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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
[Russ.,= self-publishing house]
Last week I posted a scan of a rather tattered magazine picture of Strom Thurmond surrounded by marshmallows on the stage of the CMU Skibo Ballroom, circa 1970.
It seems the original student photographer is one of our readers. This blast from the past duly reminded him of this classic image and he has sold it to Reuters. You can see a much better copy of Jerry Siskind's photo there.
This is likely to lead to a lengthy exchange of do-you-remembers betwixt us!
The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, 'Porcupines', Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
The Samizdatistas are:
Editors
Perry de Havilland
Adriana Lukas
Dale Amon
Principal contributors
Guy Herbert
Paul Marks
Brian Micklethwait
Jonathan Pearce
Michael Jennings
Samizdata Illuminatus
Contributors
Alice Bachini-Smith
David Carr
Philip Chaston
Antoine Clarke
Jackie D
Robert Clayton Dean
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Scott Wickstein
Resting Contributors
Findlay Dunachie
Gabriel Syme
Hillary Johnson
Frank McGahon
Gustave La Joie
Christopher Pellerito
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Kevin Connors
Andy Duncan
Malcolm Hutty
Natalija Radic
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Walter Uhlman
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