Some random items of interest:
- Using neighborhood watch groups to build resilient communities.
- Dirthugger. Local composting company. Vote for it (almost all of the other entries are non-repeatable one-offs) to win the $25k start-up challenge prize.
- Paintball sentry systems.
- Big banks and money laundering for Mexican cartels.
- US Consumer economic behavior online is showing a sharp contraction in Q3.
- Mainstreaming home farming. Big brand sponsorship.
- Evans-Pritchard: Economics should never be treated as a science. Its claims are not falsifiable, which is why economists can disagree so violently among themselves: a rarer spectacle in science, where disputes are usually resolved one way or another by hard data. It is a branch of anthropology and psychology, a moral discipline if you like. Anybody who loses sight of this is a public nuisance...
- Secret laws, treaties, lies and extreme foolishness. So very much a sign of the times. A valid claim that ACTA, the aggressive copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, would gut the technology industry. A revelation that Toronto police lied about the regulations/laws regarding their economically destructive lock-down of the city center for the G20 conference. Stretching anti-terrorism surveillance laws to harass everyone. A massive power grab by the government "cybersecurity" crowd with the ill advised Internet kill switch proposal -- as in: we will destroy America in order to save the government and big companies.
