Merry Christmas To All

Posted on Wednesday, 14th December 2011 by Ozboy

That’s it from me this year folks.

LibertyGibbert will be officially closed from Friday, 16th December till Thursday, 5th January. You’ll still be able to access all articles in the archive, and comment if you like, but all posts will be held in the moderation queue until I get around to looking at things online; something I’ve resolved to do as little as possible over the festive season. I decided to hold back some of the weightier LG articles in the pipeline until then, to give us all some breathing space. I did promise to get them out this year, but time has beaten me.

My sincerest thanks to all of you for making LibertyGibbert the place it has been in 2011. We’ve managed to cover issues of Libertarianism and rights, economics, science, philosophy, literature and politics, and not a small amount of great music in between. If you have any suggestions as to something you would like to see in 2012 (assuming the internet is still around), or do differently, let me know through the Contact page.

From my family to yours, all the very best wishes for a joyous Christmas and a happy, peaceful, prosperous and free New Year.

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The Non-Conference

Posted on Saturday, 3rd December 2011 by Ozboy

It’s all I can think of calling it. The MSM aren’t touching it; you even have to search WUWT carefully to find much mention of it.

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Parliament On A Knife Edge Part IV – The Rise Of Slippery Pete

Posted on Sunday, 27th November 2011 by Ozboy

And on it goes. The Gillard government clearly believes it was about to lose its one-seat parliamentary majority, either with this bloke making good on his threat to withdraw support, or this one being carted off to jail. It’s the only explanation for the stunt they pulled this week.

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Agree Or Else

Posted on Saturday, 19th November 2011 by Ozboy

I thought I had better post another discussion point for those who haven’t read Ayn Rand; so how about this article, by the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine, to which Dr Dave and CommonSenseMajority alerted us the other day.

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Life Imitating Art

Posted on Saturday, 19th November 2011 by Ozboy

While on my recent road trip, I took the opportunity in my spare time to re-read Atlas Shrugged. It’s been quite a while—over thirty years, in fact—since I first picked up Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, and was struck by how accurately the dystopian society she described over half a century ago has materialized today.

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A Whisper In The Ear

Posted on Friday, 4th November 2011 by Ozboy

Loyalties divided

OK, so now the people of the Hellenic Republic won’t have a referendum on the Big Fat Greek Bailout. PM George Papandreou has done a remarkable backflip in the last couple of days. Reading his rhetoric of four days ago, at which most of us cheered (but not the Guardian),

Citizens are the source of our strength and citizens will be called on to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the agreement. It is not for others to decide but the Greek people to decide … we have faith in the people. We believe in democratic participation. We are not afraid of it.

It sounds inconceivable that it came from the same man who last night meekly demurred,

The referendum was never an end in itself.

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Almost But Maybe

Posted on Thursday, 27th October 2011 by Ozboy

Almost certainly, this man will not be the next President of the United States of America.

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Woody Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman And A Big Mac

Posted on Wednesday, 19th October 2011 by Ozboy

Capitalism is evil! Down with the system! Peace and Love!

Yeah, right.

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A Game Of Chicken

Posted on Thursday, 13th October 2011 by Ozboy

Ventriloquist: Bob Brown (second from left) announces Carbon Tax

The Gillard Government’s Carbon Tax legislation passed the Lower House yesterday, by the slenderest of majorities. Next month it will pass the Senate, in which the Australian Greens hold the balance of power. The eighteen bills of which this legislation is comprised will thus become law by Christmas, and the first taxes are set to be levied from the middle of next year.

Now I’m going to explain to you why none of this really matters.

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Double Or Nothing

Posted on Saturday, 8th October 2011 by Ozboy

I’d like to introduce you to yet another Australian politician you’re unlikely to have heard of in the Northern hemisphere. This one, however, has a gun pressed against the head of the Gillard government. And he has openly announced the date on which he will pull the trigger.

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