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Nexus X HumectressFrom CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord’s Resistance Army in and around Uganda. “I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide […]
Article by Leonid Savin. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— by Leonid Savin The present world financial crisis marks the conclusion of the damage done by the liberal ideology which, having appeared during the epoch of the Western Enlightenment, has for decades dominated most of the planet. Disturbing voices and criticism started during […]
View this message at LP.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2011 Contact: Wes Benedict, Executive Director E-mail: wes.benedict@lp.org Phone: 202-333-0008 ext. 222 Libertarians to Occupiers: Crony capitalism is the problem WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle released the following statement today: “I have been following the Occupy […]
Another reason why we need elitism.
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Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Occupy Wall Street has come under fire from some libertarians, on the grounds that it’s relatively silent about the role of big government, and its proposed remedies lean heavily toward increased government intervention. But it’s quite understandable that many in the Occupy movement […]
By John Robb. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Mayor Bloomberg is moving to shut down Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square tomorrow at 7 AM. The ruse he is using: the need to clean the “park.” He has promised that Liberty Square will be reopened after the cleaning but nobody will be allowed to […]
From CBS New York. You don’t have to be coherent to be politically incorrect.
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Article by Matt Taibbi. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– I’ve been down to “Occupy Wall Street” twice now, and I love it. The protests building at Liberty Square and spreading over Lower Manhattan are a great thing, the logical answer to the Tea Party and a long-overdue middle finger to the financial […]
From Coin Update. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– As economic data deteriorates and markets decline, governments and multinational agencies are facing an immediate dilemma. They can either do nothing and risk a global depression—or they can intervene with more monetary and fiscal stimulus to postpone dealing with the problem a few months […]
The video is now available from the National Policy Institute. As Keith Preston quips, some might wonder how a libertarian anarchist like himself ever got involved with people who identify themselves as nationalists. Are not liberty and nationalism polar opposites, never to be reconciled or aligned? Preston does […]
Article by John Gray. Hat tip to Chris George. ———————————————————————————————– Storming of the Bastille by Francois Leonard. Many of the French revolutionaries favoured violence as an “engine of social transformation” “Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries,” Steven Pinker […]
Article by Robert Johnson. A third party? No. Too easily co-optable. A federation of local parties committed to the pan-secession, liberty and populism, ten core demographic and left-right-center tri-partite strategies? Yes. ———————————————————————————————– Anonymous central just posted a notice on its website calling for the Occupy Wall Street Movement […]
Good discussion. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Robert Stark and returning guest RamZPaul discuss: Occupation of Wall Street; The protesters’ ideology and theHollywood elitists who are sticking it to the man; Controlled opposition among the Tea Party and anti-capitalist Left; Class warfare, economic issues, and how nationalism is the solution to these […]
Article by Monika Scislowska. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Poland’s former President Lech Walesa says he supports the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York that protests corporate greed. The Nobel Peace laureate told The Associated Press that he is planning either a visit or a letter to the protesters. “I am […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Editor’s note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named Journalist of the Year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and is a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine […]
Article by Tom Burghardt. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— On September 30, the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) assets under the Agency’s control, assassinated the alleged “external operations” chief of the Afghan-Arab database of disposable Western intelligence assets, also known as Al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, and a second American citizen, Samir […]
Article by George Hunter. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Most of the city’s street lights have been repossessed because officials failed to pay a multimillion-dollar utility bill, giving rise to concerns about safety and crime in darkened neighborhoods. DTE Energy crews have removed about 1,400 light poles from Highland Park as part […]
Article by Richard Esposito and Brian Ross. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States” tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today. The officials said the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel […]
Article by Gordon Duff. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Our first real sign of political violence was during the disturbance at the Smithsonian when Patrick Howley of the nocon rag, American Spectator, led an attack of agent provacateurs on the Smithsonian. Our thanks to Charlie Grapski for catching Howley, one of many preparing to […]
From CNN —————————————————————————————————————————————————- (CNN) — Five law enforcement officers were among 70 people in Arkansas charged in a federal drug-trafficking crackdown that also involved public corruption charges, authorities said Tuesday. The five officers took bribes to look the other way while crimes were being committed, authorities said. Investigators are […]
Article by Nick Barisheff. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– “Gold is not a financial asset to be compared with dot-com stocks or Miami condos and it is not a commodity like pork bellies or crude oil. It is the ultimate currency for the truly sophisticated wealth holder in a time of substantial unreserved […]
From DumpDC.Com ————————————————————————————————————————————————— The so-called conservatives say that there should be no restrictions to keep and bear arms for Americans. They say that it’s all about self-protection. The so-called liberals beat the drum for outright bans on firearms, saying that disarming Americans will make our nation safer. Both […]
Article by J. Bruce Campbell. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— As a Rhodesian anti-terrorist in the early ‘70s, I figured that the combination of normal African cruelty with Jewish Communism was the ultimate in political sadism. The atrocities I witnessed were shocking and revolting. It turned out that my education was incomplete. […]
Paul Belien reviews Paul Gottfried. His conclusion? “America’s “conservative reserves” are far stronger than Europe’s, because America, unlike secular Europe, has remained rooted to a larger extent in traditional Christian values. I do not doubt that if these values continue to decline, American culture will collapse as European […]
After all, Marx was a “Victorian racialist” says Paul Gottfried in this interview with Richard Spencer.
Article by Kevin DeAnna. “Real change, real rebellion, has to come from the unapologetic and explicit Right that recognizes and defends hierarchy, excellence, and the right of peoples to determine their own destiny. It will come from a real Right that puts the nation above the bankers, that […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. It wasn’t for nothing that Sam Francis referred to the Republicans as The Stupid Party. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Is a religious war breaking out in the Republican Party? On Friday, Pastor Robert Jeffress of the 10,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas took the podium at the […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Homeless Middle East Vet This is the fourth of a series of posts highlighting the important work of the veteran owned and operated GI coffeehouse movement. Coffee Strong at Fort Lewis is continuing their September fundraising drive, as they are well-short of their $20,000 goal. In […]
From Rad Geek Peoples Daily. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— From a recent submission to Reason’s Brickbats column: Mark Chase got a federal court order allowing him to paint on Ocean City, Maryland’s boardwalk without a license. That didn’t impress Baltimore police, who arrested him for painting at the Inner Harbor without a permit. When Chase complained […]
Article by Jason Kuznicki. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Every day lately I ask myself the same question: How the hell did we fall this far? American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of […]
Article by Sheldon Richman. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— To Occupy Wall Street: Wall Street couldn’t have done it alone. It takes a government and/or its central bank, the Federal Reserve System, to: Create barriers to entry for the purpose of sheltering existing banks from competition and radical innovation, then […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Staff Sgt Jared Hagemann Nov 5, 1985 – June 28, 2011 This is the third of a series of posts highlighting the important work of the veteran owned and operated GI coffeehouse movement. Coffee Strong at Fort Lewis is continuing their September fundraising drive, as they […]
Article by John Robb. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Let me spool you up on what’s going on with the Occupy movement. It’s an open source protest (there’s lots about how open source protests and insurgencies work on this blog, in posts all the way back to 2004). So, it’s not like the protests […]
From TechDirt. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– from the didn’t-see-that-coming,-did-you? dept While some try to write off the Pirate Party’s positions on things because of its name (and I still believe its name limits the party’s effectiveness), it appears that more and more people are recognizing that its positions on things like copyright aren’t […]
Article by David D’Amato. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- This weekend (Saturday, October 8th) in the New York Times Todd Gitlin, a Columbia University professor of journalism, wrote “that the core of the [Occupy] movement … consists of what right-wing critics call anarchists.” Rather than taking the same snide, dismissive approach to anarchism that […]
From Rad Geek Peoples Daily. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— So, going through the final rounds of work on Markets Not Capitalism with Gary[1] and the rest of the Collective has really been reminding me that I’ve accumulated a lot of occasional and fragmentary writing — papers, paragraphs, notes, etc. — that I really ought […]
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Article by Steve St. Angelo. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– The world is about to peak in global silver production. This will not occur due to a lack of silver to mine, but rather as a result of the peaking of world energy resources, declining ore grades, and a falling Energy Returned On […]
WTF? ————————————————————————————————————————————————— ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A grocery store worker accused of handing out a semen-tainted yogurt sample at an Albuquerque market pleaded guilty Thursday. Under terms of his plea agreement, Anthony Garcia admitted he tainted a sample of the yogurt he was handing out at Sunflower Market in January. He […]
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From the Huffington Post. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– October 07, 2011 “Huffington Post’ – – WASHINGTON — Top House GOP leaders assured attendees at the 2011 Values Voter Summit Friday morning that despite all the attention on fixing the nation’s economy, they remain committed to pushing the priorities of social conservatives, including […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says any agreement to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year must include legal immunity. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says negotiations to keep U.S. troops in Iraq is ongoing Iraq’s leadership has agreed […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- While medical marijuana is legal in California, prosecuters claim that operations are making profit off of healthy buyers. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: A U.S. attorney says some take “advantage of (a) laxed enforcement environment” NEW: Another U.S. attorney claims “profiteers” “hijacked” the state’s medical marijuana law An […]
Given that I’ve had several people tell me we seem to be the only “true” anarchists around, last night I thought of a possible new term for us: One Percenter Anarchists. You know, the ones who really are revolutionaries.
Article by Robert Stark. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Actress Roseanne Barr expressed the sentiment of a lof of Americans when she problaimed on Russia Today’s Max Keiser show that if she were President “part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no logner let […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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