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• Alan Watt: The Wise Men’s Dream, Kill ‘em All, Save the Cream (Nov. 12, 2009)

  
  www.TruthRing.org — Authority: 129
  Don’t forget about the Alan Watt Audio page.
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• You Suck At Central Planning

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 769
  Occasionally, one finds absolute gems floating around in the aether. Coyote Blog is one such, which yesterday uncovered this gem : Those of us who accused Chrysler and GM of hyping their electric car programs merely as a honey trap to capture money from the Obama Administration were accused of being ...
  5 days ago

• Vermeer Art Thefts

  
  Art Theft Central — Authority: 109
  Occasionally, one comes across an article citing the top stolen artists (or even the most frequently stolen masterpiece ). Typically, at the top of this list are artists such as Dali, Picasso, and Miro. It is not surprising that they are the most frequently stolen artists because of a number of factors including: ...
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• Caught between looting & museums

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  Archaeology is a far more complex endeavour today than it ever was in the past due to the many parties trying to get hold of the artefacts before they are properly excavated & catalogued. Most countries have legal frameworks in place to prevent this, but direct action against who purchase illegally excavated ...
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• Tracing the artefacts looted from the Summer Palace

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  China is sending teams of experts to catalogue the Chinese artefacts in museums abroad . This raises the question though of why the Museums do not already have such records of their own – or if they do have them, why they are unwilling to share them. From: Modern Ghana CHINESE RESEARCH ARTEFACTS LOOTED IN ...
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• Pakistan’s ministry of culture awaiting the return of 290 artefacts

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  Two years ago, large numbers of looted artefacts from Pakistan were siezed in the UK & Italy. Agreements have been made for their return, but various constraints maen that this has still not taken place. Such returns represent a major victory in the battle against modern day smugglers of illegal antiquities, ...
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• The Parable of the Trading Sardine

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority: 433
  Buddy Christ approves this message. Sudden Debt recently posted this little story, and I would be remiss to not share a lesson taught by guys named "Zebediah" and "Yorick." Enjoy: Andy convinces Billy to buy a can of sardines at...
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• Viking Silver Stolen from Archaeological Site

  
  Chess, Goddess and Everything — Authority: 141
  From The LocalIsland thieves bag Viking treasurePublished: 2 Nov 09 17:31Five hundred Viking era silver artifacts have been plundered from a site of archaeological interest on the Baltic island of Gotland.Two archaeologists employed by Gotland county were dismayed to discover the valuables had vanished when they ...
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• China’s worldwide hunt for artefacts looted from Beijing’s Summer Palace

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  Further coverage of the decision by China to try & catalogue the artefacts in museum around the world that were looted from the Summer Palace. The British Museum says that they don’t see this as a threat – but then they said in the past that the New Acropolis Museum adds nothing to the argument for the ...
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• WoW Insider Show Episode 114: Live on location

  
  WoW.com — Authority: 677
  I think this might be one of my favorite things weve ever done (though all credit must go to Turpster, as usual). Last week on the show, he asked listeners for pictures of where theyre listening to the show, and we got a nice gallery below of all of you in different places (many of you at work, which makes us worry a ...
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• Democratic Senate Hopeful Jonathan Tasini

  
  Addiction in the 21st Century — Authority: 119
  Is the Recession Over? Author, Democratic Senate Hopeful Jonathan Tasini on “The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves and the Looting of America”With the US economy snapping a record streak of four straight quarterly declines and expanding 3.5 percent in the third quarter, many economists are ...
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• Officers Quarters: More loot-rolling shenanigans

  
  Warcraft Bloggers Aggregation — Authority: 154
  Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers Quarters , a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. Last week , I addressed a situation where a married couple who leads a guild were using the old double-rolling scam to get extra loot for each other. Normally I dont like to address the same topic ...
  1 week ago

• Public Looting & Green Energy

  
  StickWithANose — Authority: 128
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• Opting out of the whole “Trick or Treat” concept

  
  Tempus Fugit by Mark Jaquith — Authority: 416
  Halloween is my least favorite holiday (or rather, holiday eve). At its very best, it can be a celebration of the season and a diverse display of clever costumes. But more often than not, it’s about store-bought licensed character costumes, more candy than a person should ever eat in a year, and the worst of all: ...
  2 weeks ago

• China wants to catalogue its artefacts in Museums abroad

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  China hopes to send experts to foreign museums to build a more complete catalogue of the Chinese artefacts looted from Beijing’s Summer Palace in foreign museums (many of which are not on public display). From: Agence France Presse China experts to search abroad for looted relics (AFP) – 2 days ago ...
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• Met Returns Object to Egypt

  
  Art Theft Central — Authority: 109
  I was fortunate enough to attend last weeks lecture "Looting Matters in London" given by David Gill. He has written a synopsis of the seminar related to the protection and preservation of cultural property. Yesterday, Gill posted further thoughts on the Mets recent announcement that they have purchased a red ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afghanistan, a lost war and the low morale of the troops that have to fight it.

  
  Aotearoa: a wider perspective — Authority: 427
  Yesterday a bomb exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan. It killed 91 people mostly women and children who were at a market. Another bomb exploded in Afghanistan, in the heart of Kabul. It killed 19 people, mostly UN workers wh0 were living in the guest house which was targeted by the “Taliban”. New Zealand troops ...
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• Wednesday Rojak #68: The Destruction of Ta Muen Thom

  
  SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog — Authority: 126
  Only one entry for this week’s rojak, and it’s a rather sad one. Andy Brouwer writes about the looting and destruction of lintels and statues at the border temple of Ta Muen Thom . Check out Andy’s post here .
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• Alan Watt: Conspiracy Theory, Really? The Common Query (Oct. 26, 2009)

  
  www.TruthRing.org — Authority: 129
  Don’t forget about the Alan Watt Audio page.
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• EVE Online technical director explains new feature: Fleet Finder

  
  Massively — Authority: 683
  The next EVE Online expansion will be Dominion , slated for a December release, which will introduce some major changes to the game and new features as well. The "Fleet Finder" is one such feature, explained in todays dev blog by EVE Online Technical Director Jon Bjarnason (aka CCP Atlas ). The Fleet ...
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