1. 25 May


    thevocalibertarian: #4 Men’s Tee and Girl’s Tank Top

    thevocalibertarian:

    #4 Men’s Tee and Girl’s Tank Top

    (Source: thefreelioness, via thefreelioness)

     

  2. 25 May


    thegreatcompromise:

    Government Explained: PART 2!

    For those who have not seen Part 1: 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EUS1m5MSt9k


     

  3. 25 May


    disobey: For more info, check out these articles: BBC: Al-Qaeda’s Origins And Links Quote from the article: “During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.” CBC: Who is Osama bin Laden? Quote from the article: “Bin Laden apparently received training from the CIA, which was backing the Afghan holy warriors – the mujahedeen – who were tying down Soviet forces in Afghanistan.” Der Spiegel: Arming The Middle East; The Checkered History of American Weapons Deals “The United States also supplied Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s with money and arms for their struggle against occupying Soviet troops. One of the best customers for the CIA back then was Saudi millionaire Osama Bin Laden. Two decades later, US commandos are hunting for the world’s most notorious terrorist and his Taliban helpers.”

    disobey:

    For more info, check out these articles:

    BBC: Al-Qaeda’s Origins And Links

    Quote from the article: “During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.”

    CBC: Who is Osama bin Laden?

    Quote from the article: “Bin Laden apparently received training from the CIA, which was backing the Afghan holy warriors – the mujahedeen – who were tying down Soviet forces in Afghanistan.”

    Der Spiegel: Arming The Middle East; The Checkered History of American Weapons Deals

    “The United States also supplied Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s with money and arms for their struggle against occupying Soviet troops. One of the best customers for the CIA back then was Saudi millionaire Osama Bin Laden. Two decades later, US commandos are hunting for the world’s most notorious terrorist and his Taliban helpers.”

    (Source: openandempty)

     

  4. 25 May



    Smoot-Hawley by itself should lay to rest the myth that Hoover was a free-market practitioner, but there is even more to the story of his administration’s interventionist mistakes. Within a month of the stock market crash, he convened conferences of business leaders for the purpose of jawboning them into keeping wages artificially high even though both profits and prices were falling. Consumer prices plunged almost 25 percent between 1929 and 1933 while nominal wages on average decreased only 15 percent — translating into a substantial increase in wages in real terms, a major component of the cost of doing business. As economist Richard Ebeling notes, ‘The “high-wage” policy of the Hoover administration and the trade unions … succeeded only in pricing workers out of the labor market, generating an increasing circle of unemployment.’

    Hoover dramatically increased government spending for subsidy and relief schemes. In the space of one year alone, from 1930 to 1931, the federal government’s share of GNP soared from 16.4 percent to 21.5 percent. Hoover’s agricultural bureaucracy doled out hundreds of millions of dollars to wheat and cotton farmers even as the new tariffs wiped out their markets. His Reconstruction Finance Corporation ladled out billions more in business subsidies. Commenting decades later on Hoover’s administration, Rexford Guy Tugwell, one of the architects of Franklin Roosevelt’s policies of the 1930s, explained, ‘We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.’
    — 

    Lawrence W. Reed - Great Myths of the Great Depression

    Public education taught me that Hoover’s free market policies caused the Great Depression and that if it wasn’t for FDR and his legion of big government academics we would all be wasting away in abject poverty right now. I wonder what purpose it serves to teach the nation’s youth this misinformation at such a grand scale…

    (via antigovernmentextremist)

    (via neightkelly)

     

  5. 25 May


    writerwhocouldntwrite: Accurate

    writerwhocouldntwrite:

    Accurate

    (Source: theamericanbear, via priceofliberty)

     

  6. 25 May



    What is patriotism? Is it loyalty to a spot on a map, marked off from others spots by blue or yellow lines, the spot where one was born? But birth is a pure accident; surely one is in no way responsible for having been born on this spot or on that … Does patriotism mean loyalty to a political system and its institutions, constitutional, autocratic, republican or whatnot? But if history has made anything unmistakably clear, it is that from the standpoint of the individual and his welfare, these are no more than names.
    — Albert Jay Nock (via anarchei)

    (Source: laliberty, via anarchei)

     

  7. 25 May


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  8. 25 May



    All taxation involves coerced exchange. That is, you’re forced to give up the money—in this case the tax—for a good, whether or not you value the good more than the money. And by the very fact that you’re forced, that is, there’s a threat of force— if you don’t pay your taxes your income will be forcibly garnished, your assets will be seized, and if you continue to resist a SWAT team will surround your house and drag you out, and if you resist it could involve fatal force against you—the presumption is that people, for the most part, value the tax money more than the goods they’re getting. They don’t value the public schools as much as property taxes they’re paying for it.
    — Joseph T. Salerno, The Myth of a Fair Tax (via eltigrechico)
     

  9. 24 May



    Two men arrested over 'offensive Twitter comments about British soldier's death'

    barticles:

    ‘People should stop and think about what they say on social media before making statements as the consequences could be serious.’

    Arrested — for free speech.

    And Britain is what passes for a liberal democracy these days.

     

  10. 23 May



    Anonymous asked: Who do you think will the front runners for president in 2016? Who do you think will win?

    Political insiders believe on the Right will be Rand Paul. Now on the left some see Hillary Clinton, but more buzz is coming from Elizabeth Warren from MA. 3rd Party Candidates like Gary Johnson for the Libertarians, will run again.

    If you try to forecast political hot button issues, those will be debt, both nation and personal, like student loan debt. With the Fed pumping in 85 billion a month into Housing, the housing market is growing, but that is like curing your headache by taking Krokodil. So money will be on everyone’s mind. Unemployment will not because government can skew numbers. Plus all the candidates will have grand speeches about how their brand will create millions of jobs. What politicians will focus on is gay-rights, gun control, immigration, winding down of war, climate change, bipartisanship, issues that subvert your gaze from the Money, like who will pay for all this, besides your children.

    Now who will actually win, if I was a betting man, I would say Elizabeth Warren. Now why you ask? She can gain the support of the Occupy Movement, who wanted cheaper Education. She can gain independents, who feel the government is out of control in spending by being a Bankruptcy Lawyer. With 47% relying on the government for assistance, she gains those votes by an easy margin. With Immigration reform going the way it is, she easily garner those votes as well. She is trying to lower student debt, by giving students lower interest rates. Yes that is a government sleight of hand in manipulating numbers, but most people drink from the statist kool-aid. Unions and teacher will mostly vote for who butters their bread. For the businesses that will give money to the DEMS, they know the corporatism gravy train, will collapse if we spend more then we take in or borrow, so they will fund a lap-dog they can control while making money.
    Rand Paul is nothing like his father, but Libs who don’t want another Dem in the white house will vote for Paul, hoping he will lower the fiscal burden so there are those votes. Gun control and immigration reform will be hot issue for his side. Also getting rid of Obamacare. Republicans are pro business, not pro markets, so they will talk about how cost in government healthcare will be outrageous, and how a businesses can insure people cheaper. True to an extent, but still corporatism. Those same Corporations, will give you a politician they too can control, heck it’s their money, and the ROI (return on investment) is 2000 to 1, so even if he gets in they own him too.

    2 Billion dollars was generated last election, the ROI for corporatism is huge.

    But all these are effects, the cause is corporatism. The Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharmaceutical, Big Agricultural, and the Banksters sell you a product and that product is a politician. When you see commercials for Coke or Pepsi, they might have a blind taste test, but it’s Coke VS Pepsi, the choice is one or the other. Bing VS Google ads, shows you through Microsoft’s lens, that more people prefer Bing to Google. Once again two choices. The reason sales people limit the number of choices, having been in sales, is not to confuse the buyer. Too many options, means confusion, which is a lost sale. You buy into the packaging. You are sold a product, it’s now up to you to pick red or blue, The other colors of the rainbow, don’t exist in a THIS or THAT buy what we sell sort of world.

     

  11. 22 May


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  12. 17 May



    Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views

    Research published in Psychological Science found that while stronger men like Arnold Schwarzenegger are more likely to be right wing, weaker men are more likely to support the welfare state.

     

  13. 15 May



    Homophobic Texas candidate calls reporter ‘c*nt, b*tch, coward’ in voicemail tirade | The Raw Story

     

  14. 3 May


    Thanks Trever for the question…
    While Storm Clouds Gathering says he is a follower of the Non-Aggression Principles, as with most who do not follow the mental construct of a left-right Paradigm. He does advocate violence even the initiation of aggression as a last resort. I had a discussion with another blogger on here about what sort of ideas he follows, and the longer I think about it I would have to say, he follows the Zeitgeist, “resource based economy.” Since he doesn’t actually follow the market approach of the right, whether it be Black(Agorism) or Free (Voluntaryism) Markets, nor the left, being No market at all and allow people to freely own the means of production, (or even a controlled market like a mutualist.) But then he seems to even change that argument, so he tends to follow a pragmatistic approach, which means he follows what works right now, then any sort of principle line of thinking. Like the Zeitgeist Movement, he presents a number of conspiracy theory-based ideas. He has some flaws in the quality of his arguments. I would have to say he is a very good in agitprop.

    Which is derived from agitation and propaganda. Propaganda was supposed to act on the mind, while agitation acted on emotions, combined together, to create the Russian slang Agitprop.

     

  15. 1 May