17 November 2015

Rockwell talk dismantled by antistatists

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C4SS analysts slammed a talk by Lew Rockwell at the Mises Institute, in which open borders were characterized as an attack on private property.


The argument by the anarcho-capitalist activist seemed to be based upon conflating the borders and roads of the states receiving immigrants with "private property", as follows:
...immigration decisions are made by a central authority, with the wishes of property owners completely disregarded. The correct way to proceed, therefore, is to decentralize decision-making on immigration to the lowest possible level, so... individual property owners consent to the various movements of peoples.
The Center for a Stateless Society's antistatist theorist Kevin Carson hit back at this analysis, refuting it by arguing:
...So the basic idea is that all roads are the “private property” of the majority, who can restrict comings and goings on them at will. This is nonsense on stilts... The streets of cities and towns were laid out as a public commons at the time of settlement, by and large, and were never privately owned.
Embracing his fellow C4SS writer's above response, KN@PPSTER wrote that Lew Rockwell will go as low as "he has to go to continue dragging in money from a market niche he considers under-served due to the fact that decent human beings find that niche too sickening to serve."


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13 November 2015

Google tries to stifle political expression

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Concerns continue to prevail that Google may be pulling advertising features from "hot" videos and other content on politically "sensitive" subjects.


Evidence of such concerns in the blogging community can be found at lone wolf publications such as StormCloudsGathering and Representative Press.

 A video from StormCloudsGathering goes through the issue, as embedded below. StormCloudsGathering notes that challenging the mainstream narrative often results in a sudden loss of advertising features that normally appeared with the video content.


Representative Press, for its part, made much the same points. YouTube states that it reserves a right to "suspend monetization feature" on videos for a number of potential violations, which include publishing content on "Controversial or sensitive subjects and events". This vague language is referenced by both Representative Press and StormCloudsGathering as perhaps the reason why Google can justify its discrimination against lone alternative media reporters.

Google's top minds have themselves shown a profound ignorance of censorship and political freedom, including in their book The New Digital Age. This ignorance is matched only by their bizarre, chauvinist assertion in the book that Western countries are not applying censorship but "compliance with the law", as if to say that the law in China or North Korea isn't quite the law.

If Google can't see the difference between censorship and "compliance with the law", it's not surprising that it can't see the difference between inconvenient content and "sensitive" content.


The clubof.info Blog is utilizes advertising but is in fact a zero-cost endeavor, using the free Blogger platform offered by Google to publish. So, although Google is not being very supportive of full-time self-employed journalists, it does maintain several powerful platforms for people around the world to publish less ambitious content.


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"Stateless strength" the answer: L'Ordre

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The extracts here are from a commentary issued by L'Ordre on the subject of the Mont Order as a model information club. In the extracts, the Order's strengths are presented, along with reasons why the expansion of the Mont society is beneficial.


More: The Mont Order's unofficial conspiracy

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The items were published in a brief commentary and appeared at the well-known alternative media publication Dissident Voice back on Sunday, 8th November. Said commentary is itself a response to the highly public video articulating the Mont Order's views in its own members' voices via YouTube.

L'Ordre is known to be a handle used by an apparent lone "dark knight" of the Mont Order society, identifying only as a "friend" of the intentionally elusive coalition calling itself the Order. The Mont Order is itself a global society of writers and political "provocateurs", to borrow the description offered by one member on a blog.

 Interestingly, L'Ordre is also a name used by a blog hosted at leading global religious website Beliefnet and also friendly to the Mont Order. It is additionally an alias of the Mont Order itself, in short for "L'Ordre de la Montagne".


  • "Where only the elusive international Order can be tracked, and full responsibility cannot be placed on an individual, campaigns of persecution collapse with their own folly."
  • "Indeed, being party to an international collective not only denies these regimes power over you but robs them of their legitimacy, which is why such membership is a strategy for stateless strength and resistance across the globe."
  • "All the traditional mobilizing capabilities of a political party, media outlet or pressure group can be achieved without a formal organization or headquarters."
  • "In order to survive disruption, alternative media groups and dissident movements will have to mimic the structure of the internet itself, linking to countless other sites and movements rather than emphasizing any single site or entity."
  • "Activists standing against the world’s most powerful regimes can take refuge in the internet. If we understand and mimic the social structure of the internet, promoting all solidarity and mutual assistance eventually between millions of users, the archaic states and authorities will find themselves powerless to silence the will of the people."
  • "By the same facts, the world’s most arrogant regime will spy on everyone, but it will not stop everyone."


L'Ordre, "Organizing without Organization: On the First Point of the Mont Order", Dissident Voice, 8 November 2015


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