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		<title>Ideas are more powerful than armies</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/ideas-are-more-powerful-than-armies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: amended links for public read access. This afternoon, I am presenting five books which illustrate that ideas are more powerful than armies at the Young Briton&#8217;s Foundation conference. Here are the slides: Or browse here]]></description>
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		<title>Via LearnLiberty.org: Liberty and Community</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/via-learnliberty-org-liberty-and-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via LearnLiberty.org, another superb video, this time on liberty and community, which reinforces Mises&#8217; argument that &#8220;Society is cooperation; it is community in action&#]]></description>
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		<title>LearnLiberty.org &#8211; Learn about the ideas of a free society</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/learn-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via LearnLiberty.org, a great project from the Institute for Humane Studies, Dr Nigel Ashford explains classical liberalism, the doctrine of freedom: The ten principles from the video are: Liberty as the primary political value Individualism Skepticism about power Rule of Law Civil Society Spontaneous Order Free Markets Toleration Peace Limited Government Dr Ashford&#8217;s short book ]]></description>
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		<title>Remember, remember, the 5th of November</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As CNN reports, the V for Vendetta-style Guy Fawkes mask has inspired Occupy protesters around the world. CNN points out: Ironically Fawkes, far from being the anti-establishment hero he has come to be seen as in the years since his death, was a monarchist who merely wanted to replace the Anglican king with a Catholic ]]></description>
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		<title>People&#8217;s Pledge Congress tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/peoples-pledge-congress-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I look forward to speaking on the Euro crisis tomorrow at the People&#8217;s Pledge Congress. In preparing, I rediscovered this: &#8230;the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who ]]></description>
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		<title>Bad ideas that never die: a Parliament of special interests</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/a-parliament-of-special-interests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times is running two letters under the heading, Should the Upper House be a Senate? (£). The first letter calls for a federal senate with equal representation for each nation of the UK. (Quite why the smaller nations should be disproportionately powerful, I do not know.)  The second calls for a chamber of representatives from ]]></description>
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		<title>The last word of wisdom?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/the-last-word-of-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No man deserves his freedom or his lifeWho does not daily win them anew. From Goethe&#8217;s Faust, quoted in Mises&#8217; Liberalism &#8211; The Classical Tradition as &#8220;the last word of wisdom&#8221;. It appears in the discussion of anti-liberalism&#8217;s roots in resentment and neurosis]]></description>
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		<title>The Austrians Were Right, Yet Again &#8211; Jeffrey A. Tucker &#8211; Mises Daily</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/the-austrians-were-right-yet-again-jeffrey-a-tucker-mises-daily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 06:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Austrians Were Right, Yet Again, Jeffrey A. Tucker sets out the way it is in the USA: After three-plus years of floundering around, a consensus has finally arrived that we are back in recession. Growth is not happening. The meager statistical growth of the past few years — no one dared claim it ]]></description>
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		<title>Big ideas for Britain&#8217;s future</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/big-ideas-for-britains-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I gave a presentation which sets out: What Conservatives have always sought to conserve &#8211; liberty against the onslaught of socialism, of state control. How the war of ideas has been won by the statists over the course of a century, leading to our present crisis. What the Coalition is doing &#8211; raising taxes ]]></description>
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		<title>How to Advance Liberty &#8211; Leonard Read &#8211; Mises Daily</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/how-to-advance-liberty-leonard-read-mises-daily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a transcript of a lecture given in 1965 by the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education: How to Advance Liberty &#8211; Leonard Read . There would be no need to work for liberty were liberties not being lost. Most Americans are unaware of a decline in individual liberty, and the reason is obvious: the ]]></description>
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