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"The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday struck a blow for the separation of powers and dealt the Bush administration a big setback by ruling that suspects held without charge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to contest their imprisonment under the doctrine of habeas corpus."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=2143
"On May 31, 2006, law enforcement seized all of the popular torrent tracker's servers and backups, and arrested two of the site's operators. The site didn't stay down for long, though—just a few days later, everything was business as usual for The Pirate Bay. A court date in Sweden has yet to be set, and support for the site appears to be stronger than ever."
"Klaus, a eurosceptic long opposed to deeper European integration, said in a statement. 'The result is hopefully a clear message to everybody. It is a victory of freedom and reason over artificial elitist projects and European bureaucracy'."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL1382274920080613
"[M]any of the global-warming skeptics themselves 'are passionate environmentalists. . . . Whether they turn out to be right or wrong, their arguments on these issues deserve to be heard.' This is noteworthy both for Dyson's intellectual honesty and for the fact that his review appeared in such a prestigious and widely read establishment publication."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/51063.html
"This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's The Healthiest Year of Your Life Program which can be found at (http://www.thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com). In this excerpt, Mike Adams weighs in on sweeteners including [ones] to avoid and [ones] to try. He also shares great resources for natural health."
http://www.naturalnews.com/023421.html
"The amputation introduced Owen to a bizarre, new agony called phantom pain, and although doctors gave him powerful medication, nothing helped. But might a new kind of pharmacy offer new hope? A medical marijuana dispensary had recently opened in the nearby city of Morro Bay. More than a decade earlier, California voters legalized medical marijuana and Morro Bay's mayor and Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the dispensary, and its owner Charlie Lynch."
http://www.reason.tv/picks/show/413.html
"It's like we have awakened into the 1950s. The paranoia is there, the gratuitous ruination of people's lives is there, the abiding and unrelenting fear is there. The only thing missing is Sen. Joseph McCarthy asking, 'Are you now or have you ever been...?' Apparently, Colin L. Powell was wrong. 'We're Americans,' he said after the 9/11 attacks, 'we don't walk around terrified.' But we do."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.pitts08jun08,0,2855105.story
"I couldn’t possibly care less whether surrounding poor neighborhoods with cops, giving everyone the 'Ihre Papiere, bitte' treatment, and chopping a community up into police-occupied strategic hamlets for the purpose of a government 'quarantine' without any probable cause whatsoever for believing that any of the individual people you will be surrounding, stopping, hassling, and threatening with jail have ever committed any crime against any identifiable victim, is or is not countenanced by the United States Constitution. Who cares? The basic problem with terrorizing and brutalizing entire neighborhoods is that it is evil and incredibly dangerous, whether or not the Constitution allows for it."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/06/05/neighborhood_safety/
"Driving northwest out of the city on Grand River Blvd, another empty eight lane arterial, gave me the feeling that I was Will Smith in I Am Legend. Block after block, mile after mile the scenery was the same: empty, abandoned, dilapidated, boarded up, burned out, decaying storefronts and vacant lots."
http://www.depression2.tv/d2/node/118
"People have been made paranoid by government surveillance and the now seemingly permanent orange-alert status of the country over terrorism. The terrorists seem to have taken over the country. But it is our own government and institutions terrorizing the public."
http://www.progress.org/2008/indicate.htm
"In the end, the strongest case for the gold standard isn't limited to economic matters. It is a guardian of freedom itself...."
"Those who criticize me for being a capitalist while 'pretending' to be anarchist/libertarian see capitalism as an economic system very much like the one we have today. It is a system of hierarchy based on privileges. Capitalism steals from the poor and gives to the rich; it regulates, oppresses, and exploits those who aren’t in the right networks and those who lack the 'right' contacts, and it rewards those who are loyal to Power. Capitalism is in this sense but a newer version of old-style oppressive feudalism. Instead of local or regional lords with the permission from the monarch to tax and enslave their people, we have huge corporations given the privileges by the State to conduct business and reap profits at tax payers’ expense. These protected capitalists are as privileged as the feudal lords; their privileges are basically the same."
http://www.perbylund.com/blog/?p=73
"The upshot is that if you don’t want immigrants receiving booty delivered by politicians, work to abolish the booty system. Don’t push for violations of people’s right to move about as they wish."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0803b.asp
"Voting in elections presents a dilemma for anarchists and libertarians. They do not accept the legitimacy of the election or its outcome. However, as they are forced to accept the outcome anyway...."
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3989.html
"Mass movements have always engaged in widespread lawbreaking whenever enough people decided the current laws were contemptible. Just consider these news articles from America's past."
http://www.rcreader.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12828&Itemid=42
"The war with England, the embargo, the scuttling of maritime commerce—young America is under a 'fatal spell . . . hurried along to destruction,' writes Lowell. ... Look through any window and see 'our frontier settlements drenched in the blood of its [sic] inhabitants; or commerce swept from the ocean; our merchants made bankrupt, while our seacoasts are blockaded from Rhode Island to the Mississippi.' No one’s getting fat except 'army contractors, our navy agents, our military officers and salary men, together with a host of tidewaiters, pimps, and spies'."
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=794&theme=home&loc=b
"He often takes his four-wheeler out for drives in the desert, usually armed with one of his many guns. 'I am the lord of all I survey,' Carl said. He chose the Nevada desert because of its small population and relatively harsh living conditions. 'If you want to maximize your freedom, you have to live in a place where no one else wants to live,' Carl advised. "
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/02/moneytales.DTL
"AT&T will begin testing usage-based pricing starting this Fall. That's driven by the economics of building network capacity, he says, not by an attempt to make more money. According to Donovan, one percent of the company's customers account for 20 percent of the network usage; the top five percent account for 40 percent of the usage. Because the network must be able to accommodate peak traffic loads, AT&T -- like other network providers -- finds itself building far more capacity than most users need, just [to] support the most prolific users."
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/att-embraces-bi.html
"Comfortable workers in the factories and mills of America and Western Europe have no idea what they are up against. Even so, the nature of global competition keeps shifting. We tend to think of emerging markets, such as China, as occupying a place down on the food chain of the global economy. We tend to think of these places as sources for cheap labor and natural resources. But more and more, these emerging markets are home to world-class companies in all kinds of industries."
http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2008/20080603.html
"Duncan Macleod, vice president of Shell Hydrogen, gave the keynote talk on Tuesday at the CTSI Clean Technology conference, where he said that the Santa Monica Boulevard station will be followed by a few more in the coming months. The Los Angeles station will use an electrolyzer to manufacture hydrogen from electricity on site. "
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9958191-54.html
"This is the acid test of Empire, a dry run of the new American Brezhnev Doctrine, which holds that once a country becomes an American vassal, that vassalage is permanent. When Hungary tried to leave the Warsaw Pact, the 1956 revolt was crushed by Soviet troops. When Koreans rose up against their American occupiers and the South Korean dictatorship during the 1980 Kwangju Rebellion, they were cut down with the full complicity of our government. What will the Americans do when the Iraqi forces they trained and armed turn on them?"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12980
"The PATRIOT Act’s infringements of civil liberty are serious, but they pale by comparison to the Bush administration’s assertion of executive power to set aside habeas corpus protection for both citizens and noncitizens declared by the executive branch to be 'enemy combatants.' The Bush administration claimed and exercised the power to hold indefinitely anyone so designated without access to legal representation. In other words, the Bush administration claimed the discretionary and unaccountable power to imprison whomever it wished."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06032008.html
"McCain and Obama are wrong because they operate from the imperial premise that virtually anything that goes on in the world is the business of the U.S. government. ... The surest way to prevent Iran from aiding attacks on American forces is to withdraw those forces. No talks are needed."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0806a.asp
"Scalia as well as Roberts accuses the Court of butting into foreign policy, yet his own reasoning is informed by definite opinions on foreign affairs, including a careless deference to executive power. Bush appreciated such deference, saying the dissent 'was based upon . . . serious concerns about U.S. national security.' Scalia refers to the president as 'the Nation’s Commander in Chief.' This is wrong. Under the Constitution the president is only the 'Commander in Chief of the Army and . . . and of the Militia . . . when called into the actual Service' of the U.S. The president does not command the whole country, and it is frightening that a Justice would say he does."
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2237
"And speaking of the corruption of being 'sunk in lucre's sordid charms', here comes the Bloomberg.com headline 'Wall Street may get permanent credit line at Fed'. Yikes! Hahaha! How ridiculous! The article says 'Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Donald Kohn raised the possibility of giving Wall Street securities firms permanent access to loans from the central bank, as long as regulators tighten oversight of the companies.' Hahahaha! Oversight of an incestuous ménage a trois relationship like Wall Street, government and the Fed? Hahahaha! It worked like a charm to prevent the housing crisis, didn't it? Hahaha!"
http://www.safehaven.com/article-10451.htm
"In the Canadian province of Quebec, the dominant party in elections for the Canadian Parliament is the Bloc Quebecois, whose interest is the sovereignty of Quebec. As such, it has no hope of gaining a majority of seats in Parliament, though it is a powerful swing bloc to make or break governing coalitions. Why would residents of Quebec vote for a party that has no hope of winning absolute power? Perhaps because what they want is change, not power."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2963
"Although it’s true that the Bush administration instigated the flawed Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation, most Americans—politicians of both parties and the public—looked the other way as the administration marched the nation over the abyss. Of all the many crimes of this administration, its success in blatantly lying the nation into war may have done the most to undermine the principles of the Republic."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2233
"Some people spend hours ensconced on their couches enmeshed in the melodramatic meanderings of sordid soap opera offerings. Others hover above their keyboards surfing sources for unsavory political punditry and picayune policy pronouncements. But is there really much difference between soap operas and politicking? "
http://thatotherpaper.com/austin/soap_flakes_political_fakes
"Stephen asks Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr if he's afraid the government will make him register his mustache." [Loved the Babar graphic.]
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=171572
"Honestly, it's becoming clearer and clearer that the entertainment industry is an existential threat to the idea of free speech, open tools, and an open communications network."
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/06/secret-supercopyrigh.html
"The only real answer here is to let the free market rule, which is another way of saying that people should be free to come to their own negotiations about the prices they are willing to pay or accept for this and that. Those points of agreement should be as flexible as human valuation itself. That is to say, we should be free to change our minds, with each exchange taken as an end in itself, with no bearing on future points of agreement."
”Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. ... Individuals immersed in a productive scenius will blossom and produce their best work. When buoyed by scenius, you act like genius. Your like-minded peers, and the entire environment inspire you.”
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/scenius_or_comm.php
"For a start, the freedom to leave a country and enter another is the ultimate safeguard against tyranny. Throughout history, emigrating has often meant the difference between life and death: remember the Pilgrims who set sail on the Mayflower, the Huguenots who fled France to take refuge in England, and the Jews who escaped Nazi Germany. ... The point about universal human rights is not that they are necessarily universally applied, but that they ought to be. That others fail to apply them is not a reason for the United States to fail to do so too."
Part One:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0803d.asp;
Part Two:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0804d.asp
"Firefox is set to top 20 percent global market share in July, continuing its steady trend toward world domination through, er, open-source liberation."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9959427-16.html
"[C]ool time-lapse video showing the harmonious nighttime traffic flow in Hanoi at an intersection without any traffic lights."
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/10/busy-hanoi-intersect.html
"If you want to see what's wrong with Washington, the FCC is as good a place as any to start looking: Since its birth in 1934, it has manifested three fundamental problems. The commission is corrupt ... sanctimonious ... [and] technocratic."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/126984.html
"Think of Tennessee Ernie Ford singing, 'One fist of iron and the other of steel, if the right one don't get you, then the left one will. I loaded sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt', which seems so, so apropos to the workaholic, debt-crippled, debt-addled, debt-besotted idiocy of America, thanks to the loathsome entity called the Federal Reserve, which is directly responsible for the roaring inflation and the crippling debt, because the Fed created all the money that made it possible!"
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG060408.html
"This has eerie similarities to the Great Depression, when many countries resorted to import protection to protect jobs at home, and simultaneously devalued their currencies to try and push up exports. Yet the Great Depression got worse, thanks to what John Maynard Keynes called the fallacy of composition. If one country alone resorts to import protection and devaluation, it can temporarily increase jobs. But at a global level, one country's exports are another's imports. If all countries reduce their imports, they unwittingly end up reducing their exports, too. And job losses get worse."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9459
"In the late 1980s ... [a] young healthy person could buy top-rated major medical for $30/month. ... Then, the 'progressives' tack sugar plum mandates onto health insurance and eventually required all companies to take on any one who applied. The result? Costs soared and most private insurance companies withdrew from the state."
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=119
"Well, the letter was actually addressed to me and my wife. The IRS people are great believers in family values, and my wife and I are what the tax collectors affectionately refer to as joint filers. It’s all pretty warm and fuzzy, in a creepy sort of way."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/51102.html
"[T]he Fed is the institution that has created the money to fund the wars. In this role, it has solved a major problem that the state has confronted for all of human history. A state without money or a state that must tax its citizens to raise money for its wars is necessarily limited in its imperial ambitions. ... I will tell you why this issue is not considered respectable: it is the most important priority of the state to keep its money machine hidden behind a curtain. Anyone who dares pull the curtain back is accused of every manner of intellectual crime. This is precisely the reason we must talk about it at every occasion. We must end the conspiracy of silence on this issue."
"It wasn't the media's fault for failing to question the government's explanation for starting a war, because . . . wait for it . . . 9/11 changed everything! To even raise the question of whether the Bush administration was telling the truth when it claimed Iraq posed a serious threat to America would have been 'mindlessly adversarial,' rather than, say, the bare minimum anyone should expect from competent journalists."
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/04/campos-an-invertebrate-media/
"What enabled the current President Bush and the Pentagon to succeed with their acquisition of such unique and omnipotent power was the magnitude of the 9/11 attacks, along with the massive amount of fear that the attacks generated within government officials and the American people. ... If the enemy-combatant power is ultimately upheld, it will hang over the heads of the American people like a Damocles sword, especially during times of crisis or emergency, when the round-ups could begin at any time."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0802a.asp
"Noriega was certainly an unsavory figure, but his true crime, like that of Saddam Hussein, was that he finally became unwilling to abet Washington and Wall Street’s long-standing, profiteering machinations against his own country and people. Had both figures remained dutiful pawns, neither would have incurred U.S. wrath, and they’d have been entirely free to wallow in the personal decadence of their choosing, while retaining their status as 'friend'."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/panama-1989-model-for-the-coming-iran-war/
"Even beyond the current operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that are requiring a substantial Guard/Reserve component, there are several hundred thousand other U.S. military personnel deployed around the world that task the Guard and Reserves. But like profligate U.S. military interventions, virtually all of these commitments are unnecessary for U.S. security."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2228
"Anticipating the Supreme Court's expected decision later this month in District of Columbia vs. Heller, the case that will decide the constitutionality of a D.C. law restricting gun ownership rights, many analysts have turned to the founders' writings in an effort to understand the Second Amendment. What analysts need to do—recognizing that language and word usage change over time—is turn to America's first dictionary."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2236
"[T]he great virtue of the gold standard was that it assured long-term price stability. Compare the aforementioned average annual inflation rate of 0.1 percent between 1880 and 1914 with the average of 4.2 percent between 1946 and 1990. "
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GoldStandard.html
"The housing market mess that doomed Bear Stearns was another in a long line of financial crises that were the fault of government followed by the regulators saying 'if only we had these new powers, we could prevent this from happening again.' History suggests, however, that it is the regulatory powers themselves that are the primary problem and that less regulated financial markets are in fact more stable than the overly regulated status quo."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9462
"While the 8086 was slow to take off, its underlying architecture -- later referred to as x86 -- would become one of technology's most impressive success stories. ... In the three decades since the introduction of the 8086, the x86 family has systematically progressed from desktop PCs to servers to portable computers to supercomputers."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9090978
"Ada Byron meets Charles Babbage. He designed an early computer, and she would write the first computer program."
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0605
"While we understand that, in terms of human progress, the group is indeed, in a sense, more than the sum of the parts, losing sight of the freedom of each individual involved undermines the strength and humanity of such groups. We see no conflict between individual rights and the common good; rather they are inextricably intertwined. ... But what is lost in the fog of war is the dignity and freedom of the individual, something of such importance that, as the conservatives understood it when we were talking about communism, its absence means the breakdown and collapse of civilization, of the common good, of the well-being of society at large. "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0806c.asp
"The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of 'glory,' 'honor,' and 'patriotism' to mask the cries of the wounded, the brutal killing, war profiteering and chest-pounding grief. They know the lies the victors often do not acknowledge, the lies covered up in stately war memorials and mythic war narratives, filled with stories of courage and comradeship. They know the lies that permeate the thick, self-important memoirs by amoral statesmen who make wars but do not know war."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/06/05/hedges_collateral/index.html
"For years, I've been saying that the only way to understand the Iraq war – a war that hurt, rather than advanced, American interests – is to see it as a successful covert action carried out by the Israelis and their American collaborators."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972
"Pat Buchanan believes World War II was the easiest war to avoid in all of history."
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=172064
"An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks 'unavoidable' given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday."
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=200782
"How relevant is it to declare oneself to be 'for' or 'against' copyright? Neither the stabilization nor the abolition of the copyright system seems within reach. All we see is a seemingly endless assembly line of new extensions to the law being proposed and enacted."
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/06/09/rasmus-fleischer/the-future-of-copyright/
"Ten years ago I wrote a small book outlining an economy based on ideas and communication rather than energy and atoms. ... But if we really are headed into the century of neo-biology, as I believe we are, then what are the New Rules of the New Biology? Here is a first pass, in no particular order...."
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/new_rules_for_t.php
"A whole host of highly advanced speech technologies, including emotion and lie detection, are moving from the lab to the marketplace."
http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2008/06/speech_tech
"Given that the US dollar accounted for 41% of total international reserves at the end of 2007, (against 17% for euros), its fast depreciation makes it a risky asset for holders and could lead to a run from the dollar toward more stable currencies or more stable assets, such as gold, commodities, real estate and safer financial assets. A flight from the dollar could create a liquidity crisis, in turn disrupting international trade and world economic growth. Oil and food exporters, wary of the rapidly depreciating value of their foreign exchange reserves, would be induced to curtail exports, with attendant consequences for the real world economy."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JF06Dj04.html
"Yes, solid state disks (SSDs) are still way too expensive in terms of cost per bit for most consumers, and though the situation will improve drastically this year their price premium will still put them out of reach for many mass-market applications. But if you can't use expensive, cutting-edge technologies in high-performance servers, then where can you use it?"
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080604-sun-2008-ssd.html
"What made me hesitate: eulogies to my friend kyfho and to Danny Federici, as we return to the Attic at last."
http://unclewarrensattic.blogspot.com/2008/06/uw-attic-51-rip-kyfho-and-danny.html
"Cory Doctorow's new dystopia, Little Brother, deserves the attention it's receiving." [Free download (Creative Commons) available (text, HTML or PDF) linked from this article.]
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/51079.html
"Only now do I realize how much I learned about writing a novel from Pasternak — the way a writer can leap across miles and years, so long as you land in the right place; the way accuracy of detail embodies emotion; the way that leaving more out allows you to get more in."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91205874
"Norton runs and bums a lot throughout the movie, and the rest of the cast keeps it simple. Liv Tyler doesn't even try to pull off the clinical manner you might expect from a professor of cellular biology, but who cares: As Banner's unconflicted girlfriend, she generates a sweet chemistry with Norton, and even gets to flash a little temper of her own in the middle of a New York City traffic jam. William Hurt plays General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross with understated malice. The juicy stuff goes to Tim Roth's Emil Blonsky ... [a]n expert at the craft of film villainy who earned an Oscar nomination as a sadistic creep in Rob Roy...."
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/review-the-incr.html
"[N]ow a six-part miniseries is in the works remaking this spy-trapped-in-paradise show, starring Jim 'Jesus' Caviezel as Number 6 and Ian McKellen as his main adversary, Number 2."
http://io9.com/5015708/the-prisoner-may-be-the-one-scifi-show-worth-remaking
"Fast food giant Yum! Brands believes its new feedbags will make it even easier for Americans to constantly be eating."
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_wearable_feedbags_let
"[M]y loud and righteous denunciation of FDR, the Federal Reserve, Supreme Courts, inflation in burgers and lack of a gold standard as required by the freaking Constitution got just a tiny little blurb at the bottom of page 19 that reads 'Police Confront Local Lunatic'. And they spelled my name wrong, too. But the point remains; we are paying for every dime of inflation in prices, either by higher prices, by smaller portions, or by cheaper ingredients, usually all three, and more, such as food companies trying to invent a tasty way to make us consume industrial chemicals directly, instead of just adding them to our food."
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG060908.html
"Sn4tchbuckl3r's reunion with a recovering guildie begins to unravel Peopleburg's deepest, darkest secrets."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB_FqhioLL0
"According to George Will, conservatives understand that the government's job is to deliver the mail, defend the shores, and get out of the way."
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=171135
"Visitors to Mr. Clinton's profile page at Facebook noticed that minutes after Mrs. Clinton suspended her campaign, President Clinton updated his status from 'Married' to 'It's Complicated.' The former president also added several items under the category of 'looking for' on his profile page."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6889
"'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling's commencement speech at Harvard, June 5, 2008."
Part One;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucdJHjZaqs
Part Two;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIbTqNrxSV0
"Once a pocket of unmet demand is discovered, under anarchy, capital will flow in that direction and will arbitrage out the profit opportunity pretty rapidly. So while there will always be profit making going on somewhere in the economy, it will never consistently flow to the same people. If it does, that is prima facie evidence of violent intervention or fraud, IMO." [also Part Two.]
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/kevin-carson-on-reciprocity-in-an-unfree-market-1/2008/06/08
"[E]xperts tend to overstate their actual knowledge. The honest answer to a great many questions would be, 'That's an extremely complicated issue, and we really have no idea what the answer is because our data isn't good enough, and therefore our theories are still inadequate.' But that doesn't make for a very good media sound bite or allow for the kinds of practical recommendations beloved of government agencies and the like. Nor, needless to say, is it a good way to get a grant funded."
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/11/campos-expertise-comes-with-biases/
"A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7440217.stm
"There is a true speculative connection present in most markets that is hidden and excluded from current debate. That connection is the existence of a large number of shorts who are trapped and can’t easily fulfill the contract delivery requirements, nor extricate themselves from their short obligations by buying back their contracts. This is the real, but unspoken, motivation in the current index fund debate. How can the shorts be secretly rescued from the folly of their own creation that threatens to send many prices explosively higher?"
http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1213126384.php
"It's an emerald-green crude oil, produced by photosynthesis in algae, which could fuel cars, trucks and aircraft - without consuming crops that can be used as food."
"The feds have discovered the same two things that their Asian central banker colleagues have found out: that the globalization street goes both ways…and that Milton Friedman was right. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon...."
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/RSS/DR060508sec1.html
"I soon learned why they were so unusually antagonistic to me; I had not read the homework assignment like I was supposed to, and they had. Big deal! They did not know that I had to spend a lot of time last night arguing with the wife and kids about the financial benefits of them eating what appears to be a really, really cheap canned dog food imported from some weird country, with a label written in a language nobody even recognizes, thus generating real savings in the food budget! It seemed like a no-brainer to me!"
http://www.safehaven.com/article-10421.htm
One panel comic
"Google and Amazon have momentum and traction, but that doesn't mean they are invulnerable. They have only a decade of history, and they would acknowledge that they could be knocked off, just as they knocked off a variety of competitors on their road to greatness."
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