Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Immigration

by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
http://lewrockwell.com/orig/hermann-hoppe1.html

On Free Immigration and Forced Integration
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The classical argument in favor of free immigration runs as follows: Other things being equal, businesses go to low-wage areas, and labor moves to high-wage areas, thus affecting a tendency toward the equalization of wage rates (for the same kind of labor) as well as the optimal localization of capital. An influx of migrants into a given-sized high-wage area will lower nominal wage rates. However, it will not lower real wage rates if the population is below its optimum size. To the contrary, if this is the case, the produced output will increase over-proportionally, and real incomes will actually rise. Thus, restrictions on immigration will harm the protected domestic workers qua consumers more than they gain qua producers. Moreover, immigration restrictions will increase the “flight” of capital abroad (the export of capital which otherwise might have stayed), still causing an equalization of wage rates (although somewhat more slowly), but leading to a less than optimal allocation of capital, thereby harming world living standards all-around.

That NuLabour “mistake” over mass immigration wasn’t a mistake non-shock

by Robert Henderson
http://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/?p=1137

Since they lost the 2010 election, the Labour Party have been religiously spinning the line that the massive immigration they presided over during their 13 years in office was a mistake. A favourite ploy is to try to concentrate all the admission of failure on the decision to allow the better part of a million migrants from Eastern Europe when new entrants were admitted to the EU. Labour’s new leader Ed Miliband was at it in September 2011. Asked by Nick Robinson of the BBC whether Labour had lied about immigration, Miliband said

British Royal Family – The Dracula Connection

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8851383/Prince-of-Wales-campaigning-to-save-Count-Dracula-forests.html

“Porn Ruining Lives of Younger Generation” Too Late for Me, Alas!

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1285/215/Porn_Is_Ruining_The_Sex_Lives_Of_An_Entire_Generation.html

“Today’s users can force [their] release by watching porn in multiple windows, searching endlessly, fast-forwarding to the bits they find hottest, switching to live sex chat, viewing constant novelty, firing up their mirror neurons with video action and cam-2-cam, or escalating to extreme genres and anxiety-producing material. It’s all free, easy to access, available within seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

I’m SO jealous! When I was a lad, it was just blurry magazines that cost the earth to buy and that were sold by people who always seemed to give you funny looks…. SIG

Non-Payment of Council Tax!

This is another one from the Freemen of the Land. Their legal claims are often of dubious merit at law. On the other hand, they are getting somewhere, when most libertarians do little more than fawn on big business and hope for some rich sugar daddy to pay off their mortgages. And, if you look at the men who faced down the Stuarts in the seventeenth century, their reading of the law was at variance with the legal consensus. Good luck, I say, to these people. SIG

More on the Anthropogenic Climate Change Fraud

Scientist Who Said Climate Sceptics
Had Been Proved Wrong Accused
Of Hiding Truth By Colleague
by Benny Peiser

It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’. But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.–David Rose, Mail on Sunday, 30 October 2011

In Praise of Credit Checks

by Jeffrey Tucker
http://mises.org/daily/5789/In-Praise-of-Credit-Checks

“The credit report is the best friend of the responsible in the same way that it is the worst enemy of the irresponsible.”

Robin Hood Defamed Again

Robin Hood Defamed Again
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@netzero.com
Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s
The Libertarian Enterprise

It says here a Canadian outfit called “Adbusters” is persuading  its fellow parasites in the “Occupy” camps to demand the creation of a  “Robin Hood Tax”, to be levied on and collected from, er … Western Civilization.

Taxpayer Funding of Political Parties

by D.J. Webb

I oppose this too. I would also drop the “Short money”, a scheme whereby the opposition parties get state funding. I don’t see why MPs get more than about £50K a year (whether ministers or not), and don’t see the need to provide them with pensions or any expenses. I don’t see why they need to run constituency offices either – they are there not to be social workers, but to stand up in Parliament for the political views they indicated they would support during elections. My local MP told me I was the first constituent ever to raise political matters with him in the surgery, as most constituents want to try to rope the MP into minor disputes of various types.

Not in a million years

by Richard North
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-in-million-years.html

A huge increase in state funding of political parties, worth up to £100m over a five-year parliament, is being proposed by a government-commissioned inquiry.

Why I’m not Wearing a Poppy

Why I’m not Wearing a Poppy
by D.J. Webb

Once again the annual row on the wearing of poppies is taking place. The powers that be are against patriotism on principle, although there is considerable contradiction in running a society and not being supportive of it. However, the issue has been rather muddied for me by Britain‘s habit of sending young men abroad into wars that have no conceivable connection to our national interest. I support our soldiers unconditionally, whether the wars are justified or not, as they are British soldiers. I also feel very sorry for those wounded, or killed, in wars staged for the convenience of the liberal elite. But I have not worn a poppy for several years now.

The “War on Drugs” is Really a War on You

by Kevin Carson
http://c4ss.org/?p=8757

Hardly a week goes by without me seeing another think piece on the question: “Are we winning the war on drugs?”

There is No Disinterested Authority

by Kevin Carson
http://c4ss.org/?p=8744

In a recent discussion, someone proposed “a political system comprised of professionals rather than career politicians.” Policy-making bodies, she suggested, might be equally divided between professionals and elected politicians.

Six white police officers sue Scotland Yard for race discrimination

It’s keeps on getting crazier.

Fragmentation of the police along political, racial, or whatever lines is a desirable development. Disunity among the PIGS makes their defeat more obtainable. (Keith Preston)

Lady Magdelene Video

Battle for the Heart of the Occupy Movement

by Kevin Carson
http://c4ss.org/?p=8737

Center for a Stateless Society Media Coordinator Tom Knapp, summarizing his experience with the Occupy St. Louis movement, reported a movement “with an ideological center of gravity somewhere in the neighborhood of ‘mild reform Democrat.’” Most of the people there, apparently, were basically Coffee Party people with better signs and slogans.

Junior Considers His Career Options

Robbing Us Blind

by David D’Amato
http://c4ss.org/?p=8712

Calling attention to the crises spawned by contemporary global capitalism, the Occupy movement provides an opportunity for more than mere response to the symptoms of that system. Just as doctors would be remiss to merely attend to symptoms on an ad hoc basis, we who are concerned with social and economic justice must set ourselves upon the underlying disease.

You Are In No Position To Level Criticism Of Me!

You Are In No Position To Level Criticism Of Me!
Guy Leven-Torres
20th October 2011

In six long years I have written 3,500 articles six books and spent £50,000 of my own money trying to get people to think for themselves and act to save this country, indeed freedom and civilisation itself. To add insult to injury- for you injure yourselves and future innocent generations by your cowardly apathy- my wife and father have supported me in all that time to do what I must without complaint, in order to try a last ditch attempt to awaken souls but have miserably failed to do. What good are endless e.mails and blether? In this last I probably excel.

2011 Index of Economic Freedom

http://attackthesystem.com/?p=11153

As determined by the collection of neocons, theocons, vulgar libertarians, and stooges for the military-industrial complex that comprise the Heritage Foundation.