Nicholas Capaldi has an intriguing perspective on how two rival paradigms has framed and continues to forge normative business ethics. This article shaped a quite a bit of my understanding of normative business ethics and played an important role in my recent master's thesis in philosophy.
A long interview ...
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In the world of science...
Explenation of the Aurora Borealis phenomenon
Via
The Aurora Borealis from Per Byhring on Vimeo.
In the world of politics...
Christopher Hitchens asks some much needed questions to the "activists"(or the life-hating terrorist supporters in a normal persons vocabulary) on the Gaza Flotilla.
The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a "warrant for genocide" forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test. I wonder whether any reporter on the scene will now take me up on this
I somehow doubt that he will get much of a rational answer.
In the world of entertainment...
The world will forever be changed for air guitar players!
Better lead off on a happy note, so...
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Essential reading: Alan Greenspan vs. Ayn Rand and Freedom by Harry Binswanger.
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...the Russians take advantage of the situation to deploy missiles along NATOs borders in Europe. Whether we are talking nuclear warheads is still not clear. What is clear is that the Russians view the US as weak.
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Feeling a bit depressed. There were no acceptable, semi-decent candidates for president of the USA. There are no winners, only losers: America and the rest of the free world.
My condolences
On that note:
It's the final countdown (Cello-style)
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Over at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, Amit Ghate has written an editorial entitled Let them fail arguing the case that governments should not bail out banks or other businesses.
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Brian P. Simpson has written a nice piece on how governments first create a crisis by regulating capitalism and then blames it on capitalism when the effects of government regulation screw up everything "requiring" more so called "government action".
Gold and a Free Market: The Solutions to Our Financial Crisis
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(Via Noodlefood:) Repeal the Bailout!
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Today the tax-list in Norway are made public. They are made available on the internet so that any nosy person can "research" their neighbours economic status. A truly horrible practice not seen anywhere else in the civilised world.
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The Russians are yet again flexing muscles in their former cold war style.
This is a direct challenge to NATO. Russia has become quite aggressive these past few years and it is more than slightly disturbing that they are conducting missile tests this close to Scandinavia. Russia is yet again an imminent threat! Si vis pacem, para bellum
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