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The Efficacy and Ethics of Voting

by | Mar 6, 2017 | ,

As many times as I have spoken and written on this topic, I chose restraint on formally addressing it again until the madness of the 2016 election cycle faded. The reason for this restraint is that I have suffered the extreme hyperbolic madness of the election frenzy ten times during my life and I have learned not to attempt to reason with piranha while they are feeding. Not that every national election has this effect on the voting public. There have been thirteen national elections during my life, and I remember every one of them. But the frenzy only took hold ten of those thirteen times,...

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The Mechanism of Secession is The Philosopher’s Stone

by | Dec 31, 2016 | ,

Secession is the go-to faith of many, if not most, so-called right/conservative/alt-right/libertarians and even many left-libertarians, along with a good portion of anarchists. As the belief is usually stated, large governments and empires become economically and/or culturally unstable and break apart through secession into smaller governments. Smaller governments, it is believed by the faithful, are easier for individuals to deal with and eventually these smaller governments become local governments, and then individuals use secession to break free of all governments. In a world so...

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Ben Stone

Ben Stone is the primary contributor at BadQuaker.com and compiled the book mentioned above, SEDITION SUBVERSION AND SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL No. 1, A Three-Part Solution to The State, available at BadQuaker.com. Ben is a retired engineer, a retired talk radio host, a retired public speaker, a grandfather, an anarchist, an author, and has resisted/rebelled/fought the State since the 1970s. Ben can be contacted at ben@badquaker.com


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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

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From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...

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