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Here it is Ron Paul about the crisis

This has been taken from Today's Daily Recknoning, July 9, 2008: http://www.dailyreckoning.com/ *** Ron Paul explains how we got into this mess: “There were several stages. From the inception of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to 1933, the...

Posted to Learning: a never-ending process by martinf on Wed, Jul 9 2008

Filed under: economic crisis ron paul

George Monbiot: Why do governments subsidize the rush by fishermen to destroy unowned ocean fisheries?

In the context of the latest fuel strikes by European fishermen, George Monbiot has an excellent piece in the July 8th Guardian that explores the role of governments in subsidizing the destructive "tragedy of the commons" that is ocean fisheries...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 9 2008

Filed under: tragedy of commons, Ron Bailey, fisheries, Jon Adler, Monbiot

Greased by Telecom $$$, Obama & spineless Dems act with Republicans to shred the 4th Amendment and to play dumb to and sanction illegal domestic spying by Bush and Telecoms

More by Glenn Greenwald . Obama shows his true colors regarding his supposed desire for change, transparency and rule of law. As likely future Spy-in-Chief, why would he be interested in anything that might limit his own power? In the 70s, Nixon was impeached...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 9 2008

Filed under: bush, Congress, obama, 4th Amendment, FISA

Luboš Motl 3: This lover of freedom and hater of irrationality can`t stand discourse and fantasizes about elimination

I`m disappointed that my attempts at discourse with Lubos Motl have blown up. Lubos, a Czech physicist/climate science blogger who responded to my post on Bret Stephens` exegesis in the WSJ of the psychology of the cult-like "belief" by the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jul 8 2008

Filed under: tribalism, AGW, cognition, climate change, skeptic, Lubos Motl

Citizens fight wildfires in Northern California ...

as this article in the July 7 NY Times shows. This is not at all surprising, as owners all have incentives to protect their property, and relatively small communities of people can work together well when needed. One can expect to see increasing sophistication...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jul 7 2008

Filed under: AGW, climate change, volunteerism, community, wildfires

Bob Murphy punts on whether "Cap and Trade" is a "market solution"

In response to my comments last month to Bob Murphy 's June 4 blog post, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" , Bob has kindly noted on the blog thread his intention not to let my comments on his post remain the last word: Just following...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jul 7 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Weitzman, Bob Murphy, cost-benefit

Luboš Motl 2: The cool-headed overheat; to this "rational" scientist, I'm a freedom-hating hypercommunist Nazi who should be "jailed or executed"

It looks like Lubos woke up on the wrong side of bed. BELOW is the type of "rational", "dispassionate" response that my previous attempt at discourse with Luboš Motl has earned from that fan of Bret "Mass Neurosis"...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jul 7 2008

Filed under: commons, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, Bret Stephens, Lubos Motl

[Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're a delusional, neurotic "zealot"

[Update below] My last piece (on Bret Stephen 's straight-faced but ridiculous dismissal in the WSJ of all concerns about climate change as a "sick-souled religion" and a "nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: markets, AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Bret Stephens, preferences, Lubos Motl

Luboš Motl 4: His considered plan to eliminate enviros: they should be treated like N*zis, so it may be necessary to kill millions (less if we get started soon!)

As noted on the prior thread , in a recent blog post, scientist Lubos Motl concluded that there " literally pandemics " of people writing stuff on global warming, and that is "simply ... no other help for the people who are writing most...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, skeptic, Lubos Motl, ribalism, Nazi

[Update] Mind Games: Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal panders to "skeptics" by abjuring science and declaring himself an expert on "mass neurosis"

[Update: For an ongoing case study of the startling irrationality and "sick souls" of some of the "skeptics", see my related discussions with the physicist Lubos Motl: [Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: religion, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, Bret Stephens, Durkin, Cockburn, Horner, Festinger, Lubos Motl

Mont Pelerin and The Property and Freedom Socities

Mises.org spearheaded by the Mises Institute has been instrumental in my intellectual growth. I wondered, were there any other organizations (as opposed to just websites/webcontent) with the similar scope of the Mises Institute on Free Markets, Austrian...

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Sat, Jul 5 2008

[Mind Games:] Penn & Teller - "Bull****" artists - get ready to change their "skeptical" stance on climate change

There's an interesting bit of arm-twisting, self-deception, defensiveness and reluctant position-shifting going on in the libertarian science skeptics crowd, and Penn and Teller seem to be letting the social pressure help clear their minds. At James...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Jul 5 2008

Filed under: AGW, Ron Bailey, climate change, Al Gore, Sharon Begley, Penn, Teller, Newsbusters

Reflexiones sobre el Origen y la Estabilidad del Estado

por Hans-Hermann Hoppe . Este documento fue presentado por primera vez en la 3ª reunión anual de la Sociedad Propiedad y Libertad, que se celebró en Bodrum, Turquía, del 22 al 26 de mayo de 2008. Permítanme empezar con...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Fri, Jul 4 2008

Austrian Economic Dilettante

First blog post. I am a toddler when it comes to Austrian Economics and libertarianism. I personally considered myself aligned with the liberal (in the American sense). I was never officially part of the democrats or greens or any other party. I couldn't...

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Thu, Jul 3 2008

Inquiring minds?! Wherein the author jumps through hoops for a "skeptic" on the wonders of CO2 (that man has no influence on)

An LvMI blogger sent me the following inquiry, which I post here - along with my response - as a public service. I note first that I am no climate expert, but someone who doesn`t mind a little scientific or other inquiry. Question : "I would like...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jul 3 2008

Filed under: science, AGW, CO2, climate change

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Here it is Ron Paul about the crisis

George Monbiot: Why do governments subsidize the rush by fishermen to destroy unowned ocean fisheries?

Greased by Telecom $$$, Obama & spineless Dems act with Republicans to shred the 4th Amendment and to play dumb to and sanction illegal domestic spying by Bush and Telecoms

Luboš Motl 3: This lover of freedom and hater of irrationality can`t stand discourse and fantasizes about elimination

Citizens fight wildfires in Northern California ...

Bob Murphy punts on whether "Cap and Trade" is a "market solution"

Luboš Motl 2: The cool-headed overheat; to this "rational" scientist, I'm a freedom-hating hypercommunist Nazi who should be "jailed or executed"

[Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're a delusional, neurotic "zealot"

Luboš Motl 4: His considered plan to eliminate enviros: they should be treated like N*zis, so it may be necessary to kill millions (less if we get started soon!)

[Update] Mind Games: Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal panders to "skeptics" by abjuring science and declaring himself an expert on "mass neurosis"

Mont Pelerin and The Property and Freedom Socities

[Mind Games:] Penn & Teller - "Bull****" artists - get ready to change their "skeptical" stance on climate change

Reflexiones sobre el Origen y la Estabilidad del Estado

Austrian Economic Dilettante

Inquiring minds?! Wherein the author jumps through hoops for a "skeptic" on the wonders of CO2 (that man has no influence on)