Insurance in an un-free market
Monday, 17 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskieconomics, history | 6 Comments »
How many insurance products are you paying for? How much do you pay? What do you really get for all that? Is it a good deal? For American families, the list of insurance types they subscribe to includes most of ...
Renouncing US citizenship NOT too expensive for the wealthy
Friday, 19 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control | 5 Comments »
Canada's Investment Executive makes a blitheringly stupid set of assumptions in "New rules make renouncing citizenship too expensive for U.S. expats": New U.S. expatriation rules, introduced one year ago, governing U.S. citizens or long-time green card holders who wish to ...
There is no America. There is no democracy.
Saturday, 23 May 2009 by Mike Gogulskiart | 5 Comments »
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT, and AT&T, and Du Pont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. From Network, 1976: You have meddled with the primal ...
Renouncing privilege and fake solidarity: 595-12-5274
Saturday, 9 May 2009 by Mike Gogulskicrime, diary | 17 Comments »
About a week ago I scanned my US Social Security card and published the images online, inviting readers to "steal" the number -- as if numbers could really be owned, anyway. In that posting I didn't really give any reasons ...
Fake solidarity; false choice
Friday, 1 May 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control, politics | 6 Comments »
If you sat down in a nice-looking, ostensibly respectable restaurant and opened the menu to find that only bullshit, horseshit and dogshit were on offer, which would you choose? Or would you choose not to eat there at all? [caption id="attachment_1779" align="aligncenter" ...
Ireland: We [sic] can’t afford these tax exiles
Friday, 10 April 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control | 5 Comments »
A letter to the Editor of the Irish Independent online: We can't afford these tax exiles Monday March 30 2009 It is called 'an Irish solution to an Irish problem', 'the ultimate escape plan', and reinforces the notion that 'only little people pay ...
Full of stupid, honey
Friday, 27 March 2009 by Mike Gogulskicrime, mind control | No Comments »
The world is full of stupid. That doesn't mean that "most people are stupid," a proposition to which 95% of citizens surveyed will agree. But when I see dozens commentators on talk shows discussing bailouts, tax increases (and, properly, taxes at all), ...
On funding the cause
Sunday, 15 March 2009 by Mike Gogulskiactivism | 4 Comments »
Reposted from a private Facebook conversation: The original question regards approaching wealthy potential donors who may be interested in funding voluntaryist/anarchist causes. In my own rather limited experience with activist fundraising, I do know that the key questions these folks are going ...
CNN Europe – “Disappearing Act”
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control, surveillance | 4 Comments »
CNN just aired a segment called "Disappearing Act" in connection with the disappearance and subsequent capture of investment advisor Marcus Schrenker, who attempted to fake his death by plane crash in the southeastern US. Interviewed was Nick Rosen, founder of Off-Grid.Net, ...
You are not the bank’s customer
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 15 Comments »
I walk into the nearest branch of Tatra banka, where I keep all of my accounts. I proceed to the cash window. I have two tasks: Exchange a quantity of Slovak koruna banknotes for euro notes Purchase a number of commemorative coins for ...
