Bert,
That’s fake.
Group claiming to have Romney tax records threatens to leak them
From the article:
Who wants to bet that the real point of this is to go after Bitcoin? /Clayton
lol nice one, Autolykos.
@Autolykos: Much to learn you still have, my young padawan. The rabbit hole goes much deeper. Bitcoin is a Proof-of-Concept for a global cashless virtual “money” like that shown in the movie In Time. The author of Bitcoin is actually Nick Szabo of George Washington University (a known haunt of CIA)… the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto contains the hint… initials are SN… backwards of NS. The mysterious “SN” has since bowed out after Gavin Andersen (who has actually visited CIA to give a talk about Bitcoin) took over active maintenance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is every bit as grassroots as Wikileaks (an obvious honeypot operation) is.
This is just a publicity stunt. Whoever is behind this is doing it at the behest of the Establishment!
Clayton -
Experts blow up 550-pound WWII bomb found in Munich
Cliff’s Notes:
German construction workers were demolishing a nightclub when they ran across a strange-looking object. It turned out to be a 550lb. bomb from World War II…that was still “live” and armed.
The bomb squad couldn’t defuse it…so they decided to evacuate 3,000 people from downtown Munich…
…and blow it up!
Democrat Debt Solutions: Tax the Rich, Spend More Money
my favorite part is at the very end.
A good Birchy song: From My Cold Dead Hands
For all his faults, I will say Molyneux is quite elegant and articulate in making the case for freedom.
@JJ: I listened to the first 5 minutes. I think that Molyneux unnecessarily drifts off into developmental theory: how much of the net outcome of individual behavior can be attributed to genetics and how much to the developmental environment? We don’t need to answer this question in order to understand that adult behavior is profoundly affected both by genes (heredity) - what he is calling nature - and by the developmental environment - what he is calling nurture.
The question that remains unanswered is why so few rise to the top. If it is so easy to set up shop as your own slaveholder/king/whatever, why is the top of the pyramid so narrow? Why isn’t there a great deal more competition? After all, the very attributes he mentions (amplification of the fight-or-flight response) are characteristic of those at the top of the pyramid, so the social process he describes should be making the competition for the top spot much more intense. This should result in a much flatter pyramid with many, many people breaking away from existing pyramids and starting their own slave/tax colonies. We observe exactly the opposite.
The fact is that human social behavior is not a blank slate. We do have innate dispositions and those dispositions include alpha-like behavior (dominance-submission). The environment in which this particular behavior evolved was not one of imperial kings and queens. The lead hunter in a hunting party was the alpha, or the tribal elder in a small tribe was the alpha. The intensification of population and capital made possible by the Agricultural Revolution also created an intensification in this hierarchical behavior. The alpha male no longer led a Wooly Mammoth hunting expedition, he led an entire army of men numbering in the hundreds of thousands. He was no longer merely head of a small tribe, he was head of an expansive nation-state.
This is not the only maladaptive behavior that humans exhibit. There are many behaviors that are now curbed by the law (even customary law) and we are much better off without them. Unfortuantely, the State creates an inversion of the law by virtue of privilege and this is how such maladapted behavior can persist. In modern law, dominance is not punished, it is refusal to be dominated - that is, failure to submit - that is punished.
Neither the inevitability argument nor the blank slate argument is persuasive. The correct answer lies somewhere between these extremes. The State is not inevitable but neither is it wholly contrary to human nature. Rather, it has hijacked a portion of human nature (alpha dominance/submission) that evolved for other purposes and has turned it to use in creating and sustaining the system of parasitism that has dominated human society for the last 6,000 years or so.
Clayton -
Do you belong to the government?
Well fuck. Start it at 4:35 and try again.
Someone on facebook posted favorably about Obama’s character and questions how anyone could vote for Romney over him. This is what came to mind. One can never have too much Farage:
One of the better parts of the movie:
Mr. Farage, tell us how you really feel!
You guys never saw my thread?
Scarlett Johansson to Youth: I’m Not Gonna Tell You Who You Vote For–Just Commit To Vote At BarackObama.com
Libertarians often refer to the customary law of peoples such as the Somalians and Pashtuns and of medieval Ireland and Iceland, but the Chechens also live by custom:
Interestingly there is a strong emphasis on freedom and self-defence, and there is opportunity (and historical examples) of new clans being formed out of immigrants.