Space police. When is it too soon to make a new federal policing agency to make sure no one is illegally mining asteroids?We can call it the EPA, Extraterrestrial Protection Agency. They can ignore newly structured interplanetary property rights, and insist that space-dust runoff from the asteroid mining operations are causing mass extinctions on Mars.You might think space would be vast enough so...Read More

Via Sovereign ManThere's something I've always found mesmerizing about watching animals in the wild.They have the most incredible instincts, honed from countless generations of survival against constant threats.Animals have a keen sense of danger. They know immediately when something doesn't feel right, and they act on it without hesitation.I saw an incredible example of this last year when I was...Read More

Buddhists have been dealing in liberation for 2,500 years.Buddha went from being a prince to a monk and finally took the middle path. He wouldn’t live as royalty and he wouldn’t pray in silence. Instead, he traveled and taught. He achieved enlightenment and spread his philosophy, helping individuals journey to liberation.The teachings are secular. Though Buddhism is considered a religi...Read More

The DOJ Wants to Know Who Visited Anti-Trump WebsiteThe Department of Justice is seeking the IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited a website organizing anti-Trump protests at the inauguration.The warrant is in connection with hundreds of prosecutions from “rioters" who were arrested while protesting the inauguration.But the web host already provided details in accordance with a narr...Read More

Don’t you know that to be a liberated woman, you need to have the sex life of a chimpanzee?That’s the latest propaganda to come out of the New York Times.The Soviet Union may have had its pitfalls–you know, like the murder and starvation of tens of millions of people. But women had great sex lives!A comparative sociological study of East and West Germans conducted after reunifica...Read More

“Facebook is for old people,” I was told by a 17-year-old last week in San Francisco at the Startup Societies Summit.He doesn’t use the social media platform. He’s right too. About half a million fewer teens aged 12-17 will use Facebook this year compared to last year.Facebook depends on older people for its advertising revenue. But it needs to get users while they are youn...Read More

It is amazing the amount of “crimes” one broken taillight precipitated.A recent court case in Massachusetts highlights the insanity of statute law, versus common law. That is, relying on laws made by politicians, rather than assessing a claim brought by a victim.Time, money, and freedom are all poured down the drain in favor of arbitrary statutes.It started with a guy being pulled over...Read More

Can you believe that there are at least three statues of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington DC? There is one in South Dakota too, another in Virginia, and even more in London.It appears all these places are overrun by racists and fascist sympathizers. How can people put up with revering a man who:1. Literally Rounded Up 120,000 Japanese Americans, and Put them in Concentration Camps!That was auth...Read More

Man Kind is leading the way in modern education. No, that isn’t some lofty but empty phrase about humanity. This guy’s name is actually Man Kind. He runs a program in Cambodia that does more than educate.The schooling instills the drive to do something meaningful. The education empowers youth to take ownership of their life circumstances. If they don’t like the situation into whi...Read More

Via Sovereignman.comSovereign Valley Farm, Chile A few weeks ago the Board of Trustees of Social Security sent a formal letter to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to issue a dire warning: Social Security is running out of money. Given that tens of millions of Americans depend on this public pension program as their sole source of retirement income, you'd think this would have...Read More

His neighbor, a woman who had lived in the same community with him all his life, shouted out to the Nazi soldiers. Hersch Altman was 11 years old, hiding with his older sister. His Polish neighbor pointed them out. He got away. His sister did not. Hersch never saw her again.There are tens of millions of stories just like that one. You can change the names, the places, the regimes, and the ethnicit...Read More

If you get government wrong, you get everything wrong.New York City has a lot of wealth. There is infrastructure, skyscrapers, smart people, transportation, and so on.But what would happen if North Korea took over the city tomorrow? Would all that wealth simply remain in place? Would everyone just go on with their lives?Of course not. People would flee in droves, the city would crumble.Tom W. Bell...Read More

Dale Brown realized decades ago that if he wanted to help secure the most dangerous neighborhoods in Detroit, he had to appeal to building owners’ wallets, not their humanity. They can make more money when people don’t get murdered in their neighborhoods. Dale’s company makes money training people to de-escalate situations for non-violent outcomes.Joe Quirk of the Seasteading Ins...Read More

When zombies attack or when the electric grid is taken down by an EMP or solar flare, trade must go on.Currently, about 90% of U.S. dollars exist only digitally. Even if fiat cash remained valuable post-apocalypse, it would be pretty hard to come by.Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great, but still rely on electricity and the internet to function.So what are the best off the grid currencies...Read More

Via SovereignMan.comAugust 2, 2017Santiago, ChileToday is one of those days when I feel blessed to have such wonderful and interesting people in my life. A few months ago I introduced you to Ben Yu, a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur who's easily one of the most unique people I know. I first met Ben when he came to our summer entrepreneurship camp a few years ago. I knew instantly that he was bri...Read More

The smaller the government, the easier it is to effect their laws. This doesn’t mean they necessarily make better laws… but at least it affects fewer people. Worst case scenario, you find yourself deciding whether to move out of the state, instead of out of the country.Driving While Munching Might Be Illegal… But Maybe NotDo you consider cheeseburgers distracting? In Washington S...Read More

As a business, if you want to promote equality, the first thing you need to do is make sure you treat your customers unequally based on their gender.I love when people empower themselves by becoming business owners. Running a business is certainly not easy, but it still frees you from certain constraints. For instance, pay is not decided arbitrarily by a boss, it is based on the services you provi...Read More

For the egregious crime of being in the right lane at the wrong time, a driver was pulled over in Lowndes County, Georgia. Thanks to the heroic efforts of one Georgia State Police dog, and his faithful officer, a major threat to the people of Georgia is off the streets.The responding police dog, Brutus, made a major bust. The vehicle was transporting $36,000 of cash; an imminent danger to Georgian...Read More

Click each headline to read the full article.1. Google Plays Favorites and Arbitrarily Bans Content From ResultsGoogle used to base its search algorithms on what the user wanted to see. Now they are starting to interject their own ideas about what people should see. In April Google announcedthat they would be taking measures to punish "low quality content" such as misleading information, offensive...Read More

Good food plus interesting people is a recipe for happiness.As humans evolved, we lived in tight knit self-sufficient communities. Nomadic hunter gatherers spent their time foraging, hunting, eating, and playing together.It’s tempting to romanticize those days, but they came with some pretty harsh realities. As stressful and lonely as the modern world can be, countless technological benef...Read More