From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "James A. Donald"  kirjoitti   
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   > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:48:52 -0700, David Friedman   
   >> it was in   
   >> clearing rubles. And it looks as though the worth of those clearing   
   >> rubles, from the standpoint of the Finnish business exporting, came from   
   >> the willingness of the Finnish authorities to exchange them for Finnish   
   >> currency.   
   >   
   > Indeed, those asserting that Finns benefited implicitly admitted what   
   > they explicitly denied - for the "benefit" that they described was   
   > always goods going from Finland to the Soviet Union.   
   >   
   > Analogously, in the "gifts versus money" thread there has been a   
   > striking contrast between what certain of the participants explicitly   
   > said, and what they implicitly said.   
   >   
   >   
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   > We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because   
   > of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this   
   > right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.   
   >   
   > http://www.jim.com/      James A. Donald   
      
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