> I was listening to the GCN radio network here in Austin, which has a weird
> survivalist (US-style) Libertarian motif. All the sponsors' ads are about
> converting your currency into real precious metals like silver or gold, ads
> for purifying water tablets to drop in your water because the government is
> either not doing this, or they are putting too much fluoride, etc., in it.
> Also ads about legal knowledge that can help you live tax free, live off
> the grid, less dependent on "the system," Loompanics-type stuff.
>
I accidentally happened on this station a few weeks ago and was at turns entertained and frightened by their antics. It is a really amazing set of assertions and advertisements. And, as someone mentioned below, this is far from an isolated, right wing thing. There's a lot of cross-pollination b/w them and left-libertarian types. I couldn't help but think the emphasis on local, organic food is a symptom of the same kind of silver bullet mentality, though perhaps captured with a frosted lens.
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