Alert! US Government Loves Your IRA…

..so much it wants to destroy this key Libertarian triumph. As usual, instead of raising the poor, it wants to limit the prudent at a time when extended lives means more people will benefit from growing IRA’s…Broke at 143?

 See: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/05/01/Obamas-War-on-Successful-Americans-Targets-401Ks.aspx#page1

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/

Hey IRS! Target www.TheLibertarian.Info!

US Tax agency admits tracking conservative and pro-libertarian groups…we hope they’re reading us, plus our great articles on getting rid of taxation ( SEARCH)  See:

End Junk Libertarianism! Use Our Categories. Today? Taxes!

http://libertariansmile.wordpress.com/category/all/your-causes/taxes/ then share with friends, add to favorites…

Music Libertarians Will Help See We’re Listening To…In 1000 Years

http://longplayer.org/what/overview.php The peace meditation Longplayer will play for 1000 years…all made thinkable by spreading technology, peace and long-term Libertarian/SMILE  thinking…with a little luck, we’ll be alive to hear it, too…As Libs will be there 1000 years from now, guardian advocates of rights, non-punitive and voluntary choices.

*Life Development Thoughts From Dr. Timothy Leary

OPINION

Will weightlessness change how many people view things? Did ET’s have a hand in evolution? How do Chakras relate to neural circuits and genetic programs? Some contrarian ruminations…

http://www.starlarvae.org/Star_Larvae_Addendum_Exo-Psychology_Revisited.html

Exo-Psychology Revisited

Selection: The juvenilization of brain circuits induced by weightlessness will produce a corresponding juvenilization of subjectivity. The psychedelic, or entheogenic, experience provides a preview of the de-conditioned, de-differentiated consciousness likely to characterize the juvenilized minds of extraterrestrials.

LIO Fellows, Pro-Libertarians Created the Internet–Not Coercive Government, Which Tries To Tax and Suppress It

…and in fact coercive government, far from inventing the internet, has done all it can to keep the internet from happening, and still is busy trying to control it with crazed web censorship and surveillance statutes–and in the US, a ‘fair’ internet sales  tax ( getting rid of these silly taxes is never discussed)  that will mandate additional snooping while in fact taxing every business more with a website via more crazed rules and lost time–and likely draconian non-compliance penalties)… Libertarians and friends as with many things were the driving force liberating personal action that created the internet–  LIO Fellows  and Lib friends

S.T.E.M. or B.A.S.E.? Libertarians Work to Defend Humanities, Expand Terminology: For New Intellectuals

An engineer who can’t write, artfully model, or lacks business sense is a philosophical mess, techno-punks.–Uncle Harry Stottle.

…especially in light of misguided government attempts to penalize the life-extending humanities and other students…Another  paradigm-reversing thinkpiece by MG: http://www.libertarianinternational.org/apps/blog/show/19933780  Remember: You need a B.A.S.E. to grow the S.T.E.M… Pass it on!

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

Are They STILL Doing Life Extension Wrong?

A discussion at:  http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/radical-life-extension-is-already-here-but-were-doing-it-wrong/257383/  More…

Hey, Mr. Spock! Lew Rockwell Is A Libertarian Who Helps All Live Long & Prosper

Fascinating.

 

(Zachary Quinto as Spock courtesy Wikipedia–another example of Lib/SMILE tools at work, in the case created by J. Wales, a semi-lib.)

..or at least Lew Rockwell (   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Rockwell )  , the lovable friend of lib-interested scholars/practitioners everywhere –with his tireless team of volunteers and fans –thinks that you should have free e-tools to such ends. Check out the free paradigm-destroying

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:

Libertarian International Org Alone Defines Libertarianism…vs anti-Lib Nonsense of the Year?

Extreme conservatives are at it again–trying to re-define Libertarianism as ‘non-anarchist’ and having as a basic (!) principle the size of government…. Thanks to the venerable Robert Rich– one of MG’s first 1000 Lib pledgees and one of the last living attendees of the Salamanca Conference in the 60′s –  for his quick answer which he just sent us.  The Good News: Many Libs and LIO Friends are posting comments at misleading articles urging folks to get to know LIO… N.B. the lost soul among the commenters  who thinks the much-disliked by many Libbies and so-named Kochtopus is the reason behind modern Libertarianism… This cool response is so good we say LINK THIS POST! –and for more info please see:

• http://www.dailypaul.com/136246/rand-paul-im-not-a-libertarian 
• SMILE! http://www.libertarianinternational.org/apps/videos/ (Libs in general)
• Libs= Pledged Libertarian, Libertarian-direction, libertarian-oriented ( 3 types in civics working for for LIO eco-community, free-choice zones/waivers, and secular federal liberal and direct democracy friendly to Libs respectively) and Lib fan: http://www.libertarianinternational.org/faqsstarterlinks.htm 
• See some of our first articles for juicy early movement info…
• LIO, a Lib near you since 1592: http://www.libertarianinternational.org/liofellowsboard.htm 

RE: http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/04/26/libertarianism-defined-why-the-gop-needs-to-support-young-libertarian-politicians/#comment-35746

 

RICH responds:

The Libertarian International Organization alone defines the terminology and curates the movement of Libertarianism. This was decided by the then Libertarians in the late ’60′s. Their site makes things pretty clear at  http://www.libertarianinternational.org   No wonder, since the LIO predecessors have been active for 500 years.

 

Its present curator, Michael Gilson-De Lemos, as a young man revived the movement and defined modern Libertarianism in 1969 and replaced all other forms, pledged the original Libertarians, and networks the all-volunteer LIO the largest world group. His http://www.libertarian-institute.info drives most Libertarian legal change.

 

A browse through the site and its sister sites shows this article is based on an extreme  conservative fantasy that once again tries to re-define L/libertarianism, especially given e.g. that people like Rand Paul say they are NOT Libertarians. Perhaps it’s because at present most pro-libertarians in the US vote Democratic–and the movement has far deeper goals than caring about just the size of government: it’s about voluntary solutions in all fields.

NB: We expect that as the movement grows we’ll see more of this nonsense.

“Good news everybody! Libertarians are now ‘defined’ by some Goldwater influencee as anti-anarchist social conservatives who love  just a little coercive government! Soon, 2 +2 will equal 22!”

If you want to succeed, start a company instead of writing a resume

Reblogged from Quartz:

This originally appeared on LinkedIn. You can follow Penelope Trunk here

For years we have been talking about the education bubble and the problem that colleges charge tons of money and then graduates are unemployable and in debt. Colleges are responding by becoming job preparation centers. And Frank Bruni, opinion editor for the New York Times, says this is a waste of time and resources…

Read more… 898 more words

Libs have been saying this for years--including Lib 'intrapreneurship' to treat employee areas as mini-companies with great autonomy... here're some tips...

WESTERN VIEW is here!

WESTERN VIEW: An informative and beautifully designed mag on lifestyle betterment from one of our good buddies… http://thewesternview.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/2013-05-the-western-view-lifestyle-magazine.pdf

The Sayings Of Chairman Jeff…Our Libertarian Idea of the Month

…why should Mao have all the fun? See: http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/content.php?pid=77323&sid=573588 

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

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

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…

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)…:

How Not to Be A Libertarian In Public Office

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/03/01/misspelling-prejudice-alaska-human-rts-commissioner/

Many Libs in Alaska ( and through the US) complained right-wing loonies infiltrated the party to create a bad name—and had gotten riud of training programs to avoid this kind of problem…what do you think?

A man named Mark Fish from Big Lake, Alaska, has bowed out from reappointment to a second term on the Alaska State Human Rights Commission due to a misspelled blog charging that “radical” feminists are out to “eliminate men from the face of the earth.”

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:

More Indians, Red Chinese Than US Love Free Markets

http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/GovernmentTheNewVillainInTheWorld_500bd109a62c6.jpg  …LIO libertarians have long been busy in China. Now you know…along with other data on this great chart…

 

 

Upside Down Libertarian Gardens: Winter Tomato Heaven

 

 

 

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http://greenupgrader.com/14886/garden-hack-repurposed-upside-down-tomato-planter/ First developed by Libertarians in the last century and revived by LIO leaders, it keeps away confused bugs, minimizes space and water needs, and more!

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

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

Libertarian-Liberal Facepalm Award: We Need Government Coercion As We Do Road Signs

--NOT!…Enjoy 10 examples of what’s wrong with the “obvious” but silly argument trotted out by some academics and pundits to “refute” libertarianism and ‘over-liberal- autonomy :http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/119285

Facepalm Award

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/

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/

Anti-Systems: The US Compulsory Government Schools Explained

…in thought-provoking free workshops to take now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YQiW_l848t8

Economic Charts to Love

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

MINARCHY! 10 Mini-archist Communities Unveiled

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-experimental-towns-and-communes.php …10 examples of larger mini-archy (or minarchy)/intentional community  (smallewr ones would be co-housing/ condos or neighborhood associetion) that have fascinating results from being an international community of learning to making the poor well-off… Strictly speaking, a mini-archy is libertarian when guided by libertarians, but hey…

Meet Libertarians of Tumblr

 …and there are more, but here’s a start courtesy http://whakahekeheke.tumblr.com/page/10

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.

10 Things Hon. Ron Paul Likes About Libertarian Ideas

Close enough for gummint work? Some lib-oriented concepts…

The Ten Principles of a Free Society
by Ron Paul – From the the Appendix to his book, Liberty Defined

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/

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/

Opinion-The College Problem In The US: 19 Reasons…

…why people hesitate to use the increasingly expensive education oligopoly…http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/19-things-that-all-high-school-students.html US is ahead in many areas, but not because of the bureaucrats…then again, college educated service personnel are a good idea, but a low compared to when thousands of  Blacks were shut out of jobs and attorneys became railroad waiters….

US Medicare Explained

Libertarians object to the monopoly and forced taxation aspects–but over the years it has adopted some choice-driven improvements and is way superior to typical state systems–but typical of US social systems, it is not automatic and you have to navigate both a federal and state bureaucracy and sometimes local to sign up fully and get all benefits. Libertarians suggest a voluntary and more endowment based non-monopoly option range including co-op and one-pay plans–along with better coverage for the poor, nursing communities and simplification… The system is explained in the links at

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/

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…

Panera Discovers the Libertarian Freeshare Market

…following ‘pay what you can and should’ Lib co-ops, Subway and other chains with e.g. free food for homeless days…and confounding scholars who confuse libertarianism with their strawman of ‘price systems’ and ‘capitalist greed to justify deadening regulations’…BTW, it was coerced regulations that derailed