Flying cars

http://tinyurl.com/3ruqoro Expect this to be regulated into impossibility. For your own good of course. Heaven forbid you make your own decision on the subjective balance of risk and benefit. As James may once said - if someone invented the car today it would be banned. Well its powered by thousands of tiny explosions that can be loud and smelly. The fuel for these explosions is itself explosive and gallons of the stuff will be carried round in each and every vehicle. There will be retail outlets where members of the public will themselves operates machinery that squirts this explosive liquid. These same members of the public it is hoped will be able to pilot up to two tons of metal at speeds of up to 60mph along narrow corridors with no physical barrier between them and a stream of vehicles hurtling in the opposing direction. Application denied

Nhs data privacy insanity

'London's E-Health Cloud program will send patient records to the stratosphere next month'

Whether this sort of thing is a good idea should be left to voluntary choice. In a free market fuckups equate to losses - losses of reputation, profits and the jobs of individuals responsible. The public sector is insulated from such natural incentives so how do you think this is likely to turn out?

They're squealing now

The propaganda is accelerating. The sheep fodder is getting downright Orwellian.
Tonight's output from fascist (look it up - the ethos he pushes is the definition of corporate socialism) little shit Dominic littlewood (tv consumer investigator) was unbelievable in its levels of doublethink. He revealed some fraudulent/fake vet. (Disclaimer - Libertarians are against coercive compulsory regulations and licensing but in this case the corollary is that libertarians are also against fraud. I would argue that fraudulently benefitting from coercive market restrictions as this scumbag did by claiming to be a state licensed vet is a double no.) So although the subject of the piece was no hero of libertarianism Littlewood's film was more about how wonderful the regulatory body that supposedly prevents this sort of thing was. We were treated to shots of their tax funded architectural wonder of a college which dishes out 5 year over the top degrees to limit entry to the veterinary market. But the right at the very end, as a mumbled addendum it was revealed that this super human regulatory body staffed by ubermensch so angelic they don't require anything more than sheer altruism to motivate their oversight, actually granted him his license in the first place thus causing the problem!
So anyone with their head screwed on right can see past the propaganda to the essential truth of the matter. Littlewood, as witless mouthpiece of the statist-quo, is trotting out the standard praise in justification of regulation. The sheeple automatically and subconsciously absorb this message on the necessity of regulation as implicitly reinforcing the necessity of the state because obviously without a coercive state there couldn't possibly be any voluntary  forms of accreditation or qualification could there. We would all be horse abusing, money grabbing fraudsters and there would be no 'final arbiter' to deal with such fraud. Except even with the loving caring state as mother and protector and the regulatory angels providing oversight this still happens. So we can see the doublethink behind the pro-state regulation story. It was the failure of the regulatory state that led to the problems here. Perhaps if they were motivated by having to maintain a competitive reputation they might actually look at the applications before rubber stamping them.
Then in his next report littlewood moved on to awaken us to the existence of worthless fake currency! I almost pissed myself laughing at the irony. Apparently there are some coin presses operated by unlicensed counterfeiters! It doesn't count as real money if it isn't the state conjuring it from thin air. But again the baddy of the piece wasn't the failure of the state regulator oh no - its the banks. The fact that the royal mint has an exclusive monopoly on the supply of money was completely ignored. It is the manufacturer and distributor and as such is supposed to weed out the fakes, defects and worn coins. But the state has failed even in the supply of fiat currency! As the good little statist, Littlewood blames the banks. He thinks they should be checking the shit they receive even more than they already are. And I am sure that he expects them to do it for free. And I am sure that as an irrational idiot of a 'champion for consumer rights' if the banks were to do so he would complain that their charges had increased.
Beyond these two examples of unquestioning pro state doublethink there is a never ending supply. I say doublethink because the message is pro state fear mongering that constantly obfuscates the fact that the state causes the problems.
The BBC recently broadcast a Panorama program entitled 'somalia: land of anarchy'. This was the usual parade of pro state fear mongering and I am currently preparing a post in direct response to this piece. Funnily enough immediately after this program panorama apologised for a program last year in which they falsified 'evidence' in their smear against bargain clothing chain primark - our unbiased state broadcaster 'erroneously' inserted footage of a child sweatshop. Then there was an advert for a dramatisation of huge government proto nwo mafia clan the kennedys. The beeb lurves big government.
Away from the BBC channel 4 are trailing a Dispatches program about how evil gold is because there are some kids down mines somewhere. I'm sure western statism in no small part exacerbates the factors that push 3rd world kids into mining but ill try not to get side tracked. This as yet unbroadcast program may or may not mention the professional mines in America or Canada but that wouldn't be very sensationalist would it. Even if this program focuses on gold for jewellery you just know that the 'wont someone think of the children' arguments it augments will be rolled out for any libertarian gold as currency arguments.
Literally every single thing on television makes my blood boil. Perhaps I'm paranoid but if you're at all open to the possibility that a cosy establishment media might have an agenda you can see the pro state anti individual message everywhere.

Freedom through Technology - A Peer to Peer Revolution

The links between freedom and technology go back to the dawn of time. Some of us are wary of technology for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the same autonomous streak in your personality that drove you toward the ideas of individual freedom engenders a preference for hands-on physical diy approaches rather than trusting some external device or service. Or perhaps the ease with which technology delivers good things is all too alarming as this same power can deliver bad things. Perhaps you would gladly trade the positive effects of technology in favour of eliminating the ill effects when technology is used for coercive purposes - tracking, monitoring, and logging for example.

An example of this justifiable wariness some freedom lovers exhibit toward technology can be summed up in these four letters - CCTV. When used by the state little cameras are evil little tools of oppression but when used by everyone else they are useful devices. for example the same spy cameras the state use for no end of oppressive purposes can also enable your grandmother to live a more independent life by seeing who's at the door without getting up. Or even enable me to explore the world from the comfort of my own fat arse.

Often this dichotomy in the application of technology between the pursuit of coercion or freedom is a competitive race. take speed cameras for example. We know from the GATSO story that they were developed by private individuals in the free market for entirely peaceful uses (a dutch rally driver wanted to measure his speed so he could go faster. the technology was later used to time swimming races). But the state realised the profit possible from applying this technology to coercively restricting free travel both in terms of direct profit from highway robbery with fines and also electoral profit in the form of appealing to puritanical emotive pressure groups. The backlash against this form of perversion was evident. But technology itself was also used in response to this state abuse of technology. speed camera warning systems, detectors and mapping systems became available and have descended in cost and improved in reliability ever since - to the point that some cars come as standard with speed camera warning sat nav systems.

However you feel about the relationship between technology and freedom I would like to argue that we are reaching a point where the balance between technology for freedom is beginning to outweigh the effects of technology for coercion.

Need i point out that right now we are able to spread awareness and share ideas almost entirely due to the technology that i am typing into. Sure the Libertarian Alliance used to have a postal mailing list or you could subscribe to a physical 'dead-tree' delivery of The Freeman or, going even further back, pamphleteers such as Thomas Paine, the Diggers, the Levellers and Cato's Letters printed and distributed ideas. Even these, less effective methods for communicating ideas and individual freedom were enabled by and dependent upon, what were then new technologies. Pamphleteers – the printing press, The Freeman and Libertarian Alliance – the photocopier and telephone. The immediacy and universality of the internet significantly lowers the opportunity costs for individuals to seek out and find information and now even accidentally stumble upon ideas that make sense to them. The difference between an individual seeing or hearing a reference to Rothbard and being able to instantaneously follow it up compared to pre internet times are as considerable as they were prohibitive. The opportunity costs of going to a library or finding an encylopedia to discover who this Rothbard was were too high. and thats before the additional costs of further pursuit such as finding a source of Rothbard's writings, phoning them and ordering a copy etc. In todays world a curious individual can satisfy their curiosity after seeing a 'Read Rothbard' T-shirt by hitting Wikipedia on their mobile device where they can follow links to the Mises Institute and download free materials in a variety of media that even further increase the accessibility and spread of these ideas.

Even this is considered too much effort by some people and so the ever ready market supplies this demand in the form of vocal and image based searches from mobile phones. You simply vocally ask your phone to search for "Rothbard" or point the phone's camera at some text or the cover of a Rothbard book and it searches out the details for you including the best price and directions to the shop if necessary.

All this sure beats trying to spread the ideas of freedom by running round shouting at people or handing out bits of paper.

Sounds wonderful doesnt it but obviously if the free market of voluntary exchange is doing good with technology then inevitably the coercive forces of the state are going to be bending it toward their own warped incentives.

So after stating the obvious that you already know - what news do i have to offer? Well technology is now reaching a point where anonymity, privacy and security are cheaper, easier and more attainable than ever before. If this doesn't sound significant then consider that as of right this very second, even if you are unaware of the possibility, you are able to communicate, trade and bank completely anonymously in complete privacy and security. Also consider that by private trade and banking i mean completely private – free from state manipulation of the money supply – NO inflation - a stateless currency. Also consider that by private trade i mean as completely private as to permit the free trade of any substance. Whether that be some material completely outlawed or merely something that attracts levies and taxes on the open market. You are able to trade TAX FREE with complete security.

This privacy also includes free speech. Totally free speech. Not restricted by the state in any way. Not directly nor even indirectly. No DNS URLs that can be shut down, no central storage server that can be shut down and now even no ISP that can be shutdown or forced to record and convey logs of your activities.

If this all sounds too good to be true then read on and i shall do my best to explain that this is not pie in the sky fantasy but something you should be able to achieve in a number of hours FOR FREE.

If this all sounds over the top and distinctly unnecessary, like some paranoid fantasy for people who think they are in some way subversive and special then look at what is actually happening in the real world around you today. Not a looming spectre on the horizon of tomorrow but actually now. wikileaks chased from server to server and indicted in criminal proceedings, Peaceful protesters pre-emptively arrested for thought-crimes as a result of public blogging, and self-defending british nationals seized for extradition to a foreign power without question. notice that these are not chinese dissidents, or egyptian bloggers but normal people like you or I getting arrested for victimless 'crimes'.

The Malum Prohibitum laws (yknow all the false 'statues' that go beyond laws against aggressive acts toward an actual victim) we suffer under are so numerous that you cannot possibly know if you are breaking them with your online activities. do you know each and every word of British libel laws? do you know the libel laws of each and every country with which our overlords have agreed extradition arrangements? could you be whisked away under a European arrest warrant to spend a few years in a foreign jail awaiting trial? in all likelihood there are probably laws prohibiting advocating the end of the state, laws against openly criticising the EU or for endorsing rival non state currencies.

In short do not rely on their law to protect you. With individual freedom comes individual responsibility in equal measure. if you want the freedom to say what you want then it is your responsibility to ensure that you can do so safely. as an aside this kind of victimisation is what makes me an angry anarchist. we all know that free speech is not a crime, that libel is not a crime, that death threats are just that - threats, mere words - that until an aggressive act has been committed there has been no crime. But we dont live in a world of objective ethics and rational law. We are forced to protect ourselves from their unnecessary coercion. you should not have to waste hours of your life investigating and self educating on topics of anonymity and encryption but because of their aggression and threats of aggression we must. it isnt right that the onus is on us to protect ourselves from them when we know that they have no right to even exist let alone threaten us for non-crimes but such is the way of the world at this stage.

so if you want to be free to rhetorically suggest that whichever Kommissar such and such of the EU or Komrade fotherington-smythe of the guardian would be best off swinging from a lamp post then dont sit there on an open web connection using Windows, Internet Explorer and broadcasting your IP address and real world location for all to see.

Ive written too much already and as I am not a technical expert nor a teacher it is best that you self educate. the links to similar mechanisms you will find beyond these will open your eyes to how the spread of freedom can and will continue and spread even when 'they' are trying to shut us down. Peer to peer is the answer.

Anonymous decentralised unstoppable non-inflationary encrypted currency with banking - Bitcoin

Anonymous decentralised unstoppable encrypted DNS - Namecoin

Anonymous decentralised unstoppable encrypted Network - Tor

Anonymous Encrypted Tor-based encrypted operating system - Tails

Anonymous decentralised unstoppable encrypted Network - I2P

Anonymous web proxy - Annonymizer

Anonymous email - Mixminion

Anonymous decentralised unstoppable market place - Silk Road

Unstoppable decentralised internet - no centralised, isps, severs or dns - mesh networks

Back in the USSR

Yes I've come crawling back to the Blogosphere. I thought I could escape the gnawing sense of frustration and fury felt by anyone who has become awoken to the nature of the world and the realisation that it simply does not have to be this way. I thought that by turning off my RSS feed of what can be unavoidably and necessarily negative discourse I could live in that comfy blissful ignorance that the sheeple here in the USSR seem to so enjoy. I have never experienced such thoughtless contentment in my entire life. Even before I self educated myself into awareness I had nagging doubts and questions that nothing in the mainstream could answer. Almost one year ago I accidentally stumbled upon libertarianism and I would not now take The Blue Pill if given the chance despite the frustration and fury that The Red Pill has caused as the side effect of enlightenment by objective truth.

So once again I wade into the breach to badly regurgitate the most powerful liberating truth that I thrive upon from others far more able than myself. My return to this perhaps fruitless addiction has been part pushed by an escalating rage toward burgeoning oppression and part pulled by the need to highlight the fast escalating shit that is coming our way. But fear not - there are some rays of hope, some possibilities for freedom. I take inspiration in my online resurgence from the reappearance of The Greek Riot Dog. If you wanna see the spirit of freedom and liberty go youtube the riot dog.

Thats the look of a noble, self-owning, sovereign being that knows no coercion and aint gonna take that shit