March 2008 Archives
German Nazis were defeated. Japanese Shintoists were defeated. Russian Communists were defeated.
The blood-thirsty Islamists shall be defeated, too.
Update: in case the above source folds to either cowardly European governments or threatening jihadists, here is the same film, hosted elsewhere.
Thus, to say it all in one sentence, the threat of massive deflation can be eliminated, the threat of inflation ended, and the actual and potential domain of economic freedom greatly expanded, for $11 billion...
The price of wheat is being driven up not just by the devaluation of the dollar, but by "increased demand" for ethanol. Ethanol-oriented corn production is crowding out food production.
The demand for ethanol has increased only because massive government subsidies have forced it into the market. Ethanol-producing farmers receive large subsidies that wheat-growing does not get from the State. The result is a flight into corn, reducing supplies and increasing prices for other essentials, e.g. hops and wheat.
This government action also sets our civilization up with a direct conflict between food production and energy use. Both will increasingly depend on and compete for the same resource, which happens to be threatened by regular epidemics. What will we eat, and how will we move cars or fuel homes, when corn crops massively fail across the world?
Corn for food has become much more expensive as well, and in Mexico the price of tortillas has skyrocketed because in the North American market, corn is now being grown for (subsidy rich) ethanol and not for food.
grave punishment over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. ... At least 50 [slaves of Allah] were killed in the protests against the publication of the cartoons.
I know this room, I've walked this floor.
I used to live alone before I knew you.
More to come... I notice with disgust that Sony has stupidly blocked embedding of Jeff Buckley's excellent 1994 cover.... because the whole point of the Internet is to build walled gardens and prevent people from connecting pieces together in unexpected ways, I suppose.
The mind of a corporate-climber isn't much different from that of a politician: at the core there is a basic deceptiveness invented, grown, and maintained with one single goal: power over other people, for its own sake.
