Steve Jobs to City of Cupertino: “Let Apple build a new building or we will leave.” City of Cupertino: “Can we get free Wi-Fi?” Steve Jobs: “No.” City of Cupertino: “We need your tax money anyway, so go ahead an build.”
A documentary that tracks the evolution of global capitalism from the ’70s until today, considering the position of Greece in the global economy but also the traps of the so called “free market system”, such like… debt!, GREEK with English Subs.
Kind of a run-of-the-mill, psychologizing, ivory-tower post from a statheist, but check out the unintended irony located in the final paragraph (emphasis is mine):
Well, are there any big surprises from a comprehensive study like this? It’s only natural that eroding uncivil authoritarianism and ethnic and sexual prejudice is going to require diminishing religious fundamentalism.
But the reality behind these confirmed stereotypes is even more serious. Pause for a moment and consider why fundamentalism permits a “perfect storm” of damage against core civic virtues and principles of democracy. By combining intellectual rigidity, preference for stern authority, prejudice against others, and a willingness to use military power, fundamentalism is connected to a willingness to impose just one narrow way of life on everyone else, by force if necessary. That’s not just psychologically unhealthy – it is political pestilence. These are not democratic values. Fundamentalism is indeed the high road to tyranny and fascism. Eroding fundamentalism is necessary to preserving the democratic way of life.
If you watch the first episode you will see David Harrington, someone from the Democratic Socialist Party or something like that, making idiotic comments and just making a complete ass of himself in general.
“Santorum claimed a Medicare advisory board created by the new federal health care law will result in a rationing of care for seniors. The law specifically says the board “shall not include any recommendation to ration health care.””
Hmm so what the law says and what will actually happen are the same thing?
I’ve wondered the same thing about certain Mises Institute works. I understand LvMI publishes many works they do not have copyright to, but some they do…and rights are still reserved…even as late as 2008 (e.g. The Ethics of Money Production) the warning was there.
