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	<title>Graeme Klass - Libertarian Engineer</title>
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	<description>A blog on Libertarianism, technology, fatherhood and rockets.</description>
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		<title>Economics in One 3 and a Half Hour Lesson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't be put off by the length of this video. The video is from the Mises Institute, and reviews Henry Hazlett's "Economics in One Lesson" by asking Austrian economists to give their synopsis of each chapter in the book. If you want an excellent introduction into economics, then put this on in the background while you work.


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		<title>Joe Hockey On Liberty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hockey, shadow treasurer of Australia and Member of Parliament, delivered an excellent speech at the Grattan Institute, on liberty, personal responsibility and a call for limited government. Below are snippets of his speech:


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		<title>The Government Can</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government Can?


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		<title>Go Global From Day One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Globalisation requires startups to be global from day one. This does not mean that you need to have sales offices, distribution networks and advertising to all corners of the earth. It means that your startup&#8217;s culture must pursue a global market, which means that your startup must continually think about scale. Being able to scale [...]


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		<title>Taxing the Golden Goose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I did my economics unit at University I learnt that if you tax goods at a rate higher than other goods, you will discourage consumption of that good. This is the basis of all "Sin" taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. A corollary is that investment in producing that good will similarly be discouraged.

This elementary fact is lost on the Federal Government's treasury chief, Ken Henry.


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		<title>Pier to Pub 2010 Completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, I swam (along with 4,3000 participants) the Lorne Pier to Pub 2010, a 1.2km open water swim that I have been training for the last few months. My goal was 22 minutes and my result: 20 min 49 secs. So I was pretty happy with my effort.


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		<title>Australian Government to Censor the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought that my country would resort to this. Under the guise of "won't someone think of the children" the Australian Government, led by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, have green-lighted the use of Internet filters:

    The Federal Government will introduce compulsory internet filtering to block overseas sites which contain criminal content, including child sex abuse and sexual violence.

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced the changes today following a controversial trial to filter the internet which was conducted earlier this year.

    Senator Conroy says some internet content is simply not suitable in a civilised society.

Read that last sentence again. That should make one shudder. Individuals decide what is decent and right about a civil society, not an authoritative government.

For the record I am completely against child pornography. These filters will be easily circumvented by paedophiles and scum who get off looking at such stuff. We should be investing in better law enforcement and linking with international police agencies to catch these guys and throw them in jail. Having an Internet filter with rules set on the whim of a government bureaucrat simple impedes our freedom without making a substantial difference to stopping child pornography.

Let's hope the Opposition, Greens and Independants put a stop to it in the senate.


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		<title>Libertarianism vs Right vs Left</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of our political discourse focuses on the left/right divide in a simple one dimensional domain. If you're not left, you're right. If you're not right, you're left. There is a third way: Libertarian. As a way to describe where libertarianism fit I have created this two-dimensional chart to help explain:


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		<title>Copenhagen Opening Film&#8230; All That&#8217;s Missing is the Plague</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a look at the opening film of Copenhagen Climate Summit:

[src:'http://www.youtube.com/v/NVGGgncVq-4',width:'425',height:'350']

All the elements for a good old fashioned scare mongerin':

    * Poverty. Check.
    * Scared Children. Check.
    * Polar bears threatened. Check.
    * Floods. Check.
    * Drought. Check.
    * Earthquake. Check.
    * Storms. Check.
    * Tornados. Check.
    * "Expert" Testimony*. Check.

These people have no shame.

* Includes the renowned scientists, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and UN Chief Ban Ki Moon.





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		<title>Pier to Pub Swimming Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am participating in the 2010 Pier to Pub at Lorne on January 9, 2010. It is a 1.2 km open water course. I heard that the rule of thumb is that for every 1km of open water swimming is the equivalent of 2kms in the swimming pool. Thus my target is 2.4km in a swimming pool (48 laps of a 50m Olympic sized pool). My progress via Google spreadsheets (which is automatically updated) is below:


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