Mon 01 December, 2008

Anthony Gregory on how and why.
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Mike Rogers on barter.
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George Reisman on Larry Summers.
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For his bailout.
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Walter replies.
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For Sarkozy. Article by Tom Chartier.
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Tom Woods on learning for liberty.
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Gary North on the intellectuals' suppression of Mises and Rothbard.
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The US recession began in December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai protesters prepared to end their three-month occupation of the Prime Minister's office on Monday to consolidate their grip on the main airport ahead of a court verdict that could dissolve the elected government.
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AP - Aston Martin, maker of James Bond's luxury sports car, said Monday that it is laying off as much as a third of its work force because of falling sales during the economic slump.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 30 people and wounded dozens more on Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said.
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AFP - Two thousand angry youths stormed a mosque in the riot-torn city of Jos on Monday as a top parliament official appealed for an end to religious troubles that have left hundreds dead, witnesses said.

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New England and Tampa Bay will play at Wembley on 25 October 2009, in the third NFL game to take place outside the Americas.
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Brazil's environment minister has plans to reduce deforestation in the Amazon region by up to 70%, as UN climate talks begin.
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AP - India demanded Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the 60-hour siege that left at least 172 people dead, as new details emerged Monday about the gunmen and the survival training that enabled them to thwart Indian commandos.

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Reader Brad forwarded some links to chat transcripts in which he tries to tell Comcast that he can't make local calls, during which he alternates from incredulity to despair then back to incredulity...

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Practice a habit of Thanksgiving.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - India on Monday demanded Pakistan take swift action over deadly attacks in Mumbai it said were carried out by militants from its rival neighbor.
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Reuters - India on Monday demanded Pakistan take swift action over deadly attacks in Mumbai it said were carried out by militants from its rival neighbor.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks tumbled on Monday, with the S&P sliding more than 6 percent, as news pointing to the deepening economic slump around the world punctured last week's market enthusiasm, with financial services companies and retailers among Wall Street's biggest casualties.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met leading governors on Monday to discuss the size and shape of an economic stimulus package she hopes Barack Obama can sign when he becomes president on January 20.
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AP - A South Korean general offered a wish for peace in Iraq on Monday as his troops ended a five-year reconstruction mission in the country — the latest departure from the dwindling U.S.-led coalition.
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Now that high-speed Internet is common at home, are people still browsing at work?
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama named former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state on Monday and said Robert Gates would remain defense secretary as part of a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership of world affairs.
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Studios burden rentals with time limits that make subscriptions more attractive
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Managers can dread these as much as their employees.
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Three people at Haringey Council are suspended and two resign after a "damning" report into the Baby P case.
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AP - One American serviceman died in Afghanistan in November, a dramatic drop from earlier months that the U.S. military attributed to their campaign against insurgent leaders, operations by Afghan and Pakistani forces and the onset of winter.

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Sarah Palin made an appearance in Georgia for Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
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President-elect Barack Obama named Gates defense secretary.
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The solicitor for the civil servant who leaked information to Tory Damian Green says he acted in the "public interest".
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Other names include Bush Pentagon chief Robert Gates and Eric Holder as attorney general.
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Dean Baker: Don't be misled – government spending, not balancing the budget, is the way to prevent another Great Depression

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Federal authorities arrested the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on Monday in a corruption probe surrounding a massive sewer bond debt that has forced Jefferson County to the brink of bankruptcy.
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A combination of Bush administration actions and Supreme Court decisions have weakened regulations.
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The Internet could help Obama develop a new cybergoverning style, Brad Bannon writes.
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Get deep discounts at Barneys, Neiman, and Saks.
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President-elect unveils team that will embody a centrist approach to US national security issues

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The US president-elect, Barack Obama, announces his national security team at a press conference in Chicago

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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber killed eight people on Monday in an attack aimed at a military checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley, military officials said.
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Soon to fry the unfriendly skies

US aerospace globocorp Boeing is chuffed as ninepence today to announce the first full-power firing of its jumbo-jet-mounted, ICBM-toasting ray cannon - the Airborne Laser (ABL). The system saw "first light" in September, but this is the first time the big laser's knob has been turned up to full.…

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Questioning the benefits of robotic surgery; considering mammograms when breast cancer can vanish.
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Dozens of troops have run amok in the Zimbabwean capital Harare after losing their temper while queuing for money at a bank.
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AP - Thailand's leader attended a Buddhist ritual Monday, seemingly indifferent to a deepening political crisis that has paralyzed his government, shut down two main airports and stranded 300,000 foreigners in the country.

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Mack McLarty, former chief of staff to Bill Clinton, said the current political climate could work in Barack Obama's favour

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WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - European leaders clashed on Monday over how much public money to spend on battling recession as data showed factories were slashing output in the United States, Europe and China.
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US President-elect Barack Obama names former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, as she vows to give her all.
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U.S. deaths in Afghanistan show a dramatic drop from earlier months.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Key retail stocks fell on Monday as investors feared that deep discounts offered by U.S. stores during the year's first holiday shopping weekend could sap profits and would not save a bleak season.
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Remote searches? Nein danke

Remote searches of suspects' computers could become a mainstay of cybercrime investigations under a new EU strategy announced last week.…

Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms

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Matthew Lockwood: The progressive future: The free markets will never tackle climate change effectively. We need bold innovations and interventions – now

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US manufacturing activity fell in November to a fresh 26-year low, the latest Institute for Supply Management data shows.
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A Belgian journalist said he and his team were beaten and robbed as they attempted to meet Aids activists in Henan, central China.

Local residents told him the assailants were hired by officials in the province regarded as the centre of the Aids crisis, due to unsafe blood selling.

"We thought they were going to kill us; they were acting like animals who lost control. It was complete chaos, we were crying," Tom van de Weghe said in a statement.

The central government has stepped up efforts to tackle the disease and the stigma surrounding it in recent years. President Hu Jintao marked World Aids Day today by shaking hands with patients.

But activists say that surveillance and harassment by the authorities are still common and allege that physical violence is common in Henan.

Van de Weghe, from the VRT channel, arrived in Henan with a cameraman and translator last Thursday but found the director of an NGO they were due to interview was under house arrest and other activists had been ordered not to speak to them.

He said they were questioned by a policeman, followed by two unmarked cars and then stopped again by men who warned them to leave the province, adding: "Here in Henan we are the law and we will break every bone in your body if you stay in Henan."

But as they drove to catch their flight, eight men - some involved in the previous incident - jumped out in front of the van and dragged them out, punching them into submission. The men took cash and equipment before ordering their driver to take them to the airport. Van de Weghe said blows to the head left him suffering headaches days later.

In a statement, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said it was appalled by the violent attack and called on the central government to track down and punish those responsible. It pointed out that new regulations allow foreign reporters to travel and conduct interviews without notifying authorities.

VRT has lodged a protest at the Chinese embassy in Brussels, pointing out that the perpetrators should be traceable because Van de Weghe took the registration number of one of their vehicles.

The Belgian and Chinese foreign ministries are understood to have discussed the case and the Chinese foreign ministry said today it was investigating the allegations.

The local authorities cited by residents in connection with the assault did not answer phone calls. The Henan government told the Guardian it was not aware of the incident and said the subordinate authorities would not be available to comment.

"For every one step China takes forward on HIV, Henan seems to be intent on taking two steps back," said Sara Davis, executive director of the US-based Asia Catalyst, which works to support grassroots activists.

"This is emblematic of the continued effort by Henan authorities to keep quiet the desperate situation of people with Aids there.

"We know that 20-40% of those with HIV in Henan are currently in need of second line drugs and don't have them. People are starting to die and the activists who have spoken out about it have been placed under house arrest, beaten or threatened."

Tens of thousands of farmers in Henan are believed to have become infected through government-sponsored blood collection programmes. Many activists believe the true figure is far higher.

Some also believe UNAIDS estimates of the total number of people living with HIV in China - about 700,000 - are too low.

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The Associated Press says that a review of regulatory documents shows that years before the subprime mortgage crises developed into a full blown economic meltdown— the government ignored...

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Taking tasking to task

Mini Poll Last week we asked whether IT systems could actually help to drive better business practice. However, as one comment mentioned, if the wrong things are measured then the behaviour of employees can end up skewed towards the metrics, hiding the desired results. "If I be a good obedient worker and do what's on the list, I do things that don't need to be done and don't do things that do need to be done," said /dev/me.…

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Deep discounts attract consumers, giving retailers a boost.
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Just in case you were wondering. [Failblog] (Thanks, Rob!)

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Out with the old.
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High commissioner in Delhi called to foreign office and told 'elements from Pakistan' carried out terrorist massacre

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Economic troubles are now hurting even “the Donald.”
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A German woman is jailed for more than four years for killing two of her babies and keeping them in a freezer.
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ABCNews took a look at "Free if you can finish it" challenges all over the US — and even sent the reporter to attempt one — with the help of a championship competitive eater. So, was the...

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Monty chides Sun for premature, bug-riddled release

MySQL creator Michael “Monty” Widenius has gone on a noisy rant about last week’s release of MySQL 5.1 because Sun Microsystems has unleashed the database even though it still contains “fatal bugs”.…

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India summons Pakistan's high commissioner to protest over groups it claims carried out deadly attacks in Mumbai.
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With most of the vote counted, two Romanian opposition parties are running a tight race for first place in elections.
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Orphan of rabbi, wife slain in the Mumbai Jewish center to fly back to Israel.
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AP - The 2-year-old orphan found drenched in the blood of his parents at the besieged Jewish center in Mumbai left India on Monday on an Israeli Air Force jet, accompanied by the Indian woman who rescued him.

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American film producer to publish version of the Bible in which God says it is better to be gay than straight

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The Kremlin is less inclined to make nice, though the economic downturn may crimp Moscow's ambitions.
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Shocked Mumbai Jews remember the dead
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Pakistani president Zardari says attackers no Pakistani government links.
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Would Obama be a pro-small-business president and an anti-big-business president?
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The CIA is kind of miffed with suggestions that it isn't looking hard enough for bin Laden.
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Is the three-day siege on Mumbai reminiscent of the al Qaeda attacks on the U.S. on September 11?
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The Danish architect who designed the iconic Sydney Opera House has died at the age of 90. Take a closer look at his greatest creation

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More questions.
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Reignited tensions between India, Pakistan may have been what attackers wanted.
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No change - but police continue to bend the law

New guidelines on the use of police stop and search powers under Sectio