Und I’m Learning Chinese, Says Wehrner von Braun…

…but not because the Commies are taking over as in the famous song (    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7me25aNtI ) … US films in China now add-in local actors to engage audiences…another result of growing trade thanks to Chinese pro-Libs…http://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanzakarin/how-hollywoods-obsession-with-china-may-change-movies-foreve  Next stop? India.

Libertarian Idea of The Month: Open Border Ideas Spread

LIO pro-Libs are now in every country. Shouldn’t they be free to travel and immigrate? Like this ain’t gonna happen.

Kudos to the always interesting Dr. Bryan Caplan, who gives a heads up on:  http://openborders.info/,   and see links at:

This Month: Caldo Gallego

…everyone now loves Spanish smoked paprika or (meat eater’s) chorizo now, but here’s the wonderfully flexible dish from the Libertarian homeland where free communes held out in an oasis of culture, free trade, democracy… and participation by women, Jews and minorities–and bathed becoming all but plague-free–as Europe trudged through the theocratic abuses of the Dark Ages…and whose sons, led by the de Lemos clans, spread out to bring republics, learning co-operatives  and free communes to the suffering Earth… Use white beans, paprika, greens, and whatever guests bring for another great flexible Lib co-op dish! See:

Quasi-Libertarian State Bank Concept Spreads

 …to 17 US States after the performance of the common sense-based one  in North Dakota. http://banknd.nd.gov/NB: LIO encourages localism, but also on making such services autonomous, non-monopolistic and not tax-supported. Also, Lib-oriented user-run Credit Unions and  S & L’s weathered the recent crisis fine…using such ideas as strong reserves and not making crazy loans because the regulators said it was good for the country, say critics…The concept uses Lib minarchist tools in that a) It is community owned in principle ( we’ll see) and b) Does not prohibit  competitors. More:

Lib Idea of The Month: Growing World Travel This Year…

…thanks to Libs championing peace, eased border restrictions, and increasingly cheap deregulated travel…places to see@ http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=Mysterious+Sights%3a+Moeraki+Boulders%2c+New+Zealand&FORM=TRSSPG

10 Countries That Ban Christmas

…and now you know. Some Holiday Cheer as we go on break @ http://top-10-list.org/2012/02/21/top-10-countries-that-once-banned-christmas/   –the 10 include the US, where Christians found it offensive (so much for reason for the season types) and countries that don’t see the point. A Happy post-Hannukah, a Serene Saturnalia and etc. etc. to y’all.

Exteme Right Wing: Lies on ‘Frivolous Lawsuits’ to Justify Jury Award Caps. Facepalm Award

…right-wing extremists are pushing  jury award caps citing false stories such as these…and even claiming this is a ‘libertarian’ position…In contrast, many complain that jury awards are cut massively by appeals courts in cahoots with crony capitalists… Amusing article questions the nonsense and shows why we need more open info, not less as right-wingers would claim: http://www.cracked.com/article_19150_6-famous-frivolous-lawsuit-stories-that-are-total-b.s..html Highlight: A website dedicated to scare-stories of runaway awards admits the story it was named after–a coffee spill incident – when seen as a whole has a very different interpretation…

Britain Explained for World Libertarians

…it took Youtube to do it at this amusing site– http://devour.com/video/the-united-kingdom-explained/

Video of the Month: How To Go Back to The Land

We’re combining the Youtube/Ted to a video of the month on the 27th. Enjoy!

http://farmwars.info/?p=8959   Just remember chickens and ducks don’t mix. One couple’s story…and why not have a second place in the copuntry or another country just in case, maybe?

Explore Lost Civilizations Thanks To Libertarians

…who continue to work on de-regulated cheap travel, cross cultural education and fewer travel restrictions among nations: Preview your destination @ http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=Lost+Civilizations%3a+Petra%2c+Jordan&FORM=pgbar2&cid=bing_hp

Some Problems Of A Mars Landing

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-09-02/Mars-obstacles-for-humans/57516356/1  Realistic discussion blossoms

Eurozine is Here!

…another triumph of Lib-championed free trade and web freedom, the intriguing zine has plenty on an evolving Europe @ http://www.eurozine.com/

15 Top Paying College Majors

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/22/college-major-paydays/?iid=SF_PF_River  Majors leading to Professional degrees pay–so hit the math books and science–but historians report contentment…and everyone can use an economist…

Mamma Mia! US State Dept Bizarre New Passport Application

“I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

…This month’s Uncle Bennie award–unveiled in another ‘ law switcheroo’ at this fascinating expose site: http://papersplease.org/wp/     of the  http://www.thefirstamendment.org/programs.html   . Once passports were simply optional letters of introduction and safepassage, now says the article if the US has its way they’ll be a multi-page a snoopfest with impossible questions becomes a way to ban travel from the land of the free? Should you get a passport now (see article on getting 2 passports down our feed)? …Libs worldwide advocate treaties for passport-free travel and working residency, so folks: …this is DOA and is another ignore-the-Libs program that won’t stand.  How bad is this? You decide:

Learn This Snoop-Free Foreign Language In 1 Hour

ASL will amaze your friends and confuse your enemies, not to mention help kids better spelling @ http://thesurvivalmom.com/2012/05/27/instant-survival-tip-a-snoop-free-foreign-language/ …plus more tips at this terrific blog…

SIP! Your Soda Bottle Year-Round Window Farm

 

http://www.insideurbangreen.org/recycled-popsoda-bottles/ What better Fall project, especially with the kids?

First revived by Libertarians in the 70′s, they’re coming back…because nothing says love like fresh parsley and free and nutritious year round tomatoes, salad greens, spinach,  peppers, eggplant, beans galore,  peas, chives, herbs, strawberries,  and much more. Just cut up the bottles, hang them up in ‘strings’ or on a shelves…and soon you have an attractive addition to your more autonomous home.

Libertarian Preppers, Survivalists! Foxfire Unveiled

 

…here are great links to the influential, fascinating and useful approach & toolkits developed by libertarianist hippies and dedicated people’s historians once distributed by the USLP …with plenty of things you can use today…

1. http://www.foxfire.org/articles/FoxfireFundInc.pdf (16 amazing pages you might love)

Non-Hybrid Seeds Explained

...by this dealer, and something you may want to look at as some companies try to get them banned and sue small farmers out of existence, say critics…http://www.non-hybrid-seeds.com/

More on Citizenship Planning

…most countries don’t tax foreign income, unlike US and PI…and isn’t just being done by job-seeking immigranst and political refugees…some highlights: https://www.henleyglobal.com/citizenship/countries/#c1043

Taxes: Laffer, UK, Bulgaria

…cut tax rates, raise revenue…but UK uses sneaky ex post facto laws switcheroo say commenters because it doesn’t get it–and Bulgaria does: http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/british-government-launches-task-force-against-flea-markets/

Green Libertarians!

It’s easy to start being one…Libertarians have been championing voluntary Green solutions from the start. Have you taken advantage of  our items at http://libertariansmile.wordpress.com/category/all/your-causes/green-libs/ ?  Enjoy, and share with friends or link to your site!

Hydroponic Greenhouse Provides Jobs

http://crispgreen.com/2012/06/hydroponic-greenhouse-will-create-food-and-jobs-in-mn/ talk about hitting several targets with one stone…

Opinion: Is The Law Dead?

…it’s not for lack of trying, implies this pro-Libertarian attorney:http://lewrockwell.com/rossi/rossi20.1.html

Low-Cost Portable Eco-Micro Houses

…Snoopy wants one. The concept raises many challenges in areas  from zoning to recycling…See

The Difference A Little Libertarian Libertopia Makes

Before and after photos from East Germany…as people are free to improve their property and get the income to do so…http://masculinestyle.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/before-and-after/  …share this with those wondering if Lib ideas have ever been tried…

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TED of the Month: Burt Rutan Explains Private Space Efforts

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/burt_rutan_sees_the_future_of_space.html in this fascinating update by the courageous pioneer who benefited from libertarians opening up private options…

This Month’s Youtube: LIO Fellow Murray Rothbard On Alternate Commodity Currencies of 1776

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iIX2zZ9jSmA ..We’ll always have wampum…One of many interesting lectures alerting scholars and the public to under-researched areas being posted on the great Libertarian advocate and contrarian economist/social scientist and historian…

Taxes vs. Prize Challenges To Advance Society? 10 Great Prizes Underway

…the US Founders liked the idea, and it’s blossoming thanks to Lib-championed openness on everything from low-cost space travel to ecology to meat substitutes for vegetarians: http://listverse.com/2009/09/01/10-fascinating-prize-challenges/

Read, Share These Great Libertarian Tips…

…and SMILE living tools folks use that others may have overlooked, and get the edge! HOW?  CHECK THESE ARTICLES—and discover voluntary and self-autonomy ideas that can help you on how to store foods for years EZ, become a  low-income millionaire, improve EQ & IQ, better your community understanding how Libertarian-fan hippies changed housing–or how to self publish…help a protest self-organize…better finances the Lib way…get a 2nd Passport…and more!

Or on any day just go to the bottom of our site and work yourself upwards from early posts..then re-post with your e-circle, friends and family… Remember: a http://www.TheLibertarian.Info tip a day helps keep the statist away.

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Lib Idea of The Month: Bettering Public Schools With 5 HomeSchool Tools

…and if you’re homeschooling and not doing them, better start: http://familyonbikes.org/blog/2012/04/how-to-improve-the-public-school-experience-from-an-unschoolers-perspective/

7 FREE E-Books Sources To Love

…another free benefit of creeping Libertarianism…

Plastic Bottle Homes

…to match plastic bottle prepper storage…and that you can build, and people are creating right now:

Hey RenRen.com! TED OF THE MONTH: Behind The Great Chinese FireWall…

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_anti_behind_the_great_firewall_of_china.html …Chinese Libertarian and LIO fans of course all staring back at ya’ like Paul Atreides, and who confound fuddy-duddy government regulators as they spread new technologies before our eyes…and microbloggers have more followers than TV stations thanks to boomeranging policies…Who are these Chinese responding? See http://www.ted.com/talks/yang_lan.html

Video/YouTube of The Month: Libertarian Dr. Walter Block On Everything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1GuggJFN8E&feature=relmfu …you might want to
 know from the old days and more by the Libertarian-loving economist–at this charming TV Show of local Secular Humanists–and check out his site at http://www.walterblock.com/

Mencken for Free

…great e-books of the proto-Libertarian satirist…see http://manybooks.net/authors/menckenh.html

LAW SWITCHEROO? SEE HOW THEY SELL US ANTI-VOTER ‘VOTER ID’ -Just look at your old voter ID. This Month’s Libertarian Facepalm Award.

Libertarian-Liberal Facepalm Award

From Free and easy Voter Identification to Voter INFORMATION cards then claims that we need new, expensive, hard to obtain State ID? It’s happening all over the US…

In the US recently  laws to have people show expensive state ID’s to vote–so purging the voter rolls of students, the elderly, frequent movers, ’by mistake’ those in smaller parties,  the poor, unhappy Hispanic and other immigrants caught in inaccurate federal immigration status lists, and others of those who tend to vote against the fanatic extreme hard right–are being justified on the basis that the automatic free voter cards are just ‘voter information cards’…BUT if one looks at one’s old voter card, in previous years the cards were called VOTER IDENTIFICATION as often seen at the top…and were provided free after personal and address verification…

This is an example of ‘salami slicing’ where

Bennie Award! A Coerced Government vs Private Barbershop Compared

…or close enough: It seems that the US Congress has 2 barbershops–which is cheaper and efficient? From an enlightening site–

What’s Happening on The StormFront Front?

…Guess, then look at this discussion   @ http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t811130/  in this group which critics complain both derides and infiltrates Libertarian and other groups to stir up trouble, and drives advocacy of the flat tax, anti-immigration, and more. Topic: If a white woman has an affair with a non-white, can she be a white nationalist (we think) or is she, no pun intended, beyond the Pale?.Dig it…

Should You Get Rid Of Cable for Web?

…a wonderful choice to have,  after Libertarians led the fight against government coercive TV oligopolies  or outright monopolies around the world that limited you to 1-4 channels of  a few approved hours with ‘controlled’ free speech and programming. And to think Libertarians were denounced as kooks for foreseeing not one but many science, 24 hour sports and news channels… let alone being able to view public hearings on TV as they happened, unfiltered by censors…Now heads up–on what people are doing to replace cable with even more flexible web:

The Real Game of Thrones: Is Piracy a Symptom of Poor ‘Statist Style’ Marketing?

…you tell us, and enjoy this hilarious site: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

Live! In a World Without Borders

Just like Switzerland or the USA…For many the first step is this awareness group…http://livingwithoutborders.org/

Urban Beekeeping!

…fun, or you can always buy natural honey, a great imperishable food: http://devour.com/video/urban-beekeeper/

Underground Living Tech Advances

…LIO encourages discussion of the idea as a solution to pollution and mega-disasters, and architects are warming up to means of bringing light underground in surprising ways

Libertarian-Liberal Facepalm Award: Obama, Smallest Government Spender Since Ike?

…as if Libertarians didn’t have enough in the misconception department on their web-plate to sort out—now political cross-dressing transforms civic discussion even more–is Obama a stealth budget hawk…the greatest since Ike?

Why y-e-a-h says budget-hawkish Forbes citing Marketwatch and popular confusion of the Bush rise with Obama, confounding common conceptions and vindicating those saying Obama is a closet Reaganite as government spending actually goes down at one point: will he if re-elected pull a Harry Truman and slash defense 75% after those awful wars while restoring some efficiency? A darn good question many Libs (INSIDE baseball alert: …most of whom voted for Obama –70+%–when faced with the derided LP candidate Barr, who say observers was put in by a conservatizing ‘pragmatist’ group and soon outraged people like Libertarian Party  co-founder and http://www.TheLibertarian.Info  founding co-editor David Nolan–who even introduced a resolution condemning Barr’s campaign– as Barr e.g. advocated executing women for abortions and said business regulation was fundamental)–are raising of the President who is privatizing left and right, establishing racial harmony,  easing towards gay marriage and pot decrim, advocating a tax rate cut, and leaving international Libs alone to spread the tools to  kick out dictators..( and who with many Dems do hope he will follow through on his promises to end the war, torture and other policies)… .http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/ (Our NB: If the data is adjusted for inflation, Obama’s small rise turns into a cut if we read the figures right, but not sure how accounted for…then again, these are OMB stats in a period where Congress has not been able to pass a formal budget; we’re not clear on whether deficit finacing is included, and of course many complain GAAP standards for private entities would show a far larger debt– http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1 –plus ultimately it is Congress/the House that detrmines spending, not the though obviously influential President. ..) Read the intriguing article and have a laugh at the over-the-top obscene and conspiracy-nutjob comments–and note the author citing neutral and data-loving Libertarian-direction think tanks and then an anti-Libertarian hyper-conservative organ (which seems to hate anything beginning with an ‘L’ e.g. Libertarians, love-children, Liberals, lesbians, etc.)..to back him up (at bottom) in a response to comments as you ponder  this month’s…

Facepalm Award.

Garden Earth: 4 Amazing Underground Homes

…as we encourage changes in laws to allow mor and standard eco-friendly underground  homes that leave surface green, cut utility costs, and are cheap to make:  http://www.recyclebank.com/live-green/4-amazing-underground-dwellings/

Who Is Better Off-The Poor of Today or the Middle Class of 1971?

…the average poor American lives better than the average middle class one of 1971–when Libs began to organize and free up the economy. Comparisons ignore relative labor cost and inflation, not to mention unleashed inventions as kooky regulations and attitudes were challenged….http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W8SLIt7xZxU Factoid: Florida denied welfare for owning a TV in the ’60′s—but now presumes one has a home computer to fill in its byzantine welfare application.

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Opinion: Are We Losing Our Freedom?

…NO! says LIO’s MG — though it’s not from lack of trying by the right-wing and other ‘mainstream’  extremists who tell us we are as they nibble at this and that…or unhappy activists who lose touch with where we were–and says keep pushing for voluntary alternatives for the real cause–justice (Photo: Availability of cheap tasty coffee of seemingly endless varieties and forms has risen with Lib-championed trade, interest in unaccustomed cultures and ways, and ease of small business where more difficult than before as lack OR complexity of laws hid arbitrary rules)..  10 Things  We Now Enjoy thanks to Libs, and

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US Lawyers Get Rich As Truck Drivers

http://abovethelaw.com/2012/02/career-alternatives-for-attorneys-truck-driver/   …thanks to Lib-inspired deregulation of crazy rules and government-favored oligopolies, and more laid back tolerant culture–and which IOHO makes a weird sort of sense, and proves your Uncle was right about that ‘learn-an-honest-worker’s-trade, then consider college’ thing after all. Fiat justitia ne big-rig pereus? This may be the next step in reducing unnecessary legislation. More