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In This Week’s Issue

Cool Links, Inspiration, Information, The Healing Power of Laughter, and these articles:

·   Inspiration: Boycott the Recession

·   News in Pictures: Scenes from Sri Lanka

·   Politics: Legal Plunder

·   Politics: 11 Most Expensive Catastrophes in History

·   Politics: New Game: Bamopoly

·   Global Warming Scam: Cap-and-Trade Insanity

·   Global Warming Scam: New Movie Seeks to Refute Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’

·   Global Warming Scam: Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data

·   Investing: What’s The Minimum I Need To Retire?

·   Business: 100 Tips On How To Use Twitter For Business

·   Personal Finance – Lifestyle: Stock Your Bar for $100

·   Personal Finance: 30 Deal Hunters to Follow on Twitter

·   Personal Finance: 12 of the most prolific personal finance gurus on Twitter

·   Personal Development: 7 Ways To Change Your Life In The Next 7 Days

·   Money: What is the Condition of U.S. Savings?

·   Health: 12 Surprising Signs You’ll Live To 100

·   FREEDOM: A Four-Step U.S. Healthcare Solution

·   Computers: Build a Sturdy Cardboard Laptop Stand

·   Computers: Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day

·   Cool Links: A List of U.S. Politicians on Twitter

·   Cool Links: 100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals

·   Cool Links: Top 10 Twitter Etiquette Tips

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” ~Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”

—Dale Carnegie

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

—Tony Robbins

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”

—Napoleon Hill

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

—Mark Twain

INSPIRATION

Boycott the Recession

By Blair Singer

This is a well-presented one minute and six second YouTube video by my friend Blair Singer, SalesPartner founder and Rich Dad Advisor. Blair talks about your #1 skill required to boycott the recession.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfbvsB6F8g

Break out of the mindset that says these are the worst of times. BoycottRecession.com and Blair Singer are here to teach you how to master that little voice inside that tells you “I can’t” and “it’s the economy.”

http://boycottrecession.com/

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” –W. Zeige

THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER

We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing! 

5-Year-Old Parking Skills

Watch this kid park his toy vehicle – Video (0:46)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do-GBnrU-NI

NASCAR - Photo Finish

Saw this spot today in a reel I was working on. Thought it was pretty cool.

http://vimeo.com/1957181

Foolish University Student Walks Through an Automatic Door

YouTube Video (1:37)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60Sxop5I38

NEWS IN PICTURES

Scenes from Sri Lanka – August 14, 2009

Only three months after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) were defeated in the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, signs of economic recovery and a new sense of security are emerging across the country. Government and business groups are working hard to rebuild a tourist industry once hampered by fear of terrorist attacks, and fishermen are enjoying more freedom to fish harbors long restricted by the military. Although the popular mood seems optimistic, and the international community is encouraging rebuilding efforts with loans and other assistance, questions remain about the Sri Lankan government's tactics in the last weeks of the war - and its current treatment of Tamil refugees. Amnesty International's Science for Human Rights project just released a troubling analysis of satellite imagery of the restricted combat zone and Sri Lankan police continue to restrict access to journalists - and continue to prevent refugees from leaving their camps.

(33 photos total)

POLITICS

Legal Plunder

By Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before—and immediately following—the French Revolution of February 1848.

“Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.”

Source: Essays, 61

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

“The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay… If such a law is not abolished immediately, it will spread: multiply and develop into a system.”

“God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.”

Source: “The Law” by Frederic Bastiat (1848)

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11 Most Expensive Catastrophes in History

http://breachbuilders.org/article.php?story=20090224081450125

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New Game: Bamopoly

The object of the game is to destroy American capitalism by having the government take over everything.

http://www.manlyrash.com/blog/bamopoly®

INVESTING

What’s The Minimum I Need To Retire?

by Jason Whitby,CFP, CFA, MBA, AIF

Can I retire with $1 million dollars? Of course you can. Truth be told, you might be able to retire with much less. Then again, you might not be able to retire with $1 million or $2 million or perhaps even $10 million. It all depends on your personal situation. On thing is sure: you want to make sure your golden years are golden, not merely a struggle for existence. (To learn more read, 10 Steps To Retire A Millionaire.)

Most advisors and financial professionals have been able to boil it down to one number, also known as the holy grail of retirement analysis: the amazing 4% sustainable withdrawal rate. Essentially, this is the amount you can withdraw through thick and thin and still expect your portfolio to last at least 30 years, if not longer. This will determine how long your retirement savings will last, and will help you determine how much money you need for the retirement you want.

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GLOBAL WARMING SCAM

Cap-and-Trade Insanity

By Alan Caruba, canadafreepress.com | August 18, 2009

To understand how insane the Cap-and-Trade bill really is you need to know that it based on the belief that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to avoid a global warming that is NOT happening.

The American Clean Energy and Security Act is a giant scam involving “carbon credits” to be sold and traded. It is also about billions in taxpayer’s dollars being wasted on wind and solar generation of electricity. If this was a sensible way to produce energy, it would be a dominant producer, but it isn’t. Short of producing electricity by peddling bicycles, it is as inefficient and impractical as possible.

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Nothing is more worthless than carbon credits. Nothing is more dangerous to the economic future of the nation than the Cap-and-Trade Act. The U.S. Senate must defeat this bill which has already been passed by the House. YOU must defeat this bill by demanding your Senators vote against it.

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New Movie Seeks to Refute Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’

By Adam Brickley, CNSNews.com | August 17, 2009

Washington (CNSNews.com) – A new documentary on climate change is highly critical of the claims made by former Vice President Al Gore in his film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and seeks to refute the main points Gore made.

“Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies are More Dangerous than Global Warming Itself,” is a 40-minute documentary produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free market group, which can be viewed online. The movie was screened last week at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

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Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data

BBC Interviewer calls claim that Arctic ice would disappear by 2030 “misleading information” and using “exaggeration and alarmism”

By Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com | Thursday, August 20, 2009

Greenpeace leader Gerd Leipold has been forced to admit that his organization issued misleading and exaggerated information when it claimed that Arctic ice would disappear completely by 2030, in a crushing blow for the man-made global warming movement.

In an interview with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur on the “Hardtalk” program, Leipold initially attempted to evade the question but was ultimately forced to admit that Greenpeace had made a “mistake” when it said Arctic ice would disappear completely in 20 years.

The claim stems from a July 15 Greenpeace press release entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” in which it is stated that global warming will lead to an ice-free Arctic by 2030.

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BUSINESS

100 Tips On How To Use Twitter For Business

Author and technologist Nicholas Carr says, “Twitter is the telegraph system of Web 2.0.” The New York Times has mentioned that Twitter is one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet. Only a few brands skimmed off profits from Twitter and others just tweeted about some direct marketing stuff. However, there are numerous ways you can leverage Twitter for your business and improve your bottom line. Here is the one-stop Twitter guide for business.

Part 1

Part 2

PERSONAL FINANCE – DEALS

30 Deal Hunters to Follow on Twitter

By WiscoVixen in Stuff We Like – savings.com | May 28, 2009

Looking for deals? Twitter is a great place to start, but there are no definitive lists of who the best deal finders are on Twitter. And while this list doesn't claim to be the de facto guide, it's a good place to start. This list compiles 30 of the most followed people on Twitter who contribute some great deals on a regular basis.

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PERSONAL FINANCE – GURUS ON TWITTER

A List of 12 of the most prolific personal finance gurus (both big and small) on Twitter

PERSONAL FINANCE – LIFESTYLE

Stock Your Bar for $100

By Kelly Sutton, LifeHacker.com | August 14, 2009

Stocking a bar is a difficult task. Stocking a bar for $100 is even more difficult. Let’s take a look at three different methods for gearing up your liquor cabinet for parties of various sizes on the cheap.

http://lifehacker.com/5337547/stock-your-bar-for-100

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

7 Ways To Change Your Life In The Next 7 Days

Lyved, Life and loving it

Life change may seem to take years to achieve but there are steps you can walk today and in the next week that perhaps can change your life forever.

Most are little steps, but when combined together they can create big and lasting change.

Here are 7 ways to change your life in the next 7 days

MONEY

What is the Condition of U.S. Savings?

By Frank Shostak, Mises Daily | August 20, 2009

According to the latest government data, the personal saving rate has eased to 4.6% in June from 6.2% in the month before. Despite the fall in the personal saving rate from May to June, the saving rate of 4.6% must be contrasted with the rate of 0.4% in June of just last year. In terms of the dollar, personal saving climbed from an annual $46 billion in June 2008 to $505 billion in June of this year. This means that since June last year savings have been in visible increase. But is this really the case?

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HEALTH

12 Surprising Signs You’ll Live To 100

Extroverts, runners are more likely to become centenarians

By Sandra Gordon, msnbc.msn.com | August 14, 2009

Middle-aged people who run 40 minutes a day — for a total of about 5 hours per week — are more likely to live longer and function better physically and cognitively as they get older, according to researchers.

You're the life of the party

Outgoing people are 50 percent less likely to develop dementia, according to a recent study of more than 500 men and women age 78 and older from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Participants also described themselves as not easily stressed.

Researchers speculate that their more resilient brains may be due to lower levels of cortisol — studies show that oversecretion of this "stress hormone" can inhibit brain cells' communication. Science-backed ways to cut cortisol levels: Meditate, sip black tea, or take a nap.

You run for 40 minutes a day

Scientists in California found that middle-aged people who did just that — for a total of about 5 hours per week — lived longer and functioned better physically and cognitively as they got older; the researchers tracked runners and nonrunners for 21 years.

"What surprised us is that the runners didn't just get less heart disease — they also developed fewer cases of cancer, neurologic diseases, and infections," says study author Eliza Chakravarty, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. "Aerobic exercise keeps the immune system young." If you don't like to run, even 20 minutes a day of any activity that leaves you breathless can boost your health, she says.

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FREEDOM MESSAGE:

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”

—John Adams (1735-1826) U.S. Founding Father, 2nd US President

Life is a gift; Freedom is a responsibility!

A Four-Step U.S. Healthcare Solution

By Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Mises Daily | August 14, 2009

It's true that the US health-care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls.

It's time to get serious about health-care reform. Tax credits, vouchers, and privatization will go a long way toward decentralizing the system and removing unnecessary burdens from business. But four additional steps must also be taken

Four-Step Solution

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VALUABLE INFORMATION

“Know where to find the information and how to use it – that is the secret of success.”

--Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German physicist and Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921

COMPUTERS AND INTERNET

Build a Sturdy Cardboard Laptop Stand

By Adam Pash, LifeHacker.com | August 18, 2009

http://lifehacker.com/5339927/build-a-sturdy-diy-cardboard-laptop-stand

Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day

By Jason Fitzpatrick, LifeHacker.com | August 18, 2009

Discounted laptops, peripherals, and bargain-basement SDHC cards are just a few of the items in today's deal roundup.

Sample deals: 15.6" Dell Inspiron Dual Core Laptop for $449 + Free Shipping (Regular Price: $559)

Click for Deals

TOYS, GEAR & STUFF:

CRISTAL

(Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a extreme simple user interface for controlling multimedia devices and home automation systems. CRISTAL simplifies the control of our digital devices in and around the living room. The system provides a novel experience for controlling devices in a home environment by enabling users to directly interact with those devices on a live video image of their living room using multi-touch gestures on a digital tabletop.

View the YouTube video (3:00)

Visit the website

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Shredder Scissors

Protect yourself against identity theft with these super handy Shredder Scissors. The nine blades make them a really easy to use and a super quick document shredding device. Use them in the home for junk mail, old credit cards, and bank statements. Perfect for the office as well. Our Shredding Scissors will make quick work of top-secret memo’s, bills, and receipts.

Shredding Scissors

COOL LINKS:

A List of U.S. Politicians on Twitter

Originally published by Janus on April 1, 2009

Last Updated: 6/30/09 - Total: 181

http://www.secularconservative.net/technology/elected-officials-on-twitter/

100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals

Twitter has become an incredible tool. Whether Twitter goals you want to achieve these tools will help you get there.

http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-twitter-tools-to-help-you-achieve-all-your-goals/

Top 10 Twitter Etiquette Tips

Avoid Annoying Your Twitter Followers

By Susan Gunelius, About.com

One of the best things about Twitter is its open nature, but that also means people can use it for spam, excessive self-promotion, and so on. In order to avoid annoying your Twitter followers and attract new followers, use the Twitter etiquette tips below as a guideline to creating interesting and useful tweets that are welcomed by the Twitter community.

http://weblogs.about.com/od/microblogging/tp/Top10TwitterEtiquetteTips.htm

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