No Treason » History http://notreason.com Abolition, Nullification and Revolution Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:42:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The best thing about Alexander Hamilton http://notreason.com/2009/08/21/the-best-thing-about-alexander-hamilton/ http://notreason.com/2009/08/21/the-best-thing-about-alexander-hamilton/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:01:15 +0000 Dixie Flatline http://notreason.com/?p=858 Hamilton-Burr Duel

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.

The best thing about Alexander Hamilton was Aaron Burr.
Sic semper tyrannis.

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]]> http://notreason.com/2009/08/21/the-best-thing-about-alexander-hamilton/feed/ 2 George Soros withers in the face of an Austrian critique http://notreason.com/2009/07/04/george-soros-withers-in-the-face-of-an-austrian-critique/ http://notreason.com/2009/07/04/george-soros-withers-in-the-face-of-an-austrian-critique/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:54:08 +0000 Dixie Flatline http://notreason.com/?p=738

The first Chinese participant does a fantastic job of challenging George Soros, with what sounds to me, like an argument directly out of Tom Woods NYT bestseller, Meltdown. Now I haven’t read Meltdown, but I have caught all of Woods’ articles and speeches available online, and feel I can confidently make that assessment.

At 2:30, the Chinese participant mentions that markets can correct themselves, and Soros argues they cannot.

Notice how Soros stumbles when he talks about how markets are smarter than regulators, then claims that only regulators can stop perpetual market failure.  And the questioner does a wonderful job of pointing out, that only expansion of the monetary base can provide the necessary environment for these large booms, and Soros starts blinking, which sometimes is a sign of discomfort (approx. 4:30)

Great video, and wonderful to see the oligarchs challenged, particularly in Asia, which is where the hope for rational, free market economics, specifically Austrian Economics, has enormous potential to take hold.  As the flows of capital shift from the West to the East, its my feeling that change in economic attitudes will come where people have a healthy disrespect for the state, for propaganda, and the population generally values intellectualism, and savings.

Choice Soros quotes;

“Regulators can’t predict any better than the markets, in fact they are going to be less good at it than the markets. ”

“Regulator creates moral hazard.  But if they didn’t intervene, markets would actually collapse, therefore they must intervene.”

“The evidence shows that they can’t”
in response to the claim that markets can correct themselves

“Without the regulators interfering, the financial system would collapse, would have collapsed a long, long time ago, and would continue to keep on collapsing.  And that is why regulation has come into play.”

The quality of Soros’ doublespeak is unconvincing, and I think that the audience recognized it.

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Lew posted the Top 10 Podcast link today.

  1. $2000 Gold and the Break up of the US: Gerald Celente
  2. The Biggest Bubble in the History of the World: Ron Paul
  3. America’s Slow-Motion Fascist Coup: Naomi Wolf
  4. The Greatest Depression in History: Gerald Celente
  5. Thanks for the Inflationary Depression: Peter Schiff
  6. How the Government Wrecked the Economy: Peter Schiff
  7. The Panic of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Ron Paul
  8. The Crash of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Jim Rogers
  9. Stop the Bailout!: Lew Rockwell on the Michael Reagan Show
  10. There Is Hope: Ron Paul

My favorite of this lot, is the amazing Naomi Wolf interview.  Perhaps I have listened to too much Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente (who are all excellent btw), but the Noami Wolf interview was a great gateway to the left, and a really special moment where it turned into a conversation between two intelligent people sharing information and ideas.

Sadly, the left-libertarian doorstops (they have to be good for something) haven’t seemed to have done much to help promote it.

Some of my other favorites include (in no particular order)

28. What is Neoconservatism?

65. A Libertarian in the USSR

32. Intellectual “Property”

13. The Old Right

15. Democracy: The God That Failed

68. Are You an Anarchist?

8. The Scam Called the State

I hope more libertarians blog about and share these around.  They appeal to all sorts of different groups, from anarchists to Reagan republicans, antiwar protestors to wall street observers.

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]]> http://notreason.com/2009/02/01/lew-rockwell-podcast/feed/ 1 Every war starts with a lie http://notreason.com/2008/12/22/every-war-starts-with-a-lie/ http://notreason.com/2008/12/22/every-war-starts-with-a-lie/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:39:45 +0000 Dixie Flatline http://notreason.com/?p=399 Sunk by the German U-20, the Lusitania was blockade runner carrying munitions

Sunk by the German U-20, the Lusitania was a blockade runner carrying munitions under the guise of transporting civilians.

Certainly every modern democratic war is contrived.

Iraq – WMDs, 9/11
Vietnam – Gulf of Tonkin
WWII – Pearl Harbour, Reichstag fire

And now, WWI. The sinking of the Lusitania exposed for what many always believed it was. Yet another false flag.

Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.

But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.

Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.

Millions dead, trillions in destroyed prosperity and capital. What democracy has done is make the killing more efficient, more destructive and evil.

But then, it should come as no surprise because we know that democracy is the tie that binds socialism and fascism together. The two sides of the coin that is democracy.

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