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Liberty Magazine September 1 Nathaniel Branden on living with $4.00 AynRand September 1999 Libert Greatest Hits 1990-1997 Lets face it - time is a precious resource. So why waste it? Whether you spend too much time in your automobile or you have time to kill at home, wouldn't you rather be using it productively? That's why we offer our most popular talks ever, available on audio and video cassettes. Take a look at the selection below, and remember - when you're listening to a Liberty speaker, you're never wasting time. A Positive Account ofProperty Rights • David Will Technology Advance Liberty or the State? • Friedman takes an economist's-eye view ofthe question For every glowing prediction ofthe liberating effects _of "what is a right?" and explains why certain rights keep on technology, there is a clipper chip, a phone tap, or a spy coming back to haunt those who would like to govern satellite. Harry Browne presides while Ross Overbeek, without constraint. (audio: A305; video: V305) David Friedman, R.W. Bradford, and Coming Soon to a City Near Sandy Shaw measure the capabilities You· Randal O'Toole exposes the offreedom and Leviathan. (audio: arrogance of"urban planners" - and A303; video: V303) reveals the disastrous consequences of their "New Urbanist" designs. Watch Liberty and the Press • Where does out! Your automobiles are in danger. media bias come from, or does it even (audio: A220; video: V220) exist? Join veteran reporter Bruce Ramsey, Slate editor Jack Shafer, The Nazification ofthe Money R.W. Bradford and Jane Shaw as they Supply • J. arlin Grabbe is the au­ dissect the press. From a freedom per­ thor ofthe standard reference on spective, what's wrong with the media international financial markets. - and what's right? (audio: A216; video: V216) Here he explains how and why the government has seized control ofthe banking system - and how you The Liberty Group • R.W. 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L77, L. -------------1018 Water Street, Suite 201, Port Townsend, WA 98368 .I September 1999 Inside Liberty Volume 13, Number 9 4 letters Our readers right - and left. 7 Reflections We have our say, up front. Features 17 Dear Bill Gates Now that the greatest entrepreneur of the computer age has been gang raped by government regulators, Peter McWillianzs offers his condolences ... and a bit of advice. 25 Why Milosevic Must Go David Ramsay Steele explains why Yugoslavians will be happy to replace Milosevic. 28 Genocide in Kosovo? The United States went to war to prevent geno­ cide of ethnic Albanians. The fighting has stopped, and R. W. Bradford tries to find out just how many ethnic atrocities the Serbs committed. 30 Privacy in Russia Jen Tracy reports on privacy in a country where the police have unlimited power but don't have unlimited funds. 33 Whither the lP? 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