How a Bitcoin transaction works
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We comes from God, I from the Devil
a libertarian tumblr
New report blows the lid off America's recent history of torture, and shows that when it comes to conserving the national-security state, it matters little which party is in power.
(Source: laliberty)
Il ciclo della vita-morte, viviamo della morte di altri esseri, muoriamo per la vita di altri esseri. Il ciclo del carbonio lo chiamano, non facciamo altro che trasferire queste catene organiche con milioni di C e H da un essere ad un altro, in un immenso fiume organico che dalla polvere ci porterà di nuovo alla polvere. Niente si crea dal nulla e nulla si distrugge. Vivo del C di un’ameba mangiata milioni di anni fa e l’H viene dal batterio morto un miliardo di anni fa. Non c’è scampo: se vuoi vivere devi appropriarti del C e dell’H di qualcos’altro. E che tu lo faccia tramite animale o una pianta non cambia nulla: le catene di C della pianta sono state parte di un animale e prima ancora di un altro. Le radici crescono sul sangue di miliardi di atroci omicidi e silenziose tragedie.
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Caramelle?
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There are now more Americans in jail than were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
May 9, 2013There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”
And it’s not just a relative population thing.
The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. How does that compare to other countries?
It’s 7-10X as high:
- Japan has 63 per 100,000,
- Germany has 90 per 100,000
- France has 96 per 100,000
- South Korea has 97 per 100,000
- Britain has 153 per 100,000
And it’s a rapidly exaggerating trend: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. More than half of America’s 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
Ludwig Von Mises (via semp666iternal)
I love it when my own posts make it back around to me after a while. Such a good quote too.
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If you want to introduce someone to libertarian thinking, encourage them to try this experiment. Spend a few days reading nothing but technology news. Then spend a few days reading nothing but political news. For the first few days they’ll see an exciting world of innovation and creativity where everything is getting better all the time. In the second period they’ll see a miserable world of cynicism and treachery where everything is falling apart. Then ask them to explain the difference.
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Ghost- Secular Haze
