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Coalition To Extend Life on K St?

Where old DC lobbyists go to die? The movement has gone way beyond the Libertarian founders and is now being adopted by groups such as these people seeking more research on life extension and elder life quality: http://www.coalitiontoextendlife.org/  We need something like 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…

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.

Forget Global Warming: Solar Warming May Be Real Danger…SMILE & LIB Idea of the Month

LIO has brought in communication some scientists who suspect warming is part of solar-system wide phenomenon caused by passing through vast interstellar cloud, other side-effects, or unusual solar variations. The automatic solution is increased respect for property rights to reduce man-made effects with proactive SMILE Garden Earth/underground & space colonization easing driven by LIO concepts…GOOGLE the now growing research: Read More…

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… Read More…

Video Games Help You Discover Planets And More

…thanks to Libertarians who helped form coalitions that stopped those who  tried to ban their public use…http://www.cracked.com/article_19703_6-acts-real-life-heroism-made-possible-by-video-games_p2.html

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/

Denise Minger: Are USDA Guidelines Hogwash?

.(Photo: Denise Minger) ..and other debunking of studies by government agencies and the  large corporations they adore in this contrarian blog  http://rawfoodsos.com/ Read More…

The Secret of Immortality

…in this plane, anyway, may lie with study of this amazing animal: http://todayilearned.co.uk/2010/10/31/the-worlds-only-immortal-animal/Turritopsis nutricula is the world’s only immortal animal. It’s Read More…

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: Read More…

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

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/ Read More…

Libertarianism In Brief…LIO Libertarians Championed Clearing The ‘Laws’ That Blocked The Inventions–Libertarian Idea of the Month

 

…and often played a role in everything from the PC to telephone deregulation allowing new add-on devices that brought about the internet…not to mention helping in ending many info-blocking dictatorships, attitudes and laws…and encouraging participative and open management styles that ease innovation…To see what else is going on, sign up at http://www.Libertarian-International.org

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 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…

UdaCity!–Free Learning By Stanford Prof

…who resigned to champion the concept made possible by LIO Libs developing concepts and fighting crazy laws and government monopolies opening the way: http://www.udacity.com/ …plus check our Educations category for more free tools

Thoughts On The Coming Electric Highway…

…not quite learning history’s lessons with more private, but a ways to go. Libs, take note: http://www.ecomagination.com/the-dawn-of-the-electric-highway?utm_campaign=outbrain Read More…

TED OF THE MONTH: Dr. Taborrok On Ideas Triumphant

http://www.ted.com/talks/alex_tabarrok_foresees_economic_growth.html …says the Lib-interested social thinker, who to our ears implies as Lib ideas open the world, the world opens more with Lib ideas…

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…”

Alternate Day Fasts May Extend Life

…say researchers following proposals of LIO Fellow Roy Walford and have benefits, according to other studies, in diabetes, heart and other conditions. Discuss with your physician. Read More…

*LIO Fellow B. Fuller: The Lib-Direction Governmentless City

Houston-Dome

…that helped inspire the modern world movement: Anarchist community without government ( using common law juries, contracts) in a mini-archist designed but flexible setting. This concept of a highly-proactively designed voluntary action/libertarian-based governmentless city of a highly humane and educated population so fascinated planners and futurists  it attracted favorable attention by the US Government, 3M and the University of Minnesota, which in the ’60′s contemplated helping fund a model for studythe US Federal Government studied abolishing itself, said Fuller, except as a more guideline oriented educational entity.

LIO Observer and Fellow philosopher-architect Buckminster Fuller proposed Read More…

Uh-Oh: UK To Ban Teaching Of Life-Extending, Patient-Driven Complementary Medicine

Anna Tyzack

Photo: Controversialist Anna Tyzack says alternative treatments put her on the right track as she exercised, gave up caffeine addiction, and started to realize health was part of a system not just some pill.

27 programs have been shut down–The glorious UK, once a pioneer, now under a right-wing government says things like the benefits of stress-reducing acupuncture( or regular) massage, not putting poisons or allergy-inducing foods in one’s body,  Osteopathic adjustment massage and ending self-defeating habits–or those seeking to e.g.  research the remedies of Chinese and tribal systems– to induce healing long accepted in the US are not ‘evidence-based’ and will be banned from universities–so say the officials whose ‘model’ health system is enmeshed in a scandal as coercive government ‘evidence-based doctors’–woefully undertrained by US standards to save money– misdiagnose fatal cancers as blemishes, prescribe aspirin for raging infections, and euthanize troublesome oldsters who dare to complain. Hmmm…dare we suggest–a user-driven, voluntary, universal, endowment based, free to the poor automatic  system with choice of providers run by unions as one possibility?…(See down our wall scientific knowledge by public in UK, bless ‘em) …Let the fur fly high! The debate:  

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Get Free ‘Libertarian’ Trip To Space!

XCOR Aerospace …with astonishing Prize Promotion at Science Conference could make you the first on your block to be a private astronaut in another result of the spread of anti-coercive monopoly, voluntary Libertarian tools…(and see how our mother group has been championing the cas use for the last generation at www.libertarianinternational.org ..) Read More…

Should More Teens Vote? Ask Motivating Teen Inventors

Teens saved unsuspecting US citizens from having to display this mess to a horrified world.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19601_6-teenage-inventors-that-changed-world.html  Ignoramus Laws try to regulate teen use of  hip-hop, the snowmobile, the Colt (unless dfrafted in the military), reading or watching Superman, mandated community service programs such as teaching Braille and even how to display the Flag (such as arrests to hassle teens for wearing the same flag patches police do).

 Now find out how teens DESIGNED hip-hop, the snowmobile, the Colt, Superman, Braille and THE US FLAG!

Russian Life Extension Initiative

http://2045.com/  Manifesto:

Mankind has turned into a consumer society standing at the edge of a total loss of the conceptual guidelines necessary for development. The majority of people are almost exclusively interested in merely maintaining their own Read More…

Thought-Systems: Libertarian Mind-Mapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ5wV5dPZc Spread by Libertarian management consultants in early 1970′s, codified by interested UK’er who has spread the word and developed the tool…also great for group brainstorming/consensus building…paradigm-busting…powering research… mediation…

Organic Farm/Garden/Foodbank Tips!

armand

http://freewheelinglb.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/the-art-of-growing-food-interview-with-an-organic-farmer/ …Armand Saiia is a ball of manic energy. Originally from Buffalo, NY, Saiia spent most of his nine lives as an artist in New York City. However, his jack-of-all-existence work has found him as a sculptor, painter, photographer, filmmaker, chef, restaurant owner, yogi, Qigong healer, wilderness camp instructor, and now– organic farmer. His life story is a tumultuous, bohemian saga that at 56 has spat him out in rural New Mexico. Now, his art has transformed from images and sculpture to growing food and running Desert Grows, a non-profit that donates organic produce to local food banks. Read More…

* Dr. Timothy Leary…SMILE! and All About Telomeres

First isolated as a potential area of immortality research by LIO Fellows led by Dr. Leary on the Committee to Eliminate Death, telomer research is expanding–info at this edgy site … http://everything2.com/title/telomere and here’s his original book on SMILE, the classic Exo-psychology followed by Neuropolitique, say old-timers (note: SMILE concept was updated later). Read More…

Libertarian Space Shield is Coming…

1st proposed by LIO Fellows such as MG, Heinlein and Reagan to re-purpose nuclear missiles…and championed by the Libertarian Lifeboat Foundation…let’s move to voluntary financing and be careful with the corporations Read More…

20% of US Had Mental Problem in Last Year

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/GeneralPsychiatry/30776 Which likely also means more people are comfortable reporting and dealing with mental-emotional issues… Read More…

NASA Gemini Gallery

http://www.universetoday.com/92741/new-nasa-gallery-of-restored-1960s-project-gemini-photos/ Wonderful restored photos of the program designed with Lib input that actually made money for the taxpayer…

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Invisibility Research and More at Para-Science Site

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_fisica32.htm The site reports on speculative proposals and cutting edge science and paranormal speculations Read More…

System: 10 Top TransHumanist Tools

http://lifeboat.com/ex/transhumanist.technologies As you know, the SMILE approach (see INFO) has had one blossom in transhumanist discussion. Here’s a good look at what’s up from our LIO Friends and Fellows at the long-term Lifeboat group. Use this if anyone tells you voluntary approaches are short sighted…or share your project.

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The Evil Effects of A Little Libertarianism

 

Shanghai 1990 vs 2010

http://topcultured.com/what-a-difference-two-decades-makes/shanghai-1990-vs-2010/ As 100′s of students in Shanghai attend Libertarian concept workshops–here’s the result of 21 years…incomes have gone up 20X letting go of the illusion of forced equality as key to prosperity…of course, there’s much to do as China moves towards ever greater democracy and freedom…pix taken from about same area…see e.g. http://www.chnsourcing.com/provider/?665a241df8602518

Best Schools for Gamers

Inconcievable back in the day of the government phone oligopolies…before lIbs led the charge for de-regulation (partial, alas…) Info: Read More…

Education Systems…Good News! UK Now As Ignorant as US Public…Take the Science Test

Crackpot inventor: Sixteen per cent of people surveyed believed Doc Brown, played by actor Christopher LLoyd in the Back to the Future films discovered radiation Doc Brown, played by actor Christopher Lloyd in the Back to the Future films, is beloved discoverer of X-rays, say many Brits.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2086335/Great-Scott-16-believe-Back-Futures-Dr-Emmet-Brown-discovered-radiation-science-survey-shows-British-ignorance.html But this is in truth a step forward compared to past centuries and decades of officially enforced ignorance and education for the few…and why many Libs fgeel we need more free learning without official interference and right-wing religious ‘science’ dunderheads who demean than ever…how will you do (we scored 100%, so there)… Read More…

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