i have no school today but i still have a ton of work because my teachers are evil and assigned multiple essays and projects yesterday that are due by friday :-)
The Anarchists, meaning those who negate the powers of the existing order, are correct in the negation of every person, and establishment that wants to control another person’s point-of-view. There would be no more violence under Anarchy, than under any regime. Anarchy can only be instituted by more and more people that simply wish to live together in harmony, without coercion from another, and not live under the protections that the existing regimes offer, thereby, there will be more and more people that will be ashamed to institute the same power of the existing regimes.
DeFi is essentially just conventional financial tools built on a blockchain — specifically Ethereum. They are mostly predicated on open-source protocols or modular frameworks for creating and issuing digital assets and are designed to confer notable advantages of operating on a public blockchain like censorship-resistance and improved access to financial services.
Open, decentralized lending offers numerous advantages over traditional credit structures including:
Integration with digital asset lending/borrowing
Collateralization of digital assets
Instant transaction settlement and novel secured lending methods
No credit checks, meaning broader access to people that cannot tap into traditional services
Standardization and interoperability — can also reduce costs with automation
Secured lending using open protocols like MakerDAO and Dharma are designed to rely on the trust-minimization that Ethereum affords to reduce counterparty risk without requiring an intermediary. This is accomplished via the basic cryptographic verification methods prevalent on public blockchains.
*Randy Weaver’s 14 year old son, Samuel (pictured below), was shot in the back and killed by federal agents because the family dog (which they also killed) alerted him to something in the woods on the property. The US Marshals hiding in those woods never announced themselves.
These federal agents then attempted to murder Randy Weaver via sniper fire when he went out to get his son’s dead body and his back was turned, but they missed the kill shot and hit him in the shoulder instead. Randy’s wife, Vicki, was murdered by FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi while holding her 10 month old baby.
After Randy Weaver’s son and wife were murdered by federal agents (over illegal weapons charges, kicked off by an unfounded claim of threats, called in to the FBI by a neighbor who was retaliating against Mr. Weaver over a land dispute), he was later ACQUITTED ON ALL CHARGES except for failure to appear to court.
Money is not a source of wealth, for it simply provides as a medium of exchange for goods or services nor is money just paper bills issued by government. Wealth is created by goods and services produced by labor, land and capital. Money takes time to develop and be recognized as a legitimate source of exchange, for when an commodity is demanded in the marketplace by consumers and seen as highly desirable under the presumption of the Theory of Marginal Utility. Money isn’t determined by some decree of government, for when it is, it is only due to force and coercion. Government constantly disrupts sound market activity in the economy when it manipulates money and its value by inflation. It is about time to abolish fiat currency and the influence of central banks over the money supply and setting interest rates for the return to commodity money and natural interest rates.
“Economic institutions shape economic incentives: the incentives to become educated, to save and invest, to innovate and adopt new technologies, and so on. It is the political process that determines what economic institutions people live under, and it is the political institutions that determine how this process works.”
These low-, mid-, and high-range cost estimates are based on the most high-profile federal paid leave program proposed to date: The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act).
The survey also did not ask questions about what paid leave policies Americans would like to see offered at private companies. Instead, the Cato 2018 Paid Leave Survey focuses on what people think about establishing a government-provided paid family leave program at the federal level.
The good news is that over the long term, freedom has spread to a diversity of countries too, including numerous ex-socialist countries, Latin American nations, one sub-Saharan African country (Mauritius) and several Asian countries that all belong to the top quartile of the freest countries in the index. Many are on the rise, and some, like Taiwan, have seen notable increases in freedom in recent years.
The United States ranks 17th in the fourth annual Human Freedom Index (HFI), the most comprehensive measure of freedom ever created for a large number of countries around the globe. Overall, the report finds global freedom has fallen slightly since 2008.
“The Rule of Law continues to be a weak point for the United States, which has relatively low ratings when it comes to such areas as the protection of property rights, the enforcement of contracts, and criminal justice,” says co-authorIan Vásquez. “The Rule of Law plays a fundamental role in upholding liberty, so anyone who cares about freedom in the United States should be concerned with its evolution.”
Explore the 2018 Human Freedom Index — released today in honor of Human Rights Day — and see how your country ranks. Then, join the conversation on Twitter with #FredomIndex18…
For nearly 250 years, the United States has recovered from enormous economic and political shocks, including the Civil War, two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the high inflation and oil crises of the 1970s. Following each of these events, the U.S. economy returned to its previous economic trend.
This week I traveled to Princeton University for a book workshop organized by POMEPS. Having senior scholars whose work I admire read by manuscript was intimidating, thrilling, and ultimately immeasurably helpful. Here’s hoping it will eventually see the light of day as a much improved book thanks to the incredible insight of those pictured above.
The Corruptness Of The Social ‘Sciences’: It Prevents Democracy From Functioning
The Corruptness Of The Social ‘Sciences’: It Prevents Democracy From Functioning
A striking example of the corruptness of the social ‘sciences’ is the results from web-searching the phrase “UNDERSTANDING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT” (just click onto it here — or else copy-and-paste that quotation into a search-box — to see the results from that web-search). Virtually all of the sites that come up present political ‘scientists’ (and a few sociologists) offering their theories,…
Boris Johnson is the first British Prime Minister in history who will not be moving into 10 Downing Street with their spouse. Although Johnson is technically still married, he has been separated from his wife (his second) for more than a year and is expected to have his girlfriend of 18-months move in with him.
Caroline Herschel, the sister of astronomer William Herschel who discovered Uranus, was the first woman in England’s history employed by the government. In 1787, King George III offered her a salary to continue her work in astronomy, making her both the first female government employee and the first paid for their work in astronomy.
The French military is putting together a team of sci-fi writers to imagine potential future threats to the country. The group will reportedly act as a “red team” commonly used by military strategists to test their defence capabilities. Using the sci-fi writers, French military planners expect to find more creative threats than those conceived by conventional military strategists to better prepare the country against attacks in a rapidly changing world.
The Greek electoral system is uniquely based on “reinforced proportional representation” whereby the party which gains the most votes in an election is granted an additional 50 seats in parliament. The provision is meant to ensure that the largest party can secure a majority in parliament, theoretically leading to a more stable government. Although the provision for additional seats was abolished in 2016, it will be used for the last time in 2019.
In January 2019, the Republic of Ireland became the first country in the world to divest from fossil fuels. The Irish government sold €68m worth of stock in 38 companies involved in oil, gas and other fossil fuels following a July 2018 law passed by the Irish parliament that forced the country’s €8 billon national investment fund to divest from fossil fuels as part of the country’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement.
South Korea became the first East Asian country to legalise medical marijuana on 25 November 2018. It’s the second Asian country after Sri Lanka to legalise the medical use of marijuana.
From 1 March 2020, all public transport including trains, trams and buses will be free in Luxembourg. Because the country is so small, much of its workforce lives outside of the country in Germany, France or Belgium, meaning that around 45% of workers cross the border every day (compared to the European average of 0.9%). This has made traffic a major problem in the small wealthy country. Beyond reducing congestion, the law is aimed at helping low-income workers who spend large parts of their salary on travel.
Following the Brexit referendum, British nationals applying for and receiving EU citizenship significantly increased. Among the most popular countries were Belgium (987%), France (374%), Germany (1,161%), Ireland (879%), Luxembourg (394%) and Sweden (165%). Portugal saw the highest increase with 1,236% more British nationals becoming Portuguese citizens in 2017 than before the referendum in 2015.
The first British astronaut to go space was a woman, Helen Sharman, who went as part of a joint UK-Soviet mission aboard a Soviet rocket in 1991. It took until 2015 for an astronaut representing the UK to go to space again.
Calvin Coolidge is the only president in US history who was sworn into office by someone other than a judge. As the constitution does not stipulate who should administer the oath of office, Coolidge was instead sworn in by his father at the home in Vermont following the death of President Harding.
Until 2016, you had to be over the age of 20 to vote in Japan. In June 2016, the voting age was changed to 18 – the first such change since 1945 when the voting age was changed from 25 to 20. Although 18 year olds can now vote, they cannot run for office and you must be at least 25 to run in Lower House elections and at least 30 to run for Upper House seats.
