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“The number of illegal immigrants [sic] living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing by 8 percent since 2007, a new study finds. The reasons range from the sour economy to Mexican violence and increased U.S. enforcement that has made it harder to sneak across the border. Much of the decline comes from a sharp drop-off in illegal immigrants from the Caribbean, Central America and South America attempting to cross the southern border of the U.S., according to the Pew Hispanic Center, which based its report on an analysis of 2009 census data.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2b96cug | | Report Bad Link |
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“North Korea has changed the names of its trading companies and falsified trade documents to avoid international sanctions and continue exporting weapons, a news report and an intelligence official said Wednesday. The U.N. Security Council slapped tough sanctions on North Korea last year over its launch of a long-range rocket and a subsequent nuclear test, including the blacklisting of some North Korean companies suspected of involvement in weapons exports.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2b6ze3x | | Report Bad Link |
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“In Mosul, a bomb killed two people and wounded six others in the Wadi Hajar area. Gunmen killed a woman. Two policemen were killed in a raid. In Baghdad, a sticky bomb in Baladiyat killed one civilian and wounded three others. A policeman was killed and two others were wounded in a Kadhimiya blast. … A roadside bomb killed two policemen in Saidiya. … In Kirkuk, a policeman and his brother, angry at electricity rationing, attacked a power station where they killed the owner's father and wounded another relative; the father was a Kurdish official.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2dgpbyz | | Report Bad Link |
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“Two troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in separate insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, ISAF said. … An official for religious affairs was killed by a bomb blast as he entered a government building in Kandahar …. Afghan and ISAF forces shot and killed one civilian and wounded another when the pair approached personnel who were conducting a medical evacuation in Marjah …. Two women were killed when ISAF attacked a Taliban position with ground forces and air strikes after a patrol came under small-arms fire in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province on Tuesday, ISAF said.” (09/01/10) http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/NROI-88W5BP?OpenDocument | | Report Bad Link |
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“Three bombs ripped through a Shiite Muslim religious procession in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said. The explosions appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists against the minority Shiites they consider infidels. Allied with al-Qaida and the Taliban, the bombers are also seeking to destabilize Pakistan’s U.S.-backed government.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/kl5t6h | | Report Bad Link |
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“The legality of France's crackdown on Roma migrants was thrown into doubt Wednesday when a report from the European Commission said that French law lacked minimum safeguards required by the European Union to protect deportees. The document from the European Union's executive body, obtained by the International Herald Tribune, highlighted failings in France's law and pointedly declined to endorse the French government's actions, which have led to thousands of deportations.” (09/01/10) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/world/europe/02roma.html | | Report Bad Link |
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“While staying mentally active in old age has been linked to a delayed onset of dementia, seniors who engage in such brain ‘exercise’ may actually have a faster rate of decline once Alzheimer’s is diagnosed, researchers reported Wednesday. … mentally active older adults may develop dementia later than those who ‘exercise’ their brains less often. But once they do develop it, they are in a more extensive state of brain damage. That, at least, is ‘the working hypothesis,’ said Dr. Charles B. Hall, a researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.” (09/01/10) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38961742/ns/health-alzheimers_disease/ | | Report Bad Link |
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“Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday ordered authorities to reopen a case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on charges of rape allegations, saying there was reason to believe a crime has been committed. The case was reopened just days after Swedish prosecutors initially charged Assange on rape and molestation charges but later dropped some charges after issuing a brief arrest warrant against him last month.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/28qbbsx | | Report Bad Link |
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“Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned two recent Hamas attacks on Israelis in a speech at the White House Wednesday night. … [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu, who spoke before Abbas in an East Room event proceeding a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama, said the recent attacks wouldn't stop Israel from engaging in direct negotiations set to start Thursday.” (09/02/10) http://www.jpost.com/SpecialSection/Article.aspx?id=186773 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion in American arms and military equipment, a huge order of tanks, ships and hardware that U.S. officials say shows Iraqi-U.S. military ties will be tight for years to come. ‘It helps to build their capabilities, first and foremost; and second, it builds our strategic relationship for the future,’ said Army Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, the ranking U.S. officer responsible for training and advising Iraq forces.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/24a4c4z | | Report Bad Link |
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“James J. Lee, longtime critic of Discovery Communications, has died after being shot by police and the device he had with him detonated, Montgomery County Police said Wednesday evening. … Discovery Communications’s Silver Spring-Md. headquarters was evacuated at lunchtime Wednesday when Lee, a frequent protester of the company and aspiring environmental TV show producer walked into the lobby with what was believed to be an explosive device and a gun.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2anbf6j | | Report Bad Link |
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“Clashes between the forces of Azerbaijan and Armenian-backed Nagorno-Karabakh have left several soldiers dead, with both sides blaming the other for the violence. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said three Armenians and two Azeris were killed following an Armenian attack. Armenian reports said one Armenian was wounded repelling Azeri forces, and up to seven Azeris were wounded or killed.” (09/01/10) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11150688 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Two Yemeni men arrested on arrival from the United States on suspicion they may have been conducting a dry run for an airline terror attack were released without charge Wednesday after investigations turned up no evidence to link them to a terror plot, Dutch prosecutors said. The national prosecutor’s office said in a statement on its website that because of the lack of evidence ‘there is no reason to hold the men any longer.’” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2bow8re | | Report Bad Link |
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“Blood tests have confirmed that cases of mass sickness at girls’ schools throughout the country during the past two years were caused by a powerful poison gas, an Afghan official said yesterday. The admission came as a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health was answering questions about two new episodes in the past week.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/3xenaco | | Report Bad Link |
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“Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, Said T. Jawad, confirmed Tuesday that he has completed his service as ambassador but he adamantly denied that he has been forced out by what he called ‘a smear campaign.’ The Washington Post has reported that the ambassador’s departure was prompted by Afghanistan websites that have carried photographs purportedly showing an embassy party held during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with alcohol, women in sleeveless dresses and dancing at the event.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/3xh3l73 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents. While the Obama administration has dramatically reduced the number of troops and rebranded the mission, the operation in Hawija was a reminder that U.S. forces are still engaged in hunting down and killing al-Qaida militants -- and could still have to defend themselves against attacks.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2fjtunw | | Report Bad Link |
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“A number of Dutch colleges are considering legal action against the publisher of a move-in guide for new freshmen, after the company included an ad recruiting students for jobs as online sex workers.” (09/01/10) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68029Y20100901 | | Report Bad Link |
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“There is a growing debate over your second amendment right — your right to bear arms — and whether you should be allowed to carry a gun in a county park. According to the county’s ordinance books, the answer is no. But a local attorney says the books are wrong. … Signs posted at some Lee County parks say ‘no guns inside the park’ and there’s an ordinance to back it up. Lee County Commissioners passed the ordinance in 2006. Even if you have a permit for the gun, the ordinance says that they are prohibited in all county parks. Fort Myers attorney Patrick Buckley says not only is the ordinance against your constitutional right, but he says it’s also against state law.” (08/31/10) http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=13076424 | | Report Bad Link |
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“A pistol-packing grandmother in Decatur hopes intruders will think twice before messing with her again. Police say 69-year-old Ethel Jones shot 18-year-old Michael O’Neal Bynum in the abdomen when she said she found him inside her bedroom. Bynum lived less than 200 yards from Jones, but she said she didn’t know him. … Jones said she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her. She said she was going to the bathroom shortly before 3 a.m. Monday when she thought she heard someone at her back door and then her front door. She grabbed her gun as a precaution and came out of the bathroom to find someone in her bedroom with a pen light. ‘I shot three times, and he ran away bleeding,’ she said.” (08/31/10) http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=7649 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Don Jose Abreu noticed two suspicious men seemingly ‘casing the joint’ at his notary business last Friday. On Monday, when two men came into Don Jose’s Notary and Multiservice in Reading with guns waving, Abreu was ready with his gun loaded and fired the first shot. The men ran away. Now police are saying that Abreu may have stopped a rash of robberies in Reading over the past week.” (08/31/10) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38940581/ns/local_news-philadelphia_pa/ | | Report Bad Link |
COMMENTARY
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“Not infrequently in Obama's America, the conservative movement seems so on point, so focused on battling the federal government at home, so close to adopting Jeffersonianism or even Misesian radicalism, that we who love liberty are almost tempted to root for them and not just against our common enemy, the statist progressive left. But then, like clockwork, practically the entire rightwing is whipped back into a frenzy of bloodthirstiness, intolerance, and belligerent nationalist collectivism. Whether it's illegal immigrants or Muslims, such scapegoats serve to distract conservatives from their supposed goal of shrinking the state. And the distraction is not a minor matter — it speaks directly to what modern conservatism is still all about.” (09/02/10) http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory200.html | | Report Bad Link |
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“This war, which has raged more or less continuously since 1990, is far from over. The reasons for its longevity -- and for its likely extension into the distant future -- may be found not on the ground in Iraq, but in the campaign headquarters of American politicians and the boardrooms of American profiteers who benefit from its continuation. The war on Iraq was never about ‘blood for oil,’ or at least not just that. It's always been about blood for armored humvees, blood for ’smart’ bombs, blood for no-bid contracts to build and operate bases, blood for jobs (and votes) in your congresscritter's district, blood for campaign contributions, blood for ever-expanding political power and for never-ending access to your wallet.” (09/01/10) http://c4ss.org/content/3844 | | Report Bad Link |
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“While I don't doubt Melissa's sincerity, I think what she misses here are the facts which seem to establish that that the conservative/libertarian ‘alliance’ is really just a marriage of temporary convenience. For better or worse, victory for conservatives means victory for Republicans. You can make distinctions between small-government fiscal conservatives and ‘Big Government Republicans’ all you want, but the truth of the matter is that conservatives cannot succeed unless the Republican Party as a whole succeeds, and that means allying with and often voting with ‘Big Government Republicans.’” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/3adbse7 | | Report Bad Link |
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“What a blown opportunity! Glenn Beck gathered thousands of people at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to urge a restoration of American honor -- but not once did he mention the most egregious assault on America's honor: militarism. It would have been a perfect time to call for dismantling the American empire, ending the bloody occupations and covert wars in Muslim lands, and terminating the gross violations of the rights of Americans and foreigners alike.” (09/01/10) http://www.fff.org/comment/com1009a.asp | | Report Bad Link |
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“At dinner last night with extended family, we discussed one person's experience in New Zealand, a socialist country where most residents seem content with their government. I was informed that 96% of the population loves the country just the way it is. It's fairly hard to immigrate there. The cops are actually nice to people. Health care — even dental work — is provided to all comers free of charge. And the income tax rate is about 50%.” (09/01/10) http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4782 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Abraham Lincoln referred to the ‘terrible arithmetic’ of war, meaning that sometimes a general or statesman would have to accept large numbers of casualties in fighting that would bring the conflict to an end and thereby save even more lives. … We Americans of the twenty-first century are now experiencing our own ‘terrible arithmetic,’ but an arithmetic that goes on and on without end. Worse, we are engaged in several conflicts that have nothing to do with national survival and did not have to be fought.” (09/03/10) http://tinyurl.com/2b8l38y | | Report Bad Link |
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“The carnage is not yet complete, and President Barack Obama’s attempt to put the best face on the ignominious US occupation of Iraq will not hide what he and the rest of the world well know. The lies that empowered George W. Bush to invade Iraq represent an enduring stain on the reputation of American democracy.” (09/01/10) http://www.thenation.com/article/154426/two-wars-dont-make-right | | Report Bad Link |
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Cartoon. [hat tip — Christian Science Monitor] (09/01/10) http://robertariail.com/2010/09/01/mission-its-complicated/ | | Report Bad Link |
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“Some say the Legislature has failed again because the regular session of California's elected leaders has concluded without adopting a state budget. Here's another way to look at it: no budget, no new harm. But don't we need a budget to make sure government works well? Well, no. In fact, it can be argued that the government works badly precisely because it's authorized to with the lousy budgets legislators have adopted over the years.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2eqlbvd | | Report Bad Link |
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“Why was the mental-health lobby so quick to diagnose depression in the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground?” (09/01/10) http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9480/ | | Report Bad Link |
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“On the last night of August, the president used an Oval Office speech to boost a policy of perpetual war.” (09/01/10) http://counterpunch.org/solomon09012010.html | | Report Bad Link |
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“For anyone unfamiliar with Burning Man, it’s a weeklong event dedicated to self-expression, community reliance and sexual contact under the guise of spirituality. I know this because I went last year for the first and last time. I went seeking a utopian enclave of open-minded and accepting brothers and sisters, I followed rumors of a culture rising from the desert clay and supporting itself for seven days on nothing but love, understanding, and a little pharmaceutically induced introspection. Instead I found misguided, fat men in tie-died t-shirts with exposed genitals caked in dust. Suffice it to say, Burning Man let me down.” (08/30/10) http://tinyurl.com/2faxbc4 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Is there one, really? Quite a few think so. I wonder how many of them know what Muslims believe. I wonder how many of those know what they believe themselves, and why. Anyway, let’s take a look — and if there is one, let’s think how such a menace would be handled in a free society. To those kindly concerned that I might be targeted by terrorists for my trouble, I’ll add that I went to the same college as Salman Rushdie, and it taught about fortitude in the face of danger, so I’ll risk it.” (09/01/10) http://www.strike-the-root.com/muslim-menace | | Report Bad Link |
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What is the state of things and where do we go from here?
The Libertarian Enterprise by Edwin E. Smith “Civil Disobedience … is the only group action that has ever in the history of mankind effected the greatest political change for the least amount of bloodshed. The best example I can think of is the British occupation of India. One simple individual by the name of Mahatma Gandhi never raised a hand against the British occupiers yet his simple refusal, along with millions of followers, to comply with the rules or pay the taxes placed upon them drove the British to eventually give up and go home.” (08/30/10) http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle585-20100829-05.html | | Report Bad Link |
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“Why is it that the fiercest debates occur between liberals and libertarians? It is not out of any leanings towards conservatives that these debates occur. Conservatives allege they share economics with libertarians but a closer examination proves otherwise. Conservatives are quick to steal libertarian rhetoric but fail to follow through on it. The real reason there is so little debate is because there is so little to conservatism. Mercantilism isn't a school of economics as much as it is a way for people to use the government to line their own pockets and the rest of what is commonly called ‘conservatism’ is a morality platform based loosely on religious concepts. That is why Jerry Pournelle listed conservatism as irrationalist, while he listed both liberalism and libertarianism as rationalist.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2ukpbbj | | Report Bad Link |
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“I've argued that people who ‘work hard and play by the rules,’ so beloved of Soccer Mom politicians, are suckers. When you play by the rules, the house wins -- because the rules are mainly designed to benefit the people who make the rules.” (08/31/10) http://c4ss.org/content/3827 | | Report Bad Link |
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“The language used by ‘anti-racists’ can commonly come off as divisive and inflammatory rather than helpful and informative. And it doesn't appear to be a good strategy for most of the same reasons that referring to Statists as violent idiots doesn't appear to be a good strategy. In fact, this strategy would seem to turn into enemies the only people capable of helping racists out of their prejudice. People have flaws. The goal, as seems obvious to me, should be to help them overcome those flaws, not use them as something to bludgeon everyone over the head with.” (09/01/10) http://www.libertarianminds.com/why-i%E2%80%99m-not-an-anti-racist | | Report Bad Link |
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“The Islamic Republic of Iran has ordered limits on the number of humanities degrees awarded. Now, if this were just a limit on the number of doctorates, I'd be saying ‘Finally, somebody decides to DO SOMETHING about PhD over-production!’ But, no, this is a limit on bachelors degrees, because the Supreme Leader worries that studying humanities undermines the authority of the theocracy.” (09/01/10) http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2010/09/01/11692 | | Report Bad Link |
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“The Tea Party movement that appeared to begin as an angry reaction against profligate spending and war mongering by politicians in both major parties is now turning into a ‘Kick the failed Democrats out and bring back the same old failed Republicans for yet another round’ movement. Paul, like most libertarians, remains optimistic. ‘A return to the traditional US foreign policy of active private engagement but government noninterventionism is the only alternative that can restore our moral and fiscal health.’ Ron Paul may not be ‘Libertarian Enough’ for libertarian purists but he has kept his principles intact while some Tea Parties have turned into a Republican puppet show.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/2dpadmy | | Report Bad Link |
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“Congratulations, libertarians! August 2010 was the month when you joined an exclusive club: people accused of shilling for amoral and scary billionaires. … Libertarians had better get used to this. The Kochs are now in the pantheon of Evil Rich Benefactors, exposed for everything they fund and accused of funding everything their opponents don’t like.” (08/31/10) http://www.slate.com/id/2265658/ | | Report Bad Link |
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“It may disenchant some that we consistently compare governments to firms competing in a market. As firms compete for customers, ideally nations should compete for citizens. To say the same dynamic at play between Coke and Pepsi also occurs between the U.S. and Canada appears to the patriotic as heresy. But what we lose in forgoing the emotional charge of God and Country, we gain in understanding.” (08/31/10) http://tinyurl.com/2a87skb | | Report Bad Link |
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“Loss of market share means loss of tuition revenue at time when it has become harder to rely upon federal and state largess. The non-profit establishment's consternation over market share loss is understandable. Their response is not. The private non-profit and public higher education cabal with its mainstream higher education press allies have been gloating over the ethically suspect recruitment practices revealed by the GAO's undercover secret shopper investigation. While some of the for-profit sector's growth may be linked to questionable recruiting practices, this is also true for some of the not-for-profit institutions.” (08/31/10) http://tinyurl.com/25jhlh5 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Growing up in America, I sort of assumed that the risk-taking Finns moved here. That left the more servile folk in Finland. Every population has the adventurers and the stay-at-homes. The adventurer mindset is similar to the entrepreneurial mindset. The stay-at-homes are more easily cajoled, and those left in Finland (after heroically fighting for their independence, interestingly) embraced the inefficiencies and the grinding bureaucracies more readily than have everyday Americans, including everyday Finnish-Americans. This theory, a bit problematic at its core, was bolstered by my recent conversations with Tim Sutinen.” (09/01/10) http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2010/09/01/it-came-from-the-swamp/ | | Report Bad Link |
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Fort Worth police officer lightly reprimanded for causing brain damage
DFW Alliance of the Libertarian Left by justino “Police abuse is becoming a growing problem, and has been for a long time, in part because of the imbalance of power in the police's favor and the deference they get from the public. Their word is the law. Nothing is more authoritarian (and ripe for abuse) than that, and they have a multi-million dollar organization behind them that can throw the book at you.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/27fegam | | Report Bad Link |
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“I headed to the Beck rally Saturday, seeking fodder for a ‘What I Saw at the Revolution’ column. But what I saw wasn’t all that revolutionary. Amid the usual Gadsden (’Don’t Tread on Me’) banners were a few ‘Christian flags’ -- white, with a red cross in a blue canton. Mostly gone were the spunky anti-government signs that dominated earlier rallies (organizers had discouraged them). Overall, it was largely as Beck had promised: 8/28 had ‘nothing to do with politics’ and ‘everything to do with God.’” (08/31/10) http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12098 | | Report Bad Link |
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“The situation in Venezuela is becoming dangerously tense. Ramon Guillermo Aveledo says that the Sept. 26 parliamentary elections may be the last ones in the country -- ever. Aveledo, a prestigious lawyer, writer and former president of Congress, is the executive secretary of the Mesa de la Unidad Democratica, the umbrella organization for the united opposition. What's happening in the country? Possibly, Hugo Chavez could lose, so he's looking for a way to tamper with the results.” (08/31/10) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2851 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Alan Simpson violated a taboo last week when he likened Social Security to ‘a milk cow with 310 million tits.’ But contrary to the dictionary-deprived critics who accused him of sexist vulgarity, the former Wyoming senator’s transgression had nothing to do with his use of a perfectly acceptable synonym for teat. Simpson’s real sin was ‘belittling a bedrock program,’ as the AARP put it -- i.e., showing insufficient reverence for a sacred cow.” (09/01/10) http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/01/simpson-and-the-sacred-cow | | Report Bad Link |
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“The stock market does not work the way most people think. A commonly held belief -- on Main Street as well as on Wall Street -- is that a stock-market boom is the reflection of a progressing economy: as the economy improves, companies make more money, and their stock value rises in accordance with the increase in their intrinsic value. A major assumption underlying this belief is that consumer confidence and consequent consumer spending are drivers of economic growth.” (09/01/10) http://mises.org/daily/4654 | | Report Bad Link |
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“You own a business, maybe a restaurant. You’ve got a lot to worry about. You have to make sure the food is safe and tastes good, that the place is clean and appealing, that workers are friendly and paid according to a hundred Labor Department and IRS rules. On top of that, there are rules you might have no idea about.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/3a4hcw8 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Five years ago Hurricane Katrina, a massive Category 3 storm, hit the Gulf Coast region, destroying property, killing nearly 2,000 people, and leaving damage that still dots the landscape. Although the brunt of the storm hit the Mississippi coast, Katrina is best-known for the flooding of New Orleans, which happened when levees created to keep out the floodwaters burst and drowned the city.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/389ngyq | | Report Bad Link |
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“CEI submitted comments this week on an FDA proposed guidance that ‘encourages’ farmers and antibiotics manufacturers to stop using ‘medically important’ antibiotics for livestock growth promotion purposes. When I first started researching the topic, I was sympathetic to the view that at least some of the antibiotics that serve as essential human therapies probably shouldn't be used in livestock.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/3xq8ffj | | Report Bad Link |
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“Watching economists and media analysts react to breaking economic news is a bit like looking at a flock of pigeons flying over the New York skyline. A true wonder of the urban landscape, the flocks can include hundreds of individuals who show an uncanny ability to stay in tight formation as the group quickly zig-zags between buildings. What may be even more remarkable than their ability to randomly fly while maintaining cohesion is the flock’s refusal to stick to any particular direction for very long, and their determination to fly feverishly without actually going anywhere. Sound familiar?” (09/01/10) http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1088 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Since 2008, there has been much discussion about the contribution of unethical behavior to our present economic circumstances. Whether it was borrowers' lying on mortgage-applications or Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's politically-driven lending policies, there seems to be some consciousness that non-economic factors played a role in facilitating what we already call the Great Recession.” (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/295gbcv | | Report Bad Link |
AUDIO & VIDEO
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“Over the past decades, defined-benefit plans have been replaced, for the most part, by defined-contribution plans like 401(k) plans. But the majority of Americans with access to 401(k) plans are not saving the maximum amount they can, and in may cases are not saving at all. Should the government play a greater — or different — role in getting Americans to save more for their retirement?” [Flash video] (09/02/10) http://tinyurl.com/27869d9 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Obama’s surge,” featuring Christopher A. Preble. [MP3] (09/01/10) http://tinyurl.com/cato090110 | | Report Bad Link |
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“End of Combat in Iraq? :: Failed Construction Projects in Iraq :: The Onion — Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims :: Anti-FIJA? :: FIJA Racist? :: Burning Man Police Crackdown :: Differing Cultures and Kids.” [MP3] (08/31/10) http://traffic.libsyn.com/ftl/FTL2010-08-31.mp3 | | Report Bad Link |
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“Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses the mosque hysteria ginned up to bolster Iraq and Afghan War support, Ground Zero's rhetorical conversion into hallowed ground — encouraging religious fervor and holy war, what Bush should have said and done after 9/11, why the only uncertainty of new Israel/Palestine peace talks is what Obama will do when they fail and how the negotiations are grounded in juvenile conflict resolution instead of international law.” [Flash audio or MP3] (08/31/10) http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/31/phyllis-bennis/ | | Report Bad Link |
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“Fire engines of the future!” [MP3] (08/27/10) http://tinyurl.com/fdr1739 | | Report Bad Link |
MOVEMENT NEWS & EVENTS
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