Free Talk Live - Agorism

A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

awagele — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:57:36 +0000

Growing your own food is like printing your own money. Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys." Gangsta gardener.

Internet Archive Paying Employees in Bitcoin

loungedaddy — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:11:38 +0000

The Internet Archive, one of the most widely known nonprofit organizations in the internet community, has just announced that they intend to start paying a portion of their employees’ salaries in Bitcoin

Bitcoin to be regulated in 2013?

loungedaddy — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:09:18 +0000

In Dec 2012 a European bitcoin exchange said it had been granted "payments service provider status" by French government officials. (Meaning French government considered the exchange to be like Paypal.) If other companies that trade in BTC seek to be legitimized by governments, it could undermine one of the basic things that defines BTC -- that it works best outside the "white market" sector.

The World Bank Wants Eastern Europeans Above-Ground and Paying Taxes

phonon — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:15:37 +0000

The World Bank has clued in to the fact that many Eastern Europeans prefer to work in the "shadow economy" — that is, off the books and out of sight of tax men, inspectors and other assorted bureaucrats. This has the World Bank very concerned, for a variety of reasons — some convincing, and others, not so much. By the way, World Bank Employees are exempt from income taxes.

Internet Arbitration

mport1 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:44:04 +0000

Interesting private arbitration on the internet. Arbitrators include Stephan Kinsella and Jacob Huebert. This is a preview of how private justice could work in a free world.

Consumer Disobedience. How to save a bundle and stick it to the man

ianCredible — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:56:24 +0000

This huffington post article does everything but use the word agorism. I'd say most of the liberty lovers here already do this. I do think this article is worthy of some airtime for the new listeners and newcomers to the ideas of freedom.

New Gardens Made from Trash

JovasKig — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:01:22 +0000

How to Repurpose Old Mattresses and Plastic Bottles to make Gardens inexpensively. Excellent example of how ordinary people can minimize waste and improve local food production inexpensively and without aid from government.

Bitcoin buyers throw good money after bad

phonon — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:11:04 +0000

The issue is whether Bitcoin will ever be so widely adopted that it acts like a real, stable currency. Right now, it’s more like a commodity with wild price swings on rumors, articles, anonymous chat-board postings, and well-publicized problems with theft. Most people should wait at least until those issues are resolved. Generally, however, average folks shouldn’t be making direct forays into currency trading; Bitcoin feels a bit like online investing, but it’s more like diving into foreign exchange with even less information on which to make currency calls.

Civil Disobedience on a Paper Plate

Aahz — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:48:07 +0000

The underground market seeks to encourage food entrepreneurship by helping young vendors avoid roughly $1,000 a year in fees -- including those for health permits and liability insurance -- required by legitimate farmers markets. Here, where the food rave -- call it a crave -- was born, the market organizers sidestep city health inspections by operating as a private club, requiring that participants become "members" (free) and sign a disclaimer noting that food might not be prepared in a space that has been inspected.