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Paul Rosenberg: ‘Production Versus Plunder’, Part 6

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“Whether (early) to get farmers to capitulate, or (late) to keep sub-rulers in obedience when you were away, the newness of the rulership enterprise plus the extremely low population density made extending power difficult. Ruling one settlement could be done fairly well if the settlement was not large and if you remained there. But if you wished to rule another three or four nearby settlements as well, you needed to extend your power. And, since soldiers were expensive, other methods were required. This difficulty was solved with ferocity and fear. The rulers of this era were especially willing to boast of the horrible pain and punishments they inflicted upon anyone who rose against them.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36283/Paul-Rosenberg-Production-Versus-Plunder–Part-6/

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Hershey, Cuba

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“Hershey, Cuba, was founded by Milton Hershey, the American chocolate tycoon who founded Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey invested his own money to found this town around 30 miles east of Havana.  The town revolved around a sugar mill, ‘once among the world’s most advanced,’ according to the Post. Everything in the town was first-class. ‘Neatly laid residential streets,’ houses with clapboard siding, and ‘some of the only screened-in porches anywhere in Cuba.’ Also a company hotel and ‘big, stately flagstone homes, where the American supervisors lived.’ There was also the Hershey Social Club and a golf course.”

http://fff.org/2015/05/06/hershey-cuba/

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I Wish My Job Didn’t Exist

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“I was not hired to teach students, perform research or help our students become better leaders. But without my work, many of our students would not be able to enroll in our university.  My work entails keeping Norwich out of trouble with many regulations, such as the Clery Act, FERPA, and Title IX, but I’d like to focus on perhaps the most maddening set of regulations—those pertaining to online education. Over the last four years, Norwich has spent over $500,000, a figure that includes my salary, fees paid to states, surety bonds, agent permits, registered agents, and travel costs. Not one cent had any educational value.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/i-wish-my-job-didnt-exist

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Paul Rosenberg: ‘Production Versus Plunder’, Part 5

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“The great benefactors of humanity – the unnamed first farmers – experienced a stunning explosion of creativity and very shortly found themselves the effective prisoners of barbaric, ignorant men who harnessed and slowly ruined what they had created.  At first, the farmers simply gave up a portion of their harvest and tried their best to work around the stupid, barbaric rulers. It was only when a more clever set of rulers arrived that the more serious damage began. As successive waves of rulership rolled over the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the structures of government and their associated theologies and punishments occupied more and more of men’s minds and activities.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36270/Paul-Rosenberg-Production-Versus-Plunder–Part-5/

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Never Hand Over Your Gold To The Bank Of England For “Safekeeping”

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“With London, Paris, and Basel’s compliance, Nazi Germany looted 23.1 metric tons of gold without a shot being fired. More than two-thirds of that gold was traded with the Dutch and Belgian national banks and was eventually transported from Amsterdam and Brussels to the Reichsbank’s vaults in Berlin. Czechoslovakia’s diligent planning to safeguard its national gold reserves, together with its misplaced faith in the integrity of the new international financial system, had come to nothing. [..] Churchill himself demanded to know how the government could urge people to enlist in the military when it was ‘so butter-fingered that six million pounds of gold can be transferred to the Nazi government.'”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-01/what-happens-when-you-hand-over-your-gold-bank-england-safekeeping

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The Creative Destruction of New York in 47 Seconds

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“The New York Times has posted a breathtaking video, soon to be displayed on the elevator walls of the new 1 World Trade Center, showing a 47-second time-lapse video of Manhattan’s history, from the perspective of the rising elevator. In less than a minute, visitors going to the observation deck will travel 102 stories into the sky and 500 years through time.  You might notice something else about the time-lapse: the pace of change slows dramatically towards the end. It’s not because New York is approaching perfection. It’s because the city government has deliberately calcified New York City, encasing the city’s structures in a legal state of suspended animation to ‘protect’ its ‘landmarks.'”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/the-creative-destruction-of-new-york-in-47-seconds

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15 Supreme Court Decisions that Shredded the Constitution

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“What makes a Supreme Court decision bad? And what are the worst precedents handed down by our highest court?  I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, and here are my nominees for the worst SCOTUS opinions to date.  The standard I’m using for ‘worst’ is three-fold.  First, the holding of the case is unambiguously still guiding precedent.  Second, the holding of the case is inconsistent with the Constitution.  Third, the case either A) has egregious consequences for individual liberty or B) is clearly ideological- or policy-driven rubbish as a matter of constitutional law (whether or not I happen to like the consequences).”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/15-supreme-court-decisions-that-shredded-the-constitution

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Nick Giambruno: Securing Your Assets When Financial Privacy Is Dead

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“You never hear of financially sound countries, like Switzerland, Singapore, or Hong Kong, advocating privacy-killing measures like FATCA. You never hear their governments denouncing the supposed ‘danger’ of tax havens. It’s only the bankrupt states drowning in debt – like the US, France and the UK – that have become hostile to privacy. The hostiles have won. Practically speaking, financial privacy is dead. Given what has happened, it’s only prudent to assume that sooner or later all the details of your financial life will come to rest in a government computer – if they’re not sitting there already. You should plan accordingly.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/36224/Daily-Bell-Staff-Nick-Giambruno-Securing-Your-Assets-When-Financial-Privacy-Is-Dead/

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FDR Spied on Leonard Read

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“Last night I was reading a book entitled The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs by David Unger. My eyes bulged out when I came across the following sentence: ‘In 1941 Attorney General Francis Biddle, following Roosevelt’s new guidelines, approved FBI wiretapping of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.’  Leonard E. Read had served as head of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce before he founded FEE in 1946.  Why would FDR and his goons want to spy on the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce?  They believed that Read was a potential ‘subversive’ and that the Los Angeles Chamber constituted a potential threat to ‘national security.'”

http://fff.org/2015/04/16/fdr-spied-leonard-read/

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Judge Agrees: The Constitution Is a Sham

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“I took the opportunity to ask the judge how many laws there are. He said he had no clue – and that nobody knows. Yet ignorance of the law is not a defense, even as the law is selectively applied and enforced by the government to suit its own purposes. After all we reportedly commit an average of three felonies per day.  The chronically low polling opinion of politicians paired with low voter turnout signify something positive. People instinctively sense that the system is a sham.  The Constitution either authorized the vast and ever-sprawling monstrosity that ‘regulates’ literally every aspect of our lives, or it was completely powerless to prevent it.”

http://bananas.liberty.me/2015/04/14/judge-agrees-the-constitution-is-a-sham/

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