Friday, May 1
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Christopher Lempa is the guest editor today. |
"As fraud rains down on us from the District of Criminals and the financial noose tightens on them, and us, I think it’s time to take John Galt’s advice seriously. Think refuge." Column by Robert Klassen.
Churchgoers More Likely to Back Torture
“The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.” Read the original report.
US to Limit Guantanamo Releases
“Between 50 and 100 detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay cannot be released or put on trial, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said.”
Defying Threats, Fighting Oppression: The Woman Leading Protests in Afghanistan
“They were stoned, spat on and assaulted, but when 200 women staged Afghanistan's first public women's rights protest since the 1970s their voices were heard around the world.”
After
Months of Struggle, Chrysler Succumbs to Bankruptcy, Pins Hopes on Alliance
with Fiat
“After months of struggling to stay alive on government loans, Chrysler finally succumbed to bankruptcy Thursday, pinning its future on a top-to-bottom reorganization and plans to build cleaner cars through an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.”
Swiss Bank Refuses US Tax Request
“The largest bank in Switzerland, UBS, has asked a US court not to go ahead with a case involving more than 50,000 US customers with Swiss accounts.”
Traffic Wardens Stoned by Parents Outside School
“The situation outside the schools in Essex has got so bad that the police have had to accompany several wardens as they carry out their patrols to protect them from a volley of verbal and physical abuse.”
Congress Approves $3.4 Trillion Budget
“Congress on Wednesday passed a $3,400bn budget resolution that laid the foundation for healthcare reform and a series of other Democratic policy goals, handing President Barack Obama a key victory on his 100th day in office.”
“With little public scrutiny, robotics is quickly revolutionizing not only how war is fought, but who fights in war. While the U.S. military first began to experiment with remote-controlled weapons during World War I, the Pentagon had no robots on the ground when it invaded Iraq in 2003, and only a handful of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the air. Today, according to P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the U.S. military has some 7,000 UAVs in operation — more than double the number of manned aircraft in its arsenal — and more than 12,000 robots on the ground in Iraq alone.”
Agri-Biz at Root of Swine Flu?
“Evidence points to industrial pig farm as source of outbreak, if so, Bernice Wuethrich tried to warn us.”
Gerald Celente discusses the swine flu, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama administration, and global recession on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Left Libertarian Terminology and Strategy: Obama the Statist and More
“It’s both more accurate and politically smarter, IMO, to call Obama a statist than a socialist. Yet from my perspective, many of the Cato-ites themselves are comparatively statist and the 'Red State Fascist' Republican establishment they hope to influence certainly is statist beyond a shadow of a doubt. Even so, one must suppose the inconsistencies of others are their own difficulties to manage and their own responsibility.”
“In 1927, just days before Andrew Kehoe detonated bombs that killed 45 people in Bath Township, Mich., he left an ominous sign on his fence that read, 'Criminals are made, not born.' The problems that plagued Kehoe are familiar to us today: tax increases, overwhelming debt and property foreclosure. Unfortunately, his choice of 'expression' is also familiar.”
Root
Striker Marcel Votlucka comments on economic stupidity.
“What is it about migration that causes people to get their knickers in a twist? The simple act of moving house over the bridge to the other embankment where the grass is greener, rainbows appear routinely every morning and no one wearing military garb or carrying an RPG is trying to shoot you is something evil.”
7 Viral Marketing Lessons Learned from the Swine Flu Virus
“The name viral marketing stems from the theory that ideas spread like viruses, making epidemiological metaphors and models useful when attempting to understand the spread of memes. Since the goal of any viral marketer is to create a pandemic with their campaign, we can learn a lot from the early spread of Swine Flu. Here are 7 valuable lessons to take away from this virus.”
“My own ideal version of free banking would have no special requirements for note issuance. Private banks would be able to issue their own notes on the same basis as they create demand deposits. They would also be free to open branches and invest in all kinds of securities. Finally, there wouldn’t be any sort of implicit or explicit government guarantees, like deposit insurance.”
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