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Free-Market Environmentalism — Walter Block – YouTube

Walter Block speaks about Free-Market Environmentalism at the Australian Mises Seminar 2012. For more information see: http://www.mises.org.au/seminar-2012 Lecture: 3:30 – Pollution 10:30 – Species Extinction 15:07 – Paper or Plastic? 19:57 – The Over-population “problem” 27:50 – Trees and clear-cutting Q&A Session: 30:22 – ‘Water? Who does it belong to?…’ 37:00 – ‘Imagine 1840, no Read More
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VW facing ‘tsunami’ of legal trouble in emissions scandal – Washington Times

WASHINGTON (AP) – Who knew about the deception, when did they know it and who directed it? Those are among questions that state and federal investigators want answered as they plunge into the emissions scandal at Volkswagen that has cost the chief executive his job, caused stock prices to plummet and could result in billions Read More
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La Volkswagen fuori controllo. Come questo sistema (che dà troppo potere alle lobby) – il Blog di Marcello Foa

Mercoledì scorso sono stato intervistato dal blog di Beppe Grillo sulla vicenda Volkswagen e il video è stato postato ieri. La mia analisi verte su tre pilastri: 1) la Volkswagen paga il prezzo dell’arroganza che contagia chiunque si sente troppo potente. 2) E’ assurdo che il controllato possa controllare se stesso, perché in fondo questo Read More
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Documentary Asks: What’s So Hard to Believe About China Harvesting the Organs of Living People? || Epoch Times

@Cina, #Legal Crimes           dossier:
It is difficult to secure a human heart for transplantation. The donor is usually brain dead and on life support, and the donor and recipient must share matching blood and tissue types to prevent rejection. So Jacob Lavee, a heart transplant surgeon at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University,  found it hard to believe when Read More
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La differenza tra lo Stato e Booking.com – LeoniBlog

#Market murder, + Free Market          
In Italia, il 35% delle prenotazioni alberghiere viene ormai effettuato online, ed è una percentuale in continua crescita. Il che, d’altronde, non può sorprendere: i siti di comparazione tra alberghi, oggi, non solo offrono in modo accessibile cataloghi vastissimi di strutture ricettive di ogni genere, ma spesso garantiscono agli utenti il miglior prezzo disponibile. Ciò Read More
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Time for the IRS to Come Clean | Cato Institute

A congressional oversight committee recently renewed its request for documents from an ethically suspect Internal Revenue Service, which ignores such requests with impunity. But this time, the Supreme Court has taken away the agency’s excuse for not cooperating. In 2014, the IRS began imposing the individual and employer mandates on 70 million Americans even though the Affordable Read More
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Drug Shortages, Price Gouging, and Our Broken Health Care System | Mises Institute

The shaming campaign that followed last week’s news of two generic drug prices somersaulting into the stratosphere after being acquired by private companies is not too surprising. The idea that a drug which cost $13.50 one day can cost $750 the next, seemingly on the whim of greedy Wall Street investors and pharma start-ups, is Read More
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Donna sfrattata di casa per far posto a profughi – IlGiornale.it

In Germania è il secondo caso: un Comune allontana un’inquilina degli alloggi popolari per lasciare spazio ai richiedenti asilo Il Comune di Esbach, la città tedesca dove vive, a poca distanza dal confine francese, le aveva ingiunto di abbandonare la propria abitazione – di proprietà comunale – dove viveva da 23 anni per far posto Read More
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The Tyranny of Government Courts and Prisons | Mises Institute

#Prosecutor's government          
Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure. Thus, much-venerated judicial procedure rests upon coerced testimony. Since it is axiomatic to libertarianism that all coercion — in this case, all coerced labor — against everyone except convicted criminals be eliminated, this means that compulsory testimony must be abolished as well. In recent years, it is Read More
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“Il Legno Storto” quotidiano online ucciso dalle querele

Il quotidiano online che rischia la chiusura per le querele di due magistrati Dedicato al fascismo della stampa italiana che oggi sciopera contro il bavaglio all’Informazione   Carissimi lettori de Il Legno Storto, con grandissima amarezza vi annunciamo che in questi giorni il nostro giornale sta correndo il pericolo di essere chiuso. Negli ultimi Read More
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Spain: Pro-secession parties in Catalonia win landmark vote

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pro-secession parties pushing for Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region to break away and form a new Mediterranean nation won a landmark vote Sunday by capturing a regional parliamentary majority, setting up a possible showdown over independence with the central government in Madrid. With 99 percent of the vote counted, the “Together for Read More