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Posted on 06.27.12 by Thomas L. Knapp
***** Volume X, Issue #2,465 rationalreview.news-digests.com ****SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS************************* In The News: 1) Iran threatens to stop imports from South Korea over oil halt Everybody Has An Opinion: 21) The mythical right to decency See No Evil, Hear No Evil: 51) Gareth Porter on Antiwar Radio ***** In The News ***** 1) Iran threatens to stop imports from South Korea over oil halt “Iran threatened Wednesday to halt all imports of goods from South Korea in response to Seoul’s announcement a day earlier that it would stop accepting Iranian oil. South Korea said Tuesday that it would suspend all Iranian oil imports from the start of July in response to a European Union insurance ban on tankers carrying crude from Iran.” (06/27/12) —– 2) Contempt of Congress issue may fizzle after vote “A House vote finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress on Thursday would create election-year fireworks but maybe not much lasting sizzle. Federal judges who’ve been called into similar disputes often sound like frazzled moms, in essence telling Congress and the president, ‘I don’t care who started it, you two end it.’” (06/27/12) —– 3) Iraq: 21 killed, 25 wounded “Eight people were killed and 19 more were wounded in a double bombing near Madaen in Wahda. … In Baghdad, a blast targeting a Sahwa member killed his wife and two children and wounded three others in Ghazaliya. A blast killed four people, including one civilian and wounded two civilians in Badush. In Mosul, a roadside bomb killed four soldiers at the Rashidiya junction. Gunmen killed a man. A bomb in Ramadi killed a physician and wounded his daughter. A body was discovered in al-Rifai.” (06/27/12) —– 4) Afghanistan: Twelve killed in suicide bombing “A suicide bombing against an international military convoy killed 12 Afghans in the east of the country on Wednesday, officials said. A car packed with explosives rammed into the vehicles around midday as they were passing through Khost city, the capital of the province of the same name, said Baryalai Wakman, a spokesman for the provincial government.” (06/27/12) —– 5) Pakistan: Anti-Taliban leader shot dead “The bullet-riddled bodies of an anti-Taliban militia commander and three of his associates were dumped in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, police said. The bodies of Fahimud Din, aged 50, chief of a 1 500-strong vigilante force in Bazidkhel on the outskirts of Peshawar, and three of his associates were found in a Toyota Land Cruiser on the city’s ring road.” (06/27/12) —– 6) ACLU files suit against Puerto Rico police “Puerto Rico’s police department was hit with a federal lawsuit on Wednesday as the American Civil Liberties Union accused officers of using excessive force and violating civil rights during demonstrations organized by university students and public employees. The lawsuit alleges that Superintendent Hector Pesquera has encouraged a pattern of violence against demonstrators.” (06/27/12) —– 7) Ecuador quits former School of the Americas “Ecuador’s defense minister says the Andean nation will stop sending military and police officers for training at the U.S. Defense Department-run school formerly known as School of the Americas. Opponents of the school, currently located at Fort Benning, Georgia, blame it for human rights abuses in Latin America by foreign military officers trained there.” (06/27/12) —– 8) KS: Homeowner shoots burglar “A burglar was greeted by a homeowner with a gun early this morning, and he paid the price for tying to get into the east Wichita home. … The homeowner told police that the burglar had taken several steps into his home when he fired the shot. Wichita Police say the injured burglar showed up at a nearby gas station. He was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm, and it appears his injuries are not life threatening. An officer on scene says, ‘There’s a lot of discretion, but if a homeowner feels that his life is threatened, then he has a right to protect himself.’” (06/23/12) —– 9) AR: Man shoots and kills woman, claims self defense “Police were called to a robbery in the 2600 block of West 28th Avenue early Tuesday morning and found a woman dead. A man told police he shot the woman in self defense after she carjacked him. Ryan Bishop, 20, told police that 22-year-old Tarshara Banister jumped in his truck held him at gunpoint and took his wallet. He says she then ordered him to drive to an ATM where he says he was forced to attempt to withdraw money. Bishops says they fought over the gun and he shot Banister in self defense. Police are still investigating the incident.” (06/26/12) —– 10) FalconStor to pay $5.8 million bribe to settle bribery charges “FalconStor Software Inc will pay $5.8 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it bribed JP Morgan Chase Bank NA executives to obtain $12 million in software contracts, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday..” [editor’s note: Half the bribe goes to DoJ Gang, half to the SEC Family - TLK] (06/27/12) —– 11) Germany: Judges rule that circumcision is “grievous bodily harm” “Jewish and Muslim groups in Germany condemned a court ruling on Wednesday that deemed circumcision to be equivalent to grievous bodily harm. The court in Cologne declared that the procedure violated a child’s ‘fundamental right to bodily integrity.’ Religious groups claimed that the ruling trampled on freedom of belief and could lead to ‘circumcision tourism.’” (06/27/12) —– 12) Free rapid AIDS test tried out at drugstores “U.S. health officials have set up a $1.2 million pilot program to that will offer free rapid HIV tests at pharmacies and in-store clinics in 24 cities and rural communities in hopes testing for the AIDS virus will become another routine service along with blood pressure checks and flu shots. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the program Tuesday.” (06/27/12) —– 13) FDA approves Arena obesity drug “U.S. health regulators on Wednesday approved Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc’s pill to treat obesity, making it the first new weight-loss drug in 13 years as public health advocates push for new solutions to the nation’s growing obesity epidemic. Arena’s lorcaserin, which will be sold under the brand name Belviq, was one of three experimental weight-loss drugs seeking Food and Drug Administration approval after initial rejections by the agency. Vivus Inc and Orexigen Therapeutics Inc are still hoping to bring their medicines to market.” (06/27/12) —– 14) Bill would make misleading voters a crime “The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began discussing a bill that would make it a federal crime to knowingly mislead voters as to the time and place of a public election — an effort Democrats say will help crack down on voter intimidation and disenfranchisement due to dirty political tricks. [T]he Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act … would help to prevent deliberately misleading mailers and phone calls in the run-up to an election.” [editor’s note: A good start; now if the bill only penalized outright lying by the candidates as to their intentions if elected … - SAT] (06/27/12) —– 15) Survey: Obama better than Romney to battle alien invasion “President Obama may be trailing Mitt Romney in the polls on who’d do a better job fixing the economy. But if the Earth ever is attacked by hostile beings from another planet, a strong majority of voters believe Mr. Obama would be superior in dealing with the situation. … [A] survey by the National Geographic Channel, first reported by USA Today, finds that 65 percent of Americans say Obama would be better suited than Mr. Romney to handle an alien invasion.” [editor’s note: The assumption that they’re hostile puts this off the rails from the start - SAT] (06/27/12) —– 16) Occupied Ireland: Windsor, McGuinness shake hands “The final day of the Queen’s two-day visit to Northern Ireland was marked by an historic handshake and a huge party. Her Majesty and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness shook hands for the first time. The meeting between the monarch and Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister took place at a charity event in Belfast on Wednesday morning.” (06/27/12) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18607911 —– 17) Hallmark accused of bashing Tea Party “Lennie Jarratt’s children had gone to Walmart over the weekend in search of a gradation card for a family friend. But instead they found a Hallmark card that has generated outrage within the Tea Party community — along with calls for a national boycott. The card, published by Hallmark, features an image of President Obama on the cover declaring, ‘You graduated! Time to go to a lot of parties!’ The inside of the card reads, ‘But avoid those tea parties if you can. Trust me.’” [editor’s note: I’ve seen people get upset over some minor league stuff before, but this goes beyond mere petulant silliness and well into “manufactured outrage” territory - TLK] (06/27/12) —– 18) GA: ACLU to represent KKK in “Adopt A Highway” suit “The American Civil Liberties Union will help the Ku Klux Klan in its bid to join Georgia’s highway cleanup program as a legal fight looms. The International Keystone Knights of the KKK applied to join the ‘Adopt-A-Highway’ program along part of Route 515 in the north Georgia mountains. Participating groups are recognized with a sign along the road they adopt.” (06/27/12) —– 19) Judge: Competing with Apple is bad, mmmkay? “Samsung Electronics Co. was dealt a blow Tuesday when a California judge issued an injunction banning sales of the company’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 touchscreen tablet at the request of Apple Inc. … U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh wrote that Apple had made a strong case that Samsung had violated its design patent, which describes the front, back and sides of the iPad.” (06/27/12) —– 20) Cyprus: Next eurozone state to seek bailout “Cyprus on Monday became the fifth eurozone country to request financial aid from its partners in the troubled European currency union as it struggles to shore up its banks, which took heavy losses on Greek debt. The island nation’s government said in a terse statement that it required assistance following ‘negative spillover effects through its financial sector, due to its large exposure in the Greek economy.’” (06/26/12) ***** HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER ***** US Deaths in Afghanistan: Bush 575, Obama 1348 ***** Everybody Has An Opinion ***** 21) The mythical right to decency “The Supreme Court passes up a chance to overturn the FCC’s unconstitutional speech restrictions.” (06/27/12) —– 22) An unfamiliar definition of “voluntary” “It is called a ‘voluntary safety plan.’ Using the plan, Child Protective Services (CPS) can bypass the constitutional rights of parents and take children away from non-abusive homes. (Note: agencies function under different names from state to state, but they are often referred to merely as CPS.)” (06/27/12) www.fff.org/comment/com1206v.asp —– 23) Must America embrace empire to be safe? “No doubt America also has the power to blow up the world, but it hardly follows that we should do so: ‘can’ does not imply ‘ought.’ If, as Thayer thinks, we need to undertake the very costly task of imposing order on the rest of the world, must there not be some nation, or group of nations, that would otherwise pose a grave danger to our safety? If no such danger impends, why should we undertake the Herculean task of dictating and enforcing the terms of international order?” (06/27/12) —– 24) Global governments’ growing embrace of Big Pharma “As the pharmaceutical industry wrestles with multiple existential threats — from price controls to patent cliffs to dwindling pipelines — calls are growing for deeper government-industry cooperation. As private investors flee, the guiding hand and bottomless pockets of government technocrats are somehow supposed to conjure up the twin genies of innovation and efficiency.” (06/25/12) —– 25) Policy and analogy “As a historical analogy for the present moment, the 1930s are a natural reference point for neoconservative intellectuals, the original authors and most vocal advocates of the series of Middle Eastern wars that have kept us preoccupied since the end of the cold war. After all, neoconservatism was itself born in that tumultuous era of war and depression, in Alcove 1 at the City College cafeteria, or, at least, its seeds were sown. World War II was the defining moment of a whole generation of leftist intellectuals, whose storied journey from the anti-Stalinist left to the neoconservative right has been lovingly chronicled by themselves in endless memoirs.” (06/27/12) —– 26) An invitation for kids to be cruel “The humiliation of New York bus monitor Karen Klein reveals a great deal about the erosion of adult authority.” (06/27/12) www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12578/ —– 27) Here’s why our elites don’t fix economy “When we had democracy, We, the People made the rules and we ran our country and our economy for our benefit. Now that we are a plutocracy things are different. The reason our elites are not doing anything to fix the economy is because from their viewpoint, things are just fine.” [editor’s note: Not sure when he’s talking about; elites have always run the show, every since the “democracy” he loves so much usurped the individual sovereignty (liberty) outlined in the founding documents - SAT[ [additional editor’s note: Actually, even before THAT - TLK] (06/27/12) —– 28) Cruel? Sure, but how unusual? “One of the most interesting dynamics on the Roberts Court is the emerging rivalry between Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Samuel Alito for intellectual leadership of the conservative wing. … It’s a generation thing: Alito is a callow 62 to Scalia’s 76. Like young folk everywhere, he’s embarrassed for his friends to see him in public with crazy Uncle Nino. So spare Alito a shred of empathy for what happened during the opinions session Monday. For the first time in his tenure, Alito delivered a dissent from the bench. It was a stem-winder, too–largely ad lib, intemperate, and dripping with scorn for the Court’s majority.” (06/27/12) prospect.org/article/cruel-sure-how-unusual —– 29) Thirty-sixth President of the United States “Johnson (August 27, 1908-January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963-1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961-1963). He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President.” (06/27/12) —– 30) The deadly addiction to cheap meat “America’s cheap meat habit is costing more than we bargained for. The factory farming of cows, pigs, poultry and fish sucks up 29 million pounds — 80 percent — of antibiotics sold in the United States. Many illness-causing bacteria are now resistant to most or all of the antibiotics that once killed them. While the overuse of antibiotics on humans has contributed to this public health crisis, the most egregious factor in creating antibiotic resistance is the routine, widespread, greed-driven dosing of livestock. About a quarter of U.S. meat and poultry samples contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria.” (06/27/12) —– 31) Is it time to raise the minimum wage? “During World War II, the Office of Price Administration (OPA), established by one of Franklin Roosevelt’s executive orders in 1941, was given the power to ration the supply of certain goods and freeze prices on all goods except agricultural commodities. The OPA was abolished in 1946 and is generally defended today only as a wartime measure.” (06/26/12) www.fff.org/comment/com1206u.asp —– 32) The daddy wars “There’s been a flurry of online conversation around domestic issues lately — be it the politics of staying-at-home or how we’re still trying to ‘have it all’ to no avail. Things have gotten heated. There’s much missing in the framing of these debates — from the expectation of power and privilege to a limited idea of what success is. What’s irked me is the continued assumption that this is a women’s issue. The problem isn’t that women are trying to do too much, it’s that men aren’t doing nearly enough.” (06/27/12) www.thenation.com/blog/168612/daddy-wars —– 33) Is college an economic imperative? “In President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address, he said that ‘higher education can’t be a luxury. It is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.’ Such talk makes for political points, but there’s no evidence that a college education is an economic imperative. A good part of our higher education problem, explaining its spiraling cost, is that a large percentage of students currently attending college are ill-equipped and incapable of doing real college work. … Let’s look at it.” (06/27/12) —– 34) Financial fiddling while the euro burns “Given the scale of Europe’s economic crisis, you’d think Europe’s political leaders would be laser-focused on resolving the deeper causes of the debt challenges facing Greece, Spain, and Italy. But, alas, no. For amidst the drama threatening the single currency’s viability, prominent German politicians from the right and left last week joined the chorus of European leaders calling for the immediate implementation of something that has long been a hobby-horse of globalization skeptics: an EU-wide financial-transactions tax.” (06/27/12) —– 35) Why the Obamacare ruling matters “If the Court upholds the government’s power to force you to buy health insurance, is there any limit to this power? Is there anything the government can’t require you to do? That is why the analogy of a ‘broccoli mandate,’ while pooh-poohed by liberal legal experts, struck such a chord. It’s not that the public expects the broccoli police to appear on their doorstep anytime soon, but they understand that unrestrained and unlimited government power is a thing to be feared.” (06/27/12) —– 36) Religion as a bulwark against big government “Whatever the Supreme Court may decide this week — whether it overturns or upholds the individual mandate which affects all citizens, or the HHS contraceptive mandate which affects employers — the religious dimension of this debate will hopefully sharpen awareness of individual liberties in future political discourse. Many secular libertarians today, like their 19th-century forerunners, suspect authority including religious authority. Rather, it is coercive authority which is to be suspect.” (06/27/12) —– 37) The romance of race: Three lessons from history “Today, there is nowhere near the degree of literal ‘race-ism’ that existed 90 years ago. Overwhelmingly, whites and Christians renounce ideas that blood determines character. But their War on Terror, War on Drugs, and anti-trade/anti-immigration policies are evidence that most whites retain the same kind of paranoia that was prevalent in the Klan.” (06/26/12) partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3767 —– 38) PorcFest 2012 after-action review “What struck me here was that there was a minarchist minority in a sea of anarchist and stateless adherents. Carla says that when PorcFest first started the minarchist meme ruled but that is no longer the case. I suspect that year by year more and more humans are going to understand that the next step in a proper philosophical evolution is self-ownership and the disposal of all manner of slavery.” (06/26/12) —– 39) Where was the left’s “permission structure” wrecking ball? “However the Supreme Court rules this week, I don’t think anyone can say that the right’s decades-long effort to build an integrated system of institutions operating largely outside the ambit of liberal academia and liberal legacy mass media was entirely misspent. And one can see in variably successful ventures such as Air America, MSNBC, the American Constitution Society, and the Center for American Progress a healthy spirit of emulation born of the recognition that all the Ivy League, the New York Times, and NPR won’t cut it. So it’s a little surprising that the left remains to this day so liable to surprise by the occasional efficacy of the right-wing noise machine. How many floggings does it take to expect the Spanish Inquisition?” (06/26/12) —– 40) Icy water “A few of you might believe that Supreme Court rulings represent a sacred redoubt of dedication to principle, that the Justices view their task as one of solemnly weighing timeless considerations of political theory and practice, balanced against the complex realities of governance, with eternal philosophical verities guiding their humble, faltering steps. … Even a cursory review of Supreme Court jurisprudence should disabuse you of any such illusions.” (06/26/12) powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2012/06/icy-water.html —– 41) The enforceable obligations of IP and copyright in political economy “Let us understand why IP and Copyright have become a topic of bitter dispute. Today, a market process applied to the digitization of human ideas turns the latter effectively into a ‘public good.’ By ‘market process’ I simply mean a process of cooperative exchange that originates outside the State Regime of political economy. I mean it very much in the old French Liberal sense of ‘laissez faire.’ By ‘Public Good,’ I mean it literally in the neoclassical sense, that is a good that effectively is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. That Laissez-Faire is driving human knowledge to a status of a ‘public good’ is short-circuiting quite a few moral foundations.” (06/27/12) —– 42) It only took 40 years “One chapter in my Machinery of Freedom proposed what I described as ‘jitney transit,’ organized ride sharing for pay, as a low cost form of mass transit. The capital and operating costs are already covered, since lots of people are already driving from one place to another with empty seats in their cars. All that is needed is some way to connect riders with drivers. … I just got an email from a friend, pointing to an article on a modern version of the idea currently being implemented via a cell phone app.” (06/26/12) —– 43) Was “Fast and Furious” a government plot to increase gun control? “We’ve been asking about that since the scandal first came to light months and months ago on the podcast and on the blog. Usually not given to conspiracy theories, we’ve found it hard to justify the operation otherwise. The recent use of executive privilege by the President seems to lend credence to the assertion/theory.” (06/27/12) —– 44) I hate to be sappy, but … “The simple fact is, I’m very, very grateful. … Yeah, life sucks sometimes and government sucks most all the time. And sometimes our own temperament defeats us. But I am so glad this choice is here — to be grateful even in the midst of suckage. And to find that simple gratitude helps blow the suckage into mist. In my best moments, I suspect that gratitude and some of the inner strengths that go with it could even play a role in blowing government away.” (06/26/12) —– 45) Why tattoos make my flesh crawl “The tattoo has always been a mark of powerlessness, not individuality. And now everyone’s got one.” (06/26/12) www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12576/ —– 46) Two different stories “What politician or party or wing of a party said the key to prosperity is to get consumers to feel rich so that they’ll spend a lot and that in turn will create more wealth and so on? I don’t remember hearing that model until things fell apart. This is an interesting ex-post narrative consistent with Keynesian view that spending is the source of income via the ‘circular flow’ of money. But I don’t think it was anyone’s model in real time. And what a strange ex-post narrative it is!” (06/26/12) cafehayek.com/2012/06/two-different-stories.html —– 47) A disagreement with collectivist anti-business conservatives on immigration “Philosophically and morally, the conservatives who see entrants not officially authorized by the U.S. government as ‘invaders,’ do not realize how communistic their views of State-controlled exclusion really are. The conservatives support the federal government’s central planning of the population as far as who gets in and who doesn’t. And with such central planning, they thus support the collective ownership of the entire territory. However, when the collective assumes ownership and control of an entire territory, then everything within the territory goes with that collective (or State) control.” (06/27/12) lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz48.1.html —– 48) “All Probabilistic Methods Assume a Subjective Definition of Probability” “In previous publications on probability, I have followed I.J. Good in arguing that probability must be defined subjectively if we accept that the world is causally deterministic. In this article I go significantly beyond this position, arguing that we are forced to accept a subjective definition of probability if we use any probabilistic methods at all.” [abstract — full paper available as PDF or MS Word download] (06/26/12) libertarianpapers.org/2012/8-crovelli-all-methods-assume/ —– 49) Evil exceptions “Philosophers spend a great deal of time crafting plausible exceptions to widely-accepted moral rules. Sure, murder is wrong. But what if you could murder a man on his death-bed to prevent a plane crash? What if you could smother the baby who grows up to be Adolf Hitler? What if you could prevent a bloody riot by executing an innocent man? The hypotheticals never end.” (06/27/12) econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/06/evil_exceptions.html —– 50) Your identity is yours “‘I Lived. I Died. Now Mind Your Own Business.’ That’s how I want my tombstone to read. What do I have to hide? Everything! Which is to say, every piece of personal information someone or something demands to know is something I don’t want to tell because no one has the right to demand access to my life.” (06/26/12) lfb.org/today/your-identity-is-yours/ ***** See No Evil, Hear No Evil ***** 51) Gareth Porter on Antiwar Radio “Gareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist specializing in U.S. national security policy, discusses why the Obama administration is leaking their diplomatic strategy to the media prior to commencing Iran talks …” [Flash audio or MP3] (06/27/12) antiwar.com/radio/2012/06/27/gareth-porter-155/ —– 52) Free Talk Live, 06/26/12 “Derrick J is Out of Jail! :: Profanity Disobedience :: DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart Called out on Cannabis Prohibition :: Medical Cannabis :: TSA Spills Grandfather’s Ashes :: Gay Oreo :: AZ War Zone? :: Bossy TSA Agent :: War on Drugs :: Free State Project Objections :: Why the J? :: Mark Interviews William Norman Grigg about Police Abuse.” [MP3] (06/26/12) soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2012-06-26/download —– 53) Cato Daily Podcast, 06/26/12 “Arizona immigration law at the high court,” featuring Ilya Shapiro. [Flash audio or MP3] (06/26/12) —– 54) How the government tries to mess with your mind “Doug Valentine tells Lew about massive CIA, DEA, Pentagon and State Department propaganda.” [Flash audio or MP3] (06/26/12) —– 55) Freedomain Radio #2164 “Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviewed on Proof Negative Radio.” [MP3] (06/19/12) ***** 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: Laissez Faire Books Posted on 06.27.10 by Thomas L. Knapp
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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: Amazon Author: Dixie Chicks Posted on 05.31.06 by Steve Trinward Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000F7MG4G/rationalrev08-20 Filed under: 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 | |
