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12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals Against Liberals – John Hawkins

#Azzeramento Culturale, #Conspiracy/Back-room deals, #Demagogy/Spin Doctors           dossier:
12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals Against Liberals | Posted: Apr 13, 2012 12:01 AM Saul Alinsky was a brilliant man. Evil, but brilliant. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, everyone on the Left from the President on down is playing by his rules in the political arena. Not all liberals Read More
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The Future Is Decentralized | Mises Institute

#Monopoly of force (defence), +LOCAL Direct Government (Decentralization)           dossier:
LibBLog note: The decentralisation of the organisation of the present Democracy is the goal of the Iniziativa Riforma dal Basso (Bottom Up Reform Initiative): a set of tools (web-based) that serve the citizens begin to handle, “in parallel” with the institutions, government and administration of the territory. – – – – The issue is that Read More

The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society

+Proprietary Communities (Private City)           dossier:
Published by EH.NET (November 2002) David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok, editors, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xiii + 462 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-472-11240-6; $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-472-08837-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard Lester, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia. The Voluntary Read More
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How to Grow a City in Honduras, Part IV: Citizens as Shareholders

§LIBERAL Democracy, +Proprietary Communities (Private City)           dossier:
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
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How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part III: The Skeptics – YouTube

§LIBERAL Democracy, +Proprietary Communities (Private City)           dossier:
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
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How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part II: Company Towns

+Proprietary Communities (Private City)           dossier:
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
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▶ How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part I: Governance as Technology

§LIBERAL Democracy, +Proprietary Communities (Private City)           dossier:
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
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Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems – Michael Strong, John Mackey

§LIBERAL Democracy, +Libertarian Activism           dossier:
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
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Seasteading and Its Critics | Cato Unbound

§LIBERAL Democracy, +Libertarian Activism           dossier:
Cato Unbound Managing Editor Jason Kuznicki writes in Cato @ Liberty: What’s 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 person’s impatience? Or has Friedman found a serious weakness in libertarian activism? One reply I Read More
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Leveraging Institutional Change | Cato Unbound

§LIBERAL Democracy, +Libertarian Activism           dossier:
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
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Beyond Folk Activism | Cato Unbound

§LIBERAL Democracy, +Libertarian Activism           dossier:
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
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Poverty and Welfare | Libertarian Party

!Welfare, §LIBERAL Democracy, +Libertarian Activism           dossier:
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