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The Zombie Eugenicists Are Coming

June 22, 2012 by

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So this article was sent along to me from a good friend locally. It’s from Market Watch, which is a part of The Wall Street Journal. I wasn’t expecting much expect some tired reformist nonsense, something along the lines of ‘change I can believe in’. Well hey-ho, was I in for a shock. The Eugenicists […]

The Farce of Bradley Manning’s Persecution

March 11, 2012 by

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At long last, Bradley Manning has been charged. It has only taken almost two years, and was more likely resulting from the military’s inability to ‘break’ him by torture into becoming a star ‘witness’ against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The death penalty is probably still on the table, despite comments to the contrary, if merely […]

Organised Opposition and the Health of the Body Politic

January 6, 2012 by

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 Image via Wikipedia. In this excellent post, Rick Falkvinge (Twitter) touched upon ‘the four boxes of liberty‘ concept, and uses that as a springboard for a discussion about privacy in the context of rising authoritarianism, amongst other concerns. For those who are unaware, the ‘four boxes’ are as follows: “There are four boxes to be […]

NDAA: Building the Terror State

January 3, 2012 by

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Image via the band Anti-Flag With the passage of the (insufficiently infamous) National Defence Authorisation Act, or NDAA, into law, there are growing and well-founded cries of ‘police state’, even ‘martial law’. The second is not accurate, although I understand the sentiment. Martial law is when military authorities take over order enforcement, because the civilian authority […]

A Story of PERF-idy

November 29, 2011 by

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Image via The Daily Bail. Ever since this Democracy Now! interview, the Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF, a previously unregarded police strategy NGO, has been receiving some clearly undesired attention. In that interview, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler unwisely let slip that it was PERF which had been coordinating the conference calls which Oakland […]

These Disunited, War-Ravaged States

November 20, 2011 by

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Just recently I went on a day-trip to Yakima, Washington. I highly recommend not moving there, for any reason. If you already live there, dear Reader, you have my sympathies. The city looks like it had been carpet bombed. Only one real city street was left, filled with very sad and poor people and looked […]

On the Proper Functioning of Economies

November 9, 2011 by

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Much is made about the proper form of economies. Comparatively less is made of their proper functioning. Economies are taken to be black boxes; their internal workings are regarded with nearly religious awe. Some propose to simply leave economies to their own devices, befitting their deified nature. Others insist that altars and holy relics – […]

Red Tory

October 31, 2011 by

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Once upon a time in the United States, there was more to ‘official’ political discourse than the two-party dictatorship which we have today. The philosophy of the ‘losing’ side in the 1776 Revolution, chased North to Canada by gunpoint, is one such example. That ethic is Toryism. To be a Tory is not surprising in […]

Why the Democrats and Republicans are So Eerily Similar

October 29, 2011 by

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Image via zazzle.com There is a very good reason why the Democrat and Republican parties seem similar. The roots of both parties are sunk in the same place: a political suasion known as Whigism. In a nutshell, Whig thought can be best called proto-corporatism. They favoured the consolidation of economic power into privately owned institutions, […]

Taxes and the US Elite

September 3, 2011 by

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In Part 2, I wrote about how taxation policy, and specifically no-tax policies, create the single most active and dedicated class of status quo supporters. The question arises: why not have everyone taxed equally, to ensure equality? On paper it is a lovely conceit. In reality it has never happened. Someone always has enjoyed the […]

In Defence of Taxation

August 12, 2011 by

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Right now, it seems to be that there are two ‘philosophical’ camps regarding taxation in the US Federal Government. One camp says taxation is evil, is a hindrance to the enrichment of the chosen capitalists, and must be eliminated for the hardworking rich puttering on the golf course. The other camp contents itself with insisting […]

US Debt Downgrade: Perestroika Event Inbound

August 6, 2011 by

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Perestroika was the most significant factor leading to the demise of the USSR. It was a social, political, and economic programme masterminded by Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary, and later the only President, of the Soviet Union. It was, in short, a revolutionary restructuring of Soviet society from the bottom up and top down, covering […]

What’s Wrong with Issuing $2,000,000,000,000 in Platinum Coins?

July 17, 2011 by

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By Neil Paynter Our editor-in-chief recently had a bit of Twitter repartee with Joseph Firestone, who has a notion for the US Mint to issue coins to cover the budget deficit. You can read it here. While technically a legal and mechanically achievable notion, it is nevertheless a terrible idea. Why? Because of the great […]

America’s Economic Decline

July 15, 2011 by

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By Andrew Brown. The USA been undergoing substantial de-industrialization and de-funding for decades now. The incumbent American political duopoly has not seemed to mind that much though as both of them have actually encouraged this trend with their consonant public policies. Moreover it has picked up steam in the last two decades as substantive differences […]

“This Fucking War”

July 14, 2011 by

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A few days ago I was having coffee with a friend, and she told me about one of her friends who just lost a son in Afghanistan. “This fucking war… I don’t know why we’re even there,” she said sotto voce. “It’s not like we’re going to change their culture,” she added. It’s not like […]

Voyage through the Collapsing Empire

July 5, 2011 by

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Much of my silence of recent note has been due to the pre- and post-effects of taking a trip across the United States. The rest is because of the trip itself, and a computer which broke very early on in the proceedings. I’ve seen quite a lot over that ~8,000 miles, much of which I […]

Guest Post: Against Violence Under the Cloak of Care

April 20, 2011 by

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By Mirjam Eikelboom Originally published on WLCentral.org *** President Obama recently stated that Private Manning’s conditions comply with the Pentagon’s basic standards. Given that those standards apparently permit Private Manning to be subjected to plainly unconstitutional conditions, it is clear that the Department of Defense must adapt its standards to meet the demands of the […]

State of War: The Nightmare of Thomas Hobbes

April 17, 2011 by

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State of War: The Nightmare of Thomas Hobbes Although he never used the term, Thomas Hobbes is credited with describing the concept now called the State of War, in his immortal Leviathan of 1651. In the original spellings, the source paragraphs are as follows: “There Is Alwayes Warre Of Every One Against Every One Hereby […]

Field Notes: Collapse at the Periphery

April 5, 2011 by

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Due to a session of dietary indiscretion on Saturday evening, on Sunday morning I decided to take a ten kilometre walk. This is not particularly strenuous for me, but it was definitely necessary to compensate for the yummies I had eaten the night before. My destination was a coffee shop at the far edge of […]

Arab Spring will be US Gov’t Winter

March 23, 2011 by

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Featured image via Moroccan Congress in USA. One of the greatest assets of the US government over the decades — perhaps the past century — has been its ability to co-opt movements which threatened its existence. The marginalisation of Socialism, for example, in the early 20th Century is a spectacular example of this. Although the […]

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