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Agression requires two people: Aggressor and Aggressed. If there is no aggressed party then there is no aggression, or if the damage is so minor that it is not worth the aggressed seeking regress. I would ask the author why this is so hard to understand? Pollution for example is always aggression but what is the damage done by driving your car to someone
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This resolves nothing. Peter Schiff is a small government guy. Adama Kokesh isn't. I see nothing here why that is a suprise. I see the contradictions that small government types face but Schiff and his ilk do not.
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And if you think the measurement of economic freedom is bad, the measurements for wealth are even worse. And these prosperity indexes tend to overweight "government provided" services. If you look at the prosperity survey only two of the categories relate to economics? That being said, Norway has huge oil reservers and a lot of mineral extraction
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Before you analyze the value of any law or punishment for breaking these lawas, I suggest that you look up freedomainradio.com and listen to the podcases or view the videos dealing with the public protection of private property. Then make your own judgements. This is a much more effective way to analyze the disasterous consequences of something like
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This bank is the farthest I know of away from the US fascist banking system. http://www.freelakotabank.com/ And they are NOT a fractional reserve bank which means unlike the NDB they can not stiff tax payers and currency holders if they go bust.
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The Feds and States coerce corporations to give some of their ill gotten gains (They earn it by making customers better off than they otherwise would be.) away as gifts/donations to charities. Of course there is absolutely no morality in the situation as the companies themselves are threatened into makeing these gifts. These same coercers have determined
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Socialist, yes. Better than the Federal Reserve System, yes. Are tax payers on the hook for fractional reserve banking losses? You betcha. This little bank just lives on the fact that the US Federal Reserve System is so hosed up. And guess what this little bank is actually like all the other non-financial instutitions in the USA on the hook for the
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Republicans have nothing to do with it. What Republican other than Ron Paul and intermittentently his son Rand are in the slightest bit interested in freedom? The article would be much better served looking at the attitudes of the people involved and I have a feeling that Native American organizations that are finally breaking out of their government
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Absolutely. The US Government provides subsidies and tax breaks to the toon of hundreds of billions to oil companies. It also shields oil companies from liability like in the case of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Government also heavily regulates the refiniing and other use of petroleum and heavily regulates the transportation industry
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Simple, anyone who has a deposit in a Cyprus Fractional Reserve Bank. The government of Cyprus can not steal money through inflation and so must do this through outright confiscation. And to make matters worse there is no other legal currency than the Euro. So the poor people there are stuck.