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Stands the proof of time

Well it's not new for any Mises fan: http://mises.org/daily/6415/Come-Back-to-Gold He's proved right every decade, every year, every month. The statism of states and the money monopoley of central banks is the foundation of more evils than nearly...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Thu, Apr 25 2013

Filed under: gold, von Mises, over and over again, proof of time

Letter to the Editor.

We are 6 months out from the election now. As far as I am aware this is the first time that all the candidates going into a general election have already had a book published. Mcain even has 3 or 4. If it were not for the awareness of the political goals...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Sat, May 3 2008

"Private" and "Public" are Misleading Terms

This is a response to the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9qGxjjAP8 Hello Luke I share your frustration with the definitional chaos surrounding these words. In many ways the meanings typically attached to the terms public and private...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Mar 4 2008

Filed under: Collusion, Patronage, Propaganda, Economics, Corporatism, Central Banking

Visual Studio 2008 to 2005 downgrade utility

Visual Studio 2008 allows you to target .Net Framework 2.0, so you don't have to migrate the solutions you developed in Visual Studio 2005 to a new framework version. The only problem is that it upgrades the solution and project files, making your...

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Thu, Feb 28 2008

Filed under: development

Senator Obama Introduces Legislation to Protect 'Community Organizers'

Chicago, IL—Democratic Senator Barack Obama today introduced legislation that would make “community organizers” a legally protected minority in the United States for affirmative action and equal employment. “This bill (S. 31337...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sat, Sep 6 2008

What Is Democracy? Part One: Democracy Is Slavery

This is part one in a three part series: democracy is slavery, democracy is impossible and democracy is liberty. Democracy Is Slavery By the phrase "democracy is slavery", I refer to the tyranny that inevitably arises from the principles of...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Mar 16 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Universality, Consistancy, Utilitarianism, Collectivism, Majoritarianism, Democracy, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Slavery

Never A Wasted Vote

Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin recently published an article entitled "A Wasted Vote," in which he expounds the virtue of voting on uncompromised principles, viz. voting for Chuck Baldwin, as opposed to casting one's vote for...

Posted to The Eric Simmons Blog by Eric on Fri, Oct 10 2008

Filed under: Chuck Baldwin, voting

Politics Is The Opiate Of The Masses

Theism is not the only kind of mysticism. Collectivist and political ideologies are also forms of mysticism. The nature of politics involves blind faith in a "highest essence". The abstractions of these "highest essences" function...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Jun 3 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Collectivism, Democracy, Religion, Atheism, Philosophy

Naomi Klein's book on the Shock Doctrine

A few months ago a dear friend bought me Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine . I think he knew that parts of this book would resonate with me, and they do. What the U.S. government and the CIA have done to promote “freedom” is despicable...

Posted to Fragmented Obsessions by Michael Lawrence on Tue, Aug 12 2008

Filed under: shock doctrine, economics

Osama's Death Changes Nothing

The Obama administration and many Americans are celebrating this evening upon hearing the news that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has been killed in a strike by U.S. special forces several days ago. The news was only released this evening because U...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Mon, May 2 2011

Filed under: civil liberties, terrorism

Revising Self-ownership

In various articles in the past I have made a monist objection to a dualistic concept of self-ownership due to the problems that an absolute mind/body dichotomy leads to. To summarize the problem: who exactly is it that is doing the owning? If I own it...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Jan 8 2009

Filed under: Ethics, Personal Freedom, Individual Sovereignty, Libertarianism, Philosophy

The Headroom Between Mutualism and Anarcho-capitalism

I find it inaccurate to use either the terms "anarcho-capitalism" or "mutualism" to describe my own viewpoint. Being a pluralist as well as a person with a fairly complex and subtle heirarchy of preferances that may situationally change...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Aug 24 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Libertarianism, Economics, Labor, Anarcho-Capitalism, Mutualism

The Validity of End User License Agreements

Wendy Grossman explains the legal gray area that surrounds End-User License Agreements (EULA) that Microsoft et al slaps on every piece of software it sells to consumers: If you did read the terms, you might be surprised. Eulas typically specify that...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Sun, May 4 2008

Filed under: eula

Facts, distortions, and the coming auto company bailout

The debate continues, among the economically illiterate lawmakers in Washington, D.C. About whether or not the Federal government should make some $25 billion available to the Detroit automakers to, supposedly, enable them to remain in business. As part...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Sun, Nov 23 2008

Filed under: politics, economics, auto industry

Posting videos from Youtube and Google in blogs, forums, comments

I have installed a module to allow posting Videos from Soapbox, Youtube and Google video in blogs, forums and comments. The syntax is: [ Youtube:xxxxx] [ Soapbox:xxxxx] [ Googlevideo:xxxxx] where xxxxx is the ID of the video.

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Mon, Jan 21 2008

Filed under: videos