Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
Rethinking Diversification
February 5th, 2009Diversification, diversification, diversification. Assets, geography, skills, everything. I know that many of you can’t send your more—shall we say?—mainstream friends and relatives to Cryptogon, but if there’s any hope for them at all, this is it. Via: Solari: For our entire lives, most of us have depended on highly centralized systems. Our food comes from […]
New Hampshire: HCR6 – A Resolution Affirming States’ Rights Based on Jeffersonian Principles
February 4th, 2009Via: New Hampshire House of Representatives: A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles… …That any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the Judicatories of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to […]
UK Education Authorities: Homeschooling Could be a Cover for Abuse
January 25th, 2009Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (UK): John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto’s earlier book, Dumbing […]
UK: Budget Food
January 19th, 2009In the “developed” world, poor people are victims of their own ignorance and bad habits as they are of the predatory nature of the confetti currency system. I’ve seen the way poor people eat in various parts of the “developed” world and that diet, in my opinion, represents a death sentence; a program of genocide […]
ACTUAL TIMES ONLINE HEADLINE: “PUNISH SAVERS AND MAKE THEM SPEND MONEY”
January 10th, 2009I’ve collected a few quotes to go along with this. Rather than attempting to bring down The Machine suddenly, in a manner that would, almost certainly, result in the use of strategic nuclear weapons, we should gradually destroy The Machine (and let it destroy itself), while learning the skills necessary to make living in a […]
Icelandic TV Program Featuring PM Forced Off Air
January 2nd, 2009Via: AP: A nationally televised meeting between Iceland’s prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air Wednesday night when angry protesters disrupted the broadcast. For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland’s political parties have met every New Year’s Eve over champagne and spiced herring to talk about the year ahead […]
Quantifying Overextension—America’s “Predicament”
December 24th, 2008I doubt that any of you need to see a quantitative analysis about how overextended America is. So why post this? Cryptogon is not about trying to change society, popularity contests, group think circle jerks, or lobbying politicians on the ship of fools to make minor course corrections on the way to oblivion. At this […]
Detroit: Convicts Trying to Get Back Into Jail; Better Than Freezing or Starving to Death
December 23rd, 2008A different view of Detroit: Earthworks Urban Farm Urban Farming Takes Root in Detroit Via: AP: It’s a sign of tough times in the Detroit area where outreach experts say recently freed inmates are making a conscious decisions to get thrown back in jail. The experts say that for some, the relative security of a […]
Pictures: Greek Riots
December 17th, 2008Boston Globe Research Credit: DP
Fears of Unrest Spreading Across Europe
December 15th, 2008Via: Scotsman: THE unrest that has gripped Greece this week is spilling into the rest of Europe, raising concerns that it could be a trigger for opponents of globalisation, disaffected youth and others outraged by economic turmoil. Protesters in Spain, Denmark and Italy smashed shop windows, pelted police with bottles and attacked banks this week, […]
