Separate Oil and State, says Greenpeace

Anti-Statism, Environment, Imperialism, Mercantilism, Taxation, The Left, War
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From the Edmonton Journal comes news that some Greenpeace members rappelled off the top of Calgary Tower to hang a banner that read “Separate Oil and State.”

Scott Blasken got this shot from his office window Tuesday morning after Greenpeace unfurled a banner from the Calgary Tower.

Hey, I’m all in favor of separating oil and state. But that means no strategic oil reserves; no taxes, including carbon taxes; no cap-and-trade; no regulations; no moratoriums or bans on offshore or other drilling; no special protections of any kind, including caps on liability for actual damages to private property caused by oil companies;1 no eminent domain (ab)use; and no mercantilistic and imperialistic wars to make the world safe for domestic consumption of foreign oil. But somehow I don’t expect all of this is what the Greenpeace activists confusedly mean by “separate oil and state.” Alas and alack.

Cross-posted at Is-Ought GAP.

  1. I’m not talking about limited liability for shareholders here. I’m referring to caps like the $75 million liability cap that has received so much attention in the wake of the BP oil spill, enacted in 1990 as part of the Oil Pollution Act following the Exxon Valdez spill. ↩

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New Syndicated Series: Nina Paley’s Mimi and Eunice Webcomic

Admin Updates, Humor, IP Law, Mimi & Eunice on IP
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Great news!

We’re launching a new series on The Libertarian Standard. We will be syndicating the IP-related installments of a funny (and free!) new comic strip, Mimi and Eunice, created by Nina Paley.

Nina is a creative artist and anti-copyright innovator, creator of Sita Sings the Blues (see The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright; Interview: Nina Paley on Copyright; Nina Paley’s “All Creative Work is Derivative”; Power to the Pixel 2009: Nina Paley).

We have some catching up to do getting some of Nina’s older strips published here, but once we’re caught up we’ll be posting each one as they come out.  If you enjoy them as much as we do, please consider supporting Nina’s work!

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Behind the Scenes of Atlas Shrugged

Libertarian Theory, Pop Culture, Statism
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About a month and a half ago, in Atlas Shrugged movie finally filming?!, my co-blogger Jacob Huebert updated us on the Atlas Shrugged movie. Now, thanks to Reason Magazine and Reason.tv, we are privileged to see behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.

I’ll admit I was leery of the current iteration of the project, but I am somewhat reassured to hear that Atlas Shrugged will be made into three movies, not one, which is more doable. I’m also reassured that the director and the actor playing Henry Rearden seem to have a decent handle on Ayn Rand’s vision and characters, though I was a bit disquieted by the director mispronouncing Rand’s first name.

From Reason.com’s Hit & Run blog (video below):

Many actors and producers have talked about adapting Ayn Rand’s classic Atlas Shrugged for the big screen, but 53 years after its publication no one has dared tackle the ambitious project—until now.

Reason.tv heads to the set of Atlas Shrugged Part One to offer viewers a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of this most anticipated film.

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Follow us on the new Digg

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We’re on the new Digg. If you are too, you may want to follow us: http://new.digg.com/libstandard.

The new Digg allows us to import our blog feed, automatically digging each of our posts as they are published. You can follow other people and organizations just like on Twitter. This may just revitalize Digg and make it a personalized source of truly relevant news.

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Announcing the TLS Q&A Series and Libertarian FAQ

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You may have already noticed that we’ve launched a new feature on The Libertarian Standard: the Libertarian FAQ. We’re formally announcing it now. You may also have noticed that the FAQ is pretty much empty at the moment. That’s where you, and another new feature we’re announcing today, come in.

We will be gradually filling out the FAQ with questions and our answers to them. You can help us out by challenging and inspiring us with questions about libertarianism, in theory and in practice, be they beginner or advanced, that you or someone you know may have. We will select questions you’ve sent us and address them in a new blogpost series, TLS Q&A, approximately once per week, on Sunday.

To submit questions for us to address, you will need to

Also:

  • Please check the FAQ to see if your question has already been answered before submitting.
  • Please include your name and a link to your personal website, Twitter profile, or similar online  presence so we can give credit.

After being published in a TLS Q&A blogpost, the questions and their answers will be added to the Libertarian FAQ, with a link back to their blogposts to facilitate discussion.

Help us fill out the Libertarian FAQ! Submit questions for us to answer.

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