#TodayILearned the war on Iran is costing nearly one billion dollars a day...
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#TodayILearned the war on Iran is costing nearly one billion dollars a day...
ronpaulinstitute.org/will-the-dollar-be-a-cas...
#TIL The US #GovtIsTheProblem
was a good read, currently $2.99 on Kindle:
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https://a.co/d/0fNeSU61 #CIA
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Even more difficult than convincing people to stop voting, because of the fear factor, or the unwillingness to inconvenience oneself […]
> "If liberty is to survive, it cannot be entrusted to the state at all. The only secure foundation is the complete privatization of society: the replacement of coercive monopolies with voluntary, competitive institutions. Gustave de Molinari saw this as early as 1849, when he proposed that even […]
> "Americans are taught that the Constitution completed the Revolution. ...But, as Rothbard showed, the Constitution was not the fulfillment of 1776, but rather its undoing."
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## Government Still Leads as Nation's Top Problem ##
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> "From time to time, the American people need to be reminded (e.g., Waco and Ruby Ridge) who is the boss. The boss is the U.S. government. The citizenry are the serfs, the servants, the subordinates. The job of the citizenry is to work and produce wealth so that there are alway sufficient tax […]
> "If anyone thinks that the government’s omnipotent power to kill drug-war suspects on the high seas is limited to foreigners, he is living in a world of hyper-naiveté and delusion. With those killings in cold blood on the high seas, the U.S. government, especially the Pentagon, the CIA, and […]
Panama: Much better on taxes than the United States...
https://youtube.com/shorts/rTLgEGcLqQo
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> "Two weeks ago in Minneapolis, Susan Tincher was arrested for following ICE agents and persistently videotaping them. She was shoved to the snow on her belly and handcuffed behind her back. At an ICE detention facility, her clothes and her wedding ring were removed from her — the latter by a […]
## Board of Piece ##
These two notes remind me of how that when we were kids playing Monopoly™ my siblings and I would sometimes do what we called "blockbuster deals" where several parties exchanged with each other at the same time to get the properties they wanted and it massively changed the […]
> "When your military has a history of horribly mistreating its own citizens (during the Civil War), and raping, robbing, and plundering civilians in sovereign nations all over the world, then kidnapping one individual, whether he is an elected official or a dictator, is child’s play. If we ever […]
> "By 1995, we had learned that as many as two million civilians were killed during the senseless Vietnam War."
https://tinyurl.com/5dahuy8m
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> "In 1989, George H.W. Bush’s military invaded Panama, for the purpose of overthrowing one time U.S. asset Manuel Noriega, wanted for racketeering and drug trafficking. Any Venezuelans reading this may notice a familiar theme. The Pentagon estimated that 516 Panamanians, including over 200 […]
And if you can receive it, the CIA probably tampers with U.S. elections as well, "for the good of democracy" […]
One of my favorite anecdotes from the American Revolution:
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#anarchy #voluntarism #voluntaryism #GovtIsTheProblem
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#anarchy #voluntarism #voluntarism #GovtIsTheProblem
> "We cannot vote to get a “better” president, and the facts bear this out. This reality should not encourage us to vote harder but instead make Americans quietly angry, confidently disobedient, and newly clear-eyed as to the future of this country. Instead of hoping against hope that every […]
> "President Trump said on Tuesday that in addition to the airstrikes on Venezuelan boats suspected of trafficking drugs to the United States, the U.S. military would begin hitting targets on land. Not only are all these strikes unconstitutional by any construction, but they are also unprovoked […]
During COVID dozens of heavily armed riot cops in Minneapolis, tasked with enforcing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s COVID curfew orders, rolled down a quiet neighborhood street in a Humvee, and shot paintballs at residents for standing outside their homes […]
The final boss: Separation of Society and State...
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Wow, I'm surprised at how my own political views today align so much with Eddie Murphy's views of 1992...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=X5WZaL31n-U
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Are we really all that smarter or freer than Europeans of the Middle Ages and Renaissance?
https://youtube.com/shorts/_9G8fWq943c
#GovtIsTheProblem #TaxationIsRobbery
Call it fascism or crony capitalism, this is how it's done. Republicans, Democrats, both sides play the game. And {{{ some }}} always seem to be cashing in...
www.perplexity.ai/page/lutnick-family-firm...
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> "As if all this is not enough to rouse Madison from his grave, there’s a new phenomenon in law called “The Kavanaugh Stop.” This is derived from a bizarre concurring Supreme Court opinion recently written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh in which he argued that race, ethnicity and presence at a car […]
> "America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause and disrupt the public speech that the president hates and fears, and the president kills foreigners on the high seas whom he says […]
> "As with any problem that presents itself, the market will solve it. You don’t have to rely on political mechanisms, which inevitably cause more problems than they solve. "
-- Doug Casey)
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> "Large groups of Americans and United Statesers will view the government as not only unimportant but an unnecessary and dangerous parasite. The average person may not recognize that right now, but the thought will eventually filter through. The same way it did when people almost everywhere […]
> ...US democracy is so dysfunctional that courts thought the balance of powers had to be set aside.
> ...a further step has been taken in the transition from democracy to autocracy.
Another Step on the Path to Autocracy)
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