Complete Liberty Podcast

I was a guest on http://cultureofempathy.com with host Edwin Rutsch along with friends Katie of http://miplc.org/ and http://www.michiganmainstream.com/thelocalfocus.html and Tom of http://wearesole.com/ and http://www.meetup.com/Libertarian-Entrepreneurs-in-Los-Angeles/ Panel 25: Libertarian: How might we transform domination cultures & systems into empathic cultures? http://cultureofempathy.com/...

I was a guest on http://cultureofempathy.com with host Edwin Rutsch. Edwin has been seeking to build a culture of empathy, one that encompasses all human systems, starting with oneself and one's family. Wesley Bertrand and Edwin Rutsch: How to Build a Culture of Empathy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFkcZCB09h0 Our conversation with other notes: http://j.mp/1366vQS http://cultureofempathy.com/Pro...

http://wikileaks.org/Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html The black box: Inside America's massive new surveillance centre http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/05/features/the-black-box?page=all https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/restore-fourth-campaign-organizes-protests-against-unconstitutional-surveillance No Treason: The Constitution Of No Authority by Lysander Spooner http://lysand...

http://psychologybookclub.blogspot.com/ http://www.becomingwhoyouare.net/ Introduction To Objectivist Epistemology https://estore.aynrand.org/p/256/introduction-to-objectivist-epistemology-softcover The Virtue Of Selfishness https://estore.aynrand.org/p/604/the-virtue-of-selfishness-a-new-concept-of-egoism-kindle-edition Philosophy: Who Needs It https://estore.aynrand.org/p/591/philosophy-who-need...

Guests Mark from http://reasonup.net/ and Scott from http://redpillplanet.com/ Moderating the Dark Side of Emotional Morality with the Bright Side of Market Morality by Dwight R. Lee http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=902 Reason, self-interest, and free market trade are aligned, without sacrifice Can Expectations Save Communism? by Bryan Caplan http://econlog.econlib.org/arc...

Guests Mark of http://reasonup.net/ and Scott Ethics has predominantly been an externally imposed, or extrinsic, motivator for humans--thus revealing its problems Beyond Good and Evil: Marshall Rosenberg On Creating a Nonviolent World http://www.openexchange.org/features/Keep/rosenberg.html http://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/sessions/moral-sense Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richar...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/nyregion/babys-latest-going-diaperless-at-home-or-even-in-the-park.html Nonviolent communication, or nvc http://happinesscounseling.com/NVC_Intro.pdf http://www.cnvc.org/Training/feelings-inventory http://www.cnvc.org/Training/needs-inventory http://www.wikihow.com/Practice-Nonviolent-Communication http://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Marshall-R...

April 13-14 nvc conference in Oxnard, CA http://chooseconnection.squarespace.com/2013-presentation-schedule/ Two Beers With Steve Podcast (with Brett and me) http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/is-society-progressing "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged http://www.richardcarrier.info/ http://www.amazon.com/Sens...

Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison http://www.ted.com/talks/damon_horowitz_philosophy_in_prison.html Unfortunately, most of modern philosophy spends time in the realm of the nonobjective http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/axioms.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/axiomatic_concepts.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/objectivity.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/errors_of_knowledge_vs...

http://schoolsucksproject.com/197-the-sudbury-school-22-a-step-in-the-right-direction/ http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/complete-liberty-with-wes-bertrand Troubled Family Life Changes Kids' Brains by Ian Chant http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=troubled-family-life-changes-kids-b Whenever the "common good" is put above the individual good, human beings get sacrificed. Thus, by uph...

Upcoming nvc conference in SoCal in April http://chooseconnection.squarespace.com/nvc-conference/ Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21137649 http://www.news.com.au/world/british-woman-gets-bali-death-sentence-over-cocaine-smuggling/story-fndir2ev-1226559509016 Freedom--An Ethical Issue http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomethica.html http://ay...

I interview Stephanie Bachmann Mattei, Ph. D. http://theSanctuary4Parents.org http://nvctraining.com/index.php? Itemid=1342 The Parenting Matters TeleConference Thursday, January 24 - Monday, January 28, 2013 Presented by the NVC Academy and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei http://nvctraining.com/media/_special_programs/parenting-conference/ Are you playing the role of "good parent"? http://philosophical...

182: Logic Saves Lives Part 8 - Cognitive Distortions and Cognitive Restructuring http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/entry/2012-12-12T09_00_00-08_00 Self Empathy: Empower Yourself this Holiday Season! by Mary Mackenzie and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei http://www.thesanctuary4parents.org/Empower_Yourself_This_Holiday_Season.pdf The economics of xmas http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/the-economics-...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/ridesharing-startups-hit-with-cease-and-desist-by-california-regulator/ Opting Out of the State by Sheldon Richman http://c4ss.org/content/14302 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/secession-petitions-now-filed-50-states-183500440.html learn about the statist legal matrix... http://marcstevens.net Those working for the coercive organization called "govern...

Tom de Lorenzo's new book New World Rising: The quest for human freedom in the 21st century http://tzopress.blogspot.com Tzo's STR archives http://www.strike-the-root.com/user/345 http://www.strike-the-root.com/slavespeak-part-i http://www.strike-the-root.com/slavespeak-part-ii School Sucks Podcast 167: Logic Saves Lives Part 5 - The Stolen Concept http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/entry/2012-10-20...

Breaking Free by Nathaniel Branden http://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_free.html?id=2U8dAQAAMAAJ The Questions: 1. Did your parents respect your intellectual and physical privacy? 2. Did your parents project that what a person made of his life, and what you specifically made of your life, was important? 3. Did your parents encourage in you a fear of the world, a fear of other people? Or w...

Breaking Free by Nathaniel Branden http://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_free.html?id=2U8dAQAAMAAJ The Questions: 1. Was it your parents' practice to punish you or discipline you by striking or beating you? 2. Did your parents project that they believed in your basic goodness? Or did they project that they saw you as bad or worthless or evil? 3. Did your parents project that they believed i...

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/11/13808173-dead-gitmo-detainee-was-cleared-for-release-in-2009?lite http://completeliberty.com/magazine/read/episode-69---governmental-prison-injustice-immorality-and-insanity-of-war-virtue-of-independence-and-achievement_61.html Breaking Free by Nathaniel Branden http://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_free.html?id=2U8dAQAAMAAJ The Questions: 1. Di...

The Questions: 1. Were you encouraged to think independently, to develop your critical faculty? Or were you taught to be obedient rather than mentally active and questioning? Did your parents project that it was more important to conform to what other people believed than to discover what is true? When your parents wanted you to do something, did they appeal to your understanding and give you reas...

http://thenatureofexistence.com/about/the-questions/ Spiritually can be viewed as increasing awareness of one's inner and outer worlds There are no contradictions in objective reality http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/contradictions.html Less knowledge and less awareness diminish one's range of choice What Happens to Consciousness When We Die by Michael Shermer https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...

Guests Brett from http://schoolsucksproject.com/live and http://youtube.com/schoolsuckspodcast and Jeremy from http://ultimatefreedomquest.com and http://internetbusinessmastery.com http://www.break.com/index/door_to_door_atheists_bother_mormons.html http://www.alternet.org/story/155158/why_does_religion_always_get_a_free_rid Nate Phelps took to Reddit for an Ask Me Anything Q&A http://boingboing....

Some points of light in the mainstream... http://www.andersoncooper.com/2012/06/21/the-most-controversial-parenting-methods http://www.andersoncooper.com/2012/03/07/unschooling-is-one-moms-solution-to-adhd/ Breaking Free by Nathaniel Branden http://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_free.html?id=2U8dAQAAMAAJ The Questions: 1. Did your parents deal with you fairly and justly? Did your parents re...

Guests Daniel from http://warisimmoral.com and Katie from MI and the G+hangout Why Atheists Laugh at Religion - http://youtu.be/6H9BuxeNro0 Sacrifice is inherent in domination institutions Using reason to deny reason is the nature of supernaturalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group) Religions as philosophies of death... http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mystics_of_spirit...

Breaking Free by Nathaniel Branden http://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_free.html?id=2U8dAQAAMAAJ The Questions: 1. When you were a child, did your parents' manner of behaving and of dealing with you give you the impression that you were living in a world that was rational, predictable, and intelligible? Or a world that was bewildering, contradictory, incomprehensible, unknowable? 2. Were...

Guests Kevin from http://freedomlovin.com and http://healthymindfitbody.com and Michael from SoCal Libertopia videos are available http://libertopia.org/media/videos/libertopia-2010-speeches/ http://libertopia.org/media/videos/libertopia-2011-speeches/ Yet another rights-violating statist courthouse, despite its PR claims http://www.miottawa.org/CourtsLE/58thDistrict/ The Police State Is Here by T...