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So it is time to clear up some of my thought about corporate personhood by putting them into writing. There seems the be a growing critique against corporate personhood and limited liability in libertarian circles some even claiming that it is incompatible with capitalism and libertarian ethics. The...
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First of all there are many misinterpretations about what fractional reserve banking actually is. So lets being with sorting out some of our terminology. A lot of people claim fractional reserve banking isn't fraudulent because everyone can agree on it. Well that is just the thing, they can't...
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So it would appear that lawmakers have already started making it illegal to point cameras at cops. According to this article it is already illegal in 3 states. At first glance the only reason they would do this seems to be that they want the police to be able to break the law and abuse it's power...
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China's spate of school violence: Lone madmen without guns Could it really be that gun control or lack there of is not what causes mad people to go on massacres in schools ... no way!
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So some ships bound for Gaza (supposedly carrying humanitarian aid) where stopped by the Israeli navy and bringing knifes to a gunfight 19 crew members on the Turkish ship where killed by Israeli commandos. What the media don't report is that the Freedom Flottila manifestation could only have had...
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Excerpted from No Treason, No. 6 As all voting is secret (by secret ballot), and as all secret governments are necessarily only secret bands of robbers, tyrants, and murderers, the general fact that our government is practically carried on by means of such voting, only proves that there is among us a...
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Just had to repost this video it is pretty awesome. YouTube: Peter Schiff and Dr. Ron Paul on U.S. Economy. Awesome music and kinda shows which ideas are actually useful to predict reality...
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I have now moved this blog to the Mises.org community . First of all I want to thank the Ludwig von Mises Institute for providing this excellent service. There is still some work left moving the blog roll and such but it will be done shortly. The benefits of moving the blog is that can now be read with...
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As you might have noticed from my earlier posts I like encryption and anonymization. For instance Mises.org now offer their site in HTTPS (end-to-end encryption). They also run a Tor exit-node on their server, which means you can communicate with it without exiting the anonymous Tor network (if your...
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Finally a piece of good news. OiNK admin have been found not guilty in highest appeal . I particularly liked this part of the article: University of London professor Birgitte Andersenok gave evidence earlier in the trial, stating that file-sharing didn’t hurt the music industry and led to more...
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Walter Block just posted A Pretty Good Critiqe of Google on the LRC Blog, the post is basically just a link an article blaming Google for worldwide arbitrary filtering of search results . In this particular case it is about Google supposedly suppressing Climategate but he makes a references that they...
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Google announces a new approach to China . That Google are unwilling to compromise about the freedom of the internet is most welcome news indeed. Google have exercised some censorship on google.ch since they launched. But with the increasing smackdown on the internet in China and attacks on Google's...
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The Tor Project may still have several shortcoming that makes it somewhat impractical, but it is an amazing technology and it looks very promising as a technological guarantee for a free and uncensored internet. Part of it is how easy Tor actually is to use. If you are running Firefox and install the...
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In No Treason the democratic government is described as a secret band of murderers and thieves, it's members unknown to their victims as well as each other and made accountable to no one. In this sense democracy is a much more horrific form of government then the King who says "I am the state...
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In a column in New Tork Times Bono from U2 bring up file-sharing and how it has supposedly destroyed the music industry. Destroyed? From a consumer perspective the music industry is better then ever. We aren't restricted to bulky storage media that take up space in the bookshelf and it is easy to...