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http://ift.tt/2DGMXvH At almost one year in, here is a partial list of histrionic predictions about Trump’s presidency which have turned out to be wrong: * he didn’t end welfare and cause millions to die * his small alterations to ACA have not caused millions to die * he didn’t start World War III * he didn’t deport 11 million people who are in the country illegally, dreamers or otherwise * he didn’t round up and execute any of the many “journalists” who attacked him and lied about him, nonstop, for the last 2 years * he didn’t eliminate women’s rights and equal protections under the law * he did not round up and kill the gays, or send them to re-education camps. * he did not fire Special Counsel Mueller or Attorney General Sessions for continuing the Democrats’ “Russian Collusion” witch hunt. * he did not put the KKK in power * he didn’t cause the stock market to crash * he didn’t upend our monetary policy * he didn’t support Putin, or his strategy in Eastern Europe * he hasn’t reinstated the use of torture * he hasn’t ignited a trade war * he didn’t plunge the country into recession In short: it is well past time for his screeching detractors in DC, in corporate media, in Hollywood, and on social media to just voluntarily shut up and take a large chill pill. It is clear you are all totally wrong about everything regarding Trump. Your free speech will continue to be guaranteed. Nobody is oppressing you. But as you like to point out: “your hateful freedom of speech does not guarantee you any freedom from the consequences of your hate speech”. If you CHOOSE to keep being hateful and unhinged forever, you can’t expect the rest of us to continue being patient with your nonsense forever. Now, can we go back to calling Trump out when he acts an as authoritarian and against our liberties? This happens quite a bit and, when it does, your silence is deafening.

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 If you saw Buzzfeed’s recent article, [“37 Things White People Need To Stop Ruining In 2018”](http://ift.tt/2zSGL1n), and were wondering if they would face any backlash, here’s your answer; No. And then [this came along. 37 Things Black People Need To Stop Ruining In 2018 ](http://ift.tt/2ChDONI) Spoiler alert, some are brutal: #4 is ‘White People’s Lives”. That is until somebody at this click-baity garbage publication found it racist and removed it from the site. Luckily, the article was archived and is available for your viewing pleasure. Remember, it’s only racist when the word ‘black’ is In the title. The ‘white’ version is still available on their website. Enjoy!

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 >PUMP YOUR OWN GAS > Starting January 1st Oregonians can begin pumping their own gas in rural counties. > Do you think Oregon should allow self-serve gas stations statewide? [Full Post here](http://ift.tt/2Dz0Fk0) Okay, the comments on this post are cracking me up and they also teach a good lesson. If you didn’t know, Oregon is one of two states where the government mandates that people can’t pump their own gas and that gas stations must employ people to do it. They’re apparently having a vote to see about ending this practice. If you’re aware of how the world works you’ll laugh at the comments. Oregonians are freaking out that so many jobs will be lost, that pumping gas is DANGEROUS!, that it makes you smell, that it’s very complicated! What about the senior citizens or disabled or people with children?!?!?! >THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!!! **And if you know how the world works you’ll laugh because this is a microcosm of EVERY single time someone mentions that life can happen without government.** It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about gas or taxes or a wall or the internet or health care or education....if government doesn’t do it then the children and elderly and infirm will die!!! It also reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjZchYXMmA

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http://ift.tt/1P81X8Y As an avid user of the telegram app ([specifically with my LATIUM usage](http://ift.tt/2zQDuiT)), I found this to be an interesting analysis on twitter. Also, [check out the LATIUM cryptocurrency](http://ift.tt/2CeTbqr). For those that use the TELEGRAM app, check out this [discussion by Snowden on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/947190333540061185): > Many don't seem to understand why I object to @Telegram having unsafe, censorable public channels in an app that is promoted as a secure messenger. Some presumed I just don't understand how channels work. So let's talk about it: > Background: [@Telegram](https://twitter.com/telegram) has a special position in Iran. Its "public channels" are an important source of news for many low-tech users. Competing services are often blocked, but Telegram makes concessions to avoid this [like setting up local CDNs](http://ift.tt/2uGlTt1) > This is both a good and bad thing. On one hand, keeping people who don't understand and will never learn what Tor and VPNs connected to a big and difficult-to-moderate communications ecosystem is valuable, when the government largely has but two moves: "block" or "not block." > On the other, it means [@Telegram](https://twitter.com/telegram) will face increasing pressure over time to collaborate with the Iranian government's demands for this or that. Today we saw the communications minister demand a big channel be shut down. And here's where we start getting into complexity. What are your thoughts on TELEGRAM specifically, or chat technology in general? I typically don't trust any 'security' claim. Is there anyway to make chat interfaces secure? It is a problem that doesn't seem like it can be solved with a decentralized blockchain...

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http://ift.tt/2q1dYIj We are a [monthly book club](http://ift.tt/2gpJPv4) for anyone who wants to learn more about Libertarianism. We will discuss each book's chapter/section in separate posts, so everyone will be able to read along at their own pace. We typically also focus on books which are available for free so that everyone can participate. Join the [Private Facebook Group](http://ift.tt/2gTXeOt) and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/libertarianbc) as we seek to learn more about Libertarianism. [Liberalism](http://amzn.to/2BXwNxF) is Mises's classic statement in defense of a free society, one of the last statements of the old liberal school and a text from which we can continue to learn. It has been the conscience of a global movement for liberty for 80 years. This [new edition](http://amzn.to/2BXwNxF), a gorgeous hardback from the Mises Institute, features a new foreword by [Tom Woods](http://ift.tt/2hHjU1j). It can also be downloaded [here](http://ift.tt/1FhbmS9). # Ch1, pgs. 18 -26 From Tom Wood's Forward: > “The liberal sets a very high threshold for the initiation of violence. Beyond the minimal taxation necessary to maintain legal and defense services—and some liberals shrink even from this— he denies to the state the power to initiate violence and seeks only peaceful remedies to perceived social ills. He opposes violence for the sake of redistributing wealth, of enriching influential pressure groups, or trying to improve man’s moral condition. Civilized people, says the liberal, interact with each other not according to the law of the jungle, but by means of reason and discussion.” Intro. Mises: > “If it is maintained that the consequence of a liberal policy is or must be to favor the special interests of certain strata of society, this is still a question that allows of discussion. It is one of the tasks of the present work to show that such a reproach is in no way justified . . . In the customary rhetoric of the demagogues these facts are represented quite differently. To listen to them, one would think that all progress in the techniques of production redounds to the exclusive benefit of a favored few, while the masses sink ever more deeply into misery. However, it requires only a moment’s reflection to realize that the fruits of all technological and industrial innovations make for an improvement in the satisfaction of the wants of the great masses.” While Mises endeavors to explain liberalism rationally, he says that you can't explain anti-liberalism that way because they are not rational. He calls it Fourierism - a kind of neurosis that is basically envy. Ch 1 The section on property reminded me a lot of what Rothbard wrote in New Liberty. Not surprising since I am sure Rothbard cited Mises a lot. On Freedom: “Muddleheaded babblers may therefore argue interminably over whether all men are destined for freedom and are as yet ready for it. They may go on contending that there are races and peoples for whom Nature has prescribed a life of servitude and that the master races have the duty of keeping the rest of mankind in bondage. The liberal will not oppose their arguments in any way because his reasoning in favor of freedom for all, without distinction, is of an entirely different kind. We liberals do not assert that God or Nature meant all men to be free, because we are not instructed in the designs of God and of Nature, and we avoid, on principle, drawing God and Nature into a dispute over mundane questions. What we maintain is only that a system based on freedom for all workers warrants the greatest productivity of human labor and is therefore in the interest of all the inhabitants of the earth.” The section on Peace reminded me of . . .  I really liked section 2, talking about how by nature individuals will seek out beneficial relationships through mutual exchange. It's not that we believe that business is benevolent, but that like Adam Smith had said: it is not from their own generosity that the butcher and baker offer their service but of their own livelihood. Former President Obama has repeatedly tried to infer cryptography is a threat to the /people/ if *government* doesn't have a skeleton key to everyone's digital house and digital papers by saying "Everyone is walking around with a swiss bank account in their pocket." The first time I heard him say it out loud some years ago now, I thought to myself "that sounds *expletive* ideal!" . The answer to the underlying and ongoing incessant plea by government to give them permission to do what they are already doing without permission, spying on the /people/, is of the form *PRIVACY SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED* Given that the governments have proven themselves without honor and have violated any trust or hope thereof to defend from plunder in the act of plundering themselves, privacy going forward will be kept by intellectual strength. This is not a request, this is an action a person takes, or doesn't take: responsibility for their own digital information security. If you didn't read the chapter you probably won't get how that all relates together in terms of the shenanigans they've been up to since his observations were originally written. Trusting the other end to hold all the keys and the data has proven unwise, hasn't it? # Ch 1, pgs. 27-41 I have some qualms about how Mises frames the discussion on equality. He finds fault with nineteenth century liberals (here I think we can substitute Thomas Jefferson though Mises noticeably does not call him out by name) because they argued for the equality of all men on the basis of natural rights theory. Mises argues that is preposterous because all you have to do is look at people to see they are not equal. But when Jefferson said all men are created equal he certainly did not mean that all men are identical. Since he rejects equality as a reason for giving equal treatment under the law, he therefore resorts to making utilitarian arguments. He basically says that elites best not deprive the poor and working class of equal treatment because they are outnumbered and will meet resistance - usually bloody. However, you will recall that in New Liberty, Rothbard will argue that it is a mistake to make utilitarian arguments and that we must always argue from first principles. In section five Mises argues that the luxuries of today inevitably become the necessities of tomorrow. I am glad to know that in the future we will all fly first class, have yachts, chauffeur driven limousines, and luxury boxes at the ballpark. Section Six: > “In requiring of the individual that he should take society into consideration in all his actions, that he should forgo an action that, while advantageous to him, would be detrimental to social life, society does not demand that he sacrifice himself to the interests of others. For the sacrifice that it imposes is only a provisional one: the renunciation of an immediate and relatively minor advantage in “exchange for a much greater ultimate benefit. The continued existence of society as the association of persons working in cooperation and sharing a common way of life is in the interest of every individual.” In Section Seven, everyone should see the problem with this: > “There is, to be sure, a sect that believes that one could quite safely dispense with every form of compulsion and base society entirely on the voluntary observance of the moral code. The anarchists consider state, law, and government as superfluous institutions in a social order that would really serve the good of all, and not just the special interests of a privileged few. Only because the present social order is based on private ownership of the means of production is it necessary to resort to compulsion and coercion in its defense. If private property were abolished, then everyone, without exception, would spontaneously observe the rules demanded by social cooperation.” Mises here to me seems to be arguing that anarchism is incompatible with private property. Of course, most of us now understand this to be incorrect and the present-day Mises Institute could be called the Anarcho-Capitalist Institute. Mises writes: “Liberalism is not anarchism, nor has it anything whatsoever to do with anarchism.” He may be right about that, which is why Rothbard used the term libertarianism to describe anarcho-capitalism and deliberately distinguished it from liberalism which he viewed as a sort of proto-libertarianism. Mises goes on this same line to a sickening degree in Section Eight. When reading this I thought of this meme, but in place of "proud conservative" I guess you could photoshop Mises' face.  # Ch 1, pgs. 42-59 Mises confuses me again in Section Nine: > “The champions of democracy in the eighteenth century argued that only monarchs and their ministers are morally depraved, injudicious, and evil. The people, however, are altogether good, pure, and noble, and have, besides, the intellectual gifts needed in order always to know and to do what is right. This is, of course, all nonsense, no less so than the flattery of the courtiers who ascribed all good and noble qualities to their princes.” That I agree with completely. However, he closes that same section: > “Only a group that can count on the consent of the governed can establish a lasting regime." So he begins by criticizing democracy and closes by praising it. In between he seems to be making another utilitarian argument in favor of democracy. Section 10 I like. Basically he argues that fascism at the time of his writing was popular because it was a response to the evils of Bolshevism. > “Many people approve of the methods of Fascism, even though its economic program is altogether antiliberal and its policy completely interventionist, because it is far from practicing the senseless and unrestrained destructionism that has stamped the Communists as the arch-enemies of civilization” He was very prescient here: > “But when the fresh impression of the crimes of the Bolsheviks has paled, the socialist program will once again exercise its power of attraction on the masses.” Section 11: Found this depressing considering it was written several decades ago: > “Other countries do not go so far, but nearly everywhere some restrictions are imposed on the sale of opium, cocaine, and similar narcotics." Mises argues that once you concede government the power to prohibit certain substances you have lost the argument that they should not be able to prohibit certain reading material. Section 12: He makes another utilitarian argument. The state should be tolerant of religious beliefs, not because every individual has freedom of conscience, but says Mises, because intolerance will lead to social unrest by persecuted religious. We of course today would prefer no state around to be tolerant or intolerant of anything. Section 13 Mises wrongly suggests that suppression of conduct detrimental to the social order requires a state. As we saw from Rothbard though that is not the case at all. # Ch 2, pgs. 60-84 In The Organization of the Economy, Mises points out the difference between redistributing capital among the working class and the communal ownership of property, but of course rejects both. In "The Impracticality of Socialism" he says that while the common criticism that “most men will not exhibit the same zeal in the performance of the duties and tasks assigned to them that they bring to their daily work in a social order based on private property" is correct, it does not get at the heart of the matter: “What renders socialism impracticable is precisely the fact that calculation of this kind is impossible in a socialist society.” In Sections 2 and 3 Mises says that since the world is not a paradise, people like to direct their unhappiness at the institution of private property and that governments by their very nature always attack private property. Below is a perfect example of that from a recent interview with New York City Mayor DeBlasio. Mises says that while many people today understand that private property can not be dispensed with completely, they think government intervention is necessary to even the playing field. He explains though how every single government intervention in the voluntary exchange of goods and services can only make the market less efficient i.e. Back to Hazlitt's consequences seen and unseen.  # Ch 2, pgs. 85-94 In section seven Mises argues that we have nothing to fear from natural monopolies. Reminded me of this [Tom Woods episode](http://ift.tt/2rlb149) I would summarize section six as that capitalism is not perfect, just better than any other economic system conceivable. Reminded me of this:  # Ch 3, pgs. 105-117 Section 3.1 is brief, but I think complex. Mises argued that for classical liberals, there is no divide between domestic and foreign policy: The same principles that apply to one apply to the other. And I would summarize that principle as non-interventionism: no intervention by government in the domestic economy and no intervention by government in the affairs of foreign governments - i.e. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. So far, so good, but Mises goes on to extol the virtues of cosmopolitanism vis-a-vis nationalism. Also fine. But he then argued a that national unity is itself a product of liberalism. THAT seems to conflict a bit with the point he just made, and quite a bit with the book we read by Tom DiLorenzo where he made the case that DISUNITY within a nation is a force for good when it comes to libertarianism and advocated secession and nullification as tools to advance liberty. # Ch 3, pgs. 118-141 Section 3.4 Mises argues that ethic conflicts within heterogenous nations can only be avoided when said nation completely adopts a liberal program. As per Rothbard though:  # Ch. 4, pgs. 155-169 We often hear complaints that libertarianism does not advance due to some failure or another in tactics or strategy on the part of libertarians. In Section 4.1 Mises dismisses that concern saying that liars and tricksters need tactics and strategy but that if people can't see the truth for themselves there is no hope for them. Mises goes even further: > “Most people do not have even the intellectual endowments required to think through the—after all very complicated—problems of social cooperation, and they certainly do not have the will power necessary to make those provisional sacrifices that all social action demands.” Well that is certainly downer, leaving all political activity completely useless. (He makes that explicit in the next section). I am left wondering what is the point of his even writing and publishing books if he believes that? http://ift.tt/2pXGtGJ # Ch. 4, pgs. 170-187 Section 4.3 > "There are, therefore, only two parties: the party in power and the one that wants to be in power . . . As their demands are, in principle, limitless, it is impossible for any one of these parties ever to achieve all the ends it envisages . . . Every party seeks, nevertheless, to attain to such influence as will permit it to satisfy its desires as far as possible, while also taking care always to be able to justify to its electors why all their wishes could not be fulfilled." Certainly seems apropos today regarding the GOP's failure to repeal ACA, defund Planned Parenthood etc. Section 4.4. > "Society cannot, in the long run, exist if it is divided into sharply defined groups, each intent on wresting special privileges for its own members” To me that is almost like saying "Society can not in the long run exist. Period." Mises I think unwittingly makes the case for radical individualism. Or It's saying politics will cause society to cease, if we keep it up. Section 4.5 he returns to the idea that liberals must fight force with ideas not counter-force. Section 4.6. He returns to the idea that critics of liberalism will claim that liberalism is the special interest of capitalists, but that that is false because capitalism ultimately benefits not just one class of people, but everyone. In a liberal system property rights belong to all, not just to capitalists. # Ch 5 In Chapter Five, Mises argues that the enemies of capitalism have lost the debate that alternatives to capitalism can lead to greater material wealth, so they have moved the goalpost and now claim that material wealth is a societal ill. Mises replies though that a return to primitive asceticism would result in the deaths of billions of people. > "Liberalism is no world view because it does not try to explain the cosmos and because it says nothing and does not seek to say anything about the meaning and purpose of human existence . . . It seeks to give men only one thing, the peaceful, undisturbed development of material well-being for all." # Summary As I mentioned a few times in earlier chapters, my beef with Mises is that he is a minarchist. That is a step backward after having read Rothbard. Rothbard and Hoppe take the foundation established by Mises to its next logical progression. I know it is not really possible, but it would be great if we could read books in historical order of their logical progression toward anarchy-capitalism. If you want to read the precursors of Mises, the first appendix of this book is a good place to start. 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http://ift.tt/2EiSwRZ The police are already deflecting the blame from themselves and onto the man who made the call. Just remember that according to Wichitas deputy police chief if they get a scary call they pretty much won't be able to stop themselves from shooting someone. [Full Article](http://ift.tt/2lujqO7) Why is it that whenever I see one of those “thin blue line” bumper stickers on cars I get angry? I’ve never had any personal run ins with the cops. I think white, middle class citizens are realizing that maybe there is something to this BLM thing. The enforcers of the state are now coming to our neighborhoods too. At least with regards to black citizens and their contact with law enforcement. Every American is starting to experience what the black community has experienced for decades. These state enforcers aren’t working “for us”. They are our over lords and if they would at least be honest about it and not try to pretend they were trying to “serve and protect” then there’d be no more confusion on what the police actually are. I’m not a cop hater. I have friends that are police officers. But I do know there is a serious problem and the United States has a standing army at home that is trained for war with Americans and that standing army is the modern police force. Why do I get angry when I see these stickers? Because in the pit of my stomach I get that sick feeling because I know exactly what it means. It means that it’s “them vs us”. The cops look at themselves as the good guys and all of us as the bad guys and potential threats. They look at us the way I looked at Iraqis and Afghanis while serving overseas. That is why this is going on today. They are trained for war. They are equipped for war. So when there is no real war or real enemy they have to find one. And guess who that is? All of us. This sticker is the symbol of everything I just stated. That is why this sticker makes me angry. 

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http://ift.tt/2BWygUK republished from libertyLOL's [LibertyBlog](http://ift.tt/2lrxZCm) So it's not a secret. I am not a fan of Donald Trump. And I don't care at all about Russian conspiracies. I just think he's not what the country needs. I don't hate Donald Trump as a person. My issue is with supporters. And actually it's not with all supporters. It's with supporters who claim to be pro-liberty. Now I don't believe there is a perfect candidate. There are always going to be politician with things in that platform that are just going to fall short of my personal expectations. I don't begrudge people for that. But there are things about Trump's platform that are complete non starters. To me I find that it has almost made some people in the liberty movement far more docile. As if there shouldn't be any criticism or skepticism towards Trump. The excuse being "I'm forced to defend him" or "He pisses off the left". First these are weak excuses. It is possible to disagree with the left, and disagree with Trump. This isn't "take the side of Republican Authoritarianism or become a socialist". Also I find that one year into his presidency, we should be over the whole "he pissed off the left" excuse. I'm not going to tell people who they should or shouldn't support. That's none of my business. **But more and more I find that people who are liberty minded are OK with things just because they're anti-leftist, and not pro-freedom. And while this is a bit fun, at times I feel there isn't enough critical dialogue about where the liberty movement goes from here.** And of course occasionally Trump will do things you personally like. But at his core, he's not pro-liberty in the slightest. And I feel people who are his core supporters and his base are different than libertarians who are on the "well he pisses off the left". I also find that people are afraid to be on a different side of the "pro-authoritarian right". Because somehow someway there is this expectation that these are somehow our new generation of libertarians. When honestly they're the same threat to liberty as the left is. Remember both sides of the aisle believe in freedom. They just believe in freedom for certain people or certain types of freedom. Anything other than a full embrace of freedom is a problem. So any fantasy that you're going to convert people who believe in the tyranny of police, billions of economic intervention, stop and frisk policies are somehow going to be some sort of ally to liberty is nonsense. And I don't think we should have any problem pissing off this group similarly to how we have no issue pissing off the left. I just find that since Trump's presidency, I've seen libertarians just join in the fun of partisanships and counter productive bashing of "the other". and anytime you're willing to call out the issues of big governemnt (even the big government that righties love), you're called "hyperbolic" or "counter productive". As if right wing authoritarianism cares anymore about freedom than left wing authoritarianism.

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http://ift.tt/2nAEhlA California closed out it's legislative year in "California Style". Here are some of the highlights of this session: 1. SB-1: increases gas taxes by approximately 20 Cents/gallon (Nov 1) and your vehicle license fees by an average of $100 (Jan 1st). 2. Passed Cap N Tax which will increase gas by an additional 0.63 to 0.93 cents a gallon change and the taxes that go with it. So do the math.....(0.12 + 0.63 = 0.75/gallon + current $3.10/gallon = $3.85/gallon)! 3. Proposed increase on a new tax every residence will pay for tap water in the State! 4. A $3.46B parks bond to pay for parks in “disadvantaged communities” meaning Los Angeles. The debt service will be over $200 million a year. The good news is some money goes to help fix the Salton Sea which should have always been a State responsibility! 5. Law to release any lifer (murder, rape , child molestation, etc.) who is 60 years old and has already spent 25 years in prison! Charles Manson would have qualified today and the Melendez brothers that murdered their parents could be released in about 12 years? What about victims? 6. A new $10 charge on all residents living in Mobile home parks to address living condition enforcement in those parks? Why another tax on the poor? 7. We picked an official dinosaur of the State of California. Really ? Yes! 8. Tesla must either unionize with the United Auto Workers Union or forfeit State incentives to buy their electric cars! (Another Union Grab!) 9. Reduce from a felony to a misdemeanor the purposeful intent to transmit the AIDS virus to a unknowing partner. 10. Give preferential treatment to prisoners convicted of serious crimes that are less than 25 years old because their brains are not mature enough to understand right from wrong. (If their brains of don’t mature until 25, why do we allow them to vote at 18?) 11. A bill introduced to require our true sex be omitted from drivers licenses. 12. Free legal services for illegal immigrants. (Of course !!) 13. Establish safe “injection zones” run by government to oversee people injecting heroin! (Yep, it passed!) May consider forwarding so All Californians can be Proud of their Elected Officials....Nancy Pelosi?

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[](http://ift.tt/2yJZ9NT) republished from libertyLOL's [LibertyBlog](http://ift.tt/2E4G0FI) There are many problems with cryptocurrencies. That is all [starting to change](http://bit.ly/latiumlol). One criticism of cryptocurrencies is their highly speculative nature which has a roller coaster effect on their market value. Extreme returns can be met with losses just as quickly. Determining the true value of a cryptocurrency is extremely difficult to ponder, especially if the crypto doesn't have any clear legitimate use in the real world. There are also barriers to entry in the public's adoption of cryptocurrencies. It takes savvy to understand blockchain technology, research and select an appropriate online wallet, use private posting keys, etc. It's amazing how few crypto-investors have ever even read a white paper. The [Latium Platform](http://bit.ly/latiumlol) solves for these valuation and these barriers of entry by creating an easy to use market place where anyone willing to complete a task is rewarded with LATX tokens based on smart contracts. Think of the emergence of the 'gig economy' since the recession of 2008. Services like Uber, Lyft, AirBNB, Fiver, Upwork and others have connected those who want services to those who can provide it worldwide. No longer is employment limited to a local or state employee pool. The [Latium Team](http://bit.ly/latiumlol) will be releasing the Alpha version of the Latium Platform Friday, December 29th, 2017. Even though many who aren't crypto-savvy won't be purchasing tokens outright, they will be able to create a Latium account and receive crypto from completing tasks. > By implementing a smart contract-based, global reputation system, Latium aims to disrupt the multi-billion global labor market through the blockchain and make the employer-employee relationship more transparent. ​ http://ift.tt/2pXTWyu The Latium platform can be used for task creation, meaning that anyone needing a task completed (logo design, ride-share, assassination) can now use LATX to pay for the labor. This gives LATX an intrinsic value within the system rather than the purely speculative value given to most cryptocurrencies and tokens. This platform will also integrate a reputation system which will make the entire employee/employer relationship much more transparent while also filtering out spam and unwanted content. Of note, John McAfee, Founder of McAfee Anti-Virus, has [joined the Latium team](http://ift.tt/2Edth3C) in an advisory role. I foresee a couple results in this use of blockchain technology. 1. Lower unemployment rate 2. Higher level of efficiency in output for platforms like social media sites and apps 3. Reduction in the rate of spamming in community driven platforms 4. Most importantly, the widespread adoption of LATX as it is more utilized in commerce by common-folk. Go check out Latium's platform and [get in on their token sale](http://bit.ly/latiumlol) while they are still offering bonuses! https://youtu.be/cOaRQNYn7Lo [](http://ift.tt/2yJZ9NT) http://ift.tt/2u0lp3q libertyLOL's ["Divide and Rule"](http://ift.tt/1qcDjV3) If you enjoyed, Please Upvote, Follow and Resteem! # Follow libertyLOL on your favorite sites: Steemit blog
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A recent US spy satellite photo showing Chinese ships selling oil to North Korean ships in violation of UN Security Council resolutions is supposed to infuriate us. But sanctions are immoral, they hurt the most vulnerable, and the never work. YouTube URL: https://youtu.be/TWEMD7rlUCg [Original Reddit Post](http://ift.tt/2zDxtWL)

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