March 2012
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House Passes Bill That Will Make Protesting... →
But we live in a free country, right?
This is the first step to outlawing the protest of government.
How soon until even criticizing the government anywhere to anyone will be made illegal?
Reports RT: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. The US House of...
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NYT and the Law that Dare Not Speak Its Name →
An article today by Charlie Savage in the New York Times looks at President Obama’s announcement of “waivers” related to the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) and its provisions related to the open-ended military detention of suspects. It is noteworthy in two respects:
a) It manages to get through all 16 paragraphs while never once actually naming the National Defense...
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Q&A Marathon With Schiff, Church, Woods, and More! →
Right now at libertychat you can join in on a Q&A marathon.
Be sure to head over to LibertyChat.com tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 8pm ET, for a marathon of live 30-minute Q&As featuring:
8:00 Mike Church 8:30 Karen Kwiatkowski 9:00 Peter Schiff 9:30 Dan Gordon (RI legislator) 10:00 Tom Woods
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11 Reasons To Get Your Kids Out of the Government... →
Time to end the department and education and end the governments virtual monopoly of education and propaganda. Education should be privatized.
#1 You Could Be Arrested For Something That Your Child Does
Yes, you read that correctly. If your child writes a story or draws a picture which a teacher or an administrator takes the wrong way, you could ...
February 2012
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Is Gold Money? Iran Says Yes →
And this is the main reason the United States wants war with Iran. They aren’t a military threat they are an economic threat.
Money is nothing more than a commodity. And gold is the kind of commodities. Gold is money whether you like it or not.
Economic crises signal that the current system isn’t working as expected and needs improvement. When it...
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We’re All Lawbreakers Now - Mr. X talks to Lew...
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Regulatory-Industrial Complex →
by Lew Rockwell
Government rules and regulations aren’t made to hurt large corporations. They are made to protect them. The corporatist hacks use these rules and regulations to protect their favored businesses.
Here are just some of those agencies, and the way they function: Founded by Richard Nixon, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an antientrepreneur agency. Not...
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Military Spending and Bastiat's "Unseen" →
[An army of] a hundred thousand men, costing the taxpayers a hundred million of money, live and bring to the purveyors as much as a hundred million can supply. That is which is seen.
But, a hundred million taken from the pockets of the taxpayers, ceases to maintain these taxpayers and their purveyors as far as a hundred million reaches. This is that which is not seen. Now make your ...
daisysnotebook:
I think too many people misunderstand libertarians. It’s not about blindly worshipping Ron Paul or any other libertarian thinker. For me, it’s about the absence of coercion. I am a libertarian because I value my freedom and yours. I want for each of you to have the liberty to pursue your goals, create your future, mold your life around what you enjoy doing without the limitations...
laciderbryant asked: What are your thoughts on the election process and the corruption and voter fraud? I'm doing a research paper and I couldn't think of anyone better to ask.
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Pentagon: Despite Riots, Afghan Occupation... →
If we pull out their crony’s who profit from war wouldn’t be able to profit from it anymore. So we must stay in Afghanistan.
At a briefing today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little insisted that the military leadership and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta remain “fully committed” to the current US strategy of occupation in Afghanistan, and that the nationwide riots aren’t going...
communismkills replied to your post: communismkills replied to your post:…
When people say “the United States give weapons to country XYZ”, they always refer to weapons manufacturing companies in the United States. There should be no reason why Israel cannot buy weapons from America.
Again, when did I ever say they can’t?
communismkills replied to your post: communismkills replied to your post:…
No, condemning a country for aggression is condemning a country. Why not freely trade with all countries, though? What is wrong with companies trading weapons to Israel?
When did I ever say we shouldn’t trade with every nation freely?
When did I ever say companies shouldn’t be able to sell weapons to...
communismkills replied to your post: communismkills replied to your link: Israel Won’t…
But… if a country can condemn another country while claiming to be impartial, why can’t a country claim to support another country while being impartial?
You support other countries by trading with them freely.
Condemning a country for aggression isn’t supporting the country that was aggressed...
communismkills replied to your link: Israel Won’t Warn US Before Attacking Iran
Why should a country condemn another country if they don’t want to interfere, though?
Aggression should always be condemned. Much like every other country should be condemning the United States for their pre-emptive acts of aggression.
likeagswift replied to your post: Why socialism will never work
Wrong. youtube.com/watch?v… - copy the link watch the short vid. It’s efficient and logical to work the “most amount for the least amount.” Reducing socialism to “everyone being equal” is always a dumb critique
Oh my God!
One CEO cut his pay. Socialism is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Israel Won’t Warn US Before Attacking Iran →
Not that Israel should warn the United States first but aggression is always wrong. Israel should be condemned if they attack Iran out of aggression rather than defense.
Reports quoting a number of anonymous US and Israeli officials today say that the Israeli government has decided, and has informed the US, that it will not offer any advanced notice to the US before attacking Iran.
This...
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Why socialism will never work
Labor will never be pleasurable. That is just human nature. If people have to pick between working or leisure they will always pick the leisure with all things being equal.
It is human nature to work the least amount for the most amount.
I’d much rather work 4 hours a day and golf 6 hours a day if that was feasible. Or work 2 hours and golf for 8 hours. Unfortunately that isn’t...
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Is the Federal Reserve a failure? →
Damn right it is.
The federal reserve devalues the currency, causes inflation, and creates bubbles in the economy by creating artificial credit.
The federal reserve shouldn’t see its 100th year anniversary.
End the fed!
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You don't have to take the money out of politics...
The reason corporations, wall street, and big business give so much money to politicians is simply because it is worth it for them. They profit off of it.
Politicians have too much power. Restrict their power and you’ll see the money dry up.
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Equality or inequality →
by Walter Williams
Kay S. Hymowitz’s article “Why the Gender Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever,” in City Journal (Summer 2011), shows that female doctors earn only 64 percent of the income that male doctors earn. What should be done about that? It turns out that only 16 percent of surgeons are women but 50 percent of pediatricians are women. Even though surgeons have many more ...
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No easy fix for the gas prices →
by Peter Schiff
Keeping more gasoline at home could hold down prices temporarily, but how much better off would the “folks” be if all the prices of Chinese made goods at Wal-Mart suddenly went up, or if such products completely disappeared from our shelves because the Chinese government decided to ban exports that they declared “belonged to the Chinese people?” What ...
Love Thy Neighbor - Hate the State: The Life Span... →
self-ownership:
Here are some interesting points from a study of over 775 fiat currencies.
Shortest life span: 1 month
Average life span: 27 years
Longest life span: 317 years (pound sterling). However, the pound sterling has lost 99.5% of its original value.
So, what happened to…
Pretty much everything you need to know about fiat currencies.
The average life expectancy for a fiat...
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Prohibition didn't work then and it isn't working... →
by John Stossel
Yet those same politicians oversee a cruel system that now stages SWAT raids on people’s homes more than 100 times a day. People die in these raids — some weren’t even the intended targets of the police.
Neill Franklin once led such raids. The 33-year Maryland police veteran, now executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, locked up hundreds...
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Economic change will eventually come through... →
Which is why we should change our policies now before that collapse. But of course the big government Keynesian’s won’t let that happen.
The dollar is becoming increasingly worthless. We are collapsing under 15+ trillion dollars of debt. It won’t be long until we turn into Greece and default on everything.
Texas Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul took time...
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Kevin Gutzman on the Mike Church show - Why Rick... →
Go to the link and listen to the interview yourself.
Prof. Kevin Gutzman: That’s the impulsive people like Madison thought could only lead the persecution. So they devised this idea that the government should stay out of it because it was too important to trust to the government. That’s why Virginia, under Madison’s prodding, became the first officially secular society, the first officially...
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Eminent Domain Abuse is Socialism for the Rich →
Socialism is for the people not the socialists.
Everyone understands the government occasionally needs to take private property in order to build a road, bridge, etc.; this is called “eminent domain.” But there are limits and requirements for such seizures. The U.S. Constitution states that “No person shall be… deprived of… property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be...
vexed-stressed-bored-to-death:
>Claims to be a libertarian.
>Doesn’t like Ron Paul and thinks Romney would be a decent President.
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Innovation and the consumer are the victims of a... →
Just more big government corporatism that protects the large crony corporations at the expense of everyone else.
ast May, James Thompson, the maker of a popular calculator app for the iPhone, got a nasty surprise. “Just got hit by very worrying threat of patent infringement lawsuit,” he tweeted.
The letter came from a Texas company called Lodsys LLC. The firm, widely...
“Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to...”
– Andre Marrou (via libertariancontrarian)
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The Gold Transformers →
It’s time to go back on the gold standard and leave fiat currencies in the dust.
The world has an excess of fiat currency, yet world bankers seem ready to prove that the creation of yet more money will stimulate our economy. The more likely outcome is devalued currencies and a much lower standard of living.
The currency ...
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Trade creates wealth. Protectionism destroys it →
This is the exact reason why Ron Paul isn’t an isolationist that the Republican war mongers try to portray him as. He knows free trade creates wealth and in turn creates peace.
We’re wrapping up our discussion of international trade in Econ 100 today with an analysis of tariffs and import restrictions. The defense of protectionism is a classic example of the Broken Window Fallacy in ...
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WikiLeaks Begins Publishing Leaked Stratfor Emails →
The truth will set you free.
At midnight tonight GMT, WikiLeaks has begun publishing some of the five million or so emails that it culled from a leak at the Stratfor company. The emails were taken from Stratfor during a hacking attack by Anonymous in late December.
The releases provide insight into the depths of Stratfor’s influence as well as the company’s more peripheral operations, likes a...
“Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a...”
– Murray N. Rothbard, “Anatomy of the State” (via crystal-oblivion)
Anonymous asked: What happens when an individual doesn't have the same access to resources as others? I understand that having no one (especially a collective force i.e. government) interfering or infringing on an individuals rights (i.e. Private property rights) sounds very appealing but there's other matters to consider. There would still be coercion even with the absence of government.
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Arab Americans, Muslim Americans Dig Ron Paul! →
From the invaluable campaign reporting of Yahoo’s Chris Moody comes this tale of Republican triumph for Ron Paul. Even though his campaign is not doing any specific outreach on this score, Muslim Americans and Arab Americans are saying yes to Dr. No:
“[Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have] come out against practically every position that the Arabs in the community support,”...
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Karzai Pleads for Calm as Quran Protests Grow →
Or we should just leave Afghanistan and let them all deal with themselves.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai once again appealed for calm today after a hand grenade attack in northern Afghanistan wounded six American soldiers, and anti-US protests continued to soar nationwide
Karzai warned that opponents of his regime were trying to “take advantage” of the situation, but his calls appeared to have...
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Rush Limbaugh - The anti war activist? →
Rush says we should get out of Afghanistan.
LIMBAUGH SAYS;
“We’re going over there for a host of reasons, I’ve been there, it was many years ago and there was a variation of nation building going on, we were building schools and especially schools for women…they were doing everything they could for women to get out of the prisons they lived in in terms of everyday life,” the talk show host...
rawrdamnit-rawr asked: So I'm trying to understand Libertarianism. And it seems to me that libertarianism works on the premise that we're all inherently equal and have the ability to make something of ourselves, and that class/race and other such factors don't figure in to the equation. At least, that's what we discussed in class and I have yet to form my own opinion on it. Anyway, I just wanted to...
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Federal judge severely limits Second Amendment... →
And this is the exact reason why conservatives shouldn’t celebrate the incorporation doctrine especially when it comes to the 2nd Amendment. Every Republican I know cheered after the Supreme Court incorporated the right to bear arms to all the states. But now one dictatorial judge and severely limit our rights to carry.
I’d much rather 50 different laws in every state than 1 rule...