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Clayton — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:42:40 GMT

john bolton is an anarchist.

LOL, this put a smile on my face! Thanks!

Clayton -

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Blargg — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:28:26 GMT

Yeah but those printed on the Fed's presses don't have the same destructive effects on the economy as these supernotes.

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Anenome — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:08:04 GMT

No one's better at counterfeiting dollar bills than the Fed Reserve :P

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Student — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:46:33 GMT

I don't know where else to put this.

But, in case you were wondering, Doctor Who is back this week!

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Malachi — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:30:49 GMT

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/09/office-39-200909

They are crafted with extraordinary care. Klaus Bender, an authority on banknote printing, writes in his book Moneymakers that unlike other forgeries, and unlike any other currency except real U.S. banknotes, these supernotes use paper with long, parallel fibers, manufactured by a machine called a Fourdrinier and composed of 75 percent American cotton and 25 percent linen. Like genuine bills, modern supernotes are printed using “optically variable ink,” which appears to change color from bronze green to black depending on the angle of the light. (Indeed, their quality is so superb that Bender suggests they aren’t made by North Korea at all, but somewhere in America by the C.I.A.—a claim for which there is no evidence.)

The print quality is exceptional. Again like genuine dollars, the supernotes are produced on a special intaglio press so that their intricate design is raised above their surface. The “microprinted” features, 1/42,000th of an inch high, found on real dollars are reproduced exactly on counterfeit ones. At Liu’s trial in Las Vegas, the prosecution blew up images of the supernotes to hundreds of times their normal size, and even then, says an F.B.I. agent who worked on the case, the differences between the supernotes and genuine bills were invisible to the naked eye: “Frankly, if I’d been the defense attorney, I would have asked the prosecution, ‘How can you prove these are counterfeit?’ He could have persuaded the jury they were real.” Lorelei Pagano, a Secret Service counterfeit specialist, told a private banknote-industry conference in 2003 that the makers of the supernotes had likely included their few tiny flaws on purpose, so that they and their customers could tell the difference between the counterfeits and the real thing. Otherwise, there would be nothing to stop criminals from ripping off their suppliers by purchasing supernotes—which typically cost around a third of their nominal value—with other supernotes.

technology is making fiats obselete.

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Primetime — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:26:54 GMT

Get a loada this

School Plays Bieber's 'Baby' As Fundraiser: Students Pay To Make It Stop

Extortion of the highest order, anyone? (Or i guess lowest, depending on how you look at it)

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Malachi — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:16:00 GMT

http://www.growingpower.org/

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Malachi — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:13:56 GMT

voluntary theocracy.

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SkepticalMetal — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:12:18 GMT

It's interesting to think about what would come after anarchy - once we have achieved a stateless society...what then? It's like you were saying in your post, or at least saying to the effect of it, it's doubtful that human beings, having achieved an anarcho-capitalist world, would simply go to lounging around comfortably without any real reason to look for anything better. If society doesn't go downhill after that point (by which I mean going backwards, turning to what would then be reactionary viewpoints such as socialism, communism, etc) then what will come after that? What will human society evolve into without the state, an institution that has been present almost always throughout human history?

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Anenome — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:50:10 GMT

That's the point, entertain us with your silly belief about Say's law?

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Wheylous — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:58:17 GMT

I'm not sure why it's a Condescending Wonka. That's essentially the bedrock of Keynesianism.

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Anenome — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:06:16 GMT

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Malachi — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:09:21 GMT

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Willy Truth — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:07:30 GMT

http://www.demos.org/stacked-deck-how-dominance-politics-affluent-business-undermines-economic-mobility-america

Spend 30 seconds looking at this site so you can share in my sadness and frustration.

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Blargg — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:01:48 GMT

Maybe all the prisons and mental wards will have a use after all. They can't be trusted.

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