Anarchoblogs in English

Yesterday, for the first time since I began watching technorati,  it fell over 40 points to below 500 and today it dropped 400 points. I wonder what that was about? My technorati authority has been steadily climbing since I began watching it last year and it was 537 until yesterday morning (usually it moves a [...]

Update 2: Maybe there’s a simpler solution than fretting over technorati. Bloggers are the customers here. Technorati claims to provide an accurate assessment of authority or linking. If it doesn’t, or if it fiddles with things, then they’re no better than the Wall Street rating agencies. One simple solution - drop technorati… Update (July 1) Yesterday, for [...]

Ellen Brown suggests that what’s happening now is more class warfare than business cycle….and I think she might have a point. “Business Cycle or Class War? Ismael Hossein-Zadehi, who teaches economics at Drake University in Iowa, calls the whole economic crisis a class war. What is being billed as public debt began as the [...]

Weird. My technorati authority has been steadily climbing for a few months and was 537 until this morning (usually it moves a few points at a time, down or up). This morning it fell suddenly by over 40 points. I also noticed technorati doesn’t list me in my blog category at all. I’ve searched several times. [...]

Letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the son of a friend, who was also a namesake (thanks to JS for this): “TO THOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH Monticello, February 21, 1825 This letter will, to you, be as one from the dead. The writer will be in the grave before you can weigh its counsels. Your affectionate and excellent father [...]

Brilliant investigative reporter  Anne Williamson on the World Bank’s global plantation, its serfs and overseers: “For the well-positioned second-raters that people the Bank, there’s no advantage in trading [...]

What does it cost to set up a twitter account and when you see a blog post you dislike and want to discredit, to “twitter” it preemptively? When other people see that only a weird porn site or ‘hate’ site has twittered your post, they back off, even though they might like your content and [...]

AP reports on a suspect Russian spy ring arrested in the US: “Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government in the United States, the Justice Department said Monday. Eight of 10 were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, deep cover assignments in the United [...]

Libertarian classic by the great Billy Joel from the 1978 album, ‘52nd Street.’ My Life Got a call from an old friend, we used to be real close, Said he couldn’t go on the American way, Closed the shop, sold a house, bought a ticket to the west coast, Now he gives them a stand-up routine in LA I don’t need [...]

Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced.  Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming [...]