The Triumph Of Democracy
- Category: Communism
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Venezuela is (was) known primarily because of their vast reserves of crude oil. This is, until in 1998 a crackpot ex-military ex-putsch man (i.e. "golpista" or a person prone to do coup d'etats) managed to get himself elected. From that point on everything in Venezuela began to go downhill. Oil was nationalized and a veritable pseudo-communist-light revolution began. Key industries were taken over by the government. Communal Councils (i.e. committees)…
Your Government In Your Bedroom
- Category: Marriage & Unions
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There is a big hoopla going on in Slovenia. The so-called socialist government (aka communist-leftover) has come up with a modification to the Family Law, or, to be precise, to the "Law on Marriage and Family Relations". This law dictates what is "legal" (i.e. allowed) and what is "illegal" (i.e. disallowed) in terms of marriages, divorces, siblings and other "family social support". So far this law was a typical marriage…
Down, Down We Go!
- Category: Central Banks
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A few days back the boss of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, decided to "do something" about the just horrible, horrible state of affairs that the EU economy is going through. And so, in an act of incommensurable bravery, talent, imagination, ingenuity, innovation and foresight, he decided to take the following measures:
- Drop the ECB interest rate from -0.2% to -0.3%
- Extend Quantitative Easing for another…
Puzzling Puzzles In The South China Mess
- Category: Asia
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These days you can't pick up a paper without reading about the "conflict" in the South China Sea. It would seem that a bunch of countries are "disputing" a large portion of the territory under water because it would seem to contain massive natural resources including oil. Fair enough, so far nothing new here.
If you want to educate yourself, head to Wikipediaand search for "Territorial disputes in the South…
BLQ: What Does The Economy Look Under Libertarianism?
- Category: Libertarianism
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Actually, we wanted to phrase the title of this article as Basic Economy Under Libertarianism, but given the fact that these are "Burning Libertarian Questions", we had to do it the other way around. Nevermind.
We already approached this subject in our introductory question What Is Libertarianism but we will repeat it again because it is worth repeating because in ultimate analysis this is good stuff.
Theories
Any sort of mainstream Libertarian…
"Tragic But Avoidable"
- Category: Poverty
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This has to be one of the most insensitive, moronic, brain-dead, humorous and honest statements we have heard in a long time. It was uttered by the US Army General John Campbell referring to the obliteration (yes, obliteration) of an Afghan hospital by an US airstrike, killing and wounding dozens of civilians. It deserves a place of honour along their equals, of which we quote a few below:
"Those students…
Underground Construction And The Communist Mind
- Category: Libertarianism
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Two news appeared in Chinese newspapers yesterday. Both dealt with underground construction. Yes. Underground. As in concrete, brick & mortar below the ground level. And no. This is not a word play. They really are underground constructions. But what interests us is not the fact that they are underground nor the fact that they are constructions. What interest us is the communist mindset in China that the public reaction to…
Gladio: Vatican, CIA, Nazis, Drugs and..yes… your life
- Category: Conspiracy
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Since the beginning of this year there has been a rush of books, publications, comments, documentaries and all around Internet fuzz about the now famous Operation Gladio. What is Gladio? In a nutshell, an agreement spanning about 50+ years between the Vatican, the CIA, Nazis, Mobsters, extreme right activists, ex-military, military, Intelligence "Serivces" and so on mostly operating in Europe and Latin America. Gladio is the name of the operation…
We Are Screwed! Be Happy!
- Category: Bureaucracy
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A few days back The OECD A Bureaucratic Organization You Should Knowposted its yearly Outlook designed to keep bureaucrats in their jobs. You can read the entire thingy searching for "OECD Economic Outlook - Moving forward in difficult times". However, we would recommend you so only if you can't sleep and heavy sedation is not working. But you don't actually have to. Luckily enough there is sort of an executive…