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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I’ve been told so many times that freedom is just a fantasy, that you can’t live that way in the real world, that there are too many commitments that have to be met, that in real life things are much too complicated to be able to do what you want and to enjoy yourself.
But who […]
Warning: If you are a Greens supporter, you probably shouldn’t watch this. You should probably try to ban it.
Look to the Libertarianz for a party which doesn’t want to ban everything they don’t like, or make everything they do like compulsory.
ACT has released their party list. I am pleased to see some familiar faces on the list, including Nick Kearney, Clint Heine and Peter McCaffrey.
I was disappointed to see Lindsay Mitchell missing from the list, unless she is mystery Number 5 candidate (”yet to be announced”).
A Lyn Murphy is listed at number 14. […]
Libertarianz spokesman Luke Howison congratulated Steve Crow today for his triumph over the fascism of the Auckland City Council. “Well done Steve! You have successfully taken on the closed-minded authoritarian bureaucrats of the Auckland City Council - and won!”
“Only the most politically correct ‘liberals’ like Cathy “not-in-my-backyard” Casey and the most repressed conservatives like […]
Russian war correspondent Arkady Babchenko presents these amazing images of the war in Ossetia as he travels with Russian soldiers to Gori (hat tip Coming Anarchy).
Warning: the photographs on the linked site contain many graphic images of corpses.
The photographer did not get too close to the actual fighting, but he got close enough.
Everyone is getting excited about the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony containing “faked” bits.
Well, who remembers the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, when the Olympic flame was lit by a flaming arrow?
In this video you can see that the arrow flew far over the cauldron which was supposed to contain the flame; the […]