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| Benjamin Constant |
On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns  |
| "He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer.His great public concern, all throughout his adult life, was the attainment of a free society, especially for his adopted country, France; and if a (by no means uncritical) French commentator exaggeraMonday, February 8, 2021 |
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 | Frederic Bastiat |
| The Tax Gatherer |
| JACQUES BONHOMME, a vintner.Mr. LASOUCHE, tax gatherer.L.: You have secured 20 tuns of wine?J.: Yes, by dint of my own skill and labor.L.: Have the goodness to deliver up to me six of the best.J.: Six tuns out of 20! Good Heaven! you are going to ruin me. And please, Sir, for what purpose do you intend them?L.: The first will be handed over to the creditors of the state. When people have debts, the least thing they can do is to pay interest upon them.J.: And what has become of the capital?L.: ThThursday, January 28, 2021 |
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 | Lysander Spooner |
| Vices Are Not Crimes |
| Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.
Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
In vices, the very essence of crime — that is, the design to injure the person or property of another — is wanting.
It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.Wednesday, January 27, 2021 |
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| Benjamin Constant |
| On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns |
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He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer.
His great public concern, all throughout his adult life, was the attainment of a free society, especially for his adopted country, France; and if a (by no means uncritical) French commentator exagSaturday, November 28, 2020 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Horatius at the Bridge |
| In 6th century B.C. during the early years of Rome, wars for regional dominance prevailed constantly between the Roman troops and neighboring tribes such as the Etruscans. In 508 B.C., the Etruscan king, Lars Porsena, marched on the city of Rome in hubristic hopes of taking the city itself and becoming its ruler. Upon meeting Roman troops at the banks of the Tiber River, his superior forces proceeded to slaughter the weaker Roman army attempting to defend the city outside of its gates near the PMonday, March 12, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| When truth matters …confidence will break. |
| With the four page Congressional memo slated to come out today, our topic will be “confidence”. Confidence and all that goes with it stands to sustain a huge body blow! But first, we need to discuss a topic I have written about several times in the past that took a very strange turn yesterday …Harry Dent.
For years he has scared (tried) hard money advocates by forecasting a collapse in gold to $700 and possibly even $250. I have written several times breaking his “Dented logic”, most recently heFriday, February 2, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Germany's gold repatriation leader elected chairman of Bundestag's budget committee |
| By Guy Chazan
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
An MP for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been elected chairman of the German Bundestag's powerful budget committee, in a significant coup for the populist party.
A fierce Eurosceptic who has criticised the eurozone bailouts and attacked Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy, Peter Boehringer once described Germany's Muslim population as "a great danger to our state."
Chairmanship of the budget committee, which has a Thursday, February 1, 2018 |
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| Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Ominous Musings on America – 2018 |
| Decay and despotism invade our lives today like gangrene creeps up the limbs of a wounded soldier in the festering fields of war. Our Washington pols swagger through fulsome milieus of political putrescence and graft. Establishment pundits spew hysterical falsehoods on a daily basis. FOMC bureaucrats print fake money like mountebanks spin shell games to carnival dupes. Special counsel shysters conduct corrupted investigations to overturn the rightful will of the people. Political thuggery masqueTuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Part 3 Sleaze, Various Other Truth Bombs |
| We scratched the surface on Government, finance, politics and the rule of law so far. Today, let’s take a look at sleaze and fraud. The sleaze part is not just “sensational”. It is important because in many cases it crosses any decent person’s red line and should piss anyone off who reads it or discovers it.
The first part is certainly not all inclusive but is wide ranging. That said, 2018 looks to be shaping up as barn burner for the arrests of child molesters and human traffickers. NoSaturday, December 30, 2017 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Watershed Moment – Spain to Send in Troops on Cruise Liners: Catalonia President Says Vote Will Go On |
| Bloomberg reports Spain Hires Cruise Liner to House Police in Rebel Catalonia.
Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont responded that the Spanish government actions are ‘beyond the limits of a respectable democracy’ but vote will go ahead. Will it?
Spain has discreetly hired ferries to be moored in the Port of Barcelona as temporary housing for possibly thousands of police specially deployed to keep order in rebel Catalonia and help suppress an illegal independence referendum.
The aim is to amasFriday, September 22, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Students Stand Against Hate Speech: “With Physical Violence If Necessary” |
| A Brookings Study of college students views on the first amendment right of free speech shows some shocking trends.
Only 31% of female college students believe in the constitutional right to free speech.
62% of Democrats think it is OK to shout down speakers.
30% of male students believe violence is an acceptable response by student groups.
College students’ views of the First Amendment are of profound importance for multiple reasons. First, colleges and universities are places where intellectThursday, September 21, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Bars Find 'Far East Support' Above $1300 Before Fed Vote, GLD ETF Grows on Price Drop |
| GOLD BARS traded in London's wholesale bullion market halved this week's 1.1% drop ahead of the US Federal Reserve's September rates decision on Wednesday, rallying as the Dollar fell on the currency market.
Peaking at $1315 per ounce, the price of large 400-ounce gold bars rose as the Euro hit a 1-week high of $1.20 and the Mexican Peso rose from 2-week lows to the Dollar despite the powerful earthquake which
killed at least 220 peWednesday, September 20, 2017 |
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 | Thorsten Polleit |
| Mario Draghi’s Fatal Conceit |
| On 23 August 2017, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) gave a speech titled “Connecting research and policy making” at the annual assembly of the winners of the Nobel Price for Economics in Lindau, Germany.1 What Mr Draghi talked about on this occasion — and especially what he didn’t talk about — was quite revealing.Any analysis of the causes of the latest financial and economic crisis is conspicuously absent from Mr Draghi’s remarks. One gets the impression that the crisis came basWednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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 | Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell |
 The Folly of Democratic Socialism  |
| How apropos that on the weekend of the annual convention of Democratic Socialists of America taking place in Chicago the socialist government of Venezuela is demonstrating yet again the inherent incompatibility of socialism and democracy. It was not just a coincidence, in other words, that twentieth-century socialism was defined by tyranny, dictatorship, and oppression – and not democracy.
Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek explained how soTuesday, August 8, 2017 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Love Is the Refuge of the Way |
| "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles."
Nor will love be seen coming from the hearts of those who are fallen into wickedness: they are the fruit of hate, deceit, greed, fear, pride, possession, and aggression. And they will not only forsake love by washing their hands of it, they will eventually come to condemn it, and persecute iSaturday, June 24, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| This Is What A Health Care Death Panel Looks Like And A Baby Is About To Die Because Of It |
| This article was originally published by Claire Bernish of The Daily Sheeple
Imagine discovering your infant is one of only sixteen people ever to be diagnosed with a fatal genetic affliction for which the only shred of hope would entail a flight abroad for experimental treatment; but — rather than simply making the albeit complicated and costly trip — the highest court in the land rules your child must die.
This dystopian nightmare might sound like a cinematic creation, yet it’s reality for paFriday, June 9, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Lost Life Sentence Appeal |
| After fighting for five years, the Silk Road founder, Ross Ulbricht, lost his life sentence appeal. On Wednesday, a Second Circuit appellate court rejected it.
Two years ago, Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without parole for creating and running the Silk Road, a massive internet market where users could buy and sell things online anonymously; including illegal drugs. During his time running the website, Ulbricht was known as Dread Pirate Roberts. The excessively harsh nature of UlbrichThursday, June 1, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
 Bill Murphy: Silver – The Only Commodity 66 Cheaper Than 37 Years Ago!! - Rory Hall |
| Can you name any product, service or any item of any type that is 66%
cheaper than it was in 1980? Of course not. There is one item on the
planet that is cheaper today than it was in 1980 – silver. Why is that?
How can that be?
We have seen several of the too big to jail banks be assessed “fines”
for rigging markets and funding terrorist. LIBOR and FOREX just to name
the two biggest market rigging schemes conducted by 5 of the too big to
jail banking cabal members. This is to say nothing oFriday, May 19, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Targeted Lifetime of the US Dollar is 35 Years - Nico Simons |
| Why does the Fed aim for 2 percent
inflation over time?
The Federal
Reserve System (Fed) judges that inflation at the rate of 2 percent (as
measured by the annual change in the price index for personal consumption
expenditures (PCE) is most consistent over the longest run with the Fed’s
mandate for price stability and maximum employment.
But
what does this targeted 2 percent inflation mean for the lifetime of the US
dollar?
Statistically,
the targeted 2 percent inflation works out as folSaturday, March 25, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Turkey Cancels Diplomatic Air Space with Netherlands, Issues Sanctions: Migration Deal Over Erdogan’s Plan All Along |
| Zerohedge reports Turkey Says “Migrant Deal Has Ended”, May Unleash Millions of Refugees.
[Deputy Prime Minister Numan] Kurtulmus exclaimed that since “Europe has not kept its promises on the migrant deal, for us that agreement has ended.”
I cannot find verification of that statement but threats were made according to the AP article Turkey Imposes Sanctions on the Netherlands.
10:30 p.m.
Turkey says it is halting all high-level political discussions with the Netherlands in the wake of the DutcThursday, March 16, 2017 |
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