GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Standing Upright in the Wild South | The Daily Blog
So let’s dump the death trap of chauvinism of all kinds, national, gender and race, and unite with our brothers and sisters of the Wild South to …
August 2024
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The Path to True Freedom is Systematic Privatization
Politics in all its variants, particularly the politics of political parties, is the archenemy of freedom, prosperity, and peace. Yet, wherever one …
World may have to live through anarchy to rescue what it lost
As we try to figure out what the next year holds in store for the world, one milestone looms menacingly on the horizon: the US presidential election …
Rewilding Democracy: On Anne Norton’s “Wild Democracy” | Los Angeles Review of Books
BEFORE THE GREAT RECESSION and the populist tides of the 2010s, the meaning of democracy was somewhat stable. Democracy was, for a brief period— …
Episode #193 … The main export of the western world is trash. – Anarchism pt. 2
Today we talk about some of the work of Murray Bookchin. We talk about anarchism as a historical trend in human thought that keeps recurring. Then we talk about the superficiality of typical approaches to being environmentally conscious. We talk about Futurism and the hope of colonizing other planets. We talk about Artificial Intelligence and…
Why is Everyone Concerned About the WHO?
In a 6 to 3 ruling on the Murthy v. Missouri case, the Supreme Court ruled against me and my fellow co-plaintiffs, in effect rendering the US First …
France unveils draft ‘energy sovereignty bill’, with emphasis on nuclear
France’s main energy priorities for 2030 largely promote nuclear power as a way of ditching fossil fuels while failing to mention the EU’s renewable …
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The impact of Direct Democracy on a country
Direct Democracy is primarily about sovereignty- Sovereignty for the people to decide and sovereignty for the nation to decide together, as the sum of all it’s residents. It’s a big change from where we are at right now. Right now, ordinary residents have no legal position to be directly influencing any public decisions. Even in…
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Politics versus democracy
New Zealand has never known real democracy, its the same for almost every nation. Because New Zealand is a “representative democracy” we’ve almost never voted on issues of substance, just on people to to represent us to solve those issues. And as we know, they can’t represent us and they don’t. Politics uses influence and…