News and Views
This is not a general news section about issues that may be out of your control. Instead, these issues will impact you personally and give you a heads up so you can act accordingly.
By Ben on May 26, 2010
Posted in Communication, News and Views, Technology | Tagged Bangladesh, bicycle, Gizmodo, InfoLadies, information, Internet, netbook, third world |
Gizmodo’s Kyle VanHemert writes about a simple and brilliant program to bring important information to people who have less access to it — the InfoLadies of Bangladesh:
Many people living in Bangladesh’s impoverished villages haven’t yet been reached by technology. But a determined band of InfoLadies—young women equipped with netbooks, phones, and medical equipment—are delivering technology’s [...]
By Ben on May 21, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged agorism, anarchism, BP, C4SS, capitalism, corporations, free market, Kevin Carson, libertarianism, oil spill, Paul Krugman, political activism, Rand Paul, regulation |
Kevin Carson of C4SS has posted an excellent analysis of political/corporate enmeshment, related specifically to the recent Gulf oil spill.
Carson discusses how regulations most often work out to the benefit of the entities they are supposed to regulate, and how such entanglement and backscratching precludes the effectiveness of libertarians working “within the system.”
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Politics as a [...]
By Ben on May 13, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views, Politics | Tagged action, activism, C4SS, civil disobedience, Fr33 Agents, George Donnelly, jury nullification, politics, prison, state violence, video camera |
JustLive has posted articles written by George Donnelly, and we have now learned that he has been kidnapped by state thugs.
Fr33 Agent contributor, Voluntaryist activist and blogger George Donnelly was mugged and kidnapped by US Marshalls yesterday and is reportedly being held in theFederal Government’s Detention Center in Philadelphia. Please call 215-521-4000 to politely but [...]
By Ben on May 11, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged 420, action, activism, civil disobedience, Free Keene, Free State Project, marijuana, police, protest |
Cannabis Culture tells the tale of pro-pot civil disobedience in Keene, New Hampshire.
The results of these persistent actions are a testament to the idea that ignoring ridiculous laws is far more important and effective than trying to use the political apparatus to change them.
Keene is a quaint little New England town, surrounded by forested hills [...]
By Ben on May 5, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views, Physical, Politics | Tagged collapse, Dmitry Orlov, economy, off-grid, prediction, preparedness, presentation, society, survival, USA, USSR |
As an eye-witness to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Orlov wished to “put [his] observations into a concise message” for an American audience. These observations surround his concern over “the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States [compared to] the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse.”
Orlov put these concerns [...]
By Ben on April 30, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged Alex R Knight, anarchism, C4SS, consent, government, poll, popular opinion |
Alex R. Knight of C4SS posted this hopeful and encouraging article. In it, he discusses just how much people are beginning to wake up to the fact that the government is anything but consensual.
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The Imminent Demise of Government
by Alex R. Knight III
Rasmussen Reports just published an article with some very interesting statistics online, things [...]
By Ben on April 25, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Shelter, Technology | Tagged anarchist societies, Cato Institute, debate, homesteading, lecture, Patri Friedman, seasteading, video |
This is a video from a Cato Institute talk (and debate) on the subject of seasteading. The pros and cons are discussed, the talk provides a very informative look into the concept. The points and rebuttals made shed light on some of the contingencies that must be accounted for with this type of theoretical venture. [...]
By Ben on April 17, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, History, News and Views | Tagged anarchist societies, cooperative, economies, Ecuador, Kevin Carson, Salinas, South America |
Kevin Carson has posted an in-depth and very well-rounded take on the nature of the cooperative economy in Salinas, Ecuador.
Massimo de Angelis of the editor’s blog has a fascinating story about the cooperative economy in the Salinas region of the Ecuadorian Andes. The Salinas area, a region centering on the village of the same [...]
By Ben on April 16, 2010
Posted in History, News and Views | Tagged anarchist societies, Asia, Boston Globe, civilization, cooperative, James Scott, off-grid, Zomia |
And in southern Asia, stretching from the Vietnamese highlands up into the Tibetan plateau and as far west as Afghanistan, would be a single sprawling mountain realm that is home to more than 100 million people. This is Zomia.
Zomia is a rugged swath of Asia that for 2,000 years has remained culturally aloof from the [...]
By Ben on April 15, 2010
Posted in Finances, News and Views, Politics | Tagged confrontation, protest, taxes, video |
It being “tax day” and all, I thought it would be apropos to post this video of a cadre of market-anarchists confronting a tax collector; and basically asking him how he sleeps at night — amongst other pointed questions.
From Last Blog on Earth:
This week’s CityBeat takes a brief look at San Diego’s local “Voluntaryist” movement, that [...]
By Harold on April 2, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views | Tagged agent provocateur, anarchism, fake anarchy, government, protest, tea party |
NOTE: We’ve been getting a lot of visits to this post, from a lot of different sources with various opinions. I just want to be clear, this post is based off of the Kurt Nimmo/Infowars reports regarding admitted and discovered federal infiltration of some anarchist groups. Nimmo is the one who calls this an “Infoshop” [...]
By Ben on March 4, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Mental, News and Views, Physical, Shelter | Tagged anarchism, builders, energy-efficiency, fake anarchy, milwaukee |
A builder in Milwaukee is constructing two very efficient homes that are said to have “monthly utility bills less than $30 combined.”
Apparently some folks in the neighborhood don’t like the relatively pricy real-estate’s arrival, and so decided to make a statement to that effect:
The words “Die yuppie scum” were scrawled across the project sign… That [...]
By Ben on March 4, 2010
Posted in Mental, News and Views, Physical, Sanitation | Tagged government, Jeffrey Tucker, low-flow, LvMI, toilet |
Jeffrey Tucker over at the Ludwig von Mises Institute (LvMI) has written a flushtastic editorial on the demise of the properly-functioning toilet; and it serves as a prime example of government interference making things, well… shittier.
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