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Russia Follows U.S. Script And Intervenes In Syria: Vladimir Putin Wrecks Washington’s Mideast Plans – Forbes

*WorldWar III/New Cold War          
Pointed out by Cato Institute Vladimir Putin opened a new game of high stakes geopolitical poker. He is using military force to support Syria’s President Bashir Assad and counter U.S. backing for Assad’s opponents. Russia’s intervention could, and likely will, turn out badly, but Washington has no complaint. America has been meddling in Syria’s tragic Read More
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The Future Is Decentralized | Mises Institute

LibBLog note: The decentralisation of the organisation of the present Democracy is the goal of the Iniziativa Riforma dal Basso (Bottom Up Reform Initiative): a set of tools (web-based) that serve the citizens begin to handle, “in parallel” with the institutions, government and administration of the territory. – – – – The issue is that Read More
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Pubblico Spreco, inchiesta di Sky TG24

@Italia, #Wasteful Spending          
  Pur essendo tra gli stati europei con la più alta pressione fiscale, l’Italia non sempre utilizza nel modo migliore  i fondi raccolti tra i cittadini. Sky TG24 HD punta i riflettori su questo preoccupante fenomeno, rintracciabile sia nel bilancio statale che in quelli regionali e locali, attraverso l’inchiesta “Pubblico Spreco”, in onda mercoledì 10 Read More

Stealing from the Poor to Give to the Rich: An Anti-Robin Hood Story | LearnLiberty

“Stealing from the Poor to Give to the Rich: An Anti-Robin Hood Story” by @LearnLiberty ► Get Learn Liberty updates in your inbox! http://LearnLiberty.org/subscribe Have you ever thought much about property rights? Many believe ownership protections primarily favor the wealthy, but it turns out that the wealthy and politically connected actually benefit more when ownership Read More
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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