§LIBERTARISM Instances/Activisms
Barcelona Threatens To Print Parallel Currency, Madrid Seethes | Zero Hedge
Submitted by Don Quijones via WolfStreet.com, Socialist mayor to fulfill campaign promises by “printing” money. Over the next six months, Barcelona’s left-wing city council plans to roll out a cash-less local currency that has the potential to become the largest of its kind in the world. The main goal of the project, according to a council spokesperson, Read More
TaxPayers’ Alliance – Wikipedia
The TaxPayers’ Alliance is a British pressure group and think tank formed in 2004 to campaign for a low tax society. The group had about 18,000 registered supporters as of 2008, and claimed to have 55,000 by September 2010. The mission of the TPA is “to reverse the perception that big government is necessary and Read More
Pro-Independence Candidates Win in Catalonia’s Regional Elections – The Atlantic
One day after parties that want Catalonia to secede from Spain won an absolute majority in the region’s elections, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy issued a politely phrased rejection of their ambitions. (source: PRI.org) “I am ready to listen and to talk, but not in any way to liquidate the law,” he said on Monday. Read More
Spain: Pro-secession parties in Catalonia win landmark vote
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pro-secession parties pushing for Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region to break away and form a new Mediterranean nation won a landmark vote Sunday by capturing a regional parliamentary majority, setting up a possible showdown over independence with the central government in Madrid. With 99 percent of the vote counted, the “Together for Read More
Anche nel Medioevo ci si ribellava contro il fisco – IlGiornale.it
Dalle Fiandre, alla Francia, alla Toscana si organizzavano rivolte non tanto contro il pane,ma per motivi più evoluti: trasparenza, rappresentanza, equità Anche sette, otto secoli fa, in pieno Medioevo, ci si ribellava contro il fisco. Dalle Fiandre, alla Francia, alla Toscana – le regioni più evolute sotto il profilo economico, nelle quali l’industria aveva un Read More
Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems – Michael Strong, John Mackey
9780470450031: Amazon.com: Books An inspiring look at the positive effects of conscious capitalism In this turbulent economic environment, capitalism has had its fair share of critics. But despite the position we currently find ourselves in, there is much good that can come from this system. Be the Solution is a manifesto to conscious capitalism–how it Read More
Seasteading and Its Critics | Cato Unbound
Cato Unbound Managing Editor Jason Kuznicki writes in Cato @ Liberty: Whatâs needed, Friedman claims, is not more study or advocacy, but a change in the deeper institutional structures that give rise to government policies⦠Is this just a young personâs impatience? Or has Friedman found a serious weakness in libertarian activism? One reply I Read More
Leveraging Institutional Change | Cato Unbound
Patri Friedman’s critique of “libertarian folk activism” is basically right. Free-market ideas have enjoyed near-dominance in academic economics for roughly thirty years at least. Libertarian think tanks are well funded and influential. Despite these encouraging developments, the overall size of government continues to grow. Both national parties in the United States are, in deed if Read More
Beyond Folk Activism | Cato Unbound
In this month's lead essay, Patri Friedman charges libertarian activists with falling victim to bias: Specifically, they seem to suffer from the belief that advocacy and education are enough to change public policy. Friedman suggests otherwise, and he recommends that much more effort be put into demonstration projects that will show how a libertarian world Read More
Diritti gay, per la sinistra il Family day non ha diritto a scendere in piazza – IlGiornale.it
#Abuse of power, #Demagogy/Spin Doctors, #Orwellian world (Mass control), #Snaturamento: Gender ideology/Family suppression, +Libertarian Activism
“È inaccettabile una manifestazione come quella contro le unioni civili che si tiene oggi a Roma”. Usa parole durissime Ivan Scalfarotto, esponente Pd e sottosegretario alle riforme del governo Renzi. Ce l’ha con il Family day: “Una manifestazione contro i diritti dei propri concittadini dà l’idea di quanto la battaglia per i diritti lgbt nel
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A Roma un milione in piazza per il Family Day – IlGiornale.it
A Piazza San Giovanni a Roma si è riunita l’Italia contraria alle unioni civili. “Siamo un milione”, gridano dal palco gli organizzatori della manifestazione. Nemmeno il diluvio ha fermato i partecipanti di ogni età (neonati compresi) e di ogni Regione. E ci sono anche circa cento parlamentari che hanno aderito al Family Day e che Read More
Il coraggio di dire no al gender – il Blog di Marcello Foa
^Education, #Education as indoctrination, #Snaturamento: Gender ideology/Family suppression, +Libertarian Activism
22giu 15 Il coraggio di dire no al gender Certo che l’Italia è un Paese strano. Centinaia di migliaia di persone – forse addirittura un milione – si riuniscono in piazza per dire no all’ideologia gender e la notizia viene trattata con sufficienza, alla stregua di un fatto marginale, sebbene non fosse semplicemente una manifestazione
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Why Less Government Advances Individual Happiness: Libertarian Philosophy (1997)
Why Less Government Advances Individual Happiness: Libertarian Philosophy (1997) – YouTube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_… Murray was raised in Newton, Iowa in a Republican, non-collegiate “Norman Rockwell kind of family” that stressed moral responsibility. He is the son of Frances B. (née Patrick) and Alan B. Murray, a Maytag Company executive. He had an intellectual youth marked by Read More
Il liberalismo, quello vero e quello falso | Scuola di Liberalismo “Ludwig Von Mises”
SCUOLA DI LIBERALISMO “LUDWIG VON MISES” 2014 – 3º SEMINARIO La videoregistrazione del 3º seminario su: “Il liberalismo, quello vero e quello falso” tenuto dal prof. Carlo Lottieri dell’Università degli Studi di Siena alla Scuola di Liberalismo “Ludwig von Mises” 2014 – VI edizione di Catanzaro. Università degli Studi “Magna Graecia” di Catanzaro, facoltà di Read More
Poverty and Welfare | Libertarian Party
Highlights of the Libertarian Party’s “Ending the Welfare State” Proposal From across the political and ideological spectrum, there is now almost universal acknowledgement that the American social welfare system has been a failure. Since the start of the “war on poverty” in 1965, the United States has spent more than $5 trillion trying to ease Read More