Want to Build A Local Libertarian SMILE Community?

Join the official effort and become a trainee. The pilot has 30K participants. See: http://libertariancitizencommunity.wordpress.com/

The #1 Tip For Being Successful Is…

…the maligned, neglected, understudied  and regulated area of sales…that is, educating and informing the user: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/successful-business-tip_n_1455916.html

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/

Downsize Your Body! Again.

http://downsizingyourbody.com/ Holidays did you in? Overuse of Carbs and food additives are proving Libertarian hippies had a point…an intriguing site.

Web Video of the Month: Mountain Alternate Currency

…another Lib-inspired voluntary money project underway with informative how-to vimeo: http://mtnhours.com/

OK, Libertarians: The Assault Rifle They Want To Ban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_10/22 

It’s…the Hippie teen hunting weapon they once brought to school.

Don’t laugh. They’re already telling you the real agenda: An East Coast mayor appeared on MSNBC claiming all firearms were “Weapons of Mass Destruction” that should be banned ( except for officials, natch, thus creating an exclusively armed aristocracy–the definition of feudalism…) while many extreme conservative pundits wax apoplectic and demand ‘violent’ shows be forbidden to boot. So find what many Libertarians know in this  informative article on a great weapon in many US homes, and additional links below…NEVERMIND hysterical officials that are ignoring that:

•  This is the type of weapon teen hippies once regularly brought to US schools ( for after school gun class ) as recently as

Saul Alinski’s Rules

…for destabilizing silly hierarchies….and exposing them when they try and use them on Libs. Here are Alinsky’s 13 tactical rules, and MG’s hilarious use of them as a worldwide teen organizer http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg50100.html in this meditative thinkpiece at the bottom (MG corrects that it was not the entire city but many areas that shut down)…:

Anti-Libertarian of the Month Award: Even Some Volunteering Is A Stretch In Some Advanced Countries

 ”Libertarianism? Sure! Volunteer. Go Voluntary. But only as ordered.”

( Propaganda portrait of “Marshal Stalin” )

The nation that once gave us  the Subbotnik of  ’coercive volunteerism’ as a regular thing now has people who, well,  don’t quite just get the life- and society- extending Lib volunteer/voluntary approach… http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/world/europe/internet-spurs-many-to-aid-flooded-krymsk-russia.html?_r=1&src=recg … and arrest volunteers for showing up to help before the government arrives and hand out ‘anti-government’ ‘volunteering is groovy’ literature.

(Update: Sadly, in the recent US Sandy disaster, as pro-FEMA media propagandists boasted of how necessary government aid was and better than ‘greedy’ and unealistic private action, officials arrested people for bringing free gas to neighbors bought in adjoining states, the mayor forbade average citizens  feeding the homeless without going through a variety of costly licenses,  or officials told out-of-state  construction volunteers to stay away unless they were locally licensed…meanwhile OWS and pro-Libertarian or other preppers–several associated with LIO Volunteers Project–quietly helped communities, organized neighbors and handed stranded officials food…not to mention

Learning Spaces, Small Places

…kids are in the game with their own wall of fame…plus more tools at this great blog: http://mysmallpotatoes.com/2012/05/30/an-educators-guide-to-creating-learning-spaces-in-small-places/

Economic Charts to Love

…some with an agenda, but we’re charting that… see: http://visualeconomics.creditloan.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…

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…

New Intellectuals/Libertarians! The Unofficial Mormon 222 Page Preparedness & Survival Manual

…https://survivingthemiddleclasscrash.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/preparedness.pdf  Libertarians will nod their heads at much…Now you know why Mitt Romney at least has his material act together, maybe?…and more plus dyspeptic political speculation at this great if unusual blog.

Anti-Systems: Teasley’s 7 Rules of Coercive Bureaucracy…Libertarian Idea of the Month

Harry E. Teasley Jr

…also standing orders for moles and infiltrators of libertarian-oriented groups, not to mention deceptive corporate take-over artists…http://mises.org/daily/5955/The-Seven-Rules-of-Bureaucracy

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/

Diabetics, Moms! 25 Under 500 Calorie Recipes: Quiz or Recipe Every 20 of Month (Bonus)

…Yum.  Many can be divided into 2 smaller meals for dieters.  And for many people, 3 such low cost meals a day is a good diet…or, if you add healthy Olive Oil or other items, a basis for a larger calorie one to gain or maintain weight… Or simply a great basic plan for busy Students, Moms and Dads…Recent research suggests an <500 calorie daily diet under physician supervision can alleviate or help control Diabetes II as well so some of the recipes may be helpful …See:

Red Tape Consumer Site

…reveals all manner of consumer info you can use, another great e-benefit where Libs paved the way: http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/

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

STOCKHOUSE! Lib Idea of the Month: Libertarian Fans Start Largest Stock Info Site In Canada

…with empowering data, critique, self-management and consumer comparison tools once forbidden that came with Lib-led deregulation: http://www.stockhouse.com/

450 Free Online College Courses

.…take one a month, see you in 40 years, dude. So get started on another robot benefit of the Libertopian voluntary revolution @ http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses …plus http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/neil_degrasse_tyson_8_books_every_intelligent_person_should_read.html and  sampler:

Lotsa Thinking Tools-and Free Tele-Class

…the psycho-epistemology revolution continues? http://www.thinkingdirections.com/

Social Security Data Around The World

…here it is. Make it voluntary already, and better managed through user input, self-directed pensions.

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/

Fire These 3 Types of Employees (Or Bosses, Or ‘Activists’) NOW…

…the unhappy professional victim, criticizer or the know-it-all more Catholic than the Pope, says this article. Are you one?

How Coercive Government Created the Health Care Crisis

…it ‘solved’ the last one by forbidding doctors, unions and voluntary charities from providing cheap care with long term contracts. An essay

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/

New Intellectuals! Pomodoro Technique to Get Back On Track–and Free Book

…a form of Lib-developed  SIS, where you set goals in short interval schedules: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/

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/

Real Time Flight Map

 …enjoy it while it’s legal, another wonder of private satellites and more: http://www.flightradar24.com/

More on Those 3-D Printers

…that are printing everything from body replacement parts to machine tools…http://www.buzzfeed.com/rickye/amazing-3d-printer-in-action-201k

*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:

‘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:

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.

Gilson Plan II:5 Steps To Slashing Your Taxes

“Coercive Taxes are the price we pay not for civilization, but for its infancy or lack…”–Michael Gilson-De Lemos, (MG) LIO curator, founder of modern world civic Libertarian movement, to Ronald Reagan

MG was not only a management but tax data consultant as part of his duties.Here are his suggestions that–while US-oriented, helpful in many countries– you consider in minimizing or abolishing your bloated taxes (and which will also help increase your assets). So read up, see a tax advisor for small business people to discuss how this may apply to you …and please add this as a link to your e-mails, site or e-group…

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

Patronage Refund! *or* Why Everyone in Burlington Should Be a Member of City Market.

Reblogged from American Socialism for the Rich:

Many of the folks I know who live in Burlington, Vermont have a mixed perception of our co-operative grocery store, City Market. Though they appreciate the convenience of the downtown location, it's often perceived as an overpriced natural foods store which might be nice for specialty items, but would break the bank if you did the bulk of your grocery shopping there.

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A twofer today for the notorious US tax deadline...and another great lib co-op concept and model for ALL  public programs and many private ones of public character...

100th Anniversary: Libertarian Discovers the Truth About Titanic

“Untergang der Titanic” by Willy Stöwer, 1912

…that was sunk by pundits–namely how coercive UK regulations limited lifeboats, US ones kept immigrants locked below deck, the bureaurats blamed the commercial and other heroes for their failings and worse, plus how simple anachronism created by the movies from Nazi to Communist propaganda has launched waves of myth @

Seinfeld Productivity Secret Praised

…it uses simple ‘checklist to plan’  Short Interval Scheduling (SIS) techniques developed by Lib management consultants and in modified form championed by LIO Fellow Deming …http://lifehacker.com/5886128/how-seinfelds-productivity-secret-fixed-my-procrastination-problem …For info on SIS

Hey Scholars! Lib Community Gardening Cuts Crime…Libertarian Minarchy Tools Gone Wild?

http://www.naturalnews.com/034412_home_gardening_vegetables_civic_buildings.html …Mentoring and community, not punishments, should be the focus…

How Libertarians Are Abolishing Taxes, Increasing Services, Creating Guaranteed Income: the Gilson Plan

By making them voluntary at lower suggested rates with funds dedicated to endowment trusts so they’re not mispent–like any sensible charity– Lib studies and experience suggests revenue goes up…First explained by Libertarian visionary Michael Gilson-de Lemos  in a famous talk in the early 70′s the concepts influenced LIO Fellow Ronald Reagan, also a Gilson family friend…so pass it on:

Free Lakota, A Libertarian-Direction Bank?

…many Lakota are pro-libertarians, Dr. R. Means is an LIO Fellow, and so have welcomed a bank that clearly segregates and limit-purposes specie (e.g. silver), at-risk investment, and other deposit accounts– so insulating itself from most things that are cause both bank failure-fraud and cries for regulation. See: https://www.freelakotabank.com/accounts.asp

Do You Know Me? That’s Why I Carry VAL: Voluntarism, Anarchism, Libertarianism

(Here’s a great  topic for your next Lib coffee or student/book-club discussion.)…Don’t start anything Libertarian without it! VAL is mnemonic used to teach libertarian core concepts in the early ’70′s by LIO. It still works today in getting you from coercion to just and free choice while getting around the many improper ‘definitions’ out there…so