politics is about, no matter the orator's popularity: site:www.barackobama.com require site:www.barackobama.com required site:www.barackobama.com mandate site:www.barackobama.com mandated Governmental employees use commerce and business language to try to hide their organization's thuggish nature Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins http://www.economichitman.com/ http://tinyurl.com/57w588 (google books) http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man#Controversy_and_criticism Fabricating external threats in order to gain more power and control http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_debate FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N. by John V. Denson http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson8.html The Conspiracies of Empire by H. Arthur Scott Trask http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/trask1.html Pearl Harbor Was No Surprise by Don Hull http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/Hull/hull5.html Do Freedom of Information Act Files Prove FDR Had Foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor? by Robert B. Stinnett, Douglas Cirignano http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=408 The Truth About Pearl Harbor: A Debate by Robert B. Stinnett, Stephen Budiansky http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=445 Sixty-Three Years of Lies by Anthony Gregory http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/gregory/gregory27.html Man accused of making license plate 'disappear' http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/04/1827266-man-accused-of-making-license-plate-disappear Live in accordance with rights-respecting free enterprise http://agorism.info/ With complete liberty (voluntary exchanges), everything will become more and more affordable; cost of living will continually decrease and standard of living will continually increase In the lose/lose scenario of government (involuntary exchanges), those wielding power become slaves too--it's a race to the bottom, economically and psychologically bumper music "Uncle Sam Goddamn" by Brother Ali http://www.brotherali.com/ http://www.myspace.com/brotherali Direct download: Episode_33_-_Statist_methods_of_domination_the_monstrous_moral_contradiction_of_statism_free_minds_and_markets.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:29 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 6 September 2008 Must the Government Combat Americans’ Addiction to Foreign Bananas? by
Robert Higgs http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/53228.html banana crises sidenote: http://www.slashfood.com/2008/02/24/the-great-banana-panic-continues/ Understanding free market economics and international trade, for the umpteenth time Resistance to the truth is aided by rationalizations http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalization.html Is Richard an 'merican?... Keene Man (Russell Kanning) to Auction Off Vote by Kat Kanning http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/209 Exposing the hypocrisy of political vote buying "Representatives" don't represent you; don't fall for the slavespeak THE ANATOMY OF SLAVESPEAK by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml Statement from Jason Gerhard (incarcerated friend of tax resistors Ed and Elaine Brown) http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/197 Imposing "services" at gunpoint: the essence of government Parents forcing children to do things, which leads to uncritical acceptance of politics The Meaning and Value of Gold by Glen Allport (in reference to growth of government pie charts) http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/allport/allport2.html Self-esteem versus rationalizations and defense mechanisms No Such Thing as a Good Cop by Larken Rose http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/203 The horribly dangerous authority myth--the denial of personal responsibility "...committing immoral violence is an unavoidable part of every cop's job." (LR) The disorder created by government (and authoritarian parenting) Simple rules for persons in a free market: Don't lie, cheat, and steal What is the ~nature~ of parental influences? ~How~ the messages are delivered makes all the difference Introducing, particularly to adolescents--via the Web--the anti-authoritarian anarchistic philosophy, which is a kind of psychotherapy to deal with the various abuses of one's will by others, by family, culture, and governmental "officials" Authentic, independent challenging of "authority" versus inauthentic (typically collectivistic) revolting against it and replacing it with yet another "authority" People's ambivalence about anarchy Intro to Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidXSubb-2U How – Actually – Does the State Work? 'Do As You Are Told, Or We Will Kill You' by Jeff Knaebel http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel19.html Corrupt power cannot withstand moral courage Implications of the "against me" argument 927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_927_Ron_Paul_Politics_and_Personal_Freedom.mp3 http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/47/ Setting the standard for rational debate Defending the Undefendable: The pimp, prostitute, scab, slumlord, libeler, moneylender and other scapegoats in the rogue's gallery of American society by Walter Block http://www.mises.org/store/Defending-the-Undefendable-P136.aspx http://mises.org/books/defending.pdf One way to create a better world (especially for yourself): By not collaborating and compromising with those who forward evil premises http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compromise.html Errors of Knowledge vs. Breaches of Morality by Ayn Rand http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/errorsofknowledge.html Nullifying the will of others: the essence of the love of domination ("authority") Respect presupposes a sovereign use of consciousness--which is why the initiation of force is NOT to be tolerated Objectivists distorted use of moralization Email dealing with the non sequitur of minarchism and fallacies about "human nature" We can't escape philosophy http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/philosophy.html The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=552 The trader principle (value for value) as part of the virtue of independence Japanese researchers craft "e-skin" to let robots feel by Donald Melanson http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/12/japanese-researchers-craft-e-skin-to-let-robots-feel/ Getting corrupt relationships out of your life and challenging slave-on-slave violence--thus fostering a better, happier, more courageous self, and a better society The Next Thing... by Stefan Molyneux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_paOt6_ZI 948 The Next Thing (Part 2) by Stefan Molyneux http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/25/ the backstory: Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1) by Stefan Molyneux http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/ bumper music "Politik Kills" by Manu Chao (Politik kills db remix DUB+vox_mastered) http://www.manuchao.net/ download it and check out all the remixes! http://www.politikills.com/les-remix.php Direct download: Episode_32_-_Obedience_of_young_and_old_slavespeak_slave-on-slave_violence_power_setting_moral_standards.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:41 AM Comments[0] |
Thu, 28 August 2008 Is RTR crackpottery? Judge for yourself: http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR Brutalization of the child "off limits" domains of morality Ethics: the relative and the objective Questioning the one-way street of authoritarian morality The psychological payoffs for evasion and obedience Catastrophizing http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/what-is-catastrophizing/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion Practicing RTR http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/stolenconcept.html Listening to feelings Questioning one's premises--can we look to peer-reviewed psych/phil journals for answers? Focusing on the psychological/philosophical essentials Being aware of the argument from morality The Argument From Morality by Stefan Molyneux http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html The payoffs for love of domination--and for enabling it Experiments in liberty--questioning liberty is questioning oneself Having compassion for other people's feelings, and challenging "authority" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalization.html Illogical philosophical catch phrases--Ayn Rand astutely noted that evil philosophies are systems of rationalizations Defining self-esteem--self-confidence and self-respect Staving off the feeling of being unfit to exist with defense mechanisms and pseudo self-esteem The brutalizing process of relativistic ethics and eating invisible apples (blue pill city) There are no conflicts among people's self-interest and self-esteem The error of "getting" a child to eat dinner...developing a context for normalization An anarchist’s declaration by Mike Gogulski http://www.nostate.com/an-anarchists-declaration/ Expressing anger in trying to understand the optimal context of childrearing Getting rid of parasitic memes John Gottman's (http://www.gottman.com) research: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling 'The Four Horsemen': Why Marriages Fail by Alix Spiegel http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4823861 http://www.gottman.com/press/releases/detail.php?id=13 Living an authentic life in relation to one's own mind, based on objective reality The Anatomy of Slavespeak by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml The Nature of Government by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07b.shtml The most important thing to show kids, besides your happiness: authentic and principled expression of values and virtues The truth shall set us free! Peer-reviewers' fest of altruism Developing self-trust in one's own understanding of objective morality--and living it! Just For Fans of Stefan Molyneux (when seemingly nice people turn nasty) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY30C6Grv3o The Art of Self-Discovery by Nathaniel Branden (examining subconscious premises) http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38 The Art of Living Consciously by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=28 Taking Responsibility by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=36 Personal evolution also means the evolution of our culture bumper music "See You on the Other Side" by Ozzy Osbourne http://www.ozzy.com/music/ozzmosis Direct download: Episode_31_-_Authoritarianism_and_family_getting_personal_with_the_ethics_of_complete_liberty_battles_of_the_wills_vs_authenticity_and_self-esteem.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:16 PM Comments[6] |
Thu, 21 August 2008 Early experiences with bad adult behavior Fear of authority and feeling a lack of authoritativeness It all starts with agreeing to the "invisible apple" A Transcript of Freedomain Radio Podcast 70: “The Parable of the Apple – or, How to control a human soul...” by Stefan Molyneux http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/how_to_control_a_human_soul.mp3 also in the book Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR Psychology of Education http://www.logicallearning.net/libertyeducation.html Between Parent and Child - The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication by Haim Ginott http://tinyurl.com/598j76 The "normal" talk that drives kids crazy "Sanity depends on trusting one's inner reality," noted Ginott Honoring the volitional capacity of the child Parents' and teachers' love of dominion (as noted by Herbert Spencer) Misbehavior doesn't usually emanate naturally from the child "The child has a teacher within," noted Maria Montessori The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8977399 Respecting the will of the child, allowing the psychic energy to flow Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0060920432 Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi http://books.google.com/books?id=lNt6bdfoyxQC&dq=flow&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) The Secret of Childhood: Normalization and Deviations-lecture given by Dr. Rita Shaefer Zener http://www.michaelolaf.net/lecture_secret.html There can't be familial harmony when there's love of dominion going on The early deviations fostered by adults Four characteristics of personality that signal normalization: love of work; concentration; self-discipline; sociability Statecraft 101 by Brad Spangler How do I start my own country? http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/1021 Human beings bullying others both politically and parentally Bringing war upon individuals, courtesy of those in government The Thin Blue Lie by Wendy McElroy http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.1698 The police are the enemies of freedom; they enforce unjust laws, are paid through extortion (taxes), and work for a coercive monopoly Why you should never talk to cops without a lawyer (video of lawyer and cop making this point) http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/342.html San Diego Plays 'Sophie's Choice' for Fascists by Lawrence M. Ludlow http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/ludlow/ludlow1.html "Law" as an opinion backed by a gun Law must be based on human well-being and happiness--to be objective and valid, it must adhere to the principles of individual rights, self-ownership, and property Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/12/2036254 bumper music "Love Will Set You Free" by Starchaser http://www.myspace.com/starchaserofficial Direct download: Episode_30_-_The_self-directed_will_of_the_child_volitional_hindrances_flow_love_of_dominion_scaled-up_bullying_by_statists.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:08 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 13 August 2008 The Dangerous Question by Marcel Votlucka http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/votlucka/votlucka2.html Why?...Do most individuals need/want Mommy/Daddy Government? Unquestioning adults as much less mature than children Kids are naturally predisposed to active-mindedness Ayn Rand's take on "Open Mind" and "Closed Mind" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/openmindandclosedmind.html Listening to what your mind is telling you... Deism and Freedom by Robert L. Johnson http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/johnson/johnson1.html America is based on fear...What is fear? Punished for disobedience--the ties between Parents and Governments If we lived with our governmental oppressors... Which is worse: tyrannical parents or tyrannical employees of government? All political punishment is local Attila and the Witch Doctor...softening the bones and brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_New_Intellectual by Ayn Rand For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_for_the_new_intellectual Review by Edward Tanguay http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/70.htm The meme of government has jailed our minds (and thus limited our choices) a long time ago A prison for your mind http://tinyurl.com/yp4hdv Valid definition of God is impossible because it has no referents in reality Feelings about God aren't irreducible primaries The triad of supernatural consciousness: omnipotence, omniscience, and infallibility Will a post-technological singularity consciousness be Godlike? "God" as the Universe makes the notion superfluous Former atheist Antony Flew's and Peter Murphy's Deistic thinking... http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/atheist_philosopher_041210.html http://www.deism.com/dogmaticatheism.htm Scientist Stuart Kauffman's thoughts on catalytic closure of molecular species http://www.logicallearning.net/libevolution.html Kauffman's At Home in the Universe http://books.google.com/books?id=o-Owb5IDkSQC&dq=stuart+Kauffman+catalytic+closure&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 The secret of life is auto-catalysis review by Gert Korthof http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/kortho32.htm Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing The Sacred by Stuart A. Kauffman http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index.html Consciousness is inextricably tied to material reality http://www.logicallearning.net/libanissueofmort.html To postulate supernatural consciousness is the ultimate metaphysical question-begging The laws of identity, causality, and non-contradiction must determine our beliefs http://www.logicallearning.net/libidentitycausa.html How belief in a "Creater" relates to fear... The mental sacrifice of taking the leap of faith http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html Faith and Force as corollaries... Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Any Rand http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Any Rand (audio of Rand herself, speech and q&a) http://www.atlasshrugged.com/ayn-rand-works/ar-faith-and-force.html from Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=AR07B Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell Researchers get genetic material to copy itself in a recreation of a simple protocell that could have existed eons ago by Nikhil Swaminathan http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-close-to-recon Replicating clay particles and origin of life... Various hypotheses: http://scienceweek.com/2005/sw050429-1.htm http://originoflife.net/cairns_smith/quotes/ Cell as metaphor of complete liberty Reality is knowable and science is how we find out more about it Using logic to function optimally with our consciousness in objective reality Asking "Why?" as way to truth, honesty, and virtue (or uncovering pretense, evasion, and lies) Nathaniel Branden's quotation about the uniqueness of human consciousness and self-awareness http://www.logicallearning.net/libevolution.html The Psychology of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=54 bumper music "True Faith" by New Order http://www.neworderonline.com/ Direct download: Episode_29_-_Curiosity_of_children_faith_and_force_of_adults_logical_metaphysics_origin_of_life_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:59 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 6 August 2008 Getting to the root of the problem Is depression increasing in society? Depressingly Easy by Kelly Lambert http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=depressingly-easy&sc=MND_20080731 Challenging one's silent assumptions Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns http://www.feelinggood.com/books.htm#book_fg http://www.feelinggood.com/ The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=35 Stop "Depressing" Checking one's conscious and subconscious premises Real-Time Relationships by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR False self vs True self The Art of Self-Discovery by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38 Living in accordance with rational self-interest and your own happiness WebWise Business: Where Confidence Grows, Cashflow Goes Chris Curtis of Web Business Ownership talks with Kirk Nugent on the VoiceAmerica Business Radio Network http://www.webwiseshow.com/shows/show4.htm Dealers of Deceit by Kirk Nugent (from: I Just Want To Testify "Pursue Your Passion Edition") http://www.kirknugent.com/ excerpt from Practical Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#PA excerpts from Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#EA The psychological need for questioning social axioms Rejecting the emotional trap of social metaphysics Social Metaphysics by Nathaniel Branden in The Psychology of Self-Esteem http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=54 We are lonely for ourselves Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Transformation by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=43 Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/03/1718171-solzhenitsyn-chronicler-of-soviet-gulag-dies Solzhenitsyn's nationalism, Stockholm syndrome, and regimes of fear Pursue Your Passion by Kirk Nugent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wDVrfLIq0 The Ultimate Answer by Kirk Nugent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4e0xCLf28s I Need You To Remember by Kirk Nugent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DH35qC1D34 bumper music "Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones http://www.jesusjones.com/ Direct download: Episode_28_-_The_psychological_side_of_complete_liberty_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:10 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 2 August 2008 A Foundation for Panarchy by Michael S. Rozeff http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff210.html Are there primary and secondary rights? Run for your life whenever you hear a governmental "official" talk about your safety and happiness... Does the Jeffersonian rhetoric hold water? Government's "securing rights" is a non sequitur Because ideas are bulletproof, it's important to understand their origin and influence, particularly authoritarian ones How does one provide one's "consent" to the government, while maintaining one's rights? Certainly not by birth and physical proximity Individual rights defined Implications for so-called intellectual "property" Gated communities and HOA's versus governments Interacting on entirely private property based on the rules of the owner(s) SamIam's Obscured Truth Network http://www.youtube.com/ObscuredTruth The State has no standing and no actual legitimacy Elections make a mockery of choice ("suggestion box for slaves") http://www.panarchy.org/ Government versus governance; panarchism versus anarchism The essence of the Red Pill Tibor Machan's defense of government http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html "Private property" is a redundancy, as is "individual rights" "Public property" is a contradiction in terms Voting is a joke; your choices are not honored "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." H.L. Mencken http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/h.+l.+mencken Invalid forms of governance If you like tyranny, then ~you~ can leave; in a just society, bullies are banned The Jeffersonian Matrix Robert Nozick's defense of government http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html Coercive monopolies of retaliatory force will always lead to injustice Acceptance of false moral premises; the psychology of statism Holding people accountable for their levels of immorality 927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux (the two magic words: would you be in favor of using force "against me"?) http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_927_Ron_Paul_Politics_and_Personal_Freedom.mp3 http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/47/ Helping people look past their fears Microfiltering Sepsis by Jennifer Chu http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20816/?a=f Innovation in free market medicine versus FDA hindrances bumper music "Revolutionary" Etude by Frederic Chopin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étude_Op._10,_No._12_(Chopin) Direct download: Episode_27_-_Rights_choice_governance_and_the_psychology_of_statism_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:16 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 25 July 2008 Collectivistic statist turf war insanity King rejects govt's resignation, for now by Robert Wielaard http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/17/king-rejects-govts-resignation-for-now-1/ Governmental "officials" tear markets apart and extol self-sacrifical "public service" D.C. Arrests Residents For Missing Jury Service by Keith L. Alexander http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301798_pf.html Forced "justice" makes perfect sense, doesn't it; coercion is "cooperation" Jurors are essentially slaves of judges; jury nullification is illegal, sayeth "the law" The legal system benefits government and lawyers and screws the enslaved "customers" Once again, voting and jury nullification are not needed to achieve liberty; rather, people's independent mindset is Legislature approves bill banning trans fats by Samantha Sondag http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/15/MN0111OTUA.DTL The 'land of ban' scoffs at the nature of property rights; public pressure is voluntary; governmental pressure is coercive The most important thing in the world that needs protecting: Your right to choose a couple interesting scientific articles related to cardiovascular health: Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis -- The Role of HDL Cholesterol, Lp(a), and LDL Particle Size (just google the article title and click from there, if you get the annoying sign-in page) http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/439375 Measurement of LDL and HDL particle size does not improve CAD diagnosis http://www.lipidsonline.org/news/print.cfm?aid=6602 Genetic-testing start-ups asked to stop selling in Calif. by Stefanie Olsen http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9971383-7.html?hhTest=1 Perfect example of the regulatory State; following the money trail and areas of corporate convolution What a free market in medicine would be like: everything becomes more and more affordable Bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/bush.offshore/index.html Politics in midstream, once again, based on central planning; rather, all drilling areas should be privately owned and regulated--and thus be accountable here's a great blog post with lots of info: The Oil Pricing Squeeze Is On by David Theroux http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=140 Deadliest job in America: Working on cell phone towers http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/97827 OSHA fascists to the rescue! Give me a break; say goodbye to common sense and productivity; workers know their work best; rational tort law All the most vile forms of tyranny come from the edict that "This is for your safety"--as if we should look to a coercive monopoly to protect us The guiding light for people in the free market: Use your own judgment, do things reasonable and prudent based on the circumstances, and don't follow authoritarian rules for their own sake Loss of personal control and belief in Higher Powers http://atheists.meetup.com/518/boards/view/viewthread?thread=5064714 Need for self-esteem and individual choice "But Who Will Build the Roads" Market Anarchy Explained http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/166 The contradiction of government: Evil people controlling other purportedly evil people? Death By Government by R. Rummel http://tinyurl.com/rusyx The governmental employee modus operandi: passing the buck and shirking moral responsibility They Didn’t Attack Switzerland by Bill Walker http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker32.html The whole "war on terror" is ill-gotten; US government only protects their own (and even that fails) Collectivistic thinking treats States as quasi-individuals; coercive government is the real problem, not a State that has an interventionist foreign policy bumper music "All You Fascists" by Billy Bragg And Wilco http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/albums/mermaid_avenueII/merII11.html Direct download: Episode_26_-_American_fascism_self-responsibility_and_personal_control_collective_defense.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:15 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 July 2008 Truthdig - Reports - The Hedonists of Power by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080623_the_hedonists_of_power/ Modern-day courtiers: The mainstream media Colbert stickin' it to The Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents'_Association_Dinner http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879 Fascism in America via State-created corporations Get rid of government--problems solved! Journalists' individual sacrifices Where people get their collectivistic fears... Ridiculous nation-state chest-pounding Philosophical rationalizations hide fears Stockholm syndrome writ large: Identifying with and apologizing for the actions of one's political abusers The youth in Iran as potential catalyst for positive change Dealing with political frustration Meddlings of governments as genesis of terrorism The individual values of journalists--or lack thereof Croc Dundee to tax authorities: 'Come and get me' http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=321662&GT1=28101 The Real Crocodile Dundee by Vin Suprynowicz http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz48.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_William_Ansell Don't appease tax "authorities" (thieves); either you honor property rights or you don't Question for statists: Should any unsolicited product or service be imposed at gunpoint? Recognizing the difference between coercion and voluntary trade "It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." (Sally Kempton) A society of complete liberty is a society of dignity Politics as reflection of self-concept Coming to terms with childhood trauma and fear vis a vis authority The Disowned Self by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=46 The Miracle Fruit, a Tease for the Taste Buds by Patrick Farrell and Kassie Bracken http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html http://flavortripping.wordpress.com/ & http://www.miraclefruitman.com/ Riding a Flavor Trip :) http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=1615a44db1aa2c70758ae67c12b06cb1f4be9808 bumper music "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon http://johnlennon.com/html/discography.aspx?upc=724352485826 Direct download: Episode_25_-_Responsibility_of_the_press_Stockholm_syndrome_writ_large_self-concept_force_vs_trade.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:34 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 8 July 2008 The Faux of July by Mike Wasdin http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/wasdin/wasdin1.html The nation of unwitting slaves; new planet shopping, anyone? Are Obama and McCain your typical Nazis? Declaration of Independence http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm Ah, the land of collectivism, a place where all sorts of evils are supposedly sufferable The 'can-do' American spirit still exists and is vital to our future The nature of consent, contracts, breach of contracts, and unanimous consent Government, the antithesis of freedom Petition for redress of grievances; being humble has its drawbacks We The People Foundation http://www.givemeliberty.org/ The Lawsuit to Restore Constitutional Order http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/InfoCenter.htm http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/CourtFilings/ComplaintAmended-9-15-04.PDF http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Court-Docs/6700-2ndCirc-Full-Appeal-Oct-2007.pdf What makes jurisdiction? The contradictory concept of "state" and other deleterious collectivistic abstractions The Pentagon Is America's Biggest Polluter by Joshua Frank http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/85186/?page=entire The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives by Nick Turse http://us.macmillan.com/thecomplex A Pentagon's Who's Who of Your Life by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt329.html Root of despotism: the "power" to lay and collect taxes Shays Fought the Revolution's Final Battle, and We Lost by George Smith http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/smith/smith4.html Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13777.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion Ever Wonder How Politicians Think? (the grasshoppers vs the ants, from A Bug's Life) http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/26/33/ The many facets of statism, and the fear and ignorance that creates them Shirking responsibility and rationalization Hiring leaps in public sector by Dennis Cauchon http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080430/1a_lede30_dom.art.htm The ills of the parasitism of government Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin by Jeanna Bryner http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080624-st-planet-tally.html bumper music "American Idiot" by Green Day http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html Direct download: Episode_24_-_Another_unfree_birthday_for_America.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:14 PM Comments[0] |
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 |
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