All Entries Tagged With: "agorism"
World Privacy Forum’s Top Ten Opt Outs
from http://www.worldprivacyforum.org/ As privacy experts, we are frequently asked about “opting out,” and which opt outs we think are the most important. This list is a distillation of ideas for opting out that the World Privacy Forum has developed over the years from responding to those questions. The list below does not contain all opt [...]
British Children set up “Soda Speakeasies” after their private school bans all drinks other than water
by Pavan Amara and Mark Blunden, 21 January 2013 A School is believed to be the first in London to become “water only” and ban fizzy drinks for pupils. Acland Burghley in Camden is setting out to improve health — but has even banned fruit juice and diet drinks. The school hopes its water-only policy will [...]
Need Bitcoins? This ATM takes dollars and funds your account
New Hampshire entrepreneurs have created a dollar-converting anonymous Bitcoin ATM, which they hope to sell to bars, restaurants, and other retail locations nationwide. by Declan McCullagh February 23, 2013 NASHUA, N.H. — Zach Harvey has an ambitious plan to accelerate adoption of the Internet’s favorite alternative currency: installing in thousands of bars, restaurants, and grocery stores ATMs [...]
New Libertarian Manifesto – Samuel Edward Konkin III
New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III Koman Publishing, 1983 Dedication to Chris R. Tame who told me, “Don’t get it right, get it written!” Acknowledgments above all to • Ludwig Von Mises, • Murray N. Rothbard, • Robert LeFevre, • and their sources. 1. st Printing by Anarchosamisdat Press – October 1980 2. [...]
12,000 Peaceful People Arrested in Italy for Not Paying Taxes and Police Discover Thriving Black Market
By JG Vibes theintelhub.com January 26, 2012 Thanks to a lifetime of propaganda, people will argue relentlessly that taxation is not an act of violence, they will deny that it perpetuates a complicated form of slavery, and many times get deeply offended when you point out the fact that it is theft. Yet, peaceful people are [...]
Rob Neuwirth, The 21st-century Medieval City
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living by 2050. With vivid stories and slides (shown for the first time publicly), Neuwirth detailed how life [...]
Robert Neuwirth: Free Markets vs. Flea Markets
Robert Neuwirth tells us about life in the informal economy, what French culture classifies as System D. 1.8 billion people on the planet subsist through economic transactions that happen outside legal spheres and, by 2020, two thirds of our planet will be doing business in this domain. The future is the free market vs. the [...]
Robert Neuwirth: The power of the informal economy
Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers, to study the remarkable “System D,” the world’s unlicensed economic network. Responsible for some 1.8 billion jobs, it’s an economy of underappreciated power and scope.
Agorism and Nazism: A Study in Polar Opposites
by Neil M. Tokar, S4SS In the Gorilla Experiment episode of the Big Bang Theory, Dr. Sheldon Cooper attempts to teach Penny some rudimentary physics. True to his pedantic nature, Sheldon begins his sketch of the history of physics by mentioning the agora, from which we get the modern term agorism. Following Samuel Edward Konkin III’s (SEK III’s) An Agorist Primer, the word “agora” is still [...]
Developer Pitches Charter City on Island Near Detroit
BY LOUIS AGUILAR THE DETROIT NEWS Detroit — As the broken city thinks big and radically about its future, a developer is stepping forward with a revolutionary idea: Sell the city’s Belle Isle park for $1 billion to private investors who will transform it into a free-market utopia. The 982-acre island would then be developed into a [...]
Opt Out and Take Your Freedom Back
By Jacob Vidrine, August 16, from Libertas.org This essay was submitted as part of the First Annual Libertas Essay Contest, with cash prizes totaling $2,000! You can view all of the essay submissions here. There is no doubt that liberty is in peril in our day and age. From local level all the way up to [...]
Let’s give the Fed some competition by John Stossel
by John Stossel Pssst. Want to buy some Stossels? They’re my own currency with my face on them. Why should you trust them? Because I promise to redeem them for gold. And I’m reliable. I have money in the bank and a job that brings in more than I spend. By contrast, the politicians who [...]
Agorism in Action!!! Pirate Bay plans to build aerial server drones with $35 Linux computer
By Ryan Paul The Pirate Bay (TPB), a popular BitTorrent website, experienced a brief stint of downtime this week. After restoring service, the site’s operators confirmed that the outage was caused by routine maintenance and not a law enforcement raid. According to a blog post published by TPB, system upgrades were needed in order to accommodate [...]
Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy
Soon, two-thirds of the world’s workers will be part of street economies, Neuwirth says. Photo: Jessica Dimmock Not many people think of shantytowns, illegal street vendors, and unlicensed roadside hawkers as major economic players. But according to journalist Robert Neuwirth, that’s exactly what they’ve become. In his new book, Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of [...]
