Monthly Archives: December 2012

Guest Column: Obama Agri-Takeover

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El Presidente seizes control over all food, farms,
livestock, farm equipment, fertilizer and
food production across America
by Mike Adams

Excerpted from Adams’ March 20, 2012 column in Natural News

“We told ya so” just doesn’t quite cut it anymore. As the American sheeple slept, selfishly refusing to take a stand against tyranny, the Obama administration has been plotting what can only be called a total government takeover of America. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Next Step for the Libertarian Party? (Part 1)

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Part 1 of 2: Time for a ‘paradigm shift’ in grand strategy?
by Brian Wright (Part 2 here)

Johnson_SteinOn the night before the recent election, I’m watching the alternative debates on FreeandEqual.org. The site streams the verbal contest between presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Green Party, only it isn’t much of a contest. The topic is foreign policy, focusing primarily on peace and civil liberties, their positions virtually identical: yes and yes. [Dr. Stein, IMHO, has the greater civil libertarian street credit, having been arrested and held for a day by police for taking part in an Occupy Wall Street protest.] Continue reading →

Book Review: Requiem for Humanity (2011)

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Human exposition: Last remaining homo sapiens…
by Alan Hoshor
Review by Brian Wright

Requem for HumanityThis review comes about from a unique set of circumstances: The author, Alan Hoshor, approached me via my email at the Coffee Coaster with an invitation to read and comment on his short ebook—it is available currently as a Kindle file, and he is in the process of publishing a conventional book via Createspace. The topic is one in which I have a fair interest, namely, ‘transhumanism’ and what we may expect as biological humankind moves toward the Singularity[1] and beyond. Mr. Hoshor’s focus is on the nearer-term ramifications of the transition. Continue reading →

Movie Review: Hombre (1967)

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The best small Western of all time? ___ 9/10
Review by Brian Wright

HombreJohn Russell: Lady, up there in those mountains, there’s a whole people who’ve lost everything. They don’t have a place left to spread their blankets. They’ve been insulted, diseased, made drunk and foolish. And you call the men who did that Christians and you trust ‘em; I know ‘em as white men and I don’t….
Jessie: Russell, if nobody ever lifted a finger until people were deserving the whole world would go to hell. We’d better deal with each other out of need and forget merit. Because none of us have too much of that, not me, not you, not anybody.[1] Continue reading →

Guest Column: The Artist vs. the Collective

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The artist vs. the system …
by Jon Rappoport
Excerpted from www.nomorefakenews.com, December 24, 2012

The CreatorWhatever his medium, the artist stands outside the group and the group’s slogans.

If the group is living in Tuesday, he is living in Friday.

He sees invention everywhere, even in the faces that float by on the street. He sees their theatrical roles and the messages that are written on their lips before they speak. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: ‘Citizens United’ Ruling, January 2010

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What Hath “the Supremes” Wrought?
The January 21, 2010 ‘Citizens United’ ruling on corporate funding of political campaigns strikes raw nerve(s)–originally posted 2/1/10

Amazingly, what should have been a routine narrowly construed remedy to a violation of a nonprofit conservative group’s (Citizens United’s) freedom to show a documentary about Hillary Clinton seems to have opened a floodgate for corporate money and power into the campaign process. But on the bright side, The People are beginning to question the incestuous relationship between the corporate power and the state power… and the moral legitimacy of both. — bw Continue reading →

Book Review: Our Enemy the State (1935)

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Our Enemy the State
by Albert Jay Nock
Our Enemy the StateReview by Brian Wright

“Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional criminal class.”  — page 22

Everything is perfect about this work of private-scholarship art and high opinion, including the title:  It doesn’t pussyfoot around, goes right for the jugular, the political-economic CMS (center of maximum sleaze).  Can’t get more succinct:  Continue reading →