more news from the Ides of March, 2013, 1529

a scathing critique of today's market in five minutes of audio on Marketplace

Matt Taibbi at the Senate hearing today on Morgan Chase fraud et al.

this is a youtube link to the speech that Rep. (R) Paul Ryan - WI gave at the Conservative PAC annual boosterfest without comment

UN chief for development recognises the war on drugs is a failure and suggested that countries affected should  'act on evidence'.

Company makes a box that they say can thwart snooping signals or cameras from drones, thinks the market will boom
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In 1529, Baldassare Castiglione died. Sanudo made note of it on March 15 [p. 454]. The Venetian ambassador in Rome had sent word. Eight days prior to his death he had been made bishop of Avila by the emperor which gave him a very large travel budget. There was discussion reportedly as who the Vatican should send as envoy to the emperor as word of Castiglione's death spread. Sanudo calls him a papal nuncio or envoy to the emperor Charles V who was then living in Spain. It is famously said that when Charles heard of Castiglione's death, he is reported to have said, "... one of the finest gentlemen of the world is dead." He was a diplomat, a courtier in the best tradition, the author of that book and a practical man who knew a bit about balance and restraint.
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notes from Sanudo and his Diaries from Venice, Cita Excellentissima, Selection from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo translated by Linda L Carroll,  editors: Patricia H LaBalme and Laura Sanguineti White, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008