Why Property Rights Keep Us Safe

Since property rights are not respected in USA, we are vulnerable to criminals, by way of government intervention.  The wikileaks demonstrate how criminals find easy access into USA given, like 9-11, our government policy.  Justin Raimondo lays it out here.

Under a regime that respects property rights, in a free market, people are allowed in only where they are personally and specifically welcome.  If United Airlines does not care to give you a lift, you are not getting on the airplane.  If the privately owned JFK airport does not care to let you traverse, you re not getting off the airplane.  If the taxi or privately owned rail does not sell you a ticket, you are not going to midtown.  So it is.  In a free market, you depend on your reputation.  No need for government screening.  The market will screen you.  Criminals find it too hard to operate in a free market.

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Estrella Family Creamery

The center for the ideas for the powers that be have announced the American project is over, and cutbacks are coming.  Gary North does a good job of covering it here.  here is an excerpt from his article, quoting the CFR in-house periodical, Foreign Affairs.

The result will be an age of American austerity. No category of federal spending will be spared, including entitlements and defense. Taxes on individuals and businesses will be raised. Economic growth, both in the United States and around the world, will suffer. There will be profound consequences, not just for Americans' standard of living but also for U.S. foreign policy and the coming era of international relations.

These guys are not fooling around.  Their easiest targets for cutback is government workers, and their pensions.  If you are a government worker, your no-risk option is to drive to full fascism.  If America goes back to freedom, government workers will have to support themselves in their old age.  If it goes to fascism, govt workers will live relatively well.  Abusing power may bring on fascism, but in no case can an government worker get into trouble for abusing his power.

So while we have 250,000 salmonella eggs recalled, but no sanctions and no new laws on that, but we do have new laws, and a country-wide crack down on small farmers.  The Seattle area is no exception, and Kurt Cobain's home town has a cheesemaker which is being destroyed by the FDA, backed up by armed US Marshals, taking pre-emptive action on the possibility that an award winning cheesemaker might have at sometime in the future, bad cheese.

Again, the theme here is indecency.  The acts of these FDA clerks and their armed US Marshal back-up is indecent.  Just because they have he power to do what they do, does not mean they have the right.

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IPR and Competition

A premise is small biz are innovators and large biz are conservators (following Drucker); small introduces innovation, subsequent iterations routinize and commoditize, and eventually conservators (big biz) "steal" the idea, apply the economies of scale (manufacturing, logistics, finance) to the item, and make material goods and services available to the widest possible demographics.  Innovators bring out (relatively) few, poor, expensive, and slow...  but desirable by enough people to launch...  conservators apply econ of scale and make the innovators product more better cheaper faster.  The free market at once introduces what is needed and gets the price down to where everyone has access to material goods and services, a symbiotic relationship between the innovator and conservator.  See the cell phone, 1980-2010.

This process generates division of labor, a real source of well being (following Dr. North, contra Bakhunin.)

If I contribute anything to the discussion, it is what people in small business commonly think:  if someone "knocks off" my design, necessarily they are using 2nd rate factories, selling to 2nd rate customers...  literally none of my business.  My first rate customers are not interested in 2nd rate product.  I find 2nd rate customers not worth serving.  IPR solves a problem that does not exist, in relation to shoddy knock-offs.

Along these lines, when a conservator makes an excellent knock-off of my idea, and lowers the price through superior econ of scale, here again someone is using their factories, capital, etc, to reach customers I never could.  Where is the theft?  Where is the violation of my rights?

Marketing is the key to business, not control.  In essence, my relationship, the degree to which I listen (oboedire) or obey, my customers.  That is marketing, that is what makes or breaks me.  My customers judge me and then tell me how I might best serve them.  I redesign accordingly, if I want a raise.

Now, should my product get to the point, after years of profitably iterations on my part, where a conservator has done the multimillion dollar harvard phd market studies necessary to warrant knocking off my product, lowering the cost, and making my product available to everyone, then I can simply do an IPO, raise the money to be the conservator, and become my conservators competitor.  See Apple IPO 1980, vs IBM.

IPR solves a problem that does not exist, IPR inhibits justice in the distribution of goods and service.  It keeps the pie small, leaves wants and needs unavailable or nonexistent.

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Building Rep Network - Launching Business

Here is the first installment of 4 parts on youtube.com on the actual launching of your business, how you get enough orders from customers to cover the suppliers minimum... I filmed these a year or so ago, but am just now getting around to getting them edited and up.  Someone should start a business editing simple youtube videos for businesses and educators.

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My Boss Wrote a Book!

I was Ted Van Doorn’s general manager at Vandor Imports when the company turned 25.  Ted had made himself a legend in the gift and housewares industry by competing on design. Most of his competitors thought his company was much larger in sales than it was, given his influence.  But Ted was studying, designing, thinking.. and taking advantage of opportunities and problems.  

I was one of many people who worked with Ted, and working with Ted, as tough as it could be, made your career.  Not only could you learn from Ted by standing back and watching, Ted was happy to share his ideas.  He had a hot-selling trivet design, packed merely in a cardboard sleeve.  I suggested we upgrade the packaging.  He looked at me for a moment and said, “Why package nicely something we cannot keep in stock?  If it starts to die, we’ll think about tarting up the packaging.”  (Doh!)

Ted was a leader in design, giving many young designers a chance, a few of those he made as well.  Nonetheless, Ted was never worried about getting knocked off, which happened often enough, because the knockoffs were from 2nd rate factories, 2nd rate importers, going to 2nd rate customers.  It had nothing to do with him, so why should he care?  It was literally none of his business. He wisely let the designers own any intellectual property rights.

When I was interviewing for the job, over dinner I asked Ted about his background. Born in Japan, great Kanto earthquake of ‘23, schooled in Kobe at the Canadian Academy until ‘39, came to USA in 1951, started Vandor, and grew to the company that hired me.  Now, if someone living in Japan of military age during WWII skips that part of his life, one politely does not inquire.  I skipped it.  Apparently everyone did.  Ted just didn’t mention it.

Now comes, posthumously, his memoir, filling in the details.  A half-Dutch Japanese lad gets drafted into the brutal Imperial Army, all six feet of him, fluent in English and Japanese, but illiterate in Japanese.  He is sent to serve in Manchuria and is captured by the Soviets and spent a few years in a gulag before be repatriated to Japan.  His story of getting to USA is fascinating in its own right.

Lucretius 2000 years ago complained of immigrants doing so well in Rome.  Of course.  Immigrants have nothing to lose, and do not know the “rules.”  USA has had wave after wave of best and brightest coming to take advantage of the opportunities.  I acknowledged Ted Van Doorn in my book, written to share the rules that such immigrants used to be wildly successful.  Since then I have learned the rules are fairly universal.  

Today the immigrant is not as welcome in USA, the small business is far more compassed. What got Ted through earthquakes, war, gulags and to USA brought him great success when he settled here.  Get the book now, and review your options, in the light of what is possible.

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New Trick - Overwhelm the Courts

In our tri-partite system, the courts are supposed to keep a check on the other two branches of government. Liberals have handed the courts plenty to do by abdicating their responsibilities to the courts.  Therefore they pass any old law, and then let the courts decide.

The conservatives have a better plan.  Foster crimes so widespread that there is no possible way for the courts to handle the load.  The Rocket docket on home foreclosures is a good example.  Write rules that create so much doubtful, and illegal paper, that the courts simply cannot address the cases.

With small food producers, the government is accusing so many of them with "food quality problems" that there is no way courts can handle the cases.    Justice delayed is justice denied, especially when the evidence is perishable goods.  The Obama administration is relentlessly pushing torture, war, destruction of small business and farms, bank bailouts worldwide at taxpayers (unto the 3rd and 4th generation) expense.

The people pursuing these cases, the people on the ground, US Marshalls and such, show no decency whatsoever.  Indecency is on purpose: it provokes violent reaction, which ever more serves the evil impulses of the indecent.

What is in it for the FDA agents and the Marshalls?  Career advancement, or retirement benefit enhancement.  The powers that be have targeted small farmers, and the more small farmers that are hit by local FDA agents, the more notice their betters in DC will take.

I watched this happen in Wenatchee Washington 15 years ago.  Janet Reno was made US Attorney Gerbil.  Reno made her name, and came to the attention of Hillary Clinton by prosecuting false cases of child abuse in the Miami Dade County including a cop who dared question her.  Hillary moved her from county prosecutor to top cop in the land.  (Hillary's first 2 picks were found unqualified.) Countless country prosecutors got busy bringing false charges, to preen for Hillary.  In Wenatchee 45 innocent people were sent to prison, eventually most being released.  45 innocent people to prison, no one did anything wrong.

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China, China, China

China has the fastest train.

China buys the most gold.

China takes the lead in Iran discussions.

In USA, unemployment won't quit, as govt argues about taxes.  We either need a special economic zone where Americans can be free to work, or, businesses under 20 million in sales are exempt from all govt oversight and taxes.  Either is a start.

I listened to a women on the radio last night.  She was about to lose her home from nonpayment, due to unemployment.  She said she'll have to move back home, if she cannot get a job.  There are plenty of jobs where she lives, in the DC area, but they are all federal jobs, and the feds only want people with fed experience.

What?  Aside from taking a govt job is being part of the problem, not the solution, surely this cannot be true.  Those TSA workers cannot all be transfers from other govt agencies.  And what would be the purpose of requiring past fedgov experience for any fedgov job?  This sounds so weird.

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Taxpayers Bailouts Finance Foreign Companies

having failed in USA, Bank Of America was bailed out by taxpayers, and is now investing heavily overseas.  When you voted for Bush, or McCain, or Obama, you voted for this.  Because you voted, you have no choice.

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Obama Leads War On Small Farmers

WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation's food-safety system Tuesday after tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach sickened thousands of people in the past few years and led major food makers to join consumer advocates in demanding stronger government oversight.

***Notice that consumers do not demand this, only “consumer advocates.”  Keep your eyes on the “eggs” issue.***

The legislation, which passed 73-25, would greatly strengthen the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency that in recent decades focused more on policing medical products than ensuring the safety of food. The bill is intended to keep unsafe foods from reaching markets and restaurants, a change from the current practice that mainly involves cracking down after outbreaks occur.

***Everything is unsafe if it is not handled properly, nothing is dangerous if it is cooked properly. It gets down to relationships, and the cook. ***

Despite unusual bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and a strong push from the Obama administration, the bill could still die because there might not be enough time for the usual haggling between the Senate and the House, which passed its own version last year. Top House Democrats said on Tuesday that they were considering simply passing the Senate version to speed approval but that no decision had been made.

***It’ll pass, govt will grow.***

Both versions of the bill would grant the FDA new powers to recall tainted foods, increase inspections, demand accountability from food companies and oversee farming. 

***There you go, “oversee farming.”  Small farms, the ones left, will not survive the oversight.***

But neither would consolidate overlapping functions at the Agriculture Department and nearly a dozen other federal agencies that oversee various aspects of food safety.

***Of course not, since government only grows, no matter how chaotic.***

Eggs not covered

The action came after contaminated eggs, peanuts and produce sickened hundreds of people this year and more than 550 million eggs suspected of salmonella contamination were recalled. However, the measure does doesn't cover meat, poultry and eggs because the Agriculture Department regulates them.

***So the reason for the new law is one item not covered.  Big business, the ones responsible for the mass outbreaks, will get a pass.  The onerous rules will be applied only to small farmers.***

The measure requires the FDA to inspect "high-risk" producers only once every three years; the FDA will write the definition of high-risk producers. The bill also exempts small farms from the new requirements.

***See here is the government media advancing the lie...  there is a provision to exempt small farmers in the bill currently.  This provision mutes the objection of small farmers, since it exempts them they are not fighting this bill.  Just before it passes, this exemption will be stripped out.  Farmers will awake one morning to find the FDA poisoning their food inventory under this law.***

Even so, backers of the legislation said it represented a major overhaul and were quick to point out that it received bipartisan support. According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, foodborne illnesses sicken 76 million Americans every year; 325,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 -- about 14 a day -- die.

***Yes, the elderly and others who die due to poor immune systems, for which food poisoning is merely a contributing factor.  They’d die anyway, soon enough.  The is solves a problem that does not exist.***

"This is a historic moment," said Erik Olson, deputy director of the Pew Health Group, an advocacy organization. "For the first time in over 70 years, the Senate has approved an overhaul of FDA's food safety law that will help ensure that the food we put on our kitchen tables will be safer."

***This is what happens when billionaires go into “charity” or do not give all their money away before they die.  Pew said if he were president he would “Tell the truth and trust the people.”   Now the Pew Charities lie and distrust the people.   Food safety is up to the cook, not the fda, and nothing any law can do to overturn that fct of life.***

An uncertain science

The legislation greatly increases the number of inspections the FDA must conduct of food processing plants, with an emphasis on foods that are considered most high risk -- although figuring out which ones those are is an uncertain science. Until recently, peanut butter would not have made the list.

***Hmmm... if the fda could not figure out what to do with the billions they had, how come we are giving them more billions now?***

"This legislation means that parents who tell their kids to eat their spinach can be assured that it won't make them sick," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who, as chairman of the Senate health committee, shepherded the legislation through months of negotiations.

***Big agricultures’ man in Washington.***

Health advocates are hoping the legislation will rekindle the progress -- now stalled -- that the nation once enjoyed in reducing the tens of millions of food-contamination illnesses and thousands of deaths estimated to occur each year. 

***Wait a minute, the last several huge increases in FDA budget were supposed to promote food safety.  You mean none of it worked?  And we will try some more?  And there is evidence that the FDA itself tampers with food for political ends, such as when the FDA went directly to two grapes injected with cyanide in an importation..  Not enough to give a baby more than a stomach ache, but enough to destroy a year of Chilean exports. But this is nothing new: when the Patriot Act was set to end, the underwear bomber is ushered onto a Detroit-bound flight.  When the ATF budget ws set to be slashed, they raided Waco.  It is how government works. It goes on, because no one is ever prosecuted.***

In the case of toxic salmonella, infections may be creeping up, according to government figures.Part of the problem is the growing industrialization and globalization of the nation's food supply. 

***So it is not small, local farmers.***

Nearly one-fifth of it, including as much as three-quarters of its seafood, are imported, but the FDA inspects less than one pound in a million of imported foods. 

*** Let’s see, in 2009 the FDA budget was $2.4 billion, and we had spinach salmonella outbreak and the swine flu hoax, so in 2010, we gave them  $3.3 billion, and we had 550,000 tainted eggs, and still more swine flu hoax.  So 2011, we’ll give them $4.03 billion.  I tremble at what disease we’ll have in 2011. But note that number “one in a million...”

Let’s run some numbers:

2009 FDA had “about”(they don’t know) 8800 employees and a budget of 2.4 billion.  This means each FDA employee costs the taxpayers about $272,727 a year. Extrapolating from these facts, let’s say in 2010, they had 12,100 employees, given a budget of $3.3 billion. That is about a 50% increase, so now they should be able to inspect 1.5 pounds in a million. With their 2011 budget of over $4 billion, they nearly double their 2009 capabilities, so they can inspect almost 2 pounds per million, with 14,666 employees.

Let’s get serious:  If we believe inspections matter, we want at least 10% inspection right?  That would be 100,000 pounds per million. So we can reckon with a 2011 budget of $4 billion, and 14,666 employees, to get from 2 pounds to 100,000 pounds per million, we need to bump this up 50,000 times.  OK.. so to get where we inspect 10% of the imports (and note this is only the imports, let alone domestic inspection), or in other words let 90% of our imported food slide by uninspected, we need a FDA budget of 200 Trillion dollars (with a T) and 733 million inspectors, that is twice the population of USA today.  Better open those borders, and hire illegal aliens, if we want to get serious about food safety.

Of course, every cook inspects every meal, so we need no FDA whatsoever.  The FDA is just the TSA groping dead animals.  Why do we pretend the FDA can enhance food safety when they cannot, why do pretend cooks cannot when they do?

***

The bill gives the agency more control over food imports, including increased inspection of foreign processing plants and the ability to set standards for how fruits and vegetables are grown abroad.

Staunch opposition to the bill by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., forced months of delay. 

***Yippee!  Instead of holding importers responsible for what they import, let’s send government workers to tour the world approving factories overseas, at taxpayers expense.***

Coburn offered his own version of the legislation. It eliminated many of the bill's requirements because he said that more government rules would be deleterious and that the free market was working.

***At the last minute, after he has shaken down enough lobbyists, he’ll go along with whatever.  Count on it.***

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WikiDrama

I'm not buying it: people leak damaging information to a website that publishes it, eventually. Too many problems here...  how come a buck private (the supposed leaker) can get his hands on such a wide range of info?  My Mac can isolate info among unlimited users on the same machine.  This kid had access to helicopter pilot war crimes AND Hillary's inquiry as to Argentina gal-prez prescriptions choices?

How come the internet to leak it?  The Shah of Iran and his bloody Savak were brought down by audio cassette tapes.  Why not just make 100 cd's of the info and drop them off at various media outlets... ?  They would multiply like locusts.

Where is the news in what is leaked?  We already knew USA does some nasty things in war, as in the helicopter gunship murder of civilians.  We did not need wikileaks to show it. We knew that ever since Sherman marched to Atlanta.  This new set of documents so far is nothing but snarky chatter among people who are paid to travel and party.  The "revelation" that Saudi Arabia funds al qaeda is nothing new.  Our attackers on 9-11 were Saudi Arabians.  Who cares?  The powers that be know we will not object.  These outrages also demonstrate what we already knew: there is no anti-war movement in USA.

Some right wingers are demanding wikileaks founder be killed.  Aside from desensitizing the rest of us to murder, such calls scandalize us into thinking anything released on the net could warrant a death penalty.  Does anyone doubt that if Assange was a serious danger, he would not have been whacked by now.  The legal challenges and "investigations" seem like just so much theatre.

One theme that bothers me is the idea that the sum total of the released documents provides justification for war on Iran.  I suppose if wikileaks released a list of Julia Child's favorite recipes the intel derived would warrant an immediate attack on Tehran.

That Hillary is gathering personal information on other leaders is nothing new.  She did it as first lady, getting caught with the FBI files on USA politicians, through the letter H, wasn't it?  Digging dirt for blackmail is nothing new.   It is important for blackmailers to let targets know the blackmailer has the goods.  By these means, Hillary can let very many people know what she has on them.

The other weird thing is how come we need a wikileaks?  The Pentagon Papers were taken to the NYTimes. There are countless websites that would kill to get such juicy tidbits to release and drive the google-ad revenue through the roof.  In the measure that wikileaks becomes the "go-to" place to leak info, is the measure that the powers that be can monitor who is leaking what, and take pre-emptive action on anything really important being released.

All of this drama will contribute eventually, to a lockdown on the internet.  We'll be herded into AOL-like internets (based in Dulles, VA, not to put too fine a point on it) so we can still do our banking and such, and where we can be watched more closely.  We will have a license to get in the information superhighway, and facebook, incuding your biometrics, will be mandatory.   Wherever you walk, biometrics scanners will trace you, and you'll be glad, since the TSA is will minimized at airports.  They will be invading peoples homes pre-emptively, like we did in Iraq.  I am going to buy a typewriter.  A typewriter repair shop will be good business.

I just finished a book by a French diplomat describing the breakdown of the French government in the face of the Nazi threat and invasion, Tragedy in France an Eyewitness Account. His book is something of a post-mortem, and a theme I noticed is how at various times, when Hitler's adversaries are sizing Hitler up, a third party in the know would comment, "You have no idea who you are up against."

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Watched!

Hilarious!  I've noticed over the last couple of years, when I send out a single email, occasionally it will read "1 of 2, 2 of 2 sent..."  Well, I only sent one email.  I look in my sent email folder, and sure enough, there is record of only one email.  My assumption is my mail program is set up to send copies of anything suspicious to the censors.


I just sent out an email on how to make biz in int'l trade to an org of online educators.  This time 3 copies went out (or my original and 2 copies.)  That must be particularly alarming!  A relative of mine explained what is going on.  Y'all can look up Admiral Poindexter and "Total information Awareness" and get an idea, the man is gone for what he tried to do, but his work goes on.  We are being subject to total information awareness.


With all of the people, hardware and software USA govt has dedicated to watching the web, they better be reading every email, viewing every website, copying every blog, or I want a refund!  Look at USA airport security measures, and you get a sense of what's going on with monitoring the web.  Social websites are self-reporting, self-criticism sites. Some day social networking will be mandatory.  Everything everybody needs to know about you will be available on the iPhone.  (If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide.)  It makes me ill seeing USA run to slavery.

Let me make a contrast:  China very much censors the web, but USA does not.   In USA the gummint once knew you subscribed to the NYTimes but did not know what articles you read, or what you thought about what you did read.  Today, they know exactly what you read, and since you blog or email about it, they know what you think.  In China, since one is censored, the powers that be really do not know what you think.  Which is worse?  In China you can find information on African development on the web, but no links to the Tea Party (or Falun Gong).  In USA you can find both, but your time spent raging with the tea party over politicians' perfidy is time ignoring African development (and the tea party has already been co-opted anyway...)  Which is better?

Of course, that is a false dilemma.  We have options.  What we have today was the bastard child of a defense department initiative and monopoly theory.  The WWW is the child of big war and big biz, so the offspring genetically is a mighty wicked thing.  Like abandoned missile silos, some of us can use them for good things, but overall it is a net deficit.

At heart the discussion of the web is always reduced to considerations of national defense and commerce security.  The structure we have today presumes those imperatives, not what Berner-Lee envisioned.

What to do about it?  I am not sure.  Sufficient is the evil of the day.    Do what you can do.  

For my part, I have set up a means for anyone in the world to teach everywhere in the world, and keep the course revenue for themselves.  This is strictly noncredit, no grades, learning for learning sake courses, along the lines of what is offered at khanacademy.org.  What Khan is doing is wonderful and good, but students still need the "sage-on-the-stage."

If anyone on this list would like to offer courses online, paid only enrollment tuition but all of the the enrollment tuition, have the course promoted to prospective students in USA and around the world, then please join me in the latest iteration of what I started some 12 years ago, www.SeattleTeachersCollege.NET.  You would be a self-employed teacher, we would merely promote your course.  If you know of anyone who wishes to teach online with us, we'd be happy to hear from them.  

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How It Works: Bank Bailouts

The British kept Ireland enslaved for over 400 years on the pretext the Irish could not rule themselves, in essence, the Irish are only fit for slavery.  AS I watch the Irish government arrange to enslave the Irish people with government bailouts of private foreign banks, for the foolish loans made by private foreign banks, I am very glad I am more Scot than Irish (or course both are Celtic.)  The Irish have self-ruled for less than 100 years, and already they have given up their freedom.  They have agreed to spend the next hundred years working for foreign private companies.

Special note: Irish pensions have to be given up to finance this deal.  In Ireland, that mostly means govt pensions.  Word to USA govt pensioners:  when the money dries up, or more likely comes in but is worthless, you will have no options, since your government work was to kill off the small businesses that would have been providing the options in the future.  Condign punishment.

Here is the salient paragraph on the deal:

However, in a surprise accounting move, European and IMF experts decided that Ireland first must run down its own cash stockpile and deploy its previously off-limits pension reserves in the bailout. Until now Irish and EU law had made it illegal for Ireland to use its pension fund to cover current expenditures. This move means Ireland will contribute euro17.5 billion to its own salvation.

Of course most Irish are against this deal, but it does not matter.  They agreed to government, therefore they agreed to slavery.  Once they agreed to slavery, they have no say in who wields the whip, or what work they will be obliged to perform.

The Irish secured their independence with violence, as the movie Michael Collins outlines.  I think that is always a bad idea...  better to use nonviolent means, the freedom lasts longer.  Perhaps in 400 years or so, the Irish will be ready again for freedom, and they'll do it nonviolently this time.

Iceland declined to pay back private foreign banks for making bad loans.  Iceland remains free.  The irony is although Iceland is touted to be Nordic, the vast majority of the blood stock is celts who were captured as slaves and taken to Iceland.  So there is hope for the Irish.  Just not now.

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FBI Lies In Oregon Terror case

The FBI was proven to lie regarding a claim of 100% certain the fingerprints on a Madrid bomb were those of a Portland Attorney.  Under means allowed by the Patriot Act, the attorney was held in secret for two weeks, in spite of the fact that the Spanish investigators told the FBI there was no such match.  The FBI had been spying on this attorney, with the flimsiest cause (another person was suspected of terrorism and this attorney had represented that suspect in a child custody case.  "Book 'em Danno, Terrorism one.")

And now the FBI is back at it, apparently disrupted  plot they concocted.  Why anyone would believe an FBI report is a very good question that Glenn Greenwald asks.

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More Proof Anarchy Works

Begium has not had a government of over six months.  What?  You have not heard this?  You expect government controlled USA media to report, it is quite possible, natural... even beneficial to have no government?

This who are talking about it do so in the context there is no one to sell the authorize the bailouts necessary to sell the Belgian people down the river with bank bailouts.  Irelands government is selling the Irish into slavery, in spite of the fact that Iceland refused to bail out their banks, let the Iceland banks fail, and life goes on.

Why would the Belgians be in a hurry to form a government, just so they can be saddled with debt.  Anarchy is not only possible, it is ideal.

Last weekend I spent 3 days skiing at Whistler in British Columbia.  Again, anarchy in action.  Thousands of people, countless languages and cultures, all organized and cooperating to make life easy and smooth.  nary a cop in sight, anywhere.  But of course it is private property, free markets, and everyone here, from workers to paying customers, are all volunteering to be here.

Anarchy is the natural state for peace and prosperity.

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