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Internet Outlaws
17-Nov-08
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We, the leaders of the Group of Twenty...
15-Nov-08
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Baby P: where are the others?
15-Nov-08
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Imagine that: Government in "making matters worse" shock!
13-Nov-08
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Libertarians: torch bearers for big business?
11-Nov-08
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Repent! For the end of the state is nigh!
03-Nov-08
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Paying for Higher Education
29-Oct-08
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Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008 (Part II)
28-Oct-08
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Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008 (part I)
27-Oct-08
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If you speed...
27-Oct-08
...and to ones that made be mad!
The Revolutionary Liberalism series
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Putting the genie back in the bottle




















The first video
Good until they start talking about a 'sustainable economy'. They make the assumption (which I believe to be false) that you cannot have sustainability with growth and that things like population must remain static.
They then propose solving it by giving government sole control over money, something which is sure to lead to disaster as politics comes into play. Politicians are the least qualified to decide how to spend money.
Finally, the conspiracy theory hinted at is only one step away from anti-semitic myths about banking...
I am always amazed that people identify government as part of the problem (protecting banks from runs etc) but then propose that government is the solution. Perhaps they mean government by themselves is the solution...