On 11 July, two Committees in the European Parliament voted on their Opinions on European Commission’s proposal for a Copyright Directive: the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government.
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
A new study from WalletHub that ranks states by their level independence (or lack thereof) has surprising results. Of the 10 most independent states, 3 voted Trump in the last election. Which raises an interesting question. Why do voters in those states favor big government when they don’t generally benefit from the handouts?
I just read an interesting piece at Bloomberg: The Hackers Russia-Proofing Germany’s Elections »
It’s about the German Chaos Computer Club – CCC – and its fight for a free, open democratic society with a free flow of information. At the end, member Jan Krissler is quoted saying…
»All the stuff will happen in the end.«
Britain’s largest ever warship is not “vulnerable” to cyber-attacks despite running on Microsoft Windows XP, a 20 year-old operating system, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said.
Huffington Post: Britain’s Largest Warship Uses Windows XP And It’s Totally Fine, Says Michael Fallon »
It is obvious from photos of cabinet meetings that the top gear of government has become too big to operate smoothly, thoughtfully, and carefully. As a result, citizens are being spun around wildly, which explains why they are so nauseous over what goes on in Washington.
The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
The Paris-based bureaucracy, the OECD, just released a new publication as part of its so-called “Bridging the Gap” project. Their new report reads as if it was taken from the campaign speeches of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, proposing more taxes and more spending for the American economy.
In a recent AMA, our managing editor Dan Sanchez discussed peaceful parenting, the future of the liberty movement, and more.
Remarkably, Bernstein describes the ideas presented as "bold" and "progressive," but in truth, they're the same lame-brained policies of redistribution that the left have been promoting for decades. And as they're anti-capital formation by Bernstein's very own admission, they're also inimical to the very prosperity that has long made the U.S. the country where poverty is cured. To be clear, if this is the best the Democrats have, they'll long remain in the minority.
