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"When Eastern Europe broke free in 1989, we all realized just how little thought had been given to the transition from socialism to capitalism. Mises had told us the collapse was coming, and we should have been prepared. As America comes to resemble a command economy, we need a transition plan here too. Yuri Maltsev proposed a 'One-Year Plan' for the U.S.S.R. We're not in that bad a shape (yet), so we could do it in 30 days." [Lew also has a "next thirty days" list.]
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/30-day-plan.html
"If you think these trends can go on indefinitely, or if you think power is the answer to our problems, or if you think loving others means diminishing their liberties, you're part of the problem. If you want to be part of the solution, then consider adopting the following resolutions for this year and beyond...."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0828/p09s01-coop.html
"[W]hat has happened to change the legal landscape so thoroughly? Scholarship! Lots and lots of legal and historical scholarship have tremendously strengthened the argument that the Second Amendment is important to individual rights after all. In Search of the Second Amendment, an important documentary by lawyer and best-selling author David T. Hardy, details the recent findings of a generation of legal scholars and historians--and some of the important uses to which Second Amendment rights have been put to defend other important rights, such as life, liberty and property."
http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/08/digging-for-roots-of-second-amendment.html
"Although a little slow to get going, the action-packed plot kept me reading, often long after I should have been asleep. However, Scalzi’s excellent crafting of characters, especially Jared Dirac, was what really grabbed me."
http://endervidualism.com/salon/books/scalzi.htm
“I packed the Thing into a box and sent him off. That’s the last I heard of him for three weeks. At first I thought he had gotten lost in the mail, then the next thing I hear is that he had showed up, not in such good shape. The box had been crushed, opened and crudely taped. When my friend opened it, the Thing was lying in pieces at the bottom.”
http://endervidualism.com/bwallace/thing_vs_flatfoots.htm
"Progressivism is hardly different from authoritarian, religious conservatism. Both would use the State to cram their morality and, yes, their religion, down our throats. (In the progressive's case, the religion is worship of the god Demos). Progressivism has had its share of aggressive war (to expand Democracy), inquisitions (IRS audits, to name just one), and witch hunts (against drug dealers, for instance) based on flimsy evidence and feigned moral outrage. Micheal Vick may not be a sympathetic figure, but he is their latest victim."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2655
"It's unclear if Buchanan and her subordinates are guilty of basic incompetence here, or something more sinister. That they could look at what's come out since Dr. Rottschaefer's conviction and still feel he belongs in prison is telling, as is the fact that they've yet to charge their star witness with perjury, despite overwhelming evidence that she committed it."
http://reason.com/news/show/122263.html
"What? Are the police taking stupid pills? ... 'Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.' The competition is fierce, but I think this is a winner."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/stupidest_terro.html
"We’ve created and milked crises throughout our history so that we now have the imperial executive every State needs to go along with an overarching bureaucracy meddling in your affairs. But you call this political arrangement the fruits of democracy, as if you’d decided you needed more war and less freedom in your life, then voted to make it happen. What’s better, we’ve still got you believing democracy is a good idea."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/smith/smith1.html
"I’m an anarchist. Sometimes we like to refine this description with terms like anarcho-capitalist, and that’s accurate as well, but let us be clear. I don’t want a better government; I want no coercive political government. I don’t want a more efficient TSA; I want no (publicly funded) TSA. I don’t want a better FDA; I want no FDA."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston31.html
"I’m a longtime nonvoter who believes 'anarchists' and 'radical libertarians' who rely on electoral politics to 'liberate' themselves are both unimaginative and philosophically inconsistent. If it’s humiliating to be ruled, how much more humiliating is it to choose your own masters?"
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/08/once-again-case-against-electoral.html
"Some of us market anarchists believe the reason the economy is presently dominated by large corporations, and characterized by pollution, waste and great disparities of wealth, is precisely that the market is fettered by corporate capitalists using the state to protect themselves from the competition of a free market."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/08/announcing-solidarity-economy-network.html
"While others pursued electoral politics to further liberty, El Ray explored more radical avenues to expand personal freedom and actually live a free life. He was a great theorist and, in a way, a forefather to Samuel Edward Konkin III’s 'counter-economic' Movement of the Libertarian Left." [Below find the main link to part one, here is a link to part two.]
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-defense-of-opting-out.html
"Formed by Dell, Earthlink, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Phillips, the White Spaces Coalition emerged from nowhere earlier this year with a plan for fast wireless broadband. The premise is simple: take advantage of the "white spaces" between digital television channels in the 54MHz to 698MHz spectrum to offer wireless broadband service. The FCC's decision to open up the white spaces has sparked opposition from groups such as the National Association of Broadcasters...."
"Rather than blindly expand government programs, the best way to help the uninsured would be to make private coverage and care more affordable. And the best way to start would be to let Americans own the money that purchases their coverage and care. Ill-advised government policies have given us a health care sector where everyone is spending other people's money. ... In essence, we also purchase our health insurance with other people's money. The average health plan costs a family $11,480. That's the family's money, but an employer controls it."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8672
"As in other natural catastrophes around the world, self-help efforts on the part of the population, along with private-sector and foreign assistance, have made up for the failure of governments—national, regional and local—to respond effectively."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2018
"In the postwar years, the US managed with its money and influence to secularize an elite class in Middle Eastern countries, an elite that identifies with the West and not with their own cultures. This artificial elite has produced a wide political gap between the masses of the people and the rulers. Increasingly, Muslim masses perceive their rulers as allied with foreign powers against them."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08292007.html
"If and when there's the equivalent of an international Nuremberg trial for the American perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA's secret prisons, there will be mounds of evidence available from documented international reports by human-rights organizations...."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0735,hentoff,77643,6.html
"The law that makes the FBI's surveillance network possible had its genesis in the Clinton administration. In the 1990s, the Justice Department began complaining to Congress that digital technology, cellular phones and features like call forwarding would make it difficult for investigators to continue to conduct wiretaps. Congress responded by passing the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, in 1994, mandating backdoors in U.S. telephone switches."
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/wiretap?currentPage=all
"For most of America’s rise to power in the 20th century, it produced far more oil than it consumed. As late as 1964, the U.S. found 48 billion barrels of oil and used only 23 billion. Ever since, it’s been getting tighter. By 1988, it was dead even. By 2005, America used 5 times more than it found. As a result of this great surge in demand, oil has been the magic pixie dust that created many an American fortune. In 1948, half of the 16 richest companies in America were oil companies. As late as 1982, half of the 30 richest Americans counted oil as the initial source of their wealth. Now America’s oil dependence is the Achilles’ heel of its international dominance"
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2007/20070831.html
"By now it is unmistakably clear that it is not only -- or even principally -- Iran's nuclear program that is fueling these tensions. As Scott Ritter and others have long pointed out, the fear-mongering warnings about an Iranian 'nuclear holocaust' (obviously redolent of Condoleezza Rice's Iraqi smoking gun "mushroom cloud") is but the pretext for achieving the true goal -- regime change in Tehran. ... Are there really people left who believe, with confidence, that Bush is going to leave office without commencing or provoking a military confrontation with Iran?"
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/29/iran/index.html
"Have you ever received a piece of first-class mail from a political party? Not likely; campaign literature typically comes bulk rate. But in its vote caging effort, the Republican Party sent out registered and first-class mail with 'do not forward' instructions to thousands of new voters in certain districts in key states. Then the party waited for some of that mail to come back as undeliverable. Those voters were then placed on a list and subject to challenge on Election Day due to their invalid address."
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/26/Opinion/A_cagey_way_to_keep_v.shtml
"Not another warning about war with Iran! Well, suck it up. President George W. Bush’s speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being 'fixed around the policy.' It’s not about putative Iranian 'weapons of mass destruction' — not even ostensibly. It is about the requirement for a scapegoat for U.S. reverses in Iraq, and the felt need to create a casus belli by provoking Iran in such a way as to 'justify' armed retaliation — perhaps extending to an attempt to destroy its nuclear-related facilities."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/083007b.html
"It's a real hoot to see one of Bush's most loathsome toadies humiliated in public, but in the end, it is a meaningless experience. It will change nothing politically; Gonzales will simply be replaced by someone who will dance on the end of the same strings that jerked him across the national stage for a time. It will not shorten the Iraq war by a single day."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1268/135/
"The reason is that the laws that get passed with pomp and circumstance in legislatures are not the laws that really govern society. They only look like they do. But ask yourself this. If they really did, why is it that the crimes committed by commissars in the Soviet Union, by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany . . . and by the American CIA . . . were all committed with the law books bulging at the seams? It is not how many laws you have that matters, but how well those laws are obeyed – which is a matter of culture and history, of what people expect.... and what they are prepared to accept."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/rajiva5.html
"Lewis argues for a return to a solidly maintained “gold peg” for U.S. currency. But he does so in a manner that might infuriate both the mainstream believer in the post-1971 free-floating fiat paper money managed by the Federal Reserve and the hardcore libertarian goldbug who thinks money should be gold, not merely be pegged to it. I interviewed Lewis by phone last Friday about gold standard purism, the economic record of fiat money, and what a gold standard can—and can’t—do."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/122167.html
"Ancient cities arose not by decree from a centralized political power, as was previously widely believed, but as the outgrowth of decisions made by smaller groups or individuals, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh."
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/09.13/99-urban.html
"Economists have only begun to understand when money illusion affects market outcomes. It was commonly thought that the impact of irrational behaviour is limited in markets because 'smart agents' can take advantage of irrational traders. However, recent evidence from the field and the experimental laboratory suggests that money illusion can affect markets."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070823141025.htm
"Light rail and streetcars may be cute, but they are S-L-O-W. Portland's fastest light-rail line averages 22 miles per hour. Portland's streetcar goes about 7 miles per hour. I am waiting to see a developer advertise, 'If you lived here and rode transit home from work, you'd still be sitting on the train.' The developments supposedly stimulated by new light-rail and streetcar lines? They were built only after the region started handing out billions of dollars in subsidies after the transit lines were built. ... Among the subsidies, the city has sold parks, school playgrounds, and other lands at below-market prices to developers on the condition that they replace those open spaces with transit-oriented developments. So much for livability."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8643
"Government intervention and subsidies have penetrated the economies of the world down to the core so that we are as far away from truly free markets as the command economies of the USSR and China were from today's mixed-up economies. People think we have markets which fail, but in reality not just the commanding heights but the foundation of our economies -- money, loans, and land -- have been controlled by government personae who are both ignorant and motivated to please the moneyed interests who maintain over 34 thousand lobbyists in Washington DC."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002942.html
"Moore harshly criticizes the U.S. government. Yet he is arguing for a centrally controlled allocation of health care resources. Who does he want to run health care in this country? Medical resources are not unlimited. The combination of aging demographics, technological advances and unconstrained consumption within our third party payment system has led to an unsustainable trajectory of ever increasing spending."
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=400&wherefrom=email
"Less stuff per pound or dollar is as plain a definition of inflation as you'll ever find. It works when prices rise — the common-or-garden use of the word — and it also works when rising prices are hidden by shrinking the size of what money buys."
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2007/20070830.html
"The corporate elite has amassed and centralized power in a mirror of the central government and military establishment. ... But it is in monetary policy that the political-military-corporate triad has achieved its most stupendous success. No longer compelled by the discipline of the gold standard (snuffed by the debts of the Vietnam War), the power elite has turned the biblical fishes and loaves narrative into a real-life story. ... How handy the creation of this grand sea of liquidity has been to the power triad! Up until mid-August, when the tide offered up a great shoal of rotting fish, the sea has washed the electorate in cheap credit and – above all – kept the war machine speeding at full throttle."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/berga.php?articleid=11506
"Bush is too self-righteous to see the dark humor in his denunciations of Iran for threatening 'the security of nations everywhere' and of the Iraqi resistance for 'a vision that rejects tolerance, crushes all dissent, and justifies the murder of innocent men, women, and children in the pursuit of political power.' Those are precisely the words that most of the world applies to Bush and his Brownshirt administration. The Pew Foundation's world polls show that despite all the American and Israeli propaganda against Iran, the US and Israel are regarded as no less threats to world stability than demonized Iran."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08312007.html
Casey outlines his view of the consequences of the War on Terror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC-ZxzYneOQ
"The president is right that many of us underestimated the consequences of our failure in Indochina, and the consequences of our failure in Iraq will be much worse for us geopolitically and strategically. But the horror of Cambodia was the result of war, not our leaving it. When societies are torn asunder under the stress of war, dark forces -- like diseases when the immune system fails -- come to the fore. The Khmer Rouge would never have come to power if the war had not come to Cambodia, any more than Mao would have come to power in China were it not for the Japanese invasion, or Lenin in Russia had it not been for World War I."
"By the time I got old enough to see what was going on, it was ending. There was still some of it. When I was a kid in Athens, Alabama in 1957, school vacations in nearby Ardmore coincided with cotton-picking and cotton-chopping time. In Athens, Johnny Cox and Jim Bob McAllister lived in unpainted trashwood shacks with a hanging bulb on twisted wire as the sole evidence of electrification. I wasn’t supposed to play with them, though I did anyway."
http://fredoneverything.net/Souths%20End.shtml
"Recall the movie Braveheart, which depicted a period in English history when the English king and his minions possessed and exercised the right to rape a newlywed bride on her wedding night. Can anyone imagine the woman’s husband exclaiming, as his wife was carted away, 'At least we can peacefully protest the king’s actions without being thrown into jail and at least we have sound money'?"
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0705a.asp
"America was far less free in the 1950s than it had been at the turn of the century, when (for example) anyone, of any age, could walk into a pharmacy and purchase whatever they needed without getting a note from their doctor. As I pointed out near the start of this column, America was also far less wealthy in the 1950s than it would become. Still, health care in America was affordable, convenient, and widely hailed as the best in the world. Americans didn't have to listen to constant political squawking about how the government should do this or that to fix the health care system, because the system wasn't broken."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/allport/allport9.html
"The reason that the Fed has been able to get away with its monetary shenanigans for more than a decade has been the historical accident of the US dollar being a major world currency, and the rise of the Asian economies. The Asian central banks have been willing to hold dollars at levels well out of proportion to their real value, and Americans have benefited — temporarily, I will add — by the fact that the Chinese and others will accept US dollars for their relatively inexpensive goods."
http://www.mises.org/story/2675
"This comes via Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation, and a leading expert on Afghanistan, who has it from 'a friend who has excellent connections in Washington and whose information has often been prescient.' According to Rubin's anonymous sibyl – or is that seer? – we can look forward to 'a big kickoff on September 11.' This pretty much comports with what we've been reporting on Antiwar.com for the past few months, and with recent reports of an imminent US assault on Iran: see my last column on this subject. So have a nice vacation, soak up as much sun as you can, because dark days lie ahead."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11534
"Bush’s remarks betray a deeper misunderstanding of history. What he didn’t learn from Vietnam is this: One good reason for not invading a country is that the invasion itself will create conditions that make leaving problematic. Occupation creates its own quagmire."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0708h.asp
"Day after day, almost hour by hour, fresh confirmation comes of the impending American attack on Iran. Yet the same surreal malaise that hung over public affairs before the war of aggression against Iraq has descended again. Everyone knows the war is coming and nothing will stop it, but the strange, ludicrous shadow play of sham 'debate' goes on, as if there were some kind of political or diplomatic maneuver out there that could deflect the Bush-Cheney junta from its long-chosen course."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1270/135/
"In fact, the impetus for chaos in Southeast Asia wasn't our military withdrawal but our reckless incursion in the first place. More than 58,000 American soldiers were killed in the war and 153,000 wounded. A quarter-million South Vietnamese soldiers and 4-million Vietnamese civilians also died. The reality of that conflict ripped the fabric of American society, and it wasn't mended quickly."
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/29/Opinion/_Bush_learns_wrong_le.shtml
"Of the two brothers, it was Joseph who first contemplated building 'machines'. Gillispie puts it as early as 1777 when Joseph observed laundry drying over a fire incidentally form pockets that billowed upwards.[1] Joseph made his first definitive experiments in November of 1782 while living in Avignon."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Montgolfier
"He was one of the first who openly demonstrated against the issue of racial laws in Germany, and he resigned from the University of Göttingen in 1933 as a personal protest against the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler. Later, in his second homeland, his moral courage was again evident when in 1945 (two months before Hiroshima) he joined with a group of atomic scientists in preparing the so-called 'Franck Report' to the War Department, urging an open demonstration of the atomic bomb in some uninhabited locality as an alternative to the military decision to use the weapon without warning in the war against Japan. This report, although failing to attain its main objective, still stands as a monument to the rejection by scientists of the use of science in works of destruction."
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1925/franck-bio.html
"Soon after arriving in Hollywood, Kulp was convinced by director George Cukor and casting director Billy Gordon that she should be in front of the camera, not behind the scenes. What that began was a solid career as a character actress in films and television, including two memorable roles: on 'The Bob Cummings Show' (1955) as bird-loving 'Pamela Livingstone' and on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' (1962) as the long-suffering, lovesick and bird-loving 'Miss Jane Hathaway'."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474685/bio
"Kristen Nygaard analyzed complex problems by computer simulation, requiring interaction between many very dissimilar components. He saw the need for a description language that could be used to comprehend, describe and communicate complex systems, and also make it possible for computers to execute models of what had been described."
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2002vonneumannKN.html
Dystopian science fiction comedy stars Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Alan Crews; produced, written and directed by Mike Judge. “As a truly funny comedy which also delivers both extremely relevant and deeply insightful social and political commentary, this film belongs to a fairly small class of movies. ... Mike Judge has outdone himself with this satirical romp through a pessimistically projected future.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/idiocracy_2006.htm
"Despite her non-committal tone when Jim had pressed her on signing up for temporary deputy duty, she had no intention of allowing assholes to harass and harry her friends and neighbors. In fact, the main force behind her refusal was a gut feeling that getting paid to stand up to such assholes was on the less than honorable side of the ledger." [Main link below goes to part six, links here for parts seven and eight.]
http://markettheocracy.blogsome.com/2007/08/27/the-woman-who-hitch-hiked-with-cats-vi/
"Jennifer rushed toward the flailing colt and his maddened mother, stumbling to a halt just a few feet away. Bulldog pulled against the barbed wire, which cut deeper as he struggled. Mama lunged at the predator fence, threatening to trap her own legs in the wires. Horses screamed. Dust choked. Blood flew."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070827.html
"I think I know why This Perfect Day isn't in print anymore. If too many people read this book, we might wake up."
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2007/08/bws-book-report-this-perfect-day.html
"Traditional amusement parks are themed to cartoon characters or movie studios or magic kingdoms or even country music like Dollywood and Opreyland. New ones are all about politics. Two examples are 'Stalin's World' and 'Caminata Nocturna'."
http://www.freecannon.com/PoliticalPlayland.htm
"A confused President Bush broke free from the restraint of Secret Service agents this morning and ran in pursuit of departing deputy chief of staff Karl Rove's car for several blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue before being outdistanced by the vehicle."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/65627
"Mr. Gonzales, a champion of domestic surveillance and warrantless wiretaps while in office, said he was 'totally stoked' about turning his prying eyes on his own family. 'Domestic surveillance begins at home,' Mr. Gonzales said at a White House press conference. 'That means nobody in my family is above suspicion, not even the little ones,' an apparent reference to Mr. Gonzales’ children."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6762
"Tragedy was narrowly averted when a stray bullet bound for singer Beyonce thankfully struck and became lodged in a passerby. "
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/beyonce_unhurt_after_stray_bullet
“Having the guts to stand alone, acting on your own judgment—against the rest of the world, if need be—that is the foundation of freedom and a personal, legitimate understanding of the truth, and it always gets my attention.”
http://endervidualism.com/salon/intvw/rosenberg.htm
"What the advocates of the 'rights' to medical care and education don't see is that these must be counterfeit rights. Rights are principles for promoting self-development and social cooperation by averting conflict. They draw a moral boundary around each individual so that each knows what is his or hers and what is not. An alleged right that requires people to do more than abstain from interfering with others cannot be a right, for what becomes of the rights of those on whom the demands are made?"
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1543&year=2007&month=8
"Many of Rayo’s suggestions for 'opting out' may strike some modern libertarians as too fringe and too retreatist. But I think what’s most important here is attitude, and the truth in what he says about our shackles being as much psychological as political."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/09/surmounting-barriers-to-freedom-1.html
"[T]he potential benefits of multicore chips are rendered obsolete if the software itself isn't coded to take advantage of its primary selling point: namely, parallelism. Put another way, for the software to run at maximum speed, programmers will have to develop multithreading applications that take advantage of them. "
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/08/multicore
"Guy makes a YouTube video. VH1 uses his video without his permission on one of those dumb shows it does about "what's hot on the Internet." Guy makes a second video using the footage of VH1 using his video. VH1's owner, Viacom, sends a notice of copyright infringement to YouTube, ordering them to take the second video down.."
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/028105.php#028105
"With three-fourths of Zimbabwe’s labor force already jobless prior to Mugabe’s decree, the government’s prescription for bringing down inflation only worsened the nation’s poverty crisis. 'Factory layoffs and slowdowns,' reported the Times, 'are bringing new poverty to the 15 percent or 20 percent of adult Zimbabweans who still have jobs.' To keep critics in line, a new law gives Zimbabwe’s security forces the right to observe as many e-mails and tap as many phones as they see fit." [Hmm, sounds vaguely familiar...]
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0708g.asp
“Plots and subplots interweave, and characters also interact in sometimes unexpected ways. Vinge’s portrayal of ‘belief circles’ was at times amusing and interesting....”
http://endervidualism.com/salon/books/vinge.htm
"(What does it say about a company when it takes six months for it to release the schedule of when it will release the beta of the fix to the operating system it took more than five years to build? More and more, new Microsoft operating systems resemble massive public works projects, with endless schedule setbacks, cost overruns, and diminished expectations. The Big Dig, Part Deux.)"
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2007/08/vista_sp1_you_o.html
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