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 Hour 1 -- Doug Scribner (writer, producer, animator) talks about WatchByBit.Com, a video platform where creatives can be fairly paid while voluntarily sharing with others

 Hour 2 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News

 Hour 3 --  Jeffrey Tucker (Author, Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books, Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, and fellow Foundation for Economic Education) on the Satoshi Roundtable meeting

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February 20th, 2015

Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock

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Hour 1

2015-02-20 Hour 1 Doug Scribner

(Video Archive):

2015-02-20 Hour 1 Doug Scribner from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

Doug Scribner

Webpage: WatchMyBit.Com

Doug Scribner
doug@watchmybit.com
Doug has been in music and video production for 35 years. With an AS in Avionics Electronics and a BA in Psychology, he is able to help lovesick toasters and depressed computers. Most importantly, he's been a starving artist while playing keyboard in the "pay to play" racket of Los Angeles, and a co-Pollie Award winning commercial writter, producer, and animator. He is excited to finally be able to create a platform where creatives can be fairly paid while voluntarily sharing with others.

WatchMyBit Live Demo:

A video platform for art and soul
The first Bitcoin enabled, micro-payment video streaming platform.
Monetize your videos--earn bitcoin.

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Previous interviews on the Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Radio Show:

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Guest-Page.htm?No=01191

Hour 2

Hour 2

2015-02-20 Hour 2 Freedom's Phoenix Headline News (Video Archive):

2015-02-20 Hour 2 Freedom's Phoenix Headline News from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

Ernest Hancock

Freedom's Phoenix Headline News

Hour 3

Hour 3

2015-02-20 Hour 3 Jeffrey Tucker

(Video Archive):

2015-02-20 Hour 3 Jeffrey Tucker from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

 

Jeffrey Tucker

Author, Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books, Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, and fellow Foundation for Economic Education, on the Satoshi Roundtable meeting

Webpages:
JeffreyTucker.Me
Tucker.Liberty.Me
http://lfb.org/author/jeffreytucker/
http://www.fee.org/authors/detail/jeffrey-a-tucker

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The Case for Freedom

by F.A. Hayek

The case for individual freedom rests chiefly on the recognition of the inevitable ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievement of our ends and welfare depends.

If there were omniscient men, if we could know not only all that affects the attainment of our pres­ent wishes but also our future wants and desires, there would be little case for liberty. And, in turn, liberty of the individual would, of course, make complete foresight impossible. Liberty is essential in order to leave room for the un­foreseeable and unpredictable; we want it because we have learned to expect from it the opportunity of realizing many of our aims. It is because every individual knows so little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preserva­tion of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen. These ac­cidents occur in the combination of knowledge and attitudes, skills and habits, acquired by individual men and also when qualified men are confronted with the particular circumstances which they are equipped to deal with. Our neces­sary ignorance of so much means that we have to deal largely with probabilities and chances.

Of course, it is true of social as of individual life that favorable accidents usually do not just hap­pen. We must prepare for them. But they still remain chances and do not become certainties. They in­volve risks deliberately taken, the possible misfortune of individuals and groups who are as meritorious as others who prosper, the possi­bility of serious failure or relapse even for the majority, and merely a high probability of a net gain on balance. All we can do is to in­crease the chance that some special constellation of individual endow­ment and circumstance will result in the shaping of some new tool or the improvement of an old one, and to improve the prospect that such innovations will become rapidly known to those who can take ad­vantage of them.

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And another example of how we are to abandon Statist Controls...

Global Edition
Letters to the Editor   •  Space Travel and Exploration
GROUND STATIONS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING: THE SATNOGS STORY
Written by: James Babb
   When you think of satellites, you may think of the Space Shuttle extending its robot arm with a huge piece of high-tech equipment waiting to pirouette into orbit. This misconception is similar to picturing huge mainframes when thinking about computer
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  Opinion  •  Global Edition
Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Freedom is the Answer,... What is the Question?
Freedom Activism 101
Ernest Hancock
   If you're not a little bit uncomfortable with your position, it isn't radical enough. How can you be too principled? Take the most extreme position you can. You're claiming territory you won't have to fight for later, mostly against your "allies."

Here is the whole article...

Freedom Activism 101

The following aphorisms are the work of libertarian novelist L. Neil Smith. They have been the bedrock for libertarian activism in Arizona for the last 10 years (since 1994 - now going on 21 years, this was written a while ago) and are the best explanation I can provide for the tactics of our past/future. Enjoy.

*Never soft-peddle the truth. It's seldom self-evident and almost never sells itself, because there's less sales resistance to a glib and comforting lie.

*Understand from the minute the fight begins that you're going to take damage. Accept it. (You'll always suffer more from the idiots and cowards on your own side than from any enemy.) Keep your overall goal in mind above all. Those who swerve to avoid a few cuts and bruises defeat themselves.

*If you're not a little bit uncomfortable with your position, it isn't radical enough. How can you be too principled? Take the most extreme position you can. You're claiming territory you won't have to fight for later, mostly against your "allies."

*Go straight to the heart of the enemy's greatest strength. Break that and you break him. You can always mop up the flanks and stragglers later, and they may even surrender, saving you a lot of effort.

*Know, down to the last cell in your body, that the other guy started it. He's the one who put things in an ethical context where considerations like decency and mercy have no referent. The less pity moves you now, the sooner you can go back to being a nice guy.

*If you lose, go down fighting. It costs nothing extra, and now and again ...

*Remain the judge of your own actions. Never surrender that position by default. When the enemy screams "Foul!" the loudest, you know you're doing him the most damage. Those who help him scream are also the enemy.

*Second thoughts, failures of confidence, nervous last-minute course-changes are all detours and recipes for defeat. The time to think is before the battle - if possible, before the war - not in the heat of it.

*It is moral weakness, rather than villainy, that accounts for most of the evil in the universe ?" and feeble-hearted allies, far rather than your most powerful enemies, who are likeliest to do you an injury you cannot recover from.

*Know, otherhandwise, that the easiest, most humiliating path to defeat is thinking that to beat the enemy you must be like him. Avoid the temptation to set your values aside "for the duration." What's the point of fighting if you give up what you're fighting for? If remaining consistent with your values leads to defeat, you chose the wrong values to begin with.

*Never aim at anything but total achievement of your goal: the utter capitulation of the enemy. Every effort involves inertia and mechanical losses, so adopting any lesser objective means partial defeat. Total victory means you don't have to fight the same fight again tomorrow.

*The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day ?" usually with TV cameras focused on them.

*Ever notice how those who believe in animal rights generally don't believe in human rights?

*The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

*"Wake up America ," you demand? America doesn't need to "wake up" ?" by which of course, you mean pay attention to whatever you think is important. If America weren't already awake, paying attention to what each individual thinks is important, your milk wouldn't have gotten delivered this morning, and you wouldn't have any electricity this afternoon.

*You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you ?" but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

*You may never convince the other guy, but it's often worthwhile to keep arguing for the effect it has on bystanders, especially his allies.