*** February 2012 low content thread ***

You gotta love the way she tries to paint playing by their rules as subverting the system in some way.

Doug Wead on The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC 2/10/12

You just can’t help but smile at this…

You have to love the way they can’t get away from all the signs, so their only option is to go split screen and show useless B roll for no reason.

Another great piece is when the husband of “the perfect face for radio” admits Ron Paul supporters “know all this stuff about the financial system and the regulatory environment and the Federal Reserve”…and even admits he didn’t know any of it when he was in college himself (although he conveniently forgets to mention he still doesn’t).

Ron Paul fans overwhelm CNN pundits at the Jacksonville, FL debate

Yay! Activist delegates!

This is why education from an early age is so important. This is why eliminating the education monopoly has to be near or at the top of the list. Listen to how easily this guy contradicts himself and has absolutely no problem with it.

Jan Helfeld interviews Crawford PART 1 Current TV commentator

Watch this:

M83 ‘Midnight City’ Official video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE

Chaos in Gotham City

Comment on Whitney Houston: Here’s a question for proponents of the drug war: Does prohibition - which demonstrably fails to keep illegal drugs out of the hands of people who want them - simply make it that much harder for people like Houston to admit and seek problems for their problems? Everyone knows that it’s no easy thing for addicts or problem users of anything to admit they need help. Does criminalizing the behavior on top of everything else make it that much harder to for such people to seek the help they need?

Deception at Duke

+1 Maiku! Nice find!

The only step he missed was to include the viewer in a “vote” along with his buddies on whether or not he should have the right to rob you. :stuck_out_tongue: Once the vote has been tallied, lo and behold, the viewer is in the minority. And by participating in the vote, the viewer himself has already consented to being robbed!

Clayton -

Well, I didn’t find him, actually I am a long time follower of his channel (since I became aware that I am anarchist) but I decided to post one of the greatest so to speak, but personally, he is the most influential and best outspoken anarchist outhere. You should watch some other videos of his, but there are not very much of them. Still, I love reading his responses to the statists bashing him on his videos. :smiley:

This guy blew me out of the water, It’d probably be on here anyway soon, but he really just summed up a lot of what I believe in relation to the issues that they talked about really simply. I’ll have to check out the book

Beat me to it.

A reminder that none of us are gods:

http://news.yahoo.com/justice-breyer-robbed-west-indies-vacation-home-210243845.html

The book

I wasn’t impressed by the essay that he pointed out as being the best (Johnson: “Markets Freed From Capitalism” pg. 59-82). Johnson kept saying how his argument is not merely about definitions (of capitalism), but I couldn’t see anything beyond definitions. Also, no idea what he meant by “markets as free exchange, or markets as a cash nexus”.

President of the United States: I do what my wife (who, as an adult was never proud of her country until I started winning in the polls (which she reiterated a second time, just in case you thought it was a mistake) and my [clinically insane] runningmate tell me to do.

The book

I wasn’t impressed by the essay that he pointed out as being the best (Johnson: “Markets Freed From Capitalism” pg. 59-82). Johnson kept saying how his argument is not merely about definitions (of capitalism), but I couldn’t see anything beyond definitions. Also, no idea what he meant by “markets as free exchange, or markets as a cash nexus”.

So what does the book promote? How can free markets be non-capitalist?

"The book

I wasn’t impressed by the essay that he pointed out as being the best (Johnson: “Markets Freed From Capitalism” pg. 59-82). Johnson kept saying how his argument is not merely about definitions (of capitalism), but I couldn’t see anything beyond definitions. Also, no idea what he meant by “markets as free exchange, or markets as a cash nexus”."

Thanks for the link.

From a quick skim through of some essays it seems much more like an introduction to voluntaryist thought with some more communitarian style twists, rather than something that goes very in detail. Still, it looks like some of the essays could certainly be utilized to convince others and it would be great to someone new to libertarianism.

@Freedom4Me

As he says in the beginning of the video he simply is equating capitalism in this instance to the current system, he uses a different definition than Mises, Rothbard, and most of the people here, and instead is using much more of a “left-anarchist” connotation, and indeed the way that the term is usually used in context.

The book promotes free market, free enterprise, and free exchange, as well as a number of more “communitarian”, that is voluntarily communistic and collectivistic, solutions to current issues. E.G he’s like most of the people here, just with more of the collectivist and traditional anarchist tint to what he advocates (kinda like meee :D)

Robert Wenzel says:

They Are Attacking My Buddy Krug

Businessweek reports on the war between Krugman and other phony economists. Writes Businessweek:

The escalating battle of ideas between the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his illustrious peers

What has been getting the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist so riled up lately? In the last few weeks, what began as a semi-civil battle of ideas between “saltwater” Keynesians of Krugman’s persuasion and “freshwater” economists of the Chicago school has escalated into a two-way barrage of insults and name-calling.

In my book, saltwater economists and freshwater economists are both all wet. They don’t understand how the economy works, have no clue as to when the economy will turn direction and have no clue about the dangerous price inflation that is developing. Koch brothers-financed Tyler Cowen should know better (and probably does), the others were probably born clueless.

But when it comes to these characters attacking my buddy Krug (who has made almost every forecasting error possible), I’ll take Krug over these phonies any day. Krug is wrong, but at least he is entertaining. These other guys are wrong and boring.

Click on the chart for details on the infighting started by Krugman

A no-nonsense take on Whitney Houston’s death…

Haha, that chart is awesome. This is when you realize being into economics makes you a nerd, when you laugh at something like Krugman saying “I’ve never gone ad hominem.” Only the few understand…

From the Bastiat Institute FB page. What I think I do actually is what I really do, and what I really do really is what I really do.

I found this and it sort of stung: