Nanny State: A Permit Patty and BBQ Becky In Every Neighborhood
"With a phone pressed to the side of their sanctimonious faces, this army of volunteer state minions get to feel like their local police--tyrannical psychopaths."
Governments Will Soon Be Powerless to Stop You From Manufacturing Anything You Want
"From DIY guns to designer drugs, classic-car parts, and human livers, 3D printing promises a dynamic and uncontrollable world."
Domino’s Pizza unveils U.S. infrastructure project filling potholes
"Domino’s has already been working with four municipalities to help repair potholes on roads, including Bartonville, Texas, Milford, Delaware, Athens, Georgia, and Burbank, California."
Eat, pray, live: the Lagos megachurches building their very own cities
"Redemption Camp has 5,000 houses, roads, rubbish collection, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, a post office – even a 25 megawatt power plant. In Nigeria, the line between church and city is rapidly vanishing."
Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
"Tancítaro represents a quiet but telling trend in Mexico, where a handful of towns and cities are effectively seceding, partly or in whole. These are acts of desperation, revealing the degree to which Mexico’s police and politicians are seen as part of the threat."
Happy New Year 2018 from Liberland
"The Free Republic of Liberland wishes you a happy new year."
There’s a New Nation in Space — and You Can Apply for Citizenship Right Now
"The creators lauded the launch as establishing the first nation to have all of its territory in space, though no countries have acknowledged its statehood. For now, the primary benefit of 'citizenship' is being able to store data on Asgardia-1 while it’s in orbit. Only those who support the constitution will have the right to upload data to the satellite. Asgardia will have taxes, though only businesses will be forced to contribute. Individual taxes will apparently be voluntary. The website explains that 'people can decide what amount of tax they would like to pay.' The country will also have passports, IDs, a national bank, business regulations, and a cryptocurrency called SOLAR."
The next big industry to face digital disruption will be our nations
"Our nations are now undergoing a digital revolution, which will radically reshape them once again — this time into borderless online communities with services that can be accessed anywhere there is an internet connection."
Bitcoin Icon Roger Ver Is Starting His Own Country With No Government
"Roger and the rest of the Free Society team are negotiating with different, undisclosed national governments. The Free Society’s goal is to reach an agreement with a national government that will grant them sovereignty over a piece of the existing government’s land, or a nearby territory. Free Society will operate with a Voluntarist — or Anarcho Capitalist — structure, where disputes come to resolutions through private arbitration, and services like law enforcement and protection emerge from the free market."
Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal
"As Judge Katherine Forrest explained at the time, Ulbricht's life sentence was intended also to send a message to other would-be dark web drug kingpins. Her strategy appears to have backfired, at least in the short term: Sales on Silk Road successor sites doubled in the immediate wake of Ulbricht's sentence, as news of the trial's outcome raised awareness of the dark web drug market." Continue reading →
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