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Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call

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“The tools are already here, he noted: 3-D printing makes it ‘impossible to ban physical objects,’ from guns to drones. The borderless digital currency Bitcoin defies economic regulation. The Quantified Self movement helps people self-measure and opt out of the health care system. He urged his audience to invent opt-out tools of their own, including one ‘allowing people, the middle class, to make tax shelters.’  Mr. Srinivasan has influential support: Some of the biggest names in the Valley have variously proposed building a Mars colony, an unregulated zone of experimentation on Earth or floating libertarian islands at sea.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/us/silicon-valley-roused-by-secession-call.html?_r=1&

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Jeffrey Tucker on Bitcoin, Digital Anarchy, Socialists, Equality, and More

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For Bitcoin’s Biggest Believers, Digital Currency Is Better Than Gold

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“‘It is always the government paper fiat money that gets corrupted throughout history,’ Shishido will later tell us. ‘Bitcoin is not just a new digital currency. It is actually about liberty.’  Shishido gives his brief lecture at a long table just inside The Pink Cow, the first restaurant in Tokyo that lets you pay for dinner and drinks with bitcoins. He helps oversee the Tokyo Bitcoin Meetup Group, and this Thursday evening, the group is holding its weekly meeting at The Pink Cow, a California-Mexican joint, run by an American expatriate, that sits at the heart of Tokyo’s Roppongi neighborhood, an area famous for housing expats and money-minded business types.”

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/10/bitcoin-in-japan/all/

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Argentina’s Net Party Is Ready For The Revolution

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“When Santiago Siri founded his Net Party two years ago, he turned to fellow members of the small, tight tech scene in the Argentine capital and they all agreed to chip in.  But Argentina is a bureaucratic place, and accepting their contributions wasn’t easy. He had forms to fill out for the bank and tax authorities, and nearly two months had passed before he had a bank account. One donation, though, came in quickly enough to get the party started. Argentine tech giant Wences Casares replied instantly to Siri’s email: ‘Absolutely — do you accept Bitcoin?’ An hour later, the Net Party had the equivalent of 25,000 pesos ($4,265) in its account.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/argentinas-net-party-is-ready-for-the-revolution

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The Bitcoin revolution could change government

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“All governments, including ours, and especially the US’s, use the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 as an excuse for reversing gains in human liberty achieved over many decades of struggle. In the name of fighting terrorism and other ‘organised crime’, jurisdictions, banks and companies that used to respect privacy must now reveal all. Under what the Constitutional Court called ‘draconian’ powers, anyone’s assets can be seized by unbridled bureaucrats. Bitcoin enables ordinary people to fight back, to avoid and evade snooping governments, which enact, use and abuse laws that allow them, without due process, to investigate, tax, control and seize privately owned assets.”

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2013/10/23/the-bitcoin-revolution-could-change-government

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Czech artist gives president 33-foot-high one-finger salute

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“A Prague artist has given Czech President Milos Zeman the finger — a huge purple one floating on the river — to protest against his soft spot for old-school Communists just days before a snap election.  ‘It’s a middle-fingered salute at the fucking Communist shits in (Prague) Castle,’ outspoken artist David Cerny told local media on Tuesday.  Cerny is known for his hatred of the Communists, who ruled the former Czechoslovakia in 1948-1989 and are poised to regain some of their power in the two-day election ending on Saturday.  While the Social Democrats (CSSD) are likely to win, they will almost certainly have to rely on Communists — some with Stalinist sympathies — to govern.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/22/czech-artist-gives-president-massive-one-finger-salute/

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A radical dream for making techno utopias a reality

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“With 3D printing, regulation is being turned into DRM. With quantified self, medicine is going mobile. With Bitcoin, capital control becomes packet filtering. All of these examples, Srinivasan says, are ways in which technology is allowing people to exit current systems like physical product production and distribution; personal health; and finance in favor of spaces of their own creation.  ‘The best part is this, the people who think this is weird, the people who sneer at the frontier, who hate technology, won’t follow you there,’ he said. ‘We need to run the experiment, to show what a society run by Silicon Valley looks like without affecting anyone who wants to live under the Paper Belt,’ he added.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608320-93/a-radical-dream-for-making-techno-utopias-a-reality/

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Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies

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“As I point out in my book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, the overt signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States government are all around us.  Yet as egregious as these incursions on our rights may be, it’s the endless, petty tyrannies inflicted on an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace that occasionally nudge a weary public out of their numb indifference and into a state of outrage:  requiring permission to grow exotic orchids, host elaborate dinner parties, gather friends in one’s home for Bible studies, give coffee to the homeless, or keep chickens as pets.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/red_light_cameras_drones_surveillance_and_other_government_scams_to_fl

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Defensive Interposition against Police Aggression

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“There are at least two things I like about the encounter recorded in this video. The first was the use of righteous defensive force against an armed aggressor in uniform.  The second was the fact that the individual who interposed against the cop’s aggression then intervened to prevent serious injury when someone else decided to pile on once the primary aggressor had been put down. We will never see a ‘good cop’ intervene in similar fashion to prevent a punitive beating of a resisting Mundane. This is why thugscrums coalesce around prone, defenseless victims — and why genuinely decent people are purged from the ranks for trying to protect victims of police violence.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/defensive-interposition-against-police-aggression/

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Arriving in Slovakia in November of 1989

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“I started to wonder how it felt to be a Czech or a Slovak passenger on that bus. That first moment that the government dissolved, even some of the governments most ardent dissidents must have felt a sense of worry. After any great change, so many are left asking ‘now what?’ and the ones who are in a position to adapt and proceed are the ones left to run the world around themselves. Franklin brings up a moment in the history of Czechoslovakia that I’ve never before considered – what was it like to be on that bus and to hear for that first moment that the regime had fallen?”

http://www.52insk.com/2013/arriving-november-1989/

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