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Google Gears
Read more: Google GearsWith WordPress 2.7 installed, the site is now enabled for Gears. If this means nothing to you, that’s fine. Gears simply allows me to work faster and more effectively with my site and very good it is too.…
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Inflation as a nation’s salvation?
Read more: Inflation as a nation’s salvation?From mises.org, “hilarious and horrific propaganda” demonstrating that dumbing-down is not as new as some like to think: A better explanation is available here.
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To improve on this twelve-point skydive, tunnel time booked
Read more: To improve on this twelve-point skydive, tunnel time bookedOn a lighter note, from the collection of Lillo videos, a reasonable two-way formation skydive achieving 12 points. To improve our speed and precision, we have some two-way tunnel time booked for February, something I recommend to anyone,…
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FT.com – What to do with Britain’s banks
Read more: FT.com – What to do with Britain’s banksAn excellent article from the FT: The starting point for any analysis must be with some harsh realities. The first is that banks enjoy a state-supported licence to create money. … Second, the regulators failed to represent [the…
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FT.com / US – Detroit reels as $14bn rescue fails
Read more: FT.com / US – Detroit reels as $14bn rescue failsThe high profile effort to agree legislation to lend $14bn to the US auto industry collapsed on Thursday night, leading the Bush administration to hold open the possibility that it would seek funds from its financial rescue plan…
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Back to the drawing board for road pricing
Read more: Back to the drawing board for road pricingIt looks as if it is time to pronounce the last rites for pay as you drive charging. Good. We are already taxed according to the efficiency of our cars and the distance we drive them through fuel…
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FT.com — And now for a world government
Read more: FT.com — And now for a world governmentFrom The Financial Times, of all places: I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for…
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A pall of smoke over the City
Read more: A pall of smoke over the CityLondon warehouse fire, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. This picture taken a year ago from Lehman Brothers’ building in Canary Wharf seems appropriate again today.
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Jean Charles de Menezes inquest: Jury reaches open verdict
Read more: Jean Charles de Menezes inquest: Jury reaches open verdictFrom The Telegraph, the jury return an open verdict on the killing of De Menezes: After a three-month hearing costing an estimated £6 million, jurors rejected a verdict that the innocent Brazilian had been killed lawfully by police.…