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><channel><title>The Irreverent Buddhist &#187; Open Source Economics And politics</title> <atom:link href="http://freedomforall.net/category/open-source-economics-and-politics/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://freedomforall.net</link> <description>Don&#039;t rely on anything to save you. Don&#039;t believe politicians will help you. Don&#039;t believe the newspapers tell the whole truth.</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:09:43 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Equal Treatment for All Publishers of Wikileaks Cables Demanded.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/equal-treatment-for-all-publishers-of-wikileaks-cables-demanded/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/equal-treatment-for-all-publishers-of-wikileaks-cables-demanded/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:46:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corrupt Cronies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/?p=1151</guid> <description><![CDATA[If Visa, Paypal, Mastercard and Amazon all believe that Wikileaks broke their terms of service, then so did the London Guardian &#8211; and the other major newspapers  working to publish the same documents. I demand that these corporations apply the same sanctions to the newspapers including journalists rights to use Visa and Mastercard &#8211; or [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/equal-treatment-for-all-publishers-of-wikileaks-cables-demanded/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Assange Heads Time Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Person Of The Year&#8221; Award &#8211; And a Call To Nobel Peace Prize Nominators.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/assange-heads-time-magazines-person-of-the-year-award-and-a-call-to-nobel-peace-prize-nominators/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/assange-heads-time-magazines-person-of-the-year-award-and-a-call-to-nobel-peace-prize-nominators/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:16:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corrupt Cronies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/?p=1148</guid> <description><![CDATA[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2028733,00.html Go there to vote for Julian Assange &#8211; in court today he was denied his freedom despite such luminaries as Ken Loach, John Pilger and Jemima Khan standing bail of £20,000 each. Justice must be done here. Those who are in a position to nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize need to ask [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/assange-heads-time-magazines-person-of-the-year-award-and-a-call-to-nobel-peace-prize-nominators/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bloggers, Wikileaks, Assange: and Bad Journalism.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/bloggers-wikileaks-assange-and-bad-journalism/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/bloggers-wikileaks-assange-and-bad-journalism/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:11:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Conspiracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corrupt Cronies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freedom of Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/?p=1146</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bloggers are oft accused of bad journalism. It&#8217;s true in many cases. Bloggers do not have access to the databases, resources and sources that traditional journalists command. Nor do they have the training and professionalism. However, the wikileaks/Assange scandal is creating a very widespread picture of bad journalism in some of the most renowned journals [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/bloggers-wikileaks-assange-and-bad-journalism/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ethan McCord, &#8220;Collateral Damage&#8221;, Power, Politics and Perversion: The Wikileaks &#8220;Scandal&#8221;.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/ethan-mccord-collateral-damage-power-politics-and-perversion-the-wikileaks-scandal/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/ethan-mccord-collateral-damage-power-politics-and-perversion-the-wikileaks-scandal/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/?p=1141</guid> <description><![CDATA[History will not be kind to the people trying to demonise Wikileaks.org and it&#8217;s staff. Nor will it be kind to the commercial enterprises such as Amazon.com and Paypal who have quickly caved to US Government pressure. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in his Q&#38;A at the Guardian website today replied to a question about the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/ethan-mccord-collateral-damage-power-politics-and-perversion-the-wikileaks-scandal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>German Government Concerned Over US Data Protecion: OOPS &#8211; They Were Right!</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/german-government-concerned-over-us-data-protecion-oops-they-were-right/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/german-government-concerned-over-us-data-protecion-oops-they-were-right/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/?p=1134</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cablegate&#8221; at wikileaks is going to make a lot of people very unhappy. After all what we have now is just a start. How are the German Government feeling, I wonder? Vindicated, probably &#8211; the Cablegate releases so far include their &#8220;concerns&#8221; over US Data  Protection measures: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10BERLIN128.html .... However, in these meetings, our German [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/german-government-concerned-over-us-data-protecion-oops-they-were-right/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>British Bank Bailout: Why It Will Fail, Offshore Havens, Rich Stealing Everything &#8211; How To Solve The Credit Crunch, And Why You Must Wake Up.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/british-bank-bailout-why-it-will-fail-and-why-you-must-wake-up/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/british-bank-bailout-why-it-will-fail-and-why-you-must-wake-up/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:14:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Equanimity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bailouts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bank]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bank Consolidation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bankruptcy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Centre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Defend]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hidden Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Honsty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How To Solve the credit Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Meditate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prepare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Survive]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/?p=764</guid> <description><![CDATA[The bank bail outs will fail for a simple reason. Their intention is to get lending flowing again. Unfortunately markets have inherent innefficiencies and one of them is the corporation. The corporation is selfish. The bail out money being used by stronger banks is being used to consolidate and expand portfolio&#8217;s whilst offloading toxic assets [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/british-bank-bailout-why-it-will-fail-and-why-you-must-wake-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mathematically Perfected Economics: Predicted World Monetary Collapse by 2010.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/mathematically-perfected-economics-predicted-world-monetary-collapse-by-2010/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/mathematically-perfected-economics-predicted-world-monetary-collapse-by-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:10:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Credit Crunch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Debt Finance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mathematically Perfected Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ponzi Scheme]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Worldwide Monetary Failure]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/?p=685</guid> <description><![CDATA[From perfecteconomy.com: But by simply calculating periodic interest as any bank statement must, by re-borrowing interest and principal to replenish the circulation — and even allowing for the accumulating sum of debt to be (usually) negligibly diminished by factors such as bankruptcy and consumption of usually little of our production in the course of exploitation — those [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/mathematically-perfected-economics-predicted-world-monetary-collapse-by-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rational Vs Irrational Economics: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like reality&#8221;.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/rational-vs-irrational-economics-i-dont-like-reality/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/rational-vs-irrational-economics-i-dont-like-reality/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:28:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Irrational Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Irrationality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/rational-vs-irrational-economics-i-dont-like-reality/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Now what has this got to do with Buddhism? A lot actually. The rational economics viewpoint assumes people make rational thought out decisions based on their own calculated best interests. Buddhism tells us that most of the time most people have no idea why they are doing what they are doing: Out of the boiling [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/rational-vs-irrational-economics-i-dont-like-reality/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Is the “death of capitalism” also the death of consumerism?</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/is-the-%e2%80%9cdeath-of-capitalism%e2%80%9d-also-the-death-of-consumerism/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/is-the-%e2%80%9cdeath-of-capitalism%e2%80%9d-also-the-death-of-consumerism/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:38:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/is-the-%e2%80%9cdeath-of-capitalism%e2%80%9d-also-the-death-of-consumerism/</guid> <description><![CDATA[A good article from Rob Horning at popmatters.com It seems as though nothing was going to make us give up consumerism voluntarily—not global warming, not the recognition of the hedonic treadmill, not the tech crash, not the blight of hipsterism, not the forced nostalgia, not the hypermediation of every aspect of life, not anything. Now [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/is-the-%e2%80%9cdeath-of-capitalism%e2%80%9d-also-the-death-of-consumerism/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bank Rescues: Capitalism Fails, Depression Coming.</title><link>http://freedomforall.net/bank-rescues-capitalism-fails-depression-coming/</link> <comments>http://freedomforall.net/bank-rescues-capitalism-fails-depression-coming/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:53:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Economics And politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Credit Crunch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Truth About Money]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://freedomforall.net/bank-rescues-capitalism-fails-depression-coming/</guid> <description><![CDATA[On July 26th 2007 I predicted the current state of global markets in this post. There is a false idea in the market now that the worst may be over but I promise you it has just begun. The long term support levels for the Dow Jones Industrial Average are in the range of 2,500 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://freedomforall.net/bank-rescues-capitalism-fails-depression-coming/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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