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			http://www.the-rathouse.com/ ("Welcome to my Rathouse - named in honour of the Rathaus, the Great Hall of Vienna." —Rafe Champion) From the introductory page: We do not live by bread and technology alone because our lives gain meaning and purpose from the morals, mythology and metaphysics of our non-material heritage. We absorb these animating principles from our contacts with parents, teachers, preachers and peers, also from religion, art, literature, science, business, sport and politics. This non-material heritage contains a mixture of good and bad ideas, and a society that loses the capacity to subject these myths and traditions to imaginative criticism is likely to die. Constant efforts are required to eliminate error and muddled thinking because the risk is ever-present that the bad will drive out the good. The task of imaginative criticism falls to all thinking people, although it has been institutionalised with certain organisations such as the universities and with occupational groups such as acdemics, including philosophers. This process of institutionalisation has almost proved fatal and it sometimes seems that the institutions and groups who have the most responsibility for the health and vigour of our thinking have in fact done much to mutilate and debilitate our heritage. This has been described as 'the treason of the intellectuals'. This process deserves further investigation in the hope that it can be reversed.

			Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872: If there be any party which is more pledged than another to resist a policy of restrictive legislation, having for its object social coercion, that party is the Liberal party. (Cheers.) But liberty does not consist in making others do what you think right, (Hear, hear.) The difference between a free Government and a Government which is not free is principally this—that a Government which is not free interferes with everything it can, and a free Government interferes with nothing except what it must. A despotic Government tries to make everybody do what it wishes; a Liberal Government tries, as far as the safety of society will permit, to allow everybody to do as he wishes. It has been the tradition of the Liberal party consistently to maintain the doctrine of individual liberty. It is because they have done so that England is the place where people can do more what they please than in any other country in the world...It is this practice of allowing one set of people to dictate to another set of people what they shall do, what they shall think, what they shall drink, when they shall go to bed, what they shall buy, and where they shall buy it, what wages they shall get and how they shall spend them, against which the Liberal party have always protested.[1] [1] The Times (31 December 1872), p. 5. This quotation is taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_UK — 25 Aug 2010 Thanks to Gary Hoover — http://hooversworld.com

			Jon Lauck, Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889. Travis Kavulla's review, August 2, 2010, in NR Digital, begins, 'What happens when hundreds of thousands of people flush into a massive open prairie in the course of a decade, transforming a place the size of Ireland into farmland carved up into parcels about ten city blocks wide and long? One would think social discord and economic domination by a clique — and that, for a long time, has been the view of “progressive” historians on the matter.' — Luack tells a different story.

			What Is The Goal Of Social “Policy”? As the Austrian economists, notably Ludwig von Mises, never tired of pointing out, government interference with the processes of the free market does not work. To quote Mises from his short book, Planned Chaos - “...interventionist measures are doomed to failure. This means that the interventionist measures must needs result in conditions which from the point of view of their own advocates are more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they were designed to alter.” (Emphasis by the author) That would be true if improving the standard of living of everyone was genuinely the goal of those who covet the power to interfere with the markets. But that is NOT their goal. If it was, they would long since have given up on the idea that they can “run” an economy. If it was, they would NOT cling so tenaciously to the power to force everyone to abide by their edicts - ultimately at the point of a gun. Interventionism does “work” - very well - for those who aspire to or who already have and do not want to give up political POWER. In fact, it is a prerequisite for gaining such power in the first place. In short, what “works” for people in their everyday lives interacting with others does NOT “work” for a government which wants to dictate how people go about living their everyday lives. SUBSCRIPTIONS: In AUSTRALIAN Dollars Trial: 5 issues (once only) $A 25 © 2010 - The Privateer http://www.the-privateer.com capt@the-privateer.com (reproduced with permission)

			"If it can’t be measured, future governments can’t pander. I imagine that Stephen Harper’s view, Canada should be a country of individual initiative, not one of collective dependence “justified” through the collection of data." — Stephen Taylor, writing in The National Post, of Prime Minister, Stephen Harper's campaign to limit the power of government over Canadian citizens. The article, "The beginning of the end of the Canadian welfare state" •••

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			Helen Szamuely, from her blog •••

			A review of Peter Bauer and the Economics of Prosperity, "A prophet who should be honored" ••• July 5, 2010: "Yesterday was, just in case any reader missed it, Independence Day. Naturally, one is ambivalent about it. After all, the rebellious colonies declared their independence and, perhaps, one should not feel too happy about it. The truth is that it was the third great English Revolution and, as such, should be celebrated by all." Walter Russell Mead's article gives an excellent if, necessarily inadequate summary of traces of American history that one can find in London. "Your Freedom and Ours: A blog about politics and other things but always from the right perspective" •••

			The relationship between cellular pH and voltage, impacts on health, the Tennant Biomodulator and its use •••

			If the collaboration between established medicine and government regulatory agencies does not become more effective new knowledge & practices will eliminate billions of dollars of revenue. For the sake of economic health competition must be suppressed. -leif

			Added this to efVortex Methuselah : healthy & long life •••

			From Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, today: “True friendship is mutual celebration of the best in life, not mutual commiseration of the worst, based on mutual esteem. You know who your true friends are not by who extend their sympathy when some misfortune befalls on you but by who share the joy with you when you are at the height of your achievement, success, or happiness. Be a true friend and be worthy of having a true friend.” (YGK Daily quote 7/2/10) •••

			China: lack of regulation leads to rapid medical advances in stem cell treatments •••

			Excellent New York Times article on the Singularity, by Ashlee Vance, June 11, 2010 •••

			"In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to establish foreign-run “charter cities” within their borders. Romer’s idea is unconventional, even neo-colonial—the best analogy is Britain’s historic lease of Hong Kong. and against all odds, he just might make it happen." —The Atlantic, July/August 2010 ••• Ken Hagerty and Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, July 18, 2007, "Free Cities: How to create freedom and opportunity for illegal immigrants in their own countries" ••• —the Weekly Standard (thanks to Michael Strong) Michael Strong's talk at the Seasteading Institute Conference, 2009, "Free Zones: An Additional Option for the Cambrian Explosion in Government" •••

			This could be the beginning of the end of FDA censorship of truthful, scientifically-supported health claims ••• (Natural News, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger)

			Intrinsic motivation more powerful than rewards (extrinsic) in knowledge work ••• (a TED talk)

			A new model for ventures dependent on imagination and creative thinking relies on intrinsic motivation more than on extrinsic rewards such as money. Businesses can become frameworks for self-actualization. A TED talk by Dan Pink. (thanks to Mark Frazier for this)

			Intrinsic motivation more powerful than rewards (extrinsic) in knowledge work ••• (a TED talk)

			A new model for ventures dependent on imagination and creative thinking relies on intrinsic motivation more than on extrinsic rewards such as money. Businesses can become frameworks for self-actualization. A TED talk by Dan Pink. (thanks to Mark Frazier for this) http://www.danpink.com/

			German Magazine Reveals Drug Companies' Influence to Engineer Swine Flu Fake Pandemic ••• (Dr. Mercola)

			Revealing the mechanisms of kleptocracy and crony capitalism, abhorent to advocates of free markets. Our congratulations to Polish health minister, Ewa Kopacz, who was not fooled and declined to participate.

			The Republic Of Plato, translated by Allan Bloom ••• A review by Jackson K. Eskew (on Amazon) What a pleasure it would have been if, as a political philosophy major, I had been assigned this translation. Bloom's essentially literal translation sweeps away the "dynamically equivalent" dross of popular translations such as those of Cornford, Lee, and Grube/Reeve which, in the name of "contemporary relevance" and "readability," dumb down this work almost beyond recognition and, more insidiously, distort Plato's meaning to conform with contemporary prejudices. Bloom explains all of this brilliantly in his Preface, at one point writing: "Plato intended his works essentially for the intelligent and industrious few, a natural aristocracy determined neither by birth nor wealth, and this translation attempts to do nothing which would contradict that intention." Strong medicine, but it does the trick beautifully. Also included is a lengthy and excellent interpretive essay (indeed, the book is worth buying for this alone), along with many exhaustive and deeply perceptive textual notes. complete review (and others) at Amazon ••• (thank to Pat Wagner for finding this book and review)

			Don Boudreaux, May 27, 2010, in TribLive (Pittsburgh) writes: 'Just as every day is followed by a setting sun, every financial turmoil is followed by seething politicians blaming the economic woes on "speculators."' ••• (entire column)

Is Telomere Erosion a Mechanism of Species Extinction?
REINHARD STINDL
Institut für Medizinische Biologie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Währingerstrabe 10, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

A well-known downside of the gradualistic model of slow, steady change by natural selection acting on genetic variation is that it cannot account for rapid transitions, catastrophic extinctions and spectacular radiations. Consequentially, these observations had long been attributed to the imperfection of the fossil record (Gould and Eldredge, ’93). In 1972, Eldredge and Gould offered an alternative interpretation for the mysterious paleontological observations. In their view, evolution proceeds through periods of stasis followed by periods of rapid evolution (punctuated equilibrium) (Gould and Eldredge, ’93). Accordingly, species are rapidly established in periods of instability and resistant to essential changes thereafter (Gould, ’82). Since gradualists have always had a hard time explaining long-term phenotypic stability, Gould suggested that the answer to stasis could come from internal genetic regulatory mechanisms (Gould, ’82).

As long ago as 1897, the great paleontologist Alpheus Hyatt claimed that evolutionary lineages had periods of rise (epacme), expansion (acme), contraction, and extinction (paracme), comparable to an individual’s passage through the cycles of youth, maturity, old age, and death. He was convinced that decline and extinction are programmed into the history of species (Hyatt, 1897). Gradual telomere shortening to a critical threshold followed by populationwide chromosomal instability, and the sporadic creation of new stable karyotypes in the offspring due to chromosome healing may be the internal (genetic) regulatory mechanisms Gould and Hyatt were looking for. ••• (the complete paper; the quotation is an excerpt from the conclusion; thanks to Jerry Emanuelson and Gayle Pergamit for finding this paper)

			"PJM has received a leaked internal document confirming Spain realizes its green failures, just as Obama pushes the American Power Act based on Spain's program." •••

			"España admite que la economía verde que vendió a Obama es una ruina: El Gobierno español filtra un informe que reconoce las nefastas consecuencias económicas de la apuesta por las energías renovables" ••• [Spain admits that the green economic policy it sold to Obama is ruinous: The Spanish government leaked a report recognizing the harmful consequences of the focus on renewable energy] — La Gaceta, Viernes, 21 de mayo de 2010, published weekly in Ybor City (Tampa, old cigar district), Florida

			About La Gaceta and Ybor City, an interview with the editor, Patrick Mantiega ••• (video link in right column)

			Louis James, Editor of The International Speculator, interviewed Doug Casey, March 5, 2010. Here is a brief excerpt on the debt of the Greek government ••• (full interview) Doug: ... What they should do is default on their debt. And I don't just mean a gentle default, like Argentina's of a few years ago, in which people got some fifteen or twenty cents on the dollar back – I mean a 100% default. And that would be a good thing. L: How so? Doug: First of all, it would punish people stupid enough, or immoral enough, to lend governments money. They don't deserve to get their money back – they've been supporting these governments and their bad habits… L: Some of which involve killing people. And all of them make tax-slaves out of their subjects. Sounds like just desserts to me. Doug: Yes. Why should future citizens be effectively made into serfs in order to pay for the excessive consumption of people today? It's completely unjustified to foist the debts of the father on the sons and daughters. Most of that money has been totally wasted. A huge amount of what's been spent on foreign aid has been siphoned off by officials in the recipient countries. Just as much has gone into the pockets of "consultants" from the West, in payment for giving them rotten advice. Huge amounts have been skimmed in profits of companies who sold them projects that should never have been undertaken. So I say, default on it. Absolutely! To start with, it would bankrupt the IMF and World Bank, which would be a good start. L: And the consequences? Doug: Almost all good. full interview To understand the typical reaction to this imagine a modern physicist proposing to a pre-Newtonian that a satellite be put into orbit. Casey's proposal raises a thousand questions. Our question must be this: Are there a thousand good answers? —leif

			New Threats to Freedom, a collection of important and far seeing essays, edited by Adam Bellow •••

			The authors •••

			"We hear a lot of expressed concern about conserving environment. But no one talks much about producing it. Why not manufacture it competitively and sell it in the free market like other goods and services—and even bundle it with product support? As a matter of fact, exactly that is being done. Designer environment is relatively new on the market, but its manufacturers stand behind it, and we will doubtless be seeing much more of it in the future." —Spencer MacCallum, "The Enterprise of Community: Social and Environmental Implications of Administering Land as Productive Capital". For a copy of this paper, go here •••

			The story of the discovery of nutritional sugars, told by Sam Caster, founder of Mannatech ••• I am currently exploring claims that consumption of a complex of eight nutritional sugars causes the release into the blood of a large number of adult stem cells. Seems improbable, but if one has eyes, one looks; and I'm finding interesting things. —leif

			Gambling with Other People's Money How Perverted Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis Russell Roberts \| Apr 28, 2010

			http://mercatus.org/publication/gambling-other-peoples-money — thanks to Michael Strong for this and for the item in yesterday's news. Ayn Rand suggested complete separation of government from economy. We are beginning to see why. —leif

			The Looting of America’s Coffers ••• By David Leonhardt March 10, 2009

			"Sixteen years ago, two economists published a research paper with a delightfully simple title: “Looting.” "The economists were George Akerlof, who would later win a Nobel Prize, and Paul Romer, the renowned expert on economic growth. In the paper, they argued that several financial crises in the 1980s, like the Texas real estate bust, had been the result of private investors taking advantage of the government. The investors had borrowed huge amounts of money, made big profits when times were good and then left the government holding the bag for their eventual (and predictable) losses." ... continued at •••

			Why the AMA Wants to Muzzle Your Doctor

			http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703961104575226323909364054.html http://docs4patientcare.org/why-docs

			Nuru International ••• — social entrepreneurship, listeners and weavers who integrate people of varied abilities to create new capital At Nuru, we’re excited to share with you the clean water solutions planned for two more areas in the district of Kuria, Kenya. Two wells are planned for Nyangiti village and the town of Isibania. Villagers in Nyangiti have been forced to use polluted natural springs and rivers and are eagerly anticipating a safe, clean water source. Water is very scarce for families in the town of Isibania, and their only water has come from polluted shallow wells. Nuru is ensuring that clean water stays in the community for generations to come, and individuals like the 1500 who joined us for BH2O+ are making our work possible. ••• Nuru International on Vimeo — Nuru International is pioneering the next generation of methods in the fight end extreme poverty. To check out Nuru's vlogs from staff in Kuria, Kenya, visit: vimeo.com/nuruvlogs Explorers Foundation plans to present Nuru International with one of our Cobden-Bright awards given for reducing barriers separating explorers.

			Masdar Venture Capital & Masdar Clean Tech Fund ••• — "Abu Dhabi’s “Masdar Clean Tech Fund” just completed its first closure, and was successful in raising an impressive $265 million. The fund is co-managed by Masdar Venture Capital and DB Climate Change Advisors, and is looking to build a diversified venture capital and private equity portfolio that will include some of the world’s most promising and pioneering clean tech and renewable energy companies. The Fund is made up of commitments from the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, the Consensus Business Group, Credit Suisse and Siemens AG." — quoted from "BusinessIntelligence Middle East" ••• (thanks to Gayle Pergamit, Agua Via, for this) Virgin Earth Challenge ••• — "The Virgin Earth Challenge is a prize of $25m for whoever can demonstrate to the judges' satisfaction a commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases so as to contribute materially to the stability of Earth's climate." — This is interesting even if you happen to be skeptical of claims of man-made global warming. We know of one great technology that is competing for this prize. (thanks to Jim McNelly, Renewable Carbon Management for this)

			Another threat to supplements on Capitol Hill — Life Extension Foundation ••• "The threat of a regulatory stranglehold over dietary supplements has intensified. "The urgent issue we face today is language U.S. Representative Henry Waxman inserted into the Wall Street Reform Bill (H.R. 4173). This bill has been passed in the House of Representatives and Waxman hopes the Senate will pass the bill with language that gives FTC bureaucrats arbitrary authority to impose crippling requirements that will drive up the costs of supplements or remove them from the market entirely. "If this legislation is passed, our fear is that many supplements will disappear or that Americans will be unable to afford their supplements and will succumb to a host of deficiency-related diseases." —Life Extension Foundation's defensive action pages Go here to help stop this expansion of destructive power ••• This is very important. The pharmaceutical companies will not stop until they find a way to enlist the government to stamp out competition. Explorers Foundation is pro-market but not always pro existing business/government collaborations. Thanks! —leif

      Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

      June 7-11, San Francisco, Moscone West

			Give Out Loud ••• — This venture is being created by a network marketing company. When well run these companies can be good teachers and developers of ability and understanding of business. When poorly run — well, that's understood. —leif

			OUR VISION We will be the world's largest online giving community of choice. ... Imagine... a world where giving and advocacy are mainstream and a form of self-expression. OUR MISSION To inspire an international community of over 10 Million philanthropic people to be vocal and active about their cause. A virtual community of people raising world consciousness; co-creating solutions for sustainable change. OUR GOALS Develop a platform for individuals and corporate companies in diverse industries where they can colaborate together in support of causes for a common good. Create a platform for charities with different missions to work together for a common purpose. Create a platform for tracking donations and the overall impact of turning donors into fundraisers and the effect it has on bringing about change. "Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Ga

			Nandasiri Wanninayaka "Wanni", founder of Horizon Lanka Academy, writes from Sri Lanka:

Please watch this video clip on YouTube. This program was done by YATV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XalVQSUOuRo

Also read the article about Mahavilachchiya eVillage in Groundview magazine in Sinhala, English and Tamil.

Visit www.horizonlanka.net to download the PDF files of the article.

			Explorers Foundation helped fund the construction of a radio tower to give this remote school constant high-speed network access.

			The Road to Serfdom — Year #2 in Amazon’s Top 1,000 Posted on the "Hayek Scholar's Page" by Greg Ransom on January 3, 2010 Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is currently #459 among all books sold at Amazon.com. Week after week throughout 2009 Hayek’s perennial bestseller was among Amazon’s top 1,000 best sellers, most usually in the #200 – #600 range. Glyph 494 ••• added to Glyphery: about Jean-Philippe Rameau's treatise on harmony, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and the theories of Adam Ferguson and F. A. Hayek about things the result of human action but not of human design.

			The State Sovereignty Movement ••• — explorers, who dislike the idea of commanding or of being commanded, must be interested in strategies for limiting and diminishing the power of the State, and sometimes the best way to do this is to counter the power of one authority with that of another, in this case the authority of a national government with that of state governments. —leif

Patrick O'Brian's 5,000+ page novel (in twenty-one volumes) of the friendship, struggles and triumphs of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, wonderfully and surprisingly written. -leif — 'In a cover story in The New York Times Book Review published on January 6, 1991 ... Richard Snow wrote that Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin naval adventure novels are "the best historical novels ever written. On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives.' —from a W. W. Norton & Company obituary of the author, Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) •••

At Nakheel we are driven by the same vision as first expressed by the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, and carried through by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Ruler of Dubai.

Nakheel shares that vision and that feeling for humanity. We are inspired as people, and inspire others to achieve remarkable things. We are making a huge contribution to the improvement of people's lives and opportunities.

Our developments have become true icons across the world. Reference points for creativity, ingenuity and daring. Now we are taking corporate responsibility to a new level, in the way we look after our people, our customers and our environment. Nakheel is where vision inspires humanity.

As our Chairman, H.E. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem puts it:

"Nakheel is more than a company - it is a belief. A belief that defies ordinary thinking... when conventional wisdom says no we say yes and make it happen."

			"Family Types and the Persistence of Regional Disparities in Europe", Gilles Duranton, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Richard Sandall ••• — "The role of institutions as factors shaping human activity has attracted enormous attention in recent years. It has become increasingly clear that institutions, such as political systems (Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson 2001 and 2005), the legal rights of the individual (North 1990), or the various forms of ‘social capital’ amongst groups (Putnam, 1993 and 2000; Storper, 1997 and 2005) can have a significant bearing on a society’s ability to generate innovation, wealth, and growth. Yet, despite this growing interest, there is little consensus about either the type of institutions that have the greatest impact, or how institutions and their effects evolve over time. This paper examines the role within Europe of an often overlooked institution, the family, and concludes that its importance in determining socio-economic outcomes may have been greatly underestimated. Furthermore, the use of an historical data set allows us to present hypotheses regarding the persistence and evolution of institutions and their influence on contemporary European social and economic disparities." — The map on page 8 is interesting. We were told of this paper by James Bennett. —leif

			The Newfoundland Rangers (1935-1950) ••• — "During the 15-year existence of the Newfoundland Ranger Force, from 1935 until 1950, 204 men enlisted. The Rangers served in the outport and remote areas of Newfoundland and Labrador, providing the main link between the people and their government."

			Gary Hamel's Management 2.0 ••• (a Wall Street Journal blog) — interesting ideas on management -leif

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Demsetz on Economic Man
POSTED by DON BOUDREAUX on APRIL 17, 2010

One of my all-time favorite economists is U.C.L.A.’s Harold Demsetz. I’m finally getting around to reading his 2008 collection of essays, From Economic Man to Economic System.

The first essay in this book is entitled “Where Economic Man Dwells.” It’s vintage Demsetz. Here’s a slice from pages 8-9, in which Demsetz discusses “the caricature of economic man created by the model’s critics”:

			"Consider again the persons depicted in Puccini’s opera [La Boheme]. The landlord is cast as a dolt and narrow-minded seeker of [apartment] rent; no matter that he has invested considerable sums in providing living spaces to those in need of them. His artist-tenants, on the other hand, are viewed as kind, fun-loving pleasure seekers. They acquire such pleasures by delaying payments of the rent due the landlord, which is narrow-mindedly seeking to use the funds of someone else, and by succeeding in bilking an elderly, past lover of coquettish Musseta. Now, I ask you, which of these two classes of characters is the more narrow-mindedly self-seeking? They both seek their self-interests. The difference between them is in the methods employed. The landlord supplies living space and offers contractual arrangements to use this space, expecting thereby to receive funds from tenants. The elderly lover buys lunch for others out of past remembrances of romance and present hopes of renewing this romance. The artists, on the other hand, pursue self-interests in duplicitous ways, delaying performance on the rental agreement that provides them with living space and deceiving an elderly seeker of romantic engagement. Critics of economic man generally visualize the landlord-type as the only person who fits the caricature they have fashioned."

			Martin, a character in Patrick O'Brian's novel, The Letter of Marque, quotes from Aristotle's Poetica, "The nature of tragedy's action has always required that the scope should be as full as can be without obscuring the plot, and that the number of events making a probable or necessary sequence that will change a man's state from unhappiness to happiness or from happiness to unhappiness should be the smallest possible", and Martin then observes how remarkable it is "that not only was the change from evil to good eminently possible in tragedy, but that Aristotle put it first." —pg. 179 in the W.W. Norton and Company paperback edition, ISBN 0-393-30905-3.

			The Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress provides an excellent source of freeorder oriented analysis of health care systems •••

			The Center for Medical Progress is dedicated to articulating the importance of medical progress and the connection between free-market institutions and making medical progress both possible and widely available throughout the world. We encourage the development of market-based policy alternatives to sustain medical progress and promote medical innovation. The Center for Medical Progress also publishes www.MedicalProgressToday.com, a web magazine devoted to chronicling the connections among private sector investment, biomedical innovation, market friendly public policies, and medical progress.

			Assisting Entrepreneurial Schools •••

			A Global Network of Marine Protected Areas

			Chris Anderson, Curator, TED, writes on "Ocean hope at Mission Blue: A collaboration experiment comes good" ••• — part of a project to "ignite public support for a global network of Marine Protected Areas, hope spots large enough ... to restore the blue heart of the planet," says ocean explorer, Sylvia Earle ••• — "Sylvia Earle has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades. She's led more than 50 undersea expeditions, and she's been an equally tireless advocate for our oceans ..."

			Anarchy Is the Solution to the Evil Idiocy of the State

			In Whiskey & Gunpowder for April 14, 2010 ••• — Louis James interviews Doug Casey, "Anarchy Is the Solution to the Evil Idiocy of the State." An excerpt from an extensive interview: If people aren’t open-minded enough to even consider an alternative view, they’re their own worst problem, not my ideas. In point of fact, anarchism is the gentlest of all political systems. It contemplates no institutionalized coercion. It’s the watercourse way, where everything is allowed to rise or fall naturally to its own level. An anarchic system is necessarily one of free-market capitalism. Any services that are needed and wanted by people — like the police or the courts — would be provided by entrepreneurs, who’d do it for a profit. Look, I’d be happy enough if the state — which is an instrument of pure coercion, even after you tart it up with the trappings of democracy, a constitution, and what-not — were limited to protecting you from coercion and absolutely nothing more. That would imply a police force to protect you from coercion within its bailiwick. A court system to allow you to adjudicate disputes without resorting to force. And some type of military to protect you from outside predators. Unfortunately, the government today does everything but these functions — and when it does deign to protect, it does so very poorly. The police are increasingly ineffective at protecting you; they seem to specialize in enforcing arbitrary laws. The courts? They apply arbitrary laws, and you need to be wealthy to use them — although you’re likely to be impoverished by the time you get out of them. And the military hardly defends the country anymore — it’s all over the world creating enemies, generally, of the most backward foreigners. In a free-market anarchy, the police would likely be subsidiaries of insurance companies, and courts would have to compete with each other based on the speed, fairness, and low cost of their decisions. The military presents a more complex problem, beyond our range here.

			Whiskey & Gunpowder ••• — devoted to surviving the predations of kleptocratic governments: "The independent investor's daily guide to gold, commodities, profits and freedom." efVortex Guardian : defense of open space •••

John Deere Pavilion, Moline, Illinois

			Tariq Ramadan, author of books and articles about Islam, will speak at The Minaret of Freedom Institute's eleventh annual dinner, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Bethesda, Maryland ••• — his topic: "Is Liberty an Islamic Value?"

			About Tariq Ramadan •••

			The Minaret of Freedom •••

			A search of the web reveals interesting controversy about Ramadan. See articles by Daniel Pipes. — explorers consider everything. -leif efVortex Ijtihad : independent thinking, scholarly research •••

			Remembering Katyn, by Gabriella Stern: http://randomnotes.newswires-americas.com/?p=7100 Reconciliation: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/european-journal-the-magazine/id288958128 "Katyn", the movie, New York Times: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/448946/Katyn/overview John O'Sullivan's talk at the Heritage Foundation about his book, The President, The Pope and the Prime Minister. His account of Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland during the 1980s is fascinating and instructive ••• efVortex Chopin : Poland •••

			Heritage Foundation Creates a Grassroots Advocacy Organization •••

			"The Heritage Foundation ... stated mission: To build an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish. "America stands at the crossroads. We can become just another European-style welfare state or we can switch course and return to our roots of personal liberty, limited government and responsible stewardship. Charting our course will require intellectual firepower and grassroots political heft. With the creation of Heritage Action, we aim to harness the energy of both."

Winnie the Pooh won the internal competition at Apple to be the one free book provided in iBooks on the iPad and iPhone. A. A. Milne, the author, is, somewhere, profoundly astonished. Bear fails to see the significance. Piglet is alarmed. Kanga and Roo are hopping excitedly from icon to icon. Tiger may or may not be trying to make the iPad crash. Owl anticipated that the book would be chosen. Christopher Robin is telling his dad to buy Apple stock, Eeyore is not impressed, no, not at all.

Deutsches Museum, Munich – Masterpieces of Science and Technology

			Thanks to Robert Himber, who recommends this museum very highly.

"Mismanaged carbon is also a great planetary problem because humus depletion results in crop failure and hunger. In the third world and in the technical civilization, dependence on fossil carbon is no solution. We have seen enough of the results of chemical dependency in our culture. But studies show that once organic matter levels drop below two percent, even chemical fertilizers begin to lose their effectiveness. But my point is not "anti-chemicals" as is the cry of some in the organic agriculture movement. I call for the affirmation of the positive, the abundant use of compost and humus, and am convinced that once soil carbon is properly managed, the use of chemicals will gradually be diminished." — Jim McNelly, Renewable Carbon Management, in "Bio-Conversion," 1996 •••

			Michael Strong writes of Jim McNelly's journey from apprentice to master composter. See efGlyph 482 Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the Worlds Problems efVortex Leopold : soil, water, air, flora, fauna, geneosphere •••

			It's OK to Leave the Plantation: The New Underground Railroad, by C. Mason Weaver ••• (link to YouTube video) — no one is going to recruit the author of this book into an army of mindless victims, and when what he is saying catches on the era of easy assembly of such an army will be over. The Mason Weaver Show •••

George Ayittey, author of Africa Unchained, and source of the "Cheetah" image ••• (a TED talk) — Ayittey describes a new generation of Africans and tells us of the difference between Cheetahs and Hippos. The free zones, ports, and cities forseen in yesterdays articles will be refuge and home for many Cheetahs of Africa and Zorros of Mexico. The Hippos will watch in astonishment, and some of them will wish they were young again to pursue a different life.

Spencer MacCallum, efGlyph 392 Somalia - Clan Owned Freeports as Multi-Tenant Income Properties — an essay building on the work of Michael van Notten, a citizen of Somalia •••

"ZONAS LIBRES PARA MEXICO," Ricardo Valenzuela •••

Consider Ricardo's ideas in conjunction with those of Paul Romer, Mark Frazier, James C. Bennett, and Spencer MacCallum: efVortex Openworld : freezones, freeports, free cities •••

			Paul Romer, on poverty, the way out ••• — an article in Prospect Magazine.

In the 8th Century, near what are now Scotland and England, Benedictine monastic scribes created a Bible that today is one of the longest surviving monumental manuscripts in the Western world.

Nearly 1,300 years later, renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson approached the Benedictine monks of Saint John's University and Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, with his life-long dream: to create the first handwritten, illuminated bible commissioned since the invention of the printing press. The Saint John's Bible uses ancient materials and techniques to create a contemporary masterpiece that brings the Word of God to life for the contemporary world.

The St. John's Bible •••
efGlyph 358 — on the St. John's Bible •••
The Order of St. Benedict •••

			The future of medicine, as seen by medical pioneers using Apple technology ••• — an article from "Patently Apple: Celebrating Apple's Spirit of Invention. They imagine. They explore. They inspire and invent."

			Paul Romer, on poverty, the way out ••• — an article in Prospect Magazine. efVortices: Openworld •••; Cheetah •••; Zorro •••

			Management consulting services offered by Lara Ewing, and by Pat Wagner, have been added to efVortex Eudaimonia •••

The Urban Farm at Stapleton, Denver ••• — "Improving the lives of children living in high-risk, urbanized neighborhoods by helping to create a sense of positive self-regard and self-reliance, a strong work ethic, and hope." (thanks, Corny Snyder)

Feed Denver: Urban Farms and Markets ••• — "We are dedicated to empowering people to feed and sustain themselves through urban farming, creating local access to food, training, and economic opportunity.

"Feed Denver: Urban Farms & Markets builds community-based urban greenhouse farms and markets to improve year-round access to fresh food, create training opportunities and jobs for youth and adults, support food production micro-enterprise all of which impact our local economy while strengthening and securing the foodshed of Metropolitan Denver." (thanks, Corny Snyder)

The U.S. Lighthouse Society ••• — "Although the almost 300-year-old era of manned light stations in this country has come to a close, those remaining symbols of our maritime heritage can, and should be, preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. With this in mind, the United States Lighthouse Society was founded to assist in the restoration and preservation of America's lighthouses and to help qualified local groups in their efforts to return the nation's lighthouses to the public domain."

Sand Island Lighthouse, Alabama

			"The Pharmacratic Inquisition" is a provocative film from Gnostic Media that makes the argument that virtually all of the mythology, symbolism, and story of Jesus and related Christian traditions relate to two basic subjects: astrology and shamanism ••• — explorers fear no questions, but when we ask it does not indicate belief; it indicates interest. -leif

The Rouge was the largest integrated factory in the world when completed in 1928 ••• — The Rouge measures 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide by 1 mile (1.6 km) long, including 93 buildings with nearly 16 million square feet (1.5 km²) of factory floor space. With its own docks in the dredged Rouge River, 100 miles (160 km) of interior railroad track, its own electricity plant, and ore processing, the titanic Rouge was able to turn raw materials into running vehicles within this single complex, a prime example of vertical-integration production. Over 100,000 workers were employed there in the 1930s. (Wikipedia). The Rouge is a creation almost as impressive as a symphony orchestra, and almost as complex in its origins. The photo of Henry Ford is taken from an extraordinarily perceptive biography of Henry Ford, The Wild Wheel •••, by Garet Garrett.

			Sierra Sciences ••• — cure aging or die trying

			West Bank Story (2006) — A humorous and wise retelling of West Side Story showing the power of commerce to make friends of enemies as the proprietors and worker in an Israeli and a Palestinian fast food shops discover mutual aid ••• (a 21 minute video).

The producers of "West Bank Story" •••

			Peace Through Commerce (FLOW) ••• — Peace Through Commerce® is an integrated outreach, education, and engagement program which illuminates the contribution that commerce, trade, and economic development make toward building sustainable peace.

Emma Goldman comments on the Bolsheviks (1921-22) and describes our own times •••

VSS Enterprise's first 'captive carry' flight!
Virgin Galactic announced today that VSS Enterprise has completed her inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.

Corning Museum of Glass

			efGlyph 060 Black Inventors Before the American Civil War - episode 127 from John Lienhard's Engines of Our Ingenuity

F. A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” American Economic Review, XXXV, No. 4; September, 1945, pp. 519–30 ••• —A fundamental and influential essay with implications for a social order fit for explorers.

"What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough. If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and if we command complete knowledge of available means, the problem which remains is purely one of logic. That is, the answer to the question of what is the best use of the available means is implicit in our assumptions. The conditions which the solution of this optimum problem must satisfy have been fully worked out and can be stated best in mathematical form: put at their briefest, they are that the marginal rates of substitution between any two commodities or factors must be the same in all their different uses.

"This, however, is emphatically not the economic problem which society faces. And the economic calculus which we have developed to solve this logical problem, though an important step toward the solution of the economic problem of society, does not yet provide an answer to it. The reason for this is that the “data” from which the economic calculus starts are never for the whole society “given” to a single mind which could work out the implications and can never be so given."

			A website for Hayek beginners and scholars •••

efGlyph 280 "The Enterprise of Community," by Spencer Heath MacCallum - Social and Environmental Implications of Administering Land as Productive Capital. — Important reading for anyone interested in the creation of free zones.

Ricardo Valenzuela writes in Spanish and English (different topics in each language). His two blogs are listed below. Ricardo is a strong ally of the Explorers Foundation, and we are working on a number of interesting projects.

efGlyph 433 Puerta de Anza — A Door to Prosperity, June 2008: a Mexico-U.S. free port

			REFUGIO LIBARAL: CREEMOS EN MERCADOS LIBRES PARA GENTE LIBRE, EN LA PROSPERIDAD DE LAS NACIONES A TRAVÉS DEL LIBRE COMERCIO, POLÍTICAS MONETARIAS SANAS Y EN IMPUESTOS RACIONALES. EN LA AUTONOMÍA INDIVIDUAL EN CONTRA DE DICTADORES Y DEFORMADAS CONDUCTAS DE MAYORÍAS MOMENTÁNEAS. ••• INTERMEX POWER: WE BELIEVE IN FREE MARKETS AND FREE PEOPLE. WE STANDS FOR FREE TRADE AND SOUND MONEY; AGAINST CONFISCATORY TAXATION AND THE OPPRESSION OF COLLECTIVISTS; AND FOR INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY AGAINST DICTATORS, BULLIES AND EVEN THE TEMPERS OF MOMENTARY MAJORITIES. •••

			St. John's College, Annapolis & Santa Fe

St. John’s College is a co-educational, four year liberal arts college known for its distinctive "great books" curriculum.

St. John's is a single college located on two campuses, one in Annapolis, Maryland, and another in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The campuses share an identical curriculum (changes must be approved by both halves of the faculty) and a single governing board. Each campus is limited to well under 500 students, and the faculty-student ratio is 1 to 8.

The all-required course of study is based on the reading, study, and discussion of the most important books of the Western tradition. There are no majors and no departments; all students follow the same program.

Students study from the classics of literature, philosophy, theology, psychology, political science, economics, history, mathematics, laboratory sciences, and music. No textbooks are used. The books are read in roughly chronological order, beginning with ancient Greece and continuing to modern times.

All classes are discussion-based. There are no class lectures; instead, the students meet together with faculty members (called tutors) to explore the books being read.

St. John's College

			efGlyphs:

			486 Creating Residential Colleges within Universities - four foundations on which campus life can be rebuilt 002 Socrates' Way, by Ronald Gross - seven master keys to using your mind to the utmost 000 The Laws of Form, by G. Spencer Brown - "We take as given the idea of distinction ..."

			efVortex Socrates : fearless simple-minded inquiry •••

Peace Through Governance

One Earth Future's (OEF) vision is a world beyond war within one hundred years, achieved by implementing more effective systems of global governance.

The current system of global governance, with only nation-states as legitimate actors in international relations, clearly no longer effectively address global problems. OEF will encourage new architectures of global governance that include business societies and civil societies in addition to nation-states in the decision-making process. OEF believes that these inclusive structures will be more effective and efficient at solving global problems •••

			There will be transformative applications that need all the bandwidth they can get. Medical, transportation, defense, gaming, simulations and who knows what. As computers become more powerful, we need to be able to send more data to the cloud where they can crunch data and return it to us. That is the value of an open internet. The things we can't imagine today. The applications that are just dreams because they don't have enough horsepower and bandwidth to work today. I want the internet to be a platform for amazing. Not Gilligan’s Island reruns. —Mark Cuban, quotation taken from "Internet's Future: Transformative Applications, Not Ubiquitous Entertainment" at •••

			Tenth Amendment Center ••• — limiting Federal Government to what it actually is authorized to do

			March 10, 2010: Wyoming Governor Signs Sovereignty Resolution •••

			The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

			"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The Tenth Amendment Center is a national think tank that works to preserve and protect the principles of strictly limited government through information, education, and activism. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of state and individual sovereignty issues, focusing primarily on the decentralization of federal government power.

			efVortex Cato : limiting & reversing government obstruction & predation •••

			Vortex Cato is driven by interest in assuring that governments do not progressively or suddenly deprive their citizens of freedoms needed by explorers. It is named after an anti-federalist writer opposed to the ratification of the American Constitution. The Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, was conceived as a cage for a dangerous beast, and in many ways has served and still serves that purpose. Nevertheless, the participants in this vortex believe that obstruction and predation is on the rise and must be reversed. Thanks to the Cato Institute for inspiration. Look up the word "kleptocracy" - it's useful in our times. -leif smith

			efVortex SLIM: lean & open government ••• — the relationship between The Tenth Amendment Center and SLIM is entirely in the mind of the editor of Freeorder News; there is no other connection. I think both have the intent of remoulding governments to better serve all citizens, and that includes explorers (most of us, in one way or another). -leif

Society of Lean Implementation Malcontents. Our mission in life: the SLIM Wait Loss Program

Lean Government is a systematic process that makes customers happy by listening to them. It makes local governments more efficient and effective by empowering employees to develop better ways to perform their processes. Rinse. Repeat.

Increase value – eliminate waste. Who decides how and what to change? The people who do the work. They know it best. How do you know it works? You measure carefully before and after to monitor the changes. ••• < click here for exciting details!

			Rabbit hole for the day: Pleomorphism ••• — I don't know the significance of this, but it is certainly interesting, much praised and derided ... probably an instructive argument. I came across the concept when a friend gave me a book by Robert O. Young and Shelly Redford Young, The pH Miracle. —leif efVortex Methuselah : healthy & long life •••

			The Regenerative Medicine Foundation ••• — a not-for-profit organization created to advance new treatments and therapies based on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. We believe that integrating life science and engineering disciplines will bring new clinical approaches to patients for the treatment of diseases affecting a wide range of tissues and organs. Conference: April 6 - 8, Winston-Salem, NC. Keynote, "What's Next for the Clinic", Robert Lanza, MD. efGlyph 397 "A New Theory of the Universe", by Robert Lanza - biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation "The conclusions I have drawn place biology above the other sciences in the attempt to solve one of nature's biggest puzzles, the theory of everything that other disciplines have been pursuing for the last century. Such a theory would unite all known phenomena under one umbrella, furnishing science with an all-encompassing explanation of nature or reality." — Robert Lanza

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Part II, Chapter IV, "The Sanction of the Victim", Hank Rearden, steel maker, is brought before a tribunal accused of selling steel to a buyer not approved by the government. His response to the situation is remarkable and fascinating. The court tries to compel him to offer a defense and he refuses: "But the law compels you to volunteer a defense!" Rearden responds, "That is the flaw in your theory, gentlemen." Highly recommended, perhaps while reading the book noted here yesterday. •••

			Scott McNealy was the founder of Sun Microsystems. His letter of goodbye to "the gang" at Sun after the Oracle acquisition is worth reading •••. An excerpt (thanks to John Scott for pointing this out):

			'Sun, in my mind, should have been the great and surviving consolidator. But I love the market economy and capitalism more than I love my company. 'And I sure "hope" America regains its love affair with capitalism. And except for the auto industry, financial industry, health care, and some other places (I digress), the invisible hand is doing its thing quite efficiently. So I am more than willing to accept this outcome. 'And my hat is off to one of the greatest capitalists I have ever met, Larry Ellison. He will do well with the assets that Sun brings to Oracle.'

			It was not lack of regulation that led to the current financial crisis. It was too much regulation. To understand how the US Government corrupted the banking industry through over-regulation read Architects of Ruin by Peter Schweizer.

Nuru International was founded by Jake Harriman, a former Special Operations Platoon Commander with the U.S. Marines. After fighting the war on terror around the world, Jake became convinced that the only way to end terrorism is to end extreme poverty. He left the Marines and enrolled at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business to create an organization to end extreme poverty.

Nuru works amongst the rural poor in the developing world. We’re currently working in Kuria, Kenya, and it is from the local language that we got our name: Nuru is a Kiswahili word meaning light.

When Nuru was invited into the community, we mobilized the local farmers into groups. We then trained local leaders using an innovative leadership development model that equips the poor to become the answers to their own problems.

Continued •••

			efVortex Cheetah : entrepreneurial Africa •••

An approach to economics: Ask yourself what happens if the origins of goods are conserved by a general and regular observation of boundaries assuring that producers maintain control of whatever goods they produce until they consume, give, or exchange them. Then assume that such respect for boundaries is extended to those who receive goods as gifts or in exchange. If such boundaries are maintained a result occurs that Hayek describes as an "extended order" utilizing more information and intelligence than is possible any other way. An explanation of the generation of this order, beginning with the simplest concepts of individual human actions is provided by Murry N. Rothbard in Man, Economy, and State. This is the economics explorers must understand if we wish to make and preserve a world in which we can live well while expressing the virtues characteristic of explorers. The Ludwig von Mises Institute has made this book available as a free pdf download ••• (table of contents, small file), ••• (large file, 1370 pages, 12.7 MB) — an essential book in the library of Explorers Foundation.

A completly new concept for a folding bicycle, made for urban transportation ••• —thanks to Steve Alexander, San Diego, for this link.

			Peter McLaughlin is part of a vanguard group in the new field of Positive Psychology** studying the role of positive emotions in business, such as optimism, zest, resilience, and gratitude. The research is clear: positive emotions help you live longer, have better health, work more productively, and make more money. •••

			**The field Positive Psychology was spearheaded by Peter’s colleagues Martin Seligman, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania; and Chris Peterson, Ph.D., University of Michigan.

			Using Positive Psychology:  Success and Fulfillment in Business and Life Available in Keynote Presentations, Half-Day Seminars, and Full-Day Programs efVortex Eudaimonia : joyful life •••

			The Illustrated Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek ••• — an extreme compression of one of the most important and influential books of the last century.

			Paul Zeiger teaches yoga for Parkinson's, Denver, Colorado •••

			Updated efVortex Methuselah : healthy & long life ••• — contents of this vortex reflect an active discussion and investment strategy.

			"Book math -- does e-publishing cost less" •••, from "Endless Knots", a blog by Jessica Lipnack

			Virtual School, a Brad Cox website, section on economics: "articles that have most shaped my thinking" •••

			"Organizations are like fish with people as their cells. They evolved to thrive in the ocean, the high-viscosity world of the industrial age. These fish must now change into fowl to thrive in the zero-viscosity world of the information age, a new world in which space and time have collapsed to a dot. Most of them won't make it, for evolution doesn't work that way." —Brad Cox, Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier.

Brad Cox created Objective-C, the computer language that makes the heart of Mac OS X's Cocoa. This notebook owes its existence to Objective-C as employed by Jason Adams and the programmers at Circus Ponies.

			efVortex Lancaster : entrepreneurial education •••

			Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music ••• — TED: pentatonic scale intuitively understood by everyone. Explorers Foundation: Everything we do begins from the point of view of a single person living with modes of being (virtues) characteristic of the explorer: curiosity, sensitivity, intensity, integrity, wonder. That's how we see the world. It's from that point of view that we provoke constructive evolutions of open space and devolutions of closed space. We do it through ventures that generate freeorder (forges) ••• (definitions of open and closed space).

			Global Greengrants: Grantee Profiles India: Organic Farming Saves Lives and Land , by Hilary Byerly, July 27, 2009 •••

			efVortex Leopold : soil, water, air, flora, fauna, geneosphere •••

			Cato University 2010: ABOUT THIS YEAR'S PROGRAM, July 25-30 — Confronting Grasping Government Cato University 2010 takes a solid, two-stage approach to examining urgent contemporary issues. First, it provides a complete, energetic immersion into the foundations of libertarianism and individual liberty. These economic, philosophical, and historical principles are then focused into an incisive analysis of the genuine threats confronting them – and each of us – from vast, dangerous government growth. Each ascending step of a grasping government forces a descending step in the nation's freedoms and founding principles. As financial institutions, health care, housing, transportation, privacy, and much more, are grasped by government tentacles, what historical precedents, proven perspectives, present-day realties, and individual options can be wielded in response? We hope you'll join us to explore and learn. •••

			efVortex Cato : reversing governmental predation & obstruction •••

"Political Unification: A Generalized Progression Theorem", by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, is a study of the logic of the continuous extension and intensification of government power, published in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, Summer 1997. •••. The footnotes in this article are a rich source of further readings. The author subsequently wrote The Last Knight of Liberalism, a biography of Ludwig von Mises, published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 2008.

			Lexington Green says: F.W. Maitland taught us that private organizations which held their assets as trusts were the foundation of modern civil society. He objected to the rise of corporations as the main means to organize private businesses for this very reason: The pernicious idea would arise that private initiative is allowed at the sufferance of the state. Maitland’s analysis of this issue is summarized and elaborated in a brilliant long essay by Alan Macfarlane, "F.W. Maitland And The Making Of The Modern World" •••

			James Bennett responded: Lex commented on that Somin post about whether corporations are "creatures of the state". He makes a point that both of us talk about, that the common-law mechanism of the trust provided a viable non-state option for business that was more common through most of the history of the English-speaking nations, and that the corporation in common law jurisdictions took on many of the features of the trust. The link to Alan Macfarlane's essay on F.W. Maitland, which discusses this history and its implications, is particularly useful because hardly anybody understands this point.

			Related: efVortex Anglosphere •••

			"A bill has been introduced to the Senate that would drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them. This bill seeks to give the FDA arbitrary control over what supplements you are allowed to have." —For details and good tools for taking action in opposition, please see Life Extension Foundation •••, an effective advocate for the freedom of individuals to choose their own health services and supplements.

			Related: efVortex Cato : reversing governmental predation & obstruction •••

			Nandasiri Wanninayaka, a fully entrepreneurial educator, rural Sri Lanka, Horizon Lanka

			Mr Wanninayaka decided to say goodbye to government teaching career. He resigned from the job as a government schoolteacher. Due to the parents’ pleas to continue education for their children, he started a “school” - a totally independent one - under a huge mango tree in his garden for the interested students. From then onwards, Mr Wanninayaka was able to bring Horizon Lanka to what it is today by fighting against all odds. •••

			efVortex Lancaster : entrepreneurial education •••

			Michael Yon, an entrepreneurial journalist covers the war in Afghanistan ••• —Michael Yon Online Magazine

			How this project is funded

			When people read about a potential book deal, or a proposed television show based on my work, they naturally assume: “He must be making a killing!” It’s a natural assumption. It also happens to be completely wrong. I have never gotten a penny from any movie or television deal, proposed or otherwise. Anything that might increase the audience for these soldier stories that I post on my website gets my attention. But anything that even hints of outside editorial control, or smacks of someone spinning this material to promote a commercial or political agenda, gets shown the door. I’m not trying to suggest that I am independently wealthy, or that I have taken a vow of poverty. It’s just I value my independence and the credibility it brings me with the people who trust me with their stories. But this work is both dangerous and incredibly expensive and without a steady level of income I could not continue to do it. Because so many misconceptions are out there about nonexistent “big money” deals, I thought it might make sense to clarify how I get the funds I need to do this job that increasingly, it seems, I am the only guy committed to doing. So, for those who wonder how this project is funded, read on: •••

			efVortex Guardian : defense of open space •••