#14.22 School Sucks Project Podcasts 277 thru 284

2014-04-10: #277 Michael Dean Didn't Like School, and Vice Versa

2014-04-16: #278 Ben Stone (1 of 2): Creating A Market Demand For Liberty

2014-04-17: #279 Some Abolitionists Thought Slaves Were Too...Free? (with Thaddeus Russell)

2014-04-24: #280 Autonomy Through Agorism (Part 1) - Why Permaculture?

2014-04-26: #281 Ben Stone (2 of 2): Diminishing the Market Demand For Government 

2014-04-30: #282 Self-Esteem In the Schools (The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem Part 8)

2014-05-05: #283 Autonomy Through Agorism (Part 2) - Permaculture Scaled Up and Scaled Down

2014-05-09:#284 (Live Show): Education Alternatives Spotlight - Informal University

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#0 Neocon Carnival of Constitutional Confusion - Tom DiLorenzo

 
Neocon Carnival of Constitutional Confusion

"If Hamilton, Marshall, [Joseph] Story, and Lincoln stood for anything, they stood for a highly centralized government with a dictatorial executive branch.  They were all mortal enemies of the alternative, Jeffersonian states’ rights tradition, the tradition that gave us federalism, the Tenth Amendment, decentralized government, and the rights of nullification and secession.  It is the tradition that is epitomized by the slogan, “that government is best which governs least,” as Jefferson once said."

The rest is mighty good reading and yes, we are insisting that the truly well informed will want to read DiLorenzo fully, all his books and everything he writes, as he does know what he's talking about!

#0 China and the New World Order

China and the New World Order

#0 Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over

Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over

#0 John B. Wells On ISIS, Border Insecurity, & Looming World War W/ Host Brian Engelman

Posted on 30 August, 2014

John B. Wells On ISIS, Border Insecurity, & Looming World War W/ Host Brian Engelman

A wide-ranging interview.  
Caravan to Midnight

#13.16 Peace Revolution Podcast 85

2014-09-22: 085 The Future of Freedom and the History of Western Civilization 

This episode spans nearly 16 hours of audio presentations. It can be divided into two parts. The first part runs to the 11th hour and about 26 minutes and consists of the most intelligent conversations concerning internet (and other) surveillance. The remainder of this episode contains a complete set of lectures by professor Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) author of Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) and many other extraordinary books. Richard Grove said that he wanted to get this material out in front of other material, interviews etc. that would follow. Yes, we at this blog, divide people into two broad categories, those who have read Quigley and those who haven't. Obviously we consider his work essential reading.

Of the foregoing, there are so many ideas peppered through these presentations, together forming probably the most up-to-date record of where we are concerning the level and extent of surveillance under which we live today. The Quigley lecture is occasionally very difficult to understand (headphones may help) but you will want to hear what he has to say and digest some of his ideas as he really did have his mind on the pulse of what makes the institutions of the modern world work, etc. He understood contemporary ideas against a historical background extending back into ancient times. This is why his work is so outstanding. It would be worthwhile for someone to transcribe these lectures so that we can have a clear idea of what he said. Grove's audio transcription is probably the best we have, but in parts due to Quigley walking away from his podium, it's very difficult to tell what he says right away. At this point we have the record. The next step is to get this record into a reasonable print equivalent for further study. Until then, attempting to listen through this material provides some idea of Quigley's ideas.

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#0 True Federalism - Thomas Jefferson (1816)

Jefferson (1743-1826)

“The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.

Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, law, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties, and each ward direct the interests within itself.

It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man’s farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body.”

– Thomas Jefferson

(Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell - 2 Feb. 1816)