The Consequences Of The Politics Of Fear
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In 2004 the BBC aired a three part documentary titled "The Power of Nightmares - The Rise of the Politics of Fear". Its primary thesis was that governments, all governments, have failed. Up to recently, politicians held power based on selling optimistic illusions of the future that only they were able to deliver. However, over time and through reality those illusions proved to be just that: illusions. Since then, politicians…
You The Slave
- Category: New World Order
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You are pleasantly asleep when the alarm watch gets off. You stretch your hand and turn the alarm off. However, unbeknownst to you…
The box of the watch is made of plastic which can only contain certain chemicals and can only be produced using certain catalysts and coloured with certain colouring agents. You take a look at the time through the watch's glass window, which is again manufactured under a…
Ebola, Libertarianism And Austrian Economics
- Category: Health Care
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Today the Ebola virus is big news but people are not yet scared. Why would they? It is happening in far-far away countries in a far-far away continent. Who are those people anyways? They are nothing to us, the civilized, the developed, the almighty and powerful socialist countries. Why should we bother with Ebola? It will burn itself out or kill a ton of useless people (we are too many…
A 21 Year Taxpayer-Paid Vacation
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The killer Aaron McDonald was sentenced to 21 years in prison minimum before the possibility of parole. He got this sentence because he assaulted, raped and murdered. You can read the whole story in The New Zealand Herald searching for its title “Killer Aaron McDonald jailed for 21 years”. There you have it. Justice at work. He got what he deserved… or did he?
Well… not.
Consider this.
He will be…
Imagine
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There is an old song by The Beatles that goes like this:
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
In it John Lennon challenged all people to dare to imagine a better future. This isn’t bad for somebody who had no Libertarian nor Austrian Economics training of any sort. Of course, in the rest of the lyrics he…
The Signal And The Noise
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Today we are going to take a look at a topic somewhat farther away from our usual center of gravity. Today we are going to examine our expectations. This may not be of interest to you (we know) but it most certainly is to us.
DUPLICATION OF EFFORT
To begin with, we must fully acknowledge that there are many other Libertarian and Austrian websites out there. They are better, bigger,…
WTO To Argentina: Stop It!
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A few days back the WTO found Argentina to be guilty of messing around with imports. To be precise, it is guilty of using an import control mechanism that is “not transparent, is applied arbitrarily and which illegally restricts commerce”.
If you bother going to the WTOwebsite and search for the dispute DS444, you will find all the grizzly details spelled out in there. But you don’t have to bother; the…
Racists And Proud!
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That’s right! We are racists. If you did not understand this from us so far, here it is. We are unabashedly, unashamedly, proudly and formally racists. If there would be a racist association we would be members. If there would be a standard racist philosophy, we would adopt it. If there would be a standard racist religion we would probably be members of it. That’s right! We are racists to…
Argentine Default: Let’s Make A Deal
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This is the second chapter of the Argentine Default saga. The situation up to this point is as follows. Argentine went into default in or about 2001 and in 2005 and 2010 they “made an offer that bond holders could not refuse” … if you know what we mean. The “offer” was somewhat of a sweet deal for Argentina since it allowed for a debt reduction of about 60+ %…
