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  • I snagged this just now for $2.99 on Amazon Kindle.  I don't mind paying a nominal price for something like that, which I might read in the next month or two.  Might be interesting reading.


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  • I didn't catch it on this website, that the book was available for download, but in that it was published in 2022, unless the author just wants to give it away, I assume that either he or the Mises Institute (or both) makes money on every copy they sell.  Not clear why this website is giving it away.

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  • Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris
    Qui non est alius
    Qui pugnet pro nobis
    Nisi  tu Deus noster

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  • Ryan McMaken, the author of the book, "Breaking Away," is, from what I can see, an editor at the Mises Institute. The Institute is named for Ludwig von Mises, an advocate of the Austrian School of Economics. More about him here:

    Who Was Ludwig Von Mises? Who Wrote Human Action? (investopedia.com)

    Mises Institute

    The Kantian Origins of Mises's Praxeology | Mises Institute
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29


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  • I always wondered how a Canuck like yourself became such a pro Confederate? I would think that someone like yourself would have left the Great White North many moons ago.
    For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

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  • I snagged this just now for $2.99 on Amazon Kindle.  I don't mind paying a nominal price for something like that, which I might read in the next month or two.  Might be interesting reading.
    Why would you give $ to Bezos when you can get it for free on the Mises.org website? 🤦‍♂️
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  • List of states ranked by dependence on the federal government.

    A report on poverty in the United States, where observers went into multiple parts of this country and noticed not only third-world conditions, but tropical parasites. Things that should not happen in a supposedly developed country. Maybe seceding is not a good idea.
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  • Why would you give $ to Bezos when you can get it for free on the Mises.org website? 🤦‍♂️

    I didn't see that it was free, and in any case, I have to wonder about the morality (whatever one might think of Jeff Bezos) of downloading a book currently in print, for which I have to assume that someone has rights to royalties.  Put another way, are the author and the Mises Institute good with having their book circulated for free?

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  • The idea about the United States would be that it is a constitutional government but it is not. It is an oriental despotism run by the Jєωs. That's what it is imho, as like what and what kind from Porphyry.

    The original thirteen states formed the "union", the "union" did not form them, and this is a pivotal point in the law and credit that goes into the wheel of the said government and the way it would roll, if it would roll as originally intended. But it is way off course now, which is not difficult to docuмent if one wants to take the time. Deo Vindice, etc.

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  • Put another way, are the author and the Mises Institute good with having their book circulated for free?
    The Mises Institute is the publisher of the book, so of course they're 🆗 with posting it on their own website; they sell it from their store, too.
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  • I always wondered how a Canuck like yourself became such a pro Confederate? I would think that someone like yourself would have left the Great White North many moons ago.
    Alas circuмstances in life have dictated I must remain where I am.

    I used to play North vs South as a kid. I read what books I could and did not manage to get a Yankee bias. Plus the Confederate flag was more prominent here in Alberta. I did watch a bit of the Dukes of Hazzard but that was not influential in any real sense.The older I got and the more I read the real facts behind the War of Northern Aggression, the more I became fascinated with the South. My first visit to the South - Mississippi - felt almost like a homecoming. I had a huge welcoming committee, as it were, when I got off the plane. I truly felt at home, as much as visiting actual relatives. 

    So I keep alive a part of the South - alongside same-friends - up here in the near Arctic of northern Alberta. And it has been a very few days with goodly amounts of snow. 

    Good times there are not forgotten, look away, look away look away Dixieland :cowboy:
    Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris
    Qui non est alius
    Qui pugnet pro nobis
    Nisi  tu Deus noster