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 [Balkin.blogspot.com] Balkinization: -- That's why, in his confirmation proceeedings, the Attorney General represented that "some" techniques from among waterboarding, use of dogs to induce stress, forced nudity, hooding, sensory deprivation, food and sleep deprivation, exposure to extreme temperatures, a face or stomach slap, the forcible injection of mood-altering drugs, mock executions, and threatening to send detainees to countries where they would be tortured, "might .be permissible in specific circumstances, if appropriately limited, depending on the nature of the precise conduct under consideration";

 [Blog.mises.org] Mises Economics Blog: January 2005 Archives: At last, journalists are looking into Chile's system of "privatization." This NYT piece points out an important difference with the US case: "Chile was careful before it started its private system to accumulate several years of budget surpluses, in contrast to the recent large deficits in the United States." Even so, "the transition period has turned out to be longer and more expensive than anticipated. The annual cost to the government, still the guarantor of last resort, has remained steady at 5 to 6 percent of the nation's economic output" and "the government continues to direct billions of dollars to a safety net for those whose contributions were not large enough to ensure even a minimum pension approaching $140 a month." For more on the Chilean case, see Dale Steinreich: "Is Chile a Model."

[Future.iftf.org] IFTF's Future Now: Business: (Many others have made the case too, but g/b/ do a great job of explaining how digital media draw-- consciously or unconsciously-- on older media.) Likewise, eBay, which itself was modeled on the ancient transactional model of the auction, is emerging as a basic model for all kinds of interesting experiments that bring together people to buy/sell, barter, trade, loan, or exchange goods. Z+ reports on a site set up to give things away, Freecycle:

 [Greencarcongress.com] Green Car Congress: Oil: Professor Heading Out at the The Oil Drum has posted A Picture of Depletion, the subject of which I reproduced to the left””a slice through the Abqaiq oilfield in Saudi Arabia.

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