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"Evan is now 5 years old and what might surprise a lot of you is that we've never been contacted by a single member of the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, or any other health authority to evaluate and understand how Evan recovered from autism. When Evan meets doctors and neurologists, to this day they tell us he was misdiagnosed -- that he never had autism to begin with. It's as if they are wired to believe that children can't recover from autism."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/mccarthy.autsimtreatment/index.html
"If you want to boost your metabolism, you’re probably wanting to lose body fat. The answer may not be in whipping your metabolism to go faster with magical foods and artificial stimulants, but, rather, to dropping some of your excess baggage that may be slowing that metabolism down."
http://www.naturalnews.com/022921.html
"Rather than limit the liability of those who alter nature for profit, let’s charge them for their emissions. Besides holding (a) auctions for an ever-dwindling number of permits, let’s require emitters to (b) carry Restoration Insurance and (c) pay an Ecology Security Deposit. For egregious polluters, (d) fine them. To avoid these four charges, producers will find and use the safe alternatives that are now largely available."
http://www.progress.org/2008/immune.htm
"Eight Macalester students lashed themselves together with PVC pipes fortified by duct tape and chicken wire while two students used U-shaped bike locks to fasten their necks to the entrances of army and navy recruiting centers on Washington Avenue near the University of Minnesota campus."
"Financial markets don't care about newspaper articles. Nor do they care about the high prices you're paying for food, gas, rent, tuition, debt service, clothes or anything else that you can no longer afford. Financial markets have their own internal rules and logic, and right now they simply cannot be bothered with average Americans' struggles to make ends meet. At present, they are concerned mainly with the money free-for-all going on over at the Federal Reserve. ... Furthermore, the Fed is running the magic liquidity hose, which means inflation and higher stock prices over time. Ka-ching! Again, forget about the costs associated with inflation. The system has no way of valuing those, either."
http://depression2.tv/d2/node/73
"Q: Does feminism affect how you portray subjects such as creativity or technology? A: It absolutely does. The major inventions in tech, the computer language, [came from] Ada Lovelace, artificial intelligence was invented by Mary Shelley. Cellular phone technology was invented by Hedy Lamarr. The major influences have all been women, but people continue to say that women have no aptitude for science or technology."
http://io9.com/374947/bio+art-is-not-a-crime-movie-director-tells-io9
"Instead of allowing the free market to punish speculators, Paulson is now asking Congress to force the American citizen to stand as a lender of last resort, via the Fed, for the speculators on Wall Street, insurance companies, derivatives and, most amazingly, the most speculative of all rich investors - hedge funds! The cynical arrogance of this 'civic robbery' is hard to accept." [I included this for its analysis of Paulson's plan, NOT its specific investing recommendations.]
http://www.safehaven.com/article-9847.htm
"[P]eople who depend on their little bits of interest that they make on their saved money (like the elderly) 'are being screwed by the Fed'...."
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG040108.html
"What bothers me is that someone who merely wants to run the government (or is it the country he wants to run?) thinks he should lecture you and me on matters of obligation and such. ... When a would-be president tells me that I should be committed to a cause greater than myself, I'm tempted to lock the doors."
http://fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1994
"The classical political economists had acknowledged that most people will enter wage employment only when all the land is appropriated and they no longer have direct access to self-employment on their own land. This was a commonplace observation made by Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus. Oppenheimer’s radical contribution was to observe that although the land was indeed all appropriated, it had never been naturally appropriated; it had, rather, been politically appropriated by the great landlords acting through the state."
http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/04/03/the-left-rothbardians-part-ii-after-rothbard/
"While it is true that a society cannot survive long without a mediation process, and it would be very silly for anyone to fight against that process, it is unclear why we need a centralized authority in order to effect it. Anarchy is not the position that mediation should be eliminated: rather, it is the position that mediation should be decentralized. It is not order that we don’t believe in, but centralized authoritarian order relying on hierarchies of power."
http://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/statism-is-utopian/
"With the decline of religion, the state has become an object of worship, and democracy is its principal dogma. It is perhaps the only aspect of political life that is never, ever, criticized, at least publicly."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein186.html
"Mozilla Labs is experimenting with several emerging technologies that fill important niches in the Firefox ecosystem. Among these are the Prism site-specific browser deployment tool and Weave, a web services integration framework that lets Firefox push local data into the cloud."
"Pete Seeger has been a presence in my life since the time I was growing up in the Hudson Valley of New York. My family was among the scores who went to see him perform at a run-down little park on the Hudson with his sloop, the Clearwater, docked nearby. His songs of his love for a polluted, neglected water-way rekindled in people a yearning for connection to the great river. Later, I heard him sing at rallies against the Vietnam War, and I knew then that there were adults who shared my passion for peace and justice."
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2296
"The chemical that causes garlic to give you bad breath may be the same one that protects your heart, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Alabama...."
http://www.naturalnews.com/022948.html
"The folks over at Mozilla had another reason to celebrate Monday, reports Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, a CNET News.com sister site. A new study by Forrester Research shows market share of the Firefox browser has doubled among enterprise users in the past year. It now stands at 18 percent."
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9907257-7.html
"The neocon lie that Iran is the cause of the Iraqi insurgency is just another Bush regime lie like the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and connections to al Qaeda and the lie that the Taliban in Afghanistan attacked the US. The Bush regime will tell any lie and orchestrate any event in order to 'finish the job' in the Middle East."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts04052008.html
"In short, it appears that the Administration may view NSA domestic surveillance, including the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans ... as a 'domestic military operation.' If so, this Yoo memo would blow a loophole in the Fourth Amendment big enough to fit all of our everyday telephone calls, web searches, instant messages and emails through."
"On the small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world. From its position almost 10,000 miles closer to the Persian Gulf than the east coast of the United States, this huge U.S. air and naval base has been a major, if little known, launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the past year, the Bush administration has made improvements that point toward its use in a possible attack on Iran. The administration recently admitted what it had long denied and what journalists, human rights investigators, and others had long suspected: The island has also been part of the CIA’s secret 'rendition' program for captured terrorist suspects."
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5120
"Sadly, we are already seeing Corollary Number Two to the Fed Uncertainty Principle being carried out in spectacular fashion. Corollary Number Two: The government/quasi-government body most responsible for creating this mess (the Fed), will attempt a big power grab, purportedly to fix whatever problems it creates. The bigger the mess it creates, the more power it will attempt to grab."
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/04/big-brother-monitors-investment.html
"Trouble is that as he tap dances the next few months away, he is systematically destroying the armed forces of the United States, and there does not seem to be anyone with the courage to try to stop him."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/033108a.html
"Nobody in American history has ever been better than the Clintons at calculating the electoral math of resentment, paranoia, media aggression and just flat-out, back-alley nastiness. Every day, the Clintons come up with some new and brilliantly devious way to color the subliminal background of the electoral canvas...."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19767182/hillarys_flimsy_case
"John McCain, the Republican candidate for president who dubiously claims the status of war hero because he was imprisoned and beaten after bombing civilian targets in North Vietnam 40 years ago, apparently wants other young men to have the chance to become war heroes."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0804a.asp
"On some level, there is no use worrying about other people’s economic fantasies. But on another, Klein’s rant points to the downside of joining big-tent coalitions: Even if your ideological bloc-within-a-bloc is dwindling and disrespected, when it supports the party in power it will inevitably be branded with that government’s failings."
http://reason.com/news/show/125451.html
"In the jungle, animals compete for a given quantity of available food. In contrast, in markets, people compete and prosper by increasing the value of goods and services produced by more than they receive in return, especially through new ideas and innovation, which are not part of animal competition. ... Survival-of-the-fittest rhetoric also views competition and cooperation as incompatible alternatives. However, competition in markets is competition to discover whom one can most beneficially cooperate with — information that is unattainable without market competition to reveal it. Market competition, properly understood, is the process of improving social collaboration and the mutual gains it creates, not social warfare."
"According to a managing director at the Bank of New York Mellon, open source is not about commodification. That's the pedestrian role served by proprietary software. Instead, open-source software is about innovation and competitive differentiation."
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9908203-16.html
"Just like natural organisms, the financial system must have death to evolve into a better form. Of course, this sounds like a callous statement, but it may be the only way to avoid the moral hazard that Paulson is seemingly creating. Paulson’s plan is a dressed-up confiscation of the profits of the cautious, and a transfer of those profits straight back to unreconstructed gamblers in the worst offending banks. This is very unwise."
http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2008/20080401.html
"Even the most educated, well-intentioned central planners cannot plan the market better than the market itself. Those that understand economics best, understand this reality. In free markets, both success and failure are options. If government interventions prevent businesses, like Bear Stearns, from failing, then it is not truly a free market. As painful as it might be for Wall Street, banks, even big ones, must be allowed to fail."
http://www.safehaven.com/article-9838.htm
"The real problem in today's capital markets is not that the machinery of capitalism is broken, but that it's working. And that is what the reformers aim to stop. They want to 'fix' the markets… like you would 'fix' a stray cat - so it couldn't have kittens. What they really want is to neuter the market…spay it, so it is a cuddly pet, but one that doesn't give you any trouble."
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/RSS/DR033108sec1.html
"[W]e would not be in this mess without the Fed, or if we were, the mess would at least be smaller than the one we are in. Would the market on its own accord be setting rates at the current Fed Funds Rate of 2.25? It's possible, but there is no way to tell. It's even possible the Fed is behind the curve by not acting fast enough. This is of course all guesswork. I don't know, you don't know, and the Fed does not know what to do. This is part of the 'Fed Uncertainty Principle' and a key reason why the Fed should be abolished. After all, how can you give such power to a group of fools that have clearly proven they have no idea what they are doing?"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/04/fed-uncertainty-principle.html
"[F]or all the talk about taxpayer bailouts, none of the senators bothered to mention that, for the moment, no tax increases are actually on the table. Instead, the bailouts are being financed by savers, pensioners, wage earners, investors and the elderly on fixed incomes, who all suffer staggering increases in their costs of living, as the Fed uses inflation to rob Main Street to pay off Wall Street." [Disclaimer: I do not recommend the investments mentioned at the end of this article.]
http://www.safehaven.com/article-9875.htm
"[I]n this case the federal government borrowed gobs and gobs of money by issuing more bonds for sale, and the Federal Reserve (like the obedient little traitor that it is), created the money so that investors and pension funds and insurance companies could borrow it to buy all the government debt! On margin! Hahahaha! We’re freaking doomed!"
http://www.contrarianprofits.com/articles/a-crude-source-of-welfare/
"Speaking of 'governmental extortions and chicaneries,' the Center for Responsive Politics has calculated that our congressional solons, collectively, have invested some $196 million in the military-industrial complex, i.e. in companies doing significant business with the Defense Department. Conflict of interest, anyone?"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12629
"One reason war is always associated with especially rapid growth of the government’s size, scope, and power is that it focuses people’s attention on what is seen as the most pressing item on the agenda, so they simply don’t notice what the government is doing in other regards. Another reason is that during wartime many people increase their broad support for the government, and hence they are less inclined to challenge its actions even when those actions have little or nothing to do with the war."
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=61
"The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression--a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard--by the Bush Regime could be prevented. ... If an American president can start a war exactly as Adolf Hitler did with pure lies and not be held accountable, he can get away with anything. And Bush and his evil regime have."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03312008.html
"There are lots of people, politicians, companies and so on who deliberately try to manipulate your feeling of security for their own gain. They try to cause fear. They invent threats. They take minor threats and make them major. And when they talk about rare risks with only a few incidents to base an assessment on — terrorism is the big example here — they are more likely to succeed."
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/
securitymatters/2008/04/securitymatters_0403
"Growing food remained and will remain a necessity, but large corporations took over the land and displaced individual farmers. Patriotism -- in the form of allegiance to a distant government, with its flag and other symbols, with its wars in distant lands -- has filled the black hole left by the loss of land and a way of life they loved. New Deal policies were themselves designed to end subsistence farming. Farmers could have survived with government assistance, but the New Deal allowed banks to foreclose and destroyed surplus food production to maintain high prices, while people were starving."
http://www.counterpunch.org/dunbar04012008.html
"Many of those same elements of US political and economic society that were served by King’s murder continue to be responsible for much of what goes on in those arenas to this day. No, my purpose writing today is to talk about another political murder that occurred two days after Dr. King’s. This murder happened across the country in the city of Oakland, California and we know who the murderers were. The murdered man (a young man of 17, in fact) was Bobby Hutton and the murderers were members of the Oakland Police Department."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/
"Other writers have previously punctured the myth that [Roosevelt] was a visionary mental giant who fortunately was on hand to lead the country in its time of despair. Shlaes reinforces the image of Roosevelt as merely a clever, conniving politician with one big asset, namely his great radio persona. Once he had sweet-talked his way into the White House — not a difficult task given that Herbert Hoover was a sourpuss political dud — his approach to policy was utterly clueless." [Main link goes to Part One, the piece has a Part Two.]
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0712h.asp
"Martin Luther King was right. So were Gandhi and Thoreau before him. Violence is not the answer. It is, however, the response of the ruling elite to those, like Dr. King, who make that case and try to organize popular movements for change. "
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/129
"[T]he reader can see that I hold no brief against the bloodthirsty men of Indiana in particular. The virus that infected their ancestors and now infects them has found a receptive host in the tissue of Americans throughout the land from the very beginning. A folklore exists in this country that we are a peace-loving people. Although a peace-loving American may perchance be found here and there, the generalization is manifestly false. ... If you think Americans in general have a strong preference for peace, you have not been paying attention; nor have you been immersing yourself in history books."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs78.html
"Too often we think of doing 'good' as going to where evil is, and fighting it. But when we intervene with guns blazing in disputes of no direct concern to us, in countries and cultures we don't understand, how do we know we are doing good? All we're really doing is adding to the carnage, and paying a high price for it."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2892
"The links between the McCain campaign and the campaign for NATO expansion, and Russophobic circles in general, are extensive. Randy Scheunemann , McCain's top foreign policy adviser, is a key figure in the NATO expansion campaign: he has been a top lobbyist for British Petroleum, several major defense contractors, and various Baltic and Central European governments."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12618
"Some things never change. In a continuation of the Bush administration’s Orwellian doublespeak on the Iraq War, President Bush recently gave an upbeat speech in Dayton, Ohio, extolling the progress in Iraq and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s military offensive in the southern oil port of Basra against 'criminal' elements. Strangely, as violence erupted in many cities across the country in response to Maliki’s offensive, the president claimed that 'normalcy is returning back to Iraq.' Yet the widespread violence belied the 'security gains' of the U.S. troop surge."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2159
"In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39379900,00.htm
"In short, if we could abolish public schools and compulsory schooling laws, and replace it all with market-provided education, we would have better schools at half the price, and be freer too. We would also be a more just society, with only the customers of education bearing the costs."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/public-schools-abolished.html
"We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/
usa-2008-the-great-depression-803095.html
"So deflation has not set in yet, but our normally credible source is still convinced that Bernanke is secretly pursuing a policy of deflation while pretending to inflate. But from the central bank's point of view, the costs of such a policy are prohibitive. So, why am I still listening to this 'voice'? Because it believes the Fed wants to hijack the gold market...In other words, that the Fed is trying to quell the rise in the gold price."
http://www.safehaven.com/article-9860.htm
"What makes science horror scary is science itself, and the mad doctors who steer it into the crawly places full of reanimated bodies and reality-warping physics. But some kinds of science are more terrifying than others. That's why I've delineated four branches of science most likely to show up in the next science horror movie in your queue."
http://io9.com/375197/the-most-shocking-science-caught-on-film
"John Coate, who was instrumental in the early success of the 'Whole Earth Lectronic Link,' talks to Howard Rheingold’s class about The Farm—a 1960s commune that influenced the development of the WELL’s virtual community." [Another recent Farm related article.]
"Charlton Heston, whose chiseled-granite looks and commanding manner led him to portray some of history's most extraordinary men -- from Moses to Michelangelo, John the Baptist to El Cid -- has died. He was 84."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/
e3iac100babad132e4da80e29bf8f7bfb27?imw=Y
"Paddy Chayefsky wrote screenplays — some original writing, some screen adaptations — for some of my favorite films...."
http://blog.tomender.com/2008/04/02/are-you-yelling-yet/
"An Al Qaeda representative says that claims the U.S. government was behind the attacks on Sept. 11th are demeaning to Al Qaeda."
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/9_11_conspiracy_theories
"Donnie Hoyle puts it all in perspective."
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Big_Fat_Brain/
You_Suck_at_Photoshop/YouSuckAtPhotoshop10_615.aspx
"Stephen urges us to heavily invest in Stephen Colbert's Rat Rakes -- rakes for rats."
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=164562
"My poor, spinning head was on the bar, comfortably resting in a pool of what smelled like stale beer and something moldy, when the bartender pokes at me and asks 'What's the matter with you?' I opened my bloodshot eyes and squinted up at him, and knew that I could not explain to him the significance of John Williams at ShadowStats.com reporting that his new calculations show that M3, the broadest measure of the money supply, is now condemning us to an inflationary hell."
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG040308.html
"Capitalism is not a system that makes people rich. It's a moral system…not really a financial system at all. And like any moral system, it's fuzzy at the edges and difficult to master. Where does the Atlantic stop and the Jersey shore begin? No one can tell you exactly. And no one can tell you where, exactly, one person's rights begin and another's stop. "
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/RSS/DR040408sec1.html
"Record demand, no increase in supply and sharp price sell-offs? Your head should be spinning. That cannot occur in a free market. It can only occur in a rigged or manipulated market. ... After all, an artificially depressed price must eventually result in shortage, something which is becoming more apparent in silver by the day. It is becoming obvious that the positions of the speculators, especially the largest concentrated shorts will destabalise the silver market, sooner or later." [Mr. Butler's article accompanies an excellent shorter piece by his associate Carl Loeb.]
http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1207068209.php
"Considering the extraordinary measures* taken by the Fed over the past four months in order to inflate (grow the money supply), the idea that the Fed is purposefully deflating (contracting the money supply) is preposterous. ... [C]hanges in the monetary base usually have very little to do with changes in the total supply of money (inflation/deflation). Furthermore, we can observe that the Fed has been taking 'heroic' measures in an effort to keep the inflation going." [More here]
http://www.safehaven.com/article-9844.htm
"Of course the young Rothbard was anti-Communist. What could be more clearly libertarian than the rejection of universal slavery?"
"I’ve been going 'balls to the wall' with my lessons… but can a girl really go 'balls to the wall'? Let’s find out."
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/30/balls-to-the-wall/
"Since the Catholic Church scored big with its first Seven Deadly Sins back in Century Number Six, they've recently decided to do a sequel (Seven Deadly Sins II?)."
http://www.rcreader.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12678&Itemid=42
"Things are getting weirder and weirder out there, and I am getting weirder and weirder in the semi-gloom of the Mogambo Bunker Of Ultimate Paranoia (MBOUP), like when I (for some reason) weirdly thought that if I called 911 to report the emergency of a rampant 20% monetary inflation that is going to lead to unbelievable consumer price inflation which will lead to food riots and societal breakdown, it might do some good!"
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG040208.html
"Bush has established himself as the torture president, the basis for his invasion of Iraq has been exposed as a fraud, the Iraq War itself has gone disastrously, the nation’s network of alliances has faded, and the economy has gone into a tailspin...."
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