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Online convention -- August 19th, 2006 http://www.bostontea.us -------------------------------------- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS ----- Today's News: 0) RRND Summer Fundraiser 00) New Feature! 1) AK: Pipeline closing may last for months 2) Fed halt in rates "likely" 3) AZ: Nine killed fleeing border thugs 4) Iraq: US soldier, 30 Iraqis killed 5) TX: GOP abandons DeLay ballot fight 6) New "neighborhood watch" for Google 7) NY: Judge throws out new Gotti charges 8) Report: Files show war crimes in Vietnam 9) VA loses data -- again! 10) Investigator testifies in Iraq murder trial 11) Lebanese PM rejects UN cease-fire plan 12) Election protesters rally in Mexico City 13) Snitch or be deported 14) UK: Smoking ban applies to performers 15) Afghanistan: Photos of incident surface 16) Poll: Bush at 20% among youth 17) Scotland: Anti-war activists board US plane 18) FL: Some chafe at post-storm rules 19) Study: Sexual lyrics push teens to earlier sex 20) Study: Wrestling influences teen violence 21) CA: Prison program a model for state? 22) UK: Cross-country runs classed as "child abuse" 23) UK: Grandma arrested after standing up to yobs 24) KS: Concealed carry law makes gun sales soar 25) MA: Bullets scare off intruder Today's Commentary: 26) Where the votes are 27) Bush, Rice, twerps and children in power 28) On the encroaching national slavery 29) DC, the 51st police state 30) Beware the carnivores 31) Do we need a national ID? No 32) 9/11 commission chairmen admit whitewash 33) "The rest" test for the west 34) Mill stones 35) Faithful to Fidel 36) Ending the neoconservative nightmare 37) Learned aggressiveness 38) The progressive future is now 39) The world in chaos, the President ... gone fishin' 40) Bush building legacy of superficial president 41) A victory for education 42) Chicago's misguided mandates 43) The noneconomic objections to capitalism 44) Putting the public into public union contracts 45) August recess call to action 46) France fails the world ... again 47) A true inconvenience 48) Germany invites the world 49) Bye bye, birdie ... 50) After Castro 51) Anti-dopes 52) Dirty, petty-minded bureaucrats 53) Google eyed 54) Securing, reforming ... 55) New Conyers report 56) "Resurrect the Peace Ship!" 57) I am pro-Israel, that's why I criticize Israel 58) Screw up, collect award 59) Encounter at an Israeli checkpoint 60) Junkies of war Today's Audio and Video: 61) What's the Big Idea? with Deepak Lal 62) With vouchers, everyone wins 63) Freedomain Radio #360 Today's Movement News & Events: 64) Site launch: MLL Online 65) Seminar: Liberty, Economy & Society 66) Authority and autonomy in the family 67) Boston Tea Party organizational convention 68) Reason in Amsterdam 2006 69) 4th Annual Africa Resource Bank Meeting Today in Political History: 70) Uncle Joe notices Japan News 0) RRND Summer Fundraiser Rational Review "As of now, our regular, recurring net revenue from subscribing contributors (i.e. exclusive of 'one time donations' stands at less than $150 per month. 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Or worse, wax nostalgic about the history of Libernet/Freedom News Daily/Rational Review News Digest and how we're probably the longest-existing continuous libertarian publication on the Internet and wouldn't if be sad if ... and all that stuff? If you really want me to, I will. Support your "daily libertarian newspaper!" You know you want to - TLK] http://www.rationalreview.com/content/15649 ----- 00) New Feature! Over time, we've found that we're including more and more audio and video links in RRND and FND ... or, worse, leaving good ones OUT in favor of text commentaries. So, as of today, we're adding a new section (immediately after the commentaries) dedicated specifically to audio and video -- "Internet radio," podcasts, even webcasts, etc. Enjoy. ----- 1) AK: Pipeline closing may last for months Chippewa Herald "BP said Monday it discovered corrosion so severe that it will have to replace 16 miles of pipeline at the huge Prudhoe Bay oil field -- work that could shut down the nation's single biggest source of domestic crude for months and drive gasoline prices even higher. Oil prices climbed more than $2 a barrel on the news, and gasoline futures rose, too." [editor's note: Does anyone really believe this story? - TLK] (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/gjab5 ----- 2) Fed halt in rates "likely" South Florida Sun-Sentinel "The Federal Reserve is expected to pause today after 17 consecutive interest-rate increases, ending a streak of credit tightening that has lifted short-term lending rates from 1 percent to 5.25 percent since June 2004. Still, analysts warn that the Fed may raise rates in the months ahead if signs persist that inflation is growing worse. Countering that threat, however, is the risk that further rate increases could tip the slowing economy into recession. As the Fed's rate-setting Open Market Committee weighs the competing risks today, it is expected to pause to buy time for more data to accumulate and show which risk is more threatening." [editor's note: If I had all the money spent printing up tripe to make it looks like the fiat currency boobs know -- or CAN know -- what they're doing, I could probably make a dent in the national debt. If I wanted to, that is - TLK] (08/08/06) http://tinyurl.com/p6c6c ----- 3) AZ: Nine killed fleeing border thugs Yahoo! News "A sport utility vehicle crammed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over in an attempt to outrun Border Patrol agents, killing nine people and injuring at least 12 others, officials said. Five of the injured were in critical condition, most with head trauma, a hospital spokeswoman said. The large SUV was carrying up to 22 people when the driver had tried to circumvent a checkpoint on the highway, Border Patrol spokesman Lloyd Frers said. With Border Patrol agents in pursuit, the driver attempted to make a U-turn and rolled over, Frers said. He did not know how fast either vehicle was traveling." (08/07/06) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060807/ap_on_re_us/immigrant_crash ----- 4) Iraq: US soldier, 30 Iraqis killed Mattoon Journal Gazette/Times-Courier "Twenty-eight people were killed Tuesday in a series of bombings and shootings. An American soldier and two Iraqi journalists also have been killed, officials said. The latest violence occurred as the United States launches a major operation to secure Baghdad to control Shiite-Sunni sectarian bloodshed that many fear will lead to civil war. The attacks came a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack on Sadr City, the area of Baghdad that's the stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia." (08/08/06) http://tinyurl.com/rs83r ----- 5) TX: GOP abandons DeLay ballot fight USA Today "Texas Republicans on Monday abandoned their court fight to replace former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on the November ballot after being turned back at the Supreme Court. The decision came after Justice Antonin Scalia rejected Texas Republicans' request to block an appeals court ruling saying DeLay's name should remain on the ballot." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/zhrzd ----- 6) New "neighborhood watch" for Google Sydney Morning Herald [Australia] "Google is building a new 'traffic cop' layer into its search engine to help internet users dodge websites containing spyware and malicious code. When web users click on a link from Google's search results to a site that is known to contain malware, they will soon be directed to a page that reads: 'Warning - the site you are about to visit may harm your computer!' The sites that Google identifies as harmful are based on reports from the StopBadware coalition, which was set up by Harvard Law School's Berkman Centre for Internet & Society and Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute." (08/08/06) http://tinyurl.com/jl33f ----- 7) NY: Judge throws out new Gotti charges Fox News "A judge on Monday tossed out the latest racketeering and money laundering charges against John 'Junior' Gotti, but the son of the late mob boss still faces trial on charges alleging he ordered the beating of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin was a blow to the government just weeks before Gotti's third trial on racketeering charges. Juries deadlocked at two previous trials in the last year." [editor's note: Nothing the government hates more than competition - TLK] (08/07/06) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207316,00.html ----- 8) Report: Files show war crimes in Vietnam Henry Daily Herald "Atrocities against civilians and prisoners by Army soldiers during the Vietnam War were more common than originally disclosed to the public, according to a Los Angeles Times review of recently unsealed government files. Some 9,000 pages of records -- the largest collection of documented war crimes in Vietnam -- include sworn witness testimony, investigative files and status reports for top military brass that detail 320 wartime atrocities substantiated by the Army." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/rxha7 ----- 9) VA loses data -- again! CNN "As many as 38,000 veterans may be at risk of identity theft because a Veterans Affairs Department subcontractor lost a desktop computer containing their sensitive personal data. VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said that Unisys Corp., a subcontractor hired to assist in insurance collections for VA medical centers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reported the missing computer last Thursday. The computer was being used in Unisys offices in Reston, Virginia." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/k8ja4 ----- 10) Investigator testifies in Iraq murder trial CNN "One of the U.S. soldiers accused of raping and killing an Iraqi and slaying her family told investigators that after the killings he poured kerosene on the girl's bullet-ridden body, according to testimony Monday in a military hearing. In an interview with the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division in June, Spec. James P. Barker, 23, said that he held the girl down while she was raped by another soldier, Sgt. Paul Cortez, during an incident in March in Mahmoudiya, according to testimony from CID Special Agent Benjamin Bierce." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/hyqsl ----- 11) Lebanese PM rejects UN cease-fire plan Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald "Lebanon's government rejected a U.N. cease-fire plan backed by President Bush on Monday, demanding Israel immediately withdraw even before a peacekeeping force arrives and promising to send 15,000 troops to take control of the Hezbollah stronghold along the border. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's stand, delivered in a tearful speech to Arab foreign ministers, came on a day in which 49 Lebanese were killed -- one of the deadliest days for Lebanese in nearly four weeks of fighting." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/k5sy7 ----- 12) Election protesters rally in Mexico City Yahoo! News "Thousands of supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador protested outside Mexico's top electoral court on Monday night, demanding a vote-by-vote recount of the July 2 presidential election. The demonstration comes two days after the Federal Electoral Tribunal ruled that it would only recount ballots at about 9 percent of the nation's 130,000 polling places, where it said there was evidence that the vote may have been miscounted. Lopez Obrador said that he will keep protesting until there is a recount of all 41 million ballots cast, and called his followers to the tribunal's front gates to urge the court to reverse its decision." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/p45ah ----- 13) Snitch or be deported Los Angeles Times "As federal officials took him into custody in December, they told the 24-year-old Moroccan -- a permanent resident who had moved to California nine months before the terrorist attacks -- that he would be taken to a detention facility in Arizona. He could fight deportation from there, but it would take at least two years, they said. And they assured him he would fail. Ouassif was scared. He cried. But he was not surprised. Just three weeks earlier, an FBI agent had laid out a stark choice in a furtive meeting near an East Bay commuter rail station: If Ouassif signed on as an informant in the government's war to root out terrorism, all his problems would disappear. If he declined, Ouassif would almost certainly be deported." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/r6zll ----- 14) UK: Smoking ban applies to performers Guardian [UK] "What's raised heckles at this year's festival is that, unlike other anti-smoking legislation from New York to Ireland, the Scottish ban does not exempt actors on stage or even on screen. After all, says William Burdett-Coutts, who runs the Assembly Rooms, 'there is such a thing as air-conditioning. I never heard of anyone feeling uncomfortable or getting sick after seeing someone smoke on stage.' But the Scottish Executive (or the Tartan Taliban, as theatre people are saying) has taken an absolutist approach to clean air." (08/07/06) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh2006/story/0,,1839529,00.html ----- 15) Afghanistan: Photos of incident surface Independent [UK] "Claims that US troops shot dead up to six unarmed Afghan civilians two months ago in Kabul have been given added credibility with a series of photographs offering visual evidence of military misconduct. The pictures were taken by an Afghan passer-by on 29 May in Khair Kane, a district of north Kabul. The 20 photographs appear to show a group of unarmed Afghan civilians being killed by gunfire from an American Humvee. ... The Kabul pictures were taken as American vehicles fled the scene of an accident in which several Afghans were killed and injured after a US Army truck lost control and hit a number of civilian vehicles. Shot from a hillside above where the original accident took place, they show a crowd of Afghans throwing stones at the American vehicles. A sequence of pictures show US vehicles leaving at high speed as the crowd stones them. ... The US military declined to comment yesterday on its investigation. The US spokesman, Col Tom Collins, said: 'I can't comment on the results of the investigation but there is no doubt that our soldiers thought there was fire emanating from the crowd.'" (08/07/06) http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1217554.ece ----- 16) Poll: Bush at 20% among youth Bloomberg "President George W. Bush's hopes of attracting a new generation of voters to the Republican Party may be fading, as younger Americans are far more critical of his job performance than the broader population. A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll of Americans age 18 to 24 found Bush's approval rating was 20 percent, with 53 percent disapproving and 28 percent with no opinion. That compares to a 40 percent approval rating among Americans of all ages in a separate Bloomberg/Times poll." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/lyogv ----- 17) Scotland: Anti-war activists board US plane Al Jazeera "British police have arrested seven anti-war activists after three of them boarded a US military transport plane at an airport in Scotland to check if it was carrying weapons to Israel, a peace group says. Anti-nuclear campaign group Trident Ploughshares said its activists had cut through a perimeter fence at Prestwick Airport, near Glasgow, on Monday and boarded a US plane to search for evidence of arms shipments to Israel. David Mackenzie, a spokesman for the group said 'security was lax' at the airport, making it easy for Trident Ploughshares' 'war crimes detectives' to board the aircraft in the early hours. The group said the airport has been used by chartered cargo planes to carry US-made bunker-busting bombs to Israel as the war in Lebanon continues." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/nkht4 ----- 18) FL: Some chafe at post-storm rules Sarasota Herald Tribune "Rumors fly at the local Nissan dealership about the reasons the building still looks like Hurricane Charley hit yesterday. Maybe the owners secretly plan to sell the land to a giant overseas company. Or maybe the site is home to a sacred American Indian burial ground that makes it impossible to rebuild. But the real reason Harbor Nissan conducts business in what looks like a war zone is much less dramatic. The company is locked in a standoff with Charlotte County over strict building rules designed to make the riverfront area more attractive and pedestrian-friendly." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/lh8ye ----- 19) Study: Sexual lyrics push teens to earlier sex Fox News "Teens whose iPods are full of music with raunchy, sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs, a study found. Whether it's hip-hop, rap, pop or rock, much of popular music aimed at teens contains sexual overtones. Its influence on their behavior appears to depend on how the sex is portrayed, researchers found. Songs depicting men as 'sex-driven studs,' women as sex objects and with explicit references to sex acts are more likely to trigger early sexual behavior than those where sexual references are more veiled and relationships appear more committed, the study found. Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music." (08/07/06) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207301,00.html ----- 20) Study: Wrestling influences teen violence Arizona Republic "Teenagers who watched pro wrestling on TV were more likely to behave violently than other kids, researchers reported today, and girls seemed to be more influenced than boys. Those findings were part of a study suggesting that teenagers who watched wrestling shows like RAW and SmackDown had a tendency toward violence, including carrying weapons and fighting on dates. The researchers also found that students who were most likely to fight on dates after they had been drinking or using drugs were the ones who watched wrestling most often." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/jz62g ----- 21) CA: Prison program a model for state? San Francisco Chronicle "David Perry is a tall, barrel-chested drug addict who spent years involved with street gangs on Chicago's rough North Side, going in and out of prisons and their useless treatment programs. But sitting in his old neighborhood on a steamy morning recently, Perry summed up his most recent stretch this way: 'That was the best thing that could have happened to me.' The straightforward and well-spoken Perry is indeed a surprise. He says he has not gotten high since leaving a special therapeutic prison, the Sheridan Correctional Center in northern Illinois, and the onetime crack house where he sits is now called Safe Haven, a spotless halfway house that is a bricks-and-mortar symbol of renewal, focused on drug rehabilitation and job training." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/ol8y7 ----- 22) UK: Cross-country runs classed as "child abuse" Ananova [UK] "A booklet being handed out to schools claims cross-country runs are a type of child abuse. The guide also says the sport breaches pupils' human rights reports The Sun. It says pupils 'have the right to be protected from emotional or physical abuse' -- and lists cross-country running and bullying as examples. Professor Margaret Talbot, of PE teachers' group the Association for Physical Education, said: 'It is indefensible to equate cross-country with child abuse.'" (08/06/06) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1943815.html ----- 23) UK: Grandma arrested after standing up to yobs Daily Mail [UK] "After months of being taunted by a gang of yobs, grandmother Diane Bond finally stood up to them when she was abused while walking her pet dog. During a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse, the frail 64-year-old prodded the teenager ringleader gently in the stomach when he urged her to 'Hit me, if you dare.' Moments later, the 5ft 1ins pensioner found herself flat on her back and nursing a broken arm after the 15-year-old boy, who was 7 inches taller, pushed her to the ground. But to add insult to injury, police officers arrested her for assaulting a child after his mother moaned he had been attacked. Now Mrs Bond must report to a police station 30 miles from her home in Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales, at the end of the month to find out if she will be charged." (08/04/06) http://tinyurl.com/l7z87 ----- 24) KS: Concealed carry law makes gun sales soar Lawrence Journal-World "Kansans are lining up to buy guns and learn how to shoot them. 'Usually summers in the gun business are deader than a doornail, but we're having a record year,' said Jeff Howlett, owner of Kansas Firearms Specialties in Tonganoxie. Much of the increased interest in guns is because people are arming themselves to take advantage of the new Kansas concealed carry gun law, Howlett said. 'We're selling a lot of pistols,' he said."(08/06/06) http://tinyurl.com/oyaec ----- 25) MA: Bullets scare off intruder Waltham Daily News "[W]hen the homeowner's son walked into the house Saturday, he spotted an unidentified man inside, police said. When the intruder grabbed a knife out of the kitchen, the son pulled out his own firearm and shot at the burglar twice, said Bushway. Instead of hitting the intruder, the bullets lodged in the wall and floor of the house. But the gunfire was enough to scare away the man, who ran out of the house." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/pnhsx ---------------------------------------------------------- HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 08/08/06 Civilian Casualties in Iraq: Min - 39,942 ... Max - 44,451 (source: www.iraqbodycount.org) American Military Deaths in Iraq: 2,591 (source: www.antiwar.com/casualties/) ---------------------------------------------------------- Commentary 26) Where the votes are Liberty For All by Carl Milsted, Jr. "Restoring liberty requires putting freedom lovers into public office. A protest vote for a libertarian candidate or even an honorable showing at the polls by same fails to do the trick. This means that liberty requires putting together a large coalition of freedom lovers, one that is large enough to constitute a plurality or even a majority in many electoral districts. How is this to be done?" (08/07/06) http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=16 ----- 27) Bush, Rice, twerps and children in power LewRockwell.Com by Fred Reed "I'm wondering. Help me wonder. Either Georgie Bush is the minor, depressing, witless ferret I think he is, or I am. It has to be one or the other. If things don't start looking up pretty soon internationally, I'm going to be pretty sure which. As best as I can tell, what the Maximum Cipher lacks, among an inexhaustible list of other things, is a hop-toad's understanding of how people work. Here we have the explanation of just about everything he does. He's dealing with a world full of people, but has no idea what people are." (08/08/06) http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed105.html ----- 28) On the encroaching national slavery The Libertarian Enterprise by Ron Beatty "One thing that has struck me is that too many people associated with the Libertarian Party have forgotten some basic facts. The first of these facts is that freedom isn't free! Oh, it's not something that can be purchased with money, but it always has a cost. That cost can be public ridicule. It can be imprisonment for a principle. It can be bankruptcy. It can be pain, or discomfort. Rarely is the cost for freedom something that would be anticipated with glee by those who have to pay that cost. Of the original signers of the Declaration of independence, over half paid the price: imprisonment, torture, death, bankruptcy, family members killed or imprisoned, homes burned, livelihoods destroyed ... Why is it that the so-called 'Party of Principle' can't stand up for the basic principle of freedom? Why was it considered necessary to 'water down' the message of freedom? Did the party members who did their best to gut the message of the Libertarian Party do it out of spite, or cowardice? Or was it lack of commitment?" (08/06/06) http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle379-20060806-04.html ----- 29) DC, the 51st police state Reason by Macy Hanson "We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Well, that and anyone under the age of 17. So follows the logic of the Washington, D.C., City Council, which, in response to a devastating 'crime wave,' has passed emergency legislation that strengthens curfew laws and greatly expands the powers of the Metropolitan Police Department. This emergency legislation, passed on July 20, makes it illegal for anyone under the age of 17 to be out past 10 P.M., D.C. resident or not. The law also requires the installation of surveillance cameras in undisclosed residential neighborhoods and grants police instant access to previously-confidential files on juveniles. The law is effective from July 31 to August 30, although Mayor Anthony A. Williams has expressed his desire to see these changes made permanent when the Council reconvenes for business in the early Fall." (08/07/06) http://reason.com/hod/mh080706.shtml ----- 30) Beware the carnivores Independent Institute by Alvaro Vargas Llosa "Modernizers as well as reactionaries are scattered across the Latin American political landscape today, belying the simplistic left-right dichotomy. The modernizers include both the center-right and what some fellow writers and I call the vegetarian left; meanwhile, the reactionaries make up the carnivore left." (08/07/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1784 ----- 31) Do we need a national ID? No Cato Institute by Jim Harper "Reports this week that government testers got into the country with false IDs are sure to turn up the volume on calls for a 'more secure' national identification system. But identity-based security cannot -- and should not -- be fixed. Why are we asked for identification cards in the first place? The theory is that there is greater security when someone can examine your background or track your movements. It's true that surveillance makes law-abiding people easier for authorities to control. People required to show ID could, for instance, be run against databases of outstanding fines and tax delinquencies at local shopping malls. But identification gives the government no similar control over terrorists and sophisticated criminals -- the people we're trying to stop with these ID checks. To do identity-based security, you need to know who people are in the first place. That's not easy to do with lawbreakers." (08/08/06) http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6581 ----- 32) 9/11 commission chairmen admit whitewash AntiWar.Com by Ivan Eland "As both the Bush administration and its client government in Israel, with their invasions of Arab states in Iraq and Lebanon respectively, make the United States ever more hated in the Islamic world, a new book by the chairmen of the 9/11 Commission admits that the commission whitewashed the root cause of the 9/11 attacks -- that same interventionist U.S. foreign policy. Former Governor Tom Kean and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, chairmen of the 9/11 Commission -- the publicity hounds that they are -- want to keep the long-retired, but much-celebrated, panel in the public mind. They have written a tell-all book about the trials and tribulations of the panel's work. Despite the commission's disastrous recommendations -- which led to a reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community that worsened its original defect prior to 9/11 (a severe coordination problem caused by bureaucratic bloat) -- and apparent whitewashing of the most important single issue that it examined, the chairmen are trying their best to write another bestseller." (08/08/06) http://antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=9502 ----- 33) "The rest" test for the west TCS Daily by Gordon Cucullu "More and more people are asking if the Israeli-Hezbollah war is really a proxy war between the U.S., representing the West, and an Iran-Syria axis representing a devil's handshake between two factions of Islamofascism. The short answer is yes, but there is much more involved in the fight than that toxic bilateral alliance." (08/08/06) http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=080806D ----- 34) Mill stones The American Spectator by Ralph R. Reiland "'The right to be left alone,' said Justice William O. Douglas, 'is indeed the beginning of all freedom.' And regarding the authority of society over the freedom of the individual, where should the line be drawn? What's the right balance between individual independence and collective social control? John Stuart Mill, arguably the most influential 19th-century British political writer, asked those questions in his most popular essay, On Liberty, published in 1859. Mill's position is that 'the individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'" (08/08/06) http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10193 ----- 35) Faithful to Fidel Salon by Alexandra Starr "As Cuba inches toward a post-Fidel existence, international attention has focused on the ailing leader and his brother Raul. But it's worth keeping an eye on Fidel's staunchest ally. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is likely to pour millions of petrodollars into keeping Cuba socialist. Chavez is an avowed foe of the Bush administration and the most influential leader in Latin America today. His deep pockets have bankrolled Cuba for the past half decade and shored up the Castro regime. The Venezuelan wants to keep Cuba's power structure intact -- and keep the United States out." [subscription or ad view required] (08/08/06) http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/08/08/chavez_castro ----- 36) Ending the neoconservative nightmare Haaretz by Daniel Levy "Witnessing the near-perfect symmetry of Israeli and American policy has been one of the more noteworthy aspects of the latest Lebanon war. A true friend in the White House. No deescalate and stabilize, honest-broker, diplomatic jaw-jaw from this president. Great. Except that Israel was actually in need of an early exit strategy, had its diplomatic options narrowed by American weakness and marginalization in the region, and found itself ratcheting up aerial and ground operations in ways that largely worked to Hezbollah's advantage, the Qana tragedy included. The American ladder had gone AWOL. More worrying, while everyone here can identify an Israeli interest in securing the northern border and the justification in responding to Hezbollah, the goal of saving Lebanon's fragile Cedar Revolution sounds less distinctly Israeli. Perhaps an agenda invented elsewhere. As hostilities intensified, the phrase 'proxy war' gained resonance." (08/07/06) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/746312.html ----- 37) Learned aggressiveness The American Prospect by Ezra Klein "As we all know, tomorrow is the Connecticut Senate primary. To hear the hype, the day could hardly be more momentous if Galactus himself were to descend and declare his intention to devour the earth. But in fact, for all the build-up, Tuesday itself will be almost mundane -- a bunch of hurried GOTV operations, blustering press secretaries, and delivered ballots. There's nothing novel, after all, about a Democratic primary in New England. And tomorrow's outcome, while important as a practical matter, is no more meaningful than that of any other primary pitting a true believer against an establishment artifact. So why, unlike similar contests unfolding in Rhode Island and Hawaii, are we all so focused on Lieberman and Lamont? Blame the media, who continue to play moths to the blogosphere's flame, and so are swarming about Connecticut, trying to discern What It All Means." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/gxvpl ----- 38) The progressive future is now Tom Paine by Matt Singer "To progressives looking for signs of hope in health care policy, Washington, D.C., offers an all-too-depressing reality. The best news we had from Congress this year was that we defeated an awful bill in the Senate that would have cut health insurance costs for some people by allowing for discrimination in pricing and by gutting regulations that makes it certain that insurance companies actually insure anything. But merely preventing defeats is meager sustenance for the soul. Luckily, all across America there are real victories that progressives can claim. These victories raise wages and extend health care coverage to vast numbers of Americans and point the way toward a new day in America once progressives take power in Washington." [editor's note: And they also pinpoint just how "non-progressive" these movements are, moving ever further back into the "the king will protect us" mode of thinking - SAT] (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/f3of4 ----- 39) The world in chaos, the President ... gone fishin' Fox News by Susan Estrich "He's going on vacation. Such a job. There's a war in the Middle East. Thursday was Israel's deadliest day yet. Iran is said to be rushing to resupply Hezbollah. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites rallied last week in the largest anti-Israel, pro-Hezbollah demonstration to date. It took place in Baghdad's largest Shiite district, with the demonstrators dressed in white and waving the Hezbollah trademark yellow flag and shouting 'Death to Israel' and burning George Bush and Ehud Olmert in effigy. Are these the people we're fighting and dying for? Nice." [editor's note: C'mon, Ms. Estrich -- vacation's the best place for him, at least this side of a jail cell! - TLK] (08/06/06) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207244,00.html ----- 40) Bush building legacy of superficial president Tennessean by Saritha Prabhu "You usually learn more about presidents years after they have left office. If a sitting president has a problem of some sort -- an ailment, an addiction, an out-of-his-depth problem, whatever -- his aides have things to consider, things like loyalty, national security and prestige, and that other thing, respect for the office." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/fhyuu ----- 41) A victory for education Boston Globe by Adrian Walker "Alfie Kohn isn't expecting a check in the mail, or a bouquet from the people who run the Massachusetts Department of Education. Nevertheless, victory was sweet last week for the prolific education author. Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel ruled last week that the DOE violated Kohn's civil rights by blocking him from speaking at an education conference in 2001. Kohn had been booked to speak on standardized testing. The department, which had funded the conference, threatened to withdraw its money if Kohn was allowed to speak." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/ob7yz ----- 42) Chicago's misguided mandates National Center for Policy Analysis by staff "The Chicago City Council is requiring big-box stores such as Wal-Mart and Target to pay a minimum wage of $10 an hour and provide $3-an-hour worth of medical benefits by 2010. Essentially, this creates a $13-an-hour minimum wage, says John C. Goodman, president at the National Center for Policy Analysis. The result of the mandates, explains Goodman, is likely to be bad news for both employees and customers." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/k4t26 ----- 43) The noneconomic objections to capitalism Ludwig von Mises Institute by Ludwig von Mises "Critics level two charges against capitalism: First, they say, that the possession of a motor car, a television set, and a refrigerator does not make a man happy. Secondly, they add that there are still people who own none of these gadgets. Both propositions are correct, but they do not cast blame upon the capitalistic system of social cooperation. People do not toil and trouble in order to attain perfect happiness, but in order to remove as much as possible some felt uneasiness and thus to become happier than they were before." (posted on 08/05/06) http://www.mises.org/story/2223 ----- 44) Putting the public into public union contracts Frontiers of Freedom by Chuck Muth "If your local, state or federal government spending is on the rise, as are calls to hike your taxes to pay for it all, odds are you can thank your friendly government employee unions for the privilege. From the teachers union to the cops union to the firefighters union to the janitors union, the cost of public employee contracts is exploding. These 'public servants' are now enjoying wages and benefits far superior to similar workers in the private sector. And those juicy contracts are putting a lot of governments at all levels on the Highway to Fiscal Hell." [editor's note: Oh, yeah, of course. The spending done by elected politicians is all the unions' fault -- the elected politicians, and the voters who elect them, have nothing to do with it, right? But, actually, Muth makes some good suggestions - TLK] (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/fuv3e ----- 45) August recess call to action FreedomWorks by Dick Armey "As the Senate wraps up its legislative work this week, it is important that we prepare for Congress' August Recess, when legislators return to their home districts to visit with constituents. During local townhall meetings and other events, it is important that you keep up the heat on legislators about the issues that concern you." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/znj4t ----- 46) France fails the world ... again Center For Individual Freedom by Ray Seilie "The European Union, led by France and its small but vocal farming lobby, has scuttled the Doha Round of WTO negotiations, preserving artificial trade barriers and harming consumers throughout the world. The Doha Round, so named because the current round of free-trade negotiations began with a ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar in November 2001, aimed to lower trade barriers around the world by reducing trade-distorting tariffs and farm subsidies while improving market access for developing nations." (08/03/06) http://tinyurl.com/fqrn2 ----- 47) A true inconvenience America's Future Foundation by David Freddoso "President Bush has announced that our nation is addicted to oil, but that isn't true at all. I am addicted to cigarettes, I am not addicted to water. Yet if I had to choose between the two, I'll pick water every time -- I need it to survive. We need energy to survive, and for now that means we need dirty fuels like oil and coal." (08/06/06) http://www.affbrainwash.com/archives/021321.php ----- 48) Germany invites the world Liberty Unbound by Andrew Ferguson "With an audience of three billion, the World Cup is the biggest spectacle on earth, a grand stage upon which 32 nations have a minimum of three games each to present themselves to the world. Some teams are out to distract attention from the strife going on in their homelands; others try to call attention to it, as a cathartic form of activism; most are thrilled just to be involved, and devote themselves to enjoying every moment of the experience. In many small countries, the day following qualification for the World Cup is declared a national holiday. When the national team plays, the nation shuts down, as the population gathers around whatever TV is most convenient -- the corner pub's plasma screen or the bush village's hand-cranked black-and-white. Presidential elections, civil wars, nuclear crises: anything can be put off when a game is on; yet any aspect of national character can be seen in the way a nation relates to the game." (for publication 09/06) http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2006_09/ferguson-germany.html ----- 49) Bye bye, birdie ... AlterNet by Sarah DeWeerdt "About 130 kinds of birds have vanished around the world over the past century and a half. That's a pretty firm number: 'We have a body count and we have names,' Pimm says. There's the great auk, for example, driven to extinction in the 19th century by hunters who sought its feathers, meat, and oil. There's the Lana'i hookbill, lost in the early 1900s when its habitat was destroyed for pineapple plantations, and the New Zealand bush wren, a ground nester that proved easy prey for introduced rats and was last sighted in 1972. The bird extinction rate is about one per 10,000 species per year, or 100 extinctions per million species per year, since the middle of the 19th century. Of course, extinction is a natural process; no species lives forever. So the real question is how the current extinction rate compares to the usual rate at which species come and go (the back-ground rate)." (08/07/06) http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/39790/ ----- 50) After Castro Human Events by Robert J. Caldwell "Anti-Castro Cubans call it the 'biological solution,' the inevitable moment when mortality catches up to their self-proclaimed Maximum Leader. That moment has arrived. Cuba's post-Fidel era began last week, with or without the actual death of the world's longest-ruling dictator. Power over Cuba's 11 million people passed from an ailing, aging Fidel to his slightly younger brother Raul, long El Jefe's designated successor. For the first time since the 'triumph of the Revolution' (as Havana puts it) in January 1959, someone other than Fidel Castro rules Cuba." [editor's note: Every time I read one of these "the post-Castro era has begun" pieces, I remember that the SOB has been in power since before I was born and that during that entire time, he was always just about to go down. If Clinton was the Teflon President, Castro is the Energizer Bunny dictator, and I'm not laying any bets on him disappearing for good this time around either - TLK] (08/07/06) http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16369 ----- 51) Anti-dopes Slate by Bruce Reed "Why does everything President Bush touches turn to steroids? When he bought the Texas Rangers two decades ago, they appeared -- like their team namesake -- to be an honest, law-abiding squad. Drug scandals were for teams with roguish names, like the Pittsburgh Pirates, whose favorite dealer was their mascot, a parrot. But in Bush's brief span as owner, Texas apparently became the Colombia of performance-enhancing drugs, exporting users and peddlers throughout the national pastime. As president, Bush broadened his interests beyond baseball. After a jogging injury, he took up biking. In no time, the once-noble sport of cycling tested positive for synthetic testosterone -- of which Bush is perhaps the political world's proudest supplier." (08/07/06) http://www.slate.com/id/2147246/ ----- 52) Dirty, petty-minded bureaucrats Classically Liberal by "CLS" "Morons have served from the most mundane post to the highest elected office in the land. As if we need reminding. But now and then some bureaucrats sinks to lows of stupidity, any dumber the man could plan in invasion or head up relief for a hurricane disaster. It appears that a 74-year-old widow attempted to renew her personalised license plates for her car in Ohio, where she lives. She had a simple, easy to remember, plate, very simple for her since she abbreviated the name of a business she and her husband ran: the Northwood Tree Farm. So for the last decade her plate said NWTF. Not any more." (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/omu98 ----- 53) Google eyed The Free Liberal by Paul Jacob "I have only the faintest glimmer of how Google.com makes money. (I think it has something to do with ads.) But the business reports tell us that Google's sales just came in at $2.46 billion, up 77 percent from the previous year. After discounting 'traffic acquisition costs' (whatever they are), revenue for last year was $1.68 billion. And here I am, using Google for free. I've contributed nothing to its effort ... unless curious well- and ill-wishers looking my name up on the search engine counts. I couldn't be happier. I get a great service. And Google makes money ... off of other people. So, when I hear someone complaining about big, greedy companies, I shake my head." (08/07/06) http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002220.html ----- 54) Securing, reforming ... National Review by US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and US Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) "Under our plan, the estimated 12 million people currently residing illegally in America can come out of the shadows and earn a fair living by returning to their home countries to apply for a Good Neighbor SAFE Visa. This does not give amnesty to those in our country illegally, instead it is the right balance between justice and mercy. America is based on the rule of law, and that law must be enforced. But, our country is also grounded in the belief that we treat others, even those who are aliens, with care and compassion." [editor's note: I don't know why this piece in particular turns my stomach ... except that after reading it a couple of times I ran a text search. Hutchison and Pence seem to have misplaced the real value on which America is founded. Nowhere does the article mention freedom or liberty. It's all about rulers dispensing "mercy" ... but only to those toe their lines - TLK] (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/qpp2f ----- 55) New Conyers report Mother Jones by Jennifer Wedekind "Beginning with post-9/11 false intelligence and public deception, Conyers uses sources including public statements, the Downing Street Memo, CIA reports and intelligence briefings to refute Bush's carefully constructed propaganda advocating a war with Iraq. Step by step Conyers traces the different reports citing no links between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, and the lack of evidence of WMDs. Beginning with Bush's State of the Union claim that 'Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium for Africa,' he demonstrates how the CIA, the State Department and the National Intelligence Council all informed the administration that the Niger uranium claim was 'equivocally false.' French intelligence authorities went so far to say the Niger story was 'bullshit.' And there is no doubt the administration knew they had faulty intelligence. One CIA official recounted his superior giving orders saying, 'You know what? If Bush wants to go to war, it's your job to give him a reason to do so.'" (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/kvxqg ----- 56) "Resurrect the Peace Ship!" Common Dreams by Mark LeVine "In 1973, the Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan sailed from New York to the international waters of the Israeli coast, with an international crew, and for twenty years broadcast as a 'pirate' radio station featuring music, news and commentary that Israelis and their neighbors weren't being exposed to through official media outlets. He did this in order to challenge the militaristic mentality of Israeli society and the oppression of its neighbors. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and numerous well known newspeople supported the endeavor, which continued until 1993, when blinded by the signing of the Oslo Accords in Washington and running out of money, Nathan had the ship sunk in international waters. He hoped his work was done. Now that Oslo has been revealed to have been an empty dream, and Israel has re-invaded Lebanon, it is time to resurrect the Peace Ship, but in a much more proactive form. We are calling for progressives world wide, particularly public figures who whose presence would provide both media coverage and security from Israeli attack, to come together, charter a ship filled with medical and other relief supplies, and sail from Cyprus or another coast close to Lebanon, either alone or with accompanying ships, into the Beirut Harbor, thereby breaking the Israeli blockade." (08/07/06) http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0807-28.htm ----- 57) I am pro-Israel, that's why I criticize Israel Common Dreams by Ira Chernus "I am pro-Israel. That's why I criticize Israel's violence in Palestine and Lebanon every chance I get. I don't say much about the immorality of Israeli actions. They are shockingly immoral. But talking about it won't make much difference. So I appeal to naked self-interest. I point out the obvious: Every time a Palestinian or Lebanese is hit by an Israeli bomb or bullet, it spells more risk for the safety of Israel." (08/07/06) http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0807-29.htm ----- 58) Screw up, collect award Truthout by William Fisher "Millions of us have shaken our heads in disbelief as President George W. Bush made a cottage industry of rewarding the undeserving. The cast of characters is long and Orwellian. There's Jay Bybee, the Justice Department lawyer who famously wrote the 'torture memo' whose twisted logic somehow blew off the Geneva Conventions and justified the interrogation techniques that brought us Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Guantanamo. Dubya rewarded him with a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. Nor was Bybee's boss, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, to be ignored. He got his reward by being elevated to Attorney General of the United States -- 'the people's lawyer.' Then came that breathtakingly Kafkaesque White House ceremony where the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was conferred on yet more deserving folks." (08/07/06) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080706K.shtml ----- 59) Encounter at an Israeli checkpoint CounterPunch by Megan Wiles "We have been at his checkpoint all morning, negotiating and pleading with him and his fellow soldiers to allow sick people, pregnant women and young children to pass through the long line of Palestinians waiting to leave Nablus, a wait that is averaging two hours today. We are annoying to him. He knows why we are here, what we stand for." (08/07/06) http://www.counterpunch.org/wiles08072006.html ----- 60) Junkies of war Strike the Root by Uri Avnery "Every day on their TV screens tens of millions of Arabs and hundred of millions of Muslims see the atrocious pictures of crushed babies, the sights of the horrible destruction. These are deeply imprinted in the consciousness of the masses and will leave behind them an accumulation of anger and hatred that is far more dangerous than an arsenal of missiles. In these 25 days, thousands of new suicide bombers have been created." (08/07/06) http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/avnery/avnery6.html ----- RRND MEDIASHELF -------------------------------------------- Books, CDs and other tchotchkes from today's edition: Without Precedent, by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307263770/rationalrev08-20 On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192833847/rationalrev08-20 Reviving the Invisible Hand, by Deepak Lal http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691125910/rationalrev08-20 Note: Affiliate links generate commissions for RRND's editors. -------------------------------------------- RRND MEDIASHELF ---- Audio and Video 61) What's the Big Idea? with Deepak Lal TCS Daily "UCLA professor Deepak Lal, author of Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century, explains why it's possible to embrace globalization without losing one's soul. Also, while acknowledging certain risks inherent in capitalism, he argues that a capitalist economic system is the best option for poor nations." [Audio in multiple formats] (08/02/06) http://www.tcsdaily.com/Multimedia.aspx?id=40 ----- 62) With vouchers, everyone wins Cato Institute Cato daily podcast, featuring Neal McCluskey. [MP3 format] (08/07/06) http://tinyurl.com/lehva ----- 63) Freedomain Radio #360 Freedomain Radio "Fistfights, War in the Middle East, the 'honor' of the South, and more!" With host Stefan Molyneux. [MP3 format] (08/06/06) http://tinyurl.com/kuzwp Movement News & Events 64) Site launch: MLL Online Movement of the Libertarian Left "So, if we're not a political party and are explicitly anti-political, you might ask yourself what do MLL members do? It's a reasonable question, particularly if, like most activists, your conception of struggle on behalf of your beliefs revolves around voting and elections. Agorists have a pretty clear societal goal -- the birth of a truly libertarian society and abolition of coercive government." http://mll.agorism.info/ ----- 65) Seminar: Liberty, Economy & Society Independent Institute 08/07/06 - 08/11/06 "To help high school and college-age students better understand the social and economic issues faced throughout life, The Independent Institute sponsors the Liberty, Economy & Society Summer Seminars as a major part of the Institute's overall program for students. These dynamic seminars help students learn what economics is, how it affects their lives, and how understanding its laws can help them achieve the things they care about." Independent Institute, 100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA. Enrollment fee $195 per student, including course materials. Tuition assistance available. http://www.independent.org/students/seminars/ ----- 66) Authority and autonomy in the family various 08/19/06 "August 19, 2006 at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. Speakers confirmed so far include Nathaniel Branden, Peter Breggin (via live video), Susan Love Brown, Marshall Fritz and Sharon Presley. Topics include liberating education, liberating childrearing, encouraging critical intelligence in children, alternative family structures, egalitarian marriage, and encouraging self-esteem in children. The sponsors are Resources for Independent Thinking, the Civil Society Institute, and the Association of Libertarian Feminists." http://www.autonomyinthefamily.org ----- 67) Boston Tea Party organizational convention Boston Tea Party 08/19/06 America's new libertarian political party opens its organizational convention -- held online and open to all members -- on August 19th. Agenda items include the election of a permanent national committee and creation of the party's program. http://www.bostontea.us ----- 68) Reason in Amsterdam 2006 Reason Foundation 08/23/06-08/26/06 "Amidst the beauty of Amsterdam's canals, flower markets and colorful people, attendees of Reason in Amsterdam, 2006 will enjoy a unique opportunity to learn about the contemporary struggle in Europe from prominent European and American intellectuals." An astounding roster of guests and speakers, including Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the hit series "South Park," Time Magazine's Andrew Sullivan, Reason editors Nick Gillespie and Jacob Sullum, and a host of distinguished authors, activists and political leaders. August 23-26 at the Grand Amsterdam Hotel. $425. Online registration available. http://www.reason.org/amsterdam/ ----- 69) 4th Annual Africa Resource Bank Meeting Inter Region Economic Network 11/26/06-11/29/06 "IREN will publish 'Reclaiming Africa -- 2' from the views raised in this meeting. Registration is $ 300. All participants are encouraged to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. For more details email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attention Jackie." http://www.irenkenya.com/modules/events/index.php?event_title_id=25 Today in Political History 70) Uncle Joe notices Japan Details, and the "quote of the day," from Leon's Political Almanac at: http://perspicuity.net/cgi/hypercal.cgi ---------------------------------------------------------- RRND is published every weekday except on holidays. Forward freely. 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