links for 2007-07-14

• Paperwight’s Fair Shot: Rumsfeld and Econ 101: Little Knowledge, Too Much Power
  New rule. If you take Econ 101, you don’t get to stop taking economics until you pass a class specifically on market failures (beyond just the hypothetical schmibertarian market failures where people who work for a living receive too much health care).
  (tags: economics afghanistan stupidity Rumsfeld war)
• Jeralyn Merritt: Guantanamo By the Numbers – The Huffington Post
  Also consider that only 5% of the detainees were captured by U.S. Forces. What was the source of the information used to designate the other 95% as enemy combatants? Pakistan and the Northern Alliance. There is no indication that the U.S. ever verified, o
  (tags: afghanistan taliban war Guantanamo idiocy detainees stupidity report)
• 6 Released from Guantanamo Bay – TIME
  Since Guantanamo opened in 2002, the U.S. has released about 405 prisoners after determining they were not a threat, did not have any intelligence value and their home country would be capable of preventing them from “rejoining the fight” against the Unit
  (tags: Guantanamo detainees incompetence Bush war afghanistan iraq)
• Zenarchery.com » Full text of the Grim Meathook Future thing
  The upshot of all of this is that the Future gets divided; the cute, insulated future that Joi Ito and Cory Doctorow and you and I inhabit, and the grim meathook future that most of the world is facing, in which they watch their squats and under-developed
  (tags: GMF grim+meathook+future)

~ by SAP on 13 July 2007.