No. North Korea is not socialism betrayed. It is socialism done.
Which everyone here knows, but it is worth repeating.
– Brian Micklethwait
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States love a few Big Businesses but hate lots of small ones… in essence, if there are more people who actually matter in an industry than can fit around a dinner table with the appropriate Government Minister, then clearly that is a sector that cannot be controlled by the state. And that is intolerable. And of course many Big Businesses also rather like those sort of relationships as a few large competitors with a similar size-to-brain ratio as themselves are much preferred to a whole bunch of innovative small folk who names they don’t even know and who might actually start doing things they did not expect to have to deal with. – Perry de Havilland March 19th, 2013 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Brian Krebs, a information and network security journalist, a few days ago had a little visit from a SWAT team:
His blog carries the story context. Krebs further notes:
Statutory murder is an occasional topic of discussion in the information security community, for instance by planting a small quantity of drugs on someone who is travelling to Singapore. It’s a risk, and it’s only getting easier to exploit with calls for ever more heavy-handed “security“. March 18th, 2013 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Sheldon Cooper is a typical very smart guy who thinks that because he is an expert in one field, he therefore knows everything about all other subjects as well. I suspect that he would be quite a fan of a centrally planned society, provided he was the one doing the planning. – George Mulberry March 17th, 2013 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Let’s see – Native Americans were wards of the state for a century, and, until the recent casino boom, were the most impoverished, addiction ridden, unemployed group in society; the family farmer has been the object of endless state programs to save him for most of he 20th century, and his numbers have shrunk from over half the population to under 2%; black people were “adopted” by the modern welfare state about 50 years ago, with the result that the black family has shattered, perhaps irreparably, and the male part is massively either in prison or unemployed, while the female half now has a 75% or so rate of births out of wedlock, and single parent families struggling with poverty lead to homicide from gang activity being the primary cause of death for young black males. The wars on poverty and drugs continues to decimate the very populations they were supposed to help, the federal education programs have overseen a massive decline in the competency and educational achievements of our youth across the board, and catastrophically poor literacy rates among the minority communities. The Fed decided to massively aid the housing market, to assist people in buying homes, and within a few decades, the housing and financial markets collapsed into a recession which we are still struggling to climb out of, and return to a semblence of our former economic levels. And so now, the progressive state under the current progressive regime is going to come to the aid of the struggling middle class? Yeah, that will work out just fine… – Samizdata commenter ‘veryretired’ January 27th, 2013 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
An independent Ireland – an interesting idea, so when are they leaving the E.U. then? Surely rule from Brussels is no more “independence” than rule from London. – Paul Marks
January 25th, 2013 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
There is also a difference in the begging aspects of the two traditions. For Guy Fawkes night, kids would club together and build a realistic looking mannekin and a cart to drag it around on. Then they would accost strangers in the street and request “A penny for the Guy, guv?”. On Halloween, kids band together, dress up in menacing costumes, invade people’s property, bang on their door and demand tribute with the threat of violence. So which tradition teaches our kids how best to survive in the twenty-first century. – Commenter Kevin B November 6th, 2012 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
The Americans will always do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted – attributed to Winston Churchill October 28th, 2012 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 1st, 2012 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
Together with other central banks, the ECB is flooding the market, posing the question not only about how the ECB will get its money back, but also how the excess liquidity created can be absorbed globally. It can’t be solved by pressing a button. If the global economy stabilises, the potential for inflation has grown enormously September 22nd, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Did you hear what John Major had to say yesterday? “The ‘green shoots‘ of economic recovery are on the way as ‘darkest moment’ passed” Oh my God, I guess we are closer to the brink than I thought. – Perry de Havilland over a glass with some Samizdatistas. September 16th, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
It says here “Egyptian protesters condemned what they said was the humiliation of the Prophet of Islam under the pretext of freedom of speech”… Pretext? I don’t think that word means what they think it does, unless it lost something in translation. – from a conversation overheard between two people in a cafe in London, reading the news on their iThingies. September 11th, 2012 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
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