Category: Aggregated

Professor Wants to Use RICO to Punish ‘Climate Change Deniers’

DARPA Receives Funding For Next Phase To Weaponize Space

‘This is what democracy looks like’: 27 000 rally for sanders in NYC ahead of key primary

Cannabis ‘smell test’ used by police to raid house & assault ‘suspects’

Zika Fake Science Back In The News; Con Artists At Work

As Burger King proudly presents their ‘angriest’ red-dyed burger, consumers should consider the health risks of artificial food dye

Obama paid just 18% tax and got $22k refund as IRS deadline looms

A Chill Wind From the North: the US Returns to Latin America

Suicide tide in Canadian indigenous community, ‘third world conditions’ blamed

Monsanto’s Most Dangerous Product?

Endless War is on the Drawing Board: Hillary Clinton Throws Women ‘Under Bus’ for Corporate Cronies

The Slow Bleed: Fukushima Radiation Five Years On

‘Nuit Debout’: Dawn of a French Style [Colour] Revolution?

New York—Harvey Keitel, the actor, rang up to invite me to a Marine shindig where General Petraeus would be the guest speaker. The venue was Carnegie Hall, and I arrived late, having had a tough session at the karate dojo. I was also very dehydrated. Next to me was a beautiful young woman by the name of Aimee, who introduced me to her fiancé, a familiar-looking young man with a friendly manner. I looked at his place card and it read “Rupert Friend.” Nothing. Finally, I asked him whether we knew each other. We did not. Still, the guy looked … Continue reading →

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Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) wrote one of the classic books in the libertarian library, The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically (1908).  In reading The State I felt an unusual, for me, emotional response as well as intellectual response. This is My Oppenheimer Problem. Oppenheimer puts human existence into stark binary relief. There are two general ways to obtain material needs and luxuries (i.e., wealth), through political means or economic means. The political means immediately or ultimately are based on violence and include all government actors and their subsequent crony capitalists and zombies.  As described succinctly in a Mises Daily, … Continue reading →

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