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AVTM #156 Libertarianism is obsolete/Jordan Page Chris Emery To hear the full podcast: adamvstheman.com Please address hate mail to adam@adamvstheman.com Donate Bitcoin: 1BWeuWdgjrP8PFAwBwgwU9BUqJNewScouy Invest here to support ADAM VS THE MAN! adamvstheman.comFrom:AdamKokeshViews:302 69ratingsTime:08:26More inNews Politics
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In my last outing, I mentioned in passing a classic decision theory puzzle that I said should worry libertarians. A couple of attentive readers picked up on this allusion and asked me to explain it.
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Jeff Berwick of TDV on Goldmoney.com with Andrew Duncan Dec 4, 2012
Jeff Berwick, The Dollar Vigilante (www.dollarvigilante.com), reports from Acapulco, Mexico in an exclusive interview with Andrew Duncan of Goldmoney.com Topics include: - Jeff #39;s view on the financial state of the world at the moment - Does the demise of the twinkie say anything about the US economy? - What black swan could cause the paper money collapse - Does Basel III and gold becoming a Tier 1 asset on January 1, 2013 portend anything for gold? - The importance of internationalizing your precious metals and assets to protect yourself from the collapse - After the collapse, will there still be government control of money? - Jeff talks about Bitcoin, gold and other items being used as money - Jeff talks about his new expat community in Chile, Galt #39;s Gulch (www.galtsgulchchile.com) - How Jeff learned about libertarianism, anarchism and Austrian economics - Info on the Getting Your Gold Out of Dodge report (www.goldoutofdodge.com) - Which will fall first, Europe, Japan or the US? Subscribe to TDV #39;s YouTube channel to be alerted of future videos. And, go to http://www.dollarvigilante.com to sign up to receive our free daily blog covering all the facets of protecting your ass and assets during the coming US dollar collapse.From:TheDollarVigilanteViews:4 1ratingsTime:18:14More inNews Politics
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Libertarianism
Libertarianism is a kosher scam to get us arguing about the system while ignoring who is running the system.From:Ian ClarkViews:0 0ratingsTime:16:07More inPeople Blogs
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Ken Levine, creator of BioShock Infinite , wants his ambitious game to be the one that breaks out of gaming's niche and engages a broader audience.
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special feature: Why BioShock Infinite‘s Creator Won’t Settle for Success
Libertarianism: The Movie
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Road to Liberty - Vol 2: The Goal of Libertarianism
Belleporte Institute member George Meyers discusses the goal of libertarianism, what it is, how it works and how to use it.From:WisconsinLibertarianViews:0 0ratingsTime:09:10More inNews Politics
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The MSS - Number 40 - Part 1 - 2 December 2012 - comic strip heroes to libertarianism
On this show we welcomed back Aronra - and had an unexpected special guest, Mrs AronRa. Topics of conversation quickly moved on to comic strip heroes to libertarianism. And then went onto more topics, including: - end of world predictions - advent calanders - god #39;s PR department - the purpose of the universe - the purpose and nature of heaven - the war on christmas - evolution and much much more. Part 1 can be seen here: youtu.be Part 2 can be seen here: youtu.be darkmatter2525 #39;s video about god #39;s pr department can be found here: http://www.youtube.com potholer54 #39;s video about intelligent design can be found here: http://www.youtube.com You can keep up to date with future shows from the Magic Sandwich Show website here: http://www.magicsandwichshow.com or by following THEdprjones on twitter.From:TheMagicSandwichShowViews:206 31ratingsTime:01:03:37More inEducation
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The MSS - Number 40 - Part 2 - the end of the world, and more theistic nonsense
On this show we welcomed back Aronra - and had an unexpected special guest, Mrs AronRa. Topics of conversation quickly moved on to comic strip heroes to libertarianism. And then went onto more topics, including: - end of world predictions - advent calanders - god #39;s PR department - the purpose of the universe - the purpose and nature of heaven - the war on christmas - evolution and much much more. Part 1 can be seen here: youtu.be Part 2 can be seen here: youtu.be darkmatter2525 #39;s video about god #39;s pr department can be found here: http://www.youtube.com potholer54 #39;s video about intelligent design can be found here: http://www.youtube.com You can keep up to date with future shows from the Magic Sandwich Show website here: http://www.magicsandwichshow.com or by following THEdprjones on twitter.From:TheMagicSandwichShowViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:14:59More inEducation
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PJTV: Read My Lips: Why The #39;No-Tax-Hike #39; Pledge IS an IQ Test for Republicans
"InstaPundit" blogger Glenn Reynolds delivers a grab bag of politics, science and literature that offers answers to life #39;s everyday questions. With an underlying thread of libertarianism, Reynolds offers a perspective outside of the two-party system and gives some much needed fresh air to the game of politics.From:PajamasmediaViews:1314 70ratingsTime:10:31More inNews Politics
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Next semester, three new student-run organizations will join the expanding list of extracurricular clubs at the university.
The three organizations were approved at the faculty meeting in October. Faculty granted recognition to College Libertarians, Web Design Club and Young Americans for Liberty.
To be considered as a candidate for faculty approval, each club had to submit by-laws and present the idea for the organization in front of a committee, junior Niki Liu said. Liu is the student contact for the Web Design club.
Each organization must also have a faculty adviser that the student contacts and that members of the club elect. Lewis Barnet is a professor in the computer sciences department and will be the adviser for the Web Design club.
I chose Dr. Barnett because he has experience in web design and development, and he is also a great mentor, Liu said.
College Libertarians and the Young Americans for Liberty club share similar foundations of libertarianism, but both student contacts believe theyll have different messages and basis to give to members.
College Libertarians was created with the goal of creating a place for libertarians, ranging from monarchists to anarchists, to discuss current political issues, said junior Devin Ralston. The group meets and discusses issues and articles sent out in an email prior that week. Next semester, the members hope to start reading some famous libertarian political theory books and economic works to base their discussion around, he said.
Unlike the other two new clubs, Young Americans for Liberty is a broader organization with more than 350 chapters nationwide. Weve established Young Americans for Liberty partly out of a disappointment for apathy, sophomore Joseph Kessler said We see little political discussion on campus, and we dont see students promoting libertarian ideas.
We had to apply to become one of the chapters nationwide. We wrote about our plan for the chapter and our ideological influences. Then we began the process for school recognition, beginning with finding 10 students interested in joining.
The faculty adviser for the organization is Terry Price, a professor of leadership studies and philosophy, politics, economics and law, Kessler said.
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Part 1 in a Series of Essays onGovernment
The right to swing my fist ends where the other mans nose begins. - Oliver WendellHolmes
The big debate in politics is, and has always been, about the appropriate size and role of government. The polarized state of todays debate is exemplified by Fox Newss overly strident critiques of seemingly any government solutions to shared problems, and MSNBCs apparent defense of activist government in many areas of life through their ongoing series of lean forward blurbs featuring their star TV personalities. These two relatively new TV channels also exemplify the growth of separate spheres of facts and opinions, or filter bubbles, enjoyed by those on the left and right, which is itself a majorproblem.
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Fortunately, a new approach to this perennial debate is emerging, which marries the best of left and right. This new approach arises from the increasing power of networked and crowd-sourced solutions to many of the collective problems we face in todays world. The rise of crowd-sourced solutions is, in turn, based on our new tech-based society, in which information is rapidly becoming free and access to that free information is rapidly becominguniversal.
There is a risk in naming this new approach to political philosophy, but some have suggested peer progressivism or progressive libertarianism. I have also used the term wiki democracy to describe the outcome of this new philosophy and these new tech tools that are rapidly enhancing our democracies around theworld.
Im going to use the term isocracy, however, in this essay because it lacks the freight of the other labels mentioned. Isocracy means rule by equals, which pretty much sums up the gist of this new political philosophy. What to many people sound like contradictory philosophies (progressivism and libertarianism) come together under this new approach. Isocrats believe in small government, but also that were all in this together and we should help others where wecan.
This really is a new political philosophy because it rests on truly new technological tools. As our technological tools change so should our politics and ourphilosophies.
The basic idea of isocracy is that a lot of things that government has often done can and should be crowd-sourced that is, performed by the crowd, the masses, rather than by government or corporations. This is different than the historically right-wing tendency to want to privatize government, but it is nonetheless a type of privatization. Rather than privatizing by selling off government assets and responsibilities to corporations, however, crowd-sourcing looks to a broader universe of entities than just traditional corporate interests to take the place of traditional government. Crowd-sourcing generally relies on regular people like me and you, but it can include a variety of entities as part of the crowd, including individuals, civic groups, corporations, and government entities, all working together to find creative and efficient solutions. We are increasingly crowd-sourcing government and we should be actively looking for ways to accelerate thistrend.
An innocuous but useful example: Boston pioneered the adopt a fire hydrant program, which allows any individual, business, or community group to adopt a fire hydrant and ensure that it remains accessible to firefighters in winter by shoveling snow after a storm. This saves firefighters the trouble of doing this themselves, on a city-wide basis. Chicago, Buenos Aires, and Honolulu (for tsunami sirens instead of hydrants) have followedsuit.
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David Friedman on How to Privatize Everything
"Producing laws is not an easier problem than producing cars or food," says David Friedman, author, philosopher, and professor at Santa Clara University. "So if the government #39;s incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?" Friedman sat down to talk with Reason TV at Libertopia 2012 in San Diego. Friedman reflected on the impact of his landmark book, The Machinery of Freedom, discussed the differences between libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism and revealed what his father, economist Milton Friedman, thought of his anarchist leanings. Approximately 7 minutes. Interview by Paul Feine. Camera by Alex Manning and Zach Weissmueller. Edited by Weissmueller. Visit reason.com for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV #39;s YouTube channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live.From:ReasonTVViews:8411 398ratingsTime:07:33More inNews Politics
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How Right-Wing Radio is Killing the Republican Party. Rush, Hannity, Lavin, Ingraham, Savage,
THIS IS HOW RIGHT WING radio pundits think. From an article from POLITICO: #39;Leading conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are both arguing that the Republican party will or should be shut down if Mitt Romney loses in November -- an idea that, however hard to believe, gives you an indication of the right wing #39;s dissatisfaction with the Republican party. "If you can #39;t beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down, start new, with new people. Because this is a gimme election, or at least it should be," Ingraham said on her radio program yesterday. "Election after election, we hire people who have lost previous campaigns, who have run campaigns that have failed, who have messaged campaigns where the message fell flat, and they keep getting re-hired." Where Ingraham made an argument, Limbaugh made a prediction: The Republicans would fall, but not before blaming the conservative base for their woes and opening a window for a third, more conservative party to take their place. "If Obama wins, let me tell you what it #39;s the end of: The Republican Party. There #39;s gonna be a third party that #39;s gonna be oriented toward conservatism. I know Rand Paul thinks libertarianism. And I know if Obama wins, the Republican Party is gonna try to maneuver things so conservatives get blamed," he said. "The only problem is, right now Romney #39;s not running a conservative campaign. But they #39;re gonna set it up to say, #39;Well, the right sat home, #39; or ...From:Uncle TheodorViews:0 0ratingsTime:08:38More inEducation
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Ghosts. With Grover Norquist now at the center of the GOP debate over confronting the fiscal cliff as the losing party, two entries stand out in the now-what-Republicans sweepstakes. First take a look at Paul Krugman's: today’s Republican party is an alliance between the plutocrats and the preachers, plus some opportunists [...]
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Preachers, Plutocrats, and Grover Norquist: But Where's The GOP Soul?
Kelsey Kruzich / Staff Photo Political signs at Collin College Spring Creek campus reflected support not only for Republican and Democratic candidates, but for Libertarian ones as well. The third party received .79 straight ticket votes in Collin County on Tuesday, a number party members see as a sign of progress.
Bryan McAnich has been chair of the Libertarian Party of Collin County since 2010, and said he noticed an increase in membership over the past several years, the most the party has experienced since it began roughly 10 years ago.
With 750 members and counting, McAnich said the partys platform has been well-received among local community colleges and among voters within the 24-36 age bracket.
A lot of people tend to agree that a lot of people are getting a little suspicious of having Republicans and Democrats in office for so long. We have all of these problems and only two different people to blame, he said. I think people are beginning to start to question this political duality, especially among the younger crowd.
With urban areas traditionally known for reflecting a larger Democratic presence and rural suburbia carrying a more conservative stance, Collin County is unique because the urban sprawl that has accompanied the population boom brings the potential for political shift with it, McAnich said.
And that, he said, gives the Libertarian Party a bit more room on the playing field.
I think its going to bring a little bit more socially tolerant viewpoints, he said. Republicans typically are very fiscally conservative but also socially conservative. When you bring some of the big city Democrats into the suburbs it may bring more socially tolerant viewpoints along with it.
Since campaign financing for Libertarian frontrunners pales in comparison to the pockets of their red and blue counterparts, social media has been an important tool for gaining support, McAnich said. With no central office, Collin County Libertarians typically lease out rooms at local colleges or hold gatherings at public venues. Even though limited resources are a struggle with any third party, it hasnt prevented the Libertarian Party to continue the momentum it has been slowly gaining since its founding in 1972, McAnich said.
Being a third party is always a challenge. Democrats and Republicans have kind of colluded and created very high hurdles for third parties to clear in order to get into debates and things like that, he said. Both really do have something to lose, [however], because Libertarianism takes the best from both worlds. I think both parties are a little intimidated by the fact that we might come in and take a few of their votes away.
Noting their new and slightly more polished presidential candidate than theyve had in the past, McAnich said the Libertarian Party has evolved in terms of politicking, something that will help them in the coming elections, both in terms of following and financing.
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Parties making stakes in Collin County: Growth trends open doors to Democrats, Libertarians
Free Will
An overview of the free will position and the three major positions (Determinism, Libertarianism, Compatibilism).From:teachphilosophyViews:7 0ratingsTime:14:18More inEducation
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