Stop Global Cooling: Fire and Ice

The oft referenced Newsweek article from the '70's claiming the world was getting too cold.

Reminds me of my favorite poem:

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Tax the Fed then End It?

Ex-CIA Officer Steele thinks so, watch the full video - it's awesome.

On Survival Systems

This post is brief and lazy, so please complain in the comments if you like.

Over the course of some thousand of years, hunter gatherers transitioned to farmers, who transitioned to specialists, and now we have mass production - I'm calling these "survival systems". I tend to hold with the Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROI) folks for why the transitions have happened. EROEI predicts a reversal as the returns decrease which, imo, we're seeing now as increased divergence from (geo) libertarianism.

Rant: One of the problems with neofeudal corporatism/mass production is that it treats humans as robots. If we can create and fuel robots, we don't need as many robot-humans. But with fewer robot-humans working we have lower demand for the things we're mass producing. Further, humans don't make particularly good robots and neofeudalism sucks for the serfs, so when EROEI allows they will want to return to their more liberated state. But the feudal lords like their setup - and have corporate welfare to keep otherwise impractical survival systems running. You also have money creation that replaces savings for initial capital investment which hides the actual cost of creating the feudal mass production system, and then you have legacy infrastructure in the way that precludes hunting and farming land: something needs to be done to revert the land.

See societal collapse: runaway train

personal note: geo-libertarianism with atom taxation

Thank You China

We need all the help we can get to clean house.

Though, while not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth, I think I'd still rather live here. For now at least. Unless you've got a really good job for me in that capitalist powerhouse you've built ... hint, hint.

An Appeal to Charities

The health care debate rages on. Historically, charity has been responsible for providing for the less fortunate. I therefore appeal to charities to up their efforts to provide health care to the American poor instead of letting the government take it over.

I have donated to various organizations in the past, but I want to specifically appeal to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation on this one. Bill Gates and Microsoft are a capitalist success story. Warren Buffet, who has contributed largely to the foundation, would not be where he is without the entrepreneurial American spirit.

I have my theories of why a donation has not already been made, one of which is that Washington should not be setting the agenda for charities; but even a symbolic contribution at this point may sway the tide back towards freedom and individual excellence.

Contemporary Example that Collectivism in Management Leads to Collectivism in Employees

possible NFL strike due to pay caps

Matt Taibbi should be some kind of bank regulator for washington

empowered to destroy Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid

Rothbard Rocked

On Property Rights

I have a hole in my understanding of Libertarian philosophy that I am trying to fill on property rights, but found this article interesting.

In the New World, the state acted to preempt access to empty or nearly empty land, by claiming it for the "public" domain. This was followed by restrictions on access by individual homesteaders, coupled with massive land grants to land speculators, railroads, mining and logging companies, and other favored classes. The result was to limit the average producer's independent access to the land as a means of livelihood, to thereby restrict his range of independent alternatives in seeking a livelihood, and thus force him to sell his labor in a buyer's market.

coming soon (hopefully): on mass production
also, my opinion is Schiff's on inheritance, but I disagree with him on Iran (he's coming off as a neocon imo)

Michael Bader is Also not a Paedophile

He's just another mind controller for the left. Be very careful if you're easily confused. He takes a valid political movement, suggests they're (all!) emotionally and psychologically traumatized; that it's a reaction to some sort of existential pain, and that he can reprogram them. Scary and cultish.

Is it Really Free Speech ...

... when you're consistently and systematically harassed for the expression?