Phil and Luke are brothers, libertarians, Vic Uni students and flatmates based in Wellington, New Zealand. Their blog, Pacific Empire, covers topics including politics, libertarianism, international relations, psychology, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, art and history. See the About page for more information.
Luke is the Libertarianz Media Coordinator, while Phil was the Hutt South candidate in 2005 and is now Spokesman for Deregulation of Education.
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This was my first guest post at Coming Anarchy, for the new Oceania Day series. Hopefully this marks the start /#comment-376197of a fruitful collaboration between me, the Strategist, Younghusband, Curzon and Chirol. Cheers guys!
The Strategist posted last week on conflict in Melanesia, a region within Oceania alongside Micronesia and Polynesia. To keep this […]
The New Zealand government has passed a censorship law so that MPs cannot be portrayed doing hilariously inappropriate and unprofessional things while their boss (the NZ public) is watching.
Luckily, the Libz aren’t putting up with this. I put the following press release together - my first for a while.
This is a completely unacceptable […]
The preface of Edward Luttwak’s classic work on how to overthrow a government reads as follows:
AS THE EVENTS in France of May 1968 have shown yet again, insurrection, the classic vehicle of revolution, is obsolete. The security apparatus of the modern state, with its professional personnel, with its diversified means of transport and communications, […]
I promised to post this stuff in the previous Woodworking Projects post. A few summers ago, I wanted a treehouse, so I ended up building this hanging platform complete with trapdoor and rope ladder, and a nearby swinging chair.
For more pictures and a bonus crazy adventure …