"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" November 2009 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

November 2009 - Posts

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Third-World land theft & the tragedy of the commons: Mother Jones ponders, "Conservation: Indigenous peoples' enemy No. 1?" by TokyoTom

[Post note: Anybody see the movie Avatar? Well that's how native people perceive conservation efforts - as helping governing elites to steal their lands.] The Mother Jones magazine has been running a series of on-line articles which exemplify how...
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Bruce Yandle on the tragedy of the commons, evolution of cooperation & property, and the struggle against government theft by TokyoTom

 

 

 

 

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To David Suissa: imagine not simply peace-seeking Arab moderates, but an end to funding of intransigence by the US, EU & Japan by TokyoTom

The Ha`aretz newspaper kindly sent by email a piece, " We Need ‘A Street,’ Not J Street ", by David Suissa , that is apparently his weekly column for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal . In his personal blog (under " The Banality...
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To John Quiggin: Reassuring climate "delusions" help us all to avoid engaging with "enemies" in exploring common ground by TokyoTom

I left the following comment on John Quiggin`s " Libertarians and delusion " post (other comments are noted in my preceding posts): TokyoTom November 6th, 2009 at 14:03 | #34 @jquiggin I “have started to entertain the view that there is...
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A few more "delusional" thoughts to John Quiggin on partisan perceptions & libertarian opposition to collective action by TokyoTom

Further to my preceding posts regarding John Quiggin`s post on " Libertarians and delusionism ", I copy below a few of the comments that I left there: TokyoTom November 4th, 2009 at 08:13 | #3 John, thanks for raising the topic more widely....
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The Road Not Taken V: Libertarian hatred of misanthropic "watermelons" and the productive love of aloof ad-homs by TokyoTom

I copy below a comment I just left at Stephan Kinsella `s post on the main LvMI Blog, " Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims ", which I have discussed here in several preceeding posts . TokyoTom Published...
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For climate fever, take two open-air atom bombs & call me in the morning; "serious" libertarian suggestions from Kinsella & Reisman!? by TokyoTom

 

 

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A few more comments to John Quiggin on climate, libertarian principles and the enclosure of the commons by TokyoTom

I note first that I am reminded by a pithy comment from someone else that, despite the length of my previous post addressing John Quiggin `s post on libertarian delusion , sometimes less is more. Writes commenter "ABOM", in a comment made elsewhere...
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John Quiggin plays Pin-the-tail-on-the-Donkey with "Libertarians and delusionism" by TokyoTom

John Quiggin , a left-leaning Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland, has noted my recent post on the penchant for bloggers and readers at the Mises Blog to attack climate science - are " almost universally committed to...
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A libertarian immodestly summarizes a few modest climate policy proposals by TokyoTom

[Folks, I hope you do a better job than I do at saving draft posts before they`re finalized; I just lost alot of work. This will necessarily be shorter.] I have on numerous occasions tried to point out, to posters on the Mises Blog who have addressed...
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The Road Not Taken IV: My other hysterical comments on climate science & how Austrians hamstring themselves by TokyoTom

In my initial post, on how Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change , I copied my chief comment to Stephan Kinsella . I copy below my other posts and some of the remarks I was responding to on Stephan`s thread , including the...
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[Update- apology] The Road Not Taken III: Stephan Kinsella plugs his ears on the Austrians` obstinate, willful irrelevancy in the climate debate? by TokyoTom

 

 

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