The Berlin Wall Fell 20 Years Ago
Almost every political regime is based on violence and fear, we can just compare which one use violence more and which one less. Communism unfortunately chose violence, fear, restriction and totality in the first place of its own doctrine. For long 40 years the people in Easter Europe had been hearing that in the west capitalism exploited common people, yet when the Iron Curtain ended everyone wanted to go to West.
It was not about democracy as it was mainly a huge step for liberty, the liberty is unfortunately again under attack from many sources, but I am an optimist and I believe that freedom will be here with us another 20 years. Freedom prevails!
Michael Moore and Ron Paul about Capitalism
Michael Moore is an interesting man, in his new movie Capitalism: A Love Story is explained the root of capitalism, of course, this all just for 9.99$. I bet Michael’s next movie will be about “How capitalistic McDonald made me look this way”.
Ok without sarcasm I think he made a nice movie in order to make as much money as possible, which is interesting because this places him to the role of common greedy capitalist. He is definitely not an “independent” movie maker as he often like to present.
This is all ok, there has been many bad commercial movies, but Michael actually even did not get the meaning of Capitalism, such a basic error when the movie is supposed to describe capitalism. I understand there can be more “schools of capitalism”. But I do not think that schools which refuse bailouts, central banking and so on would be small. There are actually even politicians who got it right!
It is interesting that Michael later even admitted that we do not have a free market or capitalism. Notice that he complains about companies which want to take our choices, but in other way he want to take people’s choice about healthcare. If consistency is the basic for logic then he is definitely not consistent.
Now Michael tell me, how many times more have you earned with your new movie than the average employee?
Internet Access as a Legal Right?
Your neighbour just came to a small visit, he noticed your internet connection and realized “I want that too”. Yes he can choose some internet provider, he can find ideal speed/price ratio for him and apply for a connection. But that’s outdated, at least in Finland it is. Finland has become first country in the world having internet access as a legal right.
So instead of choosing an internet provider he will use his “right to the internet” and government makes the rest. I bet they will tax you, using your money for that connection, but it really doesn’t matter, doesn’t it?
CNN says that it is view shared by the United Nations, I think it is great. Dear United Nations what about my right to space flight, right to car, right to an island in pacific?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 3rd says:
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
So stop taking people’s money, their property, product of their work their supplies which serves as instrument of personal security. Where are you going to take all the money from? I have not noticed that the Finnish government or the UN would be profitable institutions.
Murray Rothbard in his book the Ethics of Liberty with a reference to Franz Oppenheimer says:
There are only two means to the acquisition of wealth. One is the method of production, generally followed by voluntary exchange of such products: this is what Oppenheimer called the economic means. The other method is the unilateral
seizure of the products of another: the expropriation of another man's property by violence. This predatory method of getting wealth Oppenheimer aptly termed the political mean
Welcome in the world when violence is used for a “good” purpose, everyone needs the Internet!
Americans are not in Iraq due to Oil
There has been many theories that Americans invaded Iraq due to Oil revenues, my problem is that the Iraqi oil revenues cannot cover the costs of war at all, so all those theories are based on the idea that they cannot do elementary math in Washington?
Americans are in Iraq because oil profits will pay everything
source of numbers is here
The USA would have to withdraw Iraq now and control all the Iraqi oil production for at least 140 years to cover all its direct costs and more than 500 years to cover total costs!
The Iraqi oil profits cannot pay the total war costs at all.
Americans attacked Iraq because Hussein did not want to use the dollar anymore
Buying power of the Iraqi oil is absolutely minimal compared to the whole American economy, there is also dozens of countries with bigger economy using dollar (China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Hong-Kong).
Or take a look at Kuwait, which is a larger economy than Iraq and stopped using the USD and Kuwaiti dinar has been re-pegged to a basket of currencies.
1 – Iraq war costs source – Reuters
2 – Iraqi oil revenues (the biggest annual revenue in the history – 2008) – Energy Information Administration
3 – Iraqi oil profits – my estimate based on profits of large OPEC companies - OPEC
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