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Interview on Fox8 local news

Here's lovely reporter, Shelley Brown's write up , but the video segment doesn't appear to be up. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Tue, Mar 24 2009

Filed under: News, financial crises, interview

Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Razón y Libertad

Por Antonio Muñoz Ballesta - Tomado de liberalismo.org - Publicado en el año 2004 Hans H. Hoppe es, junto con Jesús Huerta de Soto, el máximo exponente de la Escuela Austriaca de Economía en la actualidad. La IV edición...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Mar 23 2009

OneSwarm

Finally darknet has become user friendly. OneSwarm is a file-sharing protocol designed to transfer information in much the same way as a network of resistance cells. Except it is even better because instead of fixed cells every user have there own "cell"...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Sat, Mar 21 2009

Filed under: ENGLISH, p2p

APB påstår att de kan knäcka OneSwarm

Det har tillslut kommit ett användarvänligt p2p darknet som heter OneSwarm Henrik Pontén tror han kan knäcka den nya tekniken Antipiratbyrån: Vi kan knäcka ”Oneswarm” (Aftonbladet) För er som inte förstår...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Sat, Mar 21 2009

Filed under: SVENSKA, p2p

What has AIG done wrong?

In regards to the bonus fiasco, the answer would be nothing. Here are two reasons why.... 1.) Say you have a friend who spends all, or even a good portion of his money gambling. If this friend were to come to you and ask you for a loan, what would you...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Thu, Mar 19 2009

Problems in Philosophy

I have only been studying philosophy, formally and informally, for about a year. In this time I have come across a wealth of theories, and formulated a few of my own. This also happens to be the period in which I have become a libertarian. First I was...

Posted to The Desolate One by Thedesolateone on Wed, Mar 18 2009

Filed under: anarchism, scepticism, ethics, libertarianism, metaphysics

Here We Go

So I've decided to start writing a blog. I have no idea how often I'll make updates. I have no clear idea what they'll be about, although I can imagine blogging on certain issues, especially for future reference, and also on certain things...

Posted to The Desolate One by Thedesolateone on Wed, Mar 18 2009

On Contradictions Between Philosophy and Action

Another problem that I see with the attempt to prove "self-ownership" and "property rights" as an a priori axoim that is inherently established by the act of argumentation (as Hans Hoppe's argumentation ethics seems to essentially...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Mar 17 2009

Filed under: Libertarianism, Philosophy, Language

How To Fix The U.S. Financial Problem

The reasons behind the collapse of the banking industry and its subsequent bailout by the government are going to be argued by pundits and experts for the next hundred years. There will be books written on it. It will be the subject of countless Ph.D...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Mar 17 2009

Filed under: Bail out, Bailout, science, engineering, physics, business, Finance

A Breif Response to John Lott

John Lott is an empirical scholar of great talent. He does not allow moral theorizing to be bold without backup. Thus he is skeptical of Loury's characterization of the American criminal justice system as racist because the hard facts seem to tell...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Tue, Mar 17 2009

Filed under: Prisons, john lott, cato unbound, incentives, punishments

The Three Dirty Words

The late George Carlin had seven dirty words. Seven words that you weren’t allowed to say on TV. The list is probably larger now, but you can also say them on TV. At least I hear them on TV regularly. If you are intersted in what they are you can...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Mar 17 2009

Filed under: socialism, Communism, Liberal, Conservative, bonuses, investor, speculator, nationalism, Bolshevik, Soviet Union, AIG

Do slaves have "self-ownership"?

I'd like to extend on my criticism of Hoppe's argumentation ethics by concretizing the point about the difference between "self-ownership" as it is used ontologically and "self-ownership" as it is used ethically. I realize...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Mon, Mar 16 2009

Filed under: Individual Sovereignty, Natural Rights, Slavery, Libertarianism, Philosophy

The troubled US insurance giant has bowed to demands to restructure its bonus payments to its employees.

The troubled US insurance giant has bowed to demands to restructure its bonus payments to its employees. Top level bonuses to its executive staff are to be dramatically cut this year according to a letter sent by Edward Liddy, AIG’s Chairman to...

Posted to mikguiruram by mikguiruram on Mon, Mar 16 2009

The Religious Wrong and The Republican Retreat

Limbaugh was calling it, “…the end of the Democratic Party.” And so it might have seemed in 1994 to a party awash in victory and full of the hubris that comes with it. President Clinton had overreached with his gun control measures...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Mar 16 2009

Filed under: politics, Liberal, Conservative, Republican, democrat, Religion, Religious right

The Quantity of Gold

This is a reply to a question that was forwarded to me regarding how to respond to the criticism that there is not enough gold to use it as money. Any feedback would be appreciated. The first thing that should pop out at us is that to state that there...

Posted to Testing the Waters by Schmike on Sat, Mar 14 2009