The great Kiyoshi Amemiya of Hitachi, the businessman who--after seeing the horrific results of US landmines in Cambodia--built the world’s first mine-clearing machine, which he gives away, but will not sell to any military. (Link thanks to Aaron Gunn) Read the article
Google Local : so what becomes of the uncountable numbers of sites put up by local Chambers of Commerce, local governments, visitors bureaus, yellow pages knockoffs, and all the rest? And how long before the Justice Department takes
Apparently it has, according to unidentified “traders and news reports”. But don’t worry, Alan Greenspan says everthing will be A-OK, says the article . Also reassuring are the words of Lara Rhame, a “senior economist and foreign exchange analyst with Brown Brothers Harriman who is a former Fed economist.”: “This whole question of the impact on
The word on the “civilian contractors” who were murdered and hung for display in Iraq is that they worked for Blackwater USA, which ( MSNBC ) “supplies security guards to the Coalition Provisional Authority and has provided protection for Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer, among other coalition officials.” Interesting that when the government
Here is the pot finding a world strewn with black kettles: 2004 National Trade Estimate on Foreign Trade Barriers from the USTR, which is all for other governments giving their citizens the right to buy US products, but does not favor unlimited rights for Americans to buy foreign products, as this EU report points out. As a rule, every bad thing
Confessions of a Tax Collector by Richard Yancey (HaperCollins, 2004) appears to be a very interesting look at the practical, personal, and moral implications of a job that requires a person to rob people for the goverment. Yancey was a field offer who seized people’s property before “he managed to pull himself back from the brink of moral,
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service goes to Davd Barstow and Lowell Bergman for their 3-part series in the NYT on injury among American workers, a series written from an underlying ideological supposition that the market is the enemy of safety and the government its friend. George Reisman saw this one coming, and produced this response one year
John O’Sullivan blames the troubles in Iraq, in part, on the US’s failure “to disarm and disband private armies in Iraq.” He then offers this general principle: “[P]rivate armies are incompatible with democracy or any form of stable government.” Why? because they “undermine the rule of the legitimate authorities--in this case, the U.S....” These
Three years ago, Blockbuster was embroiled in an awful class-action lawsuit concerning inflated late fees for returned videos, and rental companies were hammering consumers with high and escalating fees. Those who held onto their videos and DVDs, or, worse, lost them, tended to cower in fear, feeling like criminals on the lam. A wonderful service
Exchange following prepared remarks in the House Financial Services Committee, February 11, 2004. Dr. Ron Paul : Thank you Mr. Chairman. Welcome Chairman Greenspan. I want to call attention to the committee that I certainly was pleased that you brought up the subject of deficits because deficits obviously do cause a problem. And you mentioned that
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