Thieves rob openly in Peru, even mugging police officers
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1355126218
true anarchy. Shocking.
tune into CBS CBS evening news with scott pelley (on right now) - they are doing a segment on what happens when the economy crashes, they goto peru where carrots are used as money… should be interesting.
*forgive me it is spain and its not exactly what they advertised. Its not being used as money..
The story goes like this:
Spain’s government raised taxes on theater (stage performances) tickets to 21%. Due to the recession in spain not many people are going and with this increase like noone is going. So what he started doing is selling carrots. EXPENSIVE CARROTS, like the price of a play expensive.
$17 for a single carrot and you get a free show!
haha
Yeah, this sort of thing always happens at the breaking point. Black markets are instantly created and everyone’s happy. Except the politicians.
There have been landlords who get around rent control laws in a similar way. Sure, the apartment’s only $500 a month, but to rent the refrigerator that comes with it and cannot be removed is another $725 a month 
Congress has the power to regulate the museum and the exhibition of the Hemingway cats.
White House must review petition to build Death Star
We know where our government’s allegiance lies.
Over 25,000 people have petitioned the Obama administration calling for them to build a Star Wars-style Death Star by 2016.
The authors of the petition argue that building one would strengthen national defense and create jobs.
Some “art” I made with the help of newspaper archives.
“Listen, Young Ladies”
“It’s a Hard World”
I just realized that John James uses two spaces after a period.
That’s a dangerous peculiarity. Can be used to de-anonymize him. Then again, he may be imitating this on purpose, to throw the hounds off the track.
My mother just told me that if I clean up my room, she’ll order Anatomy of the State for me off of the Mises Store. I’ve never been so motivated to do this.
Isn’t Anatomy of the State the small Rothbard essay? I’m sure you could read the pdf of it in no time.
It is indeed, however it’s five bucks in the store and I’d like to have something solid to hand to people and say “this changed my life” rather than give them some long URL to punch into their address bar (or forget about later).
Plus, I’m not a fan of reading stuff on the computer. I prefer a nice book in my hands.
I personally would not recommend AotS as an intro book to AnCap thinking (at least to most people).
@ Wheylous
Why not? It’s what sealed the deal for me with anarcho-capitalist thinking. Plus it’s a pretty easy, quick read, and pretty radical. When I hand people a copy of The Revolution: A Manifesto, most of the time they just read a few pages and put it down, I guess with the feeling that this is probably going to be another one of those political books written by those dumb Republicans…
Andris - haha, why do you think I would like it?
SM - I’m not sure radical is the way to go. Maybe in some cases, but not always.