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A collection of links related to copyright, copyfight, and copyfascism. On Reddit : Release the Orphan Works! | Electronic Frontier Foundation Brief Trademark Ponders EFF Patent Busting Project Air Force cracks software, carpet bombs DMCA Intellectual...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Fri, Nov 28 2008

Filed under: links

Doug Bandow urges Republicans to rebuild based on calls for a modest foreign foreign policy

Doug, you were right on Iraq in 2003 and are right now , but haven't you forgotten one little thing? What gives you any cause to believe that the stiff-necked neocons and others who fell for their war-mongering (the Christian right and other) will...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Nov 27 2008

Filed under: republicans, war, Iraq, neocons, Doug Bandow

Chris Horner and neocons on climate change "alarmists": the pot calls the kettle black

Chris Horner of CEI has long been a near one-man band in attacking the excesses of the left with respect to concerns about climate change (while appearing to forget concerns by some on the right, corporate heads, scientists and defense/intelligence analysts...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Nov 27 2008

Filed under: Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, Horner, Joe Romm, Islamofacism, demonization

Chodorov: The Need of a Golden Calf

Chapter 5 of Chodorov's One is a Crowd Buy the book ; Read the book (pdf, 190 pages) ; Who is Frank Chodorov? (pdf, 4 pages) by Murray Rothbard. We have it on the authority of the Lord, as recorded in Genesis, that idolatry is a corruption far more...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Thu, Nov 27 2008

Entertainment Industry Declares War on Australian ISP

Thirty-four of the biggest names in the entertainment industry has declared war on Australia's third-largest internet service provider (ISP) iiNet in a suit that claims that the broadband provider is partly responsible for its users' breach of...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Thu, Nov 27 2008

Filed under: copyfight

Capitalism & Venezuelan regional elections / Capitalismo y elecciones regionales venezolanas

Back to capitalism through Venezuelan regional elections Last Sunday the population of the four most populous and industrial states of Venezuela elected new governors and mayors affiliated with opposition parties. Their victory is considered as an expression...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Nov 27 2008

RIAA v. Joel Tenenbaum: The RIAA's Lawsuits are Unconstitutional

In what is shaping up to be the most significant copyfight case in years, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Professor Charles Nesson of the Harvard Law School in mounting a challenge against a federal copyright law that is the heart of...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Thu, Nov 27 2008

Filed under: copyfight

At what price?

When we speak of profitability we are talking about a cost benefit analysis. Am I better off sitting on the couch or going to get a slice of pizza from the fridge? That will no doubt depend upon the degree to which I'm either hungry or tired. If I'm...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Wed, Nov 26 2008

Endeudándose a corto plazo e invirtiendo a largo plazo: iliquidez y colapso del crédito

Tomado de liberalismo.org Por Antal Fekete Traducido por Jesús Gómez Ruiz Este artículo fue publicado en 1984. Agradecemos a Elizabeth Courier, del Comitee for Monetary Research and Education (CMRE ), su autorización para hacerlo...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Wed, Nov 26 2008

[Revised] Corporations, the state, limited liability and rent-seeking: Some criticisms of Huebert and Block's criticisms of Long

[Update: Items 2 & 3 revised and an item 4 added.] J.H. Huebert and Walter Block have posted a critique of Roderick Long 's recent Cato essay . Allow me to make a few comments: 1. Huebert and Long argue that "There Is No Such Thing as Corporate...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Nov 26 2008

Filed under: rent-seeking, corporations, Block, Roderick Long, Huebert, limited liability

Barbarians at the gate? The WSJ wrings its hands over Somali pirates but ignores the failure of property owners to defend themselves

The Wall Street Journal runs a remarkably whiny and unperceptive piece by weekly "Global View" columnist Bret Stephens about the expanding problem of ocean piracy off of Somali waters in and around the Gulf of Aden. An unvarnished neocon and...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Nov 26 2008

Filed under: wsj, Bret Stephens, piracy, self-defense, neocons, Somalia, common property, neocon, pirate

Fein on Iraq: Obama should unilaterally limit Presidential discretion by rejecting the AUMF

Good idea, Bruce , but do you really expect Obama to bite, and thereby drastically reduce his own discretion? Obama already has George W. Bush and Congress to blame for the war - what important advantage does he gain by claiming the AUMF was an unconstitutional...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Nov 25 2008

Filed under: war, Congress, obama, Iraq, AUMF, Bruce Fein

Jerry Taylor/Cato fails to fully engage Yglesias' "free-market case for revenue-neutral carbon pricing"

Along with Roderick Long 's recent Cato Unbound piece on libertarianism and corporatism, Cato hosted a reaction essay by liberal Matthew Yglesias , in which Yglesias made the following side comment: The free-market case for a revenue-neutral carbon...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Nov 25 2008

Filed under: carbon pricing, Jerry Taylor, Roderick Long, Matt Iglesias, Indur Goklany

Posner y Leviatán.

Mises Institute - Artículo diario - por DW MacKenzie - Publicado el 11/24/2008. Los últimos escritos en el Blog Becker-Posner consideran la posibilidad de revestir de plata las depresiones. En particular, Richard Posner afirma que hay aspectos...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Nov 24 2008

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Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Nov 24 2008