August 2009
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John Robb on Markets and Warfare
Our unregulated global marketplace is a fantastic conduit for warfare since it is…
extremely complex (nobody understands it, least of all economists),
tightly coupled (information travels at the speed, measured in milliseconds, of programmed trading),
highly leveraged (perched precariously on a mountain of debt),
and vast (two orders of magnitude larger than the global economy, aka...
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"Hate blogger" Hal Turner's lawyer says he was...
Looks like COINTELPRO never died. David Kravets reports in Wired:
A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI “agent provocateur” paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric, his attorney said Wednesday.
Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which...
