Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo | Jeffrey A. Tucker

1. Hack your shower head.
2. Fix your water heater.
3. Go to a coin shop and compare real coins to today’s tokens.
4. Work for free.
5. Publish with creative commons (no Intellectual Property).
6. Visit a courthouse, and notice how benign our “criminal class” looks.
7. Go to jail. See what it means to be completely controlled by the state.
8. If you want to improve culture, do something wonderful. Don’t blame the market.
9. Tell the truth. Ideas are more powerful than armies.

Penn & Teller on Recycling

I thought part 3 was best, so I’m putting it up front:

I concur with their conclusion: It’s not about saving resources or saving money, it’s about control. Some people want to tell other people how to run their lives, to pray to the garbage gods.

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Israeli Perspectives on Egypt

open quotePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ministers of the Jewish state to make no comment on the political cliffhanger in Cairo, to avoid inflaming an already explosive situation. But Israel’s President Shimon Peres is not a minister.

“We always have had and still have great respect for President Mubarak,” he said on Monday. He then switched to the past tense. “I don’t say everything that he did was right, but he did one thing which all of us are thankful to him for: he kept the peace in the Middle East.”

Newspaper columnists were far more blunt.

One comment by Aviad Pohoryles in the daily Maariv was entitled “A Bullet in the Back from Uncle Sam”. It accused Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of pursuing a naive, smug, and insular diplomacy heedless of the risks.close quote (Read more from cnews.canoe.ca)

Looters included undercover Egyptian police

open quoteHuman Rights Watch confirmed several cases of undercover police loyal to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime committing acts of violence and looting in an attempt to stoke fear of instability as demonstrations grew stronger Tuesday against the autocratic leader. close quote (Read more from washingtonpost.com)

The tactic of false flags is much more common that we’d like to admit. Often, we recognize them when conducted by the government of countries we are taught to hate, but refuse to see them when conducted by the governments we are taught to love. If you want to read something scary, look up “Operation Northwoods.”

U.S. Gov’t has been preparing Egypt spy chief to take over

I’m sure the CIA has tentacles on every side of the conflict in Egypt. They want to have influence over whoever happens to win, as Ron Paul has said. Here is one example:

open quoteNew cables released by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. government has been quietly anticipating as well as cultivating Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy chief, as the top candidate to take over the country should anything happen to President Hosni Mubarak. On Saturday, this expectation was proved correct when Mubarak named Suleiman to the post of vice-president making him the first in line to assume power.

An intelligence official who trained at the U.S. Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, Suleiman became head of the spy agency in 1993 which brought him into close contact with the Central Intelligence Agency. Recently he took up a more public role as chief Egyptian interlocuter with Israel to discuss the peace process with Hamas and Fatah, the rival Palestinian factions.close quote (Read more from wikileaks.ch)