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"Since it first appeared in 1980, NLM [New Libertarian Manifesto] has always been the strategic and tactical guide for Left Libertarians of the agorist persuasion. It is essential reading, and I applaud Victor Koman and KoPubCo, the original publisher, for reissuing it."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/08/mlls-tactical-guide-is-back-in-print.html
"Most STR folk reading this want freedom to run our own lives, and resent government's interference in that basic right; but how many of us could prove from basic premises that such a society alone is consistent with human nature; that it's impossible to maintain intellectual integrity without such a belief in individual freedom? The School has no lesser aim than to equip every graduate with that understanding."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/davies/davies2.html
"Fortunately for Hurwitz, other doctors who treat pain, and the millions of patients who depend on them, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit unanimously repudiated the Justice Department's concept of accidental drug trafficking. 'A doctor's good faith in treating patients is relevant to the jury's determination of whether the doctor acted beyond the bounds of legitimate medical practice,' the court ruled, vacating Hurwitz's conviction and ordering a new trial."
http://www.reason.com/sullum/083006.shtml
What does this have to do with Life in Amerika? You decide. "The King of Kleptopia loved his country and wanted it to be great in the eyes of the world. And he wanted to improve the lives of his people, and bring them greater prosperity. So he resolved to develop the commercial and manufacturing sector. He announced that he would use 'public funds' ... to promote economic growth."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1933
"It's hard to imagine anything that better encapsulates the spirit of life in America under George W. Bush than prime-time CNN pseudo-prophet Glenn Beck's recent warning about the end of the world. A dire warning about Armageddon, strategically issued during election season, that includes -- a plug for Ruffles!"
"Hey, the United States has a 'free press,' too; should the New York Times stop publishing stories using leaks of classified information that might violate 'that country's laws?' If you're going to bow down to John Reid, why not to George Bush too while you're at it? Are Britain's press-restriction laws somehow more honorable than the shackles Bush, Al Gonzales and the whole sick crew are trying to put on America's media?"
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=825&Itemid=135
"Permitting the free market to conduct the operations of the state would reduce and eliminate force, since the free market is voluntary. People can choose between providers in a free market. One can choose whether to buy groceries at Tesco or Sainsbury's, or whether to buy fast food from McDonald's or KFC. Under the rule of the state, no one has the power to choose whether they submit to the state or not."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/060827-3.htm
"For decades, Christiania clung to the principles of its hippie founders, who started the settlement as a squat in a deserted barracks in Copenhagen in 1971. It grew into a tourist hotspot, largely thanks to an easy trade in soft drugs. The waterfront district feels like an oasis: rose bushes and wild hedges twist between the haphazardly built homes, workshops, cafes and workmen's huts. People sip beer or smoke joints on benches, while dogs sunbathe on the worn cobblestones. "
"One crucial point, however, which Marc repeatedly raised, and which went unrebutted by Ian, is that the government courts have consistently ruled that the police (read government in general) are under no obligation to 'protect' anyone -- yet the compulsory apparatus of supporting the State remains firmly in place. We must serve the State . . . yet it need not serve us."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/knight/knight3.html
"The cultural change taking place with regard to information amounts to a decentralization of power. ... The technology has helped accelerate this change, just as technology helped accelerate the transition from an agricultural to an industrial society or from an industrial to a service-dominated society. But technology is just a means. The crux of the matter is the people's perception that power is now in their hands. The barriers to entry into the information market have fallen and now citizens don't depend on editors to publicize their views or their stories."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1805
"The United States, whose costliest political and military adventures since 1950 have ended in failure, now must face the fact that the technology for confronting its power is rapidly becoming widespread and cheap. It is within the reach of not merely states but of relatively small groups of people. Destructive power is now virtually 'democratized'."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/kolko4.html
"To think that the legislative process is somehow so sacrosanct that laypeople sitting on juries shouldn't second guess the judgment of lamwakers when dumb laws railroad unthreatening people reveals a trust in politics and lawmaking I'd say is rather unhealthy."
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026990.php#026990
"True fascism requires relentless aggression abroad and a semi-religious adoration of the regime at home. ... Claims by fevered neoconservatives that Muslim radicals plan to somehow impose a worldwide Islamic caliphate are lurid fantasies worthy of Dr. Fu Manchu and yet another example of the big lie technique that worked so well over Iraq. ... However, there are plenty of modern far rightists with neo-fascist tendencies. But to find them, you have to go to North America and Europe."
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2006/08/the_big_lie_abo.php
"The ordinary rules of morality don't apply to the IDF: Gillerman and his government are explicitly rejecting international moral norms, asserting that Israel has the right to commit any atrocity in the name of 'self-defense.' ... In normal society, individuals who live by this Nietzschean code of anti-ethics are called sociopaths. Most wind up behind bars. Others find employment in the various branches of government. … This braying, swaggering arrogance is the sort of style one usually associates with the historic enemies of the Jewish people -- jackbooted fascists and neo-Nazis, who wear their nihilistic ruthlessness on their sleeves alongside their swastika armbands."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9636
"In fact, the main difference between Saddam’s war crimes and Israel’s is that while Saddam denies them, Israeli officials indirectly admit them. Amnesty cites a comment by Israel’s top uniformed military official that implied that Israel was trying to punish the Lebanese population and government to get them to oppose Hezbollah."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1800
"Five years later, the canard that Bush neglected the good war against Afghanistan to start a bad one against Iraq is beginning to unravel. … Yet Democratic leaders and media allies continue to beat the classic eye-on-the-ball talking point into the ground. Their argument is that we should pull out of Iraq so we can fight harder in Afghanistan. ... A person's stance on Afghanistan has become a national litmus test on one's political intelligence."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20060830/cm_ucru/takingourbrainofftheball
"It's pathetic, really, to witness the coordinated assault on Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt – the sheer pettiness of the attacks betrays the Lobby's nervousness at confronting the arguments of this formidable duo. Mearsheimer, the dean of American foreign policy 'realists,' and Walt, former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a distinguished member of the faculty, are not easily brushed aside, so the Lobby resorts to a smear campaign -- and the reflexive anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bias that is a prerequisite for admission to the Serious Person Roll Call. ... What scares the Lobby, however, is that the American people are slowly but surely waking up."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9625
"Were the American people informed that 'their' government was playing this role? Were they asked for their consent? Would they have approved? That the questions sound absurd demonstrates how far removed government is from the people who are supposedly sovereign in the American system."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0609a.asp
A new essay from Sunni Maravillosa on 'sustainability' and freedom. "To think of freedom as some specific end point, that if it's reached, is to be tightly grasped in a futile effort to keep things as they are--to sustain a static state when all around you is changing--is to miss a crucial point, as well as a lot of potential. That point is simply this: Freedom isn't a target. It's a process.”
http://endervidualism.com/sunni_m/sustainability.htm
"Another reason jazz may have become America's first original art form was the nearly anarchistic setting of American life in the 1800s. For most of the nation, government intrusion was minimal. As government gets bigger, people necessarily get smaller. That is why jazz is important to American cultural history. It is symbolic of American ideals. It not only permits, but encourages individualism; and it does so in a way that allows a collection of improvising musicians to produce admirable works without central direction. It is, in a phrase, 'spontaneous order'."
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=7885
"[S]tudies with humans [show] that the SN/VTA [substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area or "the major 'novelty center'"] does respond to novelty as such and this novelty motivates the brain to explore, seeking a reward."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060826180547.htm
"I’ve come to believe that we create a lot of our own problems. I also believe that if someone is willing to step in and prevent us from experiencing the consequences of poor choices, we will never learn from them. This is the situation with government handouts. I'm not suggesting no one needs help at times, I am saying what government is doing is not only wrong, but unless the goal is dependency, it is not working."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana6.html
"According to the recording industry, even incorrect tabs and tabs developed by users from listening to songs are its property as 'derivative works.' I started thinking about what it would be like if there were an RIAA for ramen."
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71688-0.html?tw=wn_index_20
"Market forces are and have been systematically distorted through government intervention. There is no laissez faire. While American society is organized on market lines, the market is interfered with all along the way. So whatever the current income 'distribution' may be reflecting, it does not reflect a system of economic freedom unrestricted by government fiat."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=744
"This is what Bush's phony 'War on Terror' is about in reality: not a war, but an excuse for a police state. He has even claimed that this fake 'war' makes him 'commander in chief' and since this faux war is global, taking place everywhere including within the U.S., he claims that gives him the power of a generalissimo both internationally and here at home--the power to declare anyone he wants, including you and me, an 'enemy combatant' without rights of any kind, the power to ignore the courts, the power to ignore laws passed by Congress, and even the power to ignore the Constitution itself."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff08292006.html
"I've written about terrorist activity several times over the years, particularly in regards to the subway bombing that wreaked havoc on London last summer. In each instance I make the same case: Who benefits from such attacks? With the London attack, why would a rogue cell of 'freedom fighters' crater public opinion for Palestinians and Iraqis at a time when Europe was becoming largely supportive of their causes?"
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01222_flying_friendly_lies.html
"[T]his insistence on commander-in-chief Bush's 'inherent Presidential Constitutional Power' has been used by the administration to justify the abuse, and worse, of our suspected terrorist prisoners in violation of our War Crimes Act and the Geneva Conventions. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the president does not have this 'inherent' power to act unilaterally and violate our laws and international treaties. ... By the time you read this, the Republican Congress may have folded Specter's appeasement bill into an omnibus piece of legislation in order to more fully protect the president, his lawyers, and his implementers from any consequences of their felonies."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0636,hentoff,74349,6.html
"Younger physicians today do not recall what it was like to practice medicine in the good old days. But the good old days of 1977 were not all that good. From the era preceding World War I, when the Rockefeller Foundation promoted the government-licensing system that restricted entry into the profession by controlling medical education, the march into the trap of tax-funded medicine began."
http://www.mises.org/story/2293
"The truth is, Teddy Roosevelt was an imperialist who was morbidly fascinated with war and killing. He was a died-in-the-wool statist who considered himself to be the political heir to Hamilton, Clay, and Lincoln. He was a reckless, frenetic interventionist who displayed little knowledge (especially on economic issues) or even concern about the likely consequences of his interventions. ... Having demonized and dehumanized Filipinos ... under his 'leadership' the U.S. military would kill more than 200,000 of them. ... While proclaiming himself to be a champion of the consumer Roosevelt supported the Republican party's hyper-protectionist tariff policy, inflicting even further harm on hapless American consumers."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo106.html
"Friedman is a friend of the Fed. Paul and Griffin want it abolished. They will never be the guests of honor at a dinner in which a Fed bigwig apologizes for its very existence. Furthermore, Friedman likes fiat money. He rejects gold because people have to dig it out of South Africa only to bury it in Fort Knox -- a waste of real resources. Both Paul and Griffin want a free market dollar, and when people were 'free to choose,' they chose gold and silver. Yes, they require 'real resources,' but they're worth the price."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/smith/smith2.html
"President George W. Bush perpetually invokes the goal of spreading democracy to sanctify his foreign policy. Unfortunately, he is only the latest in a string of presidents who cloaked aggression in idealistic rhetoric. Killing in the name of democracy has a long and sordid history."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0606c.asp
"What we have today is not a World War between a principled West and psychotic groups from "over there," but rather the messy residue of decades of Western meddling in the Middle East. … Indeed, in the 1920s, the British, then the colonial rulers of Egypt, helped to set up the Muslim Brotherhood as a means of keeping Egyptian nationalism and anti-colonialism in check. ... We could argue that al-Qaeda, both intellectually and practically, is a product of Western meddling in Middle Eastern affairs."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/oneill.php?articleid=9615
"Don Rumsfeld is fond of historical analogies when pontificating about Iraq; he particularly favors comparisons to the Nazi era and the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II. Unfortunately, any historian will tell you that Rummy's parallels are invariably false, even ludicrous. So we thought we'd give the beleaguered Pentagon warlord a more accurate and telling analogy to chew on."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106A.shtml
"The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named in his honor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Peano
"Her first published book was Choo Choo, published in 1935, a story of a runaway train engine. This book set the pattern of animated machinery stories, which is undoubtedly what caught the interest of her young boys. Her second book, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a story of a steam shovel made obsolete by newer technology, has become a classic. "
http://www.ortakales.com/Illustrators/Burton.html
"The year 1945 was extremely important for Parker. During that time he led his own group in New York and also worked with [Dizzy] Gillespie in several ensembles. In December, Parker and Gillespie took their music to Hollywood on a six-week nightclub tour."
http://www.cmgworldwide.com/music/parker/about/biography.html
Animated action / adventure stars voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Elizabeth Peña; written and directed by Brad Bird. "The film addresses a trend in the modern world to institutionalize, bureaucratize -- and thereby make mediocre -- the exceptional. The protagonists wish to 'do good,' but others -- the envious, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, corpocrats -- keep them from that purpose often to the detriment of all.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/incredibles_2004.htm
"The G.O.P. used to have a sizable libertarian bloc, but I couldn't see any sign of it at the conference. Stone and Parker said they were rooting for Hillary Clinton in 2008 simply because it would be weird to have her as president. The prevailing sentiment among the rest of the libertarians was that the best outcome this November would be a Democratic majority in the House, because then at least there'd be gridlock."
http://www.reason.com/hod/jt083106.shtml
"I have never liked 'hard science' science fiction, or military science fiction, except for one writer -- Jerry Pournelle."
http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2006/08/soldiers_of_the.html
"Is Bush an imbecile? Probably not, since imbeciles have an IQ of only up to 49. They're smarter than idiots, but they're not as smart as Bush. The best an imbecile can hope for in politics is state legislator or lieutenant governor. I don't even reckon Bush is a moron (50-69 IQ). The smarter morons can be congressmen or political appointees below cabinet level. At worst Bush is a borderline mental deficient (70-80) like many Senators or cabinet members."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/08/bush-is-technically-not-idiot.html
"'Every American has an inalienable right to free speech and self-expression,' Bush said. 'Nonetheless, I call upon the American people to hold off on it for, say, 60 seconds. Just long enough for me to get this all sorted out in my head.' 'Please,' Bush added."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52106
"An envelope with suspicious powder was opened last fall at the headquarters. Daniels and other current and former guards said they were shocked when superiors carried it past the office of Secretary Michael Chertoff, took it outside and then shook it outside Chertoff's window without evacuating people nearby."
http://www.freecannon.com/GovCantRegulateSelf.htm
"To avoid selling out the market through the market, a degree of libertarian isolationism or separatism is necessary. This is where decentralism is protection against the destabilizing market power of opponents. Libertarians praise the free market, but the market will take advantage of whatever state currently exists. States have acted to subsidize mass distribution and centralization, not because they are more efficient, but because they allow and promote centralization of power and wealth."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/hobbs/hobbs1.html
"In a decentralized, cooperative market economy, the built-in conflict of interest currently involved in 'process improvement' would disappear. With management representing those doing the work, instead of those trying to get more out of them, most of the so-called 'agency dilemma' would be straightened out as cleanly as the Gordian knot. 'Change' would cease to be something imposed from above, by those with fundamentally different interests, and would instead consist of decisions made by workers concerning their own work."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2006/08/liberation-management-or-management-by.html
"If the lord of the manor comes into some money and raises the living stardard of his serfs, we would hardly tout that fact to show that feudalism is fine. I know the analogy is overdrawn, but many libertarians are doing something similar. They debate the numbers without pointing out what those numbers paint a picture of. It's not a picture of a laissez-faire economy; it's a picture of a corporate state -- the systematic intervention largely on behalf of incumbent business interests that tamps down competition and squelches alternatives, including self-employment, for many workers."
http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/09/missing-boat-again.html
"Indeed, the government, unlike private enterprise, has no institutional incentive to protect passengers. It does not fear bankruptcy, lawsuits, prosecution or even competition. Rather, the government uses airline security as just another way to expand its size and power. Every terrorist attack, potential or successful, translates into bigger bureaucratic budgets."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1804
"Find a way to stop being a wage slave. Easier said than done I know but give it a shot eh? It took me three career moves over a decade to finally find something that I could do that didn't require government sanction or approval, that I could own and manage myself, and didn't constitute 'employment' (i.e. wage slavery) by others and that made me enough money to live decently."
http://alisvoice.blogspot.com/2006/08/step-one-get-off-treadmill.html
"From my Great-Grandma Ladd I learn that the world does not owe me -- or anyone else -- a living, and that I am not entitled to implore or coerce anyone else to carry my burden, no matter how weighty and oppressive it may appear to me. As a human being, I am entitled to the dignity that accompanies choice, but I am compelled to live with the consequences of my choices and not to shunt unwanted results onto the shoulders or into the pockets of someone else. In other words, I am entitled to live a free life and nothing more, and I am bound to bear the responsibilities that accompany that freedom."
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