Mises Circle @ Houston TX - January 24th "On Secession" (featuring Ron Paul & Tom Woods)

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Mises Circle @ Houston TX - January 24th "On Secession" (featuring Ron Paul & Tom Woods)

On Secession: the Next Mises Circle Is Coming in January
http://bastiat.mises.org/2014/11/on-secession-the-next-mises-circle-is-coming-in-january/
Ryan McMaken (11 November 2014)

Coming in January, the Mises Institute will be in Houston, Texas to explore secession’s role in safeguarding freedom and free markets. Secession movements both past and present will be explored, as well as the usefulness of secession in forcing states to embrace free trade, peace, and more open economies.

With the rise of secessionist movements in Scotland, Italy, and Spain, even the American media has been forced to recognize that secession is international in nature with a long history both in Europe and the Americas. Internationally, secession movement continue to grow.

Join Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, and Jeff Deist for a one-day seminar on breaking away from the central state.

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The growing number of secession movements around the world gives rise to our topic: breaking away from current government structures that do so much harm to liberty, peace, and prosperity. Recorded at "Breaking Away: The Case for Secession"—the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on 24 January 2015.

Secession Begins at Home | Jeff Deist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p7F8EhY91g
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Secession: The American Tradition | Brion McClanahan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_7WISmYxAg


Secession is Libertarian | Lew Rockwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLOVp86Y2bY


Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists | Tom Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXOEdvfMeIY


Secession and Liberty | Ron Paul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g36Ef5Fvkok

 

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Here's a thread about a WaPo article some hack wrote about Ron Paul's appearance at this event (and its possible effects on Rand):
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...stands-a-problem-for-son%92s-presidential-bid

And here's Tom Woods' presentation at the Mises Circle event, set within the context of that WaPo article:
h/t mac_hine: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?467502-What-I-Told-the-Washington-Post-About-Secession

What I Told the Washington Post About Secession

"I knew there was a Washington Post writer in the audience at the Mises Institute’s event on secession this past weekend in Houston, and I knew exactly why he was there: to write an article about the “extreme” Ron Paul, as a way of causing problems for Rand. Now that you know that, you’ll better understand the tone and content of my remarks, which were in large part directed right at him. In the resulting article, he didn’t quote me at all. No wonder." ~TW

 

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[h=2]Secession Begins at Home[/h]AUDIO/VIDEOJANUARY 24, 2015Jeff DeistRecorded at the Mises Institute in Houston, Texas, 24 January 2014.


[h=2]Secession: The American Tradition[/h]AUDIO/VIDEOJANUARY 24, 2015Brion McClanahanRecorded at the Mises Institute in Houston, Texas, 24 January 2015.

[h=2]Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists[/h]AUDIO/VIDEOJANUARY 24, 2015Thomas E. Woods, Jr.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Houston, Texas, 24 January 2015.

 

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Added video for Jeff Deist to OP.

 

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You know, I have a place where I can do what Jeff suggest. I think he has set a fire in me to do so.

 

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Added videos for Tom Woods & Brion McClanahan to OP.

 

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I liked Diest's speech. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing (I recommend you do), at least listen to the last 5 minutes, great suggestions.

 

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Listened to Woods speech. Excellent, as usual. I finally downloaded his free e-book.

You can find the free book here...
14 Hard Questions for Libertarians, Answered — Free eBook
http://tomwoods.com/freebook/


and you can listen to Tom Woods read his book, Real Dissent, for free here - he has such a great voice.
http://www.realdissent.com/

His latest book, Real Dissent, takes on the American government's disastrous, bipartisan foreign policy, as well as the Federal Reserve, anti-capitalists, critics of libertarianism, and more. Enjoyed Tom's replies to attacks on libertarianism over the years? Then you'll love this book. Get it in paperback, Kindle, or as a free audiobook.

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Must-Read Works of Liberty

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First, Tom has just published a free eBook called 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians – Answered. Now if you have any experience with “free eBooks,” you’ve doubtless become jaded: they tend to be 20 pages long, and with large type. But 14 Hard Questions is a full-length book, covering topics ranging from the environment and net neutrality to harder cases like private police and private law. It’s available in EPUB, PDF, and Kindle versions, and I recommend it to you as an easy, enjoyable, and efficient way to build up your arsenal of evidence and arguments.

More important is Tom’s first print book in nearly four years: Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion. Tom tells me it’s his favorite of the dozen books he’s written.

Tom’s premise is that there is very little real dissent in the United States, where the confines of what the political and media classes have declared to be allowable opinion are extremely narrow. The bipartisan foreign-policy consensus is a good example: you can favor somewhat more or somewhat less foreign intervention, or you may criticize the precise form that a particular intervention takes, but you may not reject the overall framework root and branch, or even raise fundamental questions about it.

Should you stray from these boundaries of opinion, you will simply be excluded from the discussion, and likely smeared and vilified to boot.

As Tom points out, one thing you won’t receive if you stray from approved opinion is any kind of refutation. The gatekeepers will not deign to show what is wrong with your position. What is wrong is that it is unapproved. It is enough to declare you a heretic, and leave it at that.

The rest of the book is an all-out assault on establishment opinion.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/02/lew-rockwell/must-read-works-of-liberty/

 

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Added videos for Lew Rockwell & Ron Paul to OP.

All videos are now available - unless they release any for the Q&A session or speakers' panel ...