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Two Cheers For This Election Result
Mustela nivalis Two things I want to comment on with regard to the election: The predicament of Labour and the significance of the now upcoming EU referendum. Before the election people were harping on...
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Review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “A Short History of Man – Progress and Decline”
Mustela nivalis Having escaped the Malthusian trap, is humanity now heading for a new limit to per capita growth and prosperity? This might be the conclusion after reading Professor Hans-Hermann...
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Islamism, Nationalism, Puritanism
Mustela nivalis The radical Islamists are undoubtedly puritans of a sort. And of a missionary kind as well, for whom the “sword” obviously plays a central role. It seems however that they are partly a...
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OBE for feminist activist – an awkward move by an embarrassed ruling class
Mustela nivalis James Delingpole has written an appropriately snarky piece, published on Breitbart, about feminist activist Caroline Criado-Perez receiving an OBE. Previously, Caroline C-P had...
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On the New Wave of Migrants
Mustela nivalis The rumblings in the world are increasing in volume and scope. Here are a few choice samples: The Greeks are emptying their accounts – i.e., they are pulling “euros” from various points...
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Greece has EU/IMF/ECB by the balls
Mustela nivalis Whatever else one might say about Marxists, there’s one thing they ain’t, and that’s stupid – they are clever in a streetwise sort of way. By calling a referendum at this stage, Greek...
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Another Sign The EU Is Dying: The Left Are Turning Away From It
Mustela nivalis It’s been an eventful few days in the EU. After the Greek referendum, which was their government’s last ditch attempt to stall the inevitable, there came the “marathon summit”. From...
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A Neomarxist is Crushed
Mustela nivalis Note: Last week a lengthy article appeared in the Guardian written by a guy called Paul Mason. The title of the piece was “The end of capitalism has begun”. It’s a long drivel and...
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“SyrianGirl” on the refugee crisis
Mustela nivalis Worth watching. (13 min) Here’s her introduction to the video: “There are a few things you should know about the Refugee Crisis- This video answers – Its being used to bomb the country...
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“QEen” Zoe Williams is ignorant or dishonest
Mustela nivalis Zoe Williams is a mainstream (Guardian) journalist and she is either ignorant or dishonest. (Spot the tautology.) She supports a “People’s QE”. About a month ago, even before Jeremy...
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Ownership: Self-made or delegated?
Mustela nivalis The subject of ownership is right at the centre of everything libertarian. John Locke laid down the principle: He who first appropriates an unowned object is the rightful owner. This is...
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Yesterday upon the stair I saw a TV set that wasn’t there
Mustela nivalis “BBC could get power to access private data”, the Telegraph informs us. In that article, we also find: “The review also suggests that new legislation could be introduced to prosecute...
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The “Social Gospel” of the CofE Bishops is in Fact a “Statist Gospel” – And:...
Mustela nivalis Here is a new article by Gary North. In it he attacks a) the promoters of the “social gospel”, i.e. Christians who think that because helping the poor etc. is the moral thing to do the...
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Thatcherism: What went wrong?
Mustela nivalis ‘“Economics is the method; the object is to change the soul,” Margaret Thatcher declared in 1981, revealing the way in which Thatcherism for her was always about transforming values...
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Christianity and “the rich”
Mustela nivalis The Bible is “an anti-socialist document”. This is one of the quintessential conclusions of Gary North’s multi-volume economic exegesis. However, how does this assertion equate with...
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The importance of being frivolous – how to inject our message into art
Mustela nivalis For serious reasons, we libertarians need to lighten up. We need to develop a way to express ourselves through art. Sean Gabb’s talk to the other LA, posted here recently, is well worth...
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Why Libertarianism Needs God
Mustela nivalis I believe that the reason why libertarianism isn’t getting anywhere is that it has nothing to counter the power of utopia. It quite rightly doesn’t have a utopia of its own, but without...
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Not in Defence of Stoning
Mustela nivalis Right from the start I will say this: I consider stoning to be a form of torture and that therefore its practice should be outlawed. Having said that, and having gone on record as a...
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Cult of Death: Modern Art and Would-be Tyrants
Mustela nivalis I won’t get into that fruitless debate about “what art is”. But what we can surely say is that anything that “society” considers to be “art” at any given time is a reflection of the...
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How does our vision of “the end” shape our politics?
Mustela nivalis Having established that the Christian world view is one of linear time, with a conscious, purposeful creation at the beginning, a world view that leads, or should lead according to Gary...
View ArticleJustin Welby: Salvation through legislation
You might think an Archbishop of Canterbury who knows a thing or two about balance sheets would be an improvement on his predecessor whose cluelessness regarding the financial crisis was always...
View ArticleBerlin International Libertarian Meetup
Found on www.Freiheitsfreunde.net Join us on June 27 at 8 pm at Brauhaus Lemke next to Hackescher Markt! English-speaking Libertarians in Berlin meet for drinks and networking every fourth Thursday...
View ArticleUK man wins court case against BBC for 911 cover up
Via DailyPaul.com Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse...
View ArticleThe betrayal of Dr David Kelly, 10 years on
A powerful statement by Andrew Gilligan, who was at the time at the centre of the ‘dodgy dossier’ scandal. Now of course, 10 years, hundreds of thousands of lives and countless billions of fiat...
View ArticleWhile looking for shooting stars tonight
I’ve just come back in from looking for shooting stars. My 10 year old daughter was with me, and together we saw 6 in half an hour. We also saw at least as many satellites. All on polar orbits. I’ve...
View ArticleA mid-August Tale of Two Walls: 1961 and 1971
by Mustela nivalis On a Sunday in mid-August 1961 (it was the 13th) the people of Berlin woke up to the news that their city had been split in two. The iron curtain had become concrete (pun intended...
View ArticleThe internet is making life difficult for ‘progressive interventionists’
By Mustela nivalis Ever since the launch of the World Wide Web, people have been predicting that the internet will change politics for ever. See e.g. ‘The Sovereign Individual’ by James Dale Davidson...
View ArticleThe recent German election and what British libertarians, true conservatives...
By Mustela nivalis The general election in Germany last Sunday generated a result that can only be called paradoxical (but only by people who assume that the world consists of a logical sequence of...
View ArticleThe Internet as Result of a Negative Feedback Loop Against Centralisation
By Mustela nivalis In a comment under my post about how it was ‘the internet wot won it’, meaning that it stopped some insane thugs from insanely intervening violently in that nest of vipers which is...
View ArticleAnd now for something completely different
A false flag. The post And now for something completely different appeared first on Free Life.
View ArticleWas World War I the error of modern history?
By Mustela nivalis Niall Fergusson in an interview originally aired in 2000 explains what went wrong (see video). Amongst other things he says: Belgian neutrality was a pretext of the British...
View ArticleLots of global warming in evidence in Jerusalem right now
By Mustela nivalis “The heaviest December snowstorm in at least 50 years blanketed parts of Israel, including Jerusalem into Friday, cutting power, stranding travelers, and putting the Holy City on...
View ArticleSilent Night
Mustela nivalis [I apologise for posting this AFTER Sean’s general Christmas greetings, but I prepared this one a few days ago specially for today so I ask for clemency just in case.] Here are some of...
View ArticleWhat UKIP Must Learn from the American Liberty Movement
By Robin Koerner (via dailypaul.com) Of all of their political parties that most Brits have heard of, only UKIP – the United Kingdom Independence Party – calls itself “libertarian”. Being only two...
View ArticleThe Germans – Scattered Souls Dissolving into Irrelevance
The Germans – Scattered Souls Dissolving into Irrelevance by Carlos A. Gebauer Introduction: A fictitious first landing on the moon in 2014 What would happen if Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in...
View ArticleMarxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Note: “Julie near Chicago” originally posted the link to this article in a comment under the article “5 reasons why Christians should not obtain a state marriage license”. Promoted to front page. This...
View Article“Merry Christmas” – a film about the 1914 truce (France, 2005)
I personally find the 1914 Christmas truce on the Western Front remarkable for the following reason: using the famous image about the lamps going out across Europe, the Christmas truce can be viewed as...
View ArticleEuropean Community “helpful” in implementing “necessary” but “unpopular”...
While researching something else, I recently stumbled upon a smoking gun. Not a very big one, but smoking it was. And it had European Union written on it. Eurosceptics are always saying that the EU is...
View Article“Anti-Islamisation” Movement in Germany: The Menacing Silence of the Lambs
By Mustela nivalis It started in October. About 500 people congregated somewhere in Dresden to demonstrate against “religious wars on German soil”. This was after violent clashes between Kurds and...
View ArticleBook review: Neil Lock’s “Honest Common Sense”
Mustela nivalis Neil Lock (an occasional contributor to this site) has a background in mathematics and software development. It is therefore no surprise that Neil is an early adopter of the current...
View ArticleParis atrocities: can anything good come out of this?
Mustela nivalis First, I was overcome by negative emotions. Then I remembered that my theology informs me that in the end, the Good will win. Therefore, even in the darkest hours there is some light....
View ArticleThe Fable of the Bees Revised
Gary North [Original post here.] The most influential poem in history is Bernard Mandeville’s “The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves Turned Honest” (1705). It challenged Western moral philosophy, Christian...
View ArticleThe three basic religions: Key to understanding and defeating tyranny? Some...
Mustela nivalis When I first stumbled upon libertarian thought and digested the essentials, I had two initial reactions: 1. Why had I not heard of this philosophy before and 2. Why, although it is so...
View ArticleWar lords or god-kings: Our only choice? How our worldview shapes our politics
Mustela nivalis In my first instalment of my series on Gary North’s body of ideas I talked about “the beginning”, the origin of the universe, and how our perception of whether this happened by chance...
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