Friday, February 20
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Christopher Lempa is the guest editor today. |
"For most people the state is still the country they love for the freedom it permits them. It is the entity that is trying its best to “do something” to fix the mess it created, which it blames on the market for failing to function under its impediments. The something it does is more intervention." Column by George F. Smith.
Taylor, Ghadafi, Ex-CIA Agent Organized Arms, Diamonds Smuggling Co.
“A
retired Italian agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (
Kyrgyzstan
Parliament Votes to Close U.S. Air Base
“The
Recession
Ups US Demand for Third World-Type Loans
“Sokoloff
and Powell are among thousands of Americans using microcredit, a financing
system originated in the
Market
Anarchism: Government Regulation and the Financial Crisis
“Kyle
Burris speaks to local anarchist activist William
Gillis, and historian Shawn
Wilbur, about the theory know as Market Anarchism, or Left Libertarianism.
They discuss the role government plays in the current economy, and also take a
historical look at government's affect on unions and health care in the
Questions
and Answers Regarding Liberty and Property
Brad Spangler on liberty and property.
Punk Band Sticker Causes Bomb Scare
“Traffic
was shut down at a portion of
Facebook Terms of Service Compared With MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
“With
today’s outrage
over Facebook’s newly altered Terms
of Service at its peak, I figured I’d do a quick comparison of their
terms of service as regards user-uploaded content to the terms specified by
other social networking sites, just to see if said outrage is fully justified.
It looks as though the finger-pointing
at the Bush robots.txt file wasn’t
justified, for instance, and I was guilty of spreading that story.”
“Some
friends and I were recently talking about special things from our childhoods
and we realized that most of what we really loved and remembered were not toys
or possessions, but experiences.”
What
Invasive Species Are Trying to Tell Us
“Les Gibson takes me out to teach me how to hunt, which is what he calls fishing. Despite the fact that every public beach in Queensland, Australia, has been periodically closed this season due to blooms of box jellyfish, and despite the fearsome saltwater crocodiles living here, Les strides confidently into the bay with a pair of 10-foot-long bamboo spears and his wooden woomera, the multipurpose Aboriginal atlatl, or spear-thrower.”
Nutrition
and Biodynamics: Evidence for the Nutritional Superiority of Organic
Crops
“While it is generally acknowledged that pesticide residues in food and drinking water may be a bad thing, the conventional wisdom still holds that organic food is no more nutritious than conventionally grown food. A stunning lack of interest on the part of government and university researchers is in large part to blame for this situation. What is behind claims about the nutritiousness of organic food and how does biodynamic food stack up against the rest of the pack? Let's take a look at the evidence.”
Wikileaks
Forced to Leak Its Own Secret Info
“What's Wikileaks, the net's foremost document leaking site, supposed to do when a whistle-blower submits a list of email addresses belonging to the site's confidential donors as a leaked document?”
Public
Schooling #2: Criminal Texting
Rad Geek on texting while in custody.
New
Atlas Shows Dying Languages Around the World
"Only
one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in
A photo blog.