WATCH: “Who needs humans when the internet can teach you all the things”. Why Internet Education is the Future. 

I’ve learned more from the internet than I did in all my years of college. 

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blakeau:

FreeDomain Radio’s Stefan Molyneux on the Inevitable Growth of the State

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a anti-government discussion with groups of very smart and very logical people and they agree 100% with everything I have to say until I mention that the final step towards true individual freedom and self-governance is to purge ourselves of the state-run police, military and court systems and that’s when people lose their shit. 

They just can’t fathom how society would function. 

And then I explain how private courts work and how majority of people follow law out of their own morality and not some invisible threat of government enforcement and that those that don’t do it out of morality have or will one day break those laws anyway. I also mention how the United States didn’t have a standing army in 1776 and yet we still managed to defend and defeat and how privately organized people who are well trained would make better soldiers when needed as opposed to young men and women who, for the most part, are coerced into joining the military due to academic short-comings or financial necessity. (I think most people don’t realize how this country has had an “economic draft” in place for a good couple of decades now).  

People especially can’t follow the logic of having privately funded police or emergency services, even when you mention that a large portion of the population employ one of the following; patrolled house alarm, private security, armed guards, armed money transport, bouncer/doormen, etc. 

Statism will live as long as people fail to realize that the services they fear to lose exist due to private individuals and not due to some invisible middle man called Government. 

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letterstomycountry:

If I ever get famous, let it be in Korea.

Ho.Lee.Shit. 

Want to know how “terrorists” are created? 

We had 3 simultaneous attacks on US soil on 9/11 and we invaded 3 countries and spent 10 years bombing them. I can understand why we were angry and why we were vengeful and why so many Americans, very young Americans signed up with no questions asked and gave their lives to avenge those 3 attacks. 

Now imagine if those same attacks happen every day for not just the last decade but for the last 40 years. Killing men, women and children with no regard and no remorse. And then imagine if the same murderous men labeled you the enemy and called you names. What would you do? Would you stand their idle or would you join your fellow countrymen in conducting war in the only way you know how, with terror techniques?

This is the grave reality of our time. For all the youth of the world.

We have our own young heading to their graves in kevlar lined suits to kill the youth of other nations who only engage them because they themselves have been touched by the darkness of war. The cycle is never broken and the mayhem continues until no one knows why they fight or even who they fight. They only know that they must keep fighting or die. 

Whether you realize that all of this is a monetary war over how the precious commodity of oil is sold is a moot point. The proxy war between America and it’s allies, China &Russia and the Middle Eastern powers has been raging since the industrial revolution took on full swing and we had a hint of the notion that we might one day run out of oil. And it will continue until we either run out of oil, fix how we power the globe or change our economic theories that have created an ecosystem that will always solve issues with war.

This a perfect storm. The headwinds colliding. This is the result of the entire world adopting the Broken Window theory, fiat currency and the petrodollar. 

We can’t fix this. Not from our current point of reference. We must shift the paradigm. We have to step back and not just examine what we are doing and how we got here, we have to examine the road we are standing on and the car we are driving. 

Fiat currency doesn’t work.

Continuous war doesn’t work.

Perpetual debt doesn’t work.  

As Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. 

@Suga_Shane

Mark Forsyth: A short lesson in political speak via TED.com

Here’s an interesting tale of how the lexicon of politics has changed over the years. 

@Suga_Shane

“When I was a boy, I use to think that becoming rich and becoming famous would make me happy… Boy was I right!”  

Mitt Romney can’t be a real person. He has to be a character from Boiler Room. 

“Look at the fucking smile on my face, ear to ear baby”

@Suga_Shane

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Mitt Romney tries on a new outfit: Empathy for 100 percent of everyone. Somebody’s trying to flatter us!

Mitt “I Love Poor People” Romney can barely keep a straight face in this half-hearted attempt to win over poor people, who he loves to pieces.