Greening Out Audio Blog - The Gay Marriage Distraction

Caity and Dan welcome James Burnette from SurvivalPunk.com to the show. Survival Punk is a blog created by James Burnette. James takes a rational, creative approach to self-reliance, applying a punk DIY ethic to survivalism without any of the fear mongering or “tinfoil hattery” found in some other areas of the survivalist movement. The Survival Punk blog covers a huge range of his projects, both success and failures along with a healthy bit of myth busting. He also provides a ton of dirt cheap creative solutions to common prepping needs and does a great job of integrating the paleo lifestyle with the prepping lifestyle. We chat about basic preps everyone should have, bugging in & bugging out, the paleo lifestyle & diet, homesteading, anarchism, the coming failure of fiat currency, Bitcoin, the importance of gold and silver, the dual homesteading project and why we're not scared of ebola!

Caity and Dan are joined by Mike Cuneo, host of the Non-Aggression podcast, founder of the 412 Libertarian blog and organizer of the Pittsburgh Ancap Meetup. We chat about the non-aggression principle, the illegitimacy of the state, government schools, if libertarians should follow the NAP, the nonsense of 'lifeboat' secenarios, Murray Rothbard, if it's a violation of the NAP to shoot police officers or blow up WalMart, Chris Cantwell, corporations, anarcho-capitalism, Walter Block Scottish independence, Thaddeus Russell and the damaging impact of taxation on society.

Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Mises Institute and the Hoover Institute. He has previously taught at the University of Central Arkansas, Holy Cross College, Baruch (C.U.N.Y.) and Rutgers Universities. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College (C.U.N.Y.) in 1964 and a Ph.D. degree in economics from Columbia University in 1972. Walter Block is the author of Defending the Undefendable (1976) – which has been translated into ten foreign languages. He has recently authored or co-authored The Privatization of Roads and Highways (2006) and Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable (2008), as well as 5 other books since 1976. His forthcoming books include Legalize Blackmail; Philosophy of Law; Austrian Economics; Private Property Rights; Free Market Environmentalism; Judaism, Economics and Politics; Building Blocks of Liberty, and The Economics of Discrimination. Block has also edited or co-edited over a dozen academic books. His forthcoming edited books include The Problem With Social Costs: Coase, Pigou and the Austrian School; and Libertarian Autobiographies. Block has contributed over 300 articles and reviews to scholarly refereed journals such as the Journal of Libertarian Studies; the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics; the Review of Austrian Economics; the American Journal of Economics and Sociology; the Journal of Labor Economics; and Public Choice and has written over one thousand op ed articles, newspaper columns, chapters in books, etc. He also gives numerous speeches to civic and educational institutions and appears regularly on television and radio. Block has encouraged the publication of his students, many in refereed journals, and has co-authored many articles with them that started out as term papers for his courses. Block's intellectual and academic career has prepared him exceptionally to hold The Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics, where his understanding of the business world and the important role of the private sector in economic development enables him and Loyola to play a major role in significantly improving the research about and the education of students in the practice of free enterprise economics.

Caity and Dan are joined by spokesman and co-founder of The Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves. We chat about modern satanism and it's common misconceptions, the satanic panic of the 1980's, the US constitution and what the country was founded on, popular conspiracy theory, Anton LaVey, The Church of Satan, the temples campaigns, the non-authoritarian nature of satanism, how religion can be divorced from superstition, the rebellion that satan symbolises, true religious freedom, freedom of expression and the rise of modern satanism.

Dr Sean Gabb is a writer and broadcaster and academic. He is the author of twenty books, which include ten novels and three volumes of poetry. He has been commercially translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian and Chinese. He joined the Libertarian Alliance in 1979. He became its Director in 2006, shortly before the death of its founder Chris Tame. We welcome Sean back to the show for a very interesting conversation about the recent Scottish independence referendum, secession, recent violence in Glasgow, the EU, the British empire, history, the current mood in Scotland and England, the position of the major UK political parties and what their prospects are for the future and the future of the UK.

Audio version of Dan's article "The Gay Marriage Distraction"

Seems like some weird Mad Max shit right? No, it has a philosophical and logical basis. Audio version of Dan's article.

An audio version of Dan's article "Legalize All Drugs!" for more Libertarian podcasts, writings and news visit http://www.greeningoutpodcast.com