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A 3-D Printer for Every Home?

Libs have been campaigning to get rid of legal obstacles ( see www.libertarian-international.org and page back ) and now people seem to be warming up to the idea–praising it with faint damns:  Read More…

Our Libertarian ‘Peer to Peer’ Revolution: Lib Idea of the Month

…get aware of it, well documented and discussed at this great site (NB-many authors don’t get it and try and turn it into some mixed-up socialism, but great data and debate nonetheless) : http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ Read More…

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…

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/ Read More…

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) Read More…

How To Network If The Internet Shuts Down

 

…and you wonder why LIO still uses old-fashioned mail, phone-trees/round-robins,  and couriers…these are, however, the techniques passed on in the Mid-East by Libs that foiled attempts to shut down the internet…dot-dot-dot-dash….http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/22/communicate-govt-shuts-internet-136801/ Read More…

Cronyism vs. Capitalism Explained-Our Bennie Award

…explained by indefatigable LIO Fellow Dr. Palmer in a handy Youtube to share with your circle now… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDxUyzBfBQ&feature=player_embedded

Low-Cost Portable Eco-Micro Houses

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

Life-Extending Barter Items to Stockpile

…we’re A-OK on the TP for the BM for more stress-free LE in a review of 16 items at this informative site: http://debtreckoning.com/shtf-barter-items-to-stockpile/ Read More…

Bennie Award-Gov’t Monopolies No More: Libertarians & Lib Ideas Cleared the Way for the 10 Largest–By Customer–Great US Companies…

…almost none of them existed before Libs championed deregulation which paved the way for new technologies customers love–and those that did were radically transformed from expensive oligopolies to more responsive low-cost providers, though much remains to be done: http://247wallst.com/2012/04/30/american-companies-with-the-most-customers/2/

Great Urban Homestead Links: Goats, Chickens, Mini-Farms, Honey, & More

BackYardChickens.com…done right (organically, clean)  it won’t bother neighbors and has several benefits–even if you don’t eat them, just the milk and eggs…another step towards household autonomy and garden cities LIO Friends/ Libs are helping work for…and great project for co-ops, teens, homeschool, retirees, co-housing and more… : http://www.bing.com/editors-picks/home?q=urban+homesteading&form=pgbar2 … Read More…

3 Great Data Websites

…another benefit of the world Lib info revolution…From the pro-Lib site: http://whakahekeheke.tumblr.com/page/7

  1. onelook.com- Look up any word and onelook.com gives you definitions from all the major dictionaries (plus medical dictionaries, philosophy lexicons, legal dictionaries, etc.). Very useful for debates, essays, semantics.
  2. tineye.com- If you’ve ever seen an image on the net and want to know where it came from, who/what it’s a picture of, or just want a bigger version of the same image… just copy-paste the URL of the image (or upload the file) and tineye will do a “reverse image” search and find you all the versions of that image on the net and tell you where they’re located.
  3. surf-forecast.com – This amazing site tells you what the surf is going to be like for the next week at any beach anywhere in the world in nerdy detail. No more disappointing, wasted trips or calling around to see where the surf’s good

How Libertarian Tools Help You Retire Early

…and well, thanks (in the US) to ‘private social security’ IRA’s, Keoghs, worker pension plans, and a quasi-coercively-deregulated investment market, and consumer info allowing good living at low cost…including one man who retired at age 33… Read More…

Clive Johnson Survival Tips …

…150 of them  now available for pennies at web booksellers unleashed by the Libertarian internet and free trade/speech revolution…which misguided officials are trying to tax… Pre-GOOGLE’d here at: Read More…

Are Your Symptoms Really Allergies?

…opr made worse by them? It’s worth a look as doctors are realizing what Libertarians have been noting for years–GIGO. Article on user-driven Read More…

Underground Living Tech Advances

Transformation: LowLine want New Yorkers to go onwards and upwards - by going down…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 Read More…

*LIO Fellow E. Goldratt: Libertarians TOC-Freedom via Theory Of Constraints

…is catching on, a variant of the participative management, IPO and SIS /goals-productivity analysis focus approaches pioneered by Lib management consultants such as Carl Garlick and others, and systems theorists such as van Bertalanfy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu_M._Goldratt The proactive analysis betters enterprises and undoes coercive assumptions…Goldratt, like other LIO Fellows interested in management, saw it not as contending schools but had an integrated vision. Some links: Read More…

‘Hard Tools, Fluid Action’–Activists Discover Libertarian ‘Un’-Organization

…Pareto blamed. And this is why the bad hats keep trying to mess up platforms and bias the group towards parliamentary paralysis, or claim Libertarianism is exclusively about electoral politics, or create false choices between purity vs. practice, individuals vs. community, etc. MG has seen that all you need is at http://www.libertarianbookclub.org and here, of course. See: Read More…

More From Libertarian Contrarians

The U.S. Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper

…based on actual facts. What was the US Declaration of Independence written on?

 

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What to Read for the Holiday: 100+ Great Hacks

http://lifehacker.com/366859/the-best-of-lifehacker-in-upgrade-your-life …links plus great book. Do not try unless supervised by a 12 year old, of course, Read More…

TED of the Month: Advertarianism, Life Extension, and More

…Advertarianism includes the notion that minor but ignored information solutions can have great beneficial results …and greatly beneifit or extend lives where massive funding fails… http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/15/qa_with_rory_su/ Read More…

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 Read More…

LIO Fellow L. Nikonov on Cronyism In Russia

…an inspiring talk by the the energetic thinker and public intellectual spreading rational approaches in Russia @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltacf5zW9aY&feature=player_embedded

Get MORE of the REAL Economic Stats

 

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…a good websearch is a wonderful thing as libertarian challenges of crooked or shifting feel-good stats –first championed by Dr. Rothbard’s withering critique of GDP concepts–permeate the web. Even the US Government is now asterisking its numbers…See: Read More…

Your 1-Acre Self-Sufficient Sanctuary

…and without the livestock relaxing second home or co-housing project is a lot easier than you think, plus links on how low-cost intensive 3-acre organic farms can feed entire small communities http://wakeup-world.com/2011/07/22/how-to-start-a-1-acre-self-sufficient-sanctuary/ Read More…

Misery Index: Obama Betters Nixon?

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…or even better without that Watersomething suggests interesting Misery Index Chart at http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14115 NB: we’re aware definitions of stats change, but take a look Read More…

TED OF THE MONTH: Crowdsource Your Health

http://www.ted.com/talks/lucien_engelen_crowdsource_your_health.html as LIO Libs have been doing from Day 1, championing user-informed health

How Messed Up Were You By the School System?

…which by 5th grade (10 years of age) gives you, in theory, all the daily facts you need if you use the tools…http://www.gotoquiz.com/are_you_smarter_than_a_fifth_grader Our monthly Quiz modeled on the hit TV show (NB we’ll be doing quizzes and recipes every 20th of the onth on in)…

How To Make A Survival Crossbow or Bow — Quick!

shooting survival bows and arrows…useful for digging up plants when you then realize you can’t shoot….so start practicing.  Great info from the survival worksops of the dedicated folks at inspiring Alderleaf Wilderness College @ http://www.wildernesscollege.com/bow-making-instructions.html Read More…

How Libertarians Have Helped Change The World

SPECIAL: Like this article? How to Spread Libertopia Today and about S.M.I.L.E.!

…explained through  sounds your teen co-editor mostly never heard…but the result of Lib-driven de-regulation, de-monopolization, and more…http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106713 Read More…

Libertarians! Who Luvs Ya?

…besides MG and the folks at our Zine, of course… find out to lessen stress and better long life…in our monthly QUIZ http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_type_of_person_do_you_attract

Learn to Research–and the Real Law, with the Corpus Juris Secundum

MG read the Titanic multi-volume opus cover to cover developing the post-Hospers Lib-direction  platform (itself based on his precocious unpublished  You Have A Right plus a brilliant outline by his Dad’s crony Nolan where Nolan explains more, and underlying the current LIO SMILE process) the private compendium of US case law and common law historicity and needs more citizen use– and real Lib leading leaders understand. No, you don’t need the latest version or to read every page to get familiar but can spend many fascinating hours in the free edition at your local public or college library (or demand they get a used one)..plus it’s also a great way to learn real research, says this article Read More…

Back Pocket Trauma Kits

http://www.itstactical.com/store/its-edc-trauma-kit/ and while you’re at it, take the Red Cross First Aid and other volunteer courses courtesy links @ http://libertarianlifeguardssafetyvolunteers.wordpress.com/ Read More…

Spread Libertopia: Have You Read Our Most–and LEAST– Read Articles of the Last Month?

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Lib Idea of the Month: More on the Laffer Curve

…Forget that silly flat tax: it’s about lower tax RATES…as you lower tax rates, revenues and productivity jump…at this review article, see body for useful youtubes as well: http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/a-lesson-on-the-laffer-curve-for-barack-obama/ Read More…

Villages.cc Is Here!

https://villages.cc/ …another Lib tool type project, working to ease and network communities Read More…

How to Get Out Of Handcuffs

…favored by kidnappers, and remember, be polite to public safety officials as well. Read More…

Smart People Use Mediterranean Diet, Which Makes Them Smart

See? So smarten up: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-mediterranean-diet-brain-health-20120213,0,5561161.story  and talk to physician about joining many LIO Libs rejecting the old silly official guidelines that reduce lifespan, cause emotional swings leading to crime, and enrich political contributors. Read More…

Common Law vs Statute Systems: Total Myth, Say Libertarian Thinkers

…or at least in our book, as scholars confuse  historical accident or cultural emphasis with the need for both plus ignored the third and powerful  private re-statement in consultation with the people now drivimng world change…as Libs like MG (who grew up in Spain) did in studying the Ur-text of Iberian common law, the surprisingly Lib-similar and  modern Usatges, now available in English translation…Lib scholars have also studied case law systems such as the Xeer, which is why most Somalis ignore their western-imposed government in recent years and develop independent cantons like Somaliland, and interested LIO Fellows welcome or actively  urge local and national study of systems starting with native peoples…

5 Job Evaluation Traits Looked For-At Facebook…

…by you or potential employers are: ‘the “Big Five” personality traits… extroversion, conscientiousness, emotional stability, agreeableness and openness to new experiences. (Our NB-as opposed to being a non-communicating, messy, and reality-denying ) …High scores on these traits are generally accepted by human resources managers as an indication of future good job performance….’ now studies show your Facebook has enough info for an accurate evaluation in a few minutes: Read More…

Inspiring, Lovely Hi-IQ Women

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/02/the-50-hottest-smart-girls#4 are what all too many still fear–at this startling site with trendy pop culture buzz and tidbits..and welcome in a movement with 60% women

Do You Really Understand Common/Natural Law? www.Constitution.org Gets You Started

 . …http://constitution.org/c5/ studies the highly developed originary British system. The free group championed by the genial Libertarian polymath, environmental activist, child rights watchdog  and more Jon Roland and team group many hard- to- find original resources and provocative suggestions praised by legalists, all so everyday people can use it to better the common law of their own nations and more demanding justice consumers. More on his intriguing schedule at: http://www.constitution.org/jr_cv.htm  Read More…

Libertopian Ideals Spread: Free University of The People

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ccap/2012/01/19/a-free-college-education-for-all/  “…Founded in 2009, University of the People will exclusively use volunteer faculty. Indeed, the distinction between faculty and student is hopelessly blurred in their model. As a result they aspire to be a tuition-free university open to any high school grad anywhere in the world. Initially they are offering programs in business administration and computer science, and are seeking regional accreditation. While there is no tuition, there are some fees, but the total cost for a bachelor’s degree will likely be a few hundred dollars, depending on where you live…”

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