Archive for the Ze Older Stuff Category
Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist
from Public Intelligence [caption id="attachment_21343" align="alignright" width="231" caption="Click to enlarge"][/caption] A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potent
Florida Invents the Perpetual Bureaucracy Machine
from The Agitator Via Popehat, this is probably the most hilariously absurd regulation I’ve ever seen. John Stossel called Florida Dept. of Revenue and was told, “A vending machine operator that does not place the notice on the machine presumably is not in compliance with the other
Personal Incomes Fall More During ‘Recovery’ Than During the Recession
by Mike Opelka, TheBlaze America’s longest economic recession since WWII, ended in June of 2009. The recession’s end means that our economy has allegedly been in recovery mode since July of 2009, more than two and a half years. If we are in recovery, why have American’s incomes dropped
15 Decisions You May Have To Make In 2012
by Country Codger, DTO.me In earlier articles I tried to highlight the problems that we are faced with in this day and age not only in America but also throughout the world. Wherever you look, the United States is poised for war with some country. We are poised for war against Syria, Iran, China
Justice at Last: Count’em
by Fred Reed The Look Like America bill, originally H.R. 1533, seemed a perfectly ordinary piece of feel-good legislation when proposed by Barack Osama Obama. “Our diversity is our strength,” he said. “We must increase the representation of minorites in our institutions to reflect our diver
The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas
from TechDirt There's been plenty of talk (and a ton of posts here on Techdirt) discussing both SOPA (originally E-PARASITE) and PROTECT IP (aka PIPA), but it seemed like it would be useful to create a single, "definitive" post to highlight why both of these bills are extremely problematic an
FW: You Can’t Do That! (Without a License)
Originally published on MilitantLibertarian.org on January 25, 2004. You Can't Do That! (Without a License) by Charles Stone, Jr., canam@m... THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE Number 255, January 18, 2004 http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/tle255-20040118-06.html The land of the free and the ho
Abolish Usury Forever – How and Why?
from UsuryFree The advent and sporadic success of the usuryfree community currency movement, with its emphasis on restoring and re-building the spirit of local communities is timely indeed, as it offers a worthy alternative at a time when our orthodox, economic system of debt-money is in embarras
Fair Share….What Is It and Who Determines
by D13 The Colonel, SU4A “FAIR SHARE!”, shouts the POTUS from the pulpit of politics. Standing behind a podium with a Presidential Seal that allows this mantra to spew forth, the POTUS fixes his glance…it is not about Class Warfare (as he stifles the ever present snicker), it is math. Thi
These Three Men Represent Everything That’s Wrong With Wall Street
by Money Morning, BIN [caption id="attachment_19404" align="alignright" width="207" caption="Robert Rubin"][/caption] I've already expressed my desire to embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement. I said last week that I would join in whole-heartedly if I knew exactly what the protes
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