Proceeding Boldly: Weekend Update, No. 25

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Boxes of Talk, from EarthBlog News
Mind-controlled Americans are largely ignorant of the "world takeover by nanny-statists" and the resultant crumbling of their society.

The 100 Years War: Collectivism vs. Individualism, by David McKalip, MD There's no more time left to sit on the sidelines.

Basic Premises, by Charley Reese
He has only six. You may very well disagree with them all. PB doesn't.

Taxes and Voting, by Walter Williams
What if you didn't pay taxes, you didn't get to vote?

Statism: The Opiate of the Frightened Masses, by Eric Englund
The state poisons everything it touches, even science. Dismantles the conventional "wisdom" on DDT, HIV, and global warming.

'Find Me the Man, I'll Find the Crime,' by Will Grigg
Man imprisoned for owning too many guns. Really.

The Greyhound Station Gulag, by Will Grigg
Appalling evidence from post-Katrina New Orleans refuting "it could never happen here."

Vacationing a Human Right, EU Chief Says, by Katherine Laidlaw
We live in a bizarro world that only gets more insane each day.

Wall Street Is To Blame! from the Daily Bell
Elite central banking masters rehash theme used after the Great Depression to distract American eyes from their game.

SPLC Publishes Patriot Hit List, by Chuck Baldwin
Supporting freedom and constitutional government targets you for extermination. The SPLC list has only 40 names. The rumored government list has over 8 million.

Sedition? by Lew Rockwell, updated by Butler Shaffer
It's an American birthright, not a crime.

In Defense of Sedition, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Hopes for Washington, DC's devolution to a third-world swamp.

FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons, by Lyndsey Layton
There are no limits to what they presume to rule.

New speed cameras trap motorists from space, by Richard Savill
The big brother nightmare comes true more and more each day.

Economic Ignorance and Liberal Hypocrisy and DailyKos.com, by Jacob Hornberger
An intensely satisfying lesson and rebuttal. His two articles that caused the stir are also recommended.

The Psychiatric Drugging of Children: Inventing Disorders, by Evelyn Pringle
Against the criminal medicalization of childhood.

Student Loans Throw Us Further Into Debt, by Cort Tafoya
Yet more consequences of Obamacare.

DO NOT RELY ON THE OLD MEDIA

Ludwig von Mises Institute
The home of free-market (Austrian) economics.

Lew Rockwell
Anti-state, anti-war, pro-market.

Strike The Root
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -Thoreau

Campaign for Liberty
Ron Paul's site. Daily featured articles, blog, and news wire.

The Daily Bell
A daily compendium of free-market thought. Penetrating insight from Switzerland.

Freedomain Radio
Stefan Molyneux's YouTube channel. Outstanding resource with hundreds of videos. This is the video that got me hooked.

Capitalism Magazine
The website for Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Largely common sense free-market perspectives, but the views on war can be quite hawkish.

321gold
Gold is money. Best place to educate yourself on all things gold, and then some.

SafeHaven
Aggregates the best financial articles. Do not trust your broker, or anyone other than yourself to look out for your financial future.

M.D.O.D.
Warning: caustic and often profane venting of fed-up anonymous emergency physicians. Usually spot-on in their demolition of politics and the culture of dependency.

Rebellion
The blog of a Southern secessionist. Not as radical an idea as you might imagine. Defends core American cultural premises.

Pro Libertate
An extremely well-written blog with a critical eye on the abuses of the police state. Sure to beef up your vocabulary with regular reading.

Edwin Leap
My partner, award-winning medical blogger, and published author.

Body by Science
The website of another one of my partners. The most scientifically proven, ridiculously efficient information on diet and exercise out there.

PaNu
Information on the paleolithic diet, your key to optimal health and longevity the natural way. Written by a physician with keen intellectual curiosity and honesty.

Mercola.com
The world's most popular natural health newsletter.

The Onion
A sense of humor is essential to cope with the sorry state of the world today.

Ars Technica
The site for technology news.

ESSENTIAL WISDOM

"This Act [the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Woodrow Wilson] signs the Bill; the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed. The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill. The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
~Charles Lindbergh, Sr.

"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
~ Vladimir Lenin

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people."
~ Patrick Henry

"Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
~ Soren Kierkegaard

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
~ Frederic Bastiat

"All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
~ George Mason

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
~ George Orwell

"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
~ George Orwell

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
~Herman Goering

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
~ Mark Twain

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
~ Voltaire

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
~ Voltaire

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero."
~ Voltaire

"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."
~ Daniel Webster

"There is no subtler, surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose."
~ John Maynard Keynes

"Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws."
~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
~ Sir Josiah Stamp

"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
~ George Washington

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"One man of courage makes a majority."
~ Andrew Jackson

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke

"If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one."
~ Robert LeFevre

"Great men are almost always bad men."
~ Lord Acton

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
~ H. L. Mencken

"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
~ H. L. Mencken

"That government is best which governs not at all, and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
~ Henry David Thoreau

ENDORSEMENTS

Euro Pacific Capital
Peter Schiff's firm. Get your money to safety. Links the day's most important financial stories and features his weekly commentary (Fridays) and radio show (Wednesdays).

GoldMoney
The best way to buy gold & silver, with apologies to the Perth Mint.

Ubuntu
More reliable than Windows, and free.

Google Reader
How I stay up to date on my favorite sites.

XBMC
The best media center software.

Radio Paradise
Streaming internet radio you can actually listen to without becoming ill within five minutes. No rap, no metal, no boy bands. Turn it up to 11.

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