Duck Tales Inflation Lesson

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Danilo

I used to watch Duck Tales as a young child however I do not remember this episode. I’m glad that such as vitally important economic principle such as monetary inflation is explained so well in a children’s cartoon. I wonder how many kids who watch this actually understand the profound implications behind the hidden tax of inflation and why it is such an insidious destroyer of value to everyone who saves in currency which includes those on fixed incomes, retirees, the disabled etc. Get your wealth out of the counterfeit confetti monopoly money and put it into real tangible assets that the Federal Reserve cannot print! Cash is trash!

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”

Sam Ewing, American writer

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History of Europe – 6013 years in 3 minutes

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Danilo

Here is the evolution of European nation states over the course of 5600 years compressed into 3 minutes. What must be understood here is the enormous bloodshed and massacre that is trivially represented in these shifting arbitrary lines and colors. These are the dark truths that are left unspoken or flippantly mentioned in government history class. The wholesale slaughter and massacre of our brothers and sisters is hardly a trivial topic. Rather it is a monumental tragedy wholly deserving of our attention and study. Recognize the State as the illegitimate child of sociopaths deviously foisted onto the backs of the industrious! We need the State like a human being needs a tapeworm!

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood of his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man”- with his mouth.

Mark Twain, “The Lowest Animal”

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What’s So Bad About Nazis?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Danilo

Can you name something inherently bad about the Nazis that does not apply to your own “government” regardless of where you live? This also applies to Stalin’s Soviet Russia, Mao’s Red China, Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, Ceausescu’s Communist Romania, Milosevic’s Yugoslavia and any other form of collectivism you can imagine. None of the barbaric mass murders that occurred under their rule was revealed to the public when they were “running” for office. The fact of the matter is most of these tyrants, if not all, were democratically elected by the general populace and served in a form of government known as a “Republic” with a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that “limited” their authority. Does this sound familiar? How then did all these horrific atrocities we read about in the history books occur? Did they just not follow their Constitution correctly? Or could it be that paper documents have NEVER proven to restrain the wills of sociopathic megalomaniacs? Do not put your faith in paper money or paper constitutions! One will destroy your liberties and the other will destroy your wealth! It is not that some classes are fit to rule. No class is fit to rule!

“Naturally the common people don’t want war. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Hermann Goering, Hitler’s designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich

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Childhood Spanking and Corporal Punishment

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Danilo

For one to be so opposed to State violence on the one hand whilst practicing childhood assault, AKA spanking, on the other is profoundly hypocritical to say the least. Violence is violence whether it is inflicted on fully developed adults in their right minds or immaturely developed children with no capability for self-defense. There is nothing noble or honorable about saying “My child is well behaved because he/she listens to every word I say.” All this indicates is the ability of the parent to strike fear and intimidation into the pure heart of an unbiased human being who seeks only to learn about the world. Is the proper treatment of such a curious nature to inflict pain and punishment in response to actions we deem to be “errors” from the artificial vantage point of cultural propriety? If such barbaric treatment of children actually produced positive results we should logically expect its use to decrease as successive generations produce more docile children leading to docile adults. However this is not the case. When parents engage in corporal punishment it is usually done in the midst of uncontrollable fury and ferocious anger. Is this the proper atmosphere to “teach” one’s child about morality? If such savagery did amount to anything other than the repression of emotions and the formation of insidious grudges then we should necessarily be living in a genuine utopia free of crime and mental illness.

If we would like see a more peaceful world we must first by starting to treat with kindness and respect those in our society that will bring about this fresh future, the children. Only when their needs, desires, and curiosities are given the proper deference we would associate with a wise elder will we begin to approach a truly peaceful and voluntary society. Sure there will always be violence in a peaceful society as surely as there will always be death in amongst a vibrant rainforest. The key is not to feed the violent seed within each child.

Childhood Spanking and Corporal Punishment

“We expect kids to sit for hours and do what they are told to do, and if they can’t do it, nobody kindly say, ‘I see you’re restless, get up and play.’ They say, ‘You better go get tested for ADHD so we can put you on drugs…’” Peter Gray, PhD

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The Truth About Taxes and 401K Confiscation

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Danilo

A) The Truth About Taxes

Well two days ago was “Pay off your Federal Mafia” Day! We should all give thanks to the federal “government” for the excellent service that we all enjoy including laissez faire business interactions, thriving economy, voluntary association, solid free market money, and abundant individual freedom. Then I woke up.

This scathing Stefan Molyneux video puts the mafia style theft that is taxation into perspective. People don’t pay taxes because it will fund the building of roads, bridges, and tunnels. People pay taxes because if they didn’t they would have armed thugs arrive at their doorstep and threaten them with guns for not paying the federal mafia. Get past all the rosy thinking and see taxation for what it is; extortion and theft. Do that and you will begin to see the “government” for what it; the resident band of thieves, liars, and murderers who claim the authority to rule over every aspect of your life. This is only allowed because the sleeping giant allows it to happen. Once enough people wake up, watch out! Things will rapidly change!

B) The Goal is Happiness

Even though to Statists we may outwardly seem like the pessimistic negative types who incessantly criticize the status quo and those in power for the sake of being contrarians, as Voluntaryists we must always keep in mind our gentle goals and assert that peace, love, and freedom are mutually inclusive concepts. We do not simply want freedom for ourselves but also for our fellow man. Freedom is the natural state of man, unfettered and unencumbered.

Every other political message, through its use of “government” to solve our problems, is vying for the power to wield the gun and which way to point it. The Voluntaryist message is “Please put the gun down. Human civilization has evolved for millennia and has produced many beautiful and wondrous things in its wake. Why do we still adamantly cling to this ancient and outdated institution?” When we embrace the Non-Aggression principle, Property Rights, and Self-ownership with those around us we are moral and decent human beings. When we apply this to the whole of humanity we become Voluntaryists.

C) The 401K Scheme – The Government to Confiscate

Putting your hard earned currency in a 401K account is one of those oft repeated mantras that we all hear from government school teachers, family, close friends, co-workers etc. They all blindly say “You have to save for your retirement. Make your money work for you. How are you going to survive when you are 80 years and cannot work like you used to?” This presupposes four erroneous notions. The first is that taxes will be the same as how they are now; the second is that investing in wealthy hedge funds and Wall Street, of which one is most likely entirely ignorant of, will benefit the individual in any way; the third is a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between currency and money; the fourth is that bankrupt governments are trustworthy enough to leave the retirement accounts of the people untouched.

As taxes and laws will always increase as is necessary to support a growing welfare/warfare State having anything be tax deferred does one no good. This is practice is not only delaying the inevitable but worsening the painful tax hit when it must be withdrawn.
To give Wall Street and the SIFI banks even more of our currency to play with and gamble we are sending the message “Go ahead! Bet it! We trust you!” Does this make sense in a post 2008 bail out world? The logic is “If the poor make a mistake they must pay for it; if the wealthy lobbying special interest groups make a mistake the poor must pay for it.” The struggling middle class pay regardless.
Currency must be divisible, portable, fungible, and durable. Money must be all these things as well as a store of value. That is it must increase in value with time. If you save in counterfeit confetti paper trash do not be surprised when your life savings is inflated away to worthlessness by rapacious “governments”.
Your wealth is your time and your freedom! Keep it out of the financial system as much as possible! Own things that the Federal Reserve cannot print such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium, diamonds, precious stones, Bitcoin, and cash flow real estate!

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