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FPF #201 – Taking on the War with Memes guest Mance Rayder

On FPF #201, Mance Rayder joins the show to discuss Pulse, Palestine, and memes. Mance updates the story of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting. The shooter’s wife was found innocent at trial a trial that included shocking admissions from the prosecution. Mance explains his position on the Israeli occupation of Palestine and who the clear aggressor is.

On Twitter, Mance is the king of antiwar memes and we discuss some of our favorite antiwar memes. 

Mance is the host of The Freeman Beyond the Wall Podcast. Mance is the author of The Kids Are Not Alright and Freedom Through Memedom. 

Links

Source: Foreign Policy Focus – FPF #201 – Taking on the War with Memes guest Mance Rayder

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“An Agent of the Court” Ep. 78 ft. Trey of the Subversion Webcast

This memorial day, I drove on over to Trey’s place, the only member of the Libertarian Union who lives in the Twin Cities. We had a great day hanging out and were able to record one of our conversations as an episode of the show!

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"An Agent of the Court" Ep. 78 ft. Trey Weaver

This memorial day, I drove on over to Trey Weaver’s place, the only member of the Libertarian Union who lives in the Twin Cities. We had a great day hanging out and were able to record one of our conversations as an episode of the show!

Subscribe to the Subversion Webcast!

DonorSee:

Help Jessie Schwartz start a women’s shelter in Uganda! Remember to comment in DonorSee if you contribute and I will give you a shout-out!

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Show Notes:

The Principled Libertarian (Andrew Kern)

 

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Guess who's probably running for president again

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Well, here’s some news:

According to Jeff Weaver, 2016 campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator “is considering another run for the presidency.”

The silver lining of that: it’s a potential “teaching moment.”

The entirety of Bernie’s political philosophy, if we can call it that, is: “We want X; therefore, the state should violently distribute X.”

And if you oppose this juvenile ideology, you “hate the poor.”

Even though every last thing Bernie favors would make the poor less employable and give them fewer options.

I actually put together a full-length refutation of Bernieism, a book called Bernie Sanders Is Wrong.

Here’s the table of contents:

PART I: Should the U.S. Model Itself After Scandinavia? 

Chapter 1 
No, Sweden Is Not a Model to Emulate 

Chapter 2 
The Truth About Denmark, the “World’s Happiest 
Country” 

PART II: Should the Government Spend Money on 
Alternative Energy? 

Chapter 3 
Wind and Solar Power? Don’t Make Me Laugh 

Chapter 4 
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels 

PART III: Is a $15 Minimum Wage a Good Idea? 

Chapter 5 
High Minimum Wages Hurt the Vulnerable the Most 

Chapter 6 
Robert Reich Is Just as Wrong as Bernie Sanders 

PART IV: Would More Government Intervention 
Improve the Economy? 

Chapter 7 
Is “Capitalism” the Problem with American Health Care? 

Chapter 8 
Should Employers Be Required to Offer More Fringe 
Benefits? 

Chapter 9 
Is There a Gender Pay Gap We Need to Close? 

Chapter 10 
Is “Inequality” an Important Problem? 

Chapter 11 
Does Free Trade Harm American Workers? 

Chapter 12 
What’s Wrong with the Overall Sanders Approach? 

It’s free. In fact, here it is:
 
http://tomwoods.com/d/bernie.pdf
Enjoy!
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– Tom Woods

Tom Woods Liberty Classroom


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Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Minimum Wage

Since its first enactment in New Zealand in 1894[1], minimum wage laws have interfered with the market process of determining the price of labor. Such laws now exist in most countries. Proponents claim that a minimum wage improves living standards and worker morale while reducing inequality and poverty.[2] Libertarians and conservatives have tried ad nauseum to oppose the existence or increase of the minimum wage,[3,4] to little avail. It is therefore necessary to try a different approach. Let us see how minimum wage hikes can undermine the legacy economic system, and thus why one might agree with statists for the wrong reasons. A minimum wage law makes it illegal to hire laborers for less than a specified rate of payment per unit time. In order to justify paying an employee a given amount, the employer must be getting at least that much value from the employee. (In practice, an employee must be more valuable due to the overhead cost of running a business.) Raising the minimum wage thus renders unemployed anyone who cannot be sufficiently productive to be worth paying the higher wage. Laissez-faire advocates tend to consider this effect as a negative, but perhaps it is not. The people left unemployed by a minimum wage hike can be the types of people that statists claim to want to help, but they also can be political enemies of liberty as well as foreign migrants. Raising the minimum wage can protect domestic workers from competition and demographic displacement while depriving leftist activists of their day jobs. This will shift the political landscape away from socialism. Read the entire article at ZerothPosition.com References: American Academy of Political and Social Science. “The Cost of Living”. Philadelphia, 1913. “Should We Raise The Minimum Wage?”. The Perspective. Aug. 30, 2017. Black, John (Sep. 18, 2003). Oxford Dictionary of Economics. Oxford University Press. p. 300. “The Young and the Jobless.” The Wall Street Journal. Oct. 3, 2009.

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FPF #200 – Scott Horton

Scott Horton returns to Foreign Policy Focus to discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Scott breaks down Iraqi Shia politics and how the recent Iraqi election played out. Scott explains the connections between the Shia leaders, Iran, and the US.  Scott also updates the status of the war in Afghanistan. Scott demonstrates the futility of the war and why the US policy continues to fail. 

Scott Horton is the Managing Director of The Libertarian Institute, View Points Editor at AntiWar.com, and host of the Scott Horton Show. Scott is the author of Fools Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan. 

Links

Source: Foreign Policy Focus – FPF #200 – Scott Horton

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State of the Libertarian Union Talk Show – Episode 6 – May 2018

The State of the Libertarian Union Talk Show, a monthly round-table discussion about current events, analyzed from a libertarian perspective. This show is live-streamed on the last Sunday of every month.

In the sixth installment of the State of the Libertarian Union Talk Show, the gang first shares what they’ve currently been working on. Then, we explore a wide range of topics!

This show features the following members:- Nick and Lizzie Pecone of the Sounds Like Liberty
https://www.soundslikelibertypodcast.com/

– Steven Clyde of the Peace and Liberty Podcast
http://www.forpeaceandliberty.com

– Kyle Anzalone of Foreign Policy Focus

http://foreignpolicyfocus.libsyn.com/ and https://immersionnews.com/

– Patrick MacFarlane of the Liberty Weekly Podcast

http://www.libertyweely.net

– Daniel Elwood of the Actual Anarchy Podcast

http://www.actualanarchy.com

Look for future episodes of this monthly roundtable discussion format, recorded on the last Sunday of each month.

The Libertarian Union is a Podcast Station consisting of several libertarian and anarcho-capitalist podcast shows. Here you’ll find episodes from Liberty Weekly, Don’t Waste Your Hate, the AnCap Barbershop, Wizardly Wisdom and more added all the time.Be sure to check out each of the shows to see what you like, and give them some love via subscribes, comments, likes, shares, tweets, reviews, website visits, ratings and any other way you can support the great content providers listed.

Here’s to Maximum Freedom!

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Remembering Ron Paul’s “What If…” Speech: Memorial Day 2018

On this Memorial Day, I’d like to hearken back to Ron Paul’s amazing “What If…” speech. This short, iconic speech should echo through the annals of American history as a voice of sanity in a dying empire.

THE rEVOLution Continues!

Show Notes: 

Video Credit: Ron Paul and Jonathan Williams

Original Youtube (from Ron Paul’s Liberty Report)

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Remembering Ron Paul's "What If…" Speech: Memorial Day 2018

On this Memorial Day, I’d like to hearken back to Ron Paul’s amazing “What If…” speech. This short, iconic speech should echo through the annals of American history as a voice of sanity in a dying empire.

THE rEVOLution Continues!

 

Show Notes: 

Video Credit: Ron Paul and Jonathan Williams

Original Youtube (from Ron Paul’s Liberty Report)

Source: The Liberty Weekly Podcast – Remembering Ron Paul's "What If…" Speech: Memorial Day 2018

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FPF #199 – The Nature of War guest Antony Sammeroff

On FPF #199, joins the show Antony Sammeroff discusses the nature of war. Antony presents his views through the libertarian philosophy. During the show, Antony explains the morality of war and the impacts of the war at home.  Antony Sammeroff is the host of the Scottish Liberty Podcast and the Be Yourself and Love It Podcast. Antony is the author of Procrastination Annihilation. 

Links

Scottish Liberty Podcast – War on Syria is a War on Freedom, Not Terror

Source: Foreign Policy Focus – FPF #199 – The Nature of War guest Antony Sammeroff