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Posted on 01.23.12 by Thomas L. Knapp
***** Volume X, Issue #2,354 rationalreview.news-digests.com ****SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS************************* In The News: 1) SCOTUS: Warrant required for police use of GPS Everybody Has An Opinion: 21) Libertarianism, rightly conceived See No Evil, Hear No Evil: 51) Free Talk Live, 01/22/12 ***** In The News ***** 1) SCOTUS: Warrant required for police use of GPS “The Supreme Court says police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects. The court ruled in the case of Washington, D.C., nightclub owner Antoine Jones. A federal appeals court in Washington overturned his drug conspiracy conviction because police did not have a warrant when they installed a GPS device on his vehicle and then tracked his movements for a month.” (01/23/12) —– 2) US Senator Rand Paul detained after declining TSA sexual overtures “Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Monday found himself in a showdown with the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tennessee after refusing to undergo a full-body pat down. Paul was later re-screened and booked on a subsequent flight. … According to the Associated Press, Paul said he was ‘detained’ in a small cubicle in the airport, which is about an hour from his Bowling Green, Kentucky home, and missed his flight to Washington for a Senate session. The TSA disputed the characterization that Paul was ‘detained.’” (01/23/12) —– 3) Iraq: Ten killed, 15 wounded “Three border guards were killed at a Syrian checkpoint in Ninewa province. A policemen and a gunman were killed at a checkpoint in Hammam al-Alil. Gunmen killed a Sahwa leader and wounded three other members in Rashid. … In Mosul, gunmen killed a soldier at a checkpoint. A Sahwa member was killed during an explosion in Hilla. … A clash in al-Intisar left one suspect dead and three arrested. … In Baiji, a Sahwa member was killed and two more were wounded in an I.E.D. attack.” (01/23/12) —– 4) Afghanistan: Occupation, regime troops kill five “International Security Assistance in Force in Afghnistan announced, at least five insurgents were killed and eight others were detained folloiwng a joint military operation by Afghan and NATO-led coalition security forces in eastern Afghanistan. According to a press release issued by ISAF, a coalition airstrike killed five insurgents after troops positively identified them with weapons in Tagab district, Kapisa province.” (01/24/12) —– 5) Pakistan: Suspected US terror strike kills four “A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at a house and a vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, killing four alleged militants in an attack that could signal the program is picking up steam after strained relations halted strikes late last year.” (01/23/12) www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2105096,00.html —– 6) Marine accepts plea deal in Haditha killings A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to negligent dereliction of duty in a deal that will bring a maximum of three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq War. Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, 31, of Meriden, Conn., led the Marine squad in 2005 that killed 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha in a series of raids on homes after a roadside bomb exploded near a Marine convoy, killing one Marine and wounding two others.” (01/23/12) —– 7) UN rights chief: Charge or release Gitmo detainees “The United States is still flouting international law at Guantanamo Bay, despite President Barack Obama’s election pledge to shut the facility, the United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday. ‘It is ten years since the U.S. Government opened the prison at Guantanamo, and now three years since 22 January 2009, when the President ordered its closure within twelve months. Yet the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained — indefinitely — in clear breach of international law,’ Pillay said in a statement, ahead of Obama’s next annual speech Tuesday.” (01/23/12) —– 8) Canada: Rwanda war crimes suspect deported “A Rwandan man has been deported from Canada for allegedly helping incite Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Leon Mugesera was taken to an airport in Montreal by Canadian border-services agents and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo later confirmed in a twitter account note on Monday that he had left on a plane bound for Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. Canadian officials did not comment.” (01/23/12) —– 9) Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization’s collapse “‘In an instant, anything can happen,’ she told Reuters. ‘And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared.’ Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as ‘preppers.’ Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm. … A wide range of vendors market products to preppers, mainly online. They sell everything from water tanks to guns to survival skills.” (01/21/12) —– 10) Libya: Gaddafi loyalists attack town, killing four “Forces loyal to Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi attacked the former regime stronghold of Bani Walid on Monday, killing at least four revolutionary fighters, officials and residents said. The fierce clashes in the town, located some 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, comes as the Libya’s new leaders struggle to stamp out lingering resistance from pro-Gadhafi forces and unify a deeply fractured country after eight months of civil war and more than 40-years of authoritarian rule.” (01/23/12) —– 11) Indonesia: Atheist who posted “God does not exist” on Facebook arrested “Indonesian police say a civil servant who posted ‘God does not exist’ on Facebook faces a maximum penalty of five years behind bars for blasphemy. Thirty-one-year-old Alexander Aan was taken into police custody Friday after his remarks triggered public outcry in West Sumatra province. He was attacked by a mob on his way to work.” (01/23/12) —– 12) SAF, ANJRPC will appeal New Jersey right-to-carry ruling “Second Amendment Foundation and Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs will appeal a federal judge’s ruling Friday that ‘the Second Amendment does not include a general right to carry handguns outside the home.’ Federal Judge William H. Walls, a Clinton appointee, dismissed a case filed by both organizations challenging New Jersey’s handgun carry laws, which have all but eliminated the right to self-defense with a firearm outside the home.” (01/23/12) —– 13) Egypt: New parliament convenes, eyes on ultracon salafis “As Egypt’s new parliament holds its first session today, the Muslim Brotherhood took its seat at the head of the table, with a parliamentary plurality after decades of being hounded by the Egyptian security state. But what’s really interesting — or alarming, depending on your perspective — is the faction playing second fiddle: Nearly one quarter of the new representatives will come from the ultraconservative salafi movement that follows a strict interpretation of Islam like what is practiced in Saudi Arabia.” (01/23/12) —– 14) Mexico: Authorities unravel child trafficking ring “Life seemed to give Karla Zepeda a break when a woman came to her dusty neighborhood of cinderblock homes and dirt roads looking for babies to photograph in an anti-abortion ad campaign. The woman asked to use the 15-year-old’s baby girl in a two-week photo shoot for $755, a small fortune for a teen mother who earns $180 a month at a sandwich stand and shares a small, one-story house with her disabled mother, stepfather, and three brothers. But 9-month-old Camila wasn’t just posing for photographs.” (01/23/12) —– 15) Arctic Ocean freshwater bulge detected “UK scientists have detected a huge dome of freshwater that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean. The bulge is some 8,000 cubic km in size and has risen by about 15cm since 2002. The team thinks it may be the result of strong winds whipping up a great clockwise current in the northern polar region called the Beaufort Gyre. This would force the water together, raising sea surface height, the group tells the journal Nature Geoscience.” (01/23/12) www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16657122 —– 16) Consumers demand insurers cover experimental drugs “When your health insurance provider denies an experimental treatment or a high-cost drug, how much are you willing to pay for the care you believe you need? Barby Ingle, a former cheerleading and dance coach at Washington University who now lives in a Phoenix suburb, has been forced to face this question.” (01/23/12) —– 17) NZ: Dotcom denies charges in court “Kim Dotcom, the internet mogul accused by the FBI of earning $175m (#112m) in illegal profits through file-sharing site Megaupload.com, has denied internet piracy in a New Zealand court. … Judge David McNaughton said the bail application was too complicated for an immediate ruling, adding he would issue a written decision no later than Wednesday.” (01/23/12) —– 18) Syria: Assad regime rejects new Arab League proposal “Syria on Monday rejected the Arab League’s wide-ranging new plan to end the country’s 10-month crisis, saying the League’s call for a national unity government in two months is a clear violation of Syrian sovereignty. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets in a suburb outside the capital, Damascus, to mourn 11 residents who were either shot dead by security forces or killed in clashes between army defectors and troops a day earlier, activists said.” (01/23/12) —– 19) Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK “A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists. A British company, GW Pharma, is in advanced clinical trials for the world’s first pharmaceutical developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents — a mouth spray it hopes to market in the U.S. as a treatment for cancer pain.” (01/22-12) —– 20) Keystone XL pipeline seen moving ahead on alternative route “TransCanada Corp.’s $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline still will move ahead with an alternate route after President Barack Obama’s decision to deny a permit, investors, public officials and analysts say. … TransCanada today said it may build U.S.-only pipeline segments, which don’t require federal approval, and apply later for permission to connect the pipeline to Canadian oil sands and complete Keystone XL as originally proposed.” (01/23/12) ***** HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER ***** US Deaths in Afghanistan: Bush 575, Obama 1219 ***** Everybody Has An Opinion ***** 21) Libertarianism, rightly conceived “Most libertarians recognize that there are situations for governments to step in and fill a gap that is not being filled through voluntary cooperation, including the possibility of a social safety net. But redistribution, if it is tried, should only come after … the government stops hurting those who need the most help.” (01/18/12) www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14030 —– 22) Government is wolf in sheepdog’s clothing “Sources vary, but in the twentieth century alone Herr Hitler’s government sheepdogs killed around 12 million of its own citizens, Joe Stalin’s government murdered some 23 million civilians, and the government of Chairman Mao massacred 78 million or so of its country’s population. That’s just barely the beginning of the genocide list. And It doesn’t even include the monsterously huge number of people killed by governments when they force their own citizens into uniforms and turn them into raw meat on the world’s battlefields.” (01/23/12) —– 23) The Fed as a criminal organization “I regard the Fed as a criminal organization, since it engages in (well, aids and abets) counterfeiting. The Fed is to the U.S. economy as was the old central planning apparatus of the late and non-lamented Soviet Union to the entire economy of the U.S.S.R. The Federal Reserve System has been responsible since its inception in 1913 for destroying some 97% of the value of our dollar, the life blood of our economy.” (01/23/12) lewrockwell.com/block/block196.html —– 24) Jesus, anarchy, and the Golden Rule “But thanks to politics and scheming Republicans, proud declarations of affinity for razing countries to pieces from the air is lauded and sacrificing, killing, and dying for the state is the highest honor. This is how predominantly Christian South Carolina could boo and jeer someone advocating the Golden Rule — the very essence of Christ’s message and philosophy. ” (01/23/12) www.strike-the-root.com/jesus-anarchy-and-golden-rule —– 25) A fitting symbol of the American Empire “The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories of people in the region, along with the pictures from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.” (01/20/12) www.fff.org/comment/com1201n.asp —– 26) Mitt Romney’s Mediscare “Inconsistency is only the beginning of the problems with Mr. Romney’s Medicare scare.” (01/23/12) reason.com/archives/2012/01/23/mitt-romneys-mediscare —– 27) Your vote won’t matter. Don’t waste it. “Here’s a sad truth: if you’re going to vote in the 2012 election because you’re afraid the Right Candidate won’t win (or the Wrong Candidate will) if you don’t, then you’re wasting your time. The probability that you die in an auto accident driving to the polling place is higher than the probability that you cast the decisive ballot.” (01/19/12) —– 28) Hands off Hungary! “Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers.” (01/23/12) www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11995/ —– 29) An opportunity gone to waste “Civil Liberty, essentially the accountability of government to law that serves to protect the innocent, is the historic achievement of the English over many centuries from its beginnings with the foundation for common law established by Alfred the Great in the 9th century through Magna Carta in the 13th century to the Glorious Revolution in the 17th century. If this human achievement is lost, it is unlikely to be resurrected. If the Constitution that Bush and Obama have murdered stays in its grave one more presidential term, no one will be able to re-establish the Constitution’s authority.” (01/23/12) —– 30) Series of bad bills assault the US Constitution “The bills, while purporting to protect intellectual property and attack the online piracy of things like music and movies also included language that made it possible for the government to unilaterally censor or shut down any Web operations it wanted. This blatant infringement of free speech, and affront to the U.S. Constitution was tucked into the small print.” (01/22/12) —– 31) The American press and war “There is a myth of an independent American press existing as a counterforce to government power. Unfortunately, the truth is less inspiring, especially with respect to the U.S. government’s wars, invasions, and foreign interventions. Rather than keeping the public well-informed, journalists and reporters have all too often served as conduits for government propaganda in the march to war.” (01/12) www.fff.org/comment/com1201l.asp —– 32) Schools of education “Education professors drum into students that they should not ‘drill and kill’ or be the ’sage on the stage’ but instead be the ‘guide on the side’ who ‘facilitates student discovery.’ This kind of harebrained thinking, coupled with multicultural nonsense, explains today’s education.” (01/23/12) —– 33) A brass age? “This may be the golden age of presumptuous ignorance. The most recent demonstrations of that are the Occupy Wall Street mobs. It is doubtful how many of these semi-literate sloganizers could tell the difference between a stock and a bond. Yet there they are, mouthing off about Wall Street on television, cheered on by politicians and the media. If this is not a golden age of presumptuous ignorance, perhaps it should be called a brass age.” (01/23/12) —– 34) Taxing investment “In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was an economist at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, my boss and tax policy mentor, the late Norman Ture, had a favorite saying: ‘People aren’t taxed. Activities are.’ It is this proposition, that taxation of any kind always has the effect of penalizing some activities relative to others, that lies at the heart of the economic analysis of taxation.” (01/23/12) —– 35) A case of strategic debasement “What message should we take, what lessons should we draw from the video posted last week on YouTube of U.S. Marine snipers urinating, with unconcealed glee, on the bodies of presumed enemy dead in Afghanistan? Should we — whether Americans or non-Americans, civilian or military, veterans or nonveterans, liberal or conservative, pro-war or anti-war — be concerned, alarmed, even outraged? Yes.” (01/20/12) —– 36) Atlas Slugged “Although Newt Gingrich has dominated the headlines since Saturday night, what happened in the South Carolina primary is less about Gingrich’s rise than it is about Mitt Romney’s fall. The right’s determination to find anyone other than Romney — illustrated over the last eight months by the hot flashes of support for Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain — has become desperate to the point that evangelicals supported a twice-divorced man who, by the account of one of his discarded spouses, aspired to manage a small harem.” (01/23/12) prospect.org/article/atlas-slugged —– 37) Obama on brink of settlement with big banks “For months, a massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage crisis has been in the offing. The rumored details have always given progressives heartburn: civil immunity, no investigations, inadequate help for homeowners and a small penalty for the banks. Now, on the eve President Obama’s State of the Union address — in which he plans to further advance a populist message against big money and income inequality — the deal may be here, and it’s every bit as ugly as progressives feared.” (01/23/12) —– 38) Mitt’s entitlement problem “After Newt Gingrich’s stunning victory Saturday in South Carolina, the former House speaker will likely dominate the headlines this week. But Romney, with his strong campaign team, deep pockets and overwhelming support from the Republican establishment, is still the odds-on favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination. So greater attention should be paid to the substance of his views, which — despite a book, a jobs plan, 17 debates and innumerable stump speeches — have received remarkably little attention.” (01/23/12) —– 39) Mitt Romney heads south “When John King asked Newt about the comment from an ex-wife that he had asked for ‘an open marriage,’ Newt leveled the guy — and won South Carolina. Newt discovered that evangelical Republicans dislike, even more than infidelity, a smug, biased, leftist ‘moderator.’ Oddly, women seem to let the open marriage thing slide. As for men, the only thing most men would prefer to an open marriage is an open bar. If you combine that with football on a flat-screen HD TV and serve hot wings, you would carry 99 percent of the straight male vote.” (01/23/12) —– 40) Government, big or small “President Obama recently unveiled a plan to reorganize and streamline government agencies. ‘No business,’ the president said, ‘would allow this kind of duplication or unnecessary complexity in their operations. … Why is it OK for our government?’ Sound familiar? It should. Obama’s proposal — a political ploy aimed at the fickle middle of American politics — is the most recent in a long line of presidential ‘efficiency’ measures. Every president since Richard Nixon has offered something similar. None has delivered on the promise of smaller, more efficient government.” (01/23/12) —– 41) Has the GOP jumped the shark? “I can’t say that for certain, as it depends who emerges from the vicissitudes of the primary campaign to be the nominee, but I have a hunch that the GOP is going to keel over in the near future. Its social conservatism is simply untenable in the long run; by 2020 it might be completely unpalatable. Its foreign policy is better suited for Call of Duty rather than the real world. Its right on entitlement reform and cutting spending to be absolutely necessary, but it never actually does anything about it — and when it does, its efforts are best described as ‘milquetoast.’” (01/23/12) —– 42) Twilight of the Gops? “The only things holding the Republican Party together at this point are 1) hatred of the Democrats and 2) Newt Gingrich’s ambition. Those two things aren’t sufficient for the long term. They aren’t nuts and bolts, they’re chewing gum and baling wire.” (01/23/12) knappster.blogspot.com/2012/01/twilight-of-gops.html —– 43) Extremism in “defense” of Israel “The leaders of pro-Israel groups who lined up demanding the purge of the DC Five, are in denial: if they doubt the existence of Israel-Firsters, let them read the words of an American citizen calmly contemplating the assassination of his own President — in the name of ’saving’ Israel. Let them also begin to take some responsibility for Adler’s frame of mind: faithfully echoing the hysterical cries of the Netanyahu government, they have pushed the idea that Israel faces an ‘existential threat’ from Iran against all available evidence.” (01/23/12) —– 44) What’s so special about the 1%? “Making more money than 99% of one’s countrymen is, by itself, no more morally objectionable than scoring in the 99th percentile of the SAT. Indeed, generally, it’s much more morally praiseworthy; creating wealth benefits people other than oneself. Of course, some people cheat on the SAT. Cheating is wrong. But high-scorers generally aren’t screwing anyone over.” (01/22/12) —– 45) Open letter to the fedgoons “The other day I went to town and saw a big, black (clean) SUV at the only signal light in town. It had quite a few stubby radio antennas and smoky glass windows (illegal for the rest of us), so I wasn’t surprised to see two young men in it with hard looking faces. The thing is, gentlemen — you stand out like a sore thumb.” (01/23/12) www.thepriceofliberty.org/2012/01/23/editor.html —– 46) The contrarian view of Argentina “[U]nderstandably, dear readers write in wanting to know why, of all the places on planet Earth, Doug Casey and his partners selected the perennially dysfunctional country of Argentina to establish a bolt hole, gilded though it may be. After all, these questioners correctly point out, it seems that hardly a week goes by without yet another quirky and invariably counterproductive decision being announced by Argentina’s government.” (01/20/12) www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/contrarian-view-argentina —– 47) Britain declares war on free expression “Press TV broke the news headlining, ‘Ofcom revokes Press TV’s UK license,’ saying: ‘In a questionable move and without offering a valid response to the Press TV CEO’s letters, the British Office of Communications (Ofcom)’ pulled the plug disgracefully. After threatening it for months, it ‘removed the channel from the Sky platform.’ Britain’s decision came at its highest levels.” (01/23/12) —– 48) Economists and influence, a depressing take “Prior to the current Administration, I would have told you that economists are taken more seriously by Democratic Presidents than by Republicans. (Being taken seriously means that you allow an economist to talk you out of doing something that is politically attractive.) Now, I think that economists are likely to bat less than .100 with either.” (01/22/12) econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/01/economists_and_1.html —– 49) Concerning Mitt Romney’s “Mormon problem” “Yes, he has one. America’s come a long way since JFK’s uphill slog to prove that a Catholic could get elected president, but not so far that Mitt Romney’s affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints isn’t a problem for him, with respect to both the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and the general election.” (01/23/12) —– 50) Making art from the history of art “Hollywood has a way of both following trends and creating them. We can see these trends develop whenever we look back at the course of a Hollywood year. Filmmaking is now nearly a hundred years old, and while its beginning is not specific enough to generate any ‘100th anniversary’ hoopla, several films this year looked back at the groundbreaking artistry of filmmaking that we often take for granted.” (01/20/12) ***** See No Evil, Hear No Evil ***** 51) Free Talk Live, 01/22/12 “Stephan Kinsella interviewed :: SOPA, PIPA and OPEN oh my :: Online Piracy vs sharing :: copyright :: abolishing copyright :: Would Ron Paul fix IP? :: Other up-load sites shut down :: Mash-up music :: Monsanto going after farmers for IP :: Cop shoots dog at the wrong house :: Liberty Forum question :: Police father children with women they are spying on :: Gay vs straight parents.” [MP3] (01/22/12) traffic.libsyn.com/ftl/FTL2012-01-22.mp3 —– 52) QandO Podcast, 01/22/12 “Bruce, Michael, and Dale talk about the Republican primaries and the Keystone decision.” [various formats] (01/22/12) —– 53) Cato Daily Podcast, 01/20/12 “Protect IP and the seizure of MegaUpload,” featuring Julian Sanchez. [Flash video] (01/20/12) —– 54) Ranking economic freedom with the Heritage Foundation’s James Roberts “Roberts sat down with Reason’s Matt Welch to discuss the Index, the state of free enterprise in the world, and the decline of economic freedom in Europe and North America.” [Flash video] (01/20/12) —– 55) Bloody Hands “This song was inspired by a friend of mine who came back from a tour in Iraq as well as the recent killing of a park ranger by a soldier with severe PTSD.” [Flash video] (01/09/12) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfQs89OF3c ***** Editors: Filed under: Swag | |
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Source: iPic Publishing Posted on 07.15.10 by Thomas L. Knapp Fiction by a libertarian attempting to make the transition from “unemployed” to “full-time writer.” Description: “Paul had nearly joined his parents in death, but he survived his bout with meningitis. Being so close to the other side, however, piqued his curiosity. That would lead him to search for greater meaning in the occult, which in turn would open doors beyond his imagination.” Link: http://ipicpublishing.com/ebooks/index.php/home-page/the-ouijiers.html Filed under: Swag and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Cool Site of the Day Posted on 06.16.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “How you can invest 30 minutes, make a few simple changes to your web page or blog and explode your traffic numbers.” Link: http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/7-seo/?e=info@rationalreview.com Filed under: Swag and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute Author: Michael A. Heilperin Posted on 06.01.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “A new economic fallacy came of age in the course of the last prewar decade and threatens to play havoc with the future peace of the world. This fallacy consists in saying that a country’s national prosperity depends, essentially, upon a centralized planning of its economic life. Those who propound this point of view usually confuse full employment with prosperity and state the problem in terms of the former rather than of the latter objective.” (06/01/10) Link: http://mises.org/daily/4329 Filed under: RRND Commentary and Swag | |
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Source: Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner Author: Kent McManigal Posted on 12.22.09 by Thomas L. Knapp “Could I live in America under a ‘Constitutional US government?’ Well, sure. Why not? I have been living in America under an unconstitutional US government all my life. I’m a good adapter and don’t usually mind being an outlaw and ignoring government edicts. A ‘Constitutional US government’ would be a lot less intrusive than the criminal government America is occupied by today, but why stop there?” (12/22/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yan68vr Filed under: RRND Commentary and Swag | |
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Source: Kent Van Cleave CafePress Shop Posted on 11.05.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “Americans used to think fascism was a political system that only occurred in foreign countries, such as Germany and Italy in the World War II era. Most still belive that, but they’re wrong. Our U.S. government is proving that fascism can be for us, too! It’s time to educate those remaining Americans — hopefully in time to create a groundswell of opposition to losing the American way. You can do your part by showing off these spiffy (and funny) products wherever you go!” [Cartoon by Kent VanCleave on T’s, sweatshirts,etc] (11/06) Link: http://www.cafepress.com/fascism4us2.81111476 Filed under: LAND Action Items and Swag | |
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Source: Claire Wolfe website Posted on 10.24.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “Tell the jackbooterie that you know your rights. Tell casual snoops and unwelcome drop-ins that they need your okay before entering your “castle.” These vinyl stickers are 4 x 4 inches square and will cling to your house or vehicle window. ” $3.00 each or4 for $9.00 Free shipping! Link: http://www.clairewolfe.com/specialoffer2006.html Filed under: LAND Action Items and Swag | |
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Source: Liberty Bookshop Author: Vin Suprynowicz Posted on 04.29.06 by Thomas L. Knapp If Ayn Rand and Alan Moore had a literary child, that child would grow up to be The Black Arrow. A novel of an American police state (in truth, not too far beyond what we have now) and the heroes who fight with zest (and sex and rock’n'roll!) for freedom. Link: http://www.libertybookshop.us/mall/The-Black-Arrow.htm Filed under: Swag | |
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Source: Amazon.Com Author: L. Neil Smith Posted on 04.29.06 by Thomas L. Knapp L. Neil Smith’s astounding first novel — the story of detective Win Bear’s accidental journey from a chillingly realistic American police state to a universe in which things happened very, very differently and America became an anarchist/libertarian utopia of sorts. At turns didactic, hiliarious, didactically hilarious and just plain rippin’ good. Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765301539/rationalrev08-20 Filed under: Swag | |
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Source: Amazon.Com Author: Ken Macleod Posted on 04.29.06 by Thomas L. Knapp The third (and, in the US, best-known) novel in Ken Macleod’s “Fall Revolution” cycle. Socialist anarchists using organic and nano-tech computers versus “post-humans” on Jupiter and an anarcho-capitalist settlement on the far side of a wormhole. Stands alone quite well as a story, but best read in the context of the entire cycle. Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812568583/rationalrev08-20 Filed under: Swag | |
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Source: Amazon.Com Author: Ken Macleod Posted on 04.29.06 by Thomas L. Knapp The fourth of four books in Ken Macleod’s “Fall Revolution” cycle. Set on a future Earth in which space travel has long been impossible because of a ring of space garbage produced in a cataclysmic war, with flashbacks to that war’s run-up — anarchists bucking for the Singularity, communists whose central planning is done by a weird organic computer, the whole nine Macleod yards of really wild political stuff. Fantastic read. Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009WE1HM/rationalrev08-20 Filed under: Swag | |
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Source: Amazon.Com Author: Ken Macleod Posted on 04.29.06 by Thomas L. Knapp The second novel in Ken Macleod’s “Fall Revolution” cycle deals with issues like the moral/legal status of robots and artificial intelligences. Solid writing — it’s my least favorite book in the cycle, but that still puts it somewhere in my favorite 100 science fiction novels of all time. Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812568648/rationalrev08-20 Filed under: Swag | |
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Source: Amazon.Com Author: Ken Macleod Posted on 04.29.06 by Thomas L. Knapp This is a truly mind-blowing novel (Macleod’s debut and the first in the “Fall Revolution” cycle). How mind-blowing? Here’s a snippet from Publisher’s Weekly: “Marxist security mercenary Moh Kohn and computer expert Janis Taine, later joined by ‘femininist’ terrorist Catherin Duvalier and Jordan Brown, a teenage refugee from an evangelical commune, seek to defeat a sinister artificial intelligence that threatens to act as a doomsday machine. With a host of peculiar friends and enemies and just as many action scenes in odd places (try a gay ghetto whose militia is known as the Rough Traders), this quartet will keep readers interested if occasionally confused right through the last battle against the Hanoverians (the absentee royal family) and the Men in Black (the U.S./U.N. technology police, or Stasis). The political scenario needs (and receives) a good deal of background explanation, allowing American readers in particular to better appreciate such curious political entities as the Space and Freedom Party and the Felix Dzerzhinsky Workers’ Defense Collective.” Yeah … that mind-blowing. Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765301563/rationalrev08-20 Filed under: Swag | |
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Source: Amazon.Com Author: Lysander Spooner Posted on 04.29.06 by Thomas L. Knapp “What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other. They can contrive to bring about a sufficient understanding to enable them to act in concert against other persons; but beyond this they have no confidence, and no friendship, among themselves.” Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1419137190/rationalrev08-20 Filed under: Swag | |
