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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 2M ago

Note to Larry Lessig on his "Anti-Corruption Pledge": Limited liability corporations are the taproot of both growing government and anonymous rent-seeking.

I refer to the very recently-launched "Anti-Corruption Pledge" here, which is the latest project by prolific Larry Lessig, now a Harvard Law prof and head of a corporate reform center there (and whom I have introduced and discussed in a number of preceding posts). Larry further describes the purpose

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

From Orwell, Remy and Reason.tv: "Grandma Got Indefinitely Detained Now, Trying to Come Visit Christmas Eve!"

Christmas fun at YouTube, from Reason.tv! Remy: Grandma Got Indefinitely Detained (A Very TSA Christmas) In seasons past, Grandma only had to worry about getting run over by a reindeer. With "Grandma Got Run Over by TSA," web sensation Remy gets us in the holiday mood with a song about Christmas, Ho

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

Great discussion of banking and monetary issues by Larry White of the Mercatus Center at Guatemala's "University of Free Marketers"

I just ran across at George Mason University's Mercatus Center a helpful video featuring Lawrence H. White, professor of economics at GMU, discussing "Thoughts on Monetary Policy, Free Banking and Financial Crisis". In watching the video, I noticed that White's inerviewer was Fritz Thomas, head of

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

Great Tom Woods video addressing the unconsidered, reflexive fears by some progressives of Ron Paul

On August 29, Tom Woods posted at YouTube a 9-minute video response to an AlterNet.org article "5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution." Woods' video, entitled War Is Better Than Ron Paul, Say (Many) Progressives, is below. Woods has also posted a few "resource pages" with

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

A movement to amend the Constitution is ALREADY underway. See Harvard Law School's Larry Lessig on why we need to call for a Constitutional Convention

HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig delivered his "Keynote from the Left" at the Conference on the Constitutional Convention on Sept. 24-26, 2011. The conference was co-sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. Lessig presented his speech again at Google on November 16, 2011; this is the speech/presentation po

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

What if Cato held a conference on how the War on Drugs was a massive FAILURE, but no one noted that the Feds and others BENEFIT SPECTACULARLY from all the costs?

It might be unfair to judge just from the short clip below (put together by Reason.tv) that's making the rounds, but it appears to be the case that no one at Cato's Novermber 15 conference ("Ending the Global War on Drugs") - law enforcement, politicians, journalists, liberals, conservatives, libert

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

Interesting piece in Al Jazeera: A continuing decline in trust in the Japanese government fuels political unrest and regionalism

Trust is an essential piece of social capital; difficult to build, easier to lose, but essential to solving collective action problems. Increasingly, in Japan and elsewhere, people are starting to see that their trust in 'governent', politiicians, bureaucrats and big business has been misplaced, tha

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

Post-Fukushima, signs that 'Arab Spring' and #Occupy movements have arrived as Japanese seek to wrest control of civil society from Government.

Have the concatenation of the Fukushima meltdows on the heels of the Tohoku earthquaketsunami disaster FINALLY spurred ordinary Japanese to act after nearly three decades of disastrous bungling and irresponsible economic management by the Japanese government? The answer appears to be a modest yes. T

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

#Occupy: journalist-turned-entrepreneur Kirk Cheyfitz says "one dollar, one vote" plutocracy is mobilizing to put down what Gen. Martin Dempsey calls "our Arab Spring"

I recently ran across some interesting ancedotes and thoughts on the "Occupy" movement and the response to it from elites by investigative journalist-turned-new media consultant Kirk Cheyfitz. Cheyvitz is CEO and Chief Editorial Officer of Story Worldwide, a new media ad agency he founded in 1999. H

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TT`s Lost in Tokyo · 5M ago

Reclaiming Social Capital: Matt Taibbi's Nov. 10 post at Rolling Stone: Occupy is "a rejection of what our society has become."

Matt Taibbi's post last month in Rolling Stone is worth a read: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests Taibbi is stiull unable to put his finger on what I think the Ocuppy movement is about - a manifestation of the desire by hopeful people to rebuild meanigful civic life and so

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Reclaiming Social Capital: Matt Taibbi's Nov. 10 post at Rolling Stone: Occupy is "a rejection of what our society has become."

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