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louis brandeis' closing remarks to his dissenting opinion in olmstead v. united states, 1928.Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the

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economic hit men target main street, will grigg.According to Perkins, the organs of international finance, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, engage in what is essentially a global loan-sharking scheme. As an economic forecaster covertly recruited by U.S. intelligence in the 1960s, Perkins was dispatched to various countries — including Indonesia and Panama — as an "economic

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how real-world corruption works, anonymous reddit user.If the military wants a Mercedes, they just issue a spec that requires a hood ornament with three lines trisecting a circle, and see whichever car company meets the spec at the best price-- surprise!tell me about it! this guy knows what he's talking about.

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un says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change', guardian."We need a sea-change in human thinking and attitudes towards nature: not as something to be vanquished, conquered, but rather something to be cherished and lived within," said the report's author, the economist Pavan Sukhdev.still trying to push an ideological economic agenda but can't get away with scouring the same

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defense spending is much greater than you think, robert higgs.Although many Americans regard this enormous sum as excessive, few appreciate that the total amount of all defense-related spending greatly exceeds the amount budgeted for the Department of Defense.In fiscal year 2009, which ended last September, the Pentagon spent $636.5 billion. Lodged elsewhere in the budget, however, other lines

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an open letter of reconciliation and responsibility to the iraqi people, josh stieber and ethan mccord.well done.

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hilariously, ron paul lost the 2010 SRLC straw poll to mitt romney by a single vote, the day after a cbs poll running up to the event came up with results looking like this:which do you think had the better sample set?and listen closely to what ron paul spent his time talking about, and how people reacted.then compare it to romney. oh, sorry, i guess nobody got any clips of romney's speech,

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remember those lovely little pieces of israeli propaganda that explain how only terrorists hide behind children? they tell you this so you'll "understand" and be "informed" to "think correctly" about what is being done, you see.'we used the kids as human shields', laurence vance.“If the kids were around our vehicles, the bad guys wouldn’t attack. We used the kids as human shields.”you were still

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i have provided a mirror for the andrew maguire interview, but i am supposed to link to KWN. KWN imagined their website would stay online and not be hammered to death with traffic, but that they could also expose the final piece of the puzzle to a massive state-sponsored terrorism program the united states has engaged in against the entire world for almost one hundred years: to float the value of

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you have no say about your military, tom engelhardt and william astore.1. Our military is supposed to be a means to an end: national security. Due to its immense size and colossal budget, has our military not become an end as well as means?2. In World War II, Americans could explain "Why We Fight" in part because the government provided a clear and compelling rationale for war. Why are the goals

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a strategy for the right, murray n. rothbard.If we know what the Old Right was against, what were they for? In general terms, they were for a restoration of the liberty of the old republic, of a government strictly limited to the defense of the rights of private property. In the concrete, as in the case of any broad coalition, there were differences of opinion within this overall framework. But

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where are this war's heroes, military and journalistic? dave lindorff.Under the Geneva Conventions, it is a war crime to execute a captive. Yet in Kunar on December 26, US-led forces, or perhaps US soldiers or contract mercenaries, cold-bloodedly executed nine hand-cuffed prisoners. It is a war crime to kill children under the age of 15, yet in this incident a boy of 11 and a boy of 12 were

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media picking up SPLC's hateful talking points against gun owners and Tea Partiers, david codrea.Reporter Gina Redmond relies heavily on hysteria from the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok, who ultimately concedes it's not groups he cites that are to blame, but individuals who go off the deep end.and it was about time, too. actually, this is the best position i've ever seen him take, apart

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rangel still facing complex ethics investigation, ap.The investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is looking into whether he:-Violated House rules by using his official position to raise money for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.-Had his committee consider legislation that would benefit donors to the center at the same time the congressman

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now that there is nothing left to preserve the military, social security, medicare, medicaid, public education, unemployment benefits, farm subsidies, and so on, but the full-time running of the printing presses, this:is the map of the united states.i hope that either it suits you, or that you intend to help end the fed.you might start by reading the federal reserve act, so that you can ask your

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fewer than 12 bank robberies occurred in the entire territory of the american old west between 1859 and 1900.applying economics to american history, tom woods.

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read. the tattered citibank umbrella, sipsey street irregulars.somebody screwed citigroup with a credit card and put my phone number on the account info. they've been robo-calling me three times a day -- even on sunday -- for two weeks. they're probably calling in debts. his name is ian.this may not be curtains for citigroup, but if it is a serious threat to them, you'd better watch out. any big

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and now for the good news, andrew sullivan.If we can afford [military imperialism] but we cannot afford some basic health insurance for working poor Americans, something has gone seriously wrong.you won't feel that way when you see what happens to medicare in the next couple of years.He is real. He is sincere.he was in 2008, too. but do voters want sincere? flash back to 2008. this is the list of

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nationalism (n.): the idea that the political and economic history of your country is somehow unique, even when yours is the last country on earth to begin adopting the democratic (and sometimes undemocratic) socialism which the rest of the world has been working on since the enlightenment.

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congressman howard buffett speaking in 1947 on the subject of the truman doctrine.mr. speaker, the so-called truman doctrine is characterized by proponents as probably the most far-reaching change in american foreign policy in a hundred years. many of its opponents contend it starts us on the road of militarism and imperialism. whatever its consequences are, i rise to propound a solemn question.

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this is a video of glenn beck urging preparation, and briefly towards the end, discussing political charts, like the venerated nolan chart. watch this video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhli6otn21wor, you know, try to.aside from the oversimplified smears of positions which some pols hold, what i believe we see here is an idea whose time has come. i once argued that as liberty is not divisible,

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To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.milton friedman.Resolved, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought

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in all election races in the US, 90% of voters show up at polls only when the underdog has virtually zero chance of winning.democracy: how the game has been stacked against you.

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vote (v.) : a behavior which some fervently believe will solve the problems that they perceive in society.politician (n.) : a person that knows there are always some who believe that.

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arianna huffington and rob johnson, a former chief economist of the senate banking committee, have a "simple idea" for punishing the producers of banking products for their recent tax-dollar fueled behavior: move your money.If enough people who have money in one of the big four banks move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, will have

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the deflationists are keynesians in drag, says gary north.ever since i read denninger's article on defending fractional reserves (was: re: FRAUD, you IDIOT. you're defending FRAUD.), i have been waiting for a succinct shut-down of his general position. this does well.let's see how karl feels about it on march 13, 2010.oh this is so hard to watch. k.d. makes a total fool of himself in response. i

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the fallacy of public goods: libertarians and national defense, per bylund.The problem is that status quo is implicitly assumed. Where government is currently providing a service, such as national defense, it is concluded that the market could not provide that service holding the production structure, provision, and level of service constant. This is a common trick that many seem to fall for, but

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i occasionally come across pictures like this one:and of course i'd like to identify the piece of hardware in use. no, not the guy with the mic headset up front.the ordinance looks like an m829 or m831 saboted ke penetrator. i can't really be sure, but hey, moving that fast, who's counting? think of it this way: whatever it was, it's never going to slow down again, until it explodes. so what it

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the u.s. invasion of the vatican, jacob g. hornberger. Suppose President Obama expressed disapproval with the Vatican’s method of electing the Pope. It’s not democratic enough, the president says. Why should a small group of Catholic cardinals be the only voters? Why shouldn’t all Catholics get to vote for the Pope? Isn’t that what democracy is all about?Obama demands that the Vatican open the

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i assert that time zones, as we know them, are insufficient to deliver the time services that the american people are entitled to. they are too big, and they cost too much to the working man. they have become inefficient because they think they are "too big to fail." as a result, the typical awake or asleep citizen is forced to go without caring one whit for time zones, unless they want to submit

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recently quoted by tom woods in an excellent speech at the 2009 mises circle in greenville:Those who have concerned themselves exclusively with what seemed practicable in the existing state of opinion have constantly found that even this had rapidly become politically impossible as the result of changes in a public opinion which they have done nothing to guide — unless we can make the philosophic

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the four horsemen approach, sipsey st.Now, I present the analysis by Ralph Peters below as an example of clear strategic thinking by a first class military observer.he might have been, at one point.i think the iranian reaction suggested here is largely a projection from what the united states or israeli government would do if it was attacked: overreact. $400/barrel is a real threat, and could

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myths of world war -- but there's so much more, too. for instance: a compelling argument against ever sending anyone to war in a foreign country, ever.the corrolary to that is simple: the only just war can be engagement with criminals that call themselves your government.

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Before we can even ask how things might go wrong, we must first explain how they could ever go right.— F. A. Hayekwhen imagining a goal, always begin with the proper conditions of the world. in order to bring about some end, you must first realize that it already was, in the beginning. there is nothing more to add, nothing to tinker with, nothing that needs fixing. there is only the damage you

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here we have a perfect example of how to undermine a state which has decided to squeeze tightly.the president of pakistan has banned jokes about himself, in texts, emails and on blogs.another way of looking at this is that he has exposed his domestic army to a strategic offense on inconsequential territory. you should probably read sun tzu if you don't already understand the implications of this.

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tales of titans and hobbits, juliusz jablecki.The Lord of the Rings shows not only the great danger associated with all attempts to defeat evil power by power, but it also teaches that collectives do not really exist, that every one of us is the hero of his own individual story, and that law and order can easily exist without the state.Despite its egoistic message, Atlas Shrugged is full of

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they thought they were free, an excerpt. milton meyer."To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the

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laurence vance writes extensively on the subject of christianity in a somewhat quasi-academic fashion, fit for rabbis and cardinals (i mean this as a compliment). but sometimes, it's his readers that lay down the facts, which is what really turns the most heads.

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coming soon to a city near you, mike gaddy.The state has one powerful tool at its disposal to control the masses: fear. A minority can control and enslave a majority only as long as the majority fears the minority. The state will do whatever it takes to maintain that control. The state lied about the circumstances of the attack on Pearl Harbor; they lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident; they

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the war against life, wizards of ozymandias, butler shaffer.We must understand all of politics – no matter in what nation it is practiced – as a system that wars against the very nature of life. Politics cannot be eliminated by force – for to do so would only imply an even mightier amassing of power than what is in place. Neither can it be reformed, the effort to do so being as absurd as trying

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the libertarian curse, jonah goldberg.The point, I guess, is that to be involved in public life in any way means compromising with what reality will allow. And reality, whether you are a socialist or a libertarian, almost never gives you total victory. We are on a giant ship and you pull the steering wheel in as far as you can in your preferred direction when and where you can. But you can never,

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i thought i would share here a comment i left for WRSA and its readers on an article suggested by one of the other readers: anarchism and american traditions by voltairine de cleyre.Anarchism says, Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not

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an anarchist's declaration, nostate.com -- a website i am partial to (surprise). note the wise avoidance of the plural form.a further endorsement from wilton alston, a thinker i am also partial to.first let me say that i find these agreeable sentiments, and, for the most part, also live by them, making us praxeologically compatible citizens to each other (despite any government or belief of a

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r. a. heinlein:I am a Free Man, regardless of what set of 'rules' surround me. When I find them tolerable, I tolerate them. When I find them obnoxious, I ignore them. I remain free, because I know and understand that I alone bear full responsibility for everything I do, or chose not to do.therefore:unarmed, my authority extends as far as i can reach (throw a punch, etc).armed, and with the advent

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anarchy and chaos in black communities, robert a. wicks.People often use anarchy and chaos interchangeably. They refer to civil unrest as "anarchy, total chaos." As an anarchist of the anarcho-libertarian variety myself, naturally, this habit irks me. Anarchy is simply the absence of forceful authority. Chaos is disorder. The two things can coexist, but it may be shocking to some to find that the

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a gangster of our own, gary galles.This combination of fear and coercion has received little notice in the current media. However, it has been insightfully analyzed. In 1959, in The Nature of Man and His Government, Robert LeFevre saw this connection clearly. He saw how the desire to assuage their fears led people to grant power to a gangster of their own, in hope that the gangster would remain

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the origins of individualist anarchism in america, murray rothbard.If John Blackwell had any idea that the Quakers were a meek people, he was in for a rude surprise. Blackwell was to find out quickly that a devotion to peace, liberty, and individualism in no sense implied an attitude of passive resignation to tyranny -- quite the contrary.good read.the whole concept of man engaging in a holy

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billy beck ridicules the short-lived cargo-cult democracy established to secure the blessings of lunch hour in an nyu student space.now i admit that these twerps' only accomplishment was to give some perfectly diversified half-baked unarmed campus security force a hard-on of self-importance for their valued community service.however, i feel i cannot likewise brush aside the event without first

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this is a journal scribbling from 29 jan 2009.coins and liberty, lew rockwell.How many tv ads are there for Obama coins and postage stamps? Is this a straw in the Führerprinzip wind? Burt Blumert once said that America was free when our money featured symbols like Indians, Liberty, buffaloes, etc. It was a bad thing, beginning with the evil Lincoln penny, to put dead politicians on the money. "

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No matter what: I'm an American, in my blood and bones. I always will be, even if it comes to pass that there is no America anymore.billy beck.god damned right. now there's something that can't happen here: two plus two will always be four.at the age of twenty-six, [Hikoemon] was commanded to back up the truthfulness of his words with an oath to heaven. he responded, "a warriors words are

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keyes: civil war disguised as politics, WRSA.When I ran for the U.S. Senate against Barack Obama I did my best to speak the truth. I knew when I accepted the invitation of the Illinois Republicans that I stood little or no chance of victory. With few exceptions, everyone I consulted advised against it. Most thought it political suicide. But the facts convinced me that Obama is a dangerous

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i was listening to a few seconds of rush the other day, and he was beyond sickening. fortunately, an lrc blogger has got a transcript of rush's revenge rant.sinclair lewis' prophecy has finally come true.They will not control government forever, and when our turn comes, we are going to turn the power of government against the left. We are going to investigate them. We are going to hold public

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For decades central banks set monetary policy according to nonsensical beliefs about credit expansion. The inability of the Fed to stop the current crisis via emergency lending to banks demonstrates that Fed policies are a failure. This movie reveals the scale of this disaster.we've never fully paid back "to ourselves" (1) what we have borrowed "from ourselves" (2) via the fed. too much borrowing

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roy a. childs jr., distinguished libertarian, blessed us with many gifts in his time.i highlight one such gift in particular, from the open letter roy wrote to ayn rand for the purpose of converting her to free-market anarchism (anarcho-capitalism). it is the manifesto of all time and human history, if i understand it right.There is a battle shaping up in the world—a battle between the forces of

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please stop talking about "paying" your taxes. you don't pay your taxes; nobody pays their taxes. it's impossible to pay your taxes. "states" collect taxes like the mafia collects deposits.you surrender your taxes: either by forfeiting conservatorship of government property (their fiat bills of credit) or by forfeiting your own property -- whether it be a gold coin or your entire house (do you

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heinlein, borders and liberty, sipsey st. irregulars.an anonymous contributor:Truly liberty, true lack of "racism", means no national borders, no green cards, no immigration control. It also means none of this silly loyalty to the State's standing army that Heinlein is selling.a friend of MBV replies:Just because you are not an advocate of racist group identity doesn’t mean that you are

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my better half gave me a book for christmas entitled escape from freedom, by erich fromm. i've started it, but i did not get far before i had to make a move in the glass bead game.chapter two, emergence of the individual and the ambiguity of freedom.To the degree to which the individual, figuratively speaking, has not yet completely severed the umbilical cord which fastens him to the outside

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