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"A Arte da Fuga" ("Die Kunst der Fuge", BWV 1080) é uma obra-prima de Johann Sebastian Bach:
um único tema musical persegue-se, a si mesmo e as múltiplas variações, num diálogo musical intenso desenvolvido a diversas vozes, rico de simetrias, inversões, ritmos e tempos diferentes.
Fugas para firstname.lastname@example.com
sábado, abril 30, 2011
Inside Every Leftist Is a Little Authoritarian Dying to Get Out
Inside Every Leftist Is a Little Authoritarian Dying to Get Out por Michael Cannon:
I've been meaning to write about how ObamaCare's unelected rationing board — innocuously titled the Independent Payment Advisory Board — is yet another example of the Left leading America down the road to serfdom. (Efforts to limit political speech — innocuously called "campaign finance reform" — are another.)
This isn't how it starts. This is how it snowballs.
democracismo acrítico
Lo que uno es, y lo que uno Cree Ser por Manuel F. Ayau:
.. generalmente se cree que otorgar autonomía a ciertas instituciones ¡es democrático! Se les priva de la cualidad esencial democrática, que es la cualidad política, y a pesar de ello se considera que su existencia es congruente con la democracia, por el hecho de que en su régimen interno las decisiones se toman por mayoría de votos.Las consecuencias no son sin importancia. Los ciudadanos típicamente resultan con la obligación de sostener esas instituciones a través de impuestos, cuotas, comisiones obligatorias y precios monopolísticos, pero nada tienen que decir en cuanto a su manejo, pues ni siquiera su presupuesto es autorizado por el Congreso. En algunos casos ¡ni dan cuenta pública del empleo de los fondos de los ciudadanos! Por ello no debe extrañar que con el tiempo esas entidades resultan manejadas por los grupos que tienen un mayor interés creado en las actividades de la entidad, que en las finalidades de la misma. Ello, desde luego, más se parece al fascismo que a la democracia.
Portugal too big to fail?
U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook for Portugal Bailout:
Recently, Portugal officially requested a $116 billion bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. This makes Portugal the third European nation to seek such a bailout in the past year (Greece got $157 billion; Ireland $122 billion). What most people don't realize is that the U.S. is the largest contributor to the IMF. Therefore, U.S. taxpayers are paying for Portugal's bailout which – like the earlier bailouts of Greece and Ireland – was caused by too much government spending and borrowing.
While the IMF refuses to provide a reliable number, we estimate that America's contribution to a Portuguese bailout is equal to writing a check worth $600 for every man and woman in Portugal. This largesse makes it more likely that larger counties – particularly, Spain and Italy – will be standing in line for U.S. tax dollars tomorrow. That is unacceptable. We cannot take the "too big to fail" philosophy to a global level. The only thing "too big to fail' is America itself.
Controlling Others
Controlling Others is Insulting:
Are you an idealist and romantic at heart? If so, good. But if you want to save the world, stop trying to fix, change or control others. Instead: Show them, convince them, do whatever you have it in you to demonstrate to them...
Telling others what to do is an insult. It implies that the person you're ordering to do something has no rational faculty of his or her own.
The government is bankrupt because the small number of rich and the decreasing number of middle class people who still choose to work are expected to pay for never-ending, entitled screams for more and more entitlement checks. The whole thing is imploding, fiscally, right before our eyes ..
It's said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This isn't precisely true. Rationally good intentions are not how human beings destroy themselves. Human beings destroy themselves through deception first and foremost, through self-deception.
the Banking Crisis
John Allison on the Banking Crisis @ CEI's 25th Anniversary
LEITURAS ADICIONAIS recomendadas:
- Master class sobre os ciclos económicos
- Meltdown em video
- Peter Schiff is right (2)
The Onion mais real que a realidade
Obama's Deficit-Reduction Plan Includes Spending Cuts, Robbing Fort Knox, Tax Reform (The Onion):
WASHINGTON—Saying the nation must face the "grave realities" of its mounting debt, President Barack Obama unveiled a deficit-reduction plan Wednesday that included far-reaching spending cuts, pulling off a daring robbery of the heavily fortified Fort Knox bullion depository, and repealing Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.
In a televised address, Obama .. expressed his vision for a future in which the government .. had billions and billions of dollars worth of stolen gold ..
Republican leaders were quick to unleash a barrage of criticism ..
In a party-line vote earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed Rep. Ryan's rival plan, which includes across-the-board tax cuts, tunneling under the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, sending an electrical surge through its security system, and stealing the engraving plates so that "we can print off as much money as we want."
Socialismo para todos!
Good Jobs for Everyone!:
Political leaders today want to think big. So in the spirit of Secretary Solis, here are some ideas for other cabinet secretaries needing a new and exciting vision:
- Secretary of Agriculture: Soaring crop prices for all farmers!
- Secretary of Commerce: Huge profits for every business!
- Secretary of Defense: More wars and fat contracts for all weapons makers!
- Secretary of Education: Straight As for all students!
- Secretary of Energy: Windmills for every family!
- Secretary of Health and Human Services: Huge portions but slim waists for all!
- Secretary of Housing: Granite countertops and Jacuzzis for every home!
- Secretary of Justice: Lawsuits for all accidents!
- Secretary of Transportation: High-speed subway trains for every village!
- Secretary of the Treasury: More IRS agents because someone has to pay for all this!
Via Economist:
Government has always tended to expand (see table 1), and people have always fretted about it. In 1888 a French economist, Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, calculated that a share of 12-13% of GDP (just above the Western average then) was the sustainable limit for a modern state. By 1960 sprawling welfare states had pushed the average in the rich world to 28% (see chart 2), enough to convince Friedrich Hayek that "the deliberately organised forces of society [ie, government regulation]" might "destroy those spontaneous forces which have made advance possible." Yet the next quarter-century saw another surge, pushed mainly by transfer payments and subsidies ostensibly aimed at the poor but often of most benefit to the middle classes.
If I ruled the world
If I ruled the world: Niall Ferguson:
The world, in other words, has left behind the old top-down command structure. In its place has arisen a host of interlocking and overlapping networks. The positive "externalities" created by the mere existence of these networks can hardly be overstated. It is not that I buy the theory of the wisdom of crowds: people in the aggregate can and do make horrendous mistakes. It's more that networks allow information to flow to where it is needed, making all kinds of markets work better. They may be prone to violent mood swings. But so, in case you hadn't noticed, are rulers. And while markets may occasionally throw millions of people out of work, they tend not to murder them and toss them into mass graves.
So my answer to the question of what I would do if I ruled the world is quite easy. I would use my power for a period of, at most, a week, to stamp out traditional systems of rule and to replace outdated hierarchies with networks. I would begin by deposing all autocrats and giving their former subjects a simple constitution modelled on that of the United States.
You may say that this would be recipe for anarchy .. room for leadership—a very different thing from rule. The best thing about our networked world is that it greatly increases the chance that natural leaders will emerge, whatever the disadvantages of their birth.
What Would Hayek Do?
The Budget Battle: WWHD? (What Would Hayek Do?) AK? (And Keynes?) por Russ Roberts:
Hayek was not an anarchist- he didn't believe there should be zero government. But he was also not a conservative. He was a classical liberal- he believed in personal freedom and responsibility. This idea that we'd need to increase the budget by $1 billion to "stimulate the economy", he would view with extreme skepticism. So he was very skeptical of macroeconomic predictions. He believed in the importance of bottom-up, emergent actions of individuals: planning for the future should be done by individuals, not by someone at the top.
He didn't believe that anyone can steer the economy. Hayek would also be skeptical of the idea that we'd need to keep spending to prop our economy up and to keep our economy going. He'd want to let entrepreneurs and individuals make decisions based on the knowledge available to them, rather than a top-down approach [by the government] that tries to micro-manage at a macro level.
He was skeptical of the idea that the Federal Reserve, through manipulating interest rates, could create prosperity or improve the economy. Hayek would argue in fact the Fed is a major reason we're in the mess we're in.
A maior fraude da História
Why windmills won't wash:
.. So how much would each of the seven billion people on the planet have to cough up over the next century to forestall the 3.4 C global warming that IPeCaC hopes will happen by 2100? It will cost each of us more than £3.8 million ($6.3 milllion), and that's probably a large underestimate ..
.. After the biggest and most expensive propaganda campaign in human history, leading to the biggest tax increase in human history, trying to stop "global warming" that isn't happening anyway and won't happen at anything like the predicted rate is the least cost-effective use of taxpayers' money in human history, bar none – and that's saying something.
The thing about gesture politics is that the politicians (that's us) get to make the gestures and the proles (that'll be you) get to get the bill ..
sexta-feira, abril 29, 2011
Anarchism in America
confusions about democracy
Classical Liberal confusions about democracy:
.. except in wartime or other major emergency democracies cannot be described in this way. They possess no hierarchy of goals, but rather are constituted by a complex stew of conflicting policy proposals and competing organizations and politician where nothing is stable ..
I think we need a new way of thinking about democracy's scope, one that incorporates awareness of limits on power, but not defining in advance the areas of life it can seek to influence. The issue is not the number of issues a government can address, but the amount of power it can bring to bear to get its way.
This alternative model also focuses our attention on what really matters. It is not the size of government that matters, it is the "principle agent problem" [sic] whereby its leaders seek to turn a democracy into an organization they control. This is the problem of autocracy. In addition there is the problem of organized interests in a democracy seeking to bring it under their control. This is the problem of aristocracy, and it is by far the largest problem we have today in American politics.
When we see these problems as the key problems, and not the "size" of government we are freed to think far more intelligently about the problems facing modern democratic countries.
No profits are pirated
I Got an E-mail Today from Ritz-Carlton….
Thanks for your e-mail celebrating your and your employees' participation in "Give Back Getaways" – activities in which you and your employees (along with some of your customers) "give back to the community."
Have you taken something that doesn't belong to you? ..
Please, though, unless your profits are the product of dishonest deals or theft, please drop the rhetoric of "giving back." This sort of talk implies that you possess something that isn't rightfully yours. It fuels the common misapprehension that corporate profits are either ill-gotten gains or, at best, wealth subtracted from that of other persons.
By all means, give if your shareholders approve. But stop calling it "giving back." Your profits aren't pirated booty; they're legitimate earnings.
Valores, decisões, acções
Toma de decisiones y escalas de valores:
Cada uno decide según su escala de valores. Pero tenemos que cerciorarnos que tenemos una escala de valores correcta. Los valores son las cosas que valen y nuestra escala de valores son las cosas que nosotros valoramos, y si lo que nosotros valoramos no son cosas que valen, nuestra escala de valores estará equivocada y por tanto nuestras decisiones y actuaciones serán incorrectas. Es por tanto importante que nos preocupemos de valorar las cosas que realmente valen.Leitura recomendada: Leadership and Values
Los valores son objetivos y mis valores son subjetivos. Sí, sí, has leído bien por muy contracultural que suene: existen valores objetivos. La honradez, el respeto a los compromisos adquiridos, la justicia, etc. son valores. Si en nuestras decisiones no tenemos en cuenta que hay que ser honrados, respetar los compromisos adquiridos, etc. nuestras actuaciones serán incorrectas. Nos saldrán las cosas mal.
Bernanke 0 - 1 ZéDu
Discurso do Presidente José Eduardo dos Santos, no IV congresso extraordinário do MPLA:
Assim, é uma operação estratégica do Executivo reduzir a taxa de inflação para baixo de 10 por cento, de modo não apenas a proteger os rendimentos gerados na nossa economia, mas também a permitir que o crédito possa ser menos oneroso e capaz de continuamente estimular o crescimento sustentável da economia.
Assim, as pequenas, médias e grandes empresas privadas dos angolanos poderão, através do crédito bancário ou de empréstimos, realizar investimentos em todo o território nacional, criar empregos, produzir mais riqueza e ajudar a combater a pobreza.
Mas os bancos só podem emprestar dinheiro quando têm esses recursos depositados em contas por inúmeras pessoas individuais ou colectivas.
Por essa razão, todos aqueles que têm economias ou poupanças, em vez de guardar o seu dinheiro em casa, devem guardá-lo num banco, pois são essas poupanças individuais depositadas nos bancos comerciais que constituem a Poupança, de que uma parte é destinada ao investimento ou a financiar o consumo.
Hip-Hop Economics (5)
No seguimento de Hip-Hop Economics ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ),
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
Citação Liberal do Dia
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.
quarta-feira, abril 27, 2011
We dont need no endoctrination (2)
No seguimento de We don't need no endoctrination,
We Don't Need No (Public) Education: Sheldon Richman on the Separation of School and State
We Don't Need No (Public) Education: Sheldon Richman on the Separation of School and State
A filosofia política de Jorge Luis Borges
A filosofia política de Jorge Luis Borges por Martín Krause:
Sua descrença no estado só poderia estar acompanhada de um baixo interesse pela política .. Quando lhe foi dito que não parecia ter em alta conta os políticos em geral, confirmou:"Não. Em primeiro lugar não são homens éticos; são homens que contraíram o hábito de mentir, o hábito de subornar, o hábito de sorrir o tempo todo, o hábito de agradar todo mundo, o hábito da popularidade... A profissão dos políticos é mentir. O caso de um rei é diferente, um rei recebe tal destino, e portanto lhe cabe cumpri-lo. O político não; o político deve fingir o tempo todo, deve sorrir, simular cortesia, deve submeter-se melancolicamente aos coquetéis, às cerimônias oficiais, aos feriados nacionais."
"Penso que nenhum político pode ser uma pessoa completamente sincera. Um político está sempre à procura de eleitores, e diz aquilo que esperam que diga. No caso de um discurso político, importa mais a opinião dos ouvintes que a do orador. O orador é uma espécie de espelho ou eco do que os demais pensam. Se não for assim, fracassará."
Em suas próprias palavras, Borges se considerava um anarquista, embora pacífico: "Atualmente me definiria como um inofensivo anarquista; isto é, um homem que quer o mínimo de governo e o máximo de indivíduo"."Sou anarquista. Sempre acreditei fervorosamente na anarquia. E nisso sigo as ideias de meu pai. Ou seja, sou contra os governos — especialmente as ditaduras —, e contra os estados".
surrealismo contabilístico, político e jornalístico
Via Blasfémias, O mundo surreal do jornalismo e da política,
os políticos que nos dirigem estarão a ponderar não introduzir portagens nas SCUT para não aumentar o défice contabilístico.
Vou repetir: os políticos que nos dirigem estarão a ponderar abdicar de uma receita para não aumentar o défice.
single party system
Saving the Warfare-Welfare State por Sheldon Richman:
Why does everyone think Washington is plagued by excessive partisanship? The contest over how to address the fiscal debacle says otherwise: Both divisions of the uniparty (Democrat and Republican) agree that the warfare-welfare state must be saved. It's the means not the end that divides them.
But here's the thing: Both seek to retain the fundamental status quo in which the State parcels out favors to reigning interests while providing succor to the vulnerable in a combined spirit of charity and fear. Fear of what? In the case of the elderly, fear of their political clout at the ballot box; in the case of those shut out the economic system because of lousy government schools, occupational licensing, and cartelization via the subsidy and regulatory regime, fear of a frustration that could turn into unrest.
Citação Liberal do Dia
The plans differ; the planners are all alike.
Frederic Bastiat
Japans Broken Window (2)
No seguimento de Japans Broken Window, Japan's Broken Windows por David D'Amato,
The truth is that some people do stand to benefit in the wake of disasters that elicit huge government spending projects, but that benefit doesn't come in a vacuum. Where the economic system is defined by the coercive interventions of the state, public works projects that follow natural disasters mean contracts for the state's favorites, courtesy of the working masses.
The state and its courtiers, groups that can't actually be distinguished in practice, are happy to use tragedies to redirect wealth; they certainly enjoy a boost, but it isn't somehow free of charge. Working people pay the price, and the price is significantly higher than it would be in a society where the details of the rebuilding process were determined by the voluntary decisions of free people.
Where the state expends wealth, it doesn't erase the costs that attend disasters without someone paying, and the inefficiency and self-serving that inhabit the venal relationships created by power themselves foist further costs on productive society.
a marcha implacável do "neoliberalismo"...
...e contudo a sociedade não colapsou, e vivemos mais prósperos que nunca.
No lado oposto, as receitas fiscais não deixaram de aumentar, e os Estados arruinam-se.
No lado oposto, as receitas fiscais não deixaram de aumentar, e os Estados arruinam-se.
terça-feira, abril 26, 2011
Sistema Nacional de Mercearias
Grocery School por Don Boudreaux:
Suppose that we were supplied with groceries in same way that we are supplied with .. education.
Residents of each county would pay taxes on their properties. A huge chunk of these tax receipts would then be spent by government officials on building and operating supermarkets. County residents, depending upon their specific residential addresses, would be assigned to a particular supermarket. Each family could then get its weekly allotment of groceries for "free." ..
Except in rare circumstances, no family would be allowed to patronize a "public" supermarket outside of its district.
.. the resulting calls for "supermarket choice" would be rejected .. Such 'choice,' it would be alleged, will drain precious resources from the public supermarkets whose (admittedly) poor performance testifies to the fact that these supermarkets are underfunded.
And the small handful of people who call for total separation between supermarket and state would be criticized by nearly everyone as being .. indifferent to the malnutrition and starvation that would sweep the land if only private market forces governed the provision and patronizing of supermarket ..
Does anyone believe that such a system for supplying groceries would work well, or even one-tenth as well as the current private, competitive system that we currently rely upon for supplying grocery-retailing services? ..
.. why might you continue to count yourself in the ranks of those who believe that government schooling .. is the system that we should continue to use?
Os liberais e o "25 de Abril"
Via O Insurgente, Deverá um liberal festejar o "25 de Abril"?:
Ao contrário do que possam pensar alguns distraídos, os liberais identificam-se com muito pouco no regime derrubado em 1974 ..
O "25 de Abril" não se fez em nome da experiência histórica do liberalismo .. fez-se em nome de uma míriade de socialismos coligados que iam fundar um "país novo" e que chegaram ainda a apresentar-se como nova "União Nacional democrática" no defunto M.D.P. (PCP+PS+PPD) ..
.. a normalização de 1976 veio a fazer-se com uma vitória ideológica inequívoca do socialismo, que só o pragmatismo dos políticos e a realidade das coisas foi forçando a esbranquiçar em sucessivas revisões constitucionais. Onde, nesta "herança de Abril", os liberais se podem situar não é nada claro ..
Como gerir um negócio segundo a esquerdalha
How To Run a Protest-Proof Grocery Store:
All of which got me wondering. What would it take to run a grocery store that's immune to progressive protest? I came up with this checklist [uma selecção]:
- You must pay your employees a high wage .. However, you may pay them crappy wages .. so long as you let them unionize ..
- You must offer organic food, and cater to alternative diets ..
- .. You shouldn't sell anything that can only be shipped by jet or tractor trailer .. you still need to cater to a wide variety of diets. And have good selection. And not charge too much.
- You should .. donate regularly to charity and political causes .. that disapprove of commercialism ..
- Just a reminder: You must do all of these things while keeping your prices low ..
- .. you also must be locally-owned.
- .. Morally, you should really only be making just enough money to keep the lights on.
- You can't advertise; all advertising is exploitation ..
- You must foster a work environment that promotes tolerance and open-mindedness. This means no white trash.
- Don't hire any Republicans, "blue-dog Democrats", libertarians, or business majors, either. Those sorts of people promote intolerance.
segunda-feira, abril 25, 2011
El mayor gasto de cualquier ciudadano son los impuestos
El mayor gasto de cualquier ciudadano son los impuestos:
Si cualquier ciudadano sumara todos los impuestos que paga a lo largo del año (IRPF, Seguridad Social, IVA de todo lo que compra, IBI, impuestos a la gasolina, impuesto de circulación, etc.) vería que su mayor gasto es el Estado.
Y lo mismo que sucede con los ciudadanos el mayor coste de las empresas son los impuestos: Impuesto de Sociedades, Seguridad Social de los empleados, IBI, impuesto a la gasolina, infinidad de tasas y permisos administrativos, etc.
Esto forma una cadena desde el origen en la que todas las empresas van traspasando el coste de todos sus impuestos hacia sus clientes, hasta llegar al cliente final, el ciudadano de a pie, que paga todos los impuestos de todas las empresas que han intervenido en todas las etapas del proceso de fabricación del producto o servicio que está adquiriendo.
Por eso resulta tan ridículo que alguien se alegre, o proponga, que les suban los impuestos a las empresas creyendo que la cosa no van con él.
e o último que feche a porta
Epístola de São Paulo aos Lusitanos (ou, muitos anos depois, o FA publica um post) de Fernando Albino:
É assim que, a cada dia que passa, a perspetiva de eu a minha mulher ou os meus filhos algum dia voltarmos para Portugal para aí desenvolver qualquer tipo de atividade económica vai-se esbatendo. No que depender de mim, eles não pagarão nem um centavo desta dívida absolutamente suicída com que o país está a ser albardado por este bando de loucos que o "governa".
domingo, abril 24, 2011
Economics vs. Emotions
Helping the Poor? Economics Vs. Emotions:
Humanitarians seem to become too attached to their stance at an emotional level, even seeming to suffer from a mystical belief in the moral superiority of their solutions, no matter what the outcome. In fact, this has led to the enactment of countless terrible public policies. Economics, on the other hand, is a science. The economist's job is to take the end as given and then explain the best ways to achieve that end.
For example the issue of sweatshops is one of the most emotional issues, which enrages many Americans today. People see struggling women and children "forced" to work in terrible working conditions and call: "Sweatshops must be Stopped!" "Ban them!" "We must boycott!" The question is: will closing sweatshops stop "exploitation" and get people out of poverty?
.. the right response should be to encourage trade with countries where sweatshops exist. Buy sweatshop goods, higher demand for their services means the quicker wealth accumulation by these workers, which inevitably will lead to disappearance of sweatshops. Restricting trade with countries where sweatshops still exist keeps these individuals poor, which is the opposite of what we want.
uma visão libertarian-contrarian sobre a imigração
On Free Immigration and Forced Integration por Hans-Hermann Hoppe:
The current situation in the United States and in Western Europe has nothing whatsoever to do with "free" immigration. It is forced integration, plain and simple, and forced integration is the predictable outcome of democratic – one-man-one-vote – rule.
What should one hope for and advocate as the relatively correct immigration policy, however, as long as the democratic central state is still in place and successfully arrogates the power to determine a uniform national immigration policy? The best one may hope for, even if it goes against the "nature" of a democracy and thus is not very likely to happen, is that the democratic rulers act as if they were the personal owners of the country and as if they had to decide who to include and who to exclude from their own personal property (into their very own houses). This means following a policy of utmost discrimination: of strict discrimination in favor of the human qualities of skill, character, and cultural compatibility.
.. – with the predictable result of a systematic pro-European immigration bias.
The state is the Mafia
The state is the Mafia:
100% Everything the state does, ever has done or ever will do can easily, only and best be explained by understanding this. They just want money. They're in it to live a good life at the expense of others without having to work hard for a day in their lives. That's the entire, dull and ultimately obvious point and purpose of Government – hidden behind complexity, ritual and euphemism is a machine for taking your money.
.. think back to Medieval times. Think of Disneys Robin Hood, and the Purpose of the Character known as the Sheriff of Nottingham. You can understand .. that the peoples of England had at least the self-respect to not even pretend the Sheriff of Nottingham was in anyway a hero, or good. The entire point of this character was to steal money – nicely wrapped up as Taxation .. Please tell me you understand, at least, that the Medieval "Government" had NO function but to take money and to enslave people?
.. See the same Tax system in place, now stated to do good, but still the same racket .. it's the same system, the same racket."
Death by Decorator (3)
Wallpapering With Red Tape por George Will:
This is done in the name of "professionalization," but it really amounts to cartelization. Persons in the business limit access by others -- competitors -- to full participation in the business.
Being able to control the number of one's competitors, and to dispense the pleasure of status, is nice work if you can get it, and you can get it if you have a legislature willing to enact "titling laws." They regulate -- meaning restrict -- the use of job descriptions. Such laws often are precursors of occupational licensing, which usually means a mandatory credentialing process to control entry into a profession with a particular title.
.. Such regulations come with government rationing of the right to practice a profession. Who benefits? Creating artificial scarcity of services raises the prices of those entitled to perform the services. The pressure for government-created scarcity is intensifying because the general public -- rank amateurs -- are using the Internet to purchase things and advice, bypassing designers.
It is not true that businesses, as a matter of principle, want to fend off government regulation. Businesses have a metabolic urge to make money, which is as it should be. But when a compliant government gives them the opportunity to use government regulations to enhance their moneymaking, that metabolic urge will overpower any principles about the virtues of free (from government intervention) enterprise.
Death by Decorator (2)
Throw-Pillow Fight: Is your interior designer really putting your life at risk?
EPIC LICENSING BATTLE: The Florida Interior Design Cartel Strikes Back
Death by Decorator (1)
Death by Decorator:
The Wall Street Journal reports on a heated battle in Florida over whether to deregulate commercial interior designers — that is, to allow just anyone to hang out a shingle and seek customers looking for office design. It turns out the question is fraught with more danger than one might have realized. Herewith, the opening of the Journal's comprehensive report:Sobre os factos, este vídeo é elucidativo...they've stormed legislative hearings to warn of the mayhem that would ensue if the measure passes.
Among the scenarios they've conjured: flammable carpets sparking infernos; porous countertops spreading bacteria; jail furnishings being turned into weapons... By deregulating, she told lawmakers, "what you're basically doing is contributing to 88,000 deaths every year," citing a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on deaths from hospital-acquired infections.Interior design "sounds like this simple hanging curtains on a wall," .. But "it only takes a couple things to go wrong for people to lose their lives."
sábado, abril 23, 2011
Nothing wrong with Capitalism
You're just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you
never really had to work
And you tell me that we've got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap
Um dia negro para o feminazismo:
Of course, anyone with half a brain could have told you there is no wage gap, otherwise some business owner would hire nothing but women and pay them less, there by undercutting the market.
The WSJ reports - There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap:Recent studies have shown that the wage gap shrinks—or even reverses—when relevant factors are taken into account and comparisons are made between men and women in similar circumstances. In a 2010 study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30, the research firm Reach Advisors found that women earned an average of 8% more than their male counterparts. Given that women are outpacing men in educational attainment, and that our economy is increasingly geared toward knowledge-based jobs, it makes sense that women's earnings are going up compared to men's.Feminism isn't about equal pay for equal work, it is about expropriating money from men and handing it to women by force.
Busting the Myth of Green Jobs
Renewables Supporters Miss the Point of Scotland Study:
Robert Murphy: Busting the Myth of Green Jobs
As I explain in this short video clip below, people favoring carbon legislation often try to have their cake and eat it too. They want to claim that revamping the energy sector will not only mitigate the damages from climate change, but that it will also create jobs and boost the economy even in conventional terms.
Robert Murphy: Busting the Myth of Green Jobs
Predatory Pricing
The Problem With Predation por Donald J. Boudreaux:
A key to understanding the economics of predatory pricing is to realize that the predator must lose more money than do any of its prey. The reason is that the predator can force the preys' prices down only by taking away their customers. And to take away the preys' customers requires that the predator expand its sales during the price war. In contrast, the prey are free to reduce their sales to levels that minimize (if not eliminate) their losses.
How, then, can predation be a lucrative strategy? The answer must be that the predator is better able than the prey to absorb price-war losses. Fortunately for consumers, predators are not better able to absorb such losses. In fact, any prey that is as efficient as the predator has just as much access to funding for the price war as does the predator.
"How can this be?" asks the skeptic. The answer is straightforward — capital markets. If the prey are as efficient as the predator, the prey will likely be able to borrow enough money to wage the price war successfully.
If the prey can borrow enough money to defend themselves against predatory pricing, then it is obvious that predatory pricing is suicidal. The reason is that the predator loses more money during the price war than do the prey, without the hope of driving its adequately funded prey to extinction.
Tax Hike
What? "Spending reductions in the tax code"? The tax code isn't where we spend, it's where we collect. And tha–ohhhhh. I guess what you said is tax code — code for raising taxes. You managed to talk about a tax hike as a spending reduction. [Laughter.] Can we afford that and the royalty checks you're going to have to send to George Orwell? That is the weirdest way — just say tax hike.
Charter Cities
Paul Romer Interview About Charter Cities on Zurich Minds:
Rolf: Twenty years out, what's your dream?
Paul: I hope for a world where every family has a choice about living in one of several different cities, all of which are competing to attract new residents. That's something that we take for granted. You [Rolf] could go to any city in Europe. I could go to any city in the United States…Many of those cities want to grow, they want more activity, they'd be eager to have us as residents. That kind of competition leads to new cities…that do something different, but it also disciplines cities—that if they don't do their job well, the residents can go someplace else where things are done better.
Mother Earth Day
Happy Mother Earth Day, Citizen!:
If this all sounds a bit mystical, that it because the philosophy of environmentalism is pure mysticism ..
In his inaugural Mother Earth Day speech to the UN, President Morales noted that environmental destruction is "offensive to the many faiths, wisdom traditions and indigenous cultures for whom Mother Earth is sacred." In doing so he explicitly appealed to faith, not reason, as the standard of moral judgment. Those in the UN did not object to this invocation of mysticism as a basis for their resolutions. Rather, they passed his resolution for Mother Earth Day unanimously ..
It is difficult to make satire of something like this, because the supporters of this proposition have already done the job for us. Those who dream up UN treaties to establish a "Ministry for Mother Earth" are the kinds of people who mistakenly thought that Orwell was writing an instruction manual, not a work of dystopian fiction ..
Happy Mother Earth Day, citizen! Now bow down to the almighty state in celebration!
Top 8 tax protest songs of all time
Anteontem foi o Tax Day nos EUA, fica aqui Top 8 tax protest songs of all time — esta não está na lista oficial:
Goin' to the CPA
Goin' to the CPA
Nacionalismo racional
Nacionalisme Racional (I): Catalanisme, Catalunya i la Llibertat Individual
Es fácil entender, por tanto, que el origen de los males actuales que generalmente se asocian con el nacionalismo, más que tener su causa en la idea de nacionalidad, tienen su origen en que no se cumplen los tres principios básicos ya analizados del nacionalismo liberal. O dicho de otra forma, que el nacionalismo deja de ser una fuerza positiva para el proceso pacífico de cooperación social y se convierte, como en mayor o menor medida ha sucedido en relación con el actual gobierno de Cataluña, en un semillero de conflictos y sufrimientos precisamente cuando deja de ser liberal y se convierte en un nacionalismo intervencionista o dirigista.
Es decir, el error se encuentra en el socialismo, en el intervencionismo y en el ejercicio sistemático de la coacción, y no en el nacionalismo per se. Si bien es preciso reconocer que, en muchas ocasiones, los intervencionistas y socialistas recurren, prostituyéndola, a la idea de nación para alimentar y justificar sus medidas de coacción.
VIDA, LLIBERTAT i PROPIETAT PRIVADA. Els únics valors objetius, i per tant, defendibles. Imposar llengües, sistemes educatius, sistemes de "protecció" social (sanitat, polítics) són immorals, no els podem elegir.Aqui segunda parte.
sexta-feira, abril 22, 2011
taxing is stealing from everyone
The Man Who Can't Be Taxed:
Stevens wants to tax the "idle rich", her Exhibit A being Robert Kendrick, heir to the $84 million Schlage Lock Company fortune. According to Ms. Stevens, Mr. Kendrick appears to do pretty much nothing but park and re-park his four cars all day long. Taxing people like Mr. Kendrick, she says, has to be part of any solution to America's fiscal crisis.
You can try to tax him, but any attempt to tax him turns into a tax-in-disguise on somebody else.
.. the government consumes more goods, Mr. Kendrick consumes no fewer, so someone else must consume less. Who is that someone else? The answer depends on the details of the transactions, but the most likely answer is that when Mr. Kendrick withdraws $84 million from the bank to make his tax payment, the bank makes fewer loans, interest rates rise, and someone cancels a vacations, or postpones a car purchase, or abandons a half-built factory. Who bears the burden of the tax? The people who cancel their vacations and car purchases and factories, that's who. Not Mr. Kendrick.
mais socialismo, mais carvão
Unintended Consequences of Free Carbon Permits -- Burning More Coal (Reason):
Proponents of cap-and-trade carbon rationing argue that it will encourage inventors to develop and companies to adopt low-carbon energy technologies. A new study, "How emission certificate allocations distort fossil investments: The German example," .. by the German Economic Research Institute in Berlin finds that allocating emissions permits at the beginning the European Trading Scheme for free actually encouraged the "dash for coal" in Germany.
Economist Alex Tabarrok makes a nice and relevant observation about the law of unintended consequences:The law of unintended consequences is what happens when a simple system tries to regulate a complex system. The political system is simple, it operates with limited information (rational ignorance), short time horizons, low feedback, and poor and misaligned incentives. Society in contrast is a complex, evolving, high-feedback, incentive-driven system. When a simple system tries to regulate a complex system you often get unintended consequences.
Taxpayers vs the Public Sector
Via EU Referendum,
The horizontal split is typified by the days of Whigs and Tories, when the politicians had more in common with each other. Those were the days when they looked after themselves, and their own interests. Those were the days when the people were unrepresented. Just like now.
But, if we are returning to the old political model - the original class, or even feudal model - there is nevertheless a new certainty: us "below the liners" have had enough of the "above the liners". What swept out the decaying self-interest of the old systems must be done again. This time, though, we must do it right or, at least, get it wrong in a different way.
Portuguese Bail-out is the Beginning of the End of Big Government
Portuguese Bail-out is the Beginning of the End of Big Government (Big Government):
Can you hear that great sucking sound? It's the sound of government shrinking around the world, as Portugal just joined Greece, Ireland and soon many others in acknowledging they are bankrupt and asking their European brethren for a bail-out. What is frightening to the big government advocates is this collapse was caused by a doubling of Portugal's borrowing costs in just three weeks. The klaxon horns are going off in Europe and America; cut deficit spending or be destroyed by rising interest rates.
Southern European countries like Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain got low-interest German and French bank loans to scrap supposedly uncompetitive local manufacturing and "cushion" the transition of workers into leisure services and retirement housing development. Germany and France got elimination of competition and export growth to Southern Europe. Europeans were ecstatic for 15 years; the South had a real estate and banking boom, the North had a manufacturing and banking boom.
.. Portuguese planners were obedient followers of the Southern European plan. Tourists and retirees flocked to their sun-drenched beaches and historic villages along the Atlantic coast. But Europe has reached its financial tipping point; interest rates are rising and deficit spending is about to get slashed. As the crisis builds across the continent, expect big tax increases and widespread layoffs to fill the streets with violent right-wing and left-wing protestors. National Industrial Policy planners claimed they would be more efficient masters of market forces. Their legacy will be unleashing of brutal market forces that will strangle nations trying to unwind staggering debt burdens.
A hipocrisia da esquerda quanto às guerras de Obama (4)
No seguimento de A hipocrisia da esquerda quanto às guerras de Obama (3),
modelos que não vingaram
Discurso do Presidente José Eduardo dos Santos na reunião do Comité Central:
.. até à década de 80 do século passado, foi conduzida com êxito em África a luta de libertação nacional dos povos, que pôs fim ao colonialismo francês, britânico e português.
Na fase seguinte, vários países entraram em processos revolucionários que culminaram com a escolha do desenvolvimento não capitalista para as respectivas nações e a organização de Estados ou sistemas políticos de partido único, em que a base do sistema económico era o capitalismo de Estado erigido na base de um conjunto de empresas do Estado.
Nalguns casos, como foi o nosso, o processo revolucionário teve carácter de classe e levou à tentativa de configuração de uma ditadura democrático-revolucionária, com um sistema de governo socialista baseado no plano económico único e na direcção centralizada da economia.
Estes dois modelos não vingaram, porque não foram capazes de proporcionar o exercício das liberdades e garantias fundamentais e o advento da prosperidade económica e social.
the Portuguese bailout
Via O Insurgente, Ten reasons why Britain shouldn't join the Portuguese bailout por Daniel Hannan:
1. We won't see the money again. It is becoming increasingly clear that Greece will renege on its debts. International loans are always arranged so that the IMF gets its money back first, which means that the EU will take the hit. Portugal's debt is growing faster than its GDP, making a default almost inevitable.
6. This is about rescuing the euro, not about rescuing Portugal. The bailout money will go to European bankers and bondholders, the repayment will come from Portuguese taxpayers. The people of one of the poorest states in Western Europe are being burdened with the cost of propping up the entire European banking system.
7. Portugal won't recover until it leaves the euro. Decouple, devalue and – if necessary – default. Only when Portugal starts tailoring its interest rates and exchange rates to suit its own needs will it be able to price itself into the market.
Three More Attacks on Civilization
No seguimento da sabotagem regulatória às retretes de toda uma nação, Three More Attacks on Civilization por Jeffrey Tucker:
Remember the old Calgon commercial that showed food falling off plates and glasses left gleaming at the end of a wash? That was phosphorous at work .. 17 states have already banned the product for consumers.
A similar impulse is driving the new attack on ice makers.
Now let's talk drain openers. Everyone knows that the best chemical drain opener is lye, or sodium hydroxide .. mainstream hardware stores have stopped carrying the stuff .. It turns out that this stuff is an ingredient in the making of methamphetamine, and hence it too is on the regulatory hit list.You can't make this up, políticos e burocratas at work.
União Monetária nas últimas
The EU Crackup por Lew Rockwell:
It should be no surprise that over-taxed Finns have no interest in sending their tax dollars to bail out the banking industry of Portugal, a country that is 2,500 miles and two days travel away ..
The entire EU system is afflicted with the paper money disease. It creates a boom that balloons the banking sector, allows politicians to spend wildly, and encourages private enterprise to expand operations in an unsustainable way. Then the bust comes and everything falls apart. Government revenue crashes, banks are threatened with insolvency, and mass bankruptcies are apparent everywhere.
This debt creation generates its own unsustainable boom. A country's finances then correct to reflect reality and the banking system comes under pressure. Then the bailouts begin. What ends up happening is that the (relatively) frugal states in the European Union subsidize the less frugal ones. There is moral hazard embedded in the very structure of the entire system.
Nothing is going to fix it. Bailouts are only temporary aids until the next round of credit-fueled profligacy. And there is absolutely nothing that the ECB can do to stop it. Every profligate country knows that it is too big to fail, and that it enjoys presumed access to the financial resources of every other state in the EU. So the result is ongoing and worsening bailouts, leading to total bankruptcy.
Have The Communists Ever Produced?
What Greens Really Believe
What Greens Really Believe:
What most people are unaware of is the fascistic hatred of mankind that underlies the philosophic basis of environmentalism.
At the heart of environmentalism, aside from its wish for far fewer humans, is a hatred of capitalism. The failures of communism and socialism everywhere attest to the way state control of all aspects of life is ignored by Greens.
The few quotes cited here do not begin to illuminate the horrors that environmentalism would visit on mankind or the nihilistic view it holds, but they represent a far greater body of Green writings and statements over the years that indicate the extent of the threat it poses to humanity.
segunda-feira, abril 18, 2011
Foi pedido o resgate
Artigo de opinião - Foi pedido o resgate - Henrique Medina Carreira:
Narrativa. Se Portugal aprovasse o PEC IV não haveria nenhum resgate.
Verdade. Portugal já está ligado à máquina há mais de 1 ano (O BCE todos os dias salva a banca nacional de ter que fechar as portas dando-lhe liquidez e compra obrigações Portuguesas que mais ninguém quer - senão já teríamos taxas de juro nos 20% ou mais).
Narrativa. Sócrates estava a defender Portugal e com ele não entrava cá o FMI.
VerdadePortugal é que tem de se defender deste criminoso louco que levou o país para a ruína (há muito antecipada como todos sabem).
Narrativa. Estava tudo a correr tão bem e Portugal estava fora de perigo mas vieram estes "irresponsáveis" estragar tudo.
Verdade. Perguntem aos contabilistas do BCE e da Comissão que cá estiveram a ver as contas quanto é que é o real buraco nas contas do Estado e vão cair para o lado (a seu tempo isto tudo se saberá).
Atlas Is Shrugging
Uma montagem do filme Atlas Shrugged (estreado dis 15/Abril/2011) com footage real:
domingo, abril 17, 2011
Declaração de Dependentes (2)
Na continuação de Declaração de Dependentes, Government Treats the Taxpayers Like a Piggy Bank:
I pay my mortgage, but I also pay to bail out banks who made risky loans and yuppies, who have trouble paying $700,000 mortgages on their McMansions ..
I pay for groceries for my family, but also pay millionaire farmers not grow stuff like rice. I buy dinner for more than 41 million food stamp recipients ..
I'm trying to save enough money in case I lose my job, but I pay for more than 70 different means-tested poverty programs
Because I work hard and am successful, I am in the 10% of Americans, who now pay more than 71 percent of the total federal income tax burden ..
I pay property taxes, sales, excise taxes, taxes on my phone, my cable, my water; state income taxes, Social security and Medicare taxes. I also help pay the bills for the nearly half of households who no longer pay any federal income tax ..
Obamas War That Isnt a War
Dropping bombs, shooting missiles, deploying massive amounts of personnel and power - all of these are generally understood as acts of war. But Obama can't admit that we're waging war because then he would have to acknowledge what his critics correctly underscore: Constitutionally, he doesn't have a right to do this sort of thing unilaterally when the country isn't facing a clear and present danger.
Economic Lunacy
Economic Lunacy por Walter Williams:
After the 2001 terrorist attack, economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman wrote in his New York Times column "After the Horror," "Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack – like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression – could do some economic good." He explained that rebuilding the destruction would stimulate the economy through business investment and job creation.
Do a simple smell test on these examples of economic lunacy. Would the Japanese economy face even greater opportunities for economic growth had the earthquake and tsunami also struck Tokyo, Hiroshima, Yokohama and other major cities? Would the 9-11 terrorists have done us an even bigger economic favor had they destroyed buildings in other cities? The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.
Chinas Bad Growth Bet
Via Marginal Revolution, China's Bad Growth Bet por Nouriel Roubini:
China is rife with overinvestment in physical capital, infrastructure, and property. To a visitor, this is evident in sleek but empty airports and bullet trains (which will reduce the need for the 45 planned airports), highways to nowhere, thousands of colossal new central and provincial government buildings, ghost towns, and brand-new aluminum smelters kept closed to prevent global prices from plunging.
Commercial and high-end residential investment has been excessive, automobile capacity has outstripped even the recent surge in sales, and overcapacity in steel, cement, and other manufacturing sectors is increasing further. In the short run, the investment boom will fuel inflation, owing to the highly resource-intensive character of growth. But overcapacity will lead inevitably to serious deflationary pressures, starting with the manufacturing and real-estate sectors.
Eventually, most likely after 2013, China will suffer a hard landing. All historical episodes of excessive investment – including East Asia in the 1990's – have ended with a financial crisis and/or a long period of slow growth.
Os verdadeiros factos
Via O Insurgente, Os verdadeiros factos da campanha:
Isto não é política. São factos. Factos que andámos a negar durante anos até chegarmos a esta lamentável situação. Ora, se tomarmos em linha de conta estes factos, interessa perguntar: como é que foi possível chegar a esta situação? O que é que aconteceu entre 1995 e 2011 para termos passado termos de "bom aluno" da UE a um exemplo que toda a gente quer evitar? O que é que ocorreu entre 1995 e 2011 para termos transformado tanto o nosso país? Quem conduziu o país quase à insolvência? Quem nada fez para contrariar o excessivo endividamento do país? Quem contribuiu de sobremaneira para o mesmo endividamento com obras públicas de rentabilidade muito duvidosa? Quem fomentou o endividamento com um despesismo atroz? Quem tentou (e tenta) encobrir a triste realidade económica do país com manobras de propaganda e com manipulações de factos? As respostas a questas questões são fáceis de dar, ou, pelo menos, deviam ser. Só não vê quem não quer mesmo ver.
Medina Carreira na AR
Corporativismo não é Capitalismo (2)
Na continuação de ,
Corporativismo não é Capitalismo por John Stossel:
Corporativismo não é Capitalismo por John Stossel:
I'd have thought the fall of the Soviet Union would have taught us that central planning is destructive, but the conceit of the central planners lives on. Maybe the problem isn't merely economic ignorance. Maybe it's something more sinister: a wish to keep the freeloading system going. After all, if politicians and business leaders admit that government cannot play a constructive role in the economy, what grounds would there be for subsidies, shelter from competitors and other privileges at the people's expense? The anti-free-market ideology is a vast rationalization for favoritism.
Declaração de Dependentes (1)
Recebido por mail, transcrito daqui:
Actualize a sua lista de dependentes na DECLARAÇÃO ANUAL DE RENDIMENTOS - IRS (por definição, são seus dependentes, todos aqueles que você é OBRIGADO, POR LEI, A SUSTENTAR)
Assim, são SEUS DEPENDENTES:
- Ciganos;
- Vagabundos;
- Sornas;
- Presidência da República e assessores;
- Governo e assessores (até mesmo os familiares nomeados por clientelismo
- Câmara Municipal e assessores (idem);
- Águas de ... (consumos mínimos e estimado);
- EDP (consumos mínimos e consumo estimado);
- TELECOM; VODFONE; OPTIMUS; etc.
- Gás de Portugal (consumos mínimos e estimado);
- Beneficiárias da taxa de saneamento básico (recolha de lixo,etc);
- Centros de inspecção de veículos;
- Companhias seguradoras (seguro automóvel obrigatório);
- BRISA - Portagens;
- Concessionárias de parques e estacionamento automóvel;
- Concessionárias de terminais aeroportuárias e rodoviários;
- Instituições financeiras - Taxas de administração e manutenção de
contas correntes, renovação anual de cartões, requisição de cheque
- Mais de 200 deputados da Assembleia da República, com os respectivos
ESQUEMAS de apoio.
... Para o ano é provável que tenha ainda MAIS!!!
Why Are People So Forgiving of Government Failure?
Why Are People So Forgiving of Government Failure?
.. we have much lower expectations for public-sector performance than we do for private-sector performance.[1] We saw this in accounting standards that — when applied to Enron — resulted in market forces shutting that firm down, while the Department of Defense loses billions of dollars annually. The difference in terms of waste between the two sectors is exponential, but while Enron is held accountable for its ethics, the government gets a pass.
The result of this dichotomy is government growth, which is inversely related to those characteristics we associate with a free and virtuous society. The result is growing animosity in society between net taxpayers and net tax consumers — and chaos when the artificial institutions, on which so many have become dependent, fail.
Citação Liberal do Dia
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
Climate models go cold
Climate models go cold:
The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s. But the gravy train was too big, with too many jobs, industries, trading profits, political careers, and the possibility of world government and total control riding on the outcome. So rather than admit they were wrong, the governments, and their tame climate scientists, now outrageously maintain the fiction that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant.
At this point, official "climate science" stopped being a science. In science, empirical evidence always trumps theory, no matter how much you are in love with the theory. If theory and evidence disagree, real scientists scrap the theory. But official climate science ignored the crucial weather balloon evidence, and other subsequent evidence that backs it up, and instead clung to their carbon dioxide theory — that just happens to keep them in well-paying jobs with lavish research grants, and gives great political power to their government masters.
We are now at an extraordinary juncture. Official climate science, which is funded and directed entirely by government, promotes a theory that is based on a guess about moist air that is now a known falsehood. Governments gleefully accept their advice, because the only ways to curb emissions are to impose taxes and extend government control over all energy use. And to curb emissions on a world scale might even lead to world government — how exciting for the political class!
Even if we stopped emitting all carbon dioxide tomorrow, completely shut up shop and went back to the Stone Age, according to the official government climate models it would be cooler in 2050 by about 0.015 degrees. But their models exaggerate 10-fold — in fact our sacrifices would make the planet in 2050 a mere 0.0015 degrees cooler!
Slums in India
Via The UK Libertarian, e no seguimento de a little bit of chaos is not always a bad thing,
Ch4 Slumming It: Episode 1
parte 1 | parte 2 | parte 3 | parte 4
Ch4 Slumming It: Episode 1
parte 1 | parte 2 | parte 3 | parte 4
sábado, abril 16, 2011
Insolvência e Falência
Antes e em vez da Insolvência e da Falencia de Ricardo G. Francisco:
O Estado Português, no momento em que decidiu que não podia cumprir com os contratos com os cidadãos, assumiu a sua Falência. Lembro-me de ter primeiro alterado as regras do calculo das reformas. Desde aí muitos contratos foram quebrados. Este ano chegaram aos cortes dos salários. Para o comum dos cidadãos ou para uma empresa a opção de alterar unilateralmente contratos não existe. O Estado, alem de ter o monopólio da força pode criar e alterar as leis!
Em vez de termos declarado a Falencia do modelo de Estado social, o que permitiria uma Falencia ordenada e explicada aos cidadãos, com uma avaliação do que é que seria realmente viável e que medidas teriam de ser tomadas para termos um Estado solvente e sustentável os principais partidos Portugueses decidiram ir pelo caminho que decidiram ironicamente chamar de "Defesa do Estado Social". Em vez de decidirem que funções do Estado eram necessárias e viáveis e de re-estruturarem o Balanço vendendo os Activos desnecessários, diminuindo a dívida e consequentemente os custos financeiros, decidiram matar devagarinho o Estado Social. Como? Mantendo um Estado inviável vivo à custa da quebra lenta e sem critério dos contratos que tinha com os cidadãos.
Theres No Such Thing as Homemade Ice Cream
...e não há tal coisa como um "produto nacional" — There's No Such Thing as Homemade Ice Cream por Jeffrey Tucker:
There's nothing "homemade" about anything here, and surely everyone knows that. It's just marketing – not that there's anything wrong with that.
The division of labor – global and involving thousands and even millions of people – is looking ever better, all beautifully coordinated by the price system and given forward motion by entrepreneurs at every stage, operating in coordination from all parts of the world.
In fact, it is pretty clear that there is no such thing as homemade ice cream .. We are the beneficiaries of a remarkable system of human cooperation.
Taxes and Civil War
Uma guerra a favor da escravatura fiscal — The Official, Politically-Correct Cause of the 'Civil War' por Thomas J. DiLorenzo:
Everything about this politically-correct fantasy is patently false, regardless of how many times it is repeated in the New York Times and Washington Post. Some Southern politicians did indeed defend slavery, but not as strongly as Abraham Lincoln did in his first inaugural address, where he supported the enshrinement of Southern slavery explicitly in the U.S. Constitution (the "Corwin Amendment") for the first time ever. Coming from the president of the United States, this was the strongest defense of slavery ever made by an American politician.
What Lincoln did say very clearly about war in his first inaugural address was that it was his duty "to collect the duties and imposts," but "beyond that there will no be any invasion of any state . . ." That is, if Southern secession made it impossible for Washington, D.C. to "collect the duties and imposts" (i.e., tariffs on imports, which had just been more than doubled two days earlier), then there will be an invasion. He followed through with this threat, and that is why there was a war that ended up killing 670,000 Americans, including some 50,000 Southern civilians, while maiming for life more than a million.
A antecâmara da Road to Serfom
Via O Insurgente, não basta mudar de partido,
Na verdade, na falência em que se encontram o país e o regime, provocada pelo fracasso do socialismo que nos tem governado e do modelo de Estado Social que lhe é inerente, a alternativa não pode ficar-se pela mera rotatividade entre os dois grandes partidos do regime. Por outras palavras: estamos a assistir ao descalabro de um paradigma político e social que a esquerda nos impôs durante décadas, e a mera alternância no poder não chega. O que resta agora saber é se a direita tem alguma coisa melhor para oferecer, e nesse esforço o PSD terá de ser acompanhado pelo CDS e por todas as forças sociais que não se revêem no socialismo. Se falharem, após o fracasso da esquerda, teremos de mudar de regime para outra coisa qualquer, provavelmente menos agradável do que aquilo que estamos acostumados. Por essa razão, é bom que o PSD e o CDS, que Passos Coelho e Paulo Portas, se deixem dos jogos florais pré-eleitorais de quem anda à cata de mais votos do que o outro, e rapidamente comecem a pensar no que irão fazer ao país no dia seguinte ao das eleições.
How to Get a Real Education
How to Get a Real Education por Scott Adams:
I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers and engineers who will propel civilization forward. But why do we make B students sit through these same classes? That's like trying to train your cat to do your taxes—a waste of time and money. Wouldn't it make more sense to teach B students something useful, like entrepreneurship?Se há algo que a Escola Estatal Monopolista tem preconceitos contra, é o empreendedorismo. Talvez explique muitos dos nossos problemas.
Environmentalism Is the New Religion
It's Official: Environmentalism Is the New Religion:
Robert Nelson, in the Independent Institute's recent book, The New Holy Wars, points out that environmental religion owes its moral activism, ascetic discipline, reverence for nature, and fallen view of man to the Protestant theology of John Calvin.
Manhattan's new Church of Earthalujah is perhaps the most striking—though hardly rare—expression of this new religion.
…these freak storms and tsunamis and flocks of blackbirds are not a coincidence—it's the Earth talking to us. The Earth's physical systems are in revolt.
Consensus of lies
Ten Major Failures of So-called Consensus Climate Science:
We will look at some of the major findings, assessments or model predictions from the IPCC and other national climate centers and NGOs, that we believe have failed and let you decide then whether or not the their science and model projections should be the bedrock onto which we build public policy.
The ten issues:
1. Warming is said to be unprecedented and accelerating. It is neither.
2. Global warming is not GLOBAL
3. Winters would grow increasingly warm
4. The entire Northern Hemisphere would experience less snow and snowcover
5. The arctic oscillation (AO) would become increasingly positive, aiding in the warming
6. Global warming would lead to a permanent or semi-permanent El Nino
7. Atmosphere will warm faster than surface (because that is where the heat trapping gases are).
8. Record highs and heat waves are increasing
9. Sea levels are rising at an increasing, alarming rate
10. Droughts and floods will worsen
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Townsville Tourism welcomes Isa Hotel, in Mount Isa for all your restaurant and entertainment needs, enquire online today.Isa Hotel is a popular mid-range Hotel with a long history in Mount Isa. Well known for comfortable accommodation, mouthwatering steaks at the Rodeo Bar & Grill and award winning Gaming. Located centrally on Miles Street within Mount Isa CBD. The award winning RedEarth Boutique Hotel, located next door to the Isa Hotel is owned and operated by the same management. These two venues are joined by a large alfresco deck, offering guests convenient access to a multitude of facilities. The opportunity to enjoy the facilities of both the Isa and RedEarth Hotels is a unique feature within Mount Isa. A mix of luxury and affordable accommodation.Isa Hotel offers 40 comfortable mid-range hotel rooms. While RedEarth Hotel offers 30 luxurious Boutique 4.5 star rooms and suites the RedEarth Hotel also has the addition of a presidential suite. The popular Rodeo Bar & Grill is located on the ground of the Isa Hotel. The Rodeo Bar & Grill is open daily for Breakfast: 06:30am-11:30am, Lunch: 12:00pm 15:00pm, & Dinner: 18:00pm 21:00pm. A new Thai Restaurant & Takeaway can be found on the ground floor of the RedEarth Hotel along with a luxurious Cocktail Lounge which are both open Tuesday-Saturday from 5pm. Multiple function and meeting space options make Isa Hotel the perfect choice for any business travel. In addition to free wi-fi for all accommodation guests. The Isa and RedEarth Hotel share a reception desk which is located on the ground floor of the RedEarth Boutique Hotel. Open 06:00am-21:00pm 7 days a week.For more information contact our friendly team direct by free phone: 1800 603 488 or (07) 4749 8888. While staying at the Isa Hotel our friendly team are always available to answer your questions. Providing each and every guest a top quality experience alongside top quality service. Setting a high standard in regional hospitality. We look forward to welcoming you to the Isa Hotel soon.
Townsville Tourism welcomes Isa Hotel, the ideal Mount Isa QLD Food outlet for all the family to enjoy. We have made sure that we have thought of everything you would expect from your Club or Restaurant with many features, Click on the Contact Now or Phone Now button to get in touch with the Owner.
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Jo leads the Cyclone PLD team. She is a MoE Accredited PLD Facilitator, New Zealand registered teacher and has a postgraduate qualification in digital and collaborative learning. Jo is passionate about helping educators create and develop future focused and student centred learning environments with strengths in using G Suite for Education and Design Thinking.
Twitter: @jonicolnz
Linkedin: Jo Nicol
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Brad is an experienced Digital Learning Designer, Google Certified Teacher and an MOE Accredited PLD facilitator. He has worked extensively with school leaders and teachers to develop effective digital strategies to to support and enhance teaching and learning. Brad is passionate about supporting others to reach their goals using technology and as a Level Two Google Certified Educator he is passionate about the opportunities that G Suite for Education provide for enhancing student outcomes.
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Anthony is a MoE-Accredited PLD facilitators and has been a registered NZ teachers for the past 19 years in the Primary and Intermediate sector. Anthony is passionate about using technologies, student agency in the classroom and enjoys passing on his ideas to passionate teachers.
He has skills in Innovative Learning Environments, strategic planning and developing digital learning programme to support students and teachers to enhance learning opportunities. Anthony has strong knowledge using Apple, Google Suite, and Microsoft Education, using Learning Management systems and using studio recording digital music.
Twitter: @slicnz
Linkedin: Anthony Breese
Blog: www.slic.nz
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Nathan is a passionate, future-focused educator who strives to make a difference for teachers and learners in all aspects of their learning journey. Nathan has been a registered NZ teacher for the past 15 years in the secondary sector teaching Mathematics, Computer science, and Robotics. Nathan strongly believes that it is best for a learner (at any age) to actively engage with hands-on experiences in learning spaces that are safe for them to experiment and explore; to try, to succeed and to fail.
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Emma is part of the Apple Consultancy Network. She has over 11 years' experience in education. She has a passion for providing meaningful learning experiences and is strong in both Apple and Google platforms. Emma enjoys working in a collaborative manner to source useful resources and practical ideas.
Emma's strengths are:
Rachael is a Microsoft Master Trainer and Google Certified Teacher. She has a real passion for technology in the classroom, and has helped many educators on their pathway to blogging and coding. Rachael believes in streamlining IT processes to ensure schools and workplaces can work together to get the most out of the environment.
Rachael's strengths are:
Craig is a Microsoft Innovative Educator with over 10 years teaching experience at low decile schools in New Zealand. He is passionate about enhancing the learning experience using Office 365 tools and apps. Craig has expertise in facilitating whole school strategic change, Teacher as Inquiry and developing 21st century, student focused curriculum. The link between Te Ao Maori and technology is at the center of Craig's PLD approach.
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Alistair is a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and has recently completed a Master of Education at Victoria University. Alistair has led the development of ICT strategic planning, professional development and curriculum design in both primary and secondary schools Originally primary trained, Alistair has worked as Assistant Principal, ICT Manager, Director of E-Learning, Head of Technology as well as teaching from Year 2 to Y13 with his specialist subjects being Digital Technologies, History and Social Studies.
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Lynne is a MoE-Accredited PLD Facilitator. She has worked extensively in ICT advisory and facilitation roles to develop digital strategies and effective pedagogy for future focused learning and teaching. She uses the Spiral of Inquiry framework to structure collaborative professional learning and development.
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Adam is a MoE Accredited PLD Facilitator who is a fully qualified teacher with 18 years teaching experience in mainstream, Kura Kaupapa and tertiary settings. He has a postgraduate qualification in bi-lingual and total immersion teaching (te reo Māori). Adam specialises in creating student centred, collaborative learning environments where students can explore and learn using contexts most relevant to them and the world around them.
He combines the latest digital teaching tools and teaching methods with innovative learning environments in order to create 21st century classrooms where students can utilise their strengths and interests to be active motivated lifelong learners.
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Tracey is a MoE-Accredited PLD Facilitator, specialising in digital fluency and blended inquiry. She has worked with multiple schools with the focus on engaging, enhancing and deepening learning using digital technologies. Most projects will also involve curriculum design, providing students with authentic opportunities for critical thinking, blending inquiry models with digital technology.
Tracey has been delivering content from the new digital curriculum for many years with experience and skills in computational thinking and designing and developing digital outcomes.
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Troy is a Microsoft Expert Educator and 21st Century Learning Design Teacher Trainer. He is a registered teacher actively working in online distant education with Te Kura. Troy is an education and instruction developer for www.codeavengers.com.
He is an expert in Learning Management Systems and is passionate and experienced in using robotics across the curriculum.
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Jarrod is a MIE Expert and Microsoft Master Trainer. He is a registered teacher and provides training and online resources in ICT and Business Studies. Jarrod is passionate about school wide ICT strategic planning and implementing change management to achieve this.
Twitter: @JarrodAberhart
Linkedin: Jarrod Aberhart
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Kate is passionate about supporting schools to redesign the curriculum so that is engaging, subject-integrated, relevant, and based around building students' conceptual understandings.
She is MOE Accredited to deliver centrally funded PLD and works with schools to create the best possible curriculum relevant to the needs and interests of the students. She is an accredited trainer from the Dr H. Lynn Erickson Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Institute. Kate has many years' experience as an educator and curriculum developer in New Zealand and international schools overseas.
Twitter: @EduKateNZ
Linkedin: Kate Brown
Blog: www.edukatenz.com
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Rachel is a Microsoft Innovative Educator – Fellow, and a Surface Expert. She is a passionate educator who is looking to break the mould of traditional schooling. In pursuit of this she co-founded #scichatNZ, learned to code in Minecraft and has had an awful lot of fun. Rachel strives for practical ways to improve student engagement and outcomes.
Twitter: @ibpossum
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Tim is a Microsoft Master Trainer. As a NZ Registered Teacher he is passionate about supporting teachers throughout NZ to utilize office 365 tools. Tim found that using OneNote supported his philosophy of putting learning first, and using technology as a tool to enhance his program. Contact Tim to book the Microsoft Digital Learning Experience.
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Endure the Stars 1.5
Endure the Stars is a fully cooperative Sci Fi dungeon crawl for 1-6 players. Set aboard the planet colonising ship the N.W.E. Hikari, players take on the roles of the surviving crew in an epic struggle for their very lives.
Scientists aboard the ship genetically engineered new life forms to explore the planets below but a catastrophic event known as the Fall, saw the creatures escape from containment. Now they rampage through the ship, killing anyone they come across. Players assume the roles of the remaining crew, salvaging whatever you can to survive.
If you're interested in purchasing any of these optional buys, please click the "Manage Your Pledge" button on this page and simply increase your pledge amount to cover the items you'd like to get. We'll sort out what your extra money is going towards via our Pledge Manager, which will be sent to you after the campaign ends.
Almost 2 years ago to the month we launched our very first Kickstarter, Endure the Stars, which was a huge success for our first foray into the board game and crowdfunding world, and when we finally delivered the game in March of this year we were delighted with the results. But in the 2 years since then we have learned an awful lot, and looking back at our first attempt we felt there were a number of areas we could improve upon.
We had always planned to run a second printing Kickstarter for Endure the Stars in Q4 2017, so we found ourselves faced with a choice; launch a second printing of the game without a single change or put our knowledge and experience that we'd accumulated over the past couple of years into this second printing and make an even better game. There were pros and cons to each side of the coin and both faced criticism; the former left us open to condemnation that we hadn't learned anything from all of the constructive feedback we'd received and the latter had the potential to leave original backers feeling that they had backed and received a lesser version of the game. In the end we did what we felt was best and did everything in our power to make Endure the Stars the best possible game it can be.
ETS 1.5 doesn't make the original game obsolete as it's still hugely enjoyable without any of the updated material, but if original backers felt that they had enjoyed the first game enough to invest in an upgrade kit that would breathe fresh life into a game they already have had fun with then that would be the best that we could hope for.
So is this a disquieting trend, something you should be worried about with all of our future projects? Of course not, Endure the Stars was our very first and usually the first time you attempt anything a fair amount for naïve mistakes are made, and we were no different. We're putting all of that valuable experience to great use in Village Attacks, we just felt that we also wanted to go back and apply that same experience to our first game, so we can be confident we made the best version of it that we could, for backers new and old, before moving on with other projects and ensure that Endure the Stars has a great legacy to build upon.
Players choose from 6 survivors to play as, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses and abilities that can mean the difference between success and failure.
The G.E.P.E.C'S (Genetically Engineered Planetary Explorer Candidates) or GEPs for short, were created in secret to aid in the exploration and eventual colonisation of the planet being orbited by the Hikari. But a catastrophic event known as The Fall saw the escape of the GEPs, where they rampaged through the ship killing everyone they came across. Now they stalk the derelict halls of this once thriving ship, hunting down any survivors.
All of the GEPs are production miniatures, wonderfully painted by Bushido Studio.
The 12 double sided game tiles make up the winding corridors and derelict halls of the ship. The tiles are modular and allow for a myriad of setups.
The ship is in a constant state of decay, and Event cards compound your problems further with blackouts, lock-downs and artificial gravity failures.
The GEPs pose a grave threat to your survival, but so do your fellow crew. Each survivor's resolve is tested many times throughout play, and each survivor can develop a detrimental mix of phobias and habits as a mission progresses. Fears of the dark, no longer desiring to trade with your fellow survivors and screaming out in fear are just a few of the potential Resolve cards a survivor could be dealt.
A haven hidden away in a quiet corner of the ship, the unique Refuge mechanic in Endure the Stars acts as a waypoint between missions where survivors can visit their loved ones to restore their sanity, rest to recover from their wounds and trade for items that will aid them in the tasks ahead. Survivors can prolong their stay in the Refuge, but each turn spent there can cause both positive and negative events to trigger. The Refuge can be used to chain together any missions, allowing players to create custom campaigns of whatever length you and your friend wish.
You can view the rulebook here:
Click below to watch a play through by Dice Tower contributor Rob Oren! Skip to 1:20:00 to hear his thoughts on the game.
- 12 double sided Game Tiles
- 1 Refuge Tile
- 6 Survivor miniatures
- 21 Swarmer miniatures
- 14 Jaeger miniatures
- 14 Icarus miniatures
- 7 Solomon miniatures
- 1 Titan miniatures
- 1 C.H.O Exo Loader
- 6 D6 dice
- 1 Directional die
- 1 Injury die
- 1 D12 Weapon Jam die
- 1 D12 Solomon die
- 6 Survivor dashboards
- 6 Ability tokens
- 1 Titan dashboard
- 201 Cards
- 65 Tokens
- 1 Rulebook
We decided that if we were return to Kickstarter with Endure the Stars, we wanted to process all of the feedback we'd received since the original campaign, and Endure the Stars 1.5 is the result of this. The fundamentals of the game have not changed, but we have carefully analysed every element of the game and optimised wherever we felt the was room to. These are the changes that have been made:
- All 12 game tiles have been re-drawn by Henning Ludvigsen
- All cards are now smaller, reducing the amount of space the game takes up on the table
- Survivor and Boss dashboards have been redesigned and now have dials to track their Health and Resolve instead of tokens
- Weapons have been removed from the Item deck and now have their own deck, the Weapon deck (see rulebook)
- An ammunition mechanic has been added (see rulebook)
- A Weapon Jam and Solomon die has been added to the game (see rulebook)
- Door standees have been added to the game
- 20% of GEP miniatures have been removed from the core game
- Vac trays have been added to the core game for storing miniatures much more safely
- The core game box has been enlarged
- The rulebook has been revised to reflect Endure the Stars 1.5
- The First Player token has been enlarged
Shipping will be charged after the campaign is finished. This is to make sure that each and every backer gets the best price that we can offer them. Below is an approximate estimate of how much shipping will cost by country, based on the weight of the 'Survivor Pledge' (approx. 5kg volumetric weight). These are still just estimates and are subject to change depending on how much extra content we manage to unlock!
USA & Europe - £10-£15
Canada - £15-£25
Norway & Russia - £20-£25
Turkey & Greece - £20-£25
Cyprus & Malta - £30-£35
Everywhere else - £35+
Grimlord Games is an independent developer of strategic table-top board games based in the UK that prides itself on excellent customer service and even better games.
Set up in 2015 by two friends who met travelling the world, the company was born out of a mutual passion for all things gaming, alongside a handful of ideas.
To date Grimlord is best known for producing strategic, co-operative games with a twist including Endure the Stars, a sci-fi dungeon crawler and Village Attacks, a gothic castle defence game.
Our goal is simple; make games that we would like to play, to the best standard of quality possible.
Returns & Refunds
1. You can change or cancel your pledge at any time before the project's funding deadline on Kickstarter.
2. Once the campaign has ended and funds have been received from Kickstarter we can refund you your pledge amount minus the Kickstarter and payment processing fees (which we cannot get back from them), which is usually 10% of the original pledge.
3. Once the pledge manager is closed no refunds are possible, as we have begun production of your order.
If you do not confirm your shipping and pledge details prior to the pledge manager closing or within 8 weeks of our notification to do so it will be treated as abandoned. We will however look at each case sympathetically and try our best to satisfy each customer.
By pledging on Kickstarter you agree that our responsibility to you is for shipping your order as entered into our pledge management system. You are responsible for updating or changing your shipping address as well as import or other duties that may be payable to relevant tax authorities. You accept that you are fully liable for incorrect shipping details and will risk your pledge being unable to be delivered or lost in transit.
Should an order be 'returned to sender' we will endeavour to send it out to you, the customer again, at your additional shipping cost.
Please note we are unable to ship to PO Boxes.
If you do not accept the proposed terms please do not pledge on this Kickstarter project and wait for general retail release.
All refunds will be processed in GBP.
Risks and challenges
This is our third Kickstarter, and so far we have a relatively good track record in delivering our products within an acceptable timeframe, to a high quality and ensuring that any and all customer issues are dealt with promptly and transparently.
As with all forms of production led businesses some factors remain outside our control including manufacture errors, packing issues, international freight and custom delays and poor carrier service. However we endeavour to minimise these providing due diligence across all areas when choosing suppliers and partners. We have learnt from mistakes in the past and as a result sourced new partners and are confident that customers will remain satisfied.
This game is 90% complete, but depending on how many stretch goals are unlocked we will want to make sure that any new ideas added to the game are implemented perfectly before putting into mass production so some changes may occur.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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I'm level 31, living in Belgium and I'm looking for a neighborhood. I'm derby minded, I help when i can, ... .
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I'm level 31, living in Belgium and I'm looking for a neighborhood. I'm derby minded, I help when i can, ... .
I hope I can find a nice neighborhood.
Come on over to a small but friendly neighborhood.
I'm a very active player, so I decided to create our very own neighborhood where there will be guaranteed communication between all the neighbors. Constant help with the derby's, filling boat orders, and even completely tasks. If you're tired of being in a neighborhood where no one speaks to each other come on over to the WE ARE FAMILY!! Hope to see you there! Tag # PP29G09R
Could I join to your clan. I start to play yesterday but I am a very active player. I'll try to help you in everything I can. I find the name of the clan but I couldn't find it. It says me that there isn't a clan with the name; WE ARE FAMILY!!
Hey! Come visit our neighborhood named MOO-LICIOUS, tag- #PPRRRV8R. We are friendly and helpful. Derby focused but no pressure at all. Opt in at your convenience. We are very active and love to help each other. We are an English speaking group. We are in professional league currently and all our amazing members have made this neighborhood a lively and friendly place. Do come by and check us out! 😁
Our farm name is: Chit Chat UK Farm. PLC282CV. (My husband & I have just been through Belgiums waterways on our boat. Love the country, and know most Belgians speak really good English!) You do not have to live in the UK. We have a Canadian farmer, I live in UK & USA, the others are in UK.
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Charlotte was doing so well on the ventilator this morning they were able to transition her to the CPAP. The CPAP in Milwaukee has two styles which they try to alternate between - the first is two prongs that stick in her nose and the other is a piece of plastic that covers her nose. Both do the same thing - supply pressure and Oxygen to the lungs as needed - but she is not a fan of the prongs. Charlotte may have been born with a temper.
She appears to be struggling on the CPAP, but this could mean she needs some time to adjust or that she's not quite ready. Only time will tell - Vitamin T according to Dr. Wu.
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Masqueraders How Big Is Big Bell
I've had a message from Heikki Suosalo to tell me that he has updated his excellent feature on the Masqueraders. Check out the update and the original article at Soul Express.
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Please click on the link in this article top see the benefits are available to Teamsters to purchase a new home, or re-mortgage their current home though Chase. Michael Curran is our contact in New Jersey and the tri-state for Wells Fargo Home Loans.
Teamster Privilege Mortgage
Buying a home can be one of the most expensive and stressful purchases in your life. But finding your dream home doesn't have to be a nightmare – thanks to Teamster Privilege Mortgage. This benefit makes buying, selling or refinancing a home easier and more affordable.
Michael Curran is available to help you, your children or even your parents find the right mortgage. This program features a unique assistance program that helps members who become unemployed make their mortgage payments.
Let the mortgage expert at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage help you with:
Who's eligible?
U.S. Teamster members, retirees, their spouses, their children and their parents
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The spinach is in perfect readiness and so are the chives. I made a batch of fresh goat cheese and the Artisan Bread was in the fridge. Running out of time to cook dinner so I whipped up this quick meal – Florentine Bread — and paired it with a Spring greens salad. I think you'll like it.
Artisan Bread dough (if you've been following the blog you already have some in the fridge.)
3 cups soft goat cheese (you can substitute cream cheese, cottage cheese or ricotta)
3 cups fresh spinach, chopped fine
1/2 cup fresh chives, chopped
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper, or to taste
Combine cheese, spinach, chives, salt and pepper in a bowl and mix well. Roll out 1 1/2 lbs of artisan bread dough, about the size of a large grapefruit. Roll it about 1/4 inch thick – 8 inches wide by 12 inches long. Spread dough with cheese mixture leaving edges clean. Roll up cinnamon bun fashion, seal the edge.
Place seam side down on well greased cookie sheet. Brush top with beaten egg white. Sprinkle with sunflower seeds, sesame seeds or flax seeds. Cover and allow to rise until doubled in bulk, about 30 min.
Preheat oven to 400F. Bake loaf for 25 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from oven, allow to sit for 10 minutes. Slice while still warm into 2 inch slices.
Serve with a garden-fresh salad.
Serves 4 to 6, tastes great cold, too.
For more recipes and tips on establishing your own food storage get your free copy of my eBook.


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Whether you pick one service or every single one, I want to make sure you do not have to think about it again. I will take the weight off of your shoulders and become an extension of you. I will be with you the entire time my services are required, and I will always be willing to step in if you need more help. This page is just a starting point, when I meet with my brides we talk about what you really need, I absolutely do not want to charge someone for something they do not need.
Day of Event Package
Day of Event Package
*20 Hours-Starting at $500
This package is for the bride who has spent every day of her life planning her wedding day. The thought of missing any second of the experience is like missing the day itself. Even the most hands on brides deserve a stress free relaxing wedding day.
Day of services include:
2 initial consultations
Event run through and exchange of information (wedding day schedule)
Set up
Keeping everyone on schedule
Handling vendor payments
Clean Up
Full Service Concierge Package
Full Service Concierge Package
Unlimited Hours-Starting at $3500
This package is for the bride who does not have the time to plan the wedding of her dreams, couples who do not live in the same area as their wedding or a destination wedding or couples with complicated family dynamics, traditions or expectations beyond their abilities. This package includes every aspect of the wedding planning process.
*Additional hours can be purchased if necessary
*Additional hours can be purchased if necessary
Additional Hours Packages
-$30 per Hour
-$125 for 5 Hours
-$250 for 10 Hours
-$500 for 20 Hours
A La Carte Package
A La Carte Package
*60 Hours-Starting at $1500
This package is for the bride who has always wanted to plan every detail of her wedding, the thought of assembling favors and addressing invitations excites her, but she just doesn't have quite enough time to do it all.
This Package includes a choice of 4 additional services.
A La Carte Concierge Package
A La Carte Concierge Package
*100 Hours-Starting at $2500
This Package is perfect for the busy bride who wants to plan the fun parts of her wedding and leave the mundane to us.
This Package includes a choice of 6 additional services.
Additional Services
Additional Services
The Following Services Cannot Be Included In Packages
The Following Services Cannot Be Included In Packages
Wedding Day Make-Up-$30 Per Person
Wedding Day Make-Up-$30 Per Person
(Includes 2 Trial Runs)
Engagement Party-$300
Engagement Party-$300
10 Hours
Plan, set up, decorate, manage and clean up, you are the couple of the hour so you should definitely be able to enjoy yourselves
10 Hours
Want to give a bad ass proposal that will never be forgotten? Let us help you make dreams come true, and make you look good in the process
Bridal Shower-$300
Bridal Shower-$300
10 Hours
Plan, set up, decorate, manage and clean up
You offered to throw a grand party for your best friend and want to spend the tie with her instead
Bachelor/Bachelorette Party-$600
Bachelor/Bachelorette Party-$600
15 Hours
Planning, setting up, managing and keeping everyone alive
Vow Renewal-$1000
Vow Renewal-$1000
30 Hours
This is like a a little wedding so it includes all of the services offered in the full service package, unless of course you want a full blown affair, then we can discuss how to make this package work for you