The Great Peruvian Rainforest Destruction
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THE SITUATION
There is gold in Peru, black and metallic to be precise. Unfortunately, it is right in the middle of the Amazon forest and Peru is in the midst of a tsunami of resource "development". About 72% of the zone was allocated to oil alone. In about 10 years (if studies are correct) this zone will be totally devastated beyond recovery through deforestation. Bad right?
PROPERTY RIGHTS? WHAT PROPERTY…
Lost Children And Political Evolution
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Some time back the German newspaper Der Spiegelpublished the article "The Lost Children: France Takes Stock of Growing Jihadist Problem". This article describes how two French families lost a daughter and a son respectively to extremist Islamic groups. These kids were targeted, brainwashed are recruited at a distance, mostly through the Internet. This process was deliberate, planned and executed to indoctrinate and radicalize youth which are then used as front-line…
Distrust Governments - They Produce Exclusive Policies
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This is the sixth (and last) instalment of this series. Each instalment will be published independently and can be read independently. We are tackling head-on the 6 reasons why you should distrust governments, reasons that were kindly provided by the apparatchiks of The OECD A Bureaucratic Organization You Should Know.
Some time ago, we published the article In Government We Distrustand promised we will continue in that direction because of…
The Power Of Entrepreneurship
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This website is about reality. Sometimes reality has to do with what is happening "out-there" and sometimes reality has to do with what happens "inside". Today's article is about the latter.
There is a little well-known game (if you are in the right circles) called KSP or Kerbal Space Program. This game is a fantastically executed concept. You get to be in charge of an entire space program in Kerbal,…
What's The Point?
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No, seriously, what's the point? What is our point? Our point is very, very simple. We want to point out something that it is so obvious, so redundant, so commonplace, so mundane and so well understood that people have already forgotten. The point is simple:
Governments control everything.
Yes, we know how it sounds. It would seem that we are prime candidates for the Tin-foil Hat Award of the Year.…
Lesson #228 - Austrian Economics For Dummies - Scale Of Values
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As we have seen in previous lessons, acting purposely implies making rational choices between ends. But if we choose one end and reject the others, this means that the selected end is better at removing our "uneasiness"; or at least it means that we consider it to be better. But this "consideration to be better" implies that the others are "less better". In other words, we are comparing one end…
Distrust Governments - They Are Dishonest And Unfair - Part 4 of 4
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POLITICAL SHOPPING
Lastly, and this is getting really tiresome, we have the issue of private money finding its way into political coffers as a pre-payment for political influence once election time has passed. Basically is a pay-now enjoy later product. The OECD says:
Money is a necessary component of the democratic processes, enabling elections for representation and help competition but can also put at risk the legitimacy, inclusiveness and fairness…
Distrust Governments - They Are Dishonest And Unfair - Part 3 of 4
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BIAS AND UNFAIRNESS
The next section in OECD's website addresses the issue of lobbying. The OECD says:
Lobbying can contribute to good decision making and improve governments’ understanding of policy issues by providing valuable insights and data as part of open consultation processes. Yet, lobbying can also lead to unfair advantages for vocal vested interests if the process is hazy and standards are lax.
This statement is interesting because although…
Distrust Governments - They Are Dishonest And Unfair - Part 2 of 4
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CORRUPTION-R-US
The next section of the OECD webpage is titled "Managing Conflict of Interest". It states:
Defining an effective policy approach to dealing with conflict of interest is essential to the political, administrative and legal structure of a country’s public life.
Which is, again, a very strange way to put it. In the first section they talk about corruption and now they seem to re-define corruption as "conflict of interest". Let's…
