By Nathan Barton
A few readers may, like me, recall the Knights of Non-Aggression, members of the Liberty Round Table, a very informal organization of anarchists and liberty-loving and -keeping people back in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
We were as loosely organized as a herd of house cats, but we learned a lot from each other and supported various causes. And brought a lot of people into the liberty movement. Fruit that continues to be harvested today, around the world.
By Nathan Barton
My recent commentary on One-Party States triggered some thoughts. Just a few short words about some of these. I may have a more lengthy commentary on it in the future.
One point made is that here in the Fifty States – especially in the FedGov, we do indeed have a type of one-party state.
My correspondent called it “The War-Party State” and suggested reading this recent posting by David Stockman. (Be warned, it is a lengthy read: Stockman is being interviewed by Mika Brzezinski, and the result is a poorly-edited transcript. By proxy, in talking to Mika, he is challenging the Deputy Warmonger-in-Chief, Zbegnew Brzezinski himself. (Warmonger-in-Chief title I award to Henry Kissinger.)
Ron Paul recently pointed out that Congress has idiotically attempted to prohibit Trump from withdrawing the US from NATO. Trump doing that would effectively retire NATO, as Stockman also points out. It is a relic of the Cold War that is being used (a) to restart a cold war between the US and Europe on one side, and Russia on the other, and (b) used as an excuse for Euro-American imperialism around the world. Definitely a “benefit” of the War Party.
We can see this cooperation between the Dems and Reps in many dozens of ways, and not just in DC by any means. It can take a variety of forms, but all of them are detrimental to freedom and liberty.
There is no need for this single-party to have any kind of unified administration or formal organization. The entire game wouldn’t and couldn’t work that way. Nor is there any reason for there to be lockstep agreement on all issues – just a few major ones that are public will do. And of course, the two parties are in far more agreement on their hidden agenda: including more money and other power to the governments at all levels.
By Nathan Barton
If you do not know the name “Keith Ellison,” see the end of this commentary.
This lowlife, now with the authority of being Attorney General for a major liberal midwestern state, sent us an email recently. Filled with lies and intended to twang the heartstrings of the reader. Typical of politicians of all types.
By Nathan Barton
Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.
All of us have been that way more than once, of course. “Why won’t that delete key work!?!” and “Maybe THIS time Joe will do what he’s told…”
But government is the real example of this madness. Particularly in one serious way. “The solution to ANY problem is to throw more stolen money at it.”
A while back, Brandon Aal commented on my commentary about teaching children about knives with an important idea.
If we don’t raise out children to bear self-responsibility and ownership, the West is lost.
The daily headlines bear out the truth of his observation.
The West is spiraling downward into a morass, and perhaps even oblivion. Each generation seems to go a step further down that path (or two or three). It is not just the recent generations, but we can see it all the way back to the war baby generation of the early 1940s and the baby boomers of the 1940s and 1950s (My own generation).
I do not mean everyone in those cohorts, but perhaps a majority.
By Nathan Barton
This came across my desk while I’ve been on the road for more than two weeks now.
An indoor range in Texas has been fined by OSHA because its employees have been exposed to unsafe levels of lead.
By Nathan Barton
Perhaps the most loathed company on the planet? Its stock lost 40+% of its value in the last half of 2018. Its users regularly have data stolen about them, are subject to massive propaganda pushes by various and sundry, and have less and less freedom of speech as to what they post – and advertise – on the site.
Yet, according to our comrades over at Laissez Faire, their latest quarterly report shows that FB is alive, well, and growing. And people (savvy traders) are making good money on grabbing up their now under-valued shares.
By Nathan Barton
Last time I checked my calendar or my clock, this was February of 2019. That means the next election here in the Fifty States for Massa (better known as POTUS), in November of 2020 is about 21 months away.
At the rate they are going, by the time of the major primaries starting in March (13 months away), the Democratic Party here in the US will everyone in the party who is in office, has been in office, or previously run for office, running for Prez to replace The Donald. Right down to the Dogcatcher in Washmacarr Parish, Louisiana.
By Nathan Barton
We see more and more evidence of growing divides in American society, on multiple issues.
Not only are the factions more separated and more entrenched than ever, but rhetoric and actions are ramping up on nearly a daily basis. Despite attempts to reduce some of the stress on the body politic, it may be at the point where compromise is impossible. So stronger actions may soon result.
Including violence – either to force compliance with certain requirements, or in defense against your opponents who force compliance.
The result? Another conflict, not just between the States but within many States. Not just a person beaten or killed or silenced, but with many casualties, including deaths. Not unlike Syria, Libya, the various Balkan states, or Columbia and Mexico.
Crumbling government
By Nathan Barton
Space.com recently reported that NASA has approved SpaceX sending a Dragon passenger-carrying spacecraft (capsule, really) with a dummy on a test flight to the International Space Station, scheduled for 2 March – just a few days from now.
Assuming the test drive is successful, NASA will begin using the Dragon to take its astronauts to and from the ISS. Space.com reports this would be the first time that NASA uses a private spacecraft for its employees.
This is, of course, an oversimplification. NASA does not, and never has had, a workforce and its own factories to build its spacecraft, not even back in the days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. These manned spacecraft, and their launch vehicles, have always been built by private industry. Using parts and materials produced by private business. There are very few (if any) government OPERATED mines or manufacturing plants or anything else.
I know this is a small thing, but a sign of hope for those who love liberty.
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