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I was recommended this product from my health visitor after my baby had suffering from quite bad wind, and was bringing up feeds even after burping and winding throughout feeds.
After only a few days of use there was a huge difference in feeding. My little one was keeping a lot more of her feeds down. She didn't keep every feed down, but it definitely helped, and when she did bring anything up, it was minimal. She has also been looking much less uncomfortable during and after feeds. As well as making feeding time much more comfortable, she has also been much easier to burp throughout the feed.
This product is very safe to use from birth, there is no risk of overdose and my little girl really seems to like the flavor. I will give her a dose during her change just before a feed, she seems to enjoy the taste and it settles her down ready for her feed.
I think this is a great product and first stop for anything looking to sooth a baby with wind or colic, especially as it can be used from birth. Many parents may be hesitant to use over the counter medication on newborns, I know I was, but because all the ingredients are safe to use, there is no risk of overdose, and the ease of use, it was my first choice for trying to make my baby comfortable, and it worked.
Other people have noted that it may make reflux symptoms worse, my baby also suffers from reflux, and is taking reflux medication. When I don't use infacol before feeds, I can really notice the difference, and think this product has actually helped to ease my babies reflux symptoms.
My husbamd bought a 50ml bottle from Sainsbury pharmacy for around £3 after the baby had been home for only five days. Initially I was wary of giving medication to such a tiny baby without checking with a GP but as he was showing clear signs of wind: crying, legs drawing up, sucking without needing food, I agreed to try it.
The Infacol is dispensed by a little dropper. It's easy to get into the baby (he enjoyed sucking on the dropper) but it was harder to keep inside him as he kept dribbling and spitting it out. At least it doesn't stain or mark clothes. It's flavoured with orange and he seems to quite like the taste.
Fairly soon after taking the Infacol our baby was releasing wind through both exits and seeming a lot happier about it. We found the medicine had something of a cumulative effect, giving it regularly twice a day kept him a lot less windy. Now he's a little older (ten weeks) it seems to help relieve discomfort while he's constipated. It's not a miracle cure though, and there have been a few times where plenty of leg cycling and tummy rubs were also needed to help shift the wind along.
I'd definitely recommend it for any new parent though, it can really make a difference stopping wind discomfort.
This stuff should a staple in your medicine cupboard if you have a 0-3 month old baby in my opinion! I have 3 children and have used this wonder liquid in every one of them.
You purchase this item in a 50ml bottle and it normally retails at around the £3.50 mark. The box has a picture of a contented, sleeping baby and tells me that this is suitable from birth and relieves wind, infant colic and griping pain. It also tells me it is sugar, alcohol and colourant free, essential for a newborn baby.
The bottle is white with a grey screw cap that has a dropper inside, so is a pointed shape but soft and rubbery so you can squeeze it.
Once you have opened the bottle, you keep the dropper in the liquid and squeeze the top so the liquid is sucked into the tube, you then place the dropper into your baby's mouth and squeeze again to administer 1 or 2 drops.
The liquid is a milky colour and smells orangey also with an orangey taste.
I always gave a dose of this before a bottle, and it was very effective at bringing up wind, my babies have never suffered from colic so I can't give an opinion on that. There is no maximum dosage, therefore it can be given before every feed if required. A bottle claims to give upto 100 doses.
If anyone ever asks my advice in the best product to use for helping with wind my answer would immediately be infacol.
Colic is a really common problem in young babies and one that certainly makes life pretty hard! Both my girls suffered from colic and wind at some point in infancy. With my first daughter we tried so many different (expensive) remedies none of them worked they either did nothing or just made things worse. After a few months of this I was at the end of my tether with it so I took her to the doctors, he prescribed infacol. I'd seen it before with all the other colic remedies but as it was so cheap I always assumed it would be just like all the others and be no good. Seeing as my doctor prescribed it I felt we had nothing to lose in giving a go, I'm glad we did.
infacol is widely available from most chemists and baby shops, you don't need a prescription. For 50ml you are looking at paying around £3.50, definitely tje cheaper of the colic medicines! It comes in a small plastic bottle, the screw on lid has a dropper running through the middle into the bottle with the rubber squeezy part at the top. Each squeeze of the top fills the dropper with 0.5ml of the medicine. One dropper is the dose you start on initially but you can up it to 2 if need be. Its really convienient way to administer the medicine especially to a small baby, all you do its squeeze it into their mouth.
The actual medicine is a syrupy, whiteish colour with a strong orange smell. It is formulated to push all the air bubbles in baby's tummy together therefore making it easier for them to bring the wind back up. You administer the dose you need before each feed and unlike many of the other remedies it is suitable from birth. It can be used with both bottle and breast fed babies.
Both my girls pulled a face at the taste of it at first but once they got used to it before each feed they ended up quite liking it, probably because they knew it meant milk was coming!
It certainly made winding them a whole lot easier and meant they bought up the wind with one large burp and were then nice and settled again. All the legging pulling up and gripeness stopped.
As you are only using 0.5ml at a time the bottle lasts quite a while so you re not constantly buying it which is definitely a good thing, babies are so expensive as it is.
the only issue we had with infacol was it made my second daughter bring up milk when she burped sometimes but she was later diagnosed with acid reflux so I think it had more to do with that than anything the infacol.
We used it with both girls and should our third baby develop colic it will be my go to product. A great price point and does exactly what you want it to.
We tried Infacol for our baby's wind. It only made her very sick. She could not hold down her milk and would spill for a couple of hours after each feed. Her stomach would rumble also and body tense up with pain. I realise it works for many babies but not all can cope with this product, especially any baby with reflux of any kind, it will make it much worse.
Before Freya was born we stocked up on lots of essentials such as nappies, wipes, cotton wool, cream, baby bath products etc. However, one thing we didnt get was anything to help with her wind. My older niece, Ellie who is now 12 never really had any problems with wind so it was something that really didnt cross our minds.
However, within the first week it was clear that Freya was having a bit of trouble feeding. And after that she was having a bit of problem with wind. No matter how long we would rub her back for or try numerous other methods she just wasnt managing to bring up the wind. The midwife suggested trying infacol on her home visit so we got some straight away. Infacol was recommended because it is safe for newborns whereas the well known product, gripe water is only safe from when they are a little older, I think its from 6 weeks.
We paid somewhere around the £2.50 mark for our bottle, Boots sell it for £2.89. I was surprised by the price - I thought it would be more expensive than that and I was expecting to pay around double what I did.
The bottle is 50ml in size and comes with a dropper which you can use to administer it to the baby. Each dose is 0.5ml which can be increased to 1ml if required. 1ml contains 40mg of Simeticone.
We bought the product because it was recommended and it promised to relieve infant colic and griping pain and help to bring up wind.
When we first got this out the box I was surprised by the smell of the product. I dont know what I was expecting it to smell like but it has a strong orange scent. For some reason I assumed it would either be flavourless or taste like milk or something. The dropper is easy to use and as long as the lid is unscrewed you can easily administer the infacol with one hand. The product is sugar, alcohol & colourant free.
I was expecting Freya to spit this back out and not want to take it. However, after she first used this she took it just fine so I imagine she likes the flavour. She also now associates this with feeding time so if she is beginning to grizzle because she wants to be feeding if you give her some of this she calms down for a couple of minutes whilst her Mum is getting ready to feed her.
I was amazed by how well this product worked. We went from an uncomfortable baby who was quite grizzly to a baby who was able to bring up wind. Initially (the first few days of using this) it still took a while to burp Freya (up to 20 minutes) but she was able to bring the wind up which she was unable to before. After this she was much easier to wind and now you only find yourself winding her for 5 minutes after her feed.
Initially we used this at every feed but now we tend to use it a few times a day. She has remained comfortable and it is still much easier to wind her. We have had our first bottle about 10 days now and it has literally just ran out. I think for the price it represents excellent value for money.
This product is fantastic. It really helps Freya and the low price is very reasonable. Freya is happy enough to take this so it must taste nice and it is simple to administer. It really does work so if you are experiencing similar problems with your little one it really is worth a try.
One of our friends had a baby a few months before us and used to swear by Infacol and suggested we brought some ready for when our little one arrived. It is supposed to help relieve wind, colic and griping pain in babies and helps to bring up their wind. It has a mild orange flavour (lol yes I did taste it!) It can be brought in Boots and Superdrug as well as other shops and cost around £3 for 50ml. It is suitable from birth and is free from sugar, alcohol and colourants.
It comes in a white box with red flash and the infacol logo. Inside is a bottle containing 50ml of Infacol. There is a pippette in the lid which make it very easy to administer, you simply give one pippette full before a feed. There are around 100 doses in the bottle so it is very good value.
We found this really did help my daughter, we could certainly tell if we had forgotten to give it with a feed as she seemed less comfortable. We found it much easier to wind her when we used this. We used it from birth until around 3 months and during this time we never went anywhere without it. Iy really is very easy to give to baby and she actually used to quite happily suck at the pippette.
I would highly recommend this and should we have another child it will most certainly be ready in the cupboard.
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Colic is something which my children suffered with and my children have since experienced with their own babies. It is not a nice thing to go through and so if you can find something that helps to relieve colic symptoms it is great. We used Infacol with our grandchildren and it helped improve their symptoms.
The Infacol comes in a little bottle with a pipette which slots in the top. You fill up the pipette and that is the dosage for your baby. It is easy to adminster for a baby in this way instead of trying to use a spoon or a syringe. Babies that need Infacol are only very, very tiny so being able to administer it is important.
You need to give it about twenty minutes before a feed for it to have the best effect.
It helps the baby digest their feed which means that the symptoms of colic are less in the evenings. After a few days of giving this to our grandchildren they improved. It took about 3 days until we saw an improvement but they were definitely less uncomfortable in the evenings. I don't think it took it away completely but I would say it helped to relieve them a little bit.
We carried on using this until they were about 15 weeks old and then gradually started to withdraw it.
My daughter swears by it and says it definitely helped her daughter to be more comfortable, she didn't cry as much in the evenings and so we really relied upon this. It was great to think something could help relieve the pain.
It's not a child proof lid so make sure it is kept out of reach of children.
-How we came to discover Infacol-
It was the middle of a cold and windy April night and everyone was in bed, asleep. Everyone except us, me and my husband that is... Well, how could we be? Our 3 week old baby boy had been crying non stop for at least 2 hours maybe 3. Like any concerned first time parents we had called the midwife for some advice, "it sounds like he has colic" she said "keep trying to wind him, have plenty of skin to skin contact and he'll soon settle"... Soon settle my backside! He was as determined then as he is now (gets that from his mum) and he had decided that, if he was upset and miserable then we should be too and no amount of soothing words nor gentle cuddles was going to persuade him otherwise.
At around half 3 my husband had had enough, he'd had a long day and needed to be up again in just over 3 hours, he pulled on his jeans and coat over his jammies and set to see what they had at the all night pharmacy 40 mins away.
-What does it look like?-
Infacol comes in a very simple looking box, the picture of a baby sleeping peacefuly taunts you as you wrestle with your own screaming nightmare. The front of the box states that it is for the relief of wind, infant colic and griping pain and is suitable from birth onwards. The box contains white bottle with a tall grey lid which has the same information and logo as the box. It also comes with the usual leaflet containing usage instructions, warnings and the like. The Infacol lid comes with an inbuilt dropper which is very useful and makes it very quick and easy for you to administer to your baby. The liquid itself is white and gloopy, it looks a lot like runny PVA glue.
-What does it taste like?-
Having tasted it myelf, I can honestly say I'm not a fan. The supposedly natural orange flavour is actually quite synthetic tasting and for something sugar free it does taste rather sweet. I may be biased as I'm not a fan of things that are orange flavored, but in my opinion it's not a flavor I find particularly pleasnt. My son and daughter on the other hand both seemed to enjoy it, well they didn't spit it out or pull faces at least. As I said earlier it's sugar free, according to the insert it's also alcohol and colourant free too.
-How does it work?-
The active ingredient in Infacol is simethicone which a bit of googling tells you is something called an anti-foaming agent. It works by breaking the surface tension of gas bubbles in the stomach, this makes the bubbles combine into larger bubbles which are easier to pass. Simethicone is considered very safe as it does not get absorbed into your baby's body, this is why it is safe to use from birth onwards and also as many times per day as is required.
-Does it work?-
I am pleased to say yes it does! Although it's not some miracle cure that will instantly rid your baby (and you) from the unpleasntness of colic, it really does make a noticable difference. Will was bringing up his wind a lot easier with the Infacol, and was deffinately in a lot less pain. It also makes your baby do some enormous burps, an added bonus as it's always cute to see the look of amazement on the face of a small baby who has just made such an almighty noise.
-Where can I get it? and how muh?-
Infacol is widely avaliable to buy at all the big supermarkets and most pharmacies.If used correctly (and not spilt) each bottle contains enough Infacol for 100 doses according to the manufacturers website and, at around £2.89 for a bottle from Boots, that works out at just under 3 pence per dose, pretty good value if you ask me.
The benefit of using Infacol over normal gripe water is the fact that gripe water does contain sugar while Infacol does not and this was an important part of my decision to opt for this product when my little one was a baby and needed winding. The other benefit of Infacol is that it can be used straight from birth while gripe water is not suitable for a new born and should only be used when the child is a month old and while this was not such an issue for me and my daughter it might be relevant to others.
This should be administered before feeding and it certainly does make it easier for a child to burp up any wind, this is not only better for the baby but I also found that it greatly eased some of the stress around feed time which as this was my first child I found a little stressful, I was worried that she would not latch on properly, that she would not get enough food and then to see her in pain with wind as a new mother I was a little panicky at times. Infacol not only provided relief for my daughter it also provided some peace of mind for me as well, something that is much appreciated when you are a bit frazzled from lack of sleep.
A 50ml bottle costs under £3, I forget the exact price I used to pay and once opened it should be used within the month however I found I was replacing it within that time frame on a normal feeding pattern. The results were as described, it certainly made feed time a less painful experience for my daughter and less stressful for me. The small dropper is easy to use and I never had any problems with my daughter rejecting the Infacol. It has a feint citrus smell to it and is quite thick in its consistency.
This is one of those miracle products in my opinion and it really did do what it claimed on the bottle. An important part of any post birth survival kit in my opinion.
I got told about this by my friend before I'd even had Kai and I'm glad that I found out about it so early on because it's come to the rescue too many times to keep track of.
It takes just a few drops before it has Kai belching up all of his wind really easily and feeling a lot more comfortable and happy and it is really easy to use because it has an easy dose system. The main thing that I like about it is that it can be used from birth. It does say on the bottle that baby's under 6 months old shouldn't take it unless the parent checks with the doctor first so I mentioned it at one of kai's appointment and was told it was fine.
Another thing I like about it is that it can be added to formula and food without it effecting how fast it takes to work or anything, which I think is a big advantage because even though it smells quite nice (it smells like orange) it tastes horrible on its own (Kai pulled the funniest face the first time I gave him some and would only take it in his formula).
I bought our small 50ml bottle of this before Kai was born and am now on the 3rd or 4th bottle - he's over a year old so it's a very economical product (it is only about £3) thanks to the packaging which makes it pretty much impossible to waste a drop because of the way it is dispensed.
Then again though I do only use it when I am sure that he's in discomfort because of wind and not at the first sign that he *might* have wind. When he was a baby he had wind almost daily, but a few drops of this would get rid of it and he would sleep better for it because he wasn't in pain or discomfort. It worked a treat with colic and made him more relaxed within less then 20 minutes, and I think it's great.
Oh my goodness how much did I rely on this when my little girl was tiny? It turned out to be a God send! Colic is horrible and not something any parent wants to have to endure with their little ones and so when something comes along that helps them it is a huge relief and this is what Infacol was for me; a relief!
* What is colic?
Colic occurs during the evenings. It is caused by the build up of wind in a baby throughout the day. Their tummies are too little to be able to digest the food they are consuming during the day and so they get a build up of wind which then becomes very painful and uncomfortable in the early evening. Colic is often recognised by regular crying in the early evenings, the cry is one of pain and discomfort and it appears that nothing can comfort them. It can go on for hours every evening and it can be awful for the parents to see their newborns like this. It is very common too, I read somewhere that nearly a quarter of babies go through it around the age of 6-12 weeks. I hadn't even heard of it before having my daughter so can't believe it's this common! It is awful for parents to see their tiny baby in such discomfort and there is little that can be done.
* Infacol.
We were recommended Infacol by a friend. A doctor told us that we could use it if we wished but he wasn't recommending it as there is evidence to suggest it doesn't work. We thought we would give it a go and see how we got on and I'm really glad we did. We bought it over the counter. It was about £3.50 for a little bottle.
* How you use it.
You administer it about twenty minutes before each feed. I found this had to do as my baby seemed to graze all day but I'd just make sure she had a bit before I fed her. You use a little pipette that comes in the bottle and squeeze it so it's full. You then squeeze this into the baby's mouth. It's really easy to do, so much easier than trying to get a spoon into a newborn's mouth! It's only a tiny measure but it does seem like quite a bit for such a small baby. It tastes sweet so my baby usually would take it no problem. It is recommended that you do this before every feed.
* Does it work?
This takes time to build up. It will not work right away but we noticed a definite difference after about 3 days. Our baby seemed to be more settled and although she still cried a bit in the early evenings it wasn't anywhere near as bad. We then kept using this until she reached about 14 weeks at which point we then began to wean her off it. We didn't want to suddenly just stop using it so we stopped giving it to her before every feed until eventually she was no longer having any at all. I really believe that this helped her. I suppose we can't say for sure whether it helped or if it was just a coincidence but I believe that this was the cause of her being happier in the evenings.
* Conclusion
I am happy with this and I know many others who have been too. I know there are some debates about these kinds of medicines for such young babies but it really helped my little girl I am sure. It was very easy to administer, some people recommended other types of medicine but they were complicated- you had to mix them with milk or you had to use a spoon but this is really designed with newborns in mind which you would expect really considering it is for a newborn! I think it's helped with our daughter and was well worth the money. We went through three bottles in total.
Infacol is medicine for babies to help if they have got colic. It does not work for all babies and I know that is true because it has helped my 8 month old daughter but when my other daughter who is 9 now had colic Infacol did not do a thing for her symptoms.
Dispense a dropper full of Infacol into your babys mouth before they feed. The dropper is built into the bottle and it is very easy to fill up by squeezing the bulb. You can use Infacol for newborn babies because there is nothing dangerous in it and when they get older you can increase the dose to 2 droppers.
It has got a sort of orange taste and my 3 children have all liked the taste. That on it's own is a bit soothing to some babies if their colic is not very painful, I think because of how sweet it is. I have tasted it and it is very nice and I can see why babies like it.
I think Infacol depends on the baby and also how sick they are with colic. My daughter only had it when she had one of her back teeth breaking through the gum and that was when she was between 5 and 6.5 months old. She had an ache in her stomach and cried very badly but I was sure that a lot of this was because het tooth was hurting. It did not work straight away because you have to give it some time to work and get into their system. After 1 week her crying was less and she was not a sick baby, the colic returned sometimes but it was not so severe for her to suffer.
My other daughter was not helped by Infacol but a natural remedy was better effective for her. My friends baby also does not get relief from Infacol so I think it is luck if it helps your baby or not and there are other things to try if this does not work.
I think it is worth trying if you baby gets symptoms that you think might be colic. For babies who have a good reaction the product is very effective and if it does not work then you have tried it out at least.
A bottle of Infacol costs about £3 and you can buy it in all supermarkets and pharmacies. Each bottle has 100 doses. You use it before every feed so it depends upon how many feeds you baby has for how long a bottle will last.
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When my daughter was first born, she seemed to have some pain with wind. It was difficult to get her to burp and she would pull her legs up a lot after feeding. I knew she didn't have colic because she wasn't crying all the time, she just seemed uncomfortable and it was difficult to settle her to sleep after a feed. I also spoke to the health visitors who agreed - she didn't seem to have colic. I asked if it would be ok to give her gripe water, as a couple of friends had suggested trying it. The health visitor explained that it would be fine but gripe water does contain sugar and they suggested I try Infacol.
Gripe water can only be used once your baby is a month old but Infacol can be used from birth. Infacol needs to be used a couple of times for it to work and requires constant use for it to work effectively. It needs to be given you baby before each feed. Basically the ingredient within the Infacol (Simeticone) is supposed to bring all the little air bubbles together to form one nice bubble for your baby to burp. I'm sure the science is more complicated than that but this is how it was explained to me.
Infacol is sold in Tesco for £2.75 and I found the bottle would last about 2-3 weeks. The bottle contains 50ml and once opened you can only use the bottle for 28 days. The bottle has a dropper attached to the lid to it is easy to give the medicine to your baby. You just need to give your baby one dropper full before each and every feed. I would lay my baby fairly flat across my lap and drop the medicine near the back of her mouth to one side to allow her the chance to swallow it. As the weeks progressed she soon began to learn the routine and looked forward to the medicine because she knew she was about to be fed. It was much easier to give her the medicine at this point.
Infacol is a white fluid that smells of oranges and is fairly runny. It has a similar consistency to Calpol. Infacol does not contain any sugar or alcohol and apparently is completely harmless. I was told that a baby could drink the whole bottle and there would be no side affects - I would not be willing to find out if this is true or not and would not recommend that anyone else try this!
I no longer use this product because my daughter doesn't need it anymore but I would certainly recommend it and have recommended it to my friends who are having babies. It really did help my daughter burp easier.
Thanks for reading.
Infacol was the first medicine we used with my daughter when she had colic. It came in a white and red bottle, which cost us £2.89 from Boots. It should be used within 28 days of being opened.
It is taken orally before a feed to help babies bring their wind up, and to help with any pain the colic and griping is giving them. You can give a baby as many dosages as required. Each bottle contains a dropper-you should give your child one dropper full. If you still don't see an improvement within a few days then you can then increase the dosage to two droppers. If this still doesn't work after a few days then the doctor/health visitor will probably prescribe something else. My health visitor told me that this normally works for mild colic, but that it doesn't work as fast as most of the other colic medicines.
Infacol has an orange smell and taste to it, so we had no trouble getting my daughter to take her dosage. It contains no alcohol, sugar or colourants.
This didn't work for my daughter, but my health visitor did say my daughter had an extreme case. This actually made my daughter sick. It is definitely worth giving it a try if your baby has colic, as it is very affordable-and I do know a lot of people who it has worked for. The bottle is meant to contain enough for a hundred doses, so a little goes a long way.
50ml / Aims to relieves infant colic and griping / Relieves wind, infant colic and griping pain / Suitable to use from birth onwards / Our most popular treatment for this condition.


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San Francisco Giants 16, Colorado Rockies 4: All Giants hitters needed was a little Coors
We thought a little Jonathan Sanchez and Coors Field could get the Giants' hitters out of their recent slump.
Well, you would think that 16 runs on 16 hits would validate that claim.
But Friday's offensive outburst had less to do with Sanchez and more to do with the Rockies' bullpen and the Rockies' ability to give the Giants runs.
The Giants worked 67 pitches from Sanchez in three innings of work, but only got two runs on three hits and three walks. Sanchez actually saw his ERA drop slightly after Friday's outing as one of the two runs he allowed was unearned.
But the Giants scored more runs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings (13) than they did in seven of their previous eight games.
The eighth inning was the best example of how the Giants were aided by the Rockies.
The Giants loaded the bases on a single, error and infield single. A Ryan Theriot single scored one. The two wild pitches scored two more runs. The second wild pitch allowed Melky Cabrera to reach base on a walk.
Then Buster Posey unleashed a three-run home run for a six-run inning.
There was good stats from the offense, however:
- Angel Pagan reached base five times, going 3 for 4 with a double, triple, four runs and two walks.
- Theriot was 2 for 5 with three runs and two RBI.
- Posey was 4 for 5 with three RBI and a walk.
- Hunter Pence got his first hit as a Giants after starting 0 for 9.
- All nine starters collected at least one hit, including a double by Ryan Vogelsong.
That seventh-inning double by Vogelsong may have sapped him of some energy.
After allowing one hit in the first six innings, Vogelsong allowed three hits to the first four batters of the seventh inning — two doubles and a triple that resulted to two runs.
Manager Bruce Bochy left him in to face Wilin Rosario, who hooked a two-run homer just inside the left-field foul pole.
That snapped Vogelsong's streak of 16 quality starts to open the season and he finished by allowing four runs on five hits in 6.1 innings.
It's a good start to the road trip and kept the Giants ahead of the Dodgers and Diamondbacks, who both won Friday.
Now they need to keep it up as Madison Bumgarner takes to the hill Saturday against Jeff Francis.

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Drivers: New intersection is not truck friendly
NORTH BENNINGTON - Truckers aren't happy with the newly refurbished intersection of Bank and Main Streets.
The owners of several area trucking companies attended the North Bennington Board of Trustees' monthly meeting on Tuesday, complaining that the new intersection didn't offer enough room for trucks to maneuver, and was causing serious damage to their trucks' tires. The construction, which was completed around the end of October, was designed to make the village center more pedestrian friendly. It includes mountable curbs for trucks to use, but the owners insisted it wasn't enough. "There is no way we can use that intersection without doing something illegal," said one of the protesters during the citizens' comments portion of the meeting.
"At every stage, these plans were approved by the state, with trucks in mind. They were approved by at least six different state agencies," said Matthew Patterson, chairman of the Board of Tr u s t e e s .
The intersection lies right at the center of the North Bennington Historic district, but is also the intersection of Routes 67 and 67A.
Route 67 is a major truck route, according to Norm Leblanc, the village's highway superintendent.
The intersection was designed to slow down traffic in the village center, where cars and trucks alike often ignored the posted speed limits.
"Let me ask you, is this, of all the routes you drive, the worst intersection you experience?" asked Patterson at one point, as the protesting owners all stood around the board table. They answered with a unanimous yes.
The company owners presented photo evidence of trucks being unable to successfully navigate the intersection, especially during high-traffic hours. Many of the members of the board noted that the truck drivers were not fully utilizing the mountable curbs. The representatives of the trucking companies expressed concern over the angle of the mountable curb, and the height of the seven-inch curb separating the mountable curb from the grass area between the curb and the sidewalk. Patterson said that curb was so high for the express purpose of discouraging people from driving on it.
Leblanc urged the trucking company owners to submit evidence of the difficulties they face, and the damage its doing to their trucks. "You have to help us help you," said Leblanc. He expressed a willingness to go shave down the angle on the mountable curb himself - if the trucking company owners would meet him out there one morning to discuss the issue.
In an interview after the public meeting, Leblanc expressed the importance of commerce to the local economy, and said, "We are looking at ways that we can make this work for everyone."
At one point during the meetings, Patterson asked why they hadn't brought up their objections during one of the public planning meetings during the last 10 years.
"I kept telling myself, if the state engineered it, it's going to be okay," said one of the concerned trucking owners.
"I'm still at that point," replied Patterson, shaking his head.
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Let me first preface my opinion by stating that they are clearly not there YET. That said, I see the potential for Felton and Amare to be better than Nash and Amare and here is why:
Amare is now just entering his prime and this point cannot be overstated. Amare is in top form, healthy and has years of experience playing with Nash and playing in the playoffs against elite teams to draw from. He is battled tested and hardened like Japanese steel. Amare has added a consistent jumpshot to his game which compliments his strength and speed because defenders have to defend him on the wings now giving him the opportunity to blow past them. He has matured into a leader and is thriving under the lights and pressure of NYC.
Felton has the raw materials to be better than Nash in almost every way. He is stronger, bigger, faster, better scorer and more athletic than Nash. These attributes may allow Felton to out due the savvy and IQ Nash possesses. Felton is no dummy either as he has displayed tremendous bball IQ and savvy as well, all though a notch or two below Nash. Felton too is entering his prime and is poised to have many years playing along Amare in D'ants system.
My prediction is that Felton's strength, speed, scoring and athleticism make him more of a threat to contain than Nash therefore will open up more scoring opportunities for Amare. His passing and IQ are a below that of Nash and he may never reach that caliber in those departments but his overall game and the fact that both Amare and Felton are entering their prime together leads me to predict they will be the superior tandem. Thoughts?


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Aerosmith have never been considered a "political" band. But considering the evidence of their beliefs, and their history with patriotic events, one thing is certain: they believe in America.
The band's pre-Election Day hometown concert on November 5, set to take place at their old apartment at 1325 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston, is only the latest example of their willingness to perform as part of events that are inherently Americanized – even if they try to conceal their political affiliations.
The only member who has publicly declared his stance is Joe Perry, who in a recent interview with Noisecreep admitted that he's an "old school" Republican, as evidenced by his public support of John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. He also revealed his fascination with American history, particularly 18th and 19th-century weapons, which explains his recent TV appearance on Sons of Guns, which you can watch below.
Though he called John F. Kennedy his favorite president and never got into details about his social or political ideals, Perry expressed his traditional American values that many conservative and/or Republican politicians share.
"I was taught that you get what you put into it," he said. "You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place."
Barely any of Aerosmith's songs have political subject matter in the lyrics, but there is an exception on the band's new album, Music From Another Dimension, out November 6th. The song "Freedom Fighter," which features Perry on rare lead vocals, concerns Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony.
"We don't really get into politics and stuff," Perry told Rolling Stone regarding the track, "but I felt so strongly about this guy [Kony], and the freedom fighters that are out there who do so much good by going to the front lines with cameras and tape recorders. They're freedom fighters, and it was a tip of the hat to those kind of people. I was really so moved."
So we know Perry is a Republican and does have some interest in politics, but what about the rest of Aerosmith?
"This band has always had a policy, we're all pretty much on the same page when we start talking politics," he says in the aforementioned Noisecreep interview. "We all came up in that era when you were taught that can do anything you set your minds to and by God we walked on the moon, just like JFK said we would."
Based on that comment, every member of Aerosmith could be Republican, but Perry is the only one to confirm. Steven Tyler, however, has dropped hints in the past.
Steven Tyler performs the national anthem prior to the AFC Championship Game between the Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
While he has never directly addressed his political views, Tyler has spoken to the government on important social issues, such as his visit to the Supreme Court to speak about FCC censorship on TV. He hinted at conservative ideals when speaking on television censorship.
"It's really hot when you only show a little," he said on full-frontal nudity, with his typical Tyler charm.
He has sworn on TV before like he did on American Idol – "because it is 2012," as he said – so he's not completely against using curse words. But when it comes to "streams" of curse words and pejorative terms involving race, gender or religion, that's where he would draw the line.
Tyler's Supreme Court appearance is a strong sign that he leans at least slightly to the right politically, but until he confirms it, his political views remain a mystery.
One thing that is not a mystery about Aerosmith is that they are all-American and love their country. They have long been heavily active in charity work, having contributed to worldwide organizations like Amnesty International and Global Angels, as well as several music-related foundations.
They have also appeared at several patriotic American events, including Steven Tyler's many National Anthem performances – some better than others. The full band also performed with the Boston Pops as part of the 2006 Fourth of July celebration.
Perhaps most notably, Aerosmith performed as part of the United We Stand benefit concert, which came just weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
We can expect more of the same when Aerosmith takes the makeshift stage somewhere in Boston on Monday. They are using the show as a platform to encourage young Americans to get out there and vote on Election Day, regardless of who they pick for president.
It's refreshing for entertainers of their caliber and stature to use a political event to simply encourage us to get involved, without any hints of influence toward a particular side. While it can be reasonably concluded where Joe Perry and the rest of the band stand politically, they won't show any of it when they perform.
Their new album may be called Music From Another Dimension!, but Aerosmith clearly come from America.
— Matt Dolloff, 100.7 WZLX


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If you don't know by now (or follow our Insta), Riley Hawk went pro yesterday on his 21st birthday. After the surprise reveal at the Casa de Birdman, there was a big bash at The Saloon, every skater's favorite watering hole in North County, where Harsh Toke played and everyone came out to rage. Peep the flicks:
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Russell Glasser and John Iacoletti talk about Unitarianism, in John's first episode as regular cohost. Video should be up soon.
During the show, I mentioned to a caller that I had recently done a panel discussing Presuppositional Apologetics with Justin Schieber and Dan Linford. It seems that this video is not easy to search for, so here's a direct link:


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This is the kind of product I usually prefer to see first before purchasing, so I was a little nervous buying it online. But, I love it! It's well made... spiral bound and lays nice and flat no matter what page you open it to... the pages are nice and thick (like card stock) to hold up to whatever you put on them and the cover is nice and sturdy. Not a single complaint!
Great fast mini album-patterned paper already there!
I really like this idea but am not crazy about the orange color. The ideas posted on the inside cover is very helpful. I like different types of pages, but I would like to see a journal book that really related to more traditional styles of the past - early 20th century. Especially liked the muted green and blue shades. I would love to see this adapted to use with engagement calendars that have been written on the monthly pages with events etc., but with the ability to add pages to explain some of those events.


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Thread: Movimento BJJ, Chicago
3/11/2012 5:25pm, #1
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Movimento BJJ, Chicago
Movimento BJJ
Israel "Izao" Reyes
770 North Halsted, ste 203
great experience.
Aliveness (not sure - there usually is sparring and thought towards competition, call it 8)
Equipment (very well maintained 9)
Gym Size (decent and very clean. bathrooms also spotless 7)
Instructor:Student (Sunday probably not representative 8)
Grappling Instruction (from my perspective, excellent for the newbie 8)
Atmosphere (Professor Reyes and students were very welcoming and inclusive 9)
Overall (Psyched to see this school grow)
It is definitely worth a visit!
Did the Sunday class there and had a great time.
Since it's been more than 10 years (13 years. dammit. time flies, but it was necessary and well spent) since I last trained BJJ, I'm fuzzy on all of the terminology, so please cut me some slack on that :)
Prof Reyes is really cool. Very friendly, and his demeanor is reflected in the atmosphere of class. They were welcoming (and VERY PATIENT with the old, slow, out of shape newbie) and friendly.
Located at Chicago and Halsted (SW corner, entrance on Chicago; free parking across the street), it's easy to get to from the loop/west loop, mag mile (Chicago bus) and points west (about 10 minutes from Chicago blue line stop)
The facility is decently sized (8 running paces long, 5 wide), and the zebra mats are very well maintained.
There are male and female changing areas, and there is ample room off the mats for your slippers, too.
Place was spotless. Classes run about 90 minutes.
On Sundays, the main focus is drill.
He is a believer in conditioning in rolling, so we spent 15 minutes or so with basic conditioning and to loosen up.
Bear crawls, crab walks, and partner carries were part of the "get the blood moving" work.
Our first drill was sweeping/catching the ankle in a standing clinch. As the newbie, I was paired up with a very patient, very nice, relatively new beginner who had experience in JKD. We worked about 25 times per person.
Next was collar choke from the guard. Prof Reyes broke everything down very well. His reputation of being an excellent teacher is confirmed. We did 25 each, with the final five with pressure.
Next drill was an arm lock from the guard. This one was not clicking for me. I've lost the feel for moving on your back. But I muddled through thanks to coaching and patience. Again, about 25 per, and we worked the final five a little more.
The final drill was a sweep from the guard. Grab the gi seam behind the elbow, pop your hips and get a hand on the opponent's knee, pendulum your opposite leg, and you've reversed. We did that 50 times each.
Professor Reyes kept an eye on everybody and gave feedback on movements and technique. He ensured that the basics were followed, and that we understood the concept and the movement.
He also gave insight to the usual questions, "why do I grab here, when [another place] seems easier?"
Pricing is on par with Chicago
Thumb's up. a very positive experience.
(present, unsure of how to rate it even with FAQs - as described to me, it'd rate 8 or so):
Other days there is sparring. Today, students worked it at the end of class. High energy, great spirits. I'll eschew the rating, since I'm a newbie (again) to the BJJ world
Everything is very well maintained. It's been open there since Nov 2011, so it is all very new, but considering how clean it was, the impression is that maintenance and appearance are important!
Gym Size
Decently sized. Much bigger than the MT room at Degerberg, for example. Bigger than that Aikido studio on Lincoln that's next to Tank Restaurant up in Lincoln Square. Not as big as some of the others in Chicagoland, but good sized and there is good, efficient use of space.
Sunday classes might not be representative. Professor Reyes gives lots of attention and coaching.
Grappling Instruction
guess 7-8; today was 9-10
With the understanding that this is the newbie talking.
He broke things down very systematically and easily. He would jump in to show you what to do, even have you do it to him so he was sure. In comparison with a previous experience, years ago, his newbie instruction is definitely a 9-10
You feel welcome. This is probably a prerequisite for any good BJJ school these days. Students are obviously happy there, and they also seemed interested in if the old newbie was learning and having fun
Chicago is a leading city in terms of very well known BJJ schools. Within a few minutes' walk of Movimento, you'll find Balko, Pow, Emrald, Brazil 021... In other words, TONS of places!
Since Movimento is new, it may not be as known as those other places. If my experience there today is any bellwether, I would think it will be well known, soon.
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SANDY, Utah — Despite going into Portland on Sunday night with a two-goal lead, Real Salt Lake players insist they aren't feeling the least bit over-confident.
"The fact is they're a very good team and their stadium is a tough place to play," said Salt Lake defender Tony Beltran.
"Very tough" is an understatement. The Timbers have lost only once this season at JELD-WEN Field, site of the second leg of the Western Conference final. And RSL know that they will face not just the Timbers but 22,000 rabid Timbers fans when they try to protect their 4-2 aggregate lead and advance to the MLS Cup Final.
"I just expect them to feed off the crowd, the way home teams do," defender Nat Borchers told reporters. "It's going to be tough. We're going to have to weather some storms."
Real Salt Lake are so aware of the home-field advantage the Timbers possess that midfielder Ned Grabavoy scoffed at the suggestion that, should Salt Lake score an early goal, it could quiet the Portland crowd.
"We're not going to take the crowd out, I don't think," he told reporters. "They're going to cheer the whole time. They have great support up there. But in saying that, this team likes to play in front of big [crowds]. They certainly have one of the best in the league."
It sounds sort of counter-intuitive, but RSL players said that it won't just be the home team that draws energy from the fans that are expected to sell out the stadium this weekend.
"I think we feed off those bigger crowds," Borchers said. "We don't like going into stadiums where there's an empty crowd. We want to play in stadium where the energy is there."
And maybe it's not altogether counter-intuitive. Portland's home record in MLS play this season is 11-1-5, and two of those ties came the two times the Claret-and-Cobalt played in JELD-WEN.
Besides, some Real Salt Lake fans are expected to make the trek up north for this crucial playoff encounter. The 280 tickets allotted to the club sold out quickly, and the team is taking an extra 40 staffers to the game.
"I'm really looking forward to is seeing our fans there," Kyle Beckerman told reporters. "It will be bright red in some corner of the stadium. And in that type of environment, to have your own supporters there, it means a lot."


text: Friday the 13th: It's not just a schlocky horror movie. Well, it is that, but depending on who you ask, it's also a day to stay in bed with the covers pulled up over your head lest all kinds of misfortune and disaster befall you. There are two such days in 2013 — in September and December – and they fall in what certain superstitious folks known as triskaidekaphobes consider the unluckiest year of the century. The poor humble number 13, feared and vilified for centuries. And for what? OK, so Apollo 13 is the only unsuccessful moon mission. And there were 13 people at the Last Supper, and a few other dinner parties that ended badly. Lots of serial killers have 13 letters in their name, it's true. Oh yes, and good luck finding the 13th floor in most skyscrapers. Never mind that children officially become teenagers at age 13. Now that's scary. Here are some other reasons the number 13 has gotten such a bad rap.


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As long time readers of my work know, I've been somewhat critical of George Monbiot in the past (awarding him Muppet of The Week, twice). His account of anarchism in his book Age of Consent must be one of the worse ever, making his "critique" completely worthless. I was going to review that book at one stage, but it is so terrible it was impossible to summarise (or even know where to start!) and so that joined the "started but not finished" pile! Suffice to say, he really should do some research before writing about anarchism.
This is not to say he does not get it right at times. He does, particularly on green issues (such as refuting climate-change deniers). He gets it right in this recent article for the Guardian: This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression. In response to Monbiot, a letter from Dr Sean Gabb, the Director of the so-called Libertarian Alliance was published. I replied to that and amazingly the Guardian published it on 24th of December, unedited. This letter is included at the end of this blog, but first a few comments on the original article and the propertarian letter.
Monbiot's article has this basic premise: "It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99%" As the article puts it:
"Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?"
Basically, because libertarian has been stolen from the left by the right. This can be seen from Monbiot's article which, unlike the title, notes that "Rightwing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others" and so "is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor." He sums up:
'Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.'
Basically, Monbiot is arguing that inequality produces wealth inequalities, which creates economic power which reduces the freedom of the many (to essentially picking masters). We can agree with that (it is the core of the anarchist critique of propertarianism – see, for example, An Anarchist Critique of Anarcho-Statism). As far as the state being the protector of "weaker people", that is more problematic.
Given the unstable nature of capitalism the state has to intervene. It also defends the interest of the system as a whole and so can clash with individual capitalists and (at times) whole sections of the capitalist class (for example, the New Deal in the 1930s). This gives the impression of the state having independence (combined with the extremely wealthy moaning about how hard they are being treated by being taxed – of course none would agree to an income so low that they are not taxed!). Moreover, popular movements and pressure from outside has resulted in reforms and victories which make the state less obviously the agent of the wealthy. However, this does not change its fundamental nature as a defender of property and the power that produces (as the likes of von Hayek, von Mises, Rand, Nozick, etc. all desired). Here is Peter Kropotkin from the 1912 (revised and expanded) edition of Modern Science and Anarchism:
'We cannot either go on saying, as superficial critics of present society often say when they require the State management of industries, that modern Capitalism has its origin in an "anarchy of production" due to the "non intervention of the State" and to the Liberal doctrine of "let things alone" (laissez faire, laissez passer). This would amount to saying, that the State has practised this doctrine, while in reality it never has practised it. We know, on the contrary, that while all Governments have given the capitalists and monopolists full liberty to enrich themselves with the underpaid labour of working men reduced to misery, they have NEVER, NOWHERE given the working men the liberty of opposing that exploitation. Never has any Government applied the "leave things alone" principle to the exploited masses. It reserved it for the exploiters only.
'What, then, is the use of talking, with Marx, about the "primitive accumulation" — as if this "push" given to capitalists were a thing of the past? In reality, new monopolies have been granted every year till now by the Parliaments of all nations to railway, tramway, gas, water, and maritime transport companies, schools, institutions, and so on. The State's "push" is, and has ever been, the first foundation of all great capitalist fortunes.
'In short, nowhere has the system of "non-intervention of the State" ever existed. Everywhere the State has been, and is, the main pillar and the creator, direct and indirect, of Capitalism and its powers over the masses. Nowhere, since States have grown up, have the masses had the freedom of resisting the oppression by capitalists. The few rights they have now they have gained only by determination and endless sacrifice.
'To speak therefore of non-intervention of the State may be all right for bourgeois economists, who try to persuade the workers that their misery is "a law of Nature." But — how can Socialists use such language? The State has always interfered in the economic life in favour of the capitalist exploiter. It has always granted him protection in robbery, given aid and support for further enrichment. And it could not be otherwise. To do so was one of the functions — the chief mission — of the State.
'The State was established for the precise purpose of imposing the rule of the landowners, the employers of industry, the warrior class, and the clergy upon the peasants on the land and the artisans in the city. And the rich perfectly well know that if the machinery of the State ceased to protect them, their power over the labouring classes would be gone immediately.'
This issue of state intervention is discussed in section D.1 of An Anarchist FAQ so I will leave it there. Simply put, the propertarians want it to go back to this situation and to dump the weak social protections the state has been forced to grant to the 99%.
However, this is not what prompted my letter. This was written to reply to the response by a propertarian the next day. My letter reiterates the first on-line comment made to Monbiot's article:
"Ironically, the word 'libertarian' was first used in 19th century France as an alternative to 'anarchist'. It was created as an anti-capitalist idea. In a lot of the world, it still is."
Which is precisely the point my letter makes. I should give here the full quotes and references for the two quotes I use. The first is by Murray Rothbard and is significant. It is from a book reminiscing about the origins of the so-called "libertarian" right in America and he publicly acknowledged their stealing of the word libertarian from genuine anarchists:
"One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . 'Libertarians' . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing [sic!] anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over . . ." (The Betrayal of the American Right, p. 83)
Today, of course, propertarians shrilly denounce anarchists using the term libertarian in its original and correct meaning as attempting to appropriate their name and associate it with socialism! Oh, the irony…
My letter indicated that libertarian in its modern meaning was first coined by a French communist-anarchist in 1857, Joseph Déjacque. He used it first in a letter to Proudhon in 1857 and is available as an on-line supplemental text to my Proudhon anthology Property is Theft!. As I noted in my speculation on a second edition of that book, I would try and include this in an appendix (and any second edition is way off).The following year, 1858, saw Déjacque use the term Le Libertaire as the title of an anarcho-communist newspaper published in New York. This is discussed in an AFAQ blog posting (and subsequent article in Freedom, December 2008 edition): 150 years of Libertarian.
This translation of the 1857 letter was originally produced in two parts for and made available by Shawn Wilbur (Part I and Part II). I've urged people to visit Shawn's webpage before, and will do so again now. His work in translating and/or putting on-line early anarchist works is a massive benefit to the movement. He has recently posted a new Déjacque article on exchange from Le Libertaire (previous translations include Down With Bosses). And he has some very good news for all people interested in anarchist history/theory:
I've just posted a translation of an 1858 article on "Exchange," from "Le Libertaire." One of my projects for 2012 will be to put together a volume of Dejacque's work in English. It's too bad that Dejacque's influence was largely lost before anarchist communism really emerged as a larger movement. He incorporated a lot from the sociology of the "utopian" socialists in rather brilliant ways, and was less concerned with masking his sources than Proudhon was. Enjoy! There's a first sample of his writings on slavery not far behind this, along with revisions of my earlier translations and my own translation of the "Letter to Proudhon."
Ironically given the appropriation of the term "libertarian" by the American propertarian right, the term was first used in America to describe an anti-property perspective even stronger than Proudhon and his critique/analysis that "Property is Theft" and "Property is Despotism"!
So around 100 years after a communist-anarchist had coined the term, the propertarian-right started to appropriate the term. Ironically, around the same time as they "captured" libertarian "from the enemy" (us, the people who coined it!), in the late 1950s, Rothbard wrote a sadly unpublished article in which he acknowledged what anarchists have been saying since the right tried to appropriate "libertarian" – that propertarianism is not anarchism! While this is discussed in an AFAQ blog posting, the key quote is:
"We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical." (Are Libertarians 'Anarchists'?)
This was applicable to both the "dominant anarchist doctrine . . . of 'anarchist communism'" ("which has also been called 'collectivist anarchism,' 'anarcho-syndicalism,' and 'libertarian communism') as well as individualist anarchists, considered by Rothbard "the best of them", as both had "socialistic elements in their doctrines." He suggested that there were thinkers "in that Golden Age of liberalism" who had ideas "similar" to his ideology but these "never referred to themselves as anarchists" while "all the anarchist groups . . . possessed socialistic economic doctrines in common."
If only he had kept to that analysis and called his ideology something more accurate…
Still, I think the right can rest easy as the rest of the left will be helping them to appropriate libertarian from us. Monbiot does quantify "libertarianism" with rightwing in the article ("Rightwing libertarianism recognises..."), so some progress has been made. However, in a recent New Statesman magazine we have two issues of concern. The first is the main article Who's left? The 20 most intriguing progressive voices in the United States. This article's premise is that "With Barack Obama accused of governing as a moderate Republican, this New Statesman cover story names the left-wingers in America who matter - not just liberals, but socialists, social democrats and true progressives." It includes two people who you may be familiar with: Noam Chomsky (theorist) and David Graeber (anthropologist, Occupy Wall Street co-ordinator). And does the article mention that they are anarchists? No. Libertarians? No. But that issue also has an interview with right-winger P. J. O'Rourke which proclaims him as being a, you've guessed it, a "libertarian."
Suffice to say, as long as we can expect the mainstream media to repeat that Ron Paul is a "libertarian" we will have an upward struggle to keep libertarian true to its meaning. If the rest of the left don't use propertarian then the struggle automatically gets harder…
The second quote is from Kropotkin (and as used in section F.2.1 of An Anarchist FAQ):
"The modern Individualism initiated by Herbert Spencer is, like the critical theory of Proudhon, a powerful indictment against the dangers and wrongs of government, but its practical solution of the social problem is miserable -- so miserable as to lead us to inquire if the talk of 'No force' be merely an excuse for supporting landlord and capitalist domination." (Act For Yourselves, p. 98)
How very true – and as my letter notes essentially summarises Monbiot's article!
And talking of Kropotkin, my anthology is getting into shape. I've not had time to hit the archives yet, but I have tracked down a few articles I wanted (thanks to Robert Graham's excellent Anarchism blog). Some can be found in French at this site – it anyone wants to help and translate these please contact me (cllv13[at]yahoo.com). And if anyone knows of any on-line copies of Le Révolté, La Révolte and Les Temps Nouveaux the let me know! Also, I'm looking for some articles in Russian (his 1907 preface to Gogeliia's Kak i iz chego razvilsiia revoliutsionnyi sindikalizm and the introduction to the 1907 pamphlet Russkaia revoliutsiia i anarkhizm). Suffice to say, I've tracked down some interesting material – some of which has not been collected into book form before.
But I've got away from the point, namely the letter. Another person making comments on Monbiot's article made a valid point:
"The ease with which right wing libertarianism can be co-opted by the authoritarian Republican Party demonstrates forcefully how little there is that is truly libertarian about right wing libertarianism."
This is discussed in the introduction to Section F of AFAQ:
This was noted by Bob Black in the early 1980s, when a "wing of the Reaganist Right . . . obviously appropriated, with suspect selectivity, such libertarian themes as deregulation and voluntarism. Ideologues indignate that Reagan has travestied their principles. Tough shit! I notice that it's their principles, not mine, that he found suitable to travesty." ["The Libertarian As Conservative", pp. 141-8, The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, pp. 141-2] This was echoed by Noam Chomsky two decades later when he stated that "nobody takes [right-wing libertarianism] seriously" (as "everybody knows that a society that worked by . . . [its] principles would self-destruct in three seconds"). The "only reason" why some people in the ruling elite "pretend to take it seriously is because you can use it as a weapon" in the class struggle [Understanding Power, p. 200]
And talking of which, and this feeds into the importance of acknowledging the impact of economic inequality, Jon Stewart hits the nail on the head by means of the current GOP nomination race:
The strangest comment has to be the one which proclaimed that "All Anarchists are right wing." When the obvious falseness of this claim was noted, its maker repeated it (and even proclaimed Chomsky a right-winger!). There seems to be some people who live in an alternative world – most of them in America! I did start a blog posting on some of the surreal statements made by the American right with regards to what is left-wing and right-wing a year ago, but abandoned it. It was too surreal.
Still, when the real-world and the wing-nut world clashes it is always a source of amusement… sad to say, this used to be expressed mostly in usenet groups on anarchism two decades ago but it seems to have went more mainstream now (thanks to internet access rising and comments facilities on newspapers).
Sean Gabb of the Propertarian Alliance (to give it an accurate name!) got a letter published in reply which complained that Monbiot's article was "the usual mix of unwillingness and inability to understand anything outside the intellectual ghettoes of the left." Except, of course, that right-wing "libertarians" do act in the ways Monbiot highlights.
Are the Koch brothers, for example, funding all these think-tanks because they want people to view their property as unjustly acquired by Lockean standards, so unowned and as a result subject to expropriation by first-users? I doubt it (the Koch brothers are the heirs of a fortune made by their father in Stalinist Russia!). Do they want help in ensuring they can keep all of the profits they squeeze from their wage-slaves, have more power over their property and those they exploit? That seems more likely?
As an aside, the Koch family made its money in a regime without independent unions -- workers had no right to strike. The same can be said of the "libertarian" regime the likes of the Koch brothers and think tanks like the Cato Institute (which the Koch's provided the funds to launch back in 1977 -- and Murray Rothbard was a core member of its founding group and coined its name) wish. Yes, the likes of Rothbard stated that unions were "theoretically compatible with the existence of a purely free market" he doubted that it would be possible as unions relied on the state to be "neutral" (i.e., not enforce property-rights!) and tolerate their activities as they "acquire almost all their power through the wielding of force, specifically force against strike-beakers and against the property of employers." (The Logic of Action II, p. 41). He argued that his system of absolute property rights would simply make it nearly impossible for unions to organise or for any form of collective action to succeed. Even basic picketing would be impossible for, as Rothbard noted many a time, the pavement outside the workplace would be owned by the boss who would be as unlikely to allow picketing as he would allow a union. Unions would need permission to organise in a workplace from the boss, would could obviously be free to fire at will any union member. If workers did strike, the boss could hire private defence forces to break the strike and unions (see section F.6 of AFAQ). Thus we would have private property and economic power making collective struggle de facto illegal rather than the de jure illegality which the state has so enacted on behalf of the capitalists. Pretty much like Stalinist Russia (although, of course, the violence with be "defensive" and without the full-might of a state-capitalist party-dictatorship - just the full-might of large corporate power instead).
Gabb proclaims that the "difference" between propertarians and Monbiot "isn't that we are against courts and the other modes of dispute resolution. What we deny is that social peace requires an enlarged and omnicompetent state run by his friends." Except, of course, Murray Rothbard argued that "it would not be a very difficult task for Libertarian lawyers and jurists to arrive at a rational and objective code of libertarian legal principles and procedures . . . This code would then be followed and applied to specific cases by privately-competitive and free-market courts and judges, all of whom would be pledged to abide by the code." ("The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View", pp. 5-15, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, p. 7)
So social peace requires that Sean Gabb and his friends: "Libertarian lawyers and jurists" (a jurist being a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law and is a term is widely used in American English). Gabb then goes on to state:
"We do believe that the state is the foremost violator of our right to life, liberty and property. But we also observe that banks are licensed and regulated creatures of the state, and that big business in general is only big because of state-granted privileges like limited liability, infrastructure subsidies, and tax and regulatory systems that cartellise costs and flatten competition from outside the magic circle."
All very true – but most propertarians have no problem with pro-capitalist intervention (indeed, most don't even consider it intervention!). For example, defending capitalist property rights is considered by genuine libertarians as an example of a "state-granted privileges" yet this is the very foundation of propertarian ideology. Suffice to say, Rothbard was very keen to distance his ideas from the individualist anarchists on many issues, particularly land-use (see section G.3 of AFAQ, for instance). And anyone reading such notable propertarian influences as von Hayek, von Mises, Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick and Ayn Rand will all discover their arguments for the (minimum) state as a defender of "our right to life, liberty and property."
Gabb states that the Guardian "could have published an attack on libertarianism that didn't border on misrepresentation. Or perhaps not. That would have meant exposing your readers to genuine libertarian positions. And that might, in a few cases, have opened the gates of their intellectual ghetto." Which, given the actual origins of libertarian, could not go unanswered! Hence my letter. Yes, "genuine libertarian positions" should be published and exposed to a wider audience. If Gabb was genuine about this desire then the first thing he would do would be to rename his organisation! I doubt that will happen, but if they actually believed their own arguments they should.
Gabb, I must note, has written in support of the monarchy and House of Lords. He has even written an article entitled Why Libertarians Should Sing "God Save the Queen" (Free Life Commentary, 1997) – and we are NOT talking about the Sex Pistols 1977 classic. This seems to be a popular position in propertarian circles, for example we have A Libertarian Case for Monarchy by Leland B. Yeager published on the Mises Daily. This reflects the likes of Hans-Hermann Hoppe and his calls for competing monarchies and "voluntarily acknowledged 'natural' elite -- a nobilitas naturalis." This is discussed in section F.1 of AFAQ, but I should quote Hoppe here on his vision of a "libertarian" society:
"In a covenant concluded among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one's own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very purpose of the covenant of preserving private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance towards democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centred lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order." (Democracy: the God that Failed, p. 218)
That hardly sounds libertarian… authoritarian would be a better description. And remember, he is presenting this vision as the good things which propertarianism will achieve. That it repeats the standard (genuine) libertarian critique of propertarianism is just an added bonus (but then Rothbard also did this, as discussed in An Anarchist Critique of Anarcho-Statism).
During my many discussions with propertarians over the years, I have pondered why they are so keen to defend dictatorship. This can be actual dictatorship (as in the fans of Pinochet) but usually the top-down authoritarian rule implied by wage-labour (as identified back in 1840 by Proudhon). They seemed to prefer workplace dictatorship to workplace democracy – how can dictatorship be more libertarian than democracy?
But, then again, the old form of dictatorship (monarchy) seems to have its adherents in propertarian circles. So we have Robert Nozick stating "if one starts a private town, on land whose acquisition did not and does not violate the Lockean proviso [of non-aggression], persons who chose to move there or later remain there would have no right to a say in how the town was run, unless it was granted to them by the decision procedures for the town which the owner had established." (Anarchy, State and Utopia, p. 270) In short, a dictatorship by the owning elite. But then he was also one of the few "libertarians" who defended "voluntary" slavery (see section F.2.2 of AFAQ).
So, all in all, if you look at the works of propertarians you discover them repeating the libertarian critique, but what we genuine libertarians argue is a bad thing they embrace as good. As I noted in my letter.
Before ending, I'll link to a couple of articles by Karl Widerquist (who seems to be a philosophy professor). I may have linked to these before. The first is his encyclopedia entry on Libertarianism (pdf) from The International Encyclopedia of Public Policy. He discusses the basis and policies of the people who use the word libertarian. He makes the important point that there "are not factions of a common movement, but distinct ideologies using the same label." He makes the point I made in my letter:
'Property rights advocates have popularized the association of the term with their ideology in the United States and to a lesser extent in other English speaking countries. But they only began using the term in 1955. Before that, and in most of the rest of the world today, the term has been associated almost exclusively with leftists groups advocating egalitarian property rights or even the abolition of private property, such as anarchist socialists who began using the term nearly a century early, in 1858.'
'Right-libertarians seldom call themselves right-libertarians, preferring to call themselves simply "libertarians," often denying any other groups have claim to the name. It is perhaps poetically appropriate that property rights advocates have appropriated a term that was already being used by people who subscribe to the idea that property is theft, and that these property rights now accuse anarchists of trying to steal it from them.'
The second article is A Dilemma for Libertarianism, in which he shows that propertarian principles of acquisition and transfer without regard for the pattern of inequality can lead to a monarchy with full the full power of taxation without violation of self-ownership. This is acknowledged by Rothbard in a few places. For example:
"If the State may be said to properly own its territory, then it is proper for it to make rules for everyone who presumes to live in that area. It can legitimately seize or control private property because there is no private property in its area, because it really owns the entire land surface. So long as the State permits its subjects to leave its territory, then, it can be said to act as does any other owner who sets down rules for people living on his property." (Ethics of Liberty, 170)
Obviously Rothbard argues that the state does not "justly" own its territory. and so the problem with the state is that it "claims and exercises a compulsory monopoly of defence and ultimate decision-making over an area larger than an individual's justly-acquired property." (173) So Rothbard thundered against the evil of the state, arguing that it "arrogates to itself a monopoly of force, of ultimate decision-making power, over a given territorial area" before quietly admitting that "[o]bviously, in a free society, Smith has the ultimate decision-making power over his own just property, Jones over his, etc." (170, 173). Opps!
The logical contradiction in this position should be obvious, but not to propertarians. It shows the power of ideology, the ability of mere words ("private property") to turn the bad ("ultimate decision-making power over a given area") into the good ("ultimate decision-making power over a given area"). Hence the ability to be a "libertarian" monarchist and advocate dictatorship and slavery – all in the name of liberty!
Still, never liked the word "libertarianism" – sounds odd. Libertarian is wonderful, "libertarianism" is a word I don't like to use nor have seen used much outside of propertarian circles...
Anyways, here is the letter. Short and to the point – but a lot more will be required to stop libertarian going the same way in Britain as it has in America…
Until I blog again, be seeing yous!
Dear Guardian
It was amusing to read Sean Gabb of the so-called Libertarian Alliance proclaim (letters, Wednesday 21st December) the need for "exposing your readers to genuine libertarian positions."
If that were done, they would discover that libertarian was originally coined by a French communist-anarchist in 1857, over one hundred years before the propertarian-right in America appropriated it for their hierarchical ideology. To quote leading propertarian Murray Rothbard: "we. . .had captured a crucial word from the enemy. . . 'Libertarians'. . . had long been simply a polite word for. . . anti-private property anarchists. . . But now we had taken it over."
Lefties, as a rule, only read other lefties," Gabb proclaims. As a "leftie" who has had the misfortunate to read many propertarian writers, I can confirm that George Monbiot is right. Yet Monbiot is simply repeating libertarian Peter Kropotkin on proto-propertarian Herbert Spencer's ideas: "its practical solution of the social problem is miserable – so miserable as to lead us to inquire if the talk of 'No force' be merely an excuse for supporting landlord and capitalist domination."
Genuine libertarians argue that the state exists to defend property and the inequalities in wealth and power it creates. Most propertarian writers, notwithstanding Gabb's assertions otherwise, do likewise but we do not agree this is a good thing. Unsurprisingly, libertarians have opposed both state and capitalism from the start.
Iain McKay
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"I don't follow where the logical contradiction occurs re property ownership: an individual can own something but the state is not a person and so cannot own anything. An individual can be held responsible for his/her actions but the state cannot. The state exists to defend the status quo for the power elites, as a matter of practical fact."
An individual can be held responsible for his/her actions only to the extent he/she has not "arrogate[d] to [him/her]self a monopoly of force, of ultimate decision-making power, over a given territorial area"; if the only thing invalidating a state's claim to ownership is its lack of being (held responsible as) a single person, an autocracy - in which a single person constitutes the power elite - would be legitimate.
What a heap of irrelevant theology!
I don't follow where the logical contradiction occurs re property ownership: an individual can own something but the state is not a person and so cannot own anything. An individual can be held responsible for his/her actions but the state cannot. The state exists to defend the status quo for the power elites, as a matter of practical fact.
I don't follow where the logical contradiction occurs re property ownership:
The most basic example is that of a monarchy, where the state is owned by one person -- a literal landlord. That private property makes the landlord operate on a smaller area does not change the basic commonality between the two.
an individual can own something but the state is not a person and so cannot own anything.
The state has and does own lots of things, so to say that it "cannot own anything" is simply false.
An individual can be held responsible for his/her actions but the state cannot.
The state is made up of individuals, specific people in charge of specific things. Like in a capitalist corporation, where some are managers but most are servants.
The state exists to defend the status quo for the power elites, as a matter of practical fact.
Very true -- and private wealth is a source of power and elites...


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