May 2013
A Virtual Weimar: Hyperinflation in a Video Game... →
self-ownership:
laliberty:
Fascinating.
I can’t say that I didn’t see it coming because I did as I wrote 15 days after its release.
I also wrote about the collapse of the currency in its predecessor, Diablo 2, as I eagerly awaited the release of Diablo 3.
Diablo III and Hyperinflation
Our government admitted for the first time today... →
hipsterlibertarian:
The Obama administration Wednesday for the first time acknowledged killing four U.S. citizens in “counterterrorism operations” abroad.
The deaths of three of the Americans — Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Awlaki, and Samir Khan, all of whom were killed in drone strikes in Yemen in 2011 — had been previously reported. The death of the fourth,...
“On one hand it seemed almost funny that we would be considered a threat to...”
– Eric Garris, founder of Antiwar.com, which is suing the FBI after a memo revealed that the agency was spying on the website’s staff to determine if they posed a national security threat.
The ACLU is filing a request with the FBI surrounding the same controversy after its repeated FOIA submissions...
Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is... →
In yesterdays Senate Armed Services Committee hearing an assistant secretary of defense Michael Sheehan stated that the war on terrorism will likely last ‘10 to 20 years more’. “It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation…it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single...
Sheriff's estranged wife mauled by Bakersfield... →
While sleeping in her bed, the estranged wife of Kern County Sheriff is mauled by a police dog whom the cops turned loose inside her home with an order to engage.
…This is the same police department that beat David Silva to death last week.
Cotati, California Police Tase Man as He Films... →
laliberty:
A [couple] recently captured police, who were outside his home answering a call about a domestic violence complaint, in what can only be described as a very bizarre video.
The unidentified Cotati, Calif., man and woman tell the police from inside their home that “there is no domestic violence, just an argument with yelling.”
They also inform police that they have one child in the...
A powerful use for spoiled food →
What happens to the 40% of food produced but never eaten in the U.S. each year, the mounds of perfect fruit passed over by grocery store shoppers, the tons of meat and milk left to expire?
At Ralphs, one of the oldest and largest supermarket chains on the West Coast, it helps keep the power on.
The technology that helps transform moldy chicken and stale bread into clean electricity is known as...
Actually, We Think You Do Need a Warrant,... →
Usually, when Republicans and Democrats link hands and sing “Kumbaya,” I grab my wallet and look for someplace to hide. But donkeys and elephants alike — at least, some of them — have found something truly worthy of agreement: They think the federal government should get a warrant before it goes snooping through Americans’ email. As noted by Reason 24/7, Sen. Mo Udall (D-CO) and a flock of House...
BREAKING: The DOJ didn't just tap the AP; they... →
hipsterlibertarian:
It’s important to note that the cloak room isn’t what it sounds like, namely a place to drop of your coat. It’s more of a private lounge or sitting area which is exclusive to the representatives and a handful of high level staff. Think break room, not closet.
So yesterday, Rep. Devin Nunes of California went on the Hugh Hewitt show and revealed that the Department of Justice...
“There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it...”
– Frédéric Bastiat (via thinksquad)
Feds Seize Funds of Largest Bitcoin Exchange →
priceofliberty:
The US government has shutdown a key source of dollar funding for MtGox, the largest bitcoin exchange.
Dwolla, a Paypal clone popular among bitcoin users, confirmed that the online payment network had received a seizure warrant from the Department of Homeland Security.
“The Department of Homeland Security and US District Court for the District of Maryland issued a ‘Seizure...
Raping the World by Justin Raimondo →
With over 500 sexual assaults every week, and a rule that permits commanders to dismiss all charges – regardless of how much evidence is amassed against the accused – the US military is a veritable rapists’ paradise. Reports of rapes have increased by 30 percent since 2007 – a huge jump. And that’s just the reported rapes, which, by the Pentagon’s estimates, account for only 20 percent of the...
100 Reasons Why President Obama Is NOT The Same As... →
priceofliberty:
ronpaulproblems:
creepy—pringles:
sewonandsewforth:
the-liberty-republican:
catharsisdiaries:
ronpaulproblems:
apple-pie-and-police-state:
ronpaulproblems:
This is painful. My personal favorite: 10. Bush relied on military force while Obama has relied on diplomacy.
Oh man I needed a good laugh.
46. Obama signed the American Recovery Act, also known as the...
Price of Liberty: What Obama is doing is silencing... →
minarchist:
By seizing the phone records of the AP he just destroyed the trust between them and their sources. Thats why so many journalists are up in arms over this. Its a way of silencing the media by going after the sources of leaks. This should be kinda expected from an administration…
28 Years Ago The Philadelphia Police Department... →
The point? Only that law enforcement began militarizing before there was a Department of Homeland Security to offer plush grants for cool new tech. And while Waco may have been a high-water mark in domestic brutality, MOVE also deserves to be remembered. Both incidents serve to underline the point that long before terrorism was the excuse for a “war at home,” that war was already happening...
100 Reasons Why President Obama Is NOT The Same As... →
priceofliberty:
pablo-jose-666:
priceofliberty:
President Obama and President Bush; two very different presidencies. Here are 100 different things that remind us why we’re better off now.
“1. Bush started the war in Iraq and Obama ended it.”
The last U.S. troops left Iraq in December 2011, while Barack Obama was president, but the “status of forces agreement” that governed the departure...
Joe Biden Sees 'No Legal Reason' Why We Can't Tax... →
reactionism:
I’m not exactly sure why a closed door meeting about gun legislation would be held with Joe Biden and 20 religious representatives, unless we’re finally admitting that people love guns so fervently in the US, it is a kind of religion here in and of itself. It should be no surprise […]
I love that most video game players are Democrats in moments like these.
Watchhipsterlibertarian:
I know I already posted a Daily Show video today, but I couldn’t resist sharing this excellent take-down of Obama’s persistent shifting of responsibility on the Guantanamo Bay issue.
I’ve blogged about this a lot recently, but Stewart highlights something I didn’t know: Congress gave Obama the authority in 2012 to issue case-by-case transfers to the 86 Gitmo inmates already...
Obama Administration Secretly Tapped Reporters’... →
darrellfalconburg:
Obama is not a man of the people, rather he is hungry for power. Whether it be waging unconstitutional wars, expanding the police state, abusing the use of executive orders, or covering up political scandals, Obama has proven himself to be incapable of restricting his own scope of authority.
The Obama Justice Department secretly tapped telephone records of Associated Press...
“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the...”
– AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt (via themediafix)
“Just six days ago, my village was struck by a drone, in an attack that terrified...”
– Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemeni speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on the legality of the drone war.
As Glenn Greenwald put it: “The matrix broke today and an actual Yemeni was allowed to testify about drones in the Senate - he was brilliant.”
(via hipsterlibertarian)
